Reading vs Rovers - Sat 29th March

[Rex Kramer]

GraceTX and I are in the Reading area visiting my parents. Just realised we'll be in town for the visit of the mighty Rovers, so we're going to try to get tickets with the away fans. Anyone else going to be making the trip south?

[dring1]

GraceTX and I are in the Reading area visiting my parents. Just realised we'll be in town for the visit of the mighty Rovers, so we're going to try to get tickets with the away fans. Anyone else going to be making the trip south?

dont think you will have problems getting tickets in the away end. I was planning on making the trip to reading but having seen how much it would cost on the train decided against it. It is £32 for the tickets and that is non season ticket prices for me it would have been £28 but it was the transport down that put me off.

[USRoverDE]

might be seing a "santa-less" rovers after the axe took him out during the SA - Paraguay friendly

[Foxhill]

might be seing a "santa-less" rovers after the axe took him out during the SA - Paraguay friendly

Yes! That was very kind of him, wasn't it? :(

[BlackburnRover]

He's never been the sharpest tool in the box has he:(

Shame I'm not going to Reading, it'd have been good to meet up with some people off here ... then again, I sit 20 yards away from Dring and we've still not said hello!

Row 28, seat 73 if you read this mate. Could be seat 74 if I swap with my daughter but hopefully we don't look too similar;)

[Revelian]

C'mon Dring - meet the guy, for Pete's sake. Twenty yards is nothing, unless it involves stairs, 'cos it wouldn't be worth it, then. ;)

Revelian

[BlackburnRover]

Well he did tell me where he sat to be honest ... I'm just crap at remembering stuff like that, or what I had for breakfast :o

[Revelian]

Make an arrangement for the person who has to walk downstairs to do that. Just, do it at the end of the game, so you don't have to go back to your seat. All those stairs going upwards could be a nightmare.

Revelian

[dring1]

Well he did tell me where he sat to be honest ... I'm just crap at remembering stuff like that, or what I had for breakfast :o

if i remember at the spuds game i will say hello. But its my 30th birthday that game so going in the legends lounge first. Be the first time that i have done this at a game so looking forward to it.

[BlackburnRover]

Make an arrangement for the person who has to walk downstairs to do that. Just, do it at the end of the game, so you don't have to go back to your seat. All those stairs going upwards could be a nightmare.

Revelian

Do you live in a bungalow;)

if i remember at the spuds game i will say hello. But its my 30th birthday that game so going in the legends lounge first. Be the first time that i have done this at a game so looking forward to it.

Yeah no worries, have a good birthday.

Does anyone else on here sit in the Blackburn End?

[dring1]

Do you live in a bungalow;)



Yeah no worries, have a good birthday.

Does anyone else on here sit in the Blackburn End?

i sit in row 22 seat 61 if you remember.

[Rex Kramer]

Well we have our tickets. Shame none of you are making the trip down, would have been good to meet a few of you. Still, the wife's never been to a Premier League game before, so hopefully she'll be in for a treat, although that lack of Rocky is a little worrying. Hopefully Benni, Roberts and Derbs can step up and do the business.

I'm just getting over both a cold and a small bout of food poisoning (it's been one hell of a visit :(), so I'm not expecting to be in good voice myself, but hopefully there'll be enough travelling fans to make up for me ;)

[Foxhill]

Does anyone else on here sit in the Blackburn End?


I sit upstairs in the family stand with my 15 year old son. Row 15, seats 107 and 108.


Rex, there will be about 1,200 Rovers fans there tomorrow, I would have loved to have gone, but it would be too long a day for me.

I hope you enjoy the match:):)

[Revelian]

Yeah, same here. I hope you have a fun day, and I hope we kick their royal arses.

Revelian

[Revelian]

Do you live in a bungalow;)

No, but my Stanna stairlift is a real lifesaver. ;)

Revelian

[Rex Kramer]

Back in the States again now. Pretty dull game thanks to the bizarreness that is Mark Clattenburg's refereeing decisions and Rovers inability to put a freaking ball in the box. Zurab was the huge in defense in the first half and should have won it with the free header in the box late in the second. Mind you, Stephen Hunt should also have won it for Reading, but he's a useless tosser who probably should have joined Maretovsky in the early shower for some of the bad fouls he was putting in. Pedersen was back to his early season lack of form, Bentley was a man amongst boys for large periods of the match, Big Brad was, well, Big Brad, and Santa looked a little slow off the mark, which I put down to the international injury. Cheers for that Aaron...

Not a hugely consistent amount of noise from the visiting fans, but when they were singing it was good and loud. Meanwhile Reading fans only seem to have two chants: the obligatory "Stevie Coppell's Blue and White Army" (which they efficiently managed to reduce/garble down to just 4 syllables), and something else that I couldn't even understand, though the two sets of fans did trade insults a couple of times.

The wife had fun, despite the fairly boring game and the miserable weather, I was happy to see Rovers in action in person for the first time since 2002, and we both wish we had even half the atmosphere here at FC Dallas. :(

[Revelian]

It's a shame the match didn't turn out the way you wanted it to. But, should you return in a few years time, and should Rovers win, it'll probably make you feel better, because of the rarity of such victories during your visits.

Revelian

[BlackburnRover]

Shame about the game, they're often a bit flat after a round of international fixtures, especially when Aaron's kicked people. How bizarre was Clattenburg? Unfortunately that's pretty much the standard of refereering apart from a couple of them. At least it wasn't Rob Styles, although the comedy value of his decisions this week would have been worth the money;)

Anyway, glad you enjoyed the day and the atmosphere. Even the weather managed to give you the typical match day experience.

Hopefully you'll manage to make a better game next time. And if you get to Ewood we like to use 5 syllables for "Mark Hughes's blue and white army!" ;)

[Revelian]

...followed by three claps.

Let's hope Venegoor of Hesselink doesn't manage Rovers when he retires, otherwise we'll have to come up with another chant.

Revelian

[dring1]

Shame about the game, they're often a bit flat after a round of international fixtures, especially when Aaron's kicked people. How bizarre was Clattenburg? Unfortunately that's pretty much the standard of refereering apart from a couple of them. At least it wasn't Rob Styles, although the comedy value of his decisions this week would have been worth the money;)

Anyway, glad you enjoyed the day and the atmosphere. Even the weather managed to give you the typical match day experience.

Hopefully you'll manage to make a better game next time. And if you get to Ewood we like to use 5 syllables for "Mark Hughes's blue and white army!" ;)

Thats why i like away games better. More atmosphire and banter between the 2 sets of supporters. No matter what away game you go to there is always some one getting thrown out which adds a bit more because then we have a go at the stewards as well. My favorate chant is the £2 an hour one. Think our next away game that i go to might be pompy but depends on what time my neibours are setting off because of work.