One was a footballer, one isn’t. The Don could play centre forward, centre half and in midfield and still look good. No good having the physique if you don’t use it. Little guys like Speedie or Dickov were more of a threat physically than Gally .

I think he played for Brighton.

I’d rather have The Don than Gally. Agree about the other two.

Play the same way in Australia and we’ll get the same outcome. If the powers that be are happy with that, fair enough.

Yeah, it just crossed my mind how I feel about today’s game and how I felt setting off for Ewood for the 3rd division promotion game all those years ago. It’s like chalk and cheese, whatever happened to excitement at a football match ? We had a few really good players then and a few not so good but all of them gave 100% for the club. They’d be on peanuts compared with what the current lot are on but they left nothing out on the pitch that afternoon. The starting 11 played the whole game, none of this coming off after 60 minutes because they “ need a break “. For the old timers still interested - Rovers that day - Jones Heaton, Hawkins, Fazackerley, Burgin Metcalfe, Oates, Parkes. Beamish, Hickman, Martin. Scorers - Beamish, Hickman 2, Martin 2 Att - 17, 818. How many of them would get in the current team ? I’d say most of them. What I wouldn’t give for Roger Jones in goal today ! Anyway, come on Rovers put a smile on my face on Saturday night for once.

Dunny will be sniffing around the job.

Bo Diddley - Before You Accuse Me

I just think I was lucky. If Fred Pickering, Mike England and Keith Newton had come through the youth team now they’d have been gone before they’d hardly pulled the shirt on like Phillips.

The Capitols - Cool Jerk

How many got “ in “ and then got out.

The Honey Cone - Want Ads Massive No 1 in the US, 1001 over here, strange how tastes were different then.

SSH ! It might work.

Definitely. This season is going to be one of those seasons were the team fourth from bottom is going to need a more than average number of points to stay up. Apart from us and Rotherham everybody else is fighting for their lives.

I agree about us being out numbered in midfield all the time.

That was really bad the other night, it looked like he was trying to get out of the way of the ball.

You’re dropping Buckley, who was possibly our best player on Tuesday night, yet you’re prepared to play Telalovic who two managers obviously don’t rate in the slightest. I’d be amazed if Brittain is available after coming off with a long standing groin issue.

That’s always been the case. Players will play through the pain barrier if their team is near the top. Lose your place in the side and you might not get it back in a winning team. When you’re struggling it’s the other way around.

Doris Troy - Just One Look

That tells you all you need to know. We were relying on the teams down at the bottom staying there. That was never going to happen.

How many teams look worse than us at the moment ?

Maybe, maybe not. He doesn’t look wide awake.

I agree with you on turnover ball. We seem so grateful to actually get the ball back that we have to have three of four touches before we’re ready to release it.

Ned Miller - From A Jack To A King

They offered nothing all game apart from sprinkling niggly fouls around. The guy that came flying in on Buckley ? could have had a red card on another day. They got lucky with the goal and they would have been happy not to set foot in our half again for the rest of the game. 3 points went begging for us. We won’t have a better chance this season. How they beat Southampton is a mystery.

20 minutes of Dack and Co was usually enough to see most teams off. After that we coasted. No team is going to play well for 90 minutes but we rarely played well for more than 30 minutes in 46 games. Maybe 2 or 3 games. Lots of the football on show was pretty turgid.