Leonard Venkhater

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

What....like tipping off Sir Alex about the details of Phil Jones' release clause? Anyone might think Big Sam would hold a grudge lol

What an indictment though!

Didn't know where else to post this. The points are well made about the reality of football culture!

Snow can burn your eyes, but only Oldjam makes you cry

DTF Lol

I remember going in there one night in 1974 with my mate. Our game at Bolton had been postponed and in came most of the Rovers squad. They were quite happy to chat to us. I was surprised -even then-at how many of them smoked! I remember having a good natter with Terry Eccles and that John O'Mara took the piss ( in a nice way) out of my mate's hippie ( Vulcan /Queen's)clothes. Kit Napier and Barry Endean were great to talk to and even dropped me off at home at the end of the night.

How nicely put lol..I don't even remember what I came here to get away from! And I knew I was WRONG, as soon as I read your post. Come to think of it, I think his last league game for Rovers was that relegation night match at Ewood, where there was a demonstration of loyalty to John Pickering. Of course, Kendall was at Rovers for the two following seasons.... before he joined Bailey at Goodison.

Busy having a road named after him?

Yes Arma should be included! This made me think. Most of the Rovers managers in my time have not only taken on players and staff they knew, but players they had previously managed. From the top of my head: Furphy-brought in Field and O'Mara, who he said he had always wanted to pair together. He brought Garbett and Endean who had been at Watford. Then he took Garbett, Field and Bradford to Sheffield Utd. Lee-took Sir Roger and Oates to Newcastle Smith-Svarc and Garner from Colchester Kendall took Arnold, Bailey, Keeley (one game!) and Heaton to Everton Saxton-Randall Mackay-Hendry from Dundee, Dobson and Livingstone from Coventry Souness brought in Brad, Bjornaby, Babbel

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Of all games to play like that !!

You're dead right. He clearly feels under pressure..I was being facetious.

Lol..What do you expect? Critical journalistic analysis?

Henry Fonda, I presume. I agree with you that the neglect of the pitches and the Storm Christoph are separate things. I honestly don't know if the weather would have caused a postponement without the neglect etc. What is clear, though, is that the postponement has provided a channel for all the pent up frustration and anger from the last few months (if not the last 10 years!) I think this is a very serious moment because it shows that the whole club is losing credibility even with the hopelessly committed.

Interesting.. I think that the very act of giving back word to Warnock and Jepson, in order to install Coyle actually typifies the Venky's dire model.