The Riverside stand was a work of art.

Deffo says 73 on his tweet.

I got it from Andy Bayes twitter. Tweet was recent. Sure it said '73 but might be wrong. It might have happened in both years,. It snowed a lot more back then!

We should get whoever got the Chesterfield job instead of him.

Ewood Park, 1973

Bowyer based on league positions is the best. He never took us down like Mowbray either. What did Lambert do?

cheers @perthblue02. I need to stop being tight and get a roofer in to have a look!

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Bradley Johnson at full speed there through the Ewood mud ^

No, it's really complicated. Do you have any pictures? You're right. Imagine BB talking back at you. Or Gally, or any other of the nice lads. Terrifying.

Depends how far his stock has fallen I suppose. I don't think he's managed outside the Prem either (apart from Wales). He'd certainly sort out the defence and I'm sure his contacts book stretches beyond Teeside.

Nope, you dismissed Johnno as he hadn't had to deal with the things you listed below. I gave a few examples of managers who had come from the Youths and done well. Cooper is one of them, and relevant because we play him next and he's flying high with Swansea in his first job. The things you list below have clearly been navigated quite seamlessly by Mr Cooper. As they have by Rodgers and Mourinho et al. So there's no reason why Johnno can't do well, and certainly not for any of the reasons you've provided so far.

Putting a laughing emoji at the end of your sentence doesn't strengthen your argument, quite the opposite. Cooper is relevant because we play him Tuesday. He's doing very well in his first job as a manager since stepping up from the youth teams. That was the point in case you missed it. He appears to be coping with the pressures very well, certainly better than Mowbray, the manager you've been defending for months... up until your recent u-turn.

No idea if they've improved technically, hard one to judge. That's his remit, not coaching the team.

7pm kick-off. You don't want to tune in at 7.45pm and miss another of our scintillating 1st half displays. Another team with a good defence (there's seems to be a pattern to doing well at this football lark). 1 goal conceded in their last 5 games. They've lost to Derby and Boro in their last 6 away games so they're not infallible. It will still be a tough game. Rovers 1 Swansea 1. A draw would be a good result for Mogga's men.

He's appears to be working more as a technical coach as far as I understand it. Until he's in the manager's role it isn't possible to say how he'll do.

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise you were involved in professional football. I thought you were just a fella who called people 'twats' on a MB and got away with it. Steve Cooper, Brendan Rodgers, Jose Mourinho etc etc etc etc. They all coped. Not being a well known name appears to be fairly irrelevant. Lots of well known names have failed. Oh, it must be to do with the quality of the individual and their capabilities as a manager, rather than their prior ability on the pitch.

Rodgers, Cooper at Swansea. That Mourinho fella. Lots of managers become youth team coached first. Same skill set regardless of where they start.

With what? A manager is a manger, regardless of level. You need the same skills. Ask Brendan Rodgers.

Did he not manage the Academy teams?

I've started to dislike him for the fact he never accepts responsibility. It's always someone/something else's fault - injuries, the pitch, the ref, the opposition's budget. I read an interview with Steve Bruce t'other day were he took all the blame for the teams failings and said he had to do better. You would never hear that from Mowbray.

Its the only thing stopping us already being promoted.

Rovers look into pitch concerns after Mowbray & player 'moaning' | Lancashire Telegraph “This pitch hasn’t been changed for 28 years and if we’re going to play a brand of football then we need a football pitch to play on and if we’re going to have a football pitch here then we need to have a pitch at the training ground that marries the pitch here so we can play on this surface and get used to it" - Mogga 28 years since they re-laid the pitch? Bullshit surely?

TM: “We’re in the middle of winter and the pitch isn’t fine. It’s really, really poor. “So does the team and coach have to find a different way to play? Yeah, I think we’re at that stage."