I’m not really a Smith’s fan, I’m a Johnny Marr fan though.

Dave berry - This Strange Effect.

Solomon Burke - Cry To Me

Hi Matey, I went to the game on the 13th of Oct 1970. Rovers played more or less a reserve side and lost 2-0. I used to have the programme but I gave it to my son a few years ago and he subsequently sold it to a Rovers collector on the internet. If I recall correctly it was just a single sheet of paper with the teams printed on it.

Nino Tempo And April Stevens - Whispering

The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine

Tommy Tucker - Hi-Heel Sneakers

The Drifters - Sweets For My Sweet

Ike And Tina Turner - It’s Gonna Work Out Fine

Given nearly every other team we will come up against will have more “ physicality “ than us it looks like we’re in for a rough time. Any team with less physicality is in real trouble.

It’s Venkie Rovers for me at the moment. The Blackburn Rovers I grew up supporting left the stadium years ago

They’ve hollowed the club out into next to nothingness. It’s now a husk of the club I grew up supporting.

Ruby And The Romantics - Our Day Will Come

Tommy Edwards - It’s All In The Game

Of course, you’ve got to fight for the right to play your football first and foremost.

I’ve said that all along. To football your way out of this league you need the likes of Duff, Dunn, Jansen, etc etc. Trying it with lesser players will only get you where Rovers are today.

My grandson went today on his own for the first time - his view - “ It was alright but very cold, and toxic at full time. The boos were ringing out anyway “.

Ooijer had a rough start but turned into a class act. Then he very unluckily broke his leg.

Players feeling sorry for them selves ? Not a good sign.

It’s just the same as in any other walk of life. If the top management are disinterested or detached from what’s going on at the coalface gradually the malaise spreads throughout the workforce. That applies to whatever organisation you care to name. Zombie mananagement leads to zombie players and a zombie club.

I just got back from holiday at 3.00 pm today but my son watched it. His comments - “ That was gross, something needs to change “.

America - A Horse With No Name

Prince La La - She Put The Hurt On Me

And their keeper watched that all the way !

Those went out of fashion up here over a year ago. All I’ve seen recently are the big blue canisters, as big as a fire extinguisher ! One one weekend I picked up a dozen of them !.