Is that a young Shilton being rounded by John Connelly?

The first thought that occurred to me was, is this a sign of how close to the financial precipice we are? Let’s hope it’s just all about Waggott being Waggott.

Bolton in the 70s was far more intimidating. Turd was a great day out, Burnden was like the first 20 mins of Indiana Jones.

If you haven’t been hit by a brick at the Turd, you weren’t standing close enough to the Longside dividing fence - I got hit by a quarter of one and my mate next to me by a golf ball - the inbreds didn’t even shout “Fore!”

I can understand it if we had been largely paper losses, but it’s been entirely cash, most of which has gone in wages to not very good footballers. Who could benefit (and how) from disbursing that much cash on something that remains mostly value-less?

Plenty I’m sure. Two nailbiters spring to mind from the Furphy era: Away to Willington 0-0 Home to Altringham 0-0 and they hit the bar late on.

Same. We hadn’t played Burnley for 7 years and they were two divisions above us - I barely thought about them.

Really enjoyed that. Pretty much flawless defending, some great counter-attacks, and the goal of the season that epitomised Arte et Labore. Pears - very assured performance, two good saves and a crucial brave header in the first half that dealt with the only ball that undid us. JRC - had his work cut out against their best player, did fine. Carter/Hyam - both excellent. Brittain - upgrade on Pickering. Needs to be more choiceful on when he tries to beat his man in our half. Wharton - fabulous vision and touches make up for occasional sloppiness. Travis - Fabulous for the goal: wins it on our D when we are under the cosh and a few seconds later he’s almost through on goal. Hedges - his best game for ages: provided a good outlet, involved in most of our good moves and a truly sublime goal having run 70 yards to get there. Leonard - not yet Dolan - not ever

Intriguing game so far. Letting their centre halves have it as long as they want which is fine as they aren’t playmakers. Good defending and we get through the middle half of the pitch really quickly and sharply, but not enough up front so far. I suspect we won’t be seeing Dolan second half and the rest of our lives on that non-performance.

C’mon lads - same spirit as our play off win here in whenever it was (‘88?), Garner scoring the only goal in the first minute sending us all bonkers in the away end.

Could be Tony. On TV there was a momentary close up of him where he appeared to be flexing his groin or hip.

Brilliant effort undone by players we thought excellent - Hyam and JRC - having stinkers and going awol at crucial moments. I’ve been bothered for a while that Hyam, the senior defender and supposed captain material, seems to do no organizing whatsoever, I think we miss Ayala and even Lenihan in that regard. Am I the only person disappointed Gallagher didn’t put his 1-on-1 away? Typical Sam I thought, didn’t outmuscle the defender enough, so didn’t have the ball or himself under full control making the shot hopeful rather than clinical. Ennis should’ve scored his but I thought the pass a bit heavy (like quite a few of Wharton’s today) which turned a tap-in into something a bit more difficult. To be fair to Hull, I thought the finish for the first goal terrific, first time volley from a ball coming over the shoulder - none of ours could’ve pulled that off.

Sammy disaster, Dolan misses open goal, but my bigger worry is Wharton being completely marked out of the game by a lower league dolloper.

Please don’t tell me the 5-0 Burnleh video perished in the flames!?!

Bradford Park Avenue

By my reckoning, the second goal was 8 seconds after the restart, which makes it the fastest Rovers goal after a kick off I’ve ever seen. Can’t think of one anywhere near as quick.

Apart from relegation providing a rationale for increasing player trading…

Edun stays, Leonard leaves for nothing, Tony Mowbray’s gurn deepens…

I thought similar, though not necessarily trying too hard not to. He needs this season to have the same season (or better) that A Wharton did last - double digit appearances and be MoM in half of them, demand the ball, show the passing game and be demanding of those around him. Then he’ll be first choice next season.

I must admit to really liking the Rovers FC aspect to it, especially recreating the typeface - totally speaks to our heritage as THE Rovers in a much more meaningful way than some 19th-century public school fad. Any no other club could or would use it. Do any of our senior posters remember that stone being put into the Blackburn End turnstile wall? It was certainly there when I started going in the mid-60s.

Or…another extra colour = more superfluous

Is it not also the same blue as in the circle of the badge, which has been there for decades?

Having exhaustively critiqued Pears based on one incident of not dominating his six-yard box for a cross and neglecting to clean out the goal scorer, he could surely learn from repeated viewings of Burnleh’s first at the Turd when TK, errrm, stayed rooted to his line, watched a free header go past him before being thoroughly cleaned out by a Sunday League dolloper.

Except Tony Field went on to score a Goal of the Month in the top division and play alongside Pele. I agree with the poster who tied Dack’s fortunes into Danny Graham, whose ability to win and lay off headers was perfect for Dack’s arriving late from nowhere party piece. As an aside, loved the compilation of his top goals but, man, was he slimmer then!

This kind of thinking is the future IMO. The benefits of a season ticket are being eroded away, primarily by Sky-enforced day/time changes. Unless you know for sure you can attend every game whenever it’s played, in which case you get a financial benefit vs pay as you go, and/or you strongly wish to sit in the same seat each time, there’s no benefit at all to buying one. Perhaps only seniors these days can say they will able to attend every game whenever it is. As the timing of games has become much more flexible, the means of getting fans to pay forward needs to also become equally flexible and imaginative.