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And add in the 45 degree slopes beyond the far side of the pitch!

The blue and white one above is surely a hoax but it's an absolute joke that there seems to be no sign of an official commemorative shirt from the Club. Should have put some effort into a nice badge for the home shirt to be worn all season and there wouldnt have been this messing.

No offence, and I know that's not you producing it but £90 and I wouldnt wear that in bed.

Yes he does seem to have stumbled upon the 3-5-2 system more by accident than by design Still - better to be a lucky manager than a good one sometimes.

As regards January, a lot will depend on whether we ever see Baradji and whether or not he's any good. If he becomes available and does OK I'd only really be desperate to add more firepower up front. Maybe a CB if Carter's injury woes continue. An injury to Gudjohnsen and we're left with two strikers who have only registered one goal between them this season. Two strikers needed imo if Gueye is sold.

God - people still moaning about Dolan! Who then do you think then has been more effective for us - Dolan last season or Moreshita (who we spent £2m on) this?

Im not against the appointment of a set piece coach per se but if the game in general is heading down the route of over-reliance on set plays and a return to the prehistoric tactic of hurling a long ball into the mixer then that's regression not progression in my book. What next? Stop fannying about passing the ball around at the back, and invariably giving it away, and get the keeper to launch it long in the general direction of two players up top? Now that's a back to the future change I wouldnt necessarily mind. On a similar note I went to an evening with Sam Allardyce event at Ewood after he was appointed and he reckoned if you could become the most successful team in the League at scoring from free kicks, that would put you tenth on its own. Dinosaur,or ironically now the way some trends are going, ahead of his time?

As regards TGH he's not bad but not brilliant. I wouldnt be chucking my toys out of the pram if we signed him (unlike Forshaw) but I wouldnt be losing any sleep over it if we didnt either. Certainly not worth £20k p.w. if thats what it would take when deciding whether to sign him permanently imo.

Thought Wharton was quite decent myself, tends to get unfairly slaughtered because he's come through the ranks imo. If we'd paid say £2.5m like we did for Hyam people would be a lot more complimentary about him. Thought it was a very good team performance on Saturday with no really poor performances. I was surprised to see VI being critical of De Neve as whilst I dont particularly rate him I thought he had a fairly good first half and I thought we were poorer for the two first half subs albeit you could see why he took Henriksson off being on a yellow. Overall I felt during the first half that for the very first time under VI you could make out a discernible style of play and tell what they were trying to do. Very early days and we're still hovering just above the relegation zone in 19th so far too early to say that lashings of humble pie are needed where Val is concerned but I hope we can continue in the same vein and he can prove me completely wrong.

2 subs......wouldnt actually have changed anything at this stage unless they were enforced through injury. Edit.....Arggghhhh! Hickman! That could prove very costly.

Wharton's playing well.

We look a bit shaky defensively but I thought that was a very good away performance in the first half. Ohashi having his best game of the season, De Neve and Alebiosu looking lively on the flanks. Pity Gudjohnssen's decision making lets him down at times but it doesn't really matter if he can keep popping up in the right place at the right time to score.

Lucky there. Terrible keeping from Toth.

Think it was Super Caley go ballistic etc

Two initials the same - Bradley Dack.

He was something all right, wouldnt necessarily describe it as a "cult hero"! 🤣

Fred Pickering

Fair enough. 👍 Great player, was excited when we signed him, didnt have quite the impact at Ewood we'd have hoped for me.

Wegerle a cult hero? Hmmm....... Adam Wharton.

This thought had also crossed my mind. The only proviso I would make is that there is only so much advice you can pass on. At the end of the day being a natural goal scorer is imo a God given talent, you either have it like a Greaves, Owen, Fowler etc or you don't. Some basic stuff would help though, you need a genuine desire to frequently get into the areas from which you're more likely to score (a lot of modern day tactics go against this). The second thing is Alan Shearer used to admit he'd always take a swing from anywhere, you never know if the ball will go through a defender's legs or catch the keeper unawares etc. Most modern players won't shoot , it's almost like they're scared to risk "turning over possion" and are only happy to score the perfect goal from two yards out after a great team move.

(Sir) Roger Jones.

??? Can we just not pick who we like? 🤣🤣

Yes. As someone else said before - we can see who blinked first. Don't get that post from Jackson above stating he's been made Rovers manager. Is it a running of a Computer game? Either way its completely unfunny and sounds a bit desperate. On the bright side the LT site is now randomly allowing me to log in so I can use the comments section. That is if I've not already been barred for my opening response to RoverEnd who was praising RG to the rafters for saving the Club tens of millions of pounds in transfer fees and wages.

Great post.

I dont really see the need for handwringing about whether we were formed in 1874 or 1875. At best it seems the first meeting of any sort took place between Christmas and New Year 1874 so there's only a few days difference. Just theorising here, could the initial meeting have led to an informal group gathering/playing together initially with the first formal meeting leading to Incorporation etc only taking place in November 1875?