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He was in tears as he drove away, yes

Out of all the managers we've had in the past, if I could swap one for Mowbray, I'd take souness all day long. Or kendall

And I still like Roy. I mean, I can't understand why he would put Harry kane on corners, and getting Darren peacock was baffling. But no one is perfect I guess. And if take him all day long over Mowbray. https://www.planetfootball.com/in-depth/fun-cocky-real-character-roy-hodgson-nothing-like-think/

Thought this was a great article https://90sfootballparty.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/home-too-soon-hodgson-at-blackburn/

Tony Parkes on a power trip? Struggling to see that one

On her majesty's secret service. We have all the time, in the world.

I'd you get up in the morning and give everything your best shot with the best you know how, how can anyone ask for more? How these guys we've got now can look themselves in the bathroom mirror, I just don't know. Stealing a bloody living. Whatever happened to having a bit of pride

Sharp eyes you've got 🤣 ⌚ That would be the same watch George wore in the Christmas bond movie

Someone posted this on the forum a few years back. The sending off is absolutely insane. Shocking. But look how animated Roy gets. You can criticise him for how it all ended, but he really did care. Contrast that to Mowbray, we get a record home defeat and the wanker just shrugs his shoulders

Anyway the point is, in Roy's first season, if we'd had a second half of the season like the first half, we may well have won the title. And a lot of that in the first half was due to superior fitness. Ferguson admitted we'd given mean united a "doing " in one game. I think when things unravelled , Roy panicked and tried to spend his way out of trouble. I think we had a shocking injury list at one stage. Keith had a shocker in our relegation season, but played much better under souey. Brian was a decent man, but unfortunately bought players like harkness . Sounds was the right man at the right time. He bought much better. I seem to remember that friedel we got on a free.

Craig Short was signed by kidd I think. I always thought perez was a great player but he didn't settle.

Been a while since I saw the word periodisation. I remember when Roy Hodgson was manager here. We started the season like a house on fire. It was put down to his regime of training twice a day. We then, in the new year, tailed off badly, and picked up injuries. It was put down to his regime of training twice a day. That was just in one season, maybe we didn't have the work capacity to handle the work, and should've scaled down to one session for the rest of the season, and then go again over the summer. I seem to remember Roy saying that he tried to change too much too soon at rovers. Maybe too fixed in his ways from the continent. In a way it's very surprising that footballers fitness could be sub-par, given the amount of money in football. In Germany they talk about teams having power, I asked a German mate what they meant, and he said to roll over the opposition like a tank. That's what fitness does for you. During lockdown they did a five k competition, and one of their lads did 15 minutes something, not too shabby.

Newcastle remove Sports Direct signs from St James' Park - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59550501 Ref the quote"It might not make sense to others, but you need to have lived the 14 years of what the signage symbolised and what that did to Newcastle and the city. It's a good day." makes perfect sense to me

Think it was Brad Friedel's debut, and we beat Wolves 1-0. The league gave us special dispensation to wear teh shirts as I remember.

Yeah, I think it's one of those things that will never get settled for sure. Was just having a look around and found this photo. Look at the size of some of these shinpads! http://www.worldvintagecolours.com/product/blackburn-rovers-1895/

" The 1905 book; Book of Football by Jonathan Russell describes Blackburn Rovers' first kit as a white jersey with Maltese Cross on the wearers left breast, Trousers and a blue and white skull cap. The Maltese Cross notorious with the public schools in which the founders of the club were educated. " From the club's wikipedia entry.

Who's the fella with the ball, Jim? I have no idea. Is that late sixties?

The ici perspex fmc one. By the way, our first ever shirt was all white with a blue Maltese cross

“My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal.”

Well, just seen no time to die, and I was really struggling to pay attention for the last half an hour. I really wanted to like it, and did in parts. But my god it's really hosted. At times it didn't even feel like a bond movie. I can't imagine we'll see James bond in another movie. The Craig era was a reboot, so they can't go back in time again and reimagine it. Clearly Bond isn't going to be good for much after the events of this film so I think the only thing they could do is a James bond movie featuring other double 0 agents. That wouldn't be of interest to me. So I think it may well have run its course. If it had you have to say its been an incredible run. Twenty five movies. They all have their flaws, but barring a handful, they're all watchable and fun. From Russia with love is easily the best, Robert Shaw is So good in that one. With Craig, I think casino royale was easily his best. The stuff with Blofeld as his step brother, that was a bit Austin powers. I think they've slowly run out of ideas. And Craig in this one, he still moves well, but he's losing his hair and he's looks older. It was definitely time to go, I just wish it was on a higher note. I'll be sad if it is still over, I'm a bond nut. So we'll see what happens.

"When you have burned everything you have then you must set yourself on fire"

I honestly don't need any more. Believe me

I might be wrong, but isn't the difference that before they owned it *through * their ownership of the club, but now they actually have it themselves outright? So, and I'm not saying how likely this is, but if they did turf out, the training ground goes with them?

Can you pluck assets? Seems more apt. Please just tell me they're going to bugger off one fine day. Until then, we are the sport of the gods

Christ, for a bunch of gazillionaires , they ain't half slow learners. Eleven years to realise that being sat in India, taking bugger-all interest in the running of the football club, hiring a string of yes men that nobody else wants and watching the debts rack up isn't a good way to run the club. Christ, by the time they figure out how to run us, I'll be in my box. Here's my take. They can't be bothered running us properly because we're a lot more work than they ever envisaged. They're pumping money in every year because that to them is the least worst option, or they hardly notice the money going out but at the same time wish they'd never bought us. They're clueless, they're careless, they've done untold damage, and the only thing they'll get right is when they part ways with us