BRFC - The Nostalgia Thread

[den]

if we’re thinking those attendances are because it’s just the second division and smaller clubs. These are first division results and attendances on the same weekend.

 

Edited November 24, 2023 by den

[broadsword]

Just a bit of fun and I don't know the answer to this.

 

But who was Blackburn rovers' first foreign signing?

Think it was some Danish fella in the seventies but I forget him name 

[jim mk2]

  On 28/11/2023 at 19:59, broadsword said:

Just a bit of fun and I don't know the answer to this.

 

But who was Blackburn rovers' first foreign signing?

Think it was some Danish fella in the seventies but I forget him name 

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Ben Arentoft? 

[broadsword]

Yeah that's who I was thinking of, was he the first?

 

But then foreign could also include players from the Republic of Ireland?

[wilsdenrover]

  On 28/11/2023 at 20:28, broadsword said:

Yeah that's who I was thinking of, was he the first?

 

But then foreign could also include players from the Republic of Ireland?

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Furthest one back I can find is this chap (not spent ages looking though!)

https://www.lfchistory.net/players/player/profile/805/

Edited November 28, 2023 by wilsdenrover

[rigger]

  On 28/11/2023 at 20:11, jim mk2 said:

 

Ben Arentoft? 

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Nice boots

[broadsword]

  On 28/11/2023 at 20:55, wilsdenrover said:

Furthest one back I can find is this chap (not spent ages looking though!)

https://www.lfchistory.net/players/player/profile/805/

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Wow, good find!

[Norbert Rassragr]

There's a very small YouTube channel called Rovers 95 that has loads of random goals and highlights that is interesting. The clips are mainly 1990s onwards.

[SuperBrfc]

If only Leeds had to worry about stopping big Al today:

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

  On 09/12/2023 at 09:21, SuperBrfc said:

If only Leeds had to worry about stopping big Al today:

 

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Just proving balls whipped in from out wide near the bye line are hard to defend against. Plus you only need to get half a yard on the full back to get a cross in.

[Mattyblue]

Wingers whipping in crosses to a striker? Dinosaurs.

Good job Pep came along to show us philistines the light of the false 9.

 

[SuperBrfc]

  On 09/12/2023 at 09:28, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Just proving balls whipped in from out wide near the bye line are hard to defend against. Plus you only need to get half a yard on the full back to get a cross in.

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David Bentley was another who only needed half a yard. The amount of times wide players in general get into crossing positions today, only to then turn back and play it backwards, is incredible and also frustrating to watch.

[Mattyblue]

It’ll be because some ‘analyst’ will have a stat that says ‘54% of crosses end up in lost possession, whereas 99% of five yard backwards passes keep it recycled’

Fun the modern game, ain’t it.

[SuperBrfc]

  On 09/12/2023 at 10:07, Mattyblue said:

It’ll be because some ‘analyst’ will have a stat that says ‘54% of crosses end up in lost possession, whereas 99% of five yard backwards passes keep it recycled’

Fun the modern game, ain’t it.

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It will be along those very lines.

The likes of Duffer, Pires, Ginola, Gillespie etc would be lost if they were playing today. 

[Waggy76]

The game today is very very sterile...

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

  On 09/12/2023 at 10:37, SuperBrfc said:

It will be along those very lines.

The likes of Duffer, Pires, Ginola, Gillespie etc would be lost if they were playing today. 

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One of the best I ever saw was Ricky Holden at Oldham and City. I swear I could run faster but all he needed was a little jink to buy him half a yard and he’d whip in a great cross. A left footer playing on the left wing. No way would Mowbray and most modern coaches play him there. 
Talking Rovers players, Mike Harrison could put over a bullet of a cross without breaking his stride whilst running at top speed. Not something you see much these days.
The speed of the cross is important as well, whipped in,  it cuts down defenders reaction time.

Edited December 9, 2023 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[rigger]

  On 09/12/2023 at 11:16, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

One of the best I ever saw was Ricky Holden at Oldham and City. I swear I could run faster but all he needed was a little jink to buy him half a yard and he’d whip in a great cross. A left footer playing on the left wing. No way would Mowbray and most modern coaches play him there. 
Talking Rovers players, Mike Harrison could put over a bullet of a cross without breaking his stride whilst running at top speed. Not something you see much these days.
The speed of the cross is important as well, whipped in,  it cuts down defenders reaction time.

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Also if you do get on the end of it, you don't have to generate power, it is already there.

[Herbie6590]

 

[Ianrally]

  On 09/12/2023 at 11:16, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

One of the best I ever saw was Ricky Holden at Oldham and City. I swear I could run faster but all he needed was a little jink to buy him half a yard and he’d whip in a great cross. A left footer playing on the left wing. No way would Mowbray and most modern coaches play him there. 
Talking Rovers players, Mike Harrison could put over a bullet of a cross without breaking his stride whilst running at top speed. Not something you see much these days.
The speed of the cross is important as well, whipped in,  it cuts down defenders reaction time.

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Mike Harrison, what a player.

[Upside Down]

  On 09/12/2023 at 09:28, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Just proving balls whipped in from out wide near the bye line are hard to defend against. Plus you only need to get half a yard on the full back to get a cross in.

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This made me laugh out loud.

 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

  On 09/12/2023 at 12:02, Herbie6590 said:

 

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The bottom picture I can count Ten Factory Chimney's alone in that section of Blackburn's Industrial Skyline.The Red painted Gates of the Fox and Hounds Pub were still there in the early 2000's.Before the Blue and Whites Club was built and Tiverton Drive Estate off Heys lane was just a Farmers Field.

Wonderful snapshots in time...I wonder what his Dad was doing right at the top of the Darwen End Floodlight!

 

Edited December 10, 2023 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[rigger]

  On 10/12/2023 at 10:01, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

The bottom picture alone I can count Ten Factory Chimney's alone in that section of Blackburn's Industrial Skyline.The Red painted Gates of the Fox and Hounds Pub were still there in the early 2000's.Before the Blue and Whites Club was built and Tiverton Drive Estate off Heys lane was just a Farmers Field.

Wonderful snapshots in time...I wonder what his Dad was doing right at the top of the Darwen End Floodlight!

 

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It was a cup match, and they had shut the Blackburn end ?

[Wheelton Blue]

  On 09/12/2023 at 11:16, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

One of the best I ever saw was Ricky Holden at Oldham and City. I swear I could run faster but all he needed was a little jink to buy him half a yard and he’d whip in a great cross. A left footer playing on the left wing. No way would Mowbray and most modern coaches play him there. 
Talking Rovers players, Mike Harrison could put over a bullet of a cross without breaking his stride whilst running at top speed. Not something you see much these days.
The speed of the cross is important as well, whipped in,  it cuts down defenders reaction time.

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Similar John Robertson at Forest. What a player he was.

[wilsdenrover]

  On 09/12/2023 at 12:02, Herbie6590 said:

 

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Great photos

Edited December 10, 2023 by wilsdenrover

[simongarnerisgod]

  On 10/12/2023 at 10:25, Wheelton Blue said:

Similar John Robertson at Forest. What a player he was.

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our own stuart ripley,never quick but give him a tiny amount of space  and he`d put an evil cross in