Time to move on

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Mon May 08, 2017 4:54 pm

Now that our local rivals are on there way to oblivion,isn't it time we just forgot about our once most hated enemy,they are now so insignificant we need to find ourselves some better rivals,Bury or Stanley...come on guys let it go they are history let's move on,they don't matter to us anymore,we are better than them let's move on.

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Mon May 08, 2017 4:56 pm

Nah, we need to wallow in a little schadenfreude first.

Let's enjoy the moment before they are cast into Oblivion

bob-the-scutter · Post by **bob-the-scutter** » Mon May 08, 2017 4:57 pm

How far is Fleetwood?

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Mon May 08, 2017 5:06 pm

We could move on.
You maybe right.

But...can we just watch their team bus chugging off to Fleetwood, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury......
Some great, old Lancashire clubs there, that our friends down the road thought beneath them.
Hope they get the appropriate welcome.

Sausage · Post by **Sausage** » Mon May 08, 2017 5:06 pm

bob-the-scutter wrote:How far is Fleetwood?

Bertie Mee says to Bill Shankly
“Have you seen the Cod Army at Highbury?”
Shanks says “No, I don’t think so”
“But the Bastards are playing there, Friday.”

elwaclaret · Post by **elwaclaret** » Mon May 08, 2017 5:14 pm

It is not beyond the realms of possibility that the Chicken farmers will throw in the towel when they realise how much money they've just lost due to their mismanagement. Ikea Blackburn anyone?

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Mon May 08, 2017 5:16 pm

Steve1956 wrote:Now that our local rivals are on there way to oblivion,isn't it time we just forgot about our once most hated enemy,they are now so insignificant we need to find ourselves some better rivals,Bury or Stanley...come on guys let it go they are history let's move on,they don't matter to us anymore,we are better than them let's move on.

No.

You let it go if you like.

When they are gone, I'll let it go. Until then, absolutely no chance will I let them off the hook.

jurek · Post by **jurek** » Mon May 08, 2017 5:20 pm

I recall the days when Rover and Burnley fans stood on the same terracing
(Bee Hole end if I recall correctly) and seeing who could come up with the best joke or chant.
No trouble, no hatred.
I'm not sure how this rivalry and hatred developed.

jlup1980 · Post by **jlup1980** » Mon May 08, 2017 5:34 pm

Our rivals are Manchester United and Liverpool aren't they?!!

bob-the-scutter · Post by **bob-the-scutter** » Mon May 08, 2017 6:55 pm

jurek wrote:I recall the days when Rover and Burnley fans stood on the same terracing
(Bee Hole end if I recall correctly) and seeing who could come up with the best joke or chant.
No trouble, no hatred.
I'm not sure how this rivalry and hatred developed.

You must be older than I jurek, I can`t!

RocketLawnChair · Post by **RocketLawnChair** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:04 pm

I'm sorry Steve, I've suffered sometimes merciously at the hands of them **** taking arrogant bastards for the last 30 years, I'm not letting them off the hook after a day !!

Vino blanco · Post by **Vino blanco** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:04 pm

My dad told me stories of visiting Ewood just after the war and fighting all the way from the station to the ground. He also remembered trouble between the fans before the war.

COYC73 · Post by **COYC73** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:07 pm

jurek wrote:I recall the days when Rover and Burnley fans stood on the same terracing
(Bee Hole end if I recall correctly) and seeing who could come up with the best joke or chant.
No trouble, no hatred.
I'm not sure how this rivalry and hatred developed.

I started going on the Turf from about 1984 and the hatred for them was well established. I didn't understand it either, until a year later when I started Secondary school....I went to St.Wifrids in Blackburn and as a Burnley fan in a Blackburn school I got called **** and spat at on a daily basis....

Pstotto · Post by **Pstotto** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:09 pm

Blackburn who? In the early 70's they meant as little to me as Norwich or Watford. Leeds and Liverpool and Man United were Burnley's main local rivals. I still think of Leeds as our biggest enemy. It was only after going to school in Clitheroe that I found out that folk supported Rovers.

THEWELLERNUT70 · Post by **THEWELLERNUT70** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:12 pm

Give over we have a number of years of gloating to go yet

Vino blanco · Post by **Vino blanco** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:15 pm

I was in a pub in Whalley a few weeks and overheard three Rovers fans talking. Their conversation was roughly as follows: "If we go down it will be great in League One coz we will fill and take over every away ground". Delusional?

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:34 pm

Buxtonclaret wrote:We could move on.
You maybe right.

But...can we just watch their team bus chugging off to Fleetwood, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury......
Some great, old Lancashire clubs there, that our friends down the road thought beneath them.
Hope they get the appropriate welcome.

Burnley..bolton..wigan..blackburn 4 down 4 to go for oc maybe. Theyre about his level now hes been rumbled.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:40 pm

Apologies .his level isnt even sunday league.

Redbeard · Post by **Redbeard** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:47 pm

Move on? Already?

But I've still got some ice cream left!

MiltonKeynesClaret93 · Post by **MiltonKeynesClaret93** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:49 pm

We're going to Wembley
You're going to Shrewsbury

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:55 pm

Fretters · Post by **Fretters** » Mon May 08, 2017 7:55 pm

COYC73 wrote:I started going on the Turf from about 1984 and the hatred for them was well established. I didn't understand it either, until a year later when I started Secondary school....I went to St.Wifrids in Blackburn and as a Burnley fan in a Blackburn school I got called **** and spat at on a daily basis....

I went to Wilfrid's too but I started in 1995. They'd just won the league and we were relegated to where they are now. It was a horrible 7 years (for some reason I stayed on at 6th form) so I'm absolutely lovIng life right now

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Mon May 08, 2017 8:35 pm

I know a few folk who used to work at Blackburn Royal,they hated it;came out of work regularly in tears and dreaded going to work each day due to the vile victimisation of those self-proclaimed 'better humans' .

Burnleyareback2 · Post by **Burnleyareback2** » Mon May 08, 2017 9:36 pm

Yeah, going to school in Accrington in the 90's wasn't very pleasurable when all the glory hunters appeared.

I plan to enjoy this for about 10years

claretbob · Post by **claretbob** » Tue May 09, 2017 12:11 am

I know one should be magnanimous in the moment of your triumph but it's impossible. The gloating will continue for months and hopefully years. My first game on the Turf was 1974 when there was a two division gap and the wheel has finally turned full circle. Why it took so long only the football gods know but the longer the wait,the sweeter the taste!

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Tue May 09, 2017 12:21 am

bob-the-scutter wrote:How far is Fleetwood?

I don't know, but it'll be a long way by bus for their "bubble game"

Commy · Post by **Commy** » Tue May 09, 2017 12:23 am

I was at Wilfrid's in the 70s. One lad used to go round scrounging money, if we had a night match, so he could go.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Tue May 09, 2017 1:04 am

Oh all right...**** it then...lets gloat.

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Tue May 09, 2017 7:24 am

Jurek, you must have the secret of eternal life, either that or you are so old your memory is playing tricks.I went on my first Burnley game in 1962 and I have been a regular ever since. I cannot recall a time when there was anything but pure animosity towards Blackburn Rovers, certainly not standing together swapping friendly banter.

Top Claret · Post by **Top Claret** » Tue May 09, 2017 7:27 am

Pstotto wrote:Blackburn who? In the early 70's they meant as little to me as Norwich or Watford. Leeds and Liverpool and Man United were Burnley's main local rivals. I still think of Leeds as our biggest enemy. It was only after going to school in Clitheroe that I found out that folk supported Rovers.

I am like you mate. Growing up in Rossendale in the 60/70S. I Only ever met one Rovers fan, and nobody cared less about him. Our only rival's in those days were Man United and to a lesser extent Leeds. Nobody gave a 2nd thought to Rovers.

WestMidsClaret · Post by **WestMidsClaret** » Tue May 09, 2017 8:25 am

"Time to move on"

Is it ****!! **** that. Why the **** should we move on! **** 'em. Hope the ******* rot. *******. They are irrelevant now the *****. Let them have the big derbies with Bury, Fleetwood etc for a while then Accy *******.

NEVER GETTING BACK UP LUV CLARETS

*******

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Tue May 09, 2017 8:50 am

Move on?

It's time to move up.. a gear in the "banter" stakes if you ask me!

Lived across from a b4stard for too long from 10-19 years old, wasn't pleasent at all.
Couldn't leave the house without some comment or gesture.

Regretting I moved now..

He painted his garage blue and white halves, flag in the window with 5-0 up.
Left bananas on our car.
Took every opportunity to mow his lawn in his shirts, whilst we played on the street, and never give me an ounce of peace from various score line jibes if we got beat/they won.

I will enjoy this as much as possible.

Can't wait to see him again in town or something.

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Tue May 09, 2017 9:06 am

I was at school in Clitheroe (Primary and Secondary) between '75 and '86 and there was no love lost. It was a difficult period as during that time the balance of power shifted as our plummet down the leagues happened. Couldn't be more delighted with the current situation!

Redbeard · Post by **Redbeard** » Tue May 09, 2017 9:34 am

Further to my earlier post:

More ice cream on today's shopping list.

levraiclaret · Post by **levraiclaret** » Tue May 09, 2017 10:06 am

not before you read this delightful piece of schadenfreude

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Down_Rover · Post by **Down_Rover** » Tue May 09, 2017 11:24 am

One of the ( maybe only) downsides of being in the PL was not playing Wovers or Weeds.

There is no one in this league who cares enough about us to hate us. Even Boro have run away

Maybe we should hope Huddersfield get promoted but it is hard to hate them when they assisted Birmingham to stay up

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