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Posted more for the excellent display from the home keeper. Handball goal at the end.

Only at the football 😁. The amount of dodgy decisions that went in their favour against us in general was ridiculous. They tried their best to give them the title in '95. One that still annoys me to this day is Alan Smith's late goal at the Darwen End. Way over added time. Saha punches it into his path. Smith scores. Ref thinks it's a perfectly good goal.

He remembered who was sat in the opposition's dugout and up went the flag. I can't see what Grabbi did wrong there. I remember Barthez thinking he was Zidane that night. We should have won that game.

Does anybody know if many Girona fans are expected to make it over? I don't think there'll be many for a friendly. I assume the Darwen End will be open as usual for away fans? Always curious about these kind of things when we play foreign opposition. Which is another reason why I'm looking forward to our return to the Europa League in a few season's time 😊.

Corrado Grabbi. 😳

I'm trying to imagine a world where I'm in the club shop and I utter the words: "Can I have Venky's put on the sleeve, please?". Just the thought of it...ffs. It is optional, and each to their own, but it would be interesting to see if there is much take up of that option.

Fantastic. Seeing Brad and others from before the dark times really brings it all back. Almost all of the former players I have watched/listened to in interviews, podcasts etc say the same as Brad did above. How we were such a well run club, how John Williams and the rest of the Board did an excellent job and how we'd always look to improve and go one better. There's one comment from Brad on his Rovers days that sticks with me. He said the eight years he spent at Rovers weren't only the best eight years of career, they were also the best eight years of his life. The happiness on his face as he said it...he meant it. That hit me, as all I could think at the time was "mine too, Brad. Mine too".

From our last season as a 'normal club'. "Dunny for England" 😁 .

Hartberg players and staff looking around at our bench, wondering where De Bruyne and Haaland were! It is a friendly, but good to see us get among the goals. If we can address the striker/attack issue during this window, I genuinely think this is our year.

You can't have a Batth when the taps have been turned off. Venky's out.

You know the saying when somebody waffles on? "He/she said a lot without saying anything". That's what that offer reminds me of. Looks impressive on initial viewing simply due to the list form, until you read it. A money grabbing piss take.

I know some fans like to say "let's move on and look forward", which is their right to do so, but there are many things that have happened under these owners that are difficult to forget or 'move on' from for others. This Duffy scenario being just one of them. Yes, you're right. The three own goals came very early on. In the second and third games of the season, respectively. I'm glad such players are no longer arriving at the club. We may have buttons to play with in terms of transfers, but JDT and GB seem the sort who won't allow wasters to join the playing squad.

Yeah, Souness was in amongst Yorkie and Co celebrating the goal. It's not in the clip, but I have seen a photo of it somewhere. Love that! I wish that was on there. Haha. Same here, I didn't know that had even happened with the ball boy. No messing about. Shows how eager Brad was for us to get a result.

Second season running where we got a 90th minute equaliser at the Reebok.

Too much to hope for there, rigger. Would be the best place to start, though.

Hyam has been a good signing overall, but he isn't a captain, in my view. He was visibly affected by the pressure of the run in towards the business end of last season. Carter looked more steady than him for a few games during that time. There was also a game where he was trying to calm the Blackburn End down, as it seemed like the crowd was adding to the pressure already being felt. I'm not sure who I'd want to have the captain's armband right now. Nobody really stands out, for me.

In just five years time too. It would have been unfathomable to imagine back then. Just goes to show how quickly things can change. Leicester in League One in 2009, then seven years later... I think we might see something good again soon, after 12 years of nothingness. Not the Premier League title, obviously. But something good.

Yeah, I think he is trying to get a message across in a polite way. Talk of turning down European interest, being into the project and looking forward to new signings coming in. In another interview yesterday, he said something about the club needing to be ambitious and that goal scorers cost money. "I am ambitious" sounds like he wants the owners to match him in that regard.

Every Rovers goal at Anfield since 1992. Get us back in the Prem, JDT. Not won at Anfield in the League since 1993. We have unfinished business!

I like the shade of blue and the Rovers FC print. Not a fan of the collar. The shirt would be alright with a better sponsor and logo. Hate seeing that on our shirt.

I had forgotten about the Wigan own goal. That only reinforces my opinion that he was trying his best to force his way out. We've seen unhappy players force moves at other clubs before, so most of us know what that can look like. I've not seen something like that, though. This is what I mean by it wouldn't happen under a real manager and a real setup. We had neither. Our setup at the time was, imo, ridiculous. Weak, no accountability, distant owners who were hesitant in making decisions. Players knew it. Agents knew it. Duffy probably knew it too. That kind of brass neck only appears in that kind of environment, imo. Coyle in the dugout. How seriously are the players taking a guy intent on 5 a side games in training, rewarding them with doughnuts, and telling them he's the best striker at the club? (even if jokingly) A couple of our former players were laughing their backsides off at Coyle and his methods on Under The Cosh not so long ago, which points towards the respect he was held in. We also had Cheston, a numbers man, being tasked with allsorts above the manager. He was even being wheeled out at meetings with the fans. To be fair to him, he had a brilliant manager lined up for us, but his pick was seemingly bypassed for Coyle to come in instead. How likely was it for Cheston to take Duffy to task, if, hypothetically, it was a deliberate chain of events? The prick got his move to Brighton a week later and it was all seemingly forgotten about. Not all of us have forgot about it though. He is in the Orr, Best and Stokes bracket for me.

I agree with that. However, I wasn't looking at the Duffy situation from a betting angle. I don't know if anything like that was at play, or even if anything came out later on about him in that regard. I'm looking at it and wondering whether it was a case of 'let me leave or else I'll be a prick' about that night. That's based on how his performance looked, the fact that he wanted out and that he rejected a new deal only a day before the game. It didn't look or feel right and still doesn't.

I don't think he would be able to kick a ball again. These pricks wouldn't dare do that under a real setup and manager. They only took the piss here due to absent leadership and the easy street culture. On the football side of things, that appears to be changing now, thankfully.

It was. He rejected a new deal a day before the Cardiff game, according to the link below, and signed for Brighton a week later. Another tosser in a long line of them to have turned up here under this regime. https://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/shane-duffy-has-completed-a-transfer-away-from-blackburn-rovers-92936

No, not that I'm aware of. I think the poster was referring to that Cardiff game and how it looks.