Ok then 1 with a further year option in our favour. 🤣

Great effort chaps, well done. I find it odd that, of the ones I've seen, the teams are quite young. Most won't remember anything before the Prem - as you proved, you can't beat a bit of experience! (Are you listening Suhail!? 😄)

Found another pic. Before my time (I was only 2 at the time!), who's the Rovers player in this shot?

Actually didn't realise he played his last ever game at Ewood. Had a quick mooch around & found this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/844940199360108/posts/2023494194838030/?_rdr

& yet they were creaming themselves 3 years ago! Just get out of our club!

The thing is, those "3000" minutes will also include the likes of Scott Wharton & Hayden Carter who have both had long term injuries this year. Trav has also missed a good few games this season when our form fell off a cliff. This means that the numbers are somewhat skewed as, although they are technically academy products, they're also established Championship players. So taking these players minutes away, along with AW & to a lesser extent, Phillips, there's probably not many 'kids' minutes at all.

I posted this in the Nostalgia Thread back in March. Many thanks to @Tyrone Shoelaces for the line up as I couldn't find it anywhere: I must admit, I always thought my first game was in 1983 - I knew it was the 82/83 season, however it turns out it was actually 16/10/82. A 3-0 win against Chelsea, Garner with a brace & Kevin Stonehouse. I can't find the Rovers lineup for that day but the main things I remember was being in the old Riverside stand with my Dad with the smell of pipe tobacco wafting up every few minutes and a bit of a scrap going on in the BBE, presumably with some Chelsea fans who'd got in there. I managed to find a few details from a Chelsea site, which shows a young David Speedie in the Chelsea team that day! Attendance? a whopping 6,062! All that really mattered to me that day was that I knew I wanted to back again. I was hooked. Line up as provided by Tyrone: Gennoe Branagan, Barton, Fazackerly, Rathbone, Miller, Randall, Lowey, Brotherston Stonehouse, Garner Sub Hamilton for Barton.

You're a better man than me! I just couldn't not with tomorrow's results in the balance.

Well, I've caved in this morning. Feel like I've been forced into it which is an odd way to feel about it tbh. For the reasons in my previous post, I didn't want to end up cutting my nose off to spite my face. I hate this regime! Now, come on Rovers, I've a big birthday next Thursday let's celebrate it with a 1st leg home play off victory! (Long shot I know - just hope the missus hasn't got anything planned! 😄)

Would you? "Yes, that statement was based upon us being in the Championship, however the team has surpassed our expectations and with us now being in the top flight of English football, the prices have been adjusted accordingly"

I was adamant I was in the not renewing camp, mainly due to the cost increase from last season (£120 increase for me & my daughter) and the fact that I missed a load of games due to stupid lunchtime KOs. My logic was that it would be cheaper to buy for individual games and there was probably a high percentage chance of being able to get my usual seats anyway due to them being 'landlocked' by other ST holders. However, I now don't know what to do as, in typical Rovers fashion, we've got a very slim chance of making the Prem! If we do then demand will obviously increase and I won't deny my daughter a ST of Prem football as she's only ever known the Venky's post prem era. Yes, I could obviously wait and see, but then IF we do go up, I'm then going to be buying at a much higher cost - can you imagine what Phase 3 pricing would look like under this shower should that happen?!! Aaaarrrggghhhh!! Damn you Rovers!

Great to see he's getting pelters in the comments section under the video on YouTube.

Too young to have ever seen him play myself, but my dad always speaks very highly of him. That's good enough for me! RIP Mick.

Well said Glen. Now, to me, that is a rallying call & good on you. Whilst thing are as they are, I won't be renewing my ST. Shit owners, shit management, stupid KO times & I'm expected to pay £120 more for me & my daughter! She now says she can't be arsed. She's 20 in June & now sees the bigger picture. To the point now where we can't be arsed going tomorrow. (Well, today now) she only finishes work at 2, I've got to set my stuff at the pub to DJ Tomorrow night, we can't be arsed rushing to go & support something which the owners & management can't even support.

Totally agree. V12 are also a bunch of absolute c**ts & don't want people who have a good credit history. They actually want you to fall behind with payments & so incur additional charges. I paid with them a couple of seasons ago (check my posts around the same time). No problem, all paid on time. Got an email saying you're all paid up, if we can be of assistance in the future etc etc. Then a couple of months later, I tried to pay for that season's ticket - refused! No changes to my credit history in that time, my problem was that I was a good creditor. Absolute charlatans! Check out their reviews online for similar stories. The additional charges are now there to compensate for people who, you know, pay on time!