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January 30th, 2009

I’m speechless….

By: Jimmy | Comments 6 Comments

Rovers have this afternoon completed the signing of Sunderland forward El-Hadji Diouf for an undisclosed fee.
Wow. I’m speechless. I’ll turn this over to you.

Category Category: Team News


January 28th, 2009

Rovers 2-2 Bolton, Shock Derbs loan???

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

No highlights yet but the match in a second.
This story here (click) is getting heavy buzz and would be a big deal around the Rovers world if it went through. The story? Matty Derbs on a half season long loan to Olympiakos in Greece. A small write up made an appearance on the Rovers site. [...]

January 27th, 2009

Notlob tomorrow and a little apology

By: Jimmy | Comments No Comments

First the little apology, then onto the Notlob.
A small “I’m sorry” to readers of the Rovers Offside for lack of updates. My first week back at school just ended and I am re acclimating to the Uni life again. Normal service will resume asap. Moving on…
Side note: As you saw we draw Sunderland this [...]

January 23rd, 2009

Sunderland….again

By: Jimmy | Comments No Comments

We play Sunderland again tomorrow in the 4th round of the FA cup. We’ve beaten them every time we’ve met in this competition but I feel like we’ve played them so much this year already that it could be any ones game. According to the official site, Roque gets the start while Roberts, Dunn and [...]

January 19th, 2009

Rovers Raid France

By: Jimmy | Comments 2 Comments

A report found in today’s “Mirror” (click here for link) has Rovers linked with Metz Senegalese striker Babacar Gueye. It also reports, as had some papers last week, that Rovers were scouting out Nancy right back Jean Calve who has been in the media saying that Blackburn was interested in him.(Click here for link to [...]



January 18th, 2009

Rovers 3-0 Newcastle; Sam’s revenge and out of the bottom 3. Highlights.

By: Jimmy | Comments 2 Comments

Benni drew a penalty and scored from the spot and Roberts bagged two as Big Sam and the Rovers crushed Newcastle 3-nil yesterday at Ewood Park. Read more on the game after the jump.

January 15th, 2009

Rovers nab Givet- Get in!

By: Jimmy | Comments 1 Comment

Signed on loan till the remainder of the season with option to buy. Lemme just post the important details from the press release on the official site:
The 27-year-old has signed on loan for the remainder of this season with the club having an option to purchase the defender.
Givet, who is able to play at left-back [...]

January 14th, 2009

Silly Season – Some links for Wednesday

By: Jimmy | Comments No Comments

Blackman makes a good first impression.
Dunn makes a return in Ressie game.
Roque wants to go…again.
Rovers checking out Giourkas Seitaridis from Atlético Madrid.

January 13th, 2009

Silly Season – “Panda Watch” style

By: Jimmy | Comments 2 Comments

As we have just got our first permanent singing, lets take a look at what else Rovers have on the horizon:
Rovers sign starlet for the future-SSN
Rovers looking to bolster squad-Lancashire Telegraph. It mentions that we have also been keeping track of Ivorian Zoro, but reports have come out saying that Givet is looking more likely [...]

Category Category: Team News, Transfers
January 13th, 2009

Nick Blackman? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

By: Jimmy | Comments 5 Comments

Rovers’ first new face……and no one knows the face






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