Proper football returns to us the weekend around the world and, more importantly, at Ewood Park as the Blackburn Rovers take on the Wanderers of Wolverhampton in the fourth league game of the season.

I’ll be honest here; this is a must win game. After this game we have league games against Everton and Villa, with a league cup game v Notts Forrest thrown in between those games.

Then after Villa and the retrn of big Brad and Stephen Warnock, we have Le Arse, Chelski, The B@stards, and ManUre.

This is a must win game. Read the rest of this entry »

Bore. Fest. Really just a long game to watch. And frusterating too as we won all the stats:

Possession: 54% Rovers
Shots: Rovers-9 Hammers-5
Shots off Target: Rovers 10 Hammers 6
Corners: Rovers 5 Hammers 2
Fouls: Rovers 13 Hammers 18

Basically every single stat you want to see except Final score. That was alllll Zeros. Read the rest of this entry »

So its the Bogey side. Thee bogey side. There’s no denying it. West Ham seem to be the one side we can never get the 3 points from. We all remember the Tevez affair. I still remember how I felt that day. Personally, I feel that example alone sums up my feelings about playing West Ham. Hell, it took a Andrews wonder goal to draw level last season. They always seem to have our number.

But enough with this witchcraft bogey side. I think we have a chance come Saturday. Hell, more than a chance, I think we’ll walk away from this one with all three points. Read the rest of this entry »

So the big news today is Stephen Warnock is now a member of Aston Villa. On the replacement side, as soon as the door was hitting Warnock’s rear, a Mr. Pascal Chimbonda has moved in. A little case of the old switcheroo, and I’m not too upset. Here’s why… Read the rest of this entry »

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Well, that little confusion I had in yesterday’s blog has seemingly been cleared up. At work today I got a twitter alert from @OneRovers saying that our boy Nikola aquired his work permit, and they did not lie. Upon getting home today the article on the Offish site was up and, wallah, we have a new striker!
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So what does this mean for our striker force?

It means we have a ton of strikers again. Paul Gallagher, Benni Mac, Jason Robers, Di Santo, Dioufy, and now Niko. I believe we’ll see a good healthy mix of Benni, Jason, Di Santo and Niko with Diouf probably playing on the right wing as a RM.

So what’s everyone’s take on this new boy? Yay or Nay? And how do we feel about the start of this season? Let me know! UP THE ROVERS!!