Blackburn will

[Jamesy]

You’re coming across like you don’t want to discuss Rovers decline, Jamesy?

Plenty of other threads for you to talk about Burnley on. Feel free not to read this one. But if you’re going to hang around, when do you think Eustace will get his first win?

Can’t believe they sacked a decent manager and brought in an awful one

Of course I don’t want to discuss Rovers decline. They have been in decline for years now and it’s irrelevant.
For what it’s worth I don’t really dislike Rovers either. Their supporters are very similar to us, working class folk from an economically deprived area.
My best mate from the Royal Marines died just over a year ago. He was a Rovers fan for his sins. However, he was just like me. We just supported different clubs and were supposed to be enemies but were proud Lancastrians and pals.
I won’t post any more on this Rovers thread because as you say, plenty of other threads available for me to discuss Burnley and how shite we are. Cheers for the advice.

[Swizzlestick]

That’s a shame but I’ll take it.

Hard to believe they sold Diaz (where’s he gone, actually?) and let JDT go… only to replace him with a guy who can’t get a win And we think we’ve got problems.

Diaz is on loan at the Blades from Villarreal, where he hasn’t pulled up many trees. Funny player - I couldn’t believe how disinterested he was in the derby at the Turf last season, but he obviously scored some crucial goals for them.

[yTib]

Too many opinions from Blackburn fans on this Burnley forum if we're honest.

i also suspect infiltration.

[NewClaret]

Diaz is on loan at the Blades from Villarreal, where he hasn’t pulled up many trees. Funny player - I couldn’t believe how disinterested he was in the derby at the Turf last season, but he obviously scored some crucial goals for them.

Yes, knew he’d gone there but just hadn’t heard anything about him. Just had a look and it seems he’s in/out of the starting line up.

He was that awful in the derby games I wondered if he was coming here and didn’t want to score against us

[boyyanno]

I've got all 6 of my fingers crossed that they go down

In all honesty I suspect the quality is that poor at the bottom that they'll stay up. Birmingham look pretty bad and Plymouth got a good point today but are heavily reliant on Whittaker.

They've got some tough games on paper but it's starting to get to the business end where some of the bottom clubs start picking up results so who knows. I think if they go down this time and the Venky's keep cost cutting and not being able to give them investment that could be it for them.

I think going out of existence is too good for them personally- let them suffer away at Stockport in the lower leagues and occasionally get a dream draw against the Clarets in the Cup.

[ArmchairDetective]

I don’t need to chill pal. Whilst you lot are laughing at those clowns down the road you are conveniently ignoring how useless we are.
We have just hit bottom spot in the Premier League and that is where we will stay. Embrace it.

Looking out for other results doesn't mean you're ignoring your own team. Weird post.

[Somethingfishy]

If Szmodics picks an injury up at any point of this run in they are screwed. They'd be more or less down now without him.

[Buxtonclaret]

Come on, 'Udders!

[ElectroClaret]

Come on, 'Udders!

Yes, could do with Huddersfield beating the Baggies.
They'd go level on points with R*vers.

[Buxtonclaret]

Yes, could do with Huddersfield beating the Baggies.
They'd go level on points with R*vers.

If they win 4-0, they'll go above them?
If Carlsberg fancied doing two games today for us, this is the other.

[ArmchairDetective]

huddersfield 1 up

[Buxtonclaret]

Love it!
Scrappy goal for a scrappy match.
1-0 Town.

[ElectroClaret]

1-0 Hudds.

[ArmchairDetective]

If they win 4-0, they'll go above them?
If Carlsberg fancied doing two games today for us, this is the other.

Could it be...

[Buxtonclaret]

Could it be...

Never know, eh?

[Buxtonclaret]

Baggies are having an awful day defensively.
A decent side would be 2 or 3 up now.

[ArmchairDetective]

Was just thinking the same thing, Buxton. Interesting seeing teams make the same mistakes we do but not get punished. Highlights the huge difference between the Premier League and the Championship. But makes me feel that we'll be more than alreet again next season

[ArmchairDetective]

'Our focus midweek shifts to leagues one and two. On Tuesday night we'll be at the Tough Sheet Community Stadium, which will be said particularly carefully'

[Buxtonclaret]

Drat

[ElectroClaret]

1-3 Baggies brilliant strike.

[4:20]

bugger....but what a goal, my favourite kind of goal, an absolute rocket from 30 yards

[Buxtonclaret]

Romped it, this half.
Wouldn't have believed Baggies were in the top six after the first half.

[JR1882]

1 win since end of November.

Tough run in. A top player sold & not replaced.

Not looking great.

[Fretters]

27 goals in early March by Szmodics is some going, to be fair. Surely, when he goes, they can't find yet another saviour like they always seem to.

[THEWELLERNUT70]

2 wins in 19 isn't it now for them?

[ISpeds00]

As short at 2/1 to go down now

Were 20 to 1 last month

[THEWELLERNUT70]

I just cannot understand why so called Burnley fans would have a go at other Burnley fans for wishing misery upon the clowns from Ewood?

We all know we have been terrible this season and there have been plenty of threads highlighting this, yet when we laugh at the plight of our fiercest rivals, these so called Burnley fans can't wait to have another go criticising our team on unrelated thread.

But that's how you sort out the wheat from the chaff

[Quicknick]

Blackburn will stay up.

[houseboy]

Watched the botherers v newcastle game Pete… they looked like they had a game plan, and carried a bit of steel about em, and as we all know from our recent past, it’s amazing what you can achieve when set up like that. Especially against a side who run out of ideas once in sight of the 18 yard box.

You watched a team raising their game against a top PL team, nothing more. My son in law watches them week in and week out and he is despairing of them. He actually says they are sh!te and will be lucky to stay up. If we played them right now we’d bury them. Don’t forget what we are playing against most weeks compared to what they are playing.

[nil_desperandum]

Blackburn will stay up.

Agreed they need 2 wins and a couple of draws, or maybe just 1 win if they continue drawing nearly every match.

[NewClaret]

Blackburn will stay up.

I actually hope you’re right. Next season won’t be as fun without smashing them twice.

[nil_desperandum]

I actually hope you’re right. Next season won’t be as fun without smashing them twice.

We're far better off not playing them. It ensures that our unbeaten run continues.
In a one off game there's always a chance of the underdog winning, and who knows how well we're going to play next season?

[NewClaret]

We're far better off not playing them. It ensures that our unbeaten run continues.
In a one off game there's always a chance of the underdog winning, and who knows how well we're going to play next season?

I take your point

I think it would take a monumental amount of squad turmoil not to be able to put out a team better than Rovers next year. But I agree Derby games can throw out odd results and particularly if we got drew them early before we’d had time to find form, it could be a banana skin. Best they go down

[ElectroClaret]

Yes, have to say i think they'll stay up, mainly because of the dross below them, hovering just above the relegation
places. Huddersfield were awful yesterday, for example.

Love to be proved wrong on that, though.

[NottsClaret]

It's nice having that record but I'd rather play them. We've all seen us lose to them loads before, the world doesn't end.

Them being in League One would be funny, and we'd be guaranteed to keep the years building up on our unbeaten run, but you don't get days like that glorious 3-0 last season that way.

[THEWELLERNUT70]

Blackburn will stay up.

I've watched them on TV recently around the last 4/5 games due to Burnley not playing and believe me they are sh!t, Plymouth should have buried them Saturday as should Millwall and as should Swansea ( 2 points gained from those 3 sides in the relegation shake up and two of those at home)

Have you taken in to account their run in? It's hilarious from a Burnley point of view with only Sheff Wed in and around them where you could say that Rovers should win the rest are pretty much either chasing automatic promotion or the playoffs.

The longer Useless goes winless the more difficult it becomes for them

[THEWELLERNUT70]

Remain fixtures

Boro away
Ipswich home
Sunderland away
Southampton home
Bristol City away
Leeds away
Sheff Wed home
Coventry home
Leicester away

[Herts Clarets]

Remain fixtures

Boro away
Ipswich home
Sunderland away
Southampton home
Bristol City away
Leeds away
Sheff Wed home
Coventry home
Leicester away

There's a real chance they lose their next 4, which would really put the deep in it. Bristol City won't be easy then they have Leeds away. Th eonly thing that may save them is there are plenty of sides that are as bad, if not worse beneath them. Useless Eustace doing a fine job there.

[nil_desperandum]

There's a real chance they lose their next 4, which would really put the deep in it. Bristol City won't be easy then they have Leeds away. Th eonly thing that may save them is there are plenty of sides that are as bad, if not worse beneath them. Useless Eustace doing a fine job there.

Middlesbrough are extremely unpredictable, and Sunderland are probably the worse team in the division in 2024, and they've lost Clarke too. They should never have potted Mowbray. In fact they've now lost 6 on the bounce.
I would agree though that if Blackburn don't beat Sunderland then they could be in trouble.

[SalouClaret]

Middlesbrough are extremely unpredictable, and Sunderland are probably the worse team in the division in 2024, and they've lost Clarke too. They should never have potted Mowbray. In fact they've now lost 6 on the bounce.
I would agree though that if Blackburn don't beat Sunderland then they could be in trouble.

Just had a look. Blackburn and Sunderland have the same record in 2024 with 10 points each. I think Blackburn are down.

[ElectroClaret]

Sunderland have lost their last six, so it's time they upped that form.

There's still two relegation places to fill in the Championship (Rotherham are gone)
so you never know, if...IF...Sheffield Wednesday keep up their recently improved form,
and R*vers do indeed suffer a calamitous spell in their tough run-in, then it maybe
Rotherham, Huddersfield and that shower that take the drop.

But there's still Stoke, Brum and QPR also in trouble.

[claptrappers_union]

They just need to start turning their draws into wins. I think they’ll be fine unfortunately

[ISpeds00]

They just need to start turning their draws into wins. I think they’ll be fine unfortunately

ok - name where their points are coming from, based on their current performances
also with a key man banned for his red at the weekend

go

[claptrappers_union]

They've been getting points like that already anyway

[houseboy]

I know three people who go regularly, a season ticket holder, a Liverpool fan who lives in Blackburn and a Spurs fan who lives there too. All very knowledgeable football guys. All of them are convinced that Rovers are doomed. I’ll bow to their knowledge.

[Clarets4me]

Remain fixtures

Boro away
Ipswich home
Sunderland away
Southampton home
Bristol City away
Leeds away
Sheff Wed home
Coventry home
Leicester away

They've won two out of the last 19 games they've played in the Championship, but were outstanding against Newcastle in the Cup !
As a greybeard who can recall us losing 1-2 at home to Wrexham in front of a full house, and the 4th Division trophy being presented before the game, in 1992, I hope Leicester still need a win on that last day ...

[Jamesy]

Personally, I do hope they drop. Not because I hate them, which I don’t. I just can’t be arsed with the 2 games against them and the logistics involved in attending.

[Grimsdale]

They have definitely got the hardest run-in out of the bottom seven (excluding Rotherham who are already gone).

After tonight's game, the remaining fixtures are:

[ŽižkovClaret]

.....in our shadow regardless of which leagues we are in next season

Part of me hopes they aren't actually relegated next year. They aren't likely to improve given the funding issues, and so we could absolutely batter them home and away.

Then they can go down, and down, and down

[BradTee93]

As short at 2/1 to go down now

Were 20 to 1 last month

They sure were! I whacked £10 on them at 20s, they're offering me £57 to cash out...

...I think i'll let it ride