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A Signing To Come Soon?
By: Jimmy |
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With Russian Pavel Pogrebnyak out of the running and all leads looking dead, a surprise candidate has emerged out of the blue.
21 year old Croatian International Nikola Kalinic is the leading contender to be signed at Ewood Park now. Reports coming from The Mirror and the Lancashire Telegraph have both confirmed the striker talking to [...]
Category: Bloggers Thoughts, Coaches & Back room staff, Daily Update, Ewood Latest, League, Misc, Other Teams, Players, Portsmouth, Sam Allardyce, Team News, Transfers
Tags: Bloggers Thoughts, Coaches & Back room staff, Daily Update, Ewood Latest, League, Misc, Other Teams, Players, Portsmouth, Sam Allardyce, Team News, TransfersThe Search for a Striker Continues
By: Jimmy | 2 Comments
As the season’s start creeps quicker and quicker, we have still not found that striker (well two strikers) we need to sign to replace RSC and Matty Derbs, and the situation is starting to turn from “when we will get one?” to “will we get one?”
We’ve looked at a ton of strikers and have graced [...]
The Story Behind David ‘Junior’ Hoilett
By: Jimmy | No Comments
So some of you might not know the saga and struggle the Rovers went through to bring this promising youngster to England, so here’s the short and short of it…
In this Andy Cryer piece on the Rover Reserves 2-0 win over Leigh Genesis, you can read about how he Hoilett scored the two goals for [...]
Coming This Week on The Blackburn Offside
By: Jimmy | 1 Comment
(Picture unrelated, I just got my away jersey in the post so I figured I’d show it off again)
Alright, I know I’ve been absent for a couple of days and there has been a lot of stuff going on. I made the trip to Baltimore Friday night to see the Chelski v AC Milan game [...]
No Panic Buying for Rovers
By: Jimmy | 4 Comments
Skipper Ryan Nelson spoke to the Lancashire Telegraph about Big Sam’s quality as manager and doesn’t expect the club to panic buy this summer.
You can read the article here (click) and from some of the quotes, you can almost sense Nelson being just as annoyed with all the speculation and being linked to EVERY striker [...]
Category: Bloggers Thoughts, Coaches & Back room staff, Daily Update, League, Other Teams, Players, Ryan Nelsen, Sam Allardyce, Sunderland, Team News, Transfers Tags: Bloggers Thoughts, Coaches & Back room staff, Daily Update, League, Other Teams, Players, Ryan Nelsen, Sam Allardyce, Sunderland, Team News, TransfersLike the Blackburn Offside? Have a Facebook?
By: Jimmy | No Comments
Well do yourself a favor and become a fan of the Blackburn Offside page on facebook. Just click that Find us button to go to our page and become a fan. Then tell all your other Rovers mates. It’s that simple! The bigger we grow, the work can get done for you, the reader, to [...]
Big Sam Pulling No Punches
By: Jimmy | 5 Comments
Big Sam showed no hesitation when talking about the two 45 minute games played by Rovers yesterday. In this article from the offish site Sam was quick to highlight some highs and lows of the performances.
Sam praised the first XI against CD Nacional, but was quick to point out that the lack of goals was [...]
Follow The Blackburn Offside on Twitter!
By: Jimmy | No Comments
Oh yes that’s right. We’ve joined the evil that is Twitter.
Twitter.com/RoversOffside
Keep reading. It’s good, I promise……I think
The Busy Preseason
By: Jimmy | 4 Comments
Rovers have been busy this pre season so far with friendlies out the wazoo this week. I also feel like a fake reporter when I write about games I haven’t seen, so I’m going to spare everyone lies and made up facts in write ups about the Cambridge and Roma friendlies.
What I can do is [...]
Some Highlights v Cambridge
By: Jimmy | 1 Comment
Jason Roberts goal and Jason Brown being introduced as striker:
Rovers fan captured the Andrews Free Kick goal:
Category: Highlights, Jason Brown, Jason Roberts, Keith Andrews, Misc, Other Teams, Players, Team News
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