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Was he still contracted to us though? Arguably best keeper since Brad that we've had. You could argue Raya but he was still developing.

Kaminski was perfect for us and we've dropped a big one there. All about Venkys, nothing about the interests of the Club, who, after all, did not splurge £7M on a house they'll hardly use. If they'd splurged £7M on a striker and kept Kaminski we'd be on our way to top 6 at least.

As if we can win any contest for a player with other clubs!

JRC is injury-prone--another one. So unlucky. We will miss him hugely.

If only he'd been as rich as Jack!

Wouldn't be top of my list right now!

Yes--I don't think that's been emphasised enough. If you make a save but push it into the run of a challenging forward, you might as well not have bothered

He's also played a big part in these cockups at the heart of defence when we play it about within a few yards of our goal. We could have conceded 2 from this early in the first half. Can we not?

In the first half Leo dropped a simple overhead lob that a 6 year old would have swallowed and he had no pressure on him at all. Couldn't believe it. There was no attacker near. Therefore he recovered easily. That really worried me, you can't help thinking there is always a bad mistake in him. Gives me the jitters. Can't be good for our defenders.

If he sent Wharton off for illegally preventing a goal opportunity , doesn't the the fact that he made contact with the ball first render that decision incorrect? Because he touched the ball away, it wasn't a scoring opportunity anymore. Your view Arbitro? If the ref is saying that Wharton's left leg was the culprit and the tackle was reckless and dangerous and therefore worthy of a red card, then 1) it didn't seem that bad to me and 2) there were several such tackles in the game that were as bad or worse and the result was 2 yellows for Norwich.

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desperation.

A classic "its the hope that kills you" post!! Good on ya, hope it comes true.

It was conclusively over the line. Couldn't believe it.

That Newcastle goal should never have stood. VAR clearly showed the ball went out of play before it was crossed for the goal. What's the use of it?

Fair chance we'll get overrun in midfield unless JRC can miraculously be 2 men at the same time. No wonder he's injury prone. And any good work the team do will be wasted in a second by Flapper in goal. In summary, I've no confidence at all going into any game now. Sometimes we turn it on, most times we don't. Whatever the line-up. Hard being a Rovers supporter right now.

Lovely!

I got the date wrong---1949!

Rovers v Man City-- 1952 I think. I have no recollection of the game at all as I was 2 years old and sitting on my Dad's shoulders! He told me Trautman was in goal for City, we had 3 penalties and missed 2! But really, on the day I was probably busy teething or wondering where my Teddy was!

Me again!

Ha! Some special circumstances there. You have to remember that attendances plunged at Ewood after that Cup Final disaster. We were building them up again with that 1963 team.

Close--- 28000---looked it up!

I did hear at the time, the players had been promised a pay rise at Christmas or bonus (whatever), and our shop-keeper board reneged. Something was definitely off at that game, the atmosphere was weird. You definitely got the impression Rovers were not focussed on the game. Big crowd too.

Or Waggot!

I was there Den! I've talked about the experience a few times on here. And I'm not up for repeating it, its too painful. My dad never went again after being Rovers fan all his life, (was at the 1928 Final! ) He was tempted back once after me enthusing about the football for months with Duggie, Pickering, McEvoy etc. Unfortunately he chose the Christmas West Ham Ewood fixture just after we'd spanked them 8-2 away and we lost 3-1 at Ewood. That was it for him "won't get fooled again!"