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Without that big guy up front you don’t win the flick ons and you don’t turn defences. Defenders don’t like running towards their own goal. If you don’t have the big guy up front holding the ball up, you don’t get numbers forward quickly either. These are big things missing from our game, but we all know that don’t we?

Rovers IMO need a centre forward. There’s nothing in the area, everything is played outside it. It’s far too easy for opponents to line across the edge of their own box and keep rovers out there.

John Edrich and Ken Barrington, two very good England openers. Saw them both open for England with Ted Dexter coming in at number three.

Might give that one a go then 👍

Let me know what you thought.

Just watched the ripper on Netflix. 4 - 1hr episodes documenting the Yorkshire rippers attacks and following the police handling of the case. Seen these kind of progs before but this one is the best one IMO. Very interesting.

I think so too oldjamfan. It never at any point looked like he could possibly score, until he did. Absolutely brilliant.

Did we REALLY realise what we had?

It’s very good. You have a long way to go though

Budgie Byrne?

Did you have to? 😠

Brill @darrenrover 👏

That’s what made it special. That wasn’t some average side, it was a great side, although probably just past it’s brilliant best. Boxing day we beat West Ham 8-2 away from home and if you have that West Ham line up I would be very interested TS. I’m sure that was a very talented side as well. Moore, Hurst, Sissons?

I’ll just add, that this was at a time before Ramsey’s wingless wonders and before the game began to become very tactics based. Virtually every team played the same “WM” formation. Players were bought for their technical ability alone. Players were bought for that reason and were allowed to go on the park and do what they were good at.

I still think, that team, at that time was the best rovers team I’ve ever seen. They were fantastic.

That’s a fantastic pic Gav. Anyone would be absolutely delighted to have that photo of them in the public arena.

People must have been at West Ham like me, when Byrom scored a hat trick against them for a 3-3 draw in the FA cup, only for rovers to beat them in the replay at Ewood 4-1 with McEvoy scoring a hat trick.

I know you was ARA, so was I. I looked for the Spurs pics in the Talbot archive, but I couldn’t see them. I have seen them in there before though.

Duggie also. Mike Harrison in background. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/bryan-douglas-of-blackburn-rovers-scores-past-tottenham-news-photo/1218645887

Fred Pickering scoring same match. Danny Blanchflower anyone? https://www.gettyimages.dk/detail/news-photo/fred-pickering-of-blackburn-rovers-scores-past-tottenham-news-photo/1218645874

Mike England scoring in a game many of us older fans talk about on here. Scoring against Spurs in that 7-2 win. Looks like Dave Mackay in that photo to me.

I was so gutted when Fred left, but totally baffled and deflated when Byrom was sold to Bolton. I really didn’t get that.

A cross any centre half should be clearing.

That’s a joke I presume. I’m sure you know who both of those two are. Anyone else?