Not been able to catch up on the games from the weekend so I have no idea if we played well and were unlucky or if we were dire and deserved a bigger loss.
Ey Up,
1958, even I have trouble going that far back, we probably had most of the promotion side then and were a bit good, Duggy, maybe both Claytons, Woods, maybe McGrath and Dobing, Vernon?, Noddy ont' wing, Leyland in goal, maybe still Quigley (pub quiz guys please correct me...), a bit hazy as I were just a nipper siting on that lickle bench inside t'wall on t' Riverside sharing my mate's rackle
Ay that were grond team, not like this bunch of journeymen and wanna bees, who seem destined to keep us depressed for some time to come. You might be in with a shout after all this time!
Duggy
Do you know you can post the same article on 2 teams boards?
I've a soft spot for any team with Rovers in the name, and I was once mistaken for a Doncaster fan when asked in Leeds who I supported and said "Rovers".
Quite fancy going to this one, would be a new ground for me.
What do you think of your chances this season OP. Was a big fan of Dickov at Rovers, played a heroic role in keeping us in the PL in 2004/05, scoring 10 as the smallest lone striker ever. But not sure about him as a manager. Seems very odd Flynn wanted to step down after promoting you.
I think we will do ok, we have a knack at donny of fighting above our weight, just one really bad season in the past 15 years and that was when we tasted relegation 2 seasons ago!
I expect a good close game on friday as we have pretty much the same side that won div1 last season! We should of beaten Blackpool in our first game back in the champ but we got hit with a sucker punch very late on! I expect Blackburn to be a better side than Blackpool, jordon rhodes could be the difference between the two sides as we dont have a striker anywhere near his quality.....but......if we can keep him out the game I could see us winning through sheer workrate and desire!
I'll be incredibly disappointed if we don't take three points. No disrespect to Doncaster at all - I just don't think we are fit for promotion if we can't take all three points here.
Anything less than a win would be a p|ss-poo start to the season.
Yeah we used to have that knack too, until Venkys took over. Hmm, depressingly I'm not sure we are that much better than Blackpool these days. We don't have a player as good as Tom Ince anyway.
DD, do you think promotion is realistic anyway? I think we've dropped too far now and signing League 1/Championship players over the summer hardly smacks of ambition.
Unfortunately I think we're heading for mid-table this season, however I do think we should be looking to win on Friday. No offence northborder but Dickov had a shakey record at Oldham and I think you'll do well to avoid the drop this season.
Dont be suprised to see donny above the drop zone come may!
What we lack in this division has played in our favour 3 of the 4 seasons we were here last time round, and thats the luxery of money!
Because we cant keep buying players like other clubs in this division we are forced to build our team on honest hard working players who know each others game, theres no superstars in our team just 20 players pulling in the same direction!
Last season was the same, we were not the most talented squad in div1 individually, but we were the best team!
Im not saying that romantic viewpoint will win us owt in this division but I suspect there will be 3 clubs in the division who are worse than us simply cause they wont have players as committed as us or have experienced winning a division together!
Spurr is our only big loss id say from that team last season, good luck to him though, top bloke!
Was supposed to be going to this game but apparently Donny police insisted on the game being moved to Friday night due to some speedboat championships taking place in Donnie on Sat so can’t go now.
Police
Would anyone like to answer a few questions about your team before our derby match with you? It is for the website Burndenaces.
Yeah sure I will if ya want.
Actually no thanks, just had a look on the site. Typical Bolton arseholes.
I did warn you! Like I said 'where a team' that was a hard fought win! If more talented teams come to us and are slightly off there game this will happen!
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posted on 12/8/13
Woah, dé ja vu.
posted on 12/8/13
probably
posted on 12/8/13
Not been able to catch up on the games from the weekend so I have no idea if we played well and were unlucky or if we were dire and deserved a bigger loss.
posted on 12/8/13
Ey Up,
1958, even I have trouble going that far back, we probably had most of the promotion side then and were a bit good, Duggy, maybe both Claytons, Woods, maybe McGrath and Dobing, Vernon?, Noddy ont' wing, Leyland in goal, maybe still Quigley (pub quiz guys please correct me...), a bit hazy as I were just a nipper siting on that lickle bench inside t'wall on t' Riverside sharing my mate's rackle
Ay that were grond team, not like this bunch of journeymen and wanna bees, who seem destined to keep us depressed for some time to come. You might be in with a shout after all this time!
Duggy
posted on 12/8/13
Do you know you can post the same article on 2 teams boards?
I've a soft spot for any team with Rovers in the name, and I was once mistaken for a Doncaster fan when asked in Leeds who I supported and said "Rovers".
Quite fancy going to this one, would be a new ground for me.
What do you think of your chances this season OP. Was a big fan of Dickov at Rovers, played a heroic role in keeping us in the PL in 2004/05, scoring 10 as the smallest lone striker ever. But not sure about him as a manager. Seems very odd Flynn wanted to step down after promoting you.
posted on 12/8/13
I think we will do ok, we have a knack at donny of fighting above our weight, just one really bad season in the past 15 years and that was when we tasted relegation 2 seasons ago!
I expect a good close game on friday as we have pretty much the same side that won div1 last season! We should of beaten Blackpool in our first game back in the champ but we got hit with a sucker punch very late on! I expect Blackburn to be a better side than Blackpool, jordon rhodes could be the difference between the two sides as we dont have a striker anywhere near his quality.....but......if we can keep him out the game I could see us winning through sheer workrate and desire!
posted on 13/8/13
I'll be incredibly disappointed if we don't take three points. No disrespect to Doncaster at all - I just don't think we are fit for promotion if we can't take all three points here.
Anything less than a win would be a p|ss-poo start to the season.
posted on 13/8/13
Yeah we used to have that knack too, until Venkys took over. Hmm, depressingly I'm not sure we are that much better than Blackpool these days. We don't have a player as good as Tom Ince anyway.
DD, do you think promotion is realistic anyway? I think we've dropped too far now and signing League 1/Championship players over the summer hardly smacks of ambition.
Unfortunately I think we're heading for mid-table this season, however I do think we should be looking to win on Friday. No offence northborder but Dickov had a shakey record at Oldham and I think you'll do well to avoid the drop this season.
posted on 13/8/13
Dont be suprised to see donny above the drop zone come may!
What we lack in this division has played in our favour 3 of the 4 seasons we were here last time round, and thats the luxery of money!
Because we cant keep buying players like other clubs in this division we are forced to build our team on honest hard working players who know each others game, theres no superstars in our team just 20 players pulling in the same direction!
Last season was the same, we were not the most talented squad in div1 individually, but we were the best team!
Im not saying that romantic viewpoint will win us owt in this division but I suspect there will be 3 clubs in the division who are worse than us simply cause they wont have players as committed as us or have experienced winning a division together!
Spurr is our only big loss id say from that team last season, good luck to him though, top bloke!
posted on 14/8/13
Was supposed to be going to this game but apparently Donny police insisted on the game being moved to Friday night due to some speedboat championships taking place in Donnie on Sat so can’t go now.
Police
posted on 14/8/13
Would anyone like to answer a few questions about your team before our derby match with you? It is for the website Burndenaces.
posted on 15/8/13
Yeah sure I will if ya want.
posted on 15/8/13
Actually no thanks, just had a look on the site. Typical Bolton arseholes.
posted on 15/8/13
I'll do it.
posted on 15/8/13
posted on 16/8/13
I did warn you! Like I said 'where a team' that was a hard fought win! If more talented teams come to us and are slightly off there game this will happen!
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