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Michael Keane: ’Sean’s training has been brilliant — the fitness levels, the standards have really improved… Dyche “brings people together” and “keeps everyone involved in the team”. His experience under Lampard was different…What did Lampard tell him? “Frank was a good person, but he didn’t really speak to me. When I asked what I could do to get a chance, he said, ‘there’s nothing really.’ He said, ‘at your age, I’m not going to tell you what to improve, what you should work on. You just need to keep going and see what happens.’ Frank was a really good person. But unfortunately it didn’t work out — and on a personal level it was probably what I needed to get back in the team.”

… has done a cracking job considering these players (and that farce in January)?

Only caveat being we’ve often looked like the wheels are about to come off and we’ve suddenly turned it round, unlike TM death cycles. So you never know.

Erm, J*B is no randomer in those parts, he’d be starring in/producing The Only Way is Whalley with Bezza et al.

Sparks does…

If you say so.

sympatheticclaret on a Rovers forum literally *minutes* after getting promoted.

Bitter? Au contraire, been there done that. When I lived at Pleckgate, Alan Irvine lived down my road. 💅 (Players actually living in Blackburn, fancy that.)

Strangers? Not in the RV!

And is Swag finally nearing this fabled retirement?

I know, usually arm in arm with Swag whenever I’ve been in corporate.

Take it Paul Mani is just out of shot?

‘Kin ell, looks grim in there.

This sounds much more like Ribble Valley life than Blackburn life. Doubt you’d run into all these folk down Mill Hill. 😁

Haven’t you said yourself that a lot of this stuff you hear ends up being not true?

A teenager who looks like he loves getting involved in the rough side of the game walking out of training with senior pros if he gets touched? Hmmm…

He deserves it because he was formally a player. “When this came up it was a big opportunity for myself and it is an opportunity that I think I have worked for, because I played as a professional for 20 years or so, I worked and I learnt the game,” Lampard said.

Watched it on a ‘dodgy Norwegian’ channel in The Sportsman’s at Four Lane Ends (RIP). Absolutely packed it was, real novelty to watch a 3pm away game on TV in those pre firestick days!

He just needed a run of games!

From Burnley away we’ve been on 19 times, including red button, in 25 games (that’s up to Luton, so could be 20 in 26 if Millwall picked).

They don’t, apart from the last few weeks there’s hardly been a ticket offer all season (and we have some of the most expensive STs in the league).

And how many times Luton/Millwall/Coventry, I.e fellow non parachute clubs that have been around the top 6 for months, but no real automatic hopes.

So now confirmed, we will finish the season having had just *one* Saturday 3pm league match post Huddersfield on the 5th November (1 game in 13). Extraordinary stuff for a club that has been looking at a play off place at best.

Why on earth would the likes of Leicester and West Ham want Lamps with his track record?

Some people will pay £30-£35, but with only 2k away fans you have to sell 9,000/10,000 walk ons to even hit 20k. Ain’t happening for a Sky midweek game at that price.