On 07/10/2022 at 00:23, 47er said:

I don't usually blame the refs but we were short-changed by them in that game and the subsequent game against City.

We were in total control of that game against Leeds but only scored the one. However we had the clearest penalty I'ver ever seen disallowed late on in the second half. Obvious foul on Shearer. Even Leeds fans around me thought so.

And the City game was a farce culminating in a ridiculous penalty for City that never was.

I've never got over that because it stopped me seeing the title won at home against Newcastle.

Having to survive Milosko's heroics for West Ham and watching Cole's misses meant we won the title but t wasn't the same.

I couldn't go to the Liverpool game. 😬

Yeah I remember the ref gave a very dubious penalty for a ''foul'' on Niall Quinn.  Awful weather that night.  The pitch was a mudbath.  I remember against Chelsea at home in March there was polefork marks all over the mud.  

Yes shame as I was also at the Newcastle game.

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

very good today and that why Rovers signed him. Hopefully to come now

orgasmic display?

I hear Szmodics was szenszational today

European cup Final 1991  Marseille v Red star Belgrade

1990 World Cup Final

1 hour ago, DE. said:

... Steve Cooper signs a new deal at Forest to 2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63172328

Guess he wasn't so close to the sack after all!

What's happened here is that the board hope that by backing the manager and giving him a new contract the players will realise he is here to stay and play for him.  The dreaded vote of confidence.

I still think he will be sacked within weeks.

How do yo correctly pronounce his name?  I always thought it was Jon Dahl (as in Roald Dahl) Tomasson.

Sky seem to pronounce him Jon Dale Tomasson

2 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Did he get a football in the groin?

Possibly😂  Would explain the feeble effort anyway!

2 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

 

 

Thought the Walkersteel Stand was all seater once the old stand was knocked. I see there it was all terrace for a while.

Bobby Mimms.  A likeable character but forgotten when Flowers came in and his career was as good as over.

8 hours ago, windymiller7 said:

I think we definitely would've done. However, conversely, I think that Utd would've won it in '95 had Cantona not been banned for his infamous 'Kung-Fu Kick' at Selhurst Park. Our form at the end of that season seriously tailed off when the pressure was on.

Our form from Feb - mid April was excellent but after that we started getting nervous.   I remember we played Leeds at Elland road and were winning 1-0 and let in a last minute equaliser.  If we won that there was no catching us. Think that was the start of the rot.  Then the infamous Man City at home defeat.  I think that was a real indicator of nerves.   But then we threw in good win against Palace and Newcastle.  I actually saw the whole game at Anfield recently as they were reshowing it on sky.  We played quite well looking back at it. The problem was Shearer missing a sitter and Sutton with a Hans Moleman effort in the 2nd half.

2 hours ago, Displaced Rover said:

Can we send Hirst back? Feel like we've seen enough, I'd rather we focus on developing our own players like Vale and Markanday.

Penalty miss aside, he's shown nothing to suggest he's remotely close to Championship quality.

I dont think Wish do refunds

I think we would have given United a right fight for it and had Shearer been available after Christmas I think its very possible Walker would have realised his dream immediately.

Tomasson is probably an idealistic coach and those tactics are easier to implement in continental leagues where as English football is more intense and you are not given the time on the ball you would in the likes of Sweden. Its more hussle and bustle.  The Championship is not a technical league if you ask me.  Its a league where everyone beats everyone and only the most functional teams get promoted and even then those teams are not good.  Its a dogfight and you need good characters in your team more so than technical players imo.  I think we need a couple of lads over 30 who have been there and done it.  Gordon Cowans type players who have been let go by other teams.  You're not going to get out of this division with kids. 

Chiedozie Ogbene will rip us a new one

With this team if they go one goal down you know its curtains.  We just fold.  No fight.   The signings were not good imo.  Too young.  He should have a few players who know the league and who have been there and done it.  There's no leaders in the team.  Nobody to turn to when its going a bit Pete Tong.

Team is too young.  Said it before a couple of seasoned double hard bastards in the middle is whats needed to get out of this shithole of a league.  Then dispose of them when you get to the Prem.

some more nice old photos of Ewood.  Note the old mill behind the Blackburn End and the hill with no trees on it.  Edit:   The pic with the mill wouldn't post

ewood-park-blackburn-eaw639686-1106052.jpg.webp

1 hour ago, Gordon Gekko said:

Robbie Slater, decent Aussie right winger but was always behind Stuart Ripley. Think he ended up playing for West Ham and Southampton. 

Traded for the legend Matty Holmes in 95

David Bentley.  Got sick of football, retired and owns a pub now I think

Not confident of a win.  Might get a point.

Gordon Cowans.  A very good player.

Going back to my earlier post about the hill behind the Riverside.  Totally different view now than in the past.  Got these from Fever Pitch.  You cant see the stadium at all now from these vantage points.

Alan Wright.   Didnt realise he was still int he squad for 94-95.  I thought he had been sold on the previous summer.  He played at Old Trafford that season.  Cant recall him in any other game

On 30/09/2022 at 15:08, simongarnerisgod said:

that ball looks like it belongs in a cannon🤔

speaking of heading the ball,even when i was growing up in the 80`s,heading the bloody ball from one of those goalkeepers kicks from hand was hazardous,as a full back i always hoped the bloke i was marking got off his feet first then i just do enough to disrupt him,getting a forehead full of mitre delta had you dizzy no matter how well you used your head

I gave up playing ball at 16 but them Mitre Multiplex were a joke.   Always caked in dried mud from the game before and pumped up to the 9s ready to explode.  They were rock hard and even painful to kick at times.  I used to dread having to head one of them especially at corners.  Severe concussion would kick in!  Also we used to play in winter so the balls would also be frozen and rock hard.   Gettign a slap in the thigh from one would sting for about 10 mins after and leave a big red mark.

No doubt I'll get dementia now as a result!