You must have been at Ewood with 52000 on Jim? Burnley 6th round replay 1960? And no "incidents"! Those were the days when the southern-based media crucified him Jim. All in his autobiography. Should have got 100 caps.

Don't know if this has been posted before but even Burnley fans are paying their respects. Credit to them: http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=104&fid=297&sty=2&act=1&mid=2119694856

Heart-broken. Lived near his shop in Darwen for years. Captain of England serving newspapers between training and never a cross word for anyone. A truly great player for so many years.Would have had a hundred caps for England if he'd played down south. Clayton and Douglas---the heart and soul of Blackburn Rovers. We will never see the like of them again I fear. Sincere condolences to his family.

I remember him at Ewood in 1974 when we were going for promotion and Palace were our rivals. Peter Taylor was mugged in the penalty area in the last few minutes and a stone-wall pen wasn't given. Allison was practically on the pitch he was so enraged, crowd hurling abuse at him, fantastic atmosphere and we hung on for a lucky draw. I think over 17000 there but could be wrong. Couldn't cut it at City when he made some bewildering buys but a great character. RIP.

Yep, apparently Sam was out of his senses for letting him go! Absolute miracle to get 2M for that fat, lazy loafer.No wonder he was on the verge of coming to the Premier League for years but no-one would take the risk. See what I mean!

An accident maybe but avoidable certainly. The bin didn't throw itself did it?

You've lost me there. he's telling the truth, it was an accident waiting to happen. Anyone following Rovers in the last 2 or 3 years will say the same.

I wrote along these lines after the Everton away game very early in the season. There are "fans' supporting Rovers I wouldn't want my family near. The drunkenness and the obscenities hurled at decent Everton supporting families really sickened me. At least in the bad old seventies you never expected to be injured by one of your own. Hope the poor man recovers and the Club has a good hard look at its away following who are dragging our name into the mud.

I'll remember him for THAT GOAL against Arsenal which took us to the FA Cup Semi-final. But even then he was at war with the manager (Hughes). Remember he went and sat on the sub's bench to highlight the fact that Hughes hadn't been starting him? He was booked for it! Just another piece of poor management Benni had to endure I guess!

Mismanaged by all 3 Rovers managers he "worked" for Eddie! Admittedly one was an idiot.

Tris didn't blame the manager when Dunn fell out with Souness!

Tris' little echo. Stay in our top 3 goal scorers list this season? He's after Dunn and Nelsen then. What a star!

MGP!! Scraping the barrel there! Dunn apparently wants a longer term contract than the club has offered. Who's right there? Hoilett--I don't know. Doesn't see himself as a winger and is being courted by big german clubs I guess. Hardly the managers' fault.

Like Tris you are just using this issue as a stick to beat the manager with. pretty much what you do with every post. Benni's conduct is indefensible as is your own.

To perform to his maximum he would have to get fit. What sort of professional footballer comes back after the break in the state he was?

Sounds like you're condoning his behaviour. He's been like this, more or less, for the whole 4 years we've had him. How can you use Benni well if he can't even be arsed to get fit?

He certainly never wanted to leave. There were plenty of reports that he held out as long as he could before joining Stoke from Sheffield Utd because he wanted to come here. Sam wanted to buy him but Board said "no dosh".

It would be GROSSLY unfair to drop either Dunn or Di Santo. If we are going to play 4-4-2 at Bolton the best option would surely be McCarthy partnering Di Santo with Dunn in midfield.The issue is whether mid-field would be strong enough.

His attitude makes him unpickable. No problem at the moment because he wants to play in the World Cup, when that's over he will return to type. The manager obviously has had a long look at him since he was appointed and clearly doesn't like what he has seen.If someome stumps up the cash in January he is off.

So which reply will we see more often? "He's a complete donkey, couldn't hit a barn door......." or "showed what he could do in a proper formation, we should keep him"

There is no question that in pure talent McCarthy is one of the best around. Its the attitude that I question. In his first season he was motivated by his desire for a move to Chelsea and didn't he make sure everybody knew? Right now he wants to secure his South Africa place at the World Cup.So I guess its wise to use him! After that who knows?

Beattie always looks really up for it though, he always looks likely to score. To answer mhead's question-------Beattie wanted to come here, the manager wanted to buy him but there was no money available.Simple as that.

He is mentally flawed and this explains why year after year he was rumoured to be coming to a big Premiership club and every year it never happened. He had one good season with us but came with the aim of making it to a big club, hopefully Chelsea. It was embarassing to see him snuggling up tp Mpourhino in the way he did just before kick-off at Stamford Bridge. When his big transfer didn't come off he sulked and his form died.He tried to hold us to ramsom, while taking our cash of course, and he's now reaping what he's sown. Talented but flawed like many players down the years.I'd never let him go to Portsmouth though!

Still missing Souness! Still slagging off our best player and leading goal-scorer! What a pleasure it was to watch that side till Sourness sold our best players and wasted our money on the likes of Amorusso and Baby Ferguson and then walked out on us when we were in the poo. Ruins clubs and moves on that's our Graeme as Newcastle and Liverpool fans know all too well. Why can't you put your prejudices aside for one moment and simply appreciate the wonderful job Dunn has done for us this season?