There was a target man on the bench but he wasn't used. AMORUSO If he had come on up front for the last 10 to 15 minutes I reckon we may have got something out of the game. But I'm pleased with overall performance especially MGP,Mokoena,Todd and my MOM, Ryan Nelsen. Brad got beaten by a shot from their left for the umpteenth time. This is one of his weak points and should be worked on to improve.

Well need to call out the army to escort us in and out, again! What a draw!!

three quarters of an hour to go. My prediction....................Nott'm Forest away I'm always wrong. That's why I can't win the lottery

Ten men Rovers hang on to scrape a draw 2-2 after Savage is sent off on his debut. I hope I'm wrong.

Who was the most prolific striker ever to play for Rovers? Shearer? Briggs? No, you may find it's one JACK SOUTHWORTH. If you check goals scored per games played, I think Jack even beats the two mentioned.(I haven't looked up the stats). If Forrest and Latheron were discussed at length, why hasn't Jack at least been put on the list of all time greats??

Just come on to this thread and voted straight away before reading any posts and was surprised to find that I wasn't the first to vote for Jan. Flitty is still Rovers captain to me even though he doesn't get picked too often and Bazza was made Capt. after him. But "that swine Ferguson" wants away. SO!!.....There is no really permanent person in the squad to be capt . Except Neill (yuk) and Brad. I don't agree with goalkeepers being captains. Todd is playing well at present so he should continue for now. Love to see Jan with the armband on showing us how she can score goals like King Kenny.

Reid and Nissa came on for Gally and Tugay. Nissa replaced Mokoena at centre back. Mokoena replaced Tugay in midfield. MGP replaced Gally up front. Reid went to right wing and Emerton went to left wing.

Congratulations, James No7! It's not very often that someone predicts not only the correct score but also the goalscorer(s). Take a bow. How are we going to do against Cardiff City?

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Scott Parker who can't get into Chelsea's first team would be ideal.

I went to that game with my mates. We stood behind the goal on the end nearest the town centre. I was amazed that there were groups of Rovers fans and Wanderers fans all side by side. When we won a corner we all clapped but others were deathly quiet and when they won a corner others were cheering and we were quiet. It was quite weird. Sam Allardyce was playing in that match. Roger Jones was magnificent for us. The following day's football headlines read "33,000". There wasn't a space to be seen on the terraces.

The ref had a good game. Two physical teams were allowed to go at each other without (as it turned out) a lot of malice. I hate refs who want to card every tackle.

2 horse race. John Lewis and Jack. three horse race. Wasn't there a Lawrence Cotton in the early twentieth century whose money helped win two league titles and build the riverside stand?

Am I the only one who thought that Spurs played really well. Rovers were the poorer side except for the opening period of the second half up to when Spurs scored. We tried our best but lost to a much better side.

Let's have a break over Xmas and come back to it in January. I tend not to go on the computer much during Xmas/New Year.

We have eight quite wonderful left wingers in the poll and I haven't voted yet. It's time to vote. Here is a message to all the spotty faced ones. You know how us old geezers keep harping on about Clayton, Douglas, Eckersley etc.?? Well..........You've seen a player in your lifetime who (IMO) is as good as (not better than, but as good as) Bryan Douglas. Yes, Duffer is as twinkle-toed as the great Duggie. It is a pity that circumstances have dictated that he could not spend more of his career with the Rovers. Because of his quality I have to vote for him. He is truly the best left winger (note the old fashioned position name) that I have ever seen play for Rovers.

Just look at your recordings of the great seasons of the Jack Walker era and see how many goals are created and scored by Wilcox. It is quite amazing. He was never fully appreciated by the crowd and was, IMO, the most under-rated player of that period.

Burscough Bob ; the left wing wizard. Bobby Langton was born in Burscough, Lancashire on 8th Sept 1918. He joined Rovers from Burscough Victoria when he was 19 years old, initially as an amateur, soon turning professional in Sept 1938. He contributed to the promotion winning side back to the top flight of the 1938-39 season scoring 14 goals in 37 appearances. He was a very fast left winger who could cross a ball from every angle. He liked to cut inside from time to time and unleash a shot like a cannonball. I remember one of his goalbound shots cannoning off the forehead of John Charles, the Leeds United centre half, and bouncing on the roof of the Darwen End. The crowd stood in awe as Charles just shook his head instead of collapsing poll-axed. (This was in the 1950s.........I’m not THAT old). As well as being a winger, he liked to go into the centre forward’s spot to score goals . He could dribble too. Wartime disrupted everything but after playing for Glentoran in Ireland as a guest and thrilling the spectators there, he made a total of 42 wartime appearances for Rovers scoring 7 goals. After the war he scored 5 goals in 70 games between 1946 and 1948. When Rovers were relegated to the second division Langton was sold to Preston North End for £14,000 in August 1948 where he scored 14 goals in 55 games. In November 1949 Bolton Wanderers bought him for a club record fee of £20,000. He scored 16 goals in 118 appearances for the Trotters. He played in the 1953 FA Cup Final. He returned to Ewood aged 34 in Sept 1953 to be part of a well-remembered forward line of Douglas, Crossan, Briggs, Quigley, Langton. Although age had slowed him down he had lost none of his guile and still thrilled the Rovers fans. In those three seasons he played 105 games scoring 33 goals. He was capped for England 15 times; seven of those whilst with Rovers. My father-in-law reckons he was better than two other great wingers McLeod and Harrison in that he was more skilful than just sprinting down the touchline and crossing the ball; but that was in his young days, not the fifties. So Bobby was fast, a good dribbler, a good crosser, liked to get into the penalty area and score goals, had a rocket shot and took the penalties. Also he got capped for England in the heyday of Matthews and Finney.

And before them were Wagstaffe, Harrison, McLeod and Langton. That's another four in my lifetime.

Well done "Soupdragon". Excellent first post and I agree with a lot that you have said. Come on some more of you "messageboard readers only" and vote for Jimmy Forrest.

The team faded when he was virtually an ever present and we won the Prem ? or was it the season he won Fan's Player of the Year ? It was after the championship season when Billy McKinlay was with us. I can't remember which particular season, and I haven't access to records at the moment.

It' absolutely scandalous that Sherwood is now in the lead. Greatest ever midfielder my a*se! When Sherwood was injured and our two midfielders were McKinlay and Flitcroft we were awsome. As soon as Sherwood was fit again he replaced McKinlay and the team faded. So much for "greatness"!

No Rover will ever captain us to the Premiership title again either... That's a very rash statement. Before Uncle Jack took over I would have said," Rovers will never win the league title again". Who knows when another rich person (be he Russian or other nationality) might fall in love with our club and pump his billions into us? Haven't voted yet. I'm torn between Forrest and Latheron. My heart says Latheron but my head says Forrest. I think I read somewhere that the player who influenced the 1912 and 14 champions was Danny Shea rather than Eddie Latheron. Must go with the statistics FORREST for me!

Eamonn Rogers was too brilliant a player for third division football. There was no way Rovers could have kept him once we were relegated. Martin Britt, anyone, for worst Rover?

Here's a snippet about Healless taken from "Things about Blackburn Rovers" by Harry Kay, published in 1948. " Harry Healless is a native of Blackburn, and he was the only Blackburn man in the Cup winning team he captained in 1928. He first played for Blackburn Trinity, and then for the Rovers as an amateur in 1914-15, becoming a professional in May, 1919. His last league appearance for the Rovers was against Chelsea at Ewood on December 31, 1932, and his last match with the Reserves was at Stoke on April 15th, 1933. Harry was one of those footballers who did not develop early; in fact, far from being a star in his teens, he was unknown. When he became a professional for the Rovers he was a centre forward. He played in six other positions. After a period as leader of the attack he went outside right, and later he was right full back, right half, centre half, left half and inside right. In those various berths he was usually good but seldom brilliant. Eventually he became centre-half, and, when big "Billy" Rankin came from Dundee, Healless moved to right half. During his long career with the Rovers, Harry was capped by England twice. His capable generalship often pulled the Rovers through when things seemed to be going badly against them. He could last through the most arduous game, and the team often derived encouragement from the fact that he never seemed to tire. In summer he likes a game of cricket, and was one of the leading batsmen in the Alice Street Wesleyan team, who played in the Blackburn Sunday School League."