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Bloody hell, I'd forgotten how spicy that game was!

Interesting to read on that thread posters saying "if we sacked him who would we get who would be better"!! We get that everytime a manager is clearly failing. To those who wrote that then and to those who say that now please remember he did leave and we did get someone better!!

I'll bet Jan hasn't!

Well let's hope you are right and we don't have yet another player taking a wage but unavailable.

Sandlier from City an absolute certainty I'd have thought given his pedigree. Signed by City in 2018 and continually plagued by injury. Loaned to Anderlecht last season and managed 9 games. C'mn Mowbray--- give this lad sanctuary.

Sorry Gav--only just spotted this. My experience was exactly the same as Renrag's and I've spent the last 60-odd years trying to get over the disappointment of it. As a kid, I dreamed of going to Wembley to watch Rovers win the FA Cup just as my Dad had in 1928, a day he often talked about to me. Like Renrag we went by special train---full of enthusiasm and hope, packed with Rovers fans all feeling the same way. We returned like a defeated army, full of dejection, hope crushed. It was a cruel,cruel day, the worst of my life. In that heat we had no chance of surviving with 10 men which we were down to in the first 30 seconds, effectively anyway, with Dougan on one leg. Given that we also lost Whelan to a broken leg and McGrath scored an own goal that was one hell of a first half and I would happily have gone home there and then. I sat high up in the stand, just left of the centre line with Rovers fans packed behind the goals to my left. Had a perfect view of Dobing missing a sitter early on, the only chance I remember we had. Profound effects for the club, thousands who couldn't get a ticket never set foot in Ewood again. Then, as now, the Club was architect of its own disaster.

Mowbray's tenure in a nutshell.

Really interesting read that! So many posters who don't post anymore. Systematic of our decline. PS---Rover 6 was right!!

You were the lucky one!

You're imagining that as others have said! Therefore I'm optimistic about tomorrow but not the season.

Yorkshire and Twinings Assam Bold. Yum! Good to see a thread I can get excited about!

Since Blackpool won 3-0 let's hope they learned something!

No---entirely wrong here, other way round---Kean had a dog but denied it (for some reason only he knows!)

It was the big competition in Lancashire in the early 20th century according to my Grandad (long deceased). Valued above the FA Cup according to him. Certainly not reserve teams.

In fact, Mowbray's whole era has been a disgrace as far as Cup competitions are concerned. Doesn't matter who we play, I just take it for granted we'll be knocked out first round. Even in the "bad old days" of the 70's/80's we had the Cups to keep us going. Like much else that's now completely gone.

Big "if" though.

I was thinking yesterday how £15m bought Shearer in 1996 and buys Armstrong now!! That's some inflation! Mind you his value went from £3M to £15M in 4 years!

Maybe but we agreed to get the price down.

If we cheat them that'll be the last signing we make with them though on these terms. It'll be full price next time.

Looks good on paper but Dack may never return to the form we saw early days here and as for Chapman----is he ever fit? Dack was just unlucky but we have developed a habit of gambling on players with terrible injury records----probably because they're cheap. And its bitten us on the arse.

And Nyambe and Rothwell and all the others whose contracts run out at the end of the season and can go for nothing? Isn't it unique to our club in terms of extent? Can you name any other club so cursed? Have you ever wondered why?

which is now all we ever do....

God---we collect them! Its like a nursing home. Go to Ewood, see the physio, join your mates in the lounge, blanket round your legs and watch tele.

My wife always referred to him as Tummy Lawrence!

Brentford want Rothwell, presumably for free. https://www.footballinsider247.com/brentford-set-sights-on-signing-blackburn-rovers-26-yr-old/