All Rovers v Orient games end 0-0

I'd airbrushed that Port Vale game out of my memory. Was truly dire!!

Most games towards the end of late 70s and early 80s seasons (except promotion / relegation ones of course) Love them or hate them but the playoffs have massively reduced the meaningless games from Feb onwards!

Went to a Sports Quiz at the Rossendale branch of the Supporters Association. Peter White was running the quiz and fed John Radford a stream of horse racing questions. Clear where his priorities were by that stage of his career!!

Lots of players in the early / mid-80's being mentioned who did good service but rarely mentioned or remembered - John Millar being another

Craig Skinner is one of those who came in at a similar time to Lenny Johnrose, Jason Wilcox, etc. Left as part of the Walker revolution I guess. Can't remember what happened to him after he left Rovers

VAR would have ruled out the last goal as Jansen was just offside!

Done - was interesting having to think about it!

Alex Binnie ended up playing non-league in Rossendale - definitely for Bacup Borough and possibly for the late lamented Rossendale Utd. Still can't believe the first football team I ever saw doesn't exist anymore!

Had him in my fantasy football team - along with Neil Shipperley at Chelsea (another 'next big thing'). Suffice to say I didn't win anything!!

How has Dack played?

My Dad died the week before Uncle Jack - so always a poignant time for me. So many shared memories between the 3 of us!

At the time my dad was fuming about Speedie / Shearer! He'd been away seeing family and hadn't seen any of the early games for Shearer and I was arguing with him about the merits of the signing. First game my dad saw Shearer play was Norwich at home. At half-time he turned to me with a big grin on his face and the words 'he'll do'! It wasn't so much the chipped goal - more the way Shearer ran through their centre-half twice to set up Wegerle's goals.

Similar for me. Lots of other commitments so looking to pick off new grounds. Swansea is nearest ground to where I live but wasn't sure could make it until Saturday am. No away tickets on day so went in with the home fans. Lots of comments of how average/poor Rovers were! But plenty of their fans saying that we'd worked them out and were doing a job on them and how their manager was so up his own arse he wouldn't change!! Second time been in the home end at an away match and seen us score 3 goals. The other was at Turf to see the 3-2 back in the seventies....now that was interesting!!!

Was at both games as well. The home game was Bury again wasn't it. They won but still got relegated. Always wondered if there was a bit of neighbourly 'help'? Remember being at Gillingham after promotion at Preston. We were crap there as well!

Biggest difference for me between Andrews and Lowe was that Andrews always put a shift in and never hid. That was sometimes to his detriment as he was clearly not good enough for the Prem!

Longsiders. Firstly it's great you come on the board and have some great points to make and some great banter. Having that balanced view was how I was able to live in the Burnley-supporting end of Rossendale for so long and have friends who supported Burnley. Lots of teasing both ways but never getting out of hand. Totally agree it's not one team's followers better / worse than the others. Never been able to get my head round how wanting your team to beat your local rivals moves from bragging rights and mickey-taking onto wanting to physically hurt another human being. Although clearly I take some enjoyment in Burnley's current plight, I'm of the view (along with some others on this forum) that I'd rather see the Lancashire town teams doing well than being replaced by the likes of Bournemouth and Brentford. Good luck for the season - as long as you finish below us of course!!

Agreed. I went to the 2000 match at t'Turf. Coaches from Blackburn but you didn't have to travel with them to get a ticket. Living in Rossendale I drove over and parked up about 10 mins from the ground. By the time the police let us leave after the game those of us going back to our own transport were like sitting ducks. There were Burnley fans wandering around. In fact a family friend (who we'd always had good banter with) was later convicted of attacking a Rovers fan on a street corner - needless to say we never spoke to him again. I've never been more relieved to get back to my car!!

If you go back to the start of professional men's football in England then the goalkeepers would have been smaller on average than now. And there were more goals scored - not surprisingly. As goalkeepers got bigger and fitter the goals scored reduced. Interestingly the response seems to be a lighter ball so it moves around more in the air and is easier to curl / bend. You see keepers more often deceived by the flight of the ball than used to be the case. That's my theory anyway 🙂 I suspect in the women's game, as more women play and come up through the professional system, the coaches will identify likely goalkeepers and persuade them in that direction. You often hear in the men's game how professional goalkeepers started as outfield players in schools / youth football but were talent spotted as having the likely physical attributes to make a good goalkeeper.

When first went to Ewood with my dad in the 70's started off in the Riverside stand and remember the foot stamping well. Then migrated to the BBE and then back to Riverside terracing when I was tall enough to stand near the halfway line. Still prefer to stand up when I get the chance!! Remember the half-time teddy dismembering well! Looking up at the stars from the gents during a night match was not quite enough to distract from the smell of the open air toilets 😉

Missed this game as car broke down on the way to the match!

If that's Simon Barker hugging Garner then I don't think he overlapped with Kennedy. Having said that - I've no better idea who the number 9 actually is!

What a result!!! Hornets that is - not the shambles at P'boro!!

Come on HORRRRRRRRRRNEEEEEEETTTTS!!!!

Am I misunderstanding your point but Chaddy has done nothing but criticise Mowbray's team selection in this thread?