He's currently under investigation for doping. Been suspended since December. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgmwg1w9130o

Reminds me of this 🤣

Ok, I have some ITK knowledge for once. I was talking to a guy in the pub last night & he told me that we've signed a new goalkeeper. Ooh I thought, is Calamity on his way out? Possibly not, it's this bloke's grandson & he's only 7, but hey, it's a signing right, & "he can't be any worse than Pears" !? 😁 (Apologies if anyone got excited with my opening gambit, but tbf this guy reeled me in with it, so it's only fair to share! 😄)

Wow, this has totally shocked me. RIP Diogo.

Ok, I'll join in just before the draw. I'll go Huddersfield away.

Is this guy Big Val's illicit son or something? My god, I thought it was a wind up at first when I looked at him! Edit: added pic of a younger VI.

The bit that's Obscured By Clouds. 😉

Ok then 1 with a further year option in our favour. 🤣

Great effort chaps, well done. I find it odd that, of the ones I've seen, the teams are quite young. Most won't remember anything before the Prem - as you proved, you can't beat a bit of experience! (Are you listening Suhail!? 😄)

Found another pic. Before my time (I was only 2 at the time!), who's the Rovers player in this shot?

Actually didn't realise he played his last ever game at Ewood. Had a quick mooch around & found this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/844940199360108/posts/2023494194838030/?_rdr

& yet they were creaming themselves 3 years ago! Just get out of our club!

The thing is, those "3000" minutes will also include the likes of Scott Wharton & Hayden Carter who have both had long term injuries this year. Trav has also missed a good few games this season when our form fell off a cliff. This means that the numbers are somewhat skewed as, although they are technically academy products, they're also established Championship players. So taking these players minutes away, along with AW & to a lesser extent, Phillips, there's probably not many 'kids' minutes at all.

I posted this in the Nostalgia Thread back in March. Many thanks to @Tyrone Shoelaces for the line up as I couldn't find it anywhere: I must admit, I always thought my first game was in 1983 - I knew it was the 82/83 season, however it turns out it was actually 16/10/82. A 3-0 win against Chelsea, Garner with a brace & Kevin Stonehouse. I can't find the Rovers lineup for that day but the main things I remember was being in the old Riverside stand with my Dad with the smell of pipe tobacco wafting up every few minutes and a bit of a scrap going on in the BBE, presumably with some Chelsea fans who'd got in there. I managed to find a few details from a Chelsea site, which shows a young David Speedie in the Chelsea team that day! Attendance? a whopping 6,062! All that really mattered to me that day was that I knew I wanted to back again. I was hooked. Line up as provided by Tyrone: Gennoe Branagan, Barton, Fazackerly, Rathbone, Miller, Randall, Lowey, Brotherston Stonehouse, Garner Sub Hamilton for Barton.

You're a better man than me! I just couldn't not with tomorrow's results in the balance.