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The fans will decide Potter's fate. If the booing and abuse increase he will be potted. Same with Lampard Potter was a poor appointment and he should have stayed at Brighton, a perfect club for him.

It is very odd, and the fact Dundee's is the same as Ewood but other Leitch grounds are normal rectangular shape would indicate some local factors are at work rather than Leitch himself designing them that way

Thanks. Interesting photos. Leitch designed many stadiums in England and Scotland and presumably many of them were next to roads. So why did he design the Ewood and Dens Park stands in this way and why did the Rovers and Dundee directors allow him to do it? It's weird, and doesn't make much sense.

Thanks for this However it begs the obvious question as to why the Nuttall Street stand was built parallel to Nuttall Street and not parallel to the pitch?

Lovely photo, spent many years standing on the terracing "bend" at the Blackburn end of the Nuttall Street stand Does anyone know why the stand was constructed like that?

Wigan are a bit of a bogey side, they always seem to pull their tripe out against us and we’ve been poor in local derbies so I don’t think that will be easy.

You have to win these sort of games if you’ve got any pretensions of making the playoffs. Anything other than victory will be a disappointment Rotherham 1 Rovers 2

The Super League hasn't gone away and will come back within 3 years in a different format https://www.ft.com/content/28a6bb35-ac53-4365-abf2-7d6e1a57d3e9 It's a continuing process. Football sold its soul to the money men and corrupt regimes a long time ago.

I saw us get thumped 4-0 at St Andrew's in the Cup in 2004. David Dunn was playing for them. Brum also beat us in the cup 3 years ago. Assuming they beat Forest Green we owe them

The carabao cup has a Wembley final. We won it 20 years ago. It’s a chance of glory and a day to remember for fans. Like all competitions it deserves respect, not a place to try out kids. Tomasson was wrong to treat the Forest game so lightly It’s Nottingham Forest by the way. Notts Forest doesn’t exist

Potter was a poor appointment. I suppose when the likes of Chelsea offer you a job you have to take it but he really should have turned it down. A club like Brighton was perfect for him.

That's a really nice draw in the 4th round ..... a home game against beatable opposition Let's hope Tomasson takes it seriously unlike against Forest in the league cup We're not getting promoted and a good cup run would be great for the club and the fans

Good win that. Unexpected. Is it too much to hope for a decent cup run?

If we could sign one player in this division it would be him

I hate this “the cup doesn’t matter the league is more important” mantra I hope Tomasson respects the FA cup and puts out his strongest team. Anything significantly less is an insult to the competition and the travelling fans. I also hope he reminds the players of the traditions of the cup and hammers into them the importance of a decent performance Having said that I expect Norwich to win at a canter. They have a new manager in the dugout and will be keen to avenge their defeat against us a few weeks ago. Norwich 2 Rovers 0

I'd got for Armstrong on loan too. It's obviously not worked out for him at Soton, the team is struggling and he's still not playing as far as I'm aware. He must be champing at the bit to get back playing first team football and scoring goals again and we know he loves Rovers. Not the big, ugly bruising CF I think we need but he'd be more of an asset than Gallagher, Hirst and the the others

I know what you mean - some are awful places. Try Northampton Town's Sixfields Derby's Pride Park however I find to be a very pleasant new build and not at all like the others Coventry's was good too All of them are better than the likes of Luton's stinking slum Renaming Ewood is a red line for me. I wouldn't go

Play acting and feigning injury to get players booked. Players demanding the referee book or send off another player. Spitting in another player's face's. If someone did that to me I'd break their jaw with one punch and walk off the field Some of the downsides of the foreign influence in our game.

Lovely!

I can assure you the convenience and interests of away fans would never have entered the Sky executives' head. In fact, if it had been mentioned the exec wouldn't have a clue what you were on about

Debates about "greatest players" are subjective and can never be settled. The question should be, who did you enjoy watching most? .... and for that I would have Cruyff and Pele as joint No 1s, Cruyff for his grace and elegance and beautiful movement and Pele for his sheer brilliance. Best and Messi would be next.

Rovers are in freefall and I don't think Tomasson knows how to stop it. We are conceding too many soft goals and are struggling to score. The players look directionless and lack belief. It won't be long before we're looking over our shoulders at the lower end of the table

Others have their favourites but Pele will always be the greatest footballer of all time for me Was lucky enough to see him play in the 1966 World Cup at Goodison RIP

Tomasson’s just protecting his own position because he knows a promotion push is unsustainable I’m not surprised home fans have started booing. Away fans at Coventry were the most subdued I’ve ever seen them and we had a good following there. Virtually no noise, no singing, no banter with the home fans. Rovers fans are an apathetic lot but the air of resignation when we lost was sad to witness

Rovers have to find more quality from somewhere - what we don't need are more journeymen and loanees who will never make a difference. A young Bradley Johnson type in midfield and a proper centre forward who can hold up the ball, bash defenders around and score goals like Danny Graham would be ideal