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That's what I think when I hear people telling me the players of today are miles better, fitter etc, than the old timers. Maybe, but who would you rather watch ? 5 minutes of Bryan Douglas was worth a whole 90 minutes of most of what's on display today, Bradley Dack excepted. It's all about goal mouth incidents and excitement. The early sixties team I grew up on would have you dizzy with excitement.

Leon bloody Best, he should be in all time worst 11. Mick McGrath was twice the player that either of McAteer or Andrews was. Central midfield should be Rogers and McGrath. Have you never heard of Andy McEvoy ? Up there with Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law in the goal scoring charts back in the day. A real top striker, him and Stapleton would be my front two

Thanks for that. As you say chances are there will be clubs that won't survive. On a similar musical theme can I recommend Joe Tex - " Hold On To What You've Got ".

It might be a problem if there was anything else to do but there isn't going to be.

" There but for the grace if God ".

Wasn't Mark Twain killed off in the same way - " The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated " or words to that effect. Good news if it's true.

No, I was in the machine tool game, building lathes, milling machines etc. I'd been loaned out for 3 months whilst the real weaving shed fitter was off sick. You should be able to give us chapter and verse on looms if you built them.

Oh dear I was hoping nobody would ask me that. The last time I had to deal with these was in 1970 for three months. Most of my time then was spent removing and replacing broken loom crank shafts and not actually working on running machines. Here I go making a fool of myself. The diagrams you are looking at are an actual cross section of the weaving process. As I remember it the " Sley ", carrying the " Reed ", rocks back and forth off a lower pivot tightening up the cloth as it goes. The Reed itself is a frame carrying lots of vertical wires, the threads ( warp ? ) goes between the wires. The " Healds" shoot up and down in conjunction with the sley allowing the shuttle carrying the weft to weave the cloth. I'll ask my mum next time we speak for the real info. She ran a dozen " Northrop " Automatic Battery looms which were actually made in Blackburn, I believe the late Fred Pickering started out as an apprentice at " Northrop's ". I can't be the only one on here who's seen a loom working surely. Blackburn was a textile town with lots of weaving sheds back in the day.

In the article it refers to " Harry Oates & Sons " being the makers of " Reeds & Healds ". I worked in a weaving shed during my engineering apprenticeship for about 3 months repairing looms so those are some of the terms I recall from long ago.

They are parts of a loom to be slightly more precise. My mum was a weaver and my extended family were mill workers back in Blackburn when it was a textile town. My uncle was a drayman at Twaites.

The article mentions a maker of " Healds and Reeds ". How many people on here know what they are ? 60 years ago nearly everybody would have known.

I agree with you wholeheartedly but I suspect a decision will have to be made in the future to sacrifice elements of the populations to ensure the survival of the current economic system. I hope I'm wrong.

No, keep the Fosters for wiping down infected surfaces, that rat piss will kill anything.

Will they be reinstating the " Pools Panel " ?

1961-62 season we played 9 games between April 7th and April 28th ! 7th,10th,14th,17th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, 26th, 28th. The next season , 1962-63 - the " Big Freeze " season we played 8 games in April and 4 in May. I'm looking on the bright side. At least the players can't spoil our weekend !

Yes and according to what I've read the Italian Health Service had more Urgent Care beds than the NHS.

If we aren't careful we'll find ourselves in a situation were doctors will have to be choosing who will live and who will die. " Put the over 70's outside, they've had a good run ".

I was intending to go but now I've chickened out. I'm a bit " chesty " at the best of times courtesy of breathing in all sorts of dust and crap in my engineering career so getting the virus would be really bad news for me.

I'm 71 on Saturday ( PM me if you want to send me gifts, cards, money etc ) and I get the impression that there are plenty of other people around my age on this site. I would have thought there are plenty at Ewood on match days as well. We don't want to lose any of our long time supporters so let's be sensible about this matter.

He'd have to learn there's more to heading the ball than just getting your head to it first.

If he'd been an academy graduate he be at Barrow with the other lads.

I've only seen him in the flesh once but I liked his demeanor. He wasn't a showy goalkeeper but he looked wide awake and agile. I wouldn't be jumping up and down if we signed him but I wouldn't be worried either.

As most people realise the average goalkeeper can normally have a longer career than the average out field player. I thought that was obvious.

We've got a decent season out of Downing but next season he could be over the hill and down the other side just like Mulgrew was this season. When you hit the wall it can come up really suddenly. Speaking from personal experience. In April/May I was going great, the following August/September I was seriously off the pace.

Signing players that age is a big gamble. There are more failures than success stories usually.