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agree w most of this but he wasn’t banking on promotion, or if he was he hadn’t got that message through to his players. I remember distinctly Sam Ricketts (his captain) telling them local press that we were over performing when we were in the playoff positions.

Always thought he was a nice bloke and he transformed some of the atmosphere around the club when he came in but he did seriously run out of ideas and even in his good season for every Vincelot and Murphy there was a Stephen Hunt and Darius Henderson. his record at Blackburn has been ok. He got...

I think you’re probably right and I certainly hope you are but there have been times over the not so recent pdr when we would have definitely been the first to the wall in this type of crisis. Sheer happenstance that we seem to be in the right sort of place at this terrible time. I know...

Or Gary Hoffman?

Provided we are not one of the six?

Shankland is witht the Scotland squad now surely. He’s not going to move at this stage.

Zoltán Csucsánszky end the thread.

Do Leicester fans still pine for Filbert Street? serious question by the way, I genuinely don’t know the answer. I didn’t care for the Crisp Bowl whenever I’ve been there but wasn’t fond of Filbert St either.

doesnt make you less of a fan to notice that it was badly designed, ramshackle and in urgent need of improvement if we were to stay in the Prem. We’ve elevated the ground in its absence to a status it doesn’t deserve. And it’s also true that towards the end of our time there - we didn’t own HR...

unconformable truth. Despite the nostalgia we all fee for the place (me included), Highfield Road was pretty shite to be honest. The East stand was the last one constructed in the top flight to use cantilevers and view restricting pillars. Simon Inglis’ Football Grounds of England’s book...

no that was in 1998 (one of my favourite ever games btw). we scored 5 at Blackburn in 1993.

Burnley always been Burnley

The flick by O’Hare before the goal was fantastic but his celebration seems to have been under appreciated. Paid homage to three Cov iconic celebrations 1) the standard knee slide 2) the Robbie Simpson face plant as the knee slide comes to an unexpected sudden end 3) rescued with a really...

Thing is he wasn’t really wrong about that was he? And even if that foul was only worthy of a yellow, he was extremely lucky to stay on the pitch after a second poor challenge in the second half.

Callum O’Hare doesn’t seem to expect to play

Yep his three games were all sub appearances. Boro, Leeds and Forest. Great spot with the Robson foul on Batty. It’s very poor; def yellow, possible red card even in those days but it’s nowhere near Summerbee on Froggatt which was tantamount to assault.

Hmmm, Jackson didn’t join us until 5 years after that particular game. He was literally Dublin’s No 9 replacement after he left in 1998, the Blackburn 5-2 away win was in Jan 1993. Batty was long gone to Newcastle by the time Jackson joined us. Jackson played 3 games on loan for us, his debut...

Doesn’t matter. The English game fixates on the issue of captaincy unlike any other nation. The Italians always give the captaincy to the most experienced player. It’s a mark of respect (and wage bonuses) very little else. Wearing an armband doesn’t make you a leader. Not being captain...

Graham Barrett?