He's signed for Leeds - although he had a seizure when out walking with his son this week, so his return has been delayed.

They weren't preserving the culture of the club when they took a chance on him after his drugs bans....especially when he was involved in another police incident just after starting training with the club.

If you go off this (and this was the end of the season, so I've averaged it out and deducted a year) - the Premier League winning squad had an average age of 24.8 years old at the start of the season.

Let's just look at the positives. In the last 12 months - we've twice scored five goals in a match. Keith Stroud was the referee both times.

Just had a look on transfermarket - and we've got the 8th youngest squad in the football league. Wycombe have the oldest at 29.3, Burnley the second oldest at 28.9. Liverpool are 6th oldest at 27.7 and Man City 18th oldest at 27 (I've listed those two as by far the best sides) Barnsley are the youngest side at 23.1 and we're 8th youngest at 24.1. Only Barnsley (bottom of the Championship), AFC Wimbledon (22nd in league one), Scunthorpe United (bottom of league two), Lincoln City (18th in league one), Swindon (8th in league two), MK Dons (3rd in league one) and Doncaster (23rd in league one) have younger squads than us. Swindon and MK Dons aside - all those with sides younger than Rovers are struggling. I'm not Mowbray's biggest fan - but this is a young side. There are definitely times this season when we could have done with an experienced head at centre half (that wasn't hospital bound) or in midfield (that wasn't Johnson).

That is pretty young. Not a single player in his 30's (Used sub ages in red):

Well I work in Preston and the first conversation I had with anyone this morning went: Me: Good Morning! 😄 Them: F&%$ Off! Lovely stuff 🤣

Someone posted on another thread that Mowbray + Waggott = Maggot Which is exactly why we shouldn't bring Farke in.

Everton definitely aren't going down, as their website confirms their season tickets will remain amongst the most competitive in the Premier League next season.....

Owen Coyle talking rubbish.

The bit I'm referring to is at 5:00 minutes. I've not watched the full thing.

If you look at the form table for the last 15 games.... Forest (top of it) have 33 points - scoring 32 goals and conceding 9 Rovers (bottom of it) have 11 points - scoring 8 goals and conceding 15. So in just 15 games - they've got 22 more points than Rovers and their goal difference has improved by 30 compared to ours. Amazing what a proper manager can do. Cooper will be a top manager.

The original 'false nine' 😂 If he was here longer, he might have given Nyambe a run for his money on games without a goal.

Didn't see if this was posted elsewhere or not. Did anyone see the clip of Jon Parkin and Chris Brown in with the Stoke fans? Chris Brown was singing "Your support is $%£$ing shit" at the Rovers fans. He was also asked which stands he used to get abuse from......."All of them" 😂

It's November 2010 - Rovers are in the Premier League with Sam Allardyce as manager and Burnley are in the Championship with Brian Laws in charge - and then Venky's arrive. Fast forward 11 and a half years - Allardyce is being linked with keeping Burnley in the Premier League and the majority of Rovers fans are hoping to appoint a manager Burnley have just sacked - whilst we hover in the league below. More realistically, what's Brian Laws up to these days?😪

I'd have thought it would be right up Allardyce's street. Contract until the end of the season with a massive bonus for keeping them up. Could be fantastic money for a few weeks work.

Absolutely can't see it happening - as much as I'd love it to. They should offer him the job until the end of the season with a £4m bonus if we got promoted. Can you imagine the delight down the road if we swapped divisions and Dyche was in charge? 😂

The other ridiculous fact is that our entire squad earns slightly more than Ben Mee and Dwight McNeil earn between them.

If that is correct then..... Sam Gallagher 13k Ian Poveda 11k Bradley Johnson 8.5k Jacob Davenport 8.1k JRC 5.1k Ryan Nyambe 4.7k Joe Rothwell 4.1k You could certainly understand why Nyambe and Rothwell would look elsewhere.

Whilst nothing surprises me about the current regime - that one certainly would. I can only assume it was put in place in the thought that we would at least know the price if we got promoted. When we don't get promoted, if we spend £3.5m on him and then claim there is no money for a striker, I will have given up completely.

The equivalent of me renting a terrace house for 12 months with the option to purchase it for £1m if I choose to at the end of the agreement. Not only is he not worth £3.5m, there isn't a chance we'd ever pay £3.5m.

Mowbray was just on the radio and said he would switch to four at the back if injuries dictated we had to do so. He said something along the line of "We won't play players at centre back who aren't centre backs - it won't be Nyambe, Johnson and AN Other....Wharton" He seemingly forgot about our only actual fit centre half.

That was quite a stunning season though: Shearer 34 goals and 13 assists Sutton 15 goals and 10 assists Sutton had just scored 25 and got 11 assists the season before with Norwich as well (I know that wasn't in the SAS)

I wasn't particularly excited when we appointed him. How wrong I was! Probably my favourite time to be a Rovers fan was when Souness was in charge (I was only 11 in 1995). Promotion in his first full season, 10th and the league cup in the first season back in the Premier League and then 6th the season after. Some of the football we played was excellent. Jansen, Duff and Dunn blossomed and we had a great team spirit. He also signed Friedel and Tugay. As mentioned above, when he was on the TV in the concourse after the game, you'd stop and listen. As also mentioned, he did lose it somewhat towards the end. Still have nightmares about the formation played against WBA in that first game of the season - I've never seen so many left sided players in one team. All in all, great memories!

Well it looks like we've all decided that Sutton was better than Newell. Next up - who was better, Alan Shearer or Chris Brown?