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Fortress Ewood: 3 More points at home v Pompey + PODCAST?!

Jimmy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:15:21 +0000

Hello and welcome back to, what should be stable service one more, The Blackburn Offside. After my month long hell (aka internship) I am back with a vengeance, and now Podcast equipped.

Over the next few days, I’ll be posting write ups or podcast episodes of a review of the month I missed. With this new feature, I to invite anyone and everyone to be as involved as possible. If you have a question a comment or anything at all, email it to me and we’ll get it talked about on any future episode. Feeling bold? Even if you just have a simple built in mic or a whole studio, record a comment or question and I’ll throw it in the episode myself.

As always, discussion starts in the comments where I hope to see some of the posters return. Sorry again for the month long hiatus, but we’re back baby.

More on the new kit…

Jimmy — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:42:39 +0000

First off, Thanks to everyone who has voted so far in the poll. I know I was gone for a week or two and to see so many people back reading the blog brings a tear to my eye. Just kidding (but not really…)

Some interesting facts/ideas/musings etc… that have spawn from the poll results and comments in the last post:

Tugay is the out and out favorite with 39% of the votes in the “Do you like the new white kit” poll. I don’t know what that says about the proposed shirt….or about my Turkish delight.

Richard from the U.S. writes

bloody hell, it looks like a bad Bolton home strip

And having done the research I have to admit, sadly, that it kind of does.

James from the U.S. is clearly not a fan of Umbro…..at all.

Regular contributor BMatthews is a giant 08 away kit fanboy, shamelessly at that. And hopes they even keep it next year.

I myself was never to fond of this year away kit, and I’m not quite sure what to make of that New away kit there, if it does turn out tomorrow to be accurate. I think it’s because I loved the red and black halved kit from 2 season ago.

To see all the fun you’re missing out on, as well as to comment on the new shirt and vote in the poll, click here to see all the fun you’re missing.

UP THE ROVERS! and screw the scum.

EDIT: I was going to link to the scum’s offside page. but only because they never used to have one. now, they have one now. So I’d like to congratulate them on getting their first house with internet access. And Congrats to The Offside, who’s influence is so strong they got the only online member of the scum’s fan base to write for them.

The Silly Season Starts

Jimmy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:38:13 +0000

Some headlines or you to chew on about some recent going ons at Rovers. Santa is still with us for the time being while we have had a few outings. And a big yay for Sunderland who knocked Notlob from the cup today.

Rovers trial for Ghana Starlet-SkySports

Santa Cruz expecting bid by City??(Guardian)……but then is happy at Rovers?(SkySports)

Nolan moves to Preston permanently for a “6 figure deal”, Gallagher to stay with Plymouth, Sergio Peter leaves for Sparta Prague for undisclosed fee, and last but not least Ooijer to AZ Alkmaar??

So lots of outs and not a whole lot of ins, but Big Sam has said that he hopes to bring in his new signings as early as possible.

A Blyth preview tomorrow and hopefully some good transfer news soon. I would say lets al laugh at Bolton, but they say pride comes before the fall, so lets save it. Up the ROVERS!

Blackburn 0-0 Reading

David — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:38:28 +0000

Not a nice advert for Premier League football as Rovers failed to overcome 10 man Reading. There isn’t much to say really, though Reading keeper RSC and Marcus Hahnemann had to make a few good saves. Perhaps the best news is that we kept a clean sheet (against an offensively dangerous side) in Ryan Nelsen’s return to the side – I’m pretty sure there’s a connection there. However this was definitely 2 points dropped and our chances of 5th are probably now dead in the water unless Pompey and Everton slip up big time. I can see Everton perhaps doing so without Tim Cahill but Pompey are on fire at the moment – perhaps our only hope is Defoe getting injured.

That being said Rovers need to concentrate on themselves. I’m perhaps one of Gamst’s biggest fans but he needs to get his act together before he’s dropped or sold, which would be sad since he has the potential to be a consistant star in the league (like he was last season). Otherwise we really need to become more clinical and consistant – pundits (when they rarely mention us) constantly talk about how we are doing so well but personally I see a team that could do a little bit better. It feels like the players all have top performances inside them but they’re not always producing them.

That being said I’d settle for 7th – with the league becoming a bit more competitive in the 5th-11th place area due to all the money flowing in, our distinct lack of funds does make our current position an achievement and something to brag about.

On a side note, it’s hard to laugh at Burnley these days – the teams never meet. So instead let’s laugh at Bolton. They’re going down…..

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