That'll do for me!😁

Yebbut, my late Mum would be severely hacked off with me if she even suspected that I hadn't thanked you. 😉

Sorry, @wilsdenrover, 'scuse my lack of manners. Thank you.

Almost certainly, @wilsdenrover. I can't say more than that because I'm a 76-year-old whose wife & he decided not to have a family partly because any child might have inherited my disability. Which was probably a sensible decision; but means I don't now have a smart-arsed grandson to raise his eyebrows to the skies whenever I encounter a - too complicated a computer-related problem for me to solve - but which would doubtless be easy-peasy for him.

Loved Eric; hated Luton, that's for sure! Going back to the days when they were 'pioneers' of artificial pitches - "Take it or leave it." And of banning away fans. Some - well, one, at least of us - got round that with the adult son of some friends who'd been about five or six years behind me at school and lived in Dunstable allowing me the use of his address for ordering my ticket. It may have been the first, but certainly not the last, time I've used the Old Pals' Act to allow me to see the Rovers playing away!

And "Beannachtaí na féile Pádraig ort!" to you, too @superniko! (One of the few phrases I can manage in my great‐grandfather's language when he arrived in Blackburn some time in the 1850s.) And, fwiw, I agree with you about big dog; at least, his heart was in the right place. Hope he's still reading this.

So, as far as a long-sitting Riversider's concerned, a bit like JWU, then?! 😉

His name wasn't Jonah, was it, @47er?! 😉

Not wishing to derail this thread; but, as I haven't been to Wembley since it stopped being "the old Wembley", please can someone tell me how, if at all, it now differs from the ground where we won the Full Members' Cup and our play-off game v. Leicester City? Is it like Ewood before the before the four stands were modernised? Is it still where the 1923 Stadium was located? Are the Wembley goals still more or less where they were before any work was begun? And so is it just then a case that the stands have been modernised: fewer, comfier, seats than there used to be? Better snack bars; disabled loos, etc? But the location is still where I'll be there if the team is; but it doesn't feel like I could ever claim to have seen Rovers on a new ground if I saw us there. So I've always wondered in what sense - if any? - is it a new ground?

I agree with the first part of your second paragraph, @longsiders1882 . However, I can't see him going to Palace; I'm sure I read before he got the Turf Moor job that Mrs. K's a north-west girl (Manchistoh?) and she wanted the family to come back to this part of the world. And if, at some time in the future, he wanted to manage Belgium, I'm sure he could live in this part of the world and do that. Didn't Martinez?

And Millwall - (A) on the last day of the season ‐ will be a well-earned point, methinks, @sympatheticclaret.

So, please can someone more competent at cutting & pasting and who isn't on here at silly o'clock of the morning, please remove this and post it on the 'Predictions' Thread?

Copied from the "Championship - 22-23 thread" where I posted it in error. My Predictions for us were: Stoke City (A) D Reading (H) W Birmingham City (A) D Norwich City (H) W Huddersfield Town (A) W Hull City (H) W Coventry City (H) D P. N.E. (A) L YOU-KNOW-WHO (H) D Luton Town (H) W Millwall (A) D We're - obviously - already two points down on where I hoped we'd be. Coincidentally, Luton Town, who I must subconsciously hate, have already got 4 points more than I tipped (wanted?!) them to have. And Millwall have 2 points more than I tipped

Sorry; I've only just noticed there's a "Predictions" thread. I'll copy my earlier post there, where it's more relevant!

Starting last weekend, I started a little "Predictions" chart for the last 11 games for every team from 2nd-9th in the table. Looking at it, I've become aware of an unconscious bias I must have against Luton Town, who've already got 4 points than I expected - or wanted - them to! But, to an extent, that's compensated for by Delia's Boys, who I thought would have won their last two games. We could really do with some big League wins before the end of the season to boost our goal difference. Don't think it will be crucial; certainly hope it won't be!

Ah, so you were the one to blame for that result, @Tyrone Shoelaces!!😉

Just hope that, given our opponents' reputation, we've got a good, strict-but-fair Referee on Sunday, given our opponents' reputation. Also a silent prayer of thanks that it's Sheffield Utd's away stand our fans'll be in. From recent reports, not a lot's been done to Hillsborough in the last 34 years.

Or in Maguire's case, lack of them?!

Radio Lancs just announced a crowd of 14,023. (Incl. 284 from Reading.)

We'll be up Shite Creek, internationally, especially if they appoint the last of those three.

Well, perhaps every other weekend!!

Bit of a sweeping statement there, @Mattyblue . Don’t forget that Rovers have a lo-o-ng history; and that, in the childhood - the mid-1950s - of some of us, we had a similar sequence. Johnny Carey, an Irish international full-back, was appointed by the Rovers Board of the day to his first managerial post at the start of the 1953/54 season when we had already been in Division Two for five seasons. Which was a particularly painful time for the 7 to 12-year-old Rovers' fan "exiled" in Blackpool at a time when the Seasiders were in Division One and had just won the F.A Cup for the first - and only - time in the 1953 "Matthews Final". (I particularly remember the ⅓ of a pint of milk that we got at Primary School in those days had tangerine tops in the lead-up to that Final!) It took Johnny Carey five more seasons to return us to the Promised Land; and, to the best of my memory, the fans of the day were behind him and the team he was building, until they clinched promotion in the famous final - Winner take all - game of the 1957/58 season, away to Charlton Athletic. Different times; different attitudes, obviously. But they go some way to explaining why I was one of the last fans to stop cutting Mogadon Man some slack.

I'll bet my Dad - he'd have been 20, going on 21 at the time - was there. Can't see him, though!!😉

I used to think there were some on here who were pessimistic; but about the only thing missing from the Reading link above seemed to be the local Samaritans' number!!

Can't wait for MotD. Oh no; I've just remembered!!😉