What made it worse IIRC was that Ashby refused to review the decision later and therefore Berg's red card stood and he was suspended. I had no problem with ref's making mistakes in pre-VAR days - even if I didn't like the decision - but that was just bloody minded.

Unfortunately for any other left winger they have to get past Duff. The first season back in the Premiership he virtually kept us up single-handedly.

In some ways you could just pick the whole 1980 back line as one - Arnold, Branagan, Faz, Keeley, Rathbone. Once they'd fully gelled under Kendal they were the football equivalent of a castle!

We really were blessed with some great keepers in the 70's /80's weren't we.

Love the lower league team - mine would be very close to that. Possibly John Bailey in for Chris Price and Kevin Hird switch to RB?

I think Batty was one of those players who you only really appreciate by watching live. So much of his good work was done off the ball - when Le Saux was rampaging forward and we lost the ball the opposition would naturally look to utilise the space left. Batty just naturally knew to cover those spaces. Similar to Tronstadt in many ways 😉

In my watching years and trying for a balanced team: Friedel Berg Hendry Nelsen Le Saux Ripley Dunn Flitcroft Duff Shearer Bellamy Bit worried about the defensive abilities on the left flank - that's one of the reasons Flitty is in there. Almost went for Batty as he was brilliant at covering Le Saux - at least until they started fighting each other 😉 Feel a bit guilty about no pre-92 (other than Big Col) in there. Just think nowadays Duff would probably play on the right!! Maybe another theme is best pre-Walkers team and best post-Walkers team. Although the second of those might makes some of us almost suicidal!!

Impossible task to say who greatest Rover was. Depends on what criteria. Bob Crompton probably ticks most boxes but as he is, even to our oldest forumites, a name in the record books he doesn't get that emotional pull. Ronnie and Dougie will be the ones for those watching from the 60's I guess Garner for my era as a hero - but not the greatest player tbh. That has to be Shearer. I feel for those who have only been watching since 2010. There might have been a 'cult' hero - Dack for example - but with the constant circus that is now our club - the likelihood of another club legend coming along seems very remote. Sad times indeed

Just seen that Morgan Gibbs-White signed new 3 year contract at Forest. Whatever his reasons it's a real slap in the face for Spuds.

Just seen a Football League World article saying AI predicted us to finish 4th. Must have data-scraped Chaddy's posts to come up with that 😉 No offence intended Chaddy 🙂

Read this as EU confirms no change on the Brittain situation. Was wondering what sports journalism had to do with Brexit!

One of those things you have to do.....and then ignore 90% of it!

Speaking as a trained and qualified project manager I totally agree. A well-run project has a start and end. It also has an agreed set of objectives and ways to measure those ongoing once the project has been delivered. An ongoing project with no end is a bad one. That's not to say they don't exist and I've been involved in a few in my time - usually involving the introduction of tech. What people in football refer to as a 'project' should really be referred to as a 'programme' as that can be ongoing and has multiple phases (projects) within it. What is going on at Rovers doesn't seem to satisfy any of the above - I think the technical term is 'clusterfuck'. And I've been involved in a few of those as well 😄

Same with me. I tend to find with beer the 0.5% ones have a better taste than the 0%.

And a sport you could imagine playing for 'fun'. I play 6-a-side on a Weds evening and even that is starting to be infected with the pass it about all the time and play out from the back. Luckily most of us are old enough to ignore that and play the long ball sometimes or get to the byline and whip it in I wonder if the way the game is played now - and coached from such a young age - means that kids don't get to enjoy the old 'jumpers for goalposts' kick abouts we used to do. Even at 15/16 I was still playing in the schoolyard with lads of all abilities - including a couple who went on to play league football or high-level non-league. So rare to see players having a laugh - particularly with their opponents - these days. One exception was when Cole Palmer missed a sitter as his team-mate got in the way - his reaction was to kill himself laughing. Even in his interviews he seems like one who enjoys his football

That was the game when Savage got sent off fairly early IIRC. Bellamy won us that game almost single-handed. Although seemed to be a knob-end as a bloke - I guess that was partly due to his ultra-competitiveness that made him perform like he did in that match.

That one - along with Palace in 89. My two worst (on-field) moments as a Rovers fan

I was there for that one. Was a real 'FFS' moment!

That made me smile Rev 😉 Coming from the arch-contrarian regarding Trondstadt!

Can the team sustain that effort with a max of 5 subs though?

Beggars belief the gullibility of some people regarding the club's propaganda. I seem to remember the club moving Travis out on loan to get him temporarily (and presumably hopefully permanently!) off the wage bill. Maybe the LET poster thinks Trav forced that loan in some bizarre attempt to increase his salary from Rovers by showing how brilliant he was for another club and then demanding a pay rise to stay!!! Of course the reality is that he put in possibly his best season for us after coming back - despite being treated so poorly by the club.

I often wondered if there was a bit of 'lets do them a favour' to the second game. Bury needed to win to stand a chance of staying up and I would imagine more of the players would have known each other back then. Although knowing the way of things back then, along with Kendall's attitude, I suspect your reasoning is not too far off Tyrone!!

That would be classed as an offensive weapon nowadays due to it's razor-sharp edges

In the Jota situation I wouldn't have expected Liverpool or Portugal to play the next day. But, other than that, marks of respect expressed and then carry on.

My dad died the night before our first match of the season. I agreed with my family to go as we all knew that is what he would have wanted. I couldn't face sitting in my usual seat that day as too raw but at half time I went to see the regulars to let them know. Maybe I should have asked the club to postpone the match instead?