I dont think so…I have another crate in the garage though…so watch this space ! There are over 40 highlights videos from 92/93 on the YouTube channel though…

Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel...loads on there already...many more to come... https://www.youtube.com/c/BRFCSdotcom/videos

Don't hold your breath...

This is worth a listen @Miller11

Obviously not, but FWIW here's the source from the link in my original post... https://capology.com/club/blackburn/salaries/

Back once again to 1989/90 & Don Mackay's men toy with the Tykes at Ewood...

On the point of “overachievement”…there is a strong correlation between wage bill and league position…I’ll let the statisticians argue causation. https://sqaf.club/how-much-do-championship-players-earn/ Anything higher than 17th therefore could be argued as overachievement.

Is that another of his home movies ? https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/paul-jewell-backed-in-sex-video-725083

Gargling at this point but we can but hope she takes the stage quite soon…

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/they-played-for-both-rovers-and-the-royals/102

https://www.planetsport.com/soccer/news/how-many-days-since-every-top-flight-club-last-won-a-major-trophy/?bc-1

The owners should lay down the parameters within which the club should operate (& that they are willing to fund); then clearly *should* also appoint the right people to execute their chosen strategy.

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/final-whistle-lament/199

Backs up my opinion of JPVH, who seems to have taken the Fulham game as a cathartic experience resulting in a transformation into a proper footballing defender.

It’s one of my go to quiz questions with Rovers fans…which players were correctly named on this photo ? 😉

My first Rovers glory…thanks to Gordon Lee…

If they were hand it over to the fans; what price would you charge for a season ticket & how many would you expect to sell at that price ?

I reckon there may well be a market for a “magazine” - 4000 Holes & Turnstiles testify to that (see also The Blizzard for general football writing); the issue is the content. Match day programmes obviously can’t compete with the interweb world in terms of topicality so a magazine worth reading needs to contain sufficient “timeless” pieces with perhaps a modicum of reference content e.g. fixtures, appearances, stats, PSAs etc in order to make it a worthwhile purchase. The reason that 4KH & Turnstiles can be published successfully is that the contributors aren’t paid & the editing/production is done as a labour of love. I dare say if the issues were charged to cover commercial rates of all those involved the cover price would be hefty. I’d consider buying a quarterly if the content was more akin to the long reads in The Blizzard/The Athletic.

@tonyoz A defender heading a goal bound shot off the line…is the maximum score for this 4 ? Similarly say…keeper saving a penalty ?

A data geek…😉

I would be surprised if there isn’t at least a basic rolling budget for planning purposes, with versions predicated on promotion & non-promotion.

We need to revisit this at season’s end in some detail 😀

@tonyozdo you keep a master spreadsheet of the scores for all players for all matches by any chance ? 🤔

QPR Preview for @LoftForWords Full article including YouTube clips etc here for reference https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/57143 Well, look at us, hey, look at us. Who would have thought it? Not many of us, let’s be honest here. The loss of out of contract players, the return of loanees to parent and the sale of Adam Armstrong in the summer of 2021 served notice that the upcoming 2021/22 campaign was going to be a season of concern, consolidation and perhaps contemplation. *checks league tables* crikey..! How has this happened? How much is accident versus how much is design is hard to say, but what is clear is the following:- Possession on its own butters no parsnips If you play a formation that exploits your team’s inherent strengths, this is generally a good thing Transforming one of your forwards into a world-conquering super-hero is a handy trick to pull off How’s Tony turned it around? He seemed on his last legs last time we spoke? Yeah, about that; Mowbray has just celebrated five years in charge and is showing all the resilience and indefatigability of Status Quo. The obituaries are written repeatedly but the farewell tours continue apace and the audiences keep turning up; “Again And Again” you might say. (Nobody will get this reference - Ed). I’ve written him off now more times than sub-prime mortgage portfolios in the US in 2009. (Again, nobody will get this reference - Ed). He has re-fashioned the side to exploit pace and trickery of Khadra and Dolan together with the strength and newly-found cunning of BBD and it has worked. Tony Mowbray…more comebacks than Sinatra (I give up - Ed). I’ve got to ask about the first game. Blackburn came for a 0-0, showed zero ambition, lost, and afterwards TM seemed incredulous that you’d try and do anything else. Then an explosion of form. Did he change? Was that some sort of turning point? I think about that game a lot, you would never have guessed what was coming next for Rovers on that evidence. See answers above - bluntly, no. The alchemistic impact of *that* Fulham result seems to have transformed the side - at least for a dozen games - into a strong, brave, attacking unit capable of scything apart any opponent not doing sufficient pre-match homework on Rovers’ capabilities. Again, not sure how much is down to fate or design, but Mowbray appeared to take the Fulham defeat quite phlegmatically and superficially at least appeared to be supremely relaxed. Whether that was because he was expecting a response from the squad, or he was expecting a P45 from the board is a moot point, but whatever he did, it clearly worked. Confidence breeds confidence and momentum was now with us…extraordinarily. What January business did you do? What did you need to do? A reasonable amount but with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight, almost certainly not enough. Dilan Markanday joined from Spurs, amidst a fanfare from disgruntled Spurs fans, unhappy that a bright prospect had been allowed to depart. The excitement at Ewood soon dissipated however, as Markanday suffered what seems likely to be a season-ending injury during his debut. Ryan Hedges, a soon-to-be out of contract Welsh international based in Scotland joined from Aberdeen, presumably to fill one of the “wide midfielder cum striker” roles that Mowbray seems to adore. We also added loan signings. The talented and admired Ryan Giles further added to our “Ryan” quotient (Nyambe, Hedges) joining on loan from Wolves and Deyo Zeefuik (yes, commentators just LOVE that surname) arrived from Hertha Berlin, then got injured. Many hoped for a striker to bolster the ranks to reduce the over-reliance on BBD but as long as Ben doesn’t pick up an injury that were to keep him out for 7/8 games, then we’ll be fine. (*checks Twitter notifications* “Ah feck…”). POTY candidates other than the next president of Chile? Stand out candidates would probably come from the defence. The skipper, Darragh Lenihan (out of contract in the summer) has led from the front; Ryan Nyambe (out of contract in the summer) has had another solid season; Jan Paul van Hecke (on loan until the summer) has impressed for his whole-hearted endeavour & taekwando schtick (see the highlights from *that* Fulham game); plus Joe Rothwell in midfield (out of contract in the summer) has also had some sublime moments. I’ve not been able to put my finger on what these guys have in common, but they all deserve plaudits for their ample efforts so far this season. John Buckley also has stepped up a level this season despite not being imminently out of contract. Ben could miss the remainder of the season now and still be POTY though. Technically, he too is out of contract in the summer but apparently we do have a further 12 month option which I suspect we will exercise…although knowing Rovers, it wouldn’t entirely surprise me if we somehow contrived to forget. Weak links in the team? The injuries are starting to accumulate and fatigue seems to be setting in which means players playing out of position and form is unsurprisingly, tailing off and becoming more brittle. It would be unfair to single out individuals in those circumstances, especially given the over-achievement so far. Not sure where the goals are coming from though between now and mid-April. Recent form - bit of a wobble or more serious? (We’re asking ourselves the same question) It is right on the cusp of moving from a concern to a crisis. I’m always reminded of the definition of a crisis as used at Ipswich Town in the heady days of the Cobbold ownership and Robson management as being “when the boardroom runs out of chilled white wine…”. Neither do I believe are we yet into “Blackadder” levels of crisis…it doesn’t have 12 storeys, nor “a magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24-hour porterage…” etc. But, Marks & Spencer presently has an offer on men’s underpants and WH Smith’s at the station has had a run on pencils, so who knows ? So, are you going to do it? How do you see the season panning out from here? Until the recent BBD news I felt reasonably confident that Rovers could accumulate enough points to secure top six. The loss of our talisman striker is a body-blow. How it unfolds now depends upon whether we can design/stumble across another formation and complementary tactics to enable us to fashion some honest to goodness battling 1-0 wins (see, Middlesbrough at Ewood) sufficient to bring in another say, 24 points. That would need 8 wins from 14 remaining games or perhaps, 6 wins & 6 draws… With the December team in the form of December, I’d back us to get the 8 wins in the next 10 games, but the world has changed. If pushed, I think we will still be in the hunt with a couple of games to go but fear it won’t be entirely in our hands. The final home game of the season is against Bournemouth. Winning that to secure top six would be an astonishing achievement. I’m just off out now…I need to go to Marks & Spencer and WH Smith…again… @ianherbert www.brfcs.com

Rovers "entertain" Sunderland at Ewood in September 1989...