Plus someone claiming there friend has seen him check into Stanley House, or something. Reminds me of that photo of him having a coffee with Danny Graham on deadline day in the summer doing the rounds and sending everyone into a frenzy.

See if Boro play him today, would be the usual sort of game they would give him a run out in.

Rothwell will be fuming.

Didn't Mowbray say recently that we might be looking to sign a young player in this window and send him out on loan straight away? If we do sign Chapman, and I don't think we will. Mowbray won't play him at the moment.

I predict he'll go on loan somewhere.

Good shout. Thought he might have been even better than Duff after that one game So very wrong. I think David Dunn against Burnley deserves a shout in 2013. For the first time in probably forever he played the full 96 minutes or whatever it was and was absolutely everywhere that day before popping up with that goal.

Don't think anyone has anything against him, but the question has to be asked why? Can't imagine he will ever make a championship full back for a team that wants to compete at the top end of the table from what I have seen.

Think you are right actually. Cisse did his leg in 04-05, I remember going to Anfield the year after where our classy fans were singing "Cisse, Cisse, hows your leg?" all way through. He then scored the winner in front of the away fans and danced, to show us that his leg was indeed fine. This somehow seemed to upset our fans for some reason

Remember Neill did Carraghers leg, was Mceveley still around for the Cisse one?

Wasn't boxing day, as i remember going to it on the train. Think it was early December, but yeah we just looked a complete mess. Think Sutton played centre half and Bohinen has to be subbed because he was colour blind and couldn't see the orange ball against the white snow or something!

So difficult, and my answers would probably change on any given day, but today i'll go for... 1 - Liverpool 2 Rovers 1 - 1995 2 - Rovers 1 Newcastle 0 - 1995 3 - Rovers 4 Derby 2 - 1992 4 - Rovers 5 Burnley 0 - 2001 5 - Rovers 2 Spurs 1 (League Cup Final) - 2002 Worst... Coventry 5 Rovers 0 - 1995 Rovers 0 Trelleborg 1 - 1994 Rovers 1 Burnley 2 - 2014 Swansea 3 Rovers 0 - 2012 Rovers 0 Milwall 1 - 2013

So, so many to choose from. Some of my personal faves from the 90's... David Speedie vs Newcastle 91-92 - wound the Geordies up a treat and scored a hat trick to boot Alan Shearer vs Man Utd 93-94 - complete centre forward display, only 1500 or so Mancs there that day in the upper tier of the Darwen End slowly disappearing in the last few minutes. Genuinely thought we were going to win it that season. Tim Flowers vs Newcastle 94-95 - Still not sure how we managed to hang onto this win. Lars Bohinen vs Nottingham Forest 95-96 - Masterclass against his old club who had just gone 26 or so games unbeaten, two goals too and he just genuinely took the mickey out of them the whole game. Thought we had a hell of a player on our hands.

I've seen a few mention on here before, but ParsonBlue, do you honestly think Waggott understands the Rovers fanbase and Blackburn as a town? Because I see no evidence at all that he does.

I don't like the thought of accommodating Mulgrew at left back or midfield, it smacks of hypocrisy of what a lot on here say about Mowbray playing square pegs in round holes. For me, it's two out of the three at centre half with Lenihan, Mulgrew & Rodwell. Whoever gets the shirt and plays well keeps it. I'm a big Mulgrew fan, but he needs to wait for an injury or a drop in form now to get his place back.

I think that is absolutely correct to be honest. Rothwell started the season really well, had a good cameo against Millwall, then played really well in the home games against Reading and Brentford. I think those games are still fresh in peoples minds. When he's started since he hasn't really done a great deal, I too thought he was poor against Sheffield Utd. Although you could argue it's difficult for him to impact games when he starts once in a blue moon. How do players like Rothwell, Downing etc keep there match fitness up when they never play for the first team, can't play for the U23's and have no reserve games to fall back on? Seems very strange to me.

No. First halves have been pretty dull at Ewood all season, I just can't understand people who seem to think Mowbrays teams start on the front foot, it couldn't be further from the truth. Theres only been three Rovers league goals scored all season in the first half at Ewood, with only one from open play. Nine of our thirteen home league games so far have been 0-0 at half time. I think 0-0 is a good bet for the full time score tomorrow, lots of huff and puff, a few golden chances missed, before we run out of steam on 70ish mins and invite some pressure on ourselves, a couple of good saves from Raya will secure us a point.

What's the betting we're back to Smallwood/Evans in midfield on Saturday? https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/january/positive-signs-on-the-injury-front/

If Bennett is fit he plays.

Hmmm, a bold claim to make though isn't it? How can they possibly tell how many people would fancy going or not? All over twitter Newcastle fans were doing a #boycottblackburn thing over Ashley, and still 33000 home fans turned up. I reckon at least double the 1500 "expected" could turn up for the replay.

I imagine every manager in the football league would go out and say they try to win every game. To be fair I never said he "plays for draws" just that he seems to like them. If it was the choice of winning two and losing two or four draws, I think he would take the latter. He certainly starts games in a cautious manner, and plays it safe, why else would Smallwood & Evans start every game? Especially at home? Just look at our first half stats, we have only scored 3 first half goals at Ewood all season. This all sounds very negative on Mowbray but it isn't really intended like that, I think he's done a great job so far, my only real gripe with him is to be a bit braver.

Don't think it is actually. In the summer thread we seemed to average one signing per 100 pages, so keep going everyone and we might get someone in.

Mowbray loves a draw, and I'm convinced that if somebody offered Mowbray the chance to go through the whole league season and get nothing but draws he would take it. 2-2 here I think.

I think the last time we had a regular away following in terms of numbers and volume like we have at the moment was around the 1st division promotion season under Souness and the couple of seasons after. It then seemed to fall off a cliff after the first few games of 03/04.

That's pretty much where I am with my 8 year old lad, I took him to the first game and made a weekend of it. He absolutely loved it and has already asked if we can go the replay. Despite it being good prices, I'll probably finish work at around 5ish that day, and live around an hour on a good run away from Ewood. If it goes to extra time and penalties it could well be midnight before we get home. So do I go on my own and be a "proper fan" or do I get a takeaway and some snacks in and watch it on TV with my lad where he can potentially be in bed by 930 instead? (Even that is pushing it he's usually fast asleep by 8/830 in the week!) I think I know which side I'm leaning towards.

Newcastle will surely bring more than 1500 at a tenner a pop?