Closing the gap rubbish. Teams over acheive and teams underacheive in the FA Cup it's what make the competition so great. Just ask Burnley they themselves should know as well as anyone having fallen to Non League Telford. They were also victims of one of the greatest FA Cup upsets of all time, First Division Burnleh losing at home to Non League Wimbledon. I don't hear Sheff U fans crowing about "closing the gap" on the Arse, or any of the other lower teams fans who did well against more talented opposition. Let's give 'em a break eh, sit back and smile, knowing it's all they have to cling to. It is a sure sign of how low the clarrots have fallen, time was a defeat to BRFC was just unacceptable, by any score at any level, now they are over the moon to have only lost by one. Pitiful really.

Obviously as a clarrot you'd love to play us every season cos that would mean you were on level pegging. You could make up stories about not hearing Rovers fans, how you outplayed us etc etc ad infipukem and do it every year. Personally I would take great great pleasure to see your club and it's fans suffer the same fate your "illustrious" butcher chairman Bob Lord bestowed on Accy Stanley. I would, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see your team and it's stupid "once were a big club" fans disappear off the face of the planet. Once were a big club? You revel in a "history" that is non existant outside of a two or three year period in the sixties. Yeah, I'd like to see you in the pie and peas league, no peas hold the gravy. "Closest you've been to us in years" "the gap is closing" How fecking sad is it that a "once were big club" drools at the fact they only lost by the single goal to their most hated rivals (the ones THEY once scoffed at). It's a sign of just how pititful your team is, you boast of players with clarrot and blue blood, YOUR BEST PLAYERS ARE BORROWED. Your other STARS are now playing in the prem reserves for their respective teams. Bring back Stan the man, he had you in the running for two years straight, but agent kilby refused to back him, now you have rented ground, rented players but you think you are big time. Can't wait for the day the Stanley pass you. Any of you remember a non league wombles beating a first division burnleh a the Morgue. It was a cup match, would a realist say that the wombles had a better team, no, it was the cup things happen. Day in day out youd be mullered in this division. Later clarrots.

I think thats a fair quote Jim - the other game being a draw! It is, but at the rate we have been going it will take about 100 years for us to actually play 10 games. LS1882, those who say Burnley matched, or even more than matched in some cases, are on a par or slightly below the folks who think so highly of Savage in terms of Football knowledge don't you think.

No one has time to post about him American. After all the bad mouthing he got before we signed him everyone is now so busy eating humble pie they don't have time to post. Watch 'em come out of the woodwork with the "I told you so's" first time he makes a mistake though.

I am really starting to feel sorry for these clarrots. They are just mentally challenged I think. "The gap is closing" Now let's see. When we played Burnley at the Turf in 2000 they were above us in the league. Same Season at Ewood they were just a few points behind us. Now we are in seperate leagues the gap is closing, they just don't get it. They raise their game for their biggest matches in years but do little but defend. I suppose when you finally score a goal against your hated rivals you will feel a bit cocky. "Outplayed" us? Could some one please provide some stats in total from the two games. If out playing someone gets you beat 2-1 then may the clarrots outplay every team from here on out

Heading in the right direction? Good glad you think so. Let's see, you are 3/4 of a season on from missing relegation by 2 points. Your two best players you owned have been sold off. The best players you have now are on loan and unlikely to become permanent. You no longer own your own stadium. Just about all opponents fans you come up against describe you as "boring, "tedious" etc. Your attendance continues to fall. Credit to Cotterill he has made you hard to beat on a limited budget, that I am sure has not gone unnoticed. Given the loyalty he has shown i the past the first smell of a check book and he will be gone. Sorry I just can't share the optimism for your club. But that's just me.

What an aspiration, to be as good as us. You are proud of your team because the gulf between us is not as big as it was. Quite sad really. So the important thing to you is that you did not get hammered, I love it it's a clear admission by you of your inferiority. Funny, time was any defeat by Rovers was devastating, now you get a hard on if we do not hammer you, you lot really have slipped, I love it. I could not have wrote it better myself. Non stop singing? Hah. Not a bad stat? Not a good one either, it led to a loss which gets you nothing exactly. Now please return to your board under your real handle and be your true venomous, hateful self, I have grown tired of your holier than thou two faced stuff. I know who you are. For the rest of the clarrots, if the "gulf" has really closed that much why are you not in the mix for promotion. Now Preston one could say the gulf has closed there. You play out of your skin for two games, we play poorly and you think you have accomplished something what is it ? 5 shots at goal in 180 mins of football. You are proud of that? good on yah.

Totally untrue, you are stroking numbers, if you wish to go that route you should include Burnleh AND pendle, NO?. But that is all by the by, whether your population outnumbers ours 2-1 or ours outnumbers yours 2-1 is irrelevant. You scored 50% of the goals we did. You go home, we go on, glad you are proud, not sure what of. Sounds like your team are even taking football back to the 70's 10 men behind the ball, all defence etc. Anyway no need to go on about it, we have bragging rights till next time. But hey, you did score, something you'll be able to tell your grand kids. I wuz theyer when t'Burnleh scored agin 'tRovers.

Glad to be wrong, just got home from work missed the end of the commentary. Glad we won it I had a bad feeling about this one. Late goal I understand, good. On the bright side for the clarrots they did score, I suppose they will be erecting a Micah Hyde Statue outside the Morgue now in honour of their only goal in a quarter of a decade. Well done lads, dingles out put 'em down again without playing our best.

Why oh why Bothroyd? Where's Stead, where's Johnson. What if it goes to penalties who do we have BOTHROYD SUCKS BIG TIME. At least it sounds like he is now.

Yup! I am terrified, I think the clarrots are going to sneak this one.

The two are not mutually excluse by any means. Hope you have a nightmare tommorrow And for many nights after, reliving a defeat, recurring over and over and over.

thats how long I think it will take our manager to get the squad together and ready I could be wrong of course - maybe we will do it next season What manager? Cotterill? He's be off first decent offer comes along.

They were just saving themselves for us. you know the secondary game the match that is not important cos promotion or playoffs is more important. Heard a rumor clarrots ere actually resting players for Tuesday. So just how important is the playoffs compared to beating us. Let's get this over with. Hope we beat them, not the end of the world if we don't. I for one would trade our Prem safety for a loss to the clarrots, right now. In the scheme of things being in the prem is what it's about, perhaps not to them, but for me it is, still as they say how can you miss it if youv'e never had it.

You scare me, we could always come out flat too, as we often have. We need to play our game, hold the ball, let them do their headless chicken thing trying to close gaps and pass it around. I would like to see our defenders NOT make the runs into the Burleh half. Did you notice how they stayed off when Nelsen, Johansen pushed forward. They let the defender run with the ball quite deep into their half, a rather obvious ploy to try to catch them out of position with a long hoof ball, but we kept taking the bait. Hope we don't copy that this time they will eventually catch us. Bit worried about Brad too, he had so little to do he may be a bit out of shape. Don't know about the fitness thing either philip, Burnley players are clearly in excellent shape, very fit. I think they will have had plenty of recovery time and if anything this will cause them to be a bit sharper than us from the off. Penalties, if we sub proper we could have a pretty good line up for the penalties, evens stevens there, who knows but with our history I don't fancy it.

Busy today original Longsider. You bored or what? Tuesday coming up fast, not many goals I'm sure. Good turnout for you but I sense the buzz is cos you are feeling pretty confident of beating us after Sunday and no clarrot in his right mind would want to miss such an historic occasion. BTW, well done coming on here under your regular handle, close to anyway. We have one or two clarrot visitors on here using different handles than they do on their own board and they are acting all holier than thou. But USABlue knows better. You always did shoot straight, respect for that. Hey them white gloves that nut was wearing would have gone with the Lee's heh?

About a minute per customer, that is really not bad at all. In fact given the time I have spent on phones booking things and paying for things it's really pretty bloody good.

He does not seem to stay at one place very long does he.

Abbey 1 Abbey 2 Abbey 3 Abbey 4 Thats the 4 i will have 2 ,3 4 gav but your numero uno matey Crikey, I'd better step it up a bit, I don't even get a honourable mention.

The comment was rather tongue in cheek based on Bryans comments. I would not be surprised if you "ZAK" (Zero Actual Knowledge) have clarrot in your handle on your own board.

Nice post Paul, I am really glad you had such a pleasant time. Hopefully we have more of the same after Tuesday, I just have a strong feeling it's going to be naughty. Sad isn't it. 45 years ago we went through a similar thing. Draw at Turf repaly at Ewood. The crowds were over 50,000 at each venue, Rovers and Burnley fans mixed and mingled at each ground, without segregation. NO trouble, wouldn't that be nice.

Sweet, good for you that Bryan. Some form of the word Longsider in user names does show a lack of originality from us Dingles.But check your own list how many people thought adding the word Blue to their place of residence was a novel idea. Preston Blue Accy Blue Aberdeen Blue Baxenden Blue Manchester Blue USA Blue The list is endless.It is hardly Brain of Britain stuff----not even Brain of Blackburn Hope the Blues and the Longsiders all turn up at Deadwood ,the place will be jammers.Oh i should add all the Zaks,Sams and Butchs. Silly Zak, Check your own messeage board for how many have clarrot in their handle. Also who is this USA Blue you mention. Everyone knows I am USA(no space)Blue.

Is that what the White gloves are for, stop the germs.

Sweet, good for you that Bryan.

Been mentioned Eddie? It's been on the front page of the bloody site for two days And I'll be stuck with the internet commentary, at work.