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

[Little Green Man]

Resisting the urge to describe this as a Christmas cracker (or for that matter a Lancashire hotpot), I note that this is the first time the two sides have met on Boxing Day. The final play-off spot is still the aim but few of teams above us seem ready to blink yet. Hopefully Blackburn will be the first of many.

Craig Davies could be back and Eidur should have shaken off his mild bout of manflu.

Onwards and upwards!

[officer_dibble]

Hoping we can get eidur, craig davies and chungy in the same team before jan.

[thebish]

since the turn of the century (including the year 2000), we have only won 5 of our boxing day games... (lost 7, drawn 2)

we have beaten:

Sheff. Wed 2-0
Newcastle 4-3
Newcastle 2-1
West Brom 2-0
Barnsley 1-0 (last year)

[Bruce Rioja]

And don't forget this, before they try denying that it ever happened

[Hoboh]

And what was wrong with Jingle, Jingle, Dingle, Dingle?

[thebish]

re. thread title... also, as it happens - St Stephen's day - made famous in the carol "Good King Wenceslas" (on the feast of stephen)

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

re. thread title... also, as it happens - St Stephen's day - made famous in the carol "Good King Wenceslas" (on the feast of stephen)

...who likes his pizza deep-pan, crisp and even...

[thebish]

re. thread title... also, as it happens - St Stephen's day - made famous in the carol "Good King Wenceslas" (on the feast of stephen)

...who likes his pizza deep-pan, crisp and even...

b'dum tish!

[TonyDomingos]

Arguably, this is the most difficult of our next six games, but winnable, nevertheless. As such, I'd like to think that we could maintain the 2ppg average NL has achieved so far until the end of Jan. There's got to be (at least) a dozen points from:

Dingles (h); 'uddersfield (a); dirty Leeds (h); Sheff Wed (a); Rotherham (a); and Wolves (h).

It starts to get a bit trickier in Feb ...

[Dr Hotdog]

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Lennon on the BBC ahead of the Festive Fixtures

[EverSoYouri]

If I read DSB right (on the Millwall thread) one more clean sheet will be a club record.
Hmmm...enter Jordan Rhodes...
Let's hope Chungy, Eidur and Cravies have their shooting boots nicely laced-up.

[Little Green Man]

re. thread title... also, as it happens - St Stephen's day - made famous in the carol "Good King Wenceslas" (on the feast of stephen)

It's also Wrens Day. Shame we weren't playing The Owls - the thread title would have been better.

[Little Green Man]

And what was wrong with Jingle, Jingle, Dingle, Dingle?

It's a bit too Jimmy Savile?

[Enoch]

re. thread title... also, as it happens - St Stephen's day - made famous in the carol "Good King Wenceslas" (on the feast of stephen)

It's also Wrens Day. Shame we weren't playing The Owls - the thread title would have been better.

Indeed!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

If I read DSB right (on the Millwall thread) one more clean sheet will be a club record.

I only dug back as far as 1913...

[thebish]

re. thread title... also, as it happens - St Stephen's day - made famous in the carol "Good King Wenceslas" (on the feast of stephen)

It's also Wrens Day. Shame we weren't playing The Owls - the thread title would have been better.

well, I didn't know that!

The tradition consists of "hunting" a fake wren, and putting it on top of a decorated pole. Then the crowds of mummers or strawboys celebrate the wren (also pronounced as the wran) by dressing up in masks, straw suits and colourful motley clothing and, accompanied by traditional céilí music bands, parade through the towns and villages. These crowds are sometimes called wrenboys.

ahhh - that's where they originated!

[ROVERS F.C.]

Good lad is our 'Birdy' in the advert...decked Millwalls Harry the Dog outside Ewood once by all accounts!

Anyway we're due to give you sorry lot a good pasting.

0-3 and a Merry Xmas.

[jaffka]

Good lad is our 'Birdy' in the advert...decked Millwalls Harry the Dog outside Ewood once by all accounts!

Anyway we're due to give you sorry lot a good pasting.

0-3 and a Merry Xmas.

How's the debt and failing to meet ffp?

[plymouth wanderer]

Really hope C Davies is back for this.

[Jugs]

If he isn't, I'm not so sure that playing Eidur alone upfront is the answer.