Yes you are correct, I didnt include Duff as he was already a first team regular by the time this final came around. Think he made his debut on the final day of the previous campaign.

I wouldn't be expecting all these lads to suddenly burst through in the next couple of years. Our last squad to get to the final in 2012, only Lenihan really came through to play for the first team, although Jack O'Connell has made a decent career for himself too and currently plays in the top flight. The Youth Cup final squad of 97-98 only had Martin Taylor and David Dunn come through I think. I went to the game at Ewood and think there was around 10k on. How many would attend a final these days? Not sure you would get a third of that to be honest. If we could get three quality first team players from that bunch it would be superb.

Out on Netflix March 20th.

Amazing the lengths they have gone too to make sure fans don't attend either game.

So just to be clear, you are saying finishing 7th is a failure then? I personally don't see it as that black and white as that. Play offs is great progress (success if we win them), finishing where we are now, a few points off the play offs is acceptable progress ready for another go next year. As for that final line, why would I want us to fail? A club I have invested so much time and money in, and that has been a huge part of my life for over 30 years? I think it was mattyblue who posted earlier but this weird thing where people are asking questions of other supporters about "agendas" and accusing/asking questions of wanting us to fail really needs to stop.

So if your going off this, if we finish 7th and 2 points off the play offs, I presume the season is a failure?

Getting into the play offs would be progress, winning them would be success. Losing play off semi finalists/finalists don't count that season as a successful one.

Yes exactly, think it was Bradford though as I remember looking at the fixtures thinking that could be a really good gate as it was a bank holiday and they were the only side in the division that could have potentially shifted a good few thousand away tickets.

Bit of a blow that the Leeds game has moved to the Friday, I always knew it would move but thought it would probably be to the Saturday/Sunday lunchtime. I expect the WBA game to be on Sky as well, but noticed that Sky already have a premier league game on the Monday night at 8pm, so I can't see them moving to that time as they would obviously clash. So Probably 12:30 or 5:30, or with it being on a Monday it could stay at 3pm and be shown live like our game with Newcastle was on the January bank holiday in 2017. The absolute kick in the balls would be if they decided to move it to the Tuesday night for TV coverage, which they could very well do.

Sky have now got this on there listings as being shown on the red button.

Imagine if we somehow get to the play off final. The final falls on May 25th, so at some point after that, Mowbray will have to go to India for a week to discuss budgets, following that he usually has a 2 week family holiday, and then the Euro's will be starting which will also be used as an excuse for "slow business". Don't expect any signings until the players are deep into pre season training, and even then they no doubt will have to learn our complicated way of playing.

Matt Le Tissier is probably my favourite ever "non Rovers player". A real talent and a bit of a maverick, I think his goal at Ewood in 94 is the only goal I have given (a very quiet and begrudging) little clap too. Does he go in a premier league hall of fame over Roy Keane though? I don't think it's even close.

Because it's not a "scheduled" midweek game, the home club has the option whether to show it on ifollow/red button or not. I suspect they won't.

Not quite as simple as that. What about Preston? They would have to lose as well, and are at home to QPR.

The spin of giving Mowbray credit for Lenihan, Nyambe and Raya is superb. Like Yardley with his spin after the game yesterday, "this team never gives up". Someone needs to tell him we have picked up 5 points from losing positions this season.

We won't be, pretty much guarantee that.

Unfortunately it's because in the press Gigg's brother is classed as a "nobody" so it's quickly swept under the carpet. Completely different story when your doing it to your international teammate. Anyway, even taking all bias out of it, Shearer has to be the first inductee into this, and you probably can't argue with Giggs as number two.

Yes of course. Results like this happen, hell we beat Newcastle twice the year we got relegated to league one and they won promotion easily. It wasn't necessarily the Stoke game that bothered me, I think it's the overriding frustration that we have played all the bottom 7 at home, and only won 2 of them.

Do WBA not deserve to be top then?!

It concerns me that we might have a right hand side of Bennett & Gallagher on Saturday.

Yeah I think the above is fair. If we're still 2/3 points off before we play Leeds on the 4th April then of course it's all to play for in the last 6 games. Anymore than that and it will be too much I think.

Surely you have been watching Mowbray long enough to know the answer to that? I'd rather we go with that Carter lad who has been on the bench, sometimes you have to go throw these lads in at the deep end. I just think this is the way Mowbray will go, unless he rushes Williams back which he did kind of hint at in his post match interview.

Bennett at right back and Nyambe centre half is what I think he'll do.

Gallagher at right wing is becoming the new Bennett at right back. Why we insist on having one rediculous out of position player in the side is beyond me.

Pretty poor that is, and confirms what I have always thought about a Mowbray side, go a goal down and you might as well go home.