Pre season 23/24

[Upside Down]

5 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Then Lazio the next season with Nesta, Stam, Crespo etc.

I remember the Lazio game.

[rigger]

9 hours ago, Ulrich said:

I'm sure we played Barcelona pre season 1 year, that was marquee

We are rather at the one man tent level, than marquee

[Upside Down]

23 minutes ago, rigger said:

We are rather at the one man tent level, than marquee

More like one man holding a folded newspaper above his head in the rain.

[wilsdenrover]

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2023/june/07/away-travel-available-for-triple-header/
 

 

[philipl]

17 hours ago, Ulrich said:

I'm sure we played Barcelona pre season 1 year, that was marquee

Twice and beaten them twice

[Mattyblue]

The strangely forgotten mid season friendly in ‘94…

[Ulrich]

2 minutes ago, philipl said:

Twice and beaten them twice

Those were the days, seems so long ago, but what a time to be a Rover.

[philipl]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/1487681.stm

And we won 3-1 against Barca in Reus with a Shearer hattrick

[Wheelton Blue]

Tickets out for Accy.

Adult price advertised at £8, go to pay and it's £10.

They really are a shambles down at Ewood.

[Wheelton Blue]

They've now pulled their original tweet which advertised it at £8, and re-tweeted at £10

If you don't laugh, you'd cry.

[Danny O.Brien]

😂 I thought I was craking up then. I was sure it said £8. Had a good day out last season in that away end. Hopefully the weather is similar this year.

[chaddyrovers]

Looking forward to this game, tickets bought already. 

[JHRover]

Still nothing about foreign games, team flies out 3 weeks on Sunday.

Despite claiming they would inform fans in good time to enable people to travel they haven't done.

Almost like they aren't arsed about fans going and watching.

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Still nothing about foreign games, team flies out 3 weeks on Sunday.

Despite claiming they would inform fans in good time to enable people to travel they haven't done.

Almost like they aren't arsed about fans going and watching.

You mean you want more than two hours notice before a game in Sevilla or wherever? 

You entitled little shit.

[Hanks]

It is supposed to be Austria for the training camp, but confirmation needed for the matches before we book anything

 

[superniko]

Is everyone still on holiday or something? Bizarre we still have no confirmation on the trip abroad....they even came out and specifically said we'd get plenty of notice to help plan travel.

We hired JDT this day last year, we had excuses that 'it was a late appointment' and 'he didn't have a full summer / preseason' - the league did start a week earlier for the world cup, but it hardly feels much different to the last 5 years. 

 

 

 

[philipl]

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23565150.blackburn-rovers-players-get-work-extended-pre-season/

Rovers return on 20 June giving the players an extended 6.5 weeks pre-season.

 

[Mattyblue]

They came back a week earlier on the 13th June last summer as the season started a week earlier (so also 6.5 weeks)… so it’s an ‘extended’ pre season this time in what context?

Edited June 14, 2023 by Mattyblue

[Ben-2000]

7 hours ago, JHRover said:

Still nothing about foreign games, team flies out 3 weeks on Sunday.

Despite claiming they would inform fans in good time to enable people to travel they haven't done.

Almost like they aren't arsed about fans going and watching.

Really is a joke.

I believe they're training during the week then having back to back games around the 15th.

[XLM]

On 07/06/2023 at 15:34, philipl said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/1487681.stm

And we won 3-1 against Barca in Reus with a Shearer hattrick

I love how that article gets Xavi's name wrong... "Xavier". Little did they know.

I used to watch a lot of Spanish football back then, and I remember being extremely confused by the team sheet using the "proper" last names of the players. Torre instead of Gabri, Hernandez instead of Xavi, Martinez Garcia instead of Luis Enrique etc.

[LeftWinger]

8 minutes ago, XLM said:

I love how that article gets Xavi's name wrong... "Xavier". Little did they know.

Xavier isn't incorrect.

[XLM]

17 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

Xavier isn't incorrect.

Fair enough. It's not what he goes by, or ever has done I guess was my point

[MarkBRFC]

The fixtures for next season will be released before they bother with anything for the abroad pre season trip.

[wilsdenrover]

1 hour ago, XLM said:

Fair enough. It's not what he goes by, or ever has done I guess was my point

I bet his mum still calls him Xavier 😀

[wilsdenrover]

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