All I ever ask is for from a Rovers team to give 100% effort. I can take being out skilled, that will happen in football, but I can’t stand it when we get out enthused. Last nights game was the first time this season that I’ve thought the players were giving absolutely everything for the club. Nobody left anything in the tank. We out enthused the Geordies last night. it felt like a win to me. On the down side - we’ve seen this before last season. The West Ham game, the Leicester game, Sheff Utd in the cup. When we aren’t under pressure we can play well in games like last nights. When we are expected to win that’s were the problems have started in the past. Last night’s game was really great but will Eustace be able to reproduce that form in the future ? The run of fixtures since he came in have been horrendous, leading to a ridiculous amount of injuries. It looks like we picked up at least one more last night. So if Gally goes missing again that means we’ll be without Tronstad, Hedges, JRC, Carter, Fleck. Six guys either first choice players or certainties for the bench. What serious coaching he’s been able to do must be minimal, that’s probably why he’s concentrated on the basics.

He’s a class act but he looked ordinary last night.

Did you ever see him play ? He was one of those unfortunate souls in the 1960’s that went bald in their twenties.

He gave us nothing all night.

Especially centre halves.

I don’t remember Lochead playing but maybe he had hair then.

Then you look at the bench. Have we got any game changers at all ?

He had to be in there somewhere.

Mm, I was pretty sure Ronnie Clayton played at right half but it is 60 odd years ago. I don’t recall any player being subbed either. I was only 13 then but I had the impression they all took it pretty seriously. Dougie and Connelly certainly did.

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Yes, thinking about it he was down in the programme. Who was down as the No 10 for Burnley in the programme ?

Cheeseborough was at Leicester then. He was the only un-capped player in the England representative team and in that company he looked out of place. Maybe he got called up at short notice.

No. Gordon Harris was at No 11. I can’t for the life of me remember who was at No 10, maybe Arthur Bellamy or Ian Towers, but it was the full Burnley first team minus Jimmy Mac and Alex Elder who were playing for N. Ireland that night. The England representative team had about half a dozen England regulars in it. I used to have that programme. I was walking home from school and I saw the game advertised outside the “ Ellen Smith “ coach company ticket office. So it was a dash home for tea and then back for the coach over the tops. It was a cracking game, end to end stuff, dozens of shots on goal. I can still see the Lofthouse goal in my minds eye. He chased a long bouncing ball down towards the corner flag. He caught up with it a couple of yards from the side line and about five yards in from the goal line. As it bounced up he caught it on the volley and it went past Blacklaw like a rocket. Like threading a needle.

Inevitable. We aren’t producing the players with the ” Right Stuff “ at the moment.

That’s what is going to hurt us. We have several players who are regularly injured/ never really 100 match fit.

Two Sheff Utd players were involved in an on field skirmish yesterday. Shades of Batty versus LeSaux. One of them, the Brazilian Vinicius Souza, had calmed down enough to swap shirts at half time with a fellow Brazilian, Joan Gomes, who was playing for Wolves ! What goes on in these players heads ? He’d never kick another ball for me if I was the manager.

He’s had=p more bad games than good games in my opinion.

Connelly was vieing for the right wing slot in the England team that Bryan Douglas held at the time so there was a bit of friction there. Finney was still a terrific player, he retired way too soon. After about 60 minutes all the the England forwards had scored a goal but for Cheeseborough so the other forwards tried to set him up. He must have missed about half a dozen easy chances and he still ended up without a goal. As you can imagine there was a lot of goalmouth action and MacDonald pulled off several brilliant saves, I was left wondering why he had retired. You could see he had been top class in his day. It’s amazing what you can remember after 60 years.

He would have taller in his prime. I’m about 2” shorter now than I was in my playing days. Wear and tear on your discs etc. I take your point though, goalies now are taller. I went to his benefit game back in the early sixties. Burnley v An England 11. Burnley Blacklaw Angus Joyce Adamson, Cummings, Miller Connelly , Robson, Pointer, ? , Harris. Elder and McIlroy were playing. For N Ireland. England 11 Macdonald Armfield, Wilson Clayton, Swan, Flowers Douglas, Hunt, Lofthouse, Cheeseborough, Finney England won 6-5. Lofthouse scored with a Shearesque rocket and Douglas and Connelly both got booked after a scuffle. Finney had just retired but he was still brilliant as was Macdonald in spite of the score line.

We’re all rooting for VK on here.

He got blown out at City, then Crewe. He was in the Last Chance saloon when Carlisle took a gamble on him and it worked out great for them. Then QPR took him back to the first division. A bit like our own Matt Jansen in style for those who never saw him play.

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