Old Rovers Footage

[old darwen blue]

16 hours ago, renrag said:

Just a postscript!  

On the day we played WBA, Burnley were drawn at home to Liverpool. In each game the clubs had the same second strip and it was mooted in the Telegraph that Rovers and Burnley might swap home colours for the day. I don’t know if this was official thinking but in the end common sense prevailed. If it hadn’t, we would be still suffering the ignominy to this day

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[Vinjay]

Roy Hodgson press conference in 1997 with Coar, Williams and some weaselly looking guy.

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Just now, Vinjay17 said:

Roy Hodgson press conference in 1997 with Coar, Williams and some weaselly looking guy.

 

The " weaselly " looking guy will be Hodgson.

[Amo]

13 minutes ago, Vinjay17 said:

Roy Hodgson press conference in 1997 with Coar, Williams and some weaselly looking guy.

 

Weird one was Hodgson. I don't think he's ever tanked as dramatically as he did here in 98/99. Then again, when you spend £20m on Davies, Dailly, and Blake, what do you expect? What's the opposite of a chequebook manager?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, Amo said:

Weird one was Hodgson. I don't think he's ever tanked as dramatically as he did here in 98/99. Then again, when you spend £20m on Davies, Dailly, and Blake, what do you expect? What's the opposite of a chequebook manager?

Didn't he blow up at Liverpool ?

[Vinjay]

Absolutely. At least he started off well at Ewood but think I recall you citing the 4-0 loss at Old Trafford as a turning point in relationship with the players. Yes I know following season ended in relegation but more down to a freak injury list, bad/nonperforming signings (some by Hodgson admittedly) and Kidd.

[jim mk2]

Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Didn't he blow up at Liverpool ?

..... and England. 

He relunctantly attended a press conference after his departure saying  to the waiting media"I don't know why I'm here".

....um, because you were a failure as manager and trousered millions of quid in compensation and need to explain yourself Roy?

Don't like him

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

12 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

..... and England. 

He relunctantly attended a press conference after his departure saying  to the waiting media"I don't know why I'm here".

....um, because you were a failure as manager and trousered millions of quid in compensation and need to explain yourself Roy?

Don't like him

Me neither. I remember watching the team he managed in Italy - Inter ? The had 4 of the best midfielders in the world at the time, Zanetti , Ince, Djorkaeff and Aaron Winter, and they were awful to watch. Apart from Stephane Henchoz, who'd played for him when he was Switzerland's manager, his signings were all flops. He probably squandered more money than any other Rovers manager.

Edited November 26, 2019 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

11 hours ago, Vinjay17 said:

Absolutely. At least he started off well at Ewood but think I recall you citing the 4-0 loss at Old Trafford as a turning point in relationship with the players. Yes I know following season ended in relegation but more down to a freak injury list, bad/nonperforming signings (some by Hodgson admittedly) and Kidd.

We'd been doing well playing 4-4-2 all season with Sutton and Gallagher a real threat up front. For the Utd game game we changed to a 4-5-1 system and got hammered 4-0. I heard words were exchanged after the game and he never really recovered his standing with certain influential players.

[Vinjay]

Footballers football show from 1994 with Rovers the featured club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ppqKjcG74

Edited December 1, 2019 by Vinjay17

[lraC]

On 23/06/2019 at 10:42, renrag said:

Because when there was a colour clash in the FA Cup, back then, both clubs had to change. In that game we played in red and WBA played in white. In the semi final in 1958 against Bolton, both clubs second colours were red, the clubs tossed for who had to use a third strip. Rovers lost and played in black and white stripes.

Another interesting change was in the late 70’s we were drawn away at Millwall, in the FA Cup, they had been banned from playing at The Den and it was played at Ewood, but we were the away team and Millwall played in blue and Rovers had to change. I wonder who used the home dressing room

If I’m not mistaken that ended in a 1-0 win for us and earned us a tie against the then mighty Liverpool 

[Vinjay]

...and the man who scored the winner at Anfield that day...Kenny Dalglish.

https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1070

https://www.lfchistory.net/Images/newspapers/ian.beardsley/hansen-311-blackburn-1070.jpg

 

[AllRoverAsia]

Did not know where to put this.

Its a photo of my all-time favourite in a, perhaps, seldom seen setting.

Can anyone put a date on this?

 

Edited December 3, 2019 by AllRoverAsia

[old darwen blue]

On 03/12/2019 at 01:14, Vinjay17 said:

...and the man who scored the winner at Anfield that day...Kenny Dalglish.

https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1070

https://www.lfchistory.net/Images/newspapers/ian.beardsley/hansen-311-blackburn-1070.jpg

 

What a brilliant website that is, wish we had one like that. 

[oldjamfan1]

On 03/12/2019 at 01:14, Vinjay17 said:

...and the man who scored the winner at Anfield that day...Kenny Dalglish.

https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1070

https://www.lfchistory.net/Images/newspapers/ian.beardsley/hansen-311-blackburn-1070.jpg

 

We got ambushed on our way back to our coach that day - a Darwen lad (Dave Baker?) took a particularly bad kicking if I remember correctly. My cousin (who shall remain nameless here for obvious reasons) also got battered on his way back to said coach, with the irony being he was actually a Liverpool supporter.

Liverpool were the best team in Europe then, who would have thought 15 or 16 years later we would have been going back there to become champions of England!?

[Exiled in Toronto]

On 02/12/2019 at 20:14, Vinjay17 said:

...and the man who scored the winner at Anfield that day...Kenny Dalglish.

https://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/1070

https://www.lfchistory.net/Images/newspapers/ian.beardsley/hansen-311-blackburn-1070.jpg

 

Those were the days: best team in Europe putting their first team out against a lower league team, packed ground, cracking atmosphere. We didn’t deserve to lose it either.

[toooldforthis]

I was there as a callow 19 year old.  Police took us off coaches on the other side of Stanley Park and refused to escort us through.  It was a blood bath.  Scallys waiting in the park with Stanley knives.  Awful.  But "aren't those Scousers full of fun".....according to to Scouse loving media.  Looks like we need to put pur faith in Leicester this year!!

[oldjamfan1]

8 hours ago, toooldforthis said:

It was a blood bath.  Scallys waiting in the park with Stanley knives.  Awful.  But "aren't those Scousers full of fun".....according to to Scouse loving media.  

Indeed. There was a lot of post-1989 revisionism in relation to the reporting of the  behaviour of LFC fans. They were one of the worst lot during the 70s and 80s.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, oldjamfan1 said:

Indeed. There was a lot of post-1989 revisionism in relation to the reporting of the  behaviour of LFC fans. They were one of the worst lot during the 70s and 80s.

And 1960's.

[Vinjay]

Documentary from 1992.

"I'm only interested in putting Rovers where they should be. Blackburn Rovers is one of the greatest football teams in England. They are one of the founder members and we want them right back on top."

 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Golden memories.

[Leonard Venkhater]

On 04/12/2019 at 14:25, Exiled in Toronto said:

Those were the days: best team in Europe putting their first team out against a lower league team, packed ground, cracking atmosphere. We didn’t deserve to lose it either.

Just remember we bravely kept them out until the last few minutes and Rovers fans chanting "We're proud of you, we're proud of you" at the end.

The following day, when I got into work, I looked in the message book to see a message, left by an unknown client, called Mr. Proudview. Little things etc

Edited December 19, 2019 by Leonard Venkhater

[Stuart]

18 hours ago, Vinjay said:

Documentary from 1992.

"I'm only interested in putting Rovers where they should be. Blackburn Rovers is one of the greatest football teams in England. They are one of the founder members and we want them right back on top."

 

This is why I despair at Venkys and Bowyer and more recently Waggott and Mowbray. Yes, it takes money but it also takes ambition. Jack talked up our club, then put his money where his mouth was and put the town on the map.

Think big!

[philipl]

This is going to bring the ire of the board down on me. 

But from the moment Venkys wrote the terms of reference for the two sets of consultants who came to Ewood just after relegation in 2017, they started thinking big.

The execution of their plans have hit problems in what their money has been spent on has not always worked but this is football.

As owners you don't run a hell hole of a club for six years and be widely and rightly derided as joint worst owners in football then suddenly get the right to appoint football geniuses because you have accepted the findings of two sets of management consultants.

Their plans are more gradual than fans would want but if we reach the Premier League and stay up their long term view of building and stability and fans' patience will have been rewarded.

What we have been frustrated by is how Venky's subsidy has been spent. Rovers should have got more bang for their buck from £12m than we have seen so far.

Equally Mowbray (and not the players) has dropped enough points already this season to be the difference between challenging the top two and being outside the play-offs.

But if as owners you have spent 2011-2016 appointing utter dross in and out of the board room and manager's office, Tony Mowbray is going to be about the best you are going to have available to hire in the Spring of 2017.

[Pedro]

On 19/12/2019 at 09:21, Stuart said:

This is why I despair at Venkys and Bowyer and more recently Waggott and Mowbray. Yes, it takes money but it also takes ambition. Jack talked up our club, then put his money where his mouth was and put the town on the map.

Think big!

Totally agree. To this day, it drives me mad when people say we have found our level. It's nonsense. Some belief and a shed load of effort can take you places.