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A personal, potted history.... walking through centre turnstile on riverside to a packed Ewood for the first time. Awestruck at the scarves, rattles. marching band. seeing Ronnie Clayton lea

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Without doubt, better to have tasted the riches. For me personally Venkys changed the way I saw Rovers. It shouldn’t have done, but it did. Things they can never do though. They can’t take away t

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Rovers fans have a lot to be thankful to Bill Fox for. An often forgotten figure in our ascendancy but the man who laid the foundations. While the rest of our traditional rivals were applying for re-e

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10 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

Even trickier, pick a favourite goal from this collection. The man didn't do tap ins. It's between the Tottenham and Fulham goals for me, I think. Too close to call. Stunning to witness. Happy days indeed.

 

Yeah everyone is brilliant! The one v Fulham is what I remember most because he volleyed it home straight from a corner.

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12 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

How many of those do you think Gallagher would have gotten on the end of, never mind put away ?

you can`t compare gallagher to benni mccarthy,cole or jansen😂they were subaru imprezas,sam is a 950 cc mk1 fiesta!!!!!

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1 hour ago, SuperBrfc said:

A few clinical finishes from Andy Cole in this one, but the main man of the video is the Turkish maestro. Your favourite Tugay assist? I love how he made Gerrard look silly, but my favourite is the lofted pass through to Cole at Loftus Road. Superbly finished by Cole too. Back when football was alive! 

 

What a bloody lovely footballer. The one for Cole v Fulham is unreal yep (love all outside of the boot through balls so also like the first v Wolves) but the one for Jansen at Ipswich.....absolutely perfectly weighted. Hero.

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35 minutes ago, frosty said:

What a bloody lovely footballer. The one for Cole v Fulham is unreal yep (love all outside of the boot through balls so also like the first v Wolves) but the one for Jansen at Ipswich.....absolutely perfectly weighted. Hero.

Yeah the one for Jansen had a message written on it - it said “ Here, put this in “.

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17 hours ago, frosty said:

What a bloody lovely footballer. The one for Cole v Fulham is unreal yep (love all outside of the boot through balls so also like the first v Wolves) but the one for Jansen at Ipswich.....absolutely perfectly weighted. Hero.

Even the final spin is weighed in favour of the striker/ scorer 

A Genius.

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13 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Even the final spin is weighed in favour of the striker/ scorer 

A Genius.

Yeah it had back spin so it sat up for the striker to lob the keeper. Best passer of a ball I’ve ever seen at Ewood and I saw Dougie play when he was in his prime.

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1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Yeah it had back spin so it sat up for the striker to lob the keeper. Best passer of a ball I’ve ever seen at Ewood and I saw Dougie play when he was in his prime.

Well that’s saying something coming from you TS, and my hero was Duggie too. I read your post before viewing the clip of the wonderful passes and you’re right, he is the best passer of the ball ever seen in our lifetime at Ewood. A genius as ARA has said.  
He was a total entertainer with the passing, long range strikes, his invisible friend, the hiding over on the Riverside when due to be subbed, and the drawn out handshakes with everyone on his way to the bench. We were there to be entertained and my God how he made sure that’s what he did. An absolute legend in my eyes..

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3 minutes ago, Ianrally said:

Well that’s saying something coming from you TS, and my hero was Duggie too. I read your post before viewing the clip of the wonderful passes and you’re right, he is the best passer of the ball ever seen in our lifetime at Ewood. A genius as ARA has said.  
He was a total entertainer with the passing, long range strikes, his invisible friend, the hiding over on the Riverside when due to be subbed, and the drawn out handshakes with everyone on his way to the bench. We were there to be entertained and my God how he made sure that’s what he did. An absolute legend in my eyes..

As a crowd entertainer just watch the video of Tugays pre match warm-up against Newcastle at Ewood.

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27 minutes ago, Ianrally said:

Well that’s saying something coming from you TS, and my hero was Duggie too. I read your post before viewing the clip of the wonderful passes and you’re right, he is the best passer of the ball ever seen in our lifetime at Ewood. A genius as ARA has said.  
He was a total entertainer with the passing, long range strikes, his invisible friend, the hiding over on the Riverside when due to be subbed, and the drawn out handshakes with everyone on his way to the bench. We were there to be entertained and my God how he made sure that’s what he did. An absolute legend in my eyes..

Dougie was a better dribbler and quicker over the ground than Tugay but he didn’t have the range of subtle passes that Tugay had. That ball to Jansen was a classic example. He had it on a string. He was up there with the best playmakers I’ve ever seen going from Didi, Di Stefano and Gerson, Ardiles etc back in the day and coming up to date a bit with Riquelme and Georgi Hagi.

Having said that ball is easier and the pitches are infinitely better now than they were in Bryan’s day.

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You forget how blessed we were. So many top class players. Lovely goals, beautiful to watch. Big crowds, the ground buzzing. Makes you sad and realise how much we've lost

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The goal that cole scored to win the league cup was first class. At first it looked a bit messy but when you see the replay and the way he placed it right away from the keeper it was absolutely top drawer. 

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On 19/01/2023 at 19:09, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Dougie was a better dribbler and quicker over the ground than Tugay but he didn’t have the range of subtle passes that Tugay had. That ball to Jansen was a classic example. He had it on a string. He was up there with the best playmakers I’ve ever seen going from Didi, Di Stefano and Gerson, Ardiles etc back in the day and coming up to date a bit with Riquelme and Georgi Hagi.

Having said that ball is easier and the pitches are infinitely better now than they were in Bryan’s day.

Duggie didn’t have the pitches that Tugay has, the plastic coated waterproof ball or modern footwear either. Most of Duggies time he was playing on the proverbial mud heap with a waterlogged ball in hideous, heavy footwear with nailed on leather studs. 
How would Tugay have coped then? 
 

sorry, just seen the latest posts.

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1 hour ago, den said:

Duggie didn’t have the pitches that Tugay has, the plastic coated waterproof ball or modern footwear either. Most of Duggies time he was playing on the proverbial mud heap with a waterlogged ball in hideous, heavy footwear with nailed on leather studs. 
How would Tugay have coped then? 
 

sorry, just seen the latest posts.

Yes that true. You forgot about the guys giving you a good kicking and getting away with it. I’d been going to Rovers for two years before I saw a player get sent off.

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I saw this on Twitter earlier today, I wasn’t aware of the link with Athletic Bilbao.

 
 

 

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Question I asked a while back but never got an answer.  The steel pillars that hold up the walkersteel stand now, are they the same steel pillars from the old pre 1988 Riverside?  It appears to me they didnt actually rebuild the stand but technically modified it as the skeleton of the original structure appears intact.  Looks liek they changed from a two tier to single tier terrace and changed the roof. Then a couple years later put int he seats post Hillsborough.  The pillars never moved position the whole time throughout with two different roofs.  Different concrete steps were put in I think.

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26 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

In today's LT:-

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Imagine any of our current crop of cossetted primadonnas being seen dead in the 2023 equivalent, like a Golf GTs (go to shop), or Ford Gutless / Vauxhall Enema or similar?

Still, Big Al looks happy enough 🙂

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