Having our back garden looking on to Rossies pitch I have great memories being brought up there mid 60s till 77. Only players I can remember from those days we're Glyn Barker, Billy Greenan (rip), Johnny Pearson and the goalkeeper Woods. Oh! And a player they got from Airdrie called Tommy Veitch or similar. Great days at Dark Lane in those days especially when the drew Shrewsbury Town at home in the 3rd round of the FA Cup.

81/82 season for me on the Riverside terrace. Rovers v Sheffield Wednesday league Cup tie first leg I think. My overriding memory of the game was Noel Brotherton missing a penalty that almost cleared the Blackburn End!

That's very true. With how we've been playing of late we could of been up there for sure 🥺 got something in me eye....

1997 lost 4-2 at home to Leicester. Heskey scored twice and I thought he was prime Zidane. Was quickly proved otherwise

I meant to Ewood on a different team hehe not to return to us although that would but nice but a miracle. I'm sure he'll get a good reception

Nothing wrong, just people having different opinions to yours. He had a great season, so did Tronstad, Travis and Batth.

The club doesn't want promotion. They couldn't make it any clearer.

As tinpot and poxy as both these clubs are in equal measure, at least one of them doesn't side with the aggressor and perpetrator of colonial ethnic cleansing.

you just have to think if the club showed ambition to keep him rather than this “we won’t stand in the way” mentality that maggott employs we might have actually got promoted this season.

Another year of venky rovers where we didn't get promoted. Final verdict: Complete failure.

100% that is the reason. no surprise that once again our form turned to shit when key players started to pick up injuries. With millions brought in over the last 12 months, the solution to a backup midfielder was to sign a guy that had his contract cancelled by the team at the bottom of the table. Pretty obvious to anyone who has eyes and a functioning brain that the ownership does not want to get promoted back to the premier league.

It's so subjective so it shouldn't be taken as factual. Also, often a goal has numerous minor errors and misjudgements. If you are analysing off the back of a Hyam discussion then there will also be confirmation bias. For example, the one v Leeds was a dive, the goal v Cardiff came from an ACD error, Hyam not beating Meite who was on the run in the air is very harsh to give all the blame to him. Toth isn't mentioned but he made a big error v Coventry for the goal. Pears definitely has made more mistakes, one that springs to mind is Twine's free kick v Bristol City.

Sorry, but Pears has cost far more points than what you're attributing here. 15 at least.

Callum been phenomenal all season

I could claim the record here. 1949 Rovers v Man City, aged 2, sitting on my Dad's shoulders in the Darwen End Enclosure. A very eventful match but I remember nothing of it!

High staff turnover cost a fortune for any company, let alone one that's deliberately implemented a programme of severe austerity upon itself.

Bizarre to think not long before it was all about baggie shorts

Nothing wrong with a pair of stubbies.

Wimbledon at home in 94. Don't remember much about other than Shearer scored and we won.

That's the game that gave me my user name on here! Shame he turned out to be a knob 🙄

Whether other clubs do it or not, im not particularly interested. But us doing it is ridiculous and counter productive.

Charlton Athletic at home Oct(?) 74. Riverside Stand with my dad. First game of league football for me. The blue and white halves (and the win!) did it for me and never interested in supporting any other football league club from that day on. We still went all over the north-west picking the best games when Rovers were too far away. Always had a soft spot for Bury due to close family friends. Prior to that I'd been taken all over the north-west following the great Rossendale United side of the early 70's. One of my earliest memories of supporting Rossy is of going to Ewood and standing in the Nuttall Street paddock (I think) for a Lancashire Floodlight Cup final against Great Harwood (possibly?). Would love to hear from anyone who knows about that match as tried to look it up online but not found anything.

It's behind a paywall, but even if its partly fuelled by a bit of a shakeup, the amount of fixture changes across English football shows no consideration to match going fans. It seems that BBC and ITV are in a battle to determine the kick off time for the cup final, and part of it is to do with it not clashing with Eurovision. That sums everything up.

I don't understand why Carter's reputation has remained exactly the same after the last 2 years when his body keeps breaking down but even when he has put a run of games together, he has looked shaky. Hyam and Carter both were really strong together in Hyam's first season when Hyam won player of the season, and that wasn't next to an experienced defender, although in the main he clearly does benefit from one. I just find it strange how off the back of a season where I think Hyam has been good and has played every minute in a team with the 6th best defensive record in the league, with I think 16 clean sheets, it seems to have only accelerated the opinion that he needs moving on and Carter needs to be kept and built around. (Not that I am saying we should get rid of either, I would keep both) I can only conclude that its his lack of popularity that causes this perception. There was the meeting where he apparently said that the players didn't like the booing. There was also apparently an altercation or two with supporters around that time. One performance can also stick in fans minds, and he had an absolute shocker at Bristol City away. Sometimes its difficult to recover in terms of reputation from that. Armstrong had a game ironically at the same place where he had loads of shots and developed a reputation of being greedy. He then went on to score 28 goals in a season but I never felt that he was rated or popular in line with how important he was to us.

At 27 minutes in they discuss the budget.