Mike E

It’s a long road yet for AEW, but I thought they nailed it last night. Great matches, great surprises, and a smidge of nostalgia. Great stuff!

Happy Tugay Day! A 40-a-day smoking 38 year old, who put the Premier League’s best on their arses by standing still. A man who only scored spectacular 25 yard goals, but made them look like tap-ins. Mark Hughes and Sir Alex Ferguson said if he’d been 25, he’d have been playing for Barcelona and Man Utd respectively. Frankly, I still think he could displace Pogba. Mark Noble was picking his all-time PL X1 and said: “I was young and arrogant and I thought, 'oh he's got grey hair, I'm going to get in and around him', and he had me on a bit of string for 90 minutes. I'll always tell people about that. “Obviously I love Steven Gerrard and I think Frank Lampard is one of the best goal-scoring midfielders the country has ever seen, but I'll have to go with Tugay.” More than a great player he was a REAL leader, in a Rovers team chock-full of International Captains. At the 2002 World Cup, he led Turkey to 3rd place, uniting a volatile dressing room of relatively extreme Christians and Muslims. I don’t think Rovers fans will love a player as completely as they did Tugay for another generation. Ask most older fans who the best they’ve seen in a Rovers shirt was, Tugay will be in the same bracket as Bryan Douglas, Ronnie Clayton, and Alan Shearer. Simply the best!

Once you get some scoops (like if Fielding does arrive), we’ll pretty much hang onto every word, btw. Peter O’Rourke is a favourite lately.

Yet when the Rovers fans who DO post your content on here are vaguely critical of it, you then respond with the very drama you claim to try and avoid. As above, don’t take it so personally. That you are a member on here doesn’t make your material on other sites above criticism when it gets linked here. And with every respect, every journalist in the world claims never to lie, or create fake stories, and claims their sources are/seem reliable. Fine. But journalists with better track records on here than you’ve yet established have got plenty wrong. One guy reflecting that onto a story from a relative newbie isn’t worth getting so upset about.

It’s an open forum. He’s allowed to be quite dismissive of a rumour mill. Most of us are. If you think ‘don’t read much into it’ is disrespectful, you must’ve had a sheltered journalistic life. You should seen the stuff we say about Alan Nixon and Oliver Holt.

Geoff Horsfield, the Guiseley Town bricklayer, made a decent lower-Prem, upper Champ career at West Brom.

I’d throw Yakubu into that bracket. Only one season, but a fantastic season. One ray of hope in the darkness of the Kean Era.

I might have chatted to you quite a few times and never known. I get the bus from Park Inn at top of Watery Lane (when I go). Have to echo another post, if that bus weren’t an option, my dad simply couldn’t get to Ewood. Any other option is too much hassle.

That header still features prominently in my nightmares.

Even after the game, Pep was coaching him!

The person in question has asked me to remove what I’d typed.

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Same with Cairney, Rudy,?and Evans tbf, although I take your point

One of Bowyer’s best habits was to get players who had JUST been promoted to the PL, but not necessarily good enough FOR the PL. In one season: Cairney, Evans, Rudy, Conway. Think we should try applying the same ideas. Another reason I’d love Hanley back.

This cute little fella: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/17/grumpy-cat-dies-seven-internet-meme-gif

Grumpy Cat has passed away ?

Mamma Mia! Translation: I’m home now, Mother!

Top shout, that.

How is someone with Scotland in the name accusing a Yorkie of being tight?

I like sweets, tbf

I’m sure he scored a wicked long range goal vs Sunderland once at Ewood? Feel like it was Givet’s debut for us, so January 2010?

Personally, it’s partly the Sky over-promotion thing, the fact my most detested teacher was a Leeds fan, and I love anything and everything to do with Brian Clough.

Did I imagine things, or did a Portsmouth fan try try to kick a player on the ground who’d tumbled over an advertising board?

Agreed, good use of a long-time, old school fan, and funny.

Did he rap the Q&A?