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It all depends on when the ball was played. The Chelsea lad was really motoring onto that ball. I’d be gutted if that was a Rovers goal disallowed.

Who else at a decent level would sign either of those two . Shrewsbury is about it for either of them.

How long has being level been off-side ? Having said that I’m glad there wasn’t extra time, I’ve got a fence that needs another coat of creosote.

Yes, you’re correct, he was a right winger den. He came down from the North East at roughly the same time as David Holt, Dick Mulvaney and Billy Wilson.

A bit of rain should help your passing game. That’s why clubs have the sprinklers on before the game and at half time.

Exactly, get rid of Johnson and Bennett and bring in an experienced midfielder that’s still got a few years left in the tank.

Sorry, the 50’s is before my time and I’ve never seen his name mentioned in any stuff from the 60’s. That doesn’t mean he didn’t play. For example 29 players played for that reserve team in the photo in that season.

David Holt was a centre half who came up through the ranks. He played 5 first team games towards the end of the 1965-66 relegation season and 5 more at the beginning of the following season. I think he came from the North East and I think he packed the game in as a young player to get a proper job. Martin Hall was a reserve right back who never made it into the first team. Could line up like this - Jones. Hall, Mulvaney, Holt, Wilson. Horrey, McGrath, Rogers. Blore, Anderson, Jones

Back row - Reg Blore, Dick Mulvaney, George Jones, Ben Anderson, David Holt, Roland Horrey. Front row - Mick McGrath, Martin Hall, Mr A. Duckett, Bob Jones, Billy Wilson, Eamon Rogers. I knew who the players were but I had to look up who the director in the suit was.

Ronnie and Bryan were on the way down by then and big Fred had left a couple of years ago.

Exactly, if somebody would have come on here back in the day saying he’d heard Roy Keane was down at the club and he was signing after the weekend their information would have been good. It just didn’t work out that way.

This was the season to have a real go at promotion and Mowbray blew it.

Strange decision. Hilly seems the sort of bloke who attracts controversy.

I saw a bit of Portsmouth’s pitch today on the news . Unbelievably good. It looked like it was the opening game of the season.

Yeah, they made the glass too big.

This is Wayne Rooney this morning in my paper - “ I’ve had plans for playing in the Championship next season as well as in League One. I’ve got a lot of work done. My pre-season is done, my pre-season fixtures are done. Everything is done “.

I’d rather take a chance on an up and coming younger player from lower down the league to be honest. Some work out and some don’t but Johnson is on the downhill slide now.

Deep joy.

It’s an F off from me.

Funny how Kipre never got a game.

Yes, it’s like the old saying - “ You owe the bank £10,000, you have a problem. You owe the bank £10,000,000, the bank has a problem”.

Talking about individual players in isolation is a pointless exercise unless we’ve decided on a coherent way of playing. Then we can decide what we need to sign in the way of players to fulfil the plan. I don’t think Mowbray works that way though. He just collects players first and then just shoehorns them into some in-effective system.

I was just looking through some old “Last Sports “cuttings. Anybody remember the little cartoon character Sam in the “ Sam Says “ strip that was always in the “ Last Sports “ ? He was a typical old Lancastrian chap with a soup strainer moustache and a flat cap with a big Rovers rosette on his chest. He always had a pithy remark in broad Blackburnian for right after the game. One or two - After we’d beat Sheffield Wednesday easily 3-0 -“ Yon owls played like they’d bin up all neet”. After a great 5-5 draw with Arsenal - “ Ah’ve had to check in’t Sports to believe Ah’ve sin such a crackin’ game. After thrashing Leeds 4-0 in the League Cup - “ I towd tha last weeks win weren’t a fluke “ After a dull 1-1 home draw with bottom club Leyton Orient - “ Trust t’rovers to mek a hash of easy meat “.

I think if Rhodes had have been on the end of all the chances Armstrong has had this season he would have had about 40 odd goals to his credit. The down side is he wouldn’t have got to some of the chances in the first place.

Yes I agree with that. My point about some Prem clubs allegedly wanting Armstrong and yet never wanting Rhodes lends a bit of weight to my argument though.