Thanks, Mr. Grinder FRCS lol

The fact that it is us might fire them up...

Not that astonishing, surely! The emptiness of our ground does hurt. I associated it with what has happened to our club over recent years. I know other grounds look empty, but I only care about us!

It has to be Turf Moor in '77 for me too. This is the one I always told my kids about. Snowy pitch, orange ball, Imperious Rovers is blue shorts, excitement and joy, as Waggy rounded the Burnley keeper, Fear's penalty miss, which could have made it 4-then wracked with anxiety as they got two back, before relief and total joy, That is what being a Rovers fan is all about. And I haven't been to Turf Moor, since the police started their OTT operation. Special place also in my heart for Halifax away on Boxing Day '71. Furphy's Rovers revival, huge Rovers following, John McNamee's winning goal and the floodlights going out

I thought that is what he was saying, to be honest...but I couldn't really care less lol

Nyambe quickly joined a junior team in Manchester, and within three years he was earning trials with professional clubs. He continued: “I joined a local team when I first moved here. I was playing with my school as well and two of my friends got scouted for Blackburn and obviously I wanted to get scouted as well. It was just a case of working hard and then eventually that happened. “I was 13 when I first signed and I worked my way through the age groups. We used to train on a Monday and a Thursday afternoon so they put transport for us to come in to training.

Maybe that is why he was top of the class in Year 7!

You are not kidding. I think he refereed 3 more Rovers games after Palace, awarding us 4 (maybe 5 pens)

So did Derrick Williams lol

I see Kiddo, as a Mancunian Jack Hawkins in The Cruel Sea.. And get on with your work!

Haha..connectivity...and what on earth did those, who appointed a certain, outstanding candidate in 2016 have to do with JA and greasy spivs from a previous era?

How could I forget!!

He had one in Billy Smarts Circus, as a shaved monkey. What's worse is that the eldest son of a friend of mine was jilted by a girl, who left him for said shaved simian!

Just wondering, if you could have guest appearances from other eras- like overage players in the Under 23's etc- would there be places for John O'Mara, John Coddington and Richard Brown?

Quite. But we have had far too many folk devil/ hate figures over the last 10 years. Once upon a time, it was only a poor headmaster from Spennymoor, County Durham. Lest we forget!

No, his real achievement was to keep Big Club in the Championship!

God, there are some rank bad 'uns there. I think it is better to forget!

Eek!

Hahahaha

Really? The Full Members was a very proud moment, as was 1975. For that matter,I always used to tell Utd and Arsenal fans that a 2-1 away win at Port Vale mattered just as much as a win at Highbury

Just remember we bravely kept them out until the last few minutes and Rovers fans chanting "We're proud of you, we're proud of you" at the end. The following day, when I got into work, I looked in the message book to see a message, left by an unknown client, called Mr. Proudview. Little things etc

But that was the bit of the post that I liked!

D.R.I.T.

Alibi is my bet..

I lived on that CHAMPIONS moment for years. The job was done AND we should have gone all out for the title. Either/ or is just a false ...er..dichotomy...there ..said it! By the way, Arbitro, you were one of the only sober people I saw that day at Charlton!