I see Kane has just gone to Coventry Todd Kane that is.

Would that not be a "tactical" injury to make sure he doesn't pick up a knock before a sale?

It’s a Saturday 3pm kick-off so won’t be on RoversTV in the UK.

I enjoyed their early work too but have listened to little since Peter Gabriel left but plenty of his subsequent stuff.

It certainly is no age Gav, given I’m 68! I have just got round to playing her Other Voices, Other Rooms again in her memory - Speed of the Sound of Loneliness the outstanding track amongst many. I’m sure I’ve seen her live a few times but the one that sticks out was at the Floral Hall in Southport (it might have been the Southport Theatre by then but it will always be the Floral Hall to me). Which then got me thinking about the other memorable gig at the Floral Hall. I tracked it down to April 1971 - a triple bill of Genesis, Lindisfarne and Van Der Graf Generator, the latter headlining.

I found myself at my son’s in East London yesterday so invested £20 in an excellent day out at Lords. A great atmosphere amongst fans of both teams and some cracking cricket even if it didn’t work out if you’re an England fan. The reality is that right now India have a stronger all round team than England do and probably still would even if we had our strongest team out. English conditions mean that the gap is a bit narrower than it would be elsewhere but it’s still there.

Both tickets for the Forest game and for coach travel seem to be readily available on the website.

Great to hear you're coming gumboots. I only hope the team can entertain you now!

I think we will have another chat about catering at the September FF, although we have been round these issues regularly for years. One of the issues with pre-pouring beers ready for the half time rush is that lots of fans want a freshly poured p[int rather than one that has been stood for 5-10 minutes (although I'm in the school that says it can't make much difference for the beer they serve). It would be great to get some more interesting beers on. The problem with real ale is that it needs setting up in advance, you need people who know how to serve it and you need to be sure you can get rid of it all on the day as it won't keep. I guess there is no reason why they can't serve craft beers though. It's quite likely that there are also contractual issues with Sodexho as to what beers they can offer. Anyway, we will ask some questions again.

I think I would just get a 16-23 ticket online (also £5) and just explain why if anyone queries it at the turnstile.

There have been a few posts about issues at the game on Saturday on various threads and I have had a couple of emails to the Forum as well. I thought it best to post on this thread. People were asking for issues to be raised at the next Forum but that's not scheduled for another 5 weeks so I contacted the club yesterday about three things: - The inaudibility of the speakers in the Riverside Broken TV screens in the Riverside Problems at the concourse kiosks I have had a reply from the club as below: - I can confirm that all audio equipment has been serviced during the lockdown period, however, we are aware of certain speakers being unclear on Saturday. The engineers and PA system operators are currently discussing how these issues will be rectified ahead of the next match. You are correct that speakers are not able to be turned off for safety reasons. We did experience some staffing issues on the concourse. Hospitality staff are in short supply across the country due to Covid and this gave us cause for concern ahead of the start of this season. We did manage to pull together sufficient staff, however, due to last minute notice of isolations, this did impact the service on the day. Sodexo are confident the issues will be rectified ahead of the next match. The electricians were pulled away for urgent repairs whilst setting up TV’s, however, we are confident that these were switched on in good time. One TV did fail in the Riverside Stand despite pre-match checks and this will be replaced in due course.

????? I think one of the comments at a meeting was to maybe reverse the charge i.e knock £3 off the price if you buy in advance rather than adding it on before kick-off. Right now that would be a sensible move, although still in my view the prices would be too high.

I wouldn't be too sure about Morecambe resting many players. They have a new manager, had 6 new starters on Saturday and an excellent start to their first ever season in League 1 - they were a minute or two away from a real shock at Ipswich (in front of 21,000!). I wouldn't be surprised to see them be more or less full strength and I certainly wouldn't be taking them for granted. We have plenty of evidence of the effect of playing newly promoted sides at the beginning of a season.

The South American international breaks have been extended by two days to allow the teams to get 3 games in each to allow them to catch up from pandemic postponements. So if Sr Diaz gets selected and goes out to Chile he will miss the games at the end of the September and October breaks. That will be the home games against Luton and Coventry.

You can still come by yourself gumboots! It sounds like you're free.

It might not be amt consolation but North End had exactly the same problem with not having their plastic ST cards ready for the first game.

More likely trying to control the numbers in the shop for social distancing I would have thought.

It’s not the iFollow rules as such but EFL rules which the club is tied to, whether they take the iFollow stream as last season or do their own as this. The Carabao Cup is an EFL competition. The FA Cup may well-being different when we get to it.

Lies, damned lies and statistics. No doubt officially Diaz got the assist but anyone with half a brain surely knows that winning the ball in midfield and sending a wonderful pass straight to Diaz in the penalty area was the real assist.

I'm quite glad I didn't see JohnGo's post before it was removed, or I might have had a post removed as well.

Well that is what the Rovers press release said.

To be fair most other teams are equally affected. Jennings’ foot injury probably did for us today as much as anything. That and our failure to finish Middlesex’s innings off when we had them 7 down. Still it was an entertaining game on a lovely day with a decent crowd. It’s a good job there are some Preston lads in the team. Bailey and Hurt took 5 of the wickets and Danny Lamb took two wonderful catches and a run out and nearly finished off the run chase.

What I mean, and perhaps I didn't express it clearly enough, is that if the club could build an at least equivalent facility closer to Ewood Park and make some money, then I would be in favour. But, as I said, I can't see how this could be done.

The last couple of pages of this thread have been an object lesson in how some random speculation can run away with itself on the internet. I didn't know Mushy personally before he joined the Forum last October along with two others but I was aware of his name. As ES says he has been a Rovers supporter for a long time. His appointment, like every one that has been made whilst I have been Secretary, had nothing to do with the club. He has contributed a number of times to discussions since joining and made his comment about considering a move into Blackburn with Darwen should the training ground move I think at the March meeting and re-iterated it in May. One of the reasons for his suggestion was that a training centre within Blackburn would be much better for community use than Brockhall. For what its worth I would be in favour of such a move if it made financial sense and if a suitable site could be found. Right now I can't see how either of those conditions will be met.

I disagree Den. I think it's good to see pitches that are a good balance between bat and ball, rather than some of the pitches you see these days which are flat tracks combined with short boundaries. It then becomes just a matter of how many sixes each side can get away. Rizwan and Roy seemed to manage to get runs last night OK. Lancashire do seem to have depth in their squad right now. Despite 8 players off at The Hundred (9 if you count Finn Allen) they could still field a team with 8 regular starters for the friendly warm-up 50 over game with Cumberland yesterday