2 hours ago, JHRover said:

Not wanting to be controversial here or upset anyone on the Forum but my understanding was that the trip to Pune was paid for in its entirety by the owners. To me an all expenses paid trip to India to meet the owners and watch Rovers in a friendly game is a once in a lifetime opportunity and anyone able to go would have done. 

I don't doubt that people on the Forum give up a great deal of their free time for the club and that's great. But accepting an invitation from the owners to be whisked away in relative luxury to India, well i think 99.9% of people would have grasped that opportunity with both hands if offered to them, providing of course their personal circumstances enabled it.

I wouldn't want to go to India, even all expenses paid and a grand spending money ?

Depeche Mode - People Are People 

My mrs's father had one about 30 years back, in the days when they had to open all your ribs up to do it ? more of a "standard" operation now.

1 hour ago, DeeCee said:

Now your playing silly buggers as well ?

2 hours ago, S8 & Blue said:

Like the way he seems to be in and amongst the banter. Always first to celebrate with a goalscorer etc. The “fee” (whatever it actually is) might be playing on our minds but doesn’t seem to effect him. Top attitude, top lad, fits in like a hand in glove and has great attributes.

AND I saw him give his all and be effective in a blue and white shirt today so...

He’s the best signing we’ve ever made, a bargain at twice the price and 100% an absolute Rovers legend.

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The best signing we've ever made and cheap at twice the price comments I thought were tongue in cheek, (hence the ? in my post) he may well prove to be a Rovers legend but if you were serious about the first two points, well you must have a glass that's overflowing never mind half full.

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

1 hour ago, S8 & Blue said:

Like the way he seems to be in and amongst the banter. Always first to celebrate with a goalscorer etc. The “fee” (whatever it actually is) might be playing on our minds but doesn’t seem to effect him. Top attitude, top lad, fits in like a hand in glove and has great attributes.

AND I saw him give his all and be effective in a blue and white shirt today so...

He’s the best signing we’ve ever made, a bargain at twice the price and 100% an absolute Rovers legend.

Bookmark this comment.

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Now your playing silly buggers as well ?

Our win and Burnley getting tonked makes it a good day despite Manure winning

I think he's deffo one for the future, TM has always said he was looking at another couple of transfer windows before we  were ready to challenge for promotion but also that over cautious TM wasn't expecting us to be doing as well as we are and maybe with hindsight (that wonderful thing) would instead have signed someone to impact the side immediately.

Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me 

Sad thing is, it will eventually happen, @#/? the small clubs, they don't make dollars for the global audience they are creating. ?

Beastie Boys - Piano Jam

Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town

1 hour ago, Stuart said:

The PL is rubbish as a spectacle.

A self-licking lollipop. It’s a cesspool of crap hair-cuts and wireless-headphones, agent-fed, Pogba-shuffling, self-absorbed, trophy-WAG-adorned, men-children, whoring themselves out at unfashionable foreign-owned Championship-standard clubs, with re-designed badges and fluorescent away shirts, with over-priced, over-engineered, over-marketed, under-protected, corporate-whore-donor boots, in front of soulless, sterile, alcohol-less, prawn-smelling, over-stewarded, company-logo-emblazoned, plastic-bag-hot-dog-stained-rubbish-strewn stadia, (half) filled with plastic, air-sapping, £60-third-kit-wearing, plastic, plastecons who only turn up for 6-games-a-season innit, and the other half, mouth-breathing, barechested, knuckle-dragging, died-in-the-wool-die-hard-deadbeats from deadville who complain that football ain’t like it used to be.

And don’t get me started about Bumley.

Don't sit on the fence, tell us how you feel about it.

Robbie Williams - Feel

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

Mods - any way of autocorrecting ‘Cunty'

Fixed that for you 

2 hours ago, J*B said:

Lenihan is a United fan. Discuss.

No probs with that, he's a professional, you can tell that from the interview, imo

Just now, tomphil said:

600k house at the age of 19 would suggest there really is a lot of 0's in this deal ... ?

Good that he's setting up roots?

Dr. Feelgood - Back in the Night

There's no need to cut ST prices dramatically, combine a marketing campaign of promotion of all things Ewood, connect with the local and not so local fan base, aggressive, dynamic, passionate marketing should be used imo, people at the club should already be doing this. If there are any that fit the spec?

6 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Ya I'm happy Leeds equalised. We have a tough run out of the way and are still massively within striking distance of the top. I'm starting to believe that the play offs are a real possibility. This team has a lot of fight in them.

I'm going the other way tbh, fight is no good without the end product but I'm bowled over by the fact that we didn't concede in the final minutes!

Great effort and result under the circumstances.

Then Jericho - Big Area 

Agree with that also ? there isn't a better alternative "outstanding candidate" obviously available. And as for a forward thinking chairman........

The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl

Very good, thanks

2 hours ago, Mercer said:

I must have seen 20+ Rovers' managers going all the way back to 'Jolly' Jack Marshall!

I've seen the good, the bad and the darn right ugly.

IMV, Mowbray is no better than a 'steady Eddie'.

OK, when Coyley left, we were in a mess but I think Mowbray should still have kept us up.  To go down on goal difference when we surrendered so many points through, IMV, Mowbray's tactics and negativity was so galling.

Did a decent job in bringing us up at first go but League One is dire and nowhere near as competitive as it was when firstly Gordon Lee and then Howard Kendall brought us out of the old Third Division as then was.  Last season, we were also probably the best resourced in that league by a country mile.

I think, at times, Mowbray over complicates things (tactically all over the place), too many square pegs in round holes and is too negative.  I find most of his substitutions baffling.

I think his transfer record is very mixed.  Dack is obviously the diamond signing but I wince at the likes of Hart and Gladwin.  Big money, for Rovers, has gone on Brereton and Armstrong and I can't see anywhere near £9million of value there.

A very decent and likeable bloke but for me, not the football manager  to lead us back to the PL.

 

 

 

Pretty much agree with your views but who would be the alternative?