[Archived] Rovers V Coventry Fa Cup (replay) Preview

[LeftWinger]

Anyone any idea if any FA cup replays are being shown live on TV? Ours must be one of the best surely

I think Setanta are showing one of the replays - but I can't find anywhere that confirms which one.

[ABBEY]

Some good memories W. I was at Goodison that Wednesday night with 11,500 other Rovers fans. Anyone remember how much the tickets were then?

The Bayer game at home trawled in loads of new fans with the kids for free policy.

Ticket prices rising faster than inflation have definitely had an adverse effect together with cash on the gate being scrapped. The players have been allowed to cream off all the cash with their obscene wages and agents.

dont remember prices but remember having the breath squeezed as we packed like sardines.

Anyone any idea if any FA cup replays are being shown live on TV? Ours must be one of the best surely

BEST??????????

did you see saturday?

it was the most upset i've been at a rovers game for quite some time. the whole team were rubbish and i spent the whole of the second half harbouring a deep desire to rip either roar or roarina's head off due to the incessant banging of those bloody drums

haha the lion sleeps tonight

[jonv]

Setanta have a TBA game with a kick off at 19.45. Coventry v Rovers are KO @ 19.45 with the other 2 games at 20.00. I freaking hope its being televised, for us aussies anyway

[trueblue]

Setanta have a TBA game with a kick off at 19.45. Coventry v Rovers are KO @ 19.45 with the other 2 games at 20.00. I freaking hope its being televised, for us aussies anyway

Setanta usually start their programmes 15 mins early, so that would imply an 8:00pm kick off

Edit: Just looked at Setanta site and the tv listing for next week says FA cup replay, programme starts 19:00 (doesn't mention a K.O time) with teams TBC

[scotchrover]

But the club have already admitted that we can't compete without a 'fat' wallet controller.

Take what we can now as I am sure going for the FA cup is better for us tthan worrying about what is more than likely inevitable or if as people seem to think we are good enough to stay up then there should be no problem.

Whatever happens the problem will still be there - even with the P/L we still have no investment.

To be honest it's not right that. We are cash strapped and so is 4/5ths of the premier league.

[wellesbourne]

Hope it's not on TV - even less travelling support then.

Chicken and egg really as the supporters need to get behind their club but understand on the other hand people (myself included) disilluisoned with shocking performances.

Always been the case however magnified by the fact as MCMC says by 'the players and their agents and the obscene wages'. - Spot on there. People who have no allegience whatsoever to this club.

And that is why some of us will harp on about games 20 years ago - the camaraderie on the terraces like at Goodison ! and players who wanted towear the blue and white and did it with pride - the likes of Garner etc.

Must step back out of the time machine and get back into 2009 !!!!! Besides wouldn't mind another trip around Europe on the pish ! - HENCE WHY THE CUP IS SO IMPORTANT !!!!

[JC4LAB]

The was an ITV live replay last round too with Liverpool/Everton..Perhaps they will show one again

[Hughesy]

When are these due to be announced, anyone know??

[nicko]

Middlesbrough v West Ham is the ITV live televised replay...

Adverts to roll during penalty shoot-out.

[Ricky]

Which game are Setanta going for??

[nicko]

Which game are Setanta going for??

Hull City v Sheffield United the night after...

This is the quarter-final coverage:

http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/New.../FAC_TVTies.htm

First up against Chelsea, Man U get a Saturday game while Arsenal will have to play Sunday lunchtime and then go to Rome...not happy about it.

[MCMC1875]

For the few thousand Rovers who turned up the veil was pulled back and we got a long, painful look into our possible future. Very, very average players playing against very average opposition on a rough pitch (money will be saved everywhere possible) in front of thousands and thousands of empty seats. The second half performance was frightening. Coventry came out determined to fight back and they did with Rovers rocking on their heels as they struggled to find an answer to waves of pressure. Then the Lone Ranger arrived and the pressure intensified, whoever this guy is he turned the game for Coventry. As the second half progressed Rovers became a complete, utter and total shambles lacking any sort of passion, ability, fight or desire. God knows how we scored a goal.

If we go down, and it looks increasingly likely we will when we can't win this sort of game, the better players will leave and we will be left with the dregs on display today. These are supposed to be some of our fringe players plus some first choice. We don't have a squad with any depth at all.

There are plenty of areas to blame for our current position; the Trust for lack of investment, Ince for everything he did, Ince for selling Bentley, Williams for employing Ince, the failure to sell RSC and invest in the squad in January. The list is endless but ultimatley the responsibility lays with the PLAYERS who frankly have let this club down very badly in the last 12-14 months. For half this season they've simply hidden. They're a bunch of overpaid, selfish tossers.

I'm not angry, not depressed what I saw today was such a bleak vision of the near future it leaves me feeling nothing at all. If we go down I believe we're finished, for good.

We're going to Old Trafford next week, probably for the last time.

This club has too many pessimistic, moaning, doom mongering fans. We aint down yet.

YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU.

GET BEHIND YOUR CLUB AND LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT!

[1864roverite]

Anyone any idea as to quantity of tickets sold ?

Leyland branch travelling for a night out in the hope that our away cup run continues

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

It says on the Coventry mb's that Rovers have only asked for 500 tickets?

[greggyk]

Im praying you can get tickets on the day..

Currently studying at Coventry Uni, so I've managed to get a big gang of 'neutrals' to sit in the Rovers end. Looking forward to it!

[JAL]

This club has too many pessimistic, moaning, doom mongering fans. We aint down yet.

YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU.

GET BEHIND YOUR CLUB AND LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT!

Will be there on tuesday .. now is the time to back the team, if you really care that is .

[wellesbourne]

Will be there on tuesday .. now is the time to back the team, if you really care that is .

Little tip for anyone wanting a drink at the ground. If you go through the main atrium and into the casino - can get beers in there pretty reasonably priced and just the job - not sure what they are like if wearing colours but no problem for a drink before and a celebratory one after !

Just think how many on here will be clambering for semis tickets after we win tuesday and then do Corporate FC in the next round !

[Ozz]

Did anyone here go on the 1980 4th round game at Ewood when we beat Coventry 1-0 when we were 3rd division and they were top flight?

[JAL]

Did anyone here go on the 1980 4th round game at Ewood when we beat Coventry 1-0 when we were 3rd division and they were top flight?

Yes, why ?

[Ozz]

Memories of the game please.

[Gav]

My memory was, 8yrs old, and I was outside the big blue gates at the corner of the Riverside and Blackburn end because my dad wouldn't let me go. My grandparents lived in higher croft so I went down anyway and spent the last 15 minutes on the riverside.

[Neil Weaver]

Memories of the game please.

Coventry were wearing a hideous all brown kit, Andy Crawford got the goal, Duncan McKenzie was the best player on the park . That's about all I remember. It was a while ago.

[Mike Graham]

Anyone any idea as to quantity of tickets sold ?

Leyland branch travelling for a night out in the hope that our away cup run continues

going to miss this one 1864. I'll be watching at the Rovers Return in Douglas IoM, and looking out for the Leyland "Youth"

[JAL]

Coventry were wearing a hideous all brown kit, Andy Crawford got the goal, Duncan McKenzie was the best player on the park . That's about all I remember. It was a while ago.

Couldnt remember if it was TV or Coventry really did play in that brown kit, noticed a Coventry fan in an identical brown replica kit last week on Bolton road.

Back to the game so long ago, Howard Kendal had us a no frills highly organised in fact regimented team filled with players who could also quite easily find the back of the net. When you look back Rovers had an abundance of experience in the team that played Coventry with players like Kendal, Mackenzie, Parkes, Faz, Keeley, Parkes and Jim Arnold if only we had a Jim Arnold in goals today aided by the magical Noel Brotherston and a young lad called Garner and two highly dependable full backs in Rathbone and Branagan.

When you start to look at each individual player that day its not suprising Rovers dumped Coventry out of the cup and they almost went in successive seasons from being what would be todays league two team to the premiership just missing out on goal difference .

Coventry had a ginger haired forward who seemed to have all the limelight in those days can only remember him having a pop at our goals twice, once went straight to Jim Arnold and the other that went over the bar onto the Darwen end roof. The match for me was that Rovers easily matched Coventry on the day but i'll always remember the Rovers crowd going wild as they sensed victory in the final minutes looking down the Nuttall street section from the back of the Blackburn end was a sight I hadnt seen before at Ewood all cheering the Rovers on quite graphically with plenty of hands raised in the air and a noise never heard before from Nuttall street stand.

A great day wish I could remember more.

[Exiled in Toronto]

I was in the Riverside stand for this one - cracking atmosphere up there that day and the best view in the gorund. We were on top throughout which made it all the more special as it was obvious, to me at least, we were going to record our first giantkilling that I had seen.

Garner made the goal, getting round the back and floating an unmissable nod-in cross to Andy Crawford. Mackenzie had his best ever game in a Rovers short, rolling back the clock. I recall he ran on fast towards a crossfield pass, kicked it miles past the Coventry defenders and ran all the way after it, beating the CH's who had to turn and accelerate, then just failing to beat the keeper 1 on 1.

Marvelous day