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FULL TIME: Blackburn Rovers 2 Barnsley 1
11:36pm Tuesday 18th September 2012 in Sport
NUNO Gomes came off the bench to net a late winner as Blackburn Rovers came from behind to beat Barnsley and stay top of the Championship.
Jacob Mellis had fired Barnsley in front just after the half hour mark but Jordan Rhodes levelled in superb fashion, swivelling to find the top corner, on the stroke of half time.
Marlon Harewood fired wide after Scott Dann's poor backpass had put him clear on goal but it was Rovers who secure the victory when Fabio Nunes crossed from the left for fellow substitute Gomes to convert five minutes from time.
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Comments (116)
11:38pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Ryanb74 says...
11:38pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Ryanb74 says...
11:41pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Dchampy says...
11:43pm Tue 18 Sep 12
darwenrover123 says...
11:46pm Tue 18 Sep 12
the_iconoclast says...
11:51pm Tue 18 Sep 12
ROVERSPAL1 says...
HE IS HOLDING ON TO A STRAW..
KEAN OUT FANS IN
11:51pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Tatts says...
11:51pm Tue 18 Sep 12
champs95 says...
As for the game, Rovers not brilliant again but we do have that extra bit of class to win games. In my humble opinion we could just do with a bit more pace in our attacking options.
11:52pm Tue 18 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
Hopefully the defence will become more confident. Roll on friday and ask yourself this, would you sooner be Bolton right now?
Up Up and away, we spartans will continue to do our bit for the cause. Boycotters? who cares so long as we keep winning.
11:55pm Tue 18 Sep 12
champs95 says...
11:58pm Tue 18 Sep 12
egbutnobacon says...
11:59pm Tue 18 Sep 12
Blackburn Yoof says...
Awful game apparently. Highest spenders in the league, with the biggest wage bill and we hardly touched the ball.
KEAN SACKED = FANS BACK
11:59pm Tue 18 Sep 12
baldie says...
If you do though,get your mate to carry you in and put you in your seat for the cameras.
12:03am Wed 19 Sep 12
wrigglers says...
12:03am Wed 19 Sep 12
fireonthemountain says...
We are still top .
Nice .
I note that the posters who have both seemed to discover the words"cue"
and "negative" , have both posted same within three minutes .
Obviously jealous Dingles .
Inbred .
------------------
Well done Mr K .
You got rid of the overpaid clowns .
Restored the Club to profit .
Carry on mate - you are doing a superb job .
12:03am Wed 19 Sep 12
ROVERSPAL1 says...
12:05am Wed 19 Sep 12
ROVERSPAL1 says...
12:07am Wed 19 Sep 12
darwenrover123 says...
12:13am Wed 19 Sep 12
psycho81 says...
So every 1 needs to get behind the boys now.
12:14am Wed 19 Sep 12
darwenrover123 says...
12:20am Wed 19 Sep 12
Vancouver/ rover says...
Sitting in a bar in sunny Vancouver wearing my rovers shirt .
Fantastic win lets keep it up .
I've followed the rovers since my first visit in 1971, and will die in a rovers shirt .
Fans please support YOUR team whoever the owners/ manager is.
Do you think it was fun in the 3rd div away at a Rainey port vale ect . No but I follow the rovers .
I am sure fans of Plymouth and Portsmouth and other clubs would love to be in our possition .
Stop moaning and support the rovers and yes I do fly over and watch a game when I can .
Remember it's your rovers and when others have gone its still your rovers
12:25am Wed 19 Sep 12
champs95 says...
uk/sport/oddballs/85
9415-colombian-fans-
take-coffin-with-dea
d-body-inside-into-f
ootball-match
12:26am Wed 19 Sep 12
Iiii1111 says...
12:37am Wed 19 Sep 12
lcjfm03 says...
12:41am Wed 19 Sep 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
That said Barnsley can feel aggrieved and envious of the £8 million pound man along with the canny old fox Gomes.....
Oh how I laughed when that 2nd went in. I haven't had such a time on footy for yonks.
You just know that the front two are going to plunder goals, and that is worth watching !
The atmosphere was utter tripe unfortunately but not unexpected.
Some day soon that chuffing 'Beautiful Swan' will emerge until then get down and see all the fun of the fair !
T'up the Rovers
Arte et labore
12:42am Wed 19 Sep 12
champs95 says...
12:46am Wed 19 Sep 12
lcjfm03 says...
12:47am Wed 19 Sep 12
cathedral citi says...
1:18am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
Would be nice to see some of you down at Ewood on Friday because you all claim to support the club, but the closest you are coming to ewood is coming on these comment boards to abuse me. You dont have to like me, the venkys, or even our hideous home shirt, but its the club you all support, not individuals. Anyway must go, Mrs Desai has just whipped up a banging Massala.
1:33am Wed 19 Sep 12
bluerob says...
1:39am Wed 19 Sep 12
Vancouver/ rover says...
I'm in Vancouver Canada , and agree totally .
Support the rovers, and get behind them .
Managers and owners come and go,but rovers are still there .
I'll die in my rovers shirt .
1:53am Wed 19 Sep 12
awh says...
1:54am Wed 19 Sep 12
Matt Newcastle says...
Unbelievable
All it took for some of you was some money spent on totally mercenary players and their agents and us winning a few early games.
The world and workplaces are full of your sorts
We could win the league, get promoted, do well back in the premier league and I would still not grace the corrupt regime with my presence.
Yes as a set of supporters we are deeply and totally divided and As long as their are supporters with moral fortitude and integrity so it will remain.
Still would not return until Kean has gone.
2:07am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
When you eventually fall off that very high horse you seemed to have clambered aboard it would be lovely to have you back at Ewood.
It does seem that your comment, while morally commendable, is more a comment on modern day football than simply a statment on the Club which I will lead back to the Premiership, with an army of 10-15000 behind me (depending on quality of oppostion, night of the week, time of the day, quality of the weather and most importantly X factor schedueling).
Whos with me!? Not you Matt, but who else!
Also lovely to hear from Vancouver Rover, you are at the top of the list to replace my current assistant who i will get bored of soon enough.
3:54am Wed 19 Sep 12
RoverDownSouth says...
Every match report I have read, every game I've listened to on Radio Rovers (We don't get a lot of coverage on the Championship in Australia) has said we have been average to poor.
Of course I am pleased we got a win and we are top of the league, only after 6 games though and we've not played anyone really decent (Leeds and Leicester maybe) but that joy is tempered with the fact that Kean is still our manager.
Imagine how well we would play with the players we have if we had a decent manager!!!!
3:55am Wed 19 Sep 12
Vancouver/ rover says...
Bring on the bro .
Support your team . They are the rovers .
We the old fans have seen and heard it all .... Remember sharers rant. ?
Remember it's the rovers, not the owners or managers .
Support your team
5:43am Wed 19 Sep 12
Blackburn in big D says...
We have to get behind that rose on our chest, cause it does not matter how much we don't like Kean or the Venkys we hate those b@$tards in claret&blue more than anything. I live 5000 miles away and do everything I can to listen to the games. Come on the Blackburn rovers blue and white army it's time to put the team and club first let burnley here our roar cause we are coming to get you.
Christopher from Dallas Tx.
6:20am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
We need a proper manager.....Kean out = Fans in.
12,772 and falling.
6:27am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
6:45am Wed 19 Sep 12
martin.cat says...
Why one striker it only encourages the opposition to push up.
Thankfully the pedigree of Rhodes Gomes and Nunes stood out
Nunez showed up Pedersen in 5 minute's, whom won't attempt to run past anyone or get down the line.
Its no wonder we can't keep clean sheets Orr and Dann were shocking
6:46am Wed 19 Sep 12
MatthewCA says...
Gomes is doing his magic goals for Blackburn, nice to see his passion.
I feel , some one should talk to S.Dann on "NO BACK PASS When u have a ball in your leg", We are in a difficult stage to win each match, somehow we are managing a thin line till now.
Jordan Rhodes is a real hero for our new generation and his passion to get a goal on each match is happening. God Bless. All the best for next match.
6:48am Wed 19 Sep 12
wrigglers says...
6:53am Wed 19 Sep 12
Dan11 says...
7:11am Wed 19 Sep 12
French Rover says...
That puts our RESULT in context - they got one point and we got three and WE are top of the table. You dont get points for possession (not in this league)...
Stop raving about how bleeding good the oranges are....we are better!
7:13am Wed 19 Sep 12
French Rover says...
7:14am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
Kean out....Proper manager in then the club can move forward.
7:38am Wed 19 Sep 12
DarkSideOfTheDave says...
7:41am Wed 19 Sep 12
Coeur de Lion says...
7:46am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
You should not let our relegation and current predicement influence your choice of Indian food and you should almost certainly stop using @ and $ signs because you are not 5 years old.
Thankyou, Steve.
7:47am Wed 19 Sep 12
bburnrover says...
Both Hanley and Dann should be dropped after they both gave the ball away by passing to a Barnsley forward directly in front of goal any Premiership side would have sunk us from such glaring errors.What is Hendry teaching them?
Playing at home top of the league with a sole striker what kind of managerial tatic is that? Barnsley did outplay and out pass us but our individual quality won us the games the ever more impressive Rhodes and both the Portugese lads made the difference with Gomes scoring again a modern day Tugay he is a fans favourite already.
I went home happy we won disappointed that we cannot control a game against inferior opposition Hill has Barnsley well organised as an ex Rover I wish he was our manager.
7:50am Wed 19 Sep 12
1riversider says...
I only ask the question, because with the squad we have - even though woefully short at the back - we should win this league by a street! A manager, ANY manager worth his salt could do it. Can the current one? In my opinion no!
As I said, great start, but I will not change my mind.
WALTER MITTY AND THE THREE STOOGES GET OUT OF OUR CLUB
7:59am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
Leave the managing to me guys, Im Steve and im here to stay, we willl go up, ill bet my black rain mack on it.
Also alot of you are asking the question 'imagine what we could do with a good manager?'. We could possibly be top of the league...oh wait. We could possibly have a 100% home record...oh wait. We could have bought the best striker in the league..oh wait.
Once again, thank you for your time, Steve.
7:59am Wed 19 Sep 12
A Darener says...
A Darener says...
Kean has finally told the truth! He said the Rovers didn't play well. So there we have it in a nutshell. The team as players are certainly good enough to win promotion. But! The management of that team will be their downfall if they stick to Kean's tactics.
8:00am Wed 19 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
I could not agree more, RU and his mates follow the Pied Piper anywhere, we need to push on now and get some more If the 8000 Spartans boycotting this Friday.
This match is on TV an d finance will come into it for a lot of people as well.
We have another opportunity to showy he Venkys we hate the Kean//Hendry regime and want a proper creditable management team, so I say to RU And fellow fans lets take this opportunity to BOYCOTT this Friday, let's get rudd of this cancer witch is eating away at our club putting fan against fan, we can then ALL reunite again at Ewood Park and roar the team to the Premiership.
Kean sacked
Thousands and thousands if fans back as one.
8:01am Wed 19 Sep 12
Iiii1111 says...
8:02am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
A proper manager could take us much further and bring some credibility back to the club.
Well done to the team for the points gained............Pe
rformances suggest that it may not last though. I hope I'm wrong.
Proper manager in........Packed Ewood
8:03am Wed 19 Sep 12
A Darener says...
We would have 20000+ gates, shirt and ground sponsors. A return of pride for our club and best of all a united fan base.
8:06am Wed 19 Sep 12
roversok says...
Winning might be the end result all fans want to see however to get me back on the ground I first stepped on in 1966 it will take far more than wins against the run of play.
I love Rovers with all my heart, After my wife had a brain tumor and lost all will to venture out the house or be seen by strangers due to her new unwanted looks, it was her love of Rovers that got her to visit the Millennium Stadium to watch us win against the yids, Great weekend and restored my wife's confidence to venture outdoors once more, this was all thanks to the endearing words she received from Rovers fans alot who she had never meet before.
When Rovers can offer me the feeling of being a football club again & not just being a play toy for some wealthy people along with a job for the boys club employing people who do not know what they are doing I will return
8:08am Wed 19 Sep 12
forever-a-blue-jean says...
crowds getting lower despite being top of league and cheap tickets.
KEAN OUT FANS IN NO COMPROMISE
8:11am Wed 19 Sep 12
over-rovers says...
8:11am Wed 19 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
My Guess for Friday if Kean/Hendry depart
Before then.
20,000 fans Shirt Sponcers returning Advetising Boards with Sponcers names on them!
Simple Maths Shebby/Agnew!!!!
Sack the Tosser, we are top of the league and we will still not return until we recognise our club being run properly.
8:12am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
Steve.
8:21am Wed 19 Sep 12
A Darener says...
8:30am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
I will get us back, you just wait. Im Steve Bloody Kean.
8:33am Wed 19 Sep 12
daver72BRFC says...
8:34am Wed 19 Sep 12
Tatts says...
That said, the Dingles have no room to talk as they are still getting lower gates than us (10,000 against Peterborough), so all the plastic 'Dare to Dream' Dingles have now jumped ship too.
8:35am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
8:37am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
8:38am Wed 19 Sep 12
Iiii1111 says...
8:45am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
Also, on my branding as a Dingle, if you look at what i have actually said, I havent talked negatively about the club (obviously, Im the manager) but simply stated that the position that many 'fans' find themselves in is based on ridiculous thoughts of grandeur.
Steve.
Also to finally end the rumours, I am not Ross Kemps stunt double.
8:47am Wed 19 Sep 12
bulldogbrfc says...
8:50am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
8:56am Wed 19 Sep 12
Iiii1111 says...
8:58am Wed 19 Sep 12
handsj14 says...
Rhodes- Great Goal
Gomes-Fantastic Finish.
I have noticed a lot of posts on here after last nights game criticise Scott Dann. Agreed, he was pretty poor but Grant Hanley... Am I the only fan who gets nervous and anxious when Grant has the ball at feet. I appreciate he is young but for me he is pretty average central defender.... no pace, no passing ability & clumsy!!
Still, top of the league... Bring on Boro!!
8:58am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
Kean out =packed Ewood.
9:03am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
Can we get back to the football please, my unlawful misdemenours are in the past, although, I have noticed 'the past' is alot of fans favourite topics.
As my friend and fellow managing genius Jose Mourinho once said, 'football is today and tomorrow, the past is nothing'.
We're moving on up, im Steve Kean and im here to stay.
9:03am Wed 19 Sep 12
NO NAY NEVER says...
9:04am Wed 19 Sep 12
walshy2866 says...
What worries me is the defence, Orr is no better than a Sunday morning clogger, Hanley still looks raw&prone to a positional error or two but he gets stuck in and looks commuted. Dann is the biggest worry, because like the t1t that signed him, he thinks he's better than he is. Strutting around, p0ncing about adjusting his shorts and socks for the cameras. Well Scott the only time anyone watches you , is when you sell the keeper and your teammates short with your poor passing and dodgy backpasses.
He's left the team vunerable more times this season, than Samba&Nelson together did during their Ewood careers and that in itself explains why you should never sign a defender from a relegated side.
Also, I wonder if Dann will grip a rogue dingle if one strays onto the pitch at tuff morgue in December & trys to attack one of our stars?
That alone promoted Ryan to hero status amongst the Ewood faithful. I hope he washed his hands after touching that scruffy inbred cousin marrying success-starved piece of claret 5hite!
9:08am Wed 19 Sep 12
MatthewCA says...
9:08am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
Proper manager in = United Ewood.
9:13am Wed 19 Sep 12
MatthewCA says...
9:14am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
I dont need players to make me look good, just a sharp suit, shoe polish and a winning smile.
Steve.
9:16am Wed 19 Sep 12
Rovers 1495 says...
9:18am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
9:22am Wed 19 Sep 12
Rovers 1495 says...
9:23am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
9:27am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
9:28am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
Never been one for Blue Peter, I was to busy refining my man management, coaching techniques, media persona, good looks and Portugese (yes i speak portugese) than to concern myself with a little blue ship.
Steve.
9:31am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
9:34am Wed 19 Sep 12
StephenKean says...
9:35am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
9:36am Wed 19 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
Put this in your daily report to Mrs D.
9:39am Wed 19 Sep 12
Rovers 1495 says...
9:41am Wed 19 Sep 12
pendleman says...
9:41am Wed 19 Sep 12
Rovers 1495 says...
9:42am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
Kean out = fans back.
10:00am Wed 19 Sep 12
ulverstonrovers says...
Yes he never did a good job last season infact he should have been sacked at christmas but he wasnt. He stuck at his job ignored the abuse and built a new team to get us back. At the moment he is doing the best anyone could do - so give the man a break. If you are a true rovers fan you will get behind the team whoever the manager is. And remember half of the players who got us relegated last season are still there but you are not telling them to leave - GET BEHIND ROVERS OR SHUT UP.
10:08am Wed 19 Sep 12
DarkSideOfTheDave says...
10:12am Wed 19 Sep 12
londonrover says...
10:13am Wed 19 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
10:34am Wed 19 Sep 12
Roverthere says...
Kean out = Fans in
10:46am Wed 19 Sep 12
A Darener says...
Just think what affect an empty stadium would have never in the history of football would the power of the fans be shown to be so powerful. Give the game back to the fans, not the play thing of people who do not care two hoots for the game.
11:22am Wed 19 Sep 12
Stone Island: says...
11:28am Wed 19 Sep 12
walshy2866 says...
How short a memory do these "real supporters" have, p1ssing against the wall in the Blackburn End bogs, with 5000 gates, struggling to pay the elec bill & poor quality football.
The lot of you want to get a grip and stop living in the past, some of them were still moaning when we won the Prem in 95.
I'm still going and will die a blue, but I have noticed in our space crowds, a lot of familiar faces from years back, before the money before the glory years. Proper fans sticking by a club through thick and thin. I suspect more than half of these stay aways probably supported Liverpool in the 70's and 80's and hooked onto Rovers when Jack W turned up.
And if you want to chant anti Kean on the game , so be it, I'd love to see the back of him, too many sweatys managing English clubs cos they suck up to owners in a style the jocks and paddys always have. You pays your money as they say, but if you sit on your ar5e at home , no one hears your opinion.
Talking of opinions I wish those 3 or 4 miserable old gits in the Riverside (row 11, seats 89, 90, 91 etc would get off Pedersons case. 7 years , some superb goals (dingles in cup replay my favourite), tons of assists, and dedication to the cause and these coffin dodgers slate him off. I was quick to point out to them his assist last night, goal v Leicester and pass at Leeds for Olsons goal. No recognition never mind apology off either of the t0ssers
11:46am Wed 19 Sep 12
Rovers 1495 says...
11:58am Wed 19 Sep 12
Blackburn in big D says...
My plea to all Rovers Fans is,
Come on you blues cause we still hate those dingles in claret and blue.
12:05pm Wed 19 Sep 12
NO NAY NEVER says...
Anyhow, why would I want to stay away, it's about taking the rough with the smooth, he good and the bad times if everybody stayed away we wouldnt have a club left, we are top of the league, unbeaten, plenty to cheer about. NO NAY NEVER!
12:26pm Wed 19 Sep 12
Row-9_Seat-163 says...
Why not stick with rovers and forget who the manager and owners are, have you ever thought that the negativity of the fans chanting 'Kean Out' rubs off on the players and effects the way they play??
How about not using up your energy on kean and use it on rovers who are at the heart of this and what really matters, its all about pushing the players on and encouraging them to thrive and push them in the right direction rather than breeding the negativity on the pitch, were a laughing stock week in week out with the away fans due to the fact that we always chanting kean out and they join in cause this will impact the way our players perform.
I was at the game yesterday, nobody has mentioned etuhu, even though he is big and strong and lundges in time to time he had the ball quite often yesterday and what did he do everytime he got the ball even when in space, pass it to another player who has a defender marking him close by, etuhu needs to use his size and power to push forward and run with the ball, all he tends to do is win the ball and pass it rather than using the space he has.
Even though the turn out is dire i only hope this gets better, just waiting to play burnley cause thats when all the rovers fans will come and once they watch rovers play burnley (depending on a good result at the end of it) we should see plenty more of them supporters coming back for more.
12:50pm Wed 19 Sep 12
A Darener says...
1:06pm Wed 19 Sep 12
rovertakenmb says...
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1:07pm Wed 19 Sep 12
ewoodsince1967 says...
3:52pm Wed 19 Sep 12
Gennoe1 says...
4:04pm Wed 19 Sep 12
A Darener says...
5:37pm Wed 19 Sep 12
guiderover says...
10:33pm Wed 19 Sep 12
forever-a-blue-jean says...
8:34am Thu 20 Sep 12
roverfoxy says...
Don't get me wrong I can't stand the little donut but were top of the league and to say we've only played sh1t teams i think is a little harsh, Leicester & Leeds are both favourites for promotion whilst Hull are looking good as well so I dont think its all doom & gloom!!