2 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

She phoned me after todays game. She's 90 with a bad knee and she'd be at Ewood on Tuesday if she could. 

She said " Double or quits on Tuesday night ? " So I took the bet - 3 points for Rovers then.

Does your mum do the lottery TS? It seems she has a certain skill at predictions! 
Talking about bad results for England, who did she predict in the England-Scotland game in 1967? That was a real highlight. 

2 hours ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Harsh to say Moyes is a poor manager. Did excellently at Everton before the United job basically derailed his career. I agree West ham is a good fit, but I don't think it's that surprising he is doing well there. He would have far more in his locker than Mowbray. 

I can't disagree with you on that score, but I also cannot forget how we fans were vilified by Moyes because of voicing our displeasure with K***n. 

7 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

Callum Davidson just won the league cup with St Johnstone, amazing achievement. Get him on the shortlist too.

Well done to Callum, but I bet the Nobbers will be in for him before anyone at Ewood woke up to the fact. 

1 minute ago, Roverthechimp said:

Table tennis and karaoke

Well it certainly isn’t ball control

21 hours ago, Gav said:

Last one for now - Anyone recognise the ground 1968?

Just look how classy that shirt is, even the cuffs are reversed to the sleeves, and why are long sleeved shirts not made these days ? The thing that gets my goat now is the sight of some soft arse wearing a short sleeve shirt with bloody gloves!!!

59 minutes ago, Gav said:

Blackburn End turnstiles 

Not cheap enough for me Gav. Only 1/3d when I was a kid

On 27/01/2021 at 20:15, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Looks like a good place to work. Managing Directors son having a well earned break on the second grinding machine from the front.

Tool room in ‘O’ Building. Served my time there and indeed was a great place to work. So many skilled men all now gone after being thrown on th scrap heap. 

Against the run of play !!!!!

Thanks to Gav for the nostalgic pics. Brought back lots of happy memories although I’m not quite old enough to have had the jab yet. A couple of weeks yet. This is just the best thread on here. 

Maybe it’s Bukta. There won’t be many on here who had a shirt of that manufacture.

17 hours ago, Mercer said:

Spoke again tonight with a relative with close links to PNE and he reckons Alex Neill will be managing Rovers before the window is closed!  The second time within a week I've had this conversation with him. 

Did your relative with close links to PNE happen to mention that Neill would be managing Rovers because the Nobb End faithful cannot stand the bloke?

Another great player gone. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55551720

23 hours ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Saw a great piece of graffiti on a bog wall once..

" Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein is not the monster.

Wisdom is knowing that he is.."

Albert Einstein was certainly a genius but his brother Frank was a totally different kettle of fish.

18 hours ago, Crimpshrine said:

Generally I would agree but Rovers are a special (basket!) case at this moment in time. For me, sorting out the issues at the club is as important as sorting out the performances on the pitch. I think Ainsworth would understand this more than most.

I agree that Ainsworth would fully understand the problems at the club, but does anyone honestly think that Venkys would appoint someone who comes from the same mould as us folk. They would be scared to death that the truth would be laid bare regarding their tenure. Always will be a yes man while they’re at the helm of this rudderless ship. 

4 hours ago, renrag said:

Whoever thought of bringing out the blue and white shirts at Wembley, got it spot on and put the finishing touch to a superb day 

Yes a nice touch that. The days when people within the club had a brain and cared, that’s the difference to now. 

5 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

I am so sorry that I stayed up to watch that Mowbray induced shitshow. Its fecking 5am here.

Fuck off Mowbray.

You deserve a bloody medal !!

That’s the problem with Mowbray he keeps quoting stats that are supposed to show how good the team performed and how unlucky they were in defeat. Unfortunately Tony this game only ever revolves around putting the ball in the opponent’s onion bag and not allowing it to go into ours. Wake up you dinosaur.

In the early days of the beautiful game, many players wore caps

3 hours ago, bazza said:

And the Spurs players looked like they had different coloured shorts, or knickers as they were called in those days.

One thing that photo should do is stop all the arguments about which side of the shirt should be blue and which side should be white. 

Totally agree TS I also felt privileged to have seen him and proud that he played for the Rovers. I also never saw a better centre half in the following 45 years. 

15 minutes ago, 4000Holes said:

In 1963/64 season we topped the league around Christmas time, no mean feat for a team of our stature.  Minimum wage not long gone and Everton came calling for Pickering offering big money at the time, possibly world record transfer and presumably good significantly better wages than we could afford. We replaced Pickering with a lad (Martin Britt) from West Ham reserves, needless to say it didn’t work out.  Soon after Mike England was put at centre forward, arguably the best centre half in the country, reason being there was no alternative because there was an adequate centre half in the reserves (Dick Mulvaney).  Not long after Spurs came calling for England.  The rest is history.

That is from memory which I admit is not what it used to be, but I am sure some of our other posters on here will put you and me right.

Hope that may be of use?

Hit the nail on the head there 4000. Fred Pickering was a huge loss but an even bigger loss was Mike England. Without any sense of over reaction, he was probably one of the best centre halves in the World. 
Fred left for Everton in 1964 and Mike went to Spurs in 1966, the year that we were relegated. Even though Bryan Douglas played another three years, he was a marked man by the mid to late 60’s and was injured quite often, mainly because he was kicked from pillar to post. 
 

15 minutes ago, darrenrover said:

Black Bull, Old Langho!

Very sensible. He can walk home from there.

31 minutes ago, HowieFive0 said:

Remember it well ..teatime KO ..telling my dad as he walked in from work that his Beloved Brazil...."The Boys In Gold"..  had got beat ..can still see his face now ! Disbelief.

Happy Birthday Dad ..would have been 85 today ..not sure what he d make of football today though...

I always liked the 1970 Brazil team, probably the best team I ever saw..

it would have been interesting to have known your dad’s view on that. Happy birthday to your dad. I hope he may be looking down with my dad who would also have been 85 and having a good laugh at the prima donnas that we have to put up with these days

BBC saying he’s been fired from Barrow. 

While the family of Paulo Rossi were attending his funeral, some scumbags robbed the house. How low can you stoop?