Andy

I'll be watching a show in Liverpool, with my eldest, on Tuesday night - so I'll miss this entirely. And, honestly, it's a bit of a relief.

I think you're right - and I'm sure that Jackson mentioned it in one of his podcasts as well, around that time. Seem to remember him namechecking the Radio Lancs guy, as having made a similar request.

This is absolutely dreadful.

Agree, these are dreadful. And yet they're still leading us 0-1.

I think that looks like a strong enough side to win today. Over to you, boys...

Hopefully Jackson will be able to carry on doing his job covering Rovers, but he won't be allowed access into the ground / training ground under media duties. You can only imagine that it would have been the 'Suhail has blocked me from doing an interview post-transfer-window', as he name-drops Pasha directly. What kind of egomaniac acts like this? Oh yeah, Pasha.

Imagine if those currently running the club exerted as much effort in running the club properly as they do in taking action against those calling their general incompetence out. Imagine.

He's honestly a shining light in a sea of journalistic wastewater; top man. As for this, my first reaction was that it was the act of a couple of dictators who know that their time is almost up - hopefully this is the case. It sounds as though it all stems from when Elliott gave a balanced view on the Travis situation - including some direct information clearly from either Travis himself, or his agent. Seems certain people at the club don't take kindly to...you know...the truth being spoken.

This was my thinking, too - albeit more from a 'right, if we have to play from scratch, let fuck 'em up'. Get a full house, drown the farmers out and back the team to a 4-0 win. And then I woke up.

Yeah, good football management is about making the most of the squad at your disposal. It'd be arrogant to enforce your preferred style of play where it's not a good fit. Big Sam is a good example of the former, whatever you may think of him. I'd love nothing more than seeing a physically tough, direct 4-4-2 with wingers and a big man/little man front pairing. Fullbacks being fullbacks and 2 central midfielders who cover the whole central area between them. It'll come back around one day, I'm sure of it.

What's a 'barm cake' and why would you want to eat chips with any kind of cake? But yes, the John Bulls from Hollytree are ace. Manxman chippy used to do a good one, many years ago - I think Hollytree is the only place you can get one now.

Yeah, 100% that game - I remember it vividly. Ian's article gives the specifics also. I grew up very locally and remember - JW stand construction was continued/completed over that summer (1994), being officially opened in 1996 at home to Forest.

It was the 3rd of January 1994. I was there (as a 10 year old), watching Jones and co doing Klinsmanns on the pitch through the gates.

That was actually in the Prem era - around 1993/4.

I don't think it's happened in my lifetime (Prem era onwards).

I saw that, what an absolute penis.

I dunno - I live half a mile up the road and it's pretty biblical.

With 11 minutes left to play, surely we just get the win?

Based solely on the game and a bit we've seen of him, I don't think Taylor-Gardner is a downgrade on Travis at all. In fact, a couple of progressive passes today that Trav wouldn't have made. Long season ahead, of course, but £3m in the bank and no downgrade, for someone in the final year of their contract 🤷‍♂️

Cantwell is ace. I liked him last season when he was inconsistent, but he's been excellent so far this season. No excuse not to win this one now.

Fair decision, last man. Thing is, it spoils games and they have players to hurt us on the counter still.

Just looked at the lineups and he's facing Mbappe, Vini Jr and the full Madrid lot today. Good on him, glad he's made a good start there.

Decent first half, couple of half chances. Grateful we have Toth though, we're 0-2 down at HT with Calamity between the sticks there. Gudjohnson and Kargbo on in the second half and let's see if we can win this one.

If not, I'd be happy to take them off you - me and my little lad were planning on going, but not sorted tickets yet - cheers!

Yeah, thought the same myself. It's generally a decent listen, if you can get past the 'fought' (thought) and 'fink' (think) from the LET lad. The second guy, with the southern accent, is a bit annoying though. He tries to use words and phrases that he doesn't actually understand and he'll flip-flop entirely at the slightest challenge of his opinion. And his pronunciation of Ismael is disproportionately maddening (Ish-May-Ull). The Blackburn End pod is slightly better, though one of them constantly refers to Birmingham as 'the blues'. As a Rovers podcast, you'd expect 'the blues' to be in reference to Rovers. I'm a petty, petty man.