Off topic a bit but I wonder what is the furthest distance a Rovers season ticket has lived from Ewood? Didn't we have a new-ish member on here who bought one and lived in Hertfordshire?

Sundays tend to be slightly better for it given the trains get out of bed later than they do the other six mornings a week anyway. Mind, the service in question between Liverpool and Sheffield is TPE, who don't have the best of form on Sundays, regardless of what is happening the day before. Given that it is also the train at Warrington and Manchester most Lancs-based Rovers fans getting the train will be using, one does hope it runs!

Yeah had nothing myself either this past half hour. Ringing is equally fruitless, doesn't even connect.

Don't forget 'Only extant team to have won the FA Cup three years in a row' too!

I remember being on a train full of Luton fans that were coming back from Burnley earlier this season, and one of the lads on it was doing coke off his keys in broad daylight in front of the entire carriage, having a chat with his mate on the phone about how he couldn't even remember if he'd been let into the ground or not. What a way to spend your free time... All the same these days though, the weekend away fixtures are just wedged with coked up wankers looking for a scrap; that's true whether it be in Lancashire, Tyneside, Devon, Kent or wherever else in between sadly.

Don't get this Mother's Day argument, just take her with you...

Hadn't even thought of this. I wonder how many Rovers fans would be left at the final whistle if this was the case?!

One thing that annoyed me today was seeing all the comments, social media etc. along the lines of 'Newcastle have done well but United are better'. Didn't realise the black and white stripey team had dropped their suffix.

It was a joke in fairness.

Does this count as concrete evidence that, despite our best protestations, Gally isn't worse than George Hirst?!

I do by and large, the problem is I'm reliant on this forum for my Rovers update today and most others. When things are great it's wonderful, now the tide has it's turned into Monty Python's argument clinic. T'was ever thus, see also the transfer threads.

Fuck me, hopefully Rovers start improving soon so we are spared the utter nonsense on here we get in lieu. Could fit the meaningful chat on this topic so far on a fucking post-it note.

Could build any new facilities on stilts above the existing car parks 😁

Yep mine landed this morning. Hopefully work don't clock my very elongated lunch break!

Still can't get over the fact that was filmed in Preston.

Allan McGregor acting like a gobshite? Well I never.

This, I was totally indifferent when the ESL stuff was announced however long ago it was, as far as I'm concerned it's the next logical step in the 'progression' that has been ongoing for the last 30 years. I feel genuinely sorry for the older generation of Spurs, Man United fans et al who've seen their club transform before their eyes, but I struggle to comprehend why 'We need to spend at least £100M to get the keeper, left back and striker we need' is the accepted standard, but the devil to pay for such lavishness is horrid. You made your beds guys...

Metaphorically accurate I suppose.

Great for those (primarily neutrals) sat on their sofa, shite for those (primarily actual fans) who actually wish to attend in person.

The tie at Leicester is on Tue 28 Feb, 1930 KO live on BBC iPlayer. Naturally, the three other ties that night are on BBC One / ITV / ITV4...

Fuck what Sky Sports and whatever any other media outlet think, the only thing they care about is there being enough drama for the entire sport to resemble an episode of Corrie. Fuck the state those cunts have presided the game in this country descending into. I would wear their disdain of us as a badge of honour. (Before anyone asks, I never have and will never subscribe to any of those mob and their packages.)

Surely this derives from them just looking us up on Wikipedia, which gives it as our (only) nickname. I have never heard us go by anything other than 'Rovers', or indeed sometimes just 'Blackburn' to non-natives.

Some fine competition on this thread alone, but 'get the W' is probably the worst thing I have ever read on here 🤮 Presumably we 'take the L' should we lose...

But yes, 2pm on a Sunday, after Christmas, at a ground where we were just weeks ago and in a part of the world that's awkward to get to is a piss take. Still, I'm sure they'll all be gathered around their TV sets in Jakarta and Seoul watching us, so all is well with the world. We'll have an outlet shop in Kyoto before we know it.

I'd have happily gone for a long weekend - lovely part of the world, excellent pubs and a tenner entry - alas the lack of trains has absolutely done me.