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Leonard in League One is at the right level now. The lad needed 10 chances to score one goal and I won't forget the League Cup match at Chelsea early in the second half when we were up about to celebrate a certain goal and he somehow managed to shoot wide. That's not say he was worse than Gueye - he wasn't - and I'm sure he would have had game time this season with all the injuries and loss of form but there's alot of rose tinted spectacles about him as a player. He wasn't really very good.

Did we really have class acts like Szmodics and Wharton playing for Rovers? Seems light years now from the current dross in blue and white

It looks a bit odd to me, as if the players have been superimposed on the background, typical of AI, and I don't think it was 1966 as I'm sure the V-neck shirts had long been replaced by round neck shirts by then. Liked Mike Harrison. Saw him leaving the bookshop at Sudell Cross and getting into his VW Beetle circa 1967. Natty dresser and trendy car at the time.

Thunder thighs Mike Harrison and Duggie, early 1960s From another site and possibly AI generated but a good image nonetheless Note the spectators wearing ties

Probably an even sadder post than the OP. This chap bleeds blue and white, like we all do, but he's battled hard over many years to break the Venky's regime, at great personal and emotional cost according to his postings - and now even he's given up. There is cause for optimism here - however slim it might be. It's often said that it is darkest before the dawn and these grimmest of grim times might be the nadir. Something, somewhere, maybe soon, will cause Venky's to sell up and leave. We have to cling to that hope.

Please no, not you

Wembley dream over for another year Maybe in another life What a load of crap And if someone says we can concentrate on the league I’ll come and sit on their head

Doherty what a doughnut, that’s poor football

Rovers signed O’Mara from Brentford after he bullied our lads in a high scoring stuffing at their place that I was unfortunate enough to attend. Ben Arentoft scored a silly own goal too. One of the lowest of the low days supporting Rovers. Unfortunately O’Mara turned out to be a complete donkey, though not quite as bad as Gueye (sp?)

Howzat! Expert cricket analyst gets bowled again - this time at a canter

"Areas to improve," says McCullum How about batting, bowling and fielding for starters?

RIP Tony. A great player for Rovers, one of the best. Played alongside Pele at NY Cosmos IIRC, that’s how good he was

Jonathan Agnew has been reading this messageboard https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c3r1wg5407lo

Crawley out first over - and I hope that's his last innings for England Innings defeat on the cards?

England have dropped 17 catches so far in this series. Some of them were defining moments in one or two Tests. Dropped catches happen but that big number is symptomatic of a failing team. McCullum staying on after this dreadful series would be endorsing that failure. Get rid.

Will Jacks drops a dolly - go back to T20 with the rest of 'em They can't field, they can't bowl and they can't bat Send 'em home

It's not just the batting - the bowling has been dire too Potts and Carse today bowled too short and wide - and neither of them are natural opening bowlers in the first place. Apart from Root and cameos from or two others this tour has been long one shitshow from start to finish - and that's all down to poor management

Jamie Smith with another brainless dismissal after another ridiculous innings in which he could have been out 3 or 4 times. Smith represents everything that is wrong with England cricket under McCullum and has gone wrong on this tour. Another one for the axe

Can he? He got Barnsley in the playoffs on the back of the work of the previous manager - as any Barnsley fan will tell you At every other club he's flopped - lasting an average of 7 months at each (and we gave him a 3-year contract - why???) Unless he's sacked asap I think Rovers are going down to the third division

Why?

Rule No 1: you do not lose at home to a relegation rival if you want to stay up We are going down

Rovers 0 Charlton 1 Three former Rovers in their line-up so the law of the immutable ex applies JRC or Bell to score and Kaminski to save penalty

You've never seen him play but of course he would

They call it “kite flying” in the journalistic trade.

Embarrassment for us as supporters but not for them. Why would it? They don't care.