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Hey. Do you fancy poaching Tony Mowbray from us. He's brilliant; just who you need.

It won't allow me to edit. Just wanted to add, "Page 45"

Yes. I have that book. My father owned it and I inherited it. It's a question and answer book. It's brilliant. Read about the Rovers strip through the years and then tell Jim Mk2 and others that our shirts are blue and white quarters. 😁

On BBC it shows a 4-3-3 with Buckley CF. 🥴

I presume AA and Travis and Nyambe are injured.

The man's a blithering idiot.

My starting 11 would be a 4-4-2 of Kaminski Nyambe Lenihan Harwood-Bellis Bell JRC Travis Buckley Rothwell Brereton Armstrong

And Hanley as well as Pukki to score.

I hope it's not a 7-1 drubbing in revenge for their Shearer days defeat.

Because he doesn't retain possession long enough.

Stop. Stop. Stop. I'm nearly weeing my pants.

You forgot the smiley face. Very droll.

Well you can't score goals unless you shoot. But TM doesn't believe in this. It's obvious he doesn't.

I thought the referee was OK tonight, just for a change.

There'll be plenty more like this if he stays.

That was shocking tippy-tappy Mowbray shite. I won't call it football. One shot on target 1st half from JRC. One shot on target 2nd half 88 minutes from Holtby. Horrible, horrible football.

Isn't this a most abject performance!!!!!

If that's the case Brum are a real basket case of a club. Out of the frying pan into the fire. And all Charlton fans agree with me.

Like Raheem Sterling. He moved from Liverpool to Man City. Once Pep got hold of him slowly but surely he changed from an 80% player to a 100% player for his club and for England. It takes a good manager to do this. We need one.

And four of those are founder members of the Premier League.

Well, Nigel Pearson will bring his side to Ewood expecting a win, easy-peasy. I'm afraid he's in for a shock. We are going to dominate his side and run out comfortable winners. Never did like him as a manager. Glad he isn't here. BTW those grapes I couldn't reach were probably sour anyway.

Steve Kean was a football coach who was promoted above his station at the time and did his best. But Rovers were a basket case of a club under new, stupid, ill-advised, lunatic, naive (etc.) owners. You cannot compare Kean to the most hated and despised Rovers player ever to wear the shirt. Derek Dougan was a great footballer, bought from Portsmouth, a wonderful centre forward. We fans loved him. Because of his unorthodox hair style he was called "Cheyenne". What he did before the final and during the final was far worse than anything Kean did. I cannot find words to describe my feelings towards Dougan. That's probably the best because we really should not speak ill of the dead.

I was living and working in the newly named Zimbabwe. My son and I had to rely on one column on the back page of the Sunday newspaper which had the British football results and league tables. We were amazed and delighted to find out Chesterfield 0 Rovers 1 and the other one Colchester Utd 0 Rovers 1. The last day of one season we couldn't understand why Bradford City v Lincoln City had been abandoned. We heard nothing of the fire. My mate in Clitheroe used to cut out all the match reports and other news about Rovers and every 6 weeks or so he would post them to me for hours of reading over and over again. I wrote a letter to the LET about this and about the Rovers. I even voted Glen Keeley player of the year. It got published. A few days after, there was a cartoon in the LET which showed a bill board with "Rovers supporter in Rhodesia votes Keeley player of the year" written on it. Underneath was written, "He must have had a good pair of binoculars".

Probably suspected

Brentford FC have spent a few years organising a way of running a club, scouting for the right type of player, playing a certain way and choosing the right managers to do this. And it showed tonight how far they have come in the last 5 years with this plan. They were unlucky not to win promotion last season. Suspect they will finally achieve their goal this year. Good luck to them if they do. I wish BRFC were structured similar.