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rovers fans clams re the Orient game

Post by gandhisflipflop » Fri May 24, 2019 5:39 am

I have heard this a few times from them lot down the road and always assumed it to be ********. Nevertheless I will ask the question here. They claim to be there in numbers on that game, some even claiming they helped pack out the place. Can any Clarets who was there help put this one to bed as it was a couple of years before my time.

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Post by Vegas Claret » Fri May 24, 2019 6:12 am

next they'll be telling you they didn't buy the league
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Post by NottsClaret » Fri May 24, 2019 6:27 am

Can’t see why they think it would matter anyway?

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Post by Grumps » Fri May 24, 2019 6:37 am

I saw four on the Bee Hole that had travelled over

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Post by Herts Clarets » Fri May 24, 2019 6:52 am

And there were a couple trying to get in the away end thatwere identified and taken away by the old bill. I hope there were loads of them there and they had their day ruined by Burnley. And I hope they are still Rovers fans and every day they wake up to their car crash of a club, hated owners, eye watering debt levels and recent 3rd division football. And then they look 13 miles down the M65 and wonder what did happen to that club they came to bury 32 years ago.

It's a place of misery...... UTC
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Post by fatboy47 » Fri May 24, 2019 7:07 am

Nowt wrong with a bit of grief tourism.

I'm no stranger to Ewood over recent seasons...spent a good few hours sat gloating quietly amongst the unwashed with a little smirk playing gently across my lips. Never actually knocked one out as the final whistle approached but the thought crossed my mind once.
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Re: rovers fans clams re the Orient game

Post by TVC15 » Fri May 24, 2019 7:24 am

“Rovers fans clams”

Sounds a bit fishy.
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Post by Bordeauxclaret » Fri May 24, 2019 7:30 am

I’d thank them for the money.
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Post by box_of_frogs » Fri May 24, 2019 7:31 am

The head of Hapton Primary was sat near me in the Cricketfield. He genuinely wanted us to win. But then again he was a genuinely nice bloke even for a Rovers fan.

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Post by Petersa » Fri May 24, 2019 7:38 am

I knew two who went and bought programmes as they wanted souvenirs of Burnley's last ever game! Haven't seen them for donkeys years so don't quite know what they think now

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Post by evensteadiereddie » Fri May 24, 2019 7:46 am

TVC15 wrote:“Rovers fans clams”

Sounds a bit fishy.
A bit shellfish of them to come and gloat at our troubles, I think.
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Post by Claretforever » Fri May 24, 2019 7:50 am

Rovers fans also think that they were a well run club under John Williams, plus through the Walker years before Venky’s. This dispite losing about £150m during that time despite profits on players. Remember their turnover for many years was £5-20m, including the Tv money.

Will there have been a few? Yeah, just as there are a few Clarets at their games today through family and friendships etc.

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Post by Lancasterclaret » Fri May 24, 2019 7:52 am

I remember chatting to a Burnley fan in a pub pre match years ago who swore blind that Jamie Hoyland had deliberately been sent off at Wycombe in a 5-0 defeat so we wouldn't go up so he's get an extra year on his contract.

The point I'm making?

people always make **** up

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Post by Grumps » Fri May 24, 2019 7:58 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:I remember chatting to a Burnley fan in a pub pre match years ago who swore blind that Jamie Hoyland had deliberately been sent off at Wycombe in a 5-0 defeat so we wouldn't go up so he's get an extra year on his contract.

The point I'm making?

people always make **** up
Nobody's making it up though, rovers fans were at the game, as stated in several posts above.

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Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Fri May 24, 2019 8:05 am

They didn't bother watching their own team in those days, find it hard to believe they paid to watch us.
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Re: rovers fans clams re the Orient game

Post by Lancasterclaret » Fri May 24, 2019 8:06 am

Read the first post Grumps

Difference between one or two and the numbers being said.

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Post by Lancasterclaret » Fri May 24, 2019 8:07 am

And its nice to see that the wheel has come full circle.

All they go on about now is the past, just like we used to, and they used to rip the **** out of us for doing it.

Here's to many, many, many, many more years of laughing at them!
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Post by Grumps » Fri May 24, 2019 8:53 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Read the first post Grumps

Difference between one or two and the numbers being said.
Not an exact science but from a small number of replies on here quite a few knew rovers fans who attended, if that was to be repeated with a larger sample, then I would suggest quite a few attended

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Post by Funkydrummer » Fri May 24, 2019 8:59 am

TVC15 wrote:“Rovers fans clams”

Sounds a bit fishy.
Should have been on the Salmon Rondon thread ! :D

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Post by Clarets4me » Fri May 24, 2019 9:37 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:A bit shellfish of them to come and gloat at our troubles, I think.
Not proper fans, I bet they're part of the " Prawn sandwich " brigade !

I'll get me coat .... ;)

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Post by Cubanclaret » Fri May 24, 2019 9:48 am

A Rovers fan came with me and cheered the Clarets to the hilt. Shock, horror.

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Post by martin_p » Fri May 24, 2019 9:50 am

They were averaging less than 7000 in the second tier that season so even if they’d all turned up it’d have been less than half the number in the ground for the Orient match. It may have run into three figures, but ‘filling out the ground’ when they were a long way short of ‘filling out’ Ewood seems highly unlikely.

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Post by IanMcL » Fri May 24, 2019 11:34 am

Whichever way you cut it, it was an historic occasion of monumental proportion.

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Post by Bosscat » Fri May 24, 2019 11:53 am

Surely Rovers fans prefer "Sea Horses" to Clams?
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Post by Quickenthetempo » Fri May 24, 2019 12:03 pm

Can we just thank them for their support please?

Without them we would be dead and buried and they would be top dogs in Lancashire.

Absolute hero's, everyone of them that came.

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Re: rovers fans clams re the Orient game

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Fri May 24, 2019 12:09 pm

They used to say that we used to bullsh1t our away attendances.

Well they weren't even playing that day, and they are bullsh1tting their away numbers.

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Post by Billy Balfour » Fri May 24, 2019 12:23 pm

I once heard a Rovers fan claim he was the first man on the moon.
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Re: rovers fans clams re the Orient game

Post by Grumps » Fri May 24, 2019 12:23 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:They used to say that we used to bullsh1t our away attendances.

Well they weren't even playing that day, and they are bullsh1tting their away numbers.
They did play that day, quite locally if I remember correctly, but they preffered to come and laugh at us, thank goodness they didn't get the chance

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Post by Herts Clarets » Fri May 24, 2019 12:35 pm

I have been to BollEwood a few times in the away end other than when Burnley were playing:

1985 v Grimsby last game of the season and they needed a win, otherwise they could have gone down. Quite a number of Clarets there and a couple of Rovers fans in the away end. There were a few punches thrown and the Rovers fans were thrown out. Met a couple of them as I walked back to the car after the game.....

1988 v Villa with a school mate who is a Villa fan. Huge following from Villa and a load of trouble from them after the game, including a brick thrown over the top of my mate's dad's car that he borrowed that went through someone's house window.
Went there with Forest with a Forest supporting mate, can't recall much of that.

2002 Xmas time with West Ham and my in laws. I got the away end singing "where were you when you were sh!t" at the Rovers fans. And my brother in law had to pay the car park attendant, as I refused to hand money over to someone wearing a Rovers shirt.
And then I went to Upton to watch West Ham v ROvers. I was stood outside the Queens on Green Street with a load of West Ham, who knew I was a Burnley fan but stood with my wife and her 2 brothers who are all Hammers, when one of the few Rovers coaches pulled up. Got the usual Gareth Hunt Nescafe waves from them, until I removed the claret & blue scarf from round my neck and held it aloft. For them not to read West Ham, but Burnley. Then they were going full on mental at the windows. :D About as mental as I went as just as I heard the strains of "are you Burnley in disguise" from the away fans, Trevor Sinclair lamped a 25 yarder into the top corner!

I think we drove to Southend after that game and went for a night out with the boxer Steve Collins. Very interesting day and night.
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Post by BigRedrose » Fri May 24, 2019 2:36 pm

I'd take any claim by the 'Horse Botherers' with a pinch of salt. One of the most bizarre claims they make is on the ' Blackburn has no lads' web page ( wish I was tech savvy enough to provide a proper link) regarding our Boxing day defeat in 1977.
According to them, they had 6-7000 fans on their half of the Longside, 4000 fans on the Beehole End, 5,500 fans in the Cricket Field End and 250 fans in the Bob Lord.
I must have been at a different game.

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Post by Sausage » Fri May 24, 2019 2:41 pm

Herts Clarets wrote:Got the usual Gareth Hunt Nescafe waves from them
Like your post purely for this comment which I haven't heard for donkey's years. Younger viewers will need to google it.

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Post by Bop » Fri May 24, 2019 2:41 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:A bit shellfish of them to come and gloat at our troubles, I think.
Brill.
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Post by Goodclaret » Fri May 24, 2019 3:10 pm

Forget Rovers and their few hundred at this game, Leeds fans took 159,652 to this game to see us disappear. Now THAT is support! #wahls

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Post by bfcjg » Fri May 24, 2019 5:09 pm

A small coach ful were stopped at the Mitre by the police ( mate of mine was on duty ) and advised to turn around for their own safety, " they realised the gravity of what potentially would happen to them " was the phrase.

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Post by NL Claret » Fri May 24, 2019 6:45 pm

Good job Leeds weren't our main rivals back then, they'd have brought more :)

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Post by gandhisflipflop » Fri May 24, 2019 8:23 pm

I've even heard claims they packed out the ground. Took all three sides. I know this is bullshit but hey ho

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Post by Cocker Claret » Fri May 24, 2019 9:13 pm

I've never understood supporters who want their rivals to go bust.Surely you want to be playing them or taking the mickey out of them for being in a lower league.If Rangers hadn't reformed i'm sure Celtic supporters would have been gutted after getting over the initial euphoria .

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Post by Spike » Sat May 25, 2019 3:28 pm

I lived in Blackburn for 28 years Upto 1986. I went to the game on the train from Preston. I went for the pubs opening and caught the last train home. I never saw a single person who could possibly have been a Barsteward.

Just like the fictitious involvement of Garner with the plane the stories that they tell are not to be believed!
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Post by Bosscat » Sat May 25, 2019 3:43 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:A bit shellfish of them to come and gloat at our troubles, I think.
Its a load of Pollock

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Post by yorkyclaret » Sat May 25, 2019 9:21 pm

Billy Balfour wrote:I once heard a Rovers fan claim he was the first man on the moon.
I heard him too, said it was a long walk so he caught the bus back.
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Post by Billy Balfour » Sun May 26, 2019 5:09 pm

Or in Blackburn speak - caught the buzz back.

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Post by Bosscat » Sun May 26, 2019 5:18 pm

Billy Balfour wrote:I once heard a Rovers fan claim he was the first man on the moon.
He was just horsing around :)

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Post by morpheus2 » Sun May 26, 2019 6:37 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:Read the first post Grumps

Difference between one or two and the numbers being said.
Well i might not be the brightest when it comes to maths, but if one of our guys saw four of their guys and another one of our guys saw another two of their guys that means our guys were outnumbered 3/1 meaning that out of the 15696 on, 26000 were their lot, or am i stupid?

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Post by Quicknick » Sun May 26, 2019 6:43 pm

Yep, there was at least 10,000 of them.

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Post by dougcollins » Sun May 26, 2019 7:00 pm

And quite a few Dynamoes fans for the same reason.

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Post by jtv » Sun May 26, 2019 7:54 pm

Makes you wonder whether there were any Burnley fans

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