Oh yes, he could go it alone all right! Off the top of my head..a brilliant solo dribble and goal at the Blackburn End against Watford in front of a tearful Elton John. A similar goal in the same end versus Charlton.. A run and a long range shot from the Nuttal St wing into the Darwen End net..versus Lincoln in one of the cups. Brilliant player!

MacKenzie...God, I never recognised him!...until you mentioned it. My lad showed me the video. Re the scapegoating, Lyle Taylor was one of a number of footballers, who took that line, but were I a Charlton fan, I know I would feel aggrieved about this player. Obviously, relegation was not only down to Taylor, but he might have helped avoid it. I certainly felt aggrieved about Shane Duffy and Owen Coyle. I am not sure I was merely scapegoationg them. That said, I lay the blame for that dreadful relegation squarely on the shoulders of our ever so 'umble owners! Never forgive. Never forget lol

..but that's football, that's life.............and that's bullying (just saying)

Equally, if we are in reach, do we believe TM is the man to do it? If not...a new appointment should be made now.... Would love Pearson, but maybe he would only be calling Rich Sharpe and Andy Bayes ostriches!

Does anyone else remember something about Nixon having..er "connections" with Anderson, Kean et al, during the dark age? I never forgot Moyes' intervention after that Bolton game, speaking up-with Coyle- for Kean. Surprise, surprise..the agent, Kenny Moyes, another football agent, is Davy boy's brother!

I think you are right...and if pace wasn't an asset before, there is no reason why he shouldn't recover his previous form?

I think that probably makes sense, unless you are a concession etc My ticket seems pretty good value with the 7(-1) away games included...although ifollow is not all that great...

One of the best ever days to be a Rovers fan. Pictures marked indelibly into my brain....... Light snow on the pitch, Rovers in blue shorts, Mecky spraying the orange ball with aplomb...Waggy rounding the keeper, Keith Fear's missed pen, Noble's big, fat bald head, extreme tension for the last 15 minutes. Ecstasy at the final whistle......fear ( not Keith)going to the car!

Francis Lee?

To the tune of Son of the Father.. Oh, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony Tony, Tony Field Kit Napier- Bastardising the Stretford End's song for Bryan Kidd ...K-IT-O ..KITO

Well done on the Tim Farron interview. I must say you do have the knack of getting your subjects to talk, just saying ebough yourself to stimulate them etc

You will ..( smiley face..if I could only find one)

Same here with mine. Here's the miserable bastard bit though...When so many fans ran onto the Doncaster pitch, I was ..well.. disgruntled and remained on the terrace with others, chanting "Off, off!" and worse. My lads were in the masses on the pitch and really couldn't compute when I explained that there was a large contingent, who were not on the pitch, who were prevented from enjoying the players celebrating in front of the away goal....until that Saturday against Oxford, when they were in the stands at a much bigger pitch invasion. Saying all that, when I was their age, I was on the pitch at Burslem, among those, who chaired Stuart Metcalfe from the pitch.. I still remember Gordon Lee coming to the edge of the directors' box to calm the exuberant Rovers fans. It was the closest I have come to seeing the Pope in Rome! For years,totally out of context my mate used to say-in faux Midlands accent- "Go back to Blackburn. Behave yourselves!"

Now that is really very cynically funny!

So true! And that was me. I came in just before the 1968 cup run that ended with City. Christmas 1969 and the slump following the Newton sale was such a kick in the nuts...and set a pattern for the rest of my parallel Rovers existence!

Great song. Lasy year, I met a mate from college, who I hadn't seen for 30 years. He is a West Ham fan and he remembered every word of that Rovers chant.

OK, sorry. I am happy to take it back. (I would have let the Wearside/Teeside thing go!) I admit that read "love of Boro best" as putting Boro connections ahead of the interests of Blackburn Rovers, his employers.. But that is probably because there is so much on here (posted by others-not yourself) around TM's pension pot, the Pears' Dad context for the that signing and keeping his Boro mates happy etc.

Maybe a bit of confirmation bias? Really not sure about your dishonesty line re the Boro connection here. We can all be frustrated by performances and decisions, but I think Tony deserves more respect. He is not Steve Kean!

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I also heard we were buying Kipre and loaning him to PNE !!!!

Only respect and warm feelings for Benno from me. He has always stepped up to play out of position, whenever the team needed him, often putting himself under pressure from some supporters. I always had the sense that he cares. That always matters to me and even more so after a long line of Murphy's, Etuhus and Orrs etc

Wow! Look at some of the exchanges here ....and after a win too.. Well, I sat through the game moaning and cursing in discontent.We did seem so disjointed. But I absolutely loved that winner-Adam "Karmastrong"or what! Just as my heart was sinking at another Luton player falling down to break up any of our momentum ...I missed the quick thinking bit by Holtby in real time, but it looks brilliant on replay. It seems that the defence is sorted, injuries permitting! Now the "over-resourced" midfield is an injury minefield. Trybull (back), Johnson ( hamstring), Davenport (hamstring) ... On the bench, Holtby is coming back from injury and we know about Dacky.. Also on the bench he had Benno, who has to regain match fitness and, of course, Evans (lol) So TM had to start with Travis, who is still working towards match fitness and the highly experienced Downing, who can't be match fit, given the few games he has played. Does that explain the lack of fluidity? ( well, some of it, anyway..) If I abandon the mantra about repeated patterns and Mowbray death spirals, followed by job-saving winning runs etc, maybe, just maybe, I can see this as Tony getting results, while nursing back key players and awaiting the cavalry... I remember Jack Charlton, as Wednesday manager, complaining about Kendall's 1981 Rovers, who "play crap every week, but still manage to win." I know we were'n't always easy to watch. That year we fished 4th (well joint 3rd) A reasonable, open fair reflection...or a study in denial? Discuss in light of the old adage "There's no fool like an old fool".

What Evans to Stoke? City?.....No, Mandeville..( I am here for 3 more nights!)

Quite. I guess there are a few new things for which to thank Venky's. e.g. I now hate Wigan and Luton-two no-mark clubs that would never have even crossed my mind.......before the deluge...

I spoke to Don once at a friend's 21st back in 1975 He told me that when Ken Furphy was leaving for Sheffield, he turned round to Don and said, "I suppose you'll be cracking out the champagne now, Martin?" Don's reply- "I'll wait until you're out of the fcking door first!" When Don the Eskimo gets here, everybody gonna run to him...or summat