It's very rare that a post on any thread on here makes me literally laugh out loud; so congratulations, Tyrone, on this one!

If we can see that, why can't TM??

And if this sort of thing's going to happen at our level, what's going to go on further down 'the pyramid'? I know, for example, that Rochdale FC - and Rochdale Hornets RLFC, afaik - have negotiated a loan from the Borough Council to keep them going. But there's been nothing in the local media - again, afaik - about when, and on what terms, that loan - to keep the Borough's sporting heritage going - has to be repaid, and on what terms. I have a pal in London who's as keen a Dag & Red - National League - fan. Goodness only knows how teams at that level are going to survive.

I know we lose the red neckline on the Home shirt but I like both of these and, notwithstanding the betting company advert - which I abhor - wouldn't really mind wearing either to games. My home shirt goes back to the season when it took our owners absolute AGES to get permission from the Prince of Wales for his Charidee's emblem to appear on the front. As a devout non-Royalist, I bought my shirt, early doors, without the emblem and then, erm, 'forgot' to take it in to have the emblem eventually fixed to it. Which, in my eyes, makes it as good as the pre-1980s 'Adverts' shirts!

In the mid-60s - just as we were dropping out of Division 1 and Bill Shankly was regenerating Liverpool FC - my first job was in the Civil Service based in Liverpool and most of the lads I worked with were Liverpool fans. Over the years, I kept in touch with many of 'the lads' - now all well into our 70s - and in our retirement, I used to join them once a year for a pre-Christmas lunch in a city centre pub. Christmas 1995 was a particularly enjoyable meal for me. Since then, I've turned up with a smug grin and a patronizing,"Never mind lads, I'm sure you'll win the Premier League at Anfield - you know; like we did! - one day!"? This year's line will be an equally 'sincere' congratulations on being the 7th team to join our select group of teams that have won the Premier League. For me, that wonderful afternoon I spent in The Manxman has lived on!

I think you mean, as I put, "... he wasn't too distressed ...', chaddy.

But that wasn't what Huddersfield were looking for, and why they've parted company so quickly with Danny Crowley and his brother. They have a Director of Football - I think the post's actually entitled 'Head of Football Operations' - and they were looking for somebody to follow in the footsteps of Wagner and Siewert as Chief Coach. Danny Crowley sees himself as a Manager, rather than a Chief Coach, which is why he didn't sound too distressed to be sacked.

Perhaps an honest opinion, though. I'd like to think that, having trained and played with all three of them, Graham's trying to hint to our manager that his experience as a forward has taught him that 'Arma + 1' will be crucial to our forward play next season.

I've never been 'in the know'; so I've no names to put forward. But I'd give my eye teeth for a Premier League player coming towards the end of his playing career - a sort of latter-day Howard Kendall - to re-shape the squad and, ideally, have the same sort of effect that he did in the early 1980s. Imagine, for example, finding a good keeper from the National League [North]!

I don't think there's ever previously been a thread on here where I could pretty well have 'ticked' the ❤️ emoji on every post because I liked them! But isn't that the snag? I can agree that Bennett may well be a decent bloke who's a nice guy in every facet of daily life? And, as my old friend Leonard points out "Bennett is innocent." However, imo, that isn't the point. The club doesn't employ him to be a nice, decent bloke; they pay him to be a competent footballer and there may have been games he's been that. But if there have been such games - I can't recall any - they were in the early days of his time wearing the blue and white halves. So please let next season be the first when the team selection isn't Bennett, then ten other names; let it be one when we pick eleven round pegs for eleven round holes.

Apologies if I've missed it higher up the thread, but does anybody know for certain whether the Mags put a 'sell-on' clause in the deal when we bought Armstrong?

As was proved by the documentary about the 1966 World Cup winners, repeated on BBC2 last night. It also had a lovely little - non-footballing - story about John Connelly on that Saturday evening in 1966!?

As we have from quite a number of players we've sold on, over the years.

You're a true Rovers' fan imo; Wegerleswiggle!! I love having someone who I can hate for something like that!

But Tugay had much more 'flair' in his game than Sherwood. And that, for me, would qualify him as a 'Tier 1' Rovers' legend, ahead of Sherwood.

Well, if the reports in today's papers are to be believed about a start date for season 2020/21, and the club's management were as proactive as many of our rivals about putting season tickets were on sale, I'd still be thinking long and hard about renewing. Pro: It'd hopefully put me in pole position to 'tick' a new ground - Wycombe Wanderers - assuming that away fans get an allocation, once the 'behind closed doors' games are a thing of the past. And I have friends who live within 10 miles of Wycombe so I could make a weekend of it. Anti: In recent seasons, I've left weekend games at around the 75 minutes' mark so that I could be more or less sure of getting the first of the three buses - I've not driven since I retired from work - I need to get me home at a just about acceptable time - 7.15 pm - before Bolton Road is closed to allow coaches to get away first. When I've done that in previous seasons, I've been socially distanced before it became required! But will I be allowed to do that now? Similarly, I've written off midweek home games for more or less the same reason for as long. Getting home around midnight by train and taxi may have been fun when I was a lad; it appeals less to this 70something! And that's before I factor in, among other factors: the attractiveness/quality of what's on display (but that's an issue for another thread); where I sit - I'm on my own in a seat I selected for the ease of getting to the bus stop on 75 minutes; what the management decide to charge me for the 'privilege' of watching games at Ewood. Don't get me wrong; I'll always be "Rovers till I die"; but, come 12th September - if there hasn't been a Second Wave of the virus before then - I think I'll be wearing my 'sensible' head; not, for want of a better word, my 'romantic' one.

My memories of him in League One were of him being meat and drink for many of the hairy-arsed centre-halves who seem to play at that level. Your 'Skinner Normantons' for those who remember Michael Parkinson's reminiscences in the later years of the last century. Sure, he was a trier; but that wasn't enough, imo.

Aye, LeftWinger, I'd give you Friedel and Tugay out of those. Snag is, when you get to my age; and you can't be bothered looking up the dates of when players came out of the home dressing room at Ewood before posting on here, you think they were all in the same group of players.

Words get devalued these days. E.g. Channel 4's - and not just them, obvs. - definitely of 'Celebrity'. We haven't had a "Rovers' legend", since the 1990s, imo.

And now that the Crowley brothers have left Huddersfield Town's employ, maybe just maybe they'd be the management pair, young enough and successful enough through the tiers of English football - including Huddersfield - to impress the people in Pune? ? Perhaps the bigger question might be would the Crowleys be sufficiently impressed by the people in Pune? ?

Sorry, this is the first time in AGES that I've felt strong enough to catch up with this Board. I just wanted to add I'm sure we'd all like to be flies on the wall in Pune for the first meeting between Keano and our owners!

Here; John & I both care!? That is truly brilliant, Leonard!!

Sorry, I've come to this thread late; I rarely visit the Board off-season, which this is to all intents and purposes. Glad to read Paul's bulletin; after all, "he's one of our own!" Keep improving, lad; but take it easy. If B. Johnson has to go to Chequers to recover fully from being in an ICU, I hope you've got somewhere where you can get yourself fully fit again.

I'm a Rovers fan who was born in Blackpool and, even though in my mid-70s, still have mates - yes 2 of them! - from schooldays who were fans of Blackpool. One of them lives in London, so can only really attend away games in the South of England; but the other still has an FY postcode and was a Regular at Bloomfield Road until the dreadful Owen Oyston - ironically an Older Boy of our old school than us two - began to be the subject of their equivalent of our protests against our owners. My mate and his family changed the habits of a lifetime and stopped going to games. Once they achieved their aim, they returned to the fold and he and I sat side by side at the last 'Pool vs. Rovers pre-season Friendly. Yes, some of the Protesters found other things to do when they stopped going to games; and I couldn't tell you how their gates last season compared with the last pre-Protest season but you can see the hard core of fans - like my 73-year-old pal are back in the fold.

Yes, indeed. 1] If we're playing away to a team, e.g. Charlton Athletic, whose red 'Home' shirt doesn't clash with the famous Blue & white halves, then those famous Blue & white halves should be worn. They're our trademark. 2] If we're playing a team whose 'Home' shirts have either Blue, or White as a main colour then the Red & Black halved shirt should be worn. 3] I'm less sure about this one. I quite like the very dark blue on the 'second' away shirt. But I also quite like the "Graham Greene" away shirt. 4] At a time when the country's in completely very uncharted territory nationally and financially, it seems a totally money-grubbing exercise to have 2 'away' shirts. With what do our owners want to be associated: a celebrated, Historic club - one of the most famous and historic in the whole country; or a tawdry money-grubbing exercise dragging the name of one of the country's - not just Lancashire's - most Historic clubs into the mire? 5] Not sure what happened with this one, but I'm sure Blue blood's right!? 6] Couldn't agree more!!