The Joy of (Twenty-)Sixth? Rovers / Boxing Day

[Whookam]

What a season this is turning out to be. If someone had told me in August that we'd beat Blackburn on Boxing day with Heskey getting a goal and an assist and Gudjohnsen getting an assist I'd have thought they were mad.

[plymouth wanderer]

Lennon out!! No fecking clean sheet

What difference

[Montreal Wanderer]

Well, we blew the longest clean sheet streak but I'll take the win! Still over the 2 of 3 possible points pace.

[Hoboh]

Looking at Commoms coming in January.

This would excite me in a way that Eidur & Emile don't. Is there anything vaguely plausible to suggest it will happen?

Say that after they bury the dingles

[Vertigo]

Unbelievable. Heskey on debut, who would have thought.

Cheers Tango!

[SmokinFrazier]

A win in our next game and we could move up to 9th. I'm delighted with how things are going at the moment, though gutted I couldn't be at the Macron today! Sounded like a great match.

[bobo the clown]

Excellent, and from what sounds like a great game to watch as well.

Good result, good form, nice playing style and some way to go.

Why, oh why did we tolerate the previous tosspot for so long ?

[DJBlu]

14th. Nipping the heels of Wolves. Can't wait for Sunday.

Could do with Wolves beating Watford later though or a draw.

[TANGODANCER]

Hope one of the match lads will give us a full report later....

[Vertigo]

Excellent, and from what sounds like a great game to watch as well.

Good result, good form, nice playing style and some way to go.

Why, oh why did we tolerate the previous tosspot for so long ?

Hate to remind you that he had a similarly good run at the beginning...

[Bijou Bob]

In short, that result has just made my Christmas.

[Hoboh]

Excellent, and from what sounds like a great game to watch as well.

Good result, good form, nice playing style and some way to go.

Why, oh why did we tolerate the previous tosspot for so long ?

Hate to remind you that he had a similarly good run at the beginning...

Not with players that the previous manager had 'written off as not good enough' he didn't

[Hoboh]

In short, that result has just made my Christmas.

So far I'll wait till the new year to see if my festive dream has come true.

[bobo the clown]

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[adamworthy2002]

Blackburn's goal was about 3 yards offside

[thebish]

What a season this is turning out to be. If someone had told me in August that we'd beat Blackburn on Boxing day with Heskey getting a goal and an assist and Gudjohnsen getting an assist I'd have thought they were mad.

oh yes!!!

it just doesn't get any better than that - having been 1 down at HT only serves to make victory taste even better!!!

GTFI!!!

[thebish]

9pts above the drop-zone, 10pts off the playoffs...

[Worthy4England]

from a bloke on the Blackburn forum re Emile & Eidur:

Agree totally mate...I've seen both of them in the last couple of weeks playing for notlob u21 in Leyland and both of them are unfit, eidur looks a bit overweight and they both have limited mobility even at that level. Our defence should be shot if either of these two scores.

Apparently Heskey has an excellent scoring record against them so they're all bricking it..

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Ha.

[Peter Thompson]

Very entertaining game in front of a good crowd, could easily have finished 4-4.

End to end, chances at both ends throughout, we started poorly but improved as we always do after half time. I thought Heskey was excellent a real handful but he was absolutely knackered at the end, Eidur was quiet 1st half but played well 2nd half....Pratley probably MOM, Vela also played well....Defence was shaky IMO

But a great win, its always good to beat Blackburn I can't stand them.

The more games Eidur & Heskey play the fitter & better they will be - they linked up well together 2nd half, Heskey is an absolute beast, a real handful for the centre backs.

[thebish]

72yrs of footballing awesomeness combine to provide our equaliser!