Day 9/30 https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/you-have-to-say-that's-magnificent!/592

Day 8/30 A mixed bag week ahead. And it begins with a painful start! https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/take-it-to-the-corner!/591

Week 1 complete! And it’s even December now. Day 7/30 https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/it-tastes-like-promotion/589

A very professional listen. Well done chaps 👏🏻

Day 6/30 https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/typical-rovers/588 Almost at the end of week 1 already! The calendar flips to December tomorrow, with plenty still to come. Hoping the boys can make more memories at Ewood this afternoon, let’s hope it’s a memorable weekend. Thanks for your support so far.

Day 5/30 https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/the-last-game-before-the-world-changed/587

Day 4/30 https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/the-toughest-watch.../586

Was part of my thinking! 😄 Glad you're enjoying reading them, plenty more to come!

Day 3/30 https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/promotion-pretenders-don't-get-us-wrong!/585

Day 2/30 https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/one-of-those-famous-nights/584

30 is very much the theme for Rovers and myself this season. Of course, this season is the 30th Anniversary of Rovers’ Premier League title victory and on a personal note is my 30th season as a season ticket holder. To mark the occasion and to mark 30 days to Christmas, I set myself the challenge of choosing a ‘Match of the Season’ from each of the last 30 years. One a day until December 24th 2024. Each seasons game has been chosen as one that stands out for a particular reason (not always the best reasons) and I’ve included some context and perspective to go along with it. I hope you enjoy the countdown. Your thoughts and comments, along with which game you would have chosen is welcomed on this thread. Let the Countdown commence! Day 1/30 https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/i-take-thee-sammie-now-and-forever./583

Gregg resurfaces! https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/chicago-fire-name-gregg-broughton-as-sporting-director Sporting Director of Chicago Fire FC. Presumably working under 'Technical Director' Sebastian Pelzer, formerly of this parish. Hope he's packed his thermals ahead of a winter on the shores of Lake Michigan! That said, my personal favourite of all the US Cities I've visited. Another wrinkle being Chicago's manager, the former US Mens National Team, fellow double G Gregg Berhalter, the hugely unpopular coach was sacked in June. Loves a challenge does our Gregg!

Well done Scotty! Though it may just be me, I think the article is pretty poor journalism. Grab the low hanging fruit, whilst copy and pasting a million similar articles over the last dozen years. Venkys came in, ruined the Walker legacy, made bad decisions, compounded those decisions, haven't been seen much since. It doesn't take a Pulitzer Prize to write 90% of that article. The juiciest paragraph is saved to the very end and this is what a journalist should be writing about. Where has the fan base gone? Why have they gone? How robust was it in the first place? These questions are the ones that deserve a journalistic deep dive, rather than a bunch of 'maybe this' and 'maybe that'.

Played golf with his dad, but haven't had the pleasure of meeting Ollie. Though obviously heard his name in connection with the ice hockey. I do know several of the mascots coming up, including a mate who was my usher, who was mascot for the oft forgotten Boxing Day fixture against Leeds United......why don't you remember it? Well perhaps because it was called off due to a waterlogged pitch! The replayed match was the one where Flowers saw red for felling Brian Deane after about 30 seconds. Rovers have often ruined a Christmas (ironically see Leeds away 2018) but that takes some beating, though even the most cynical Rovers fan would surely blame the weather and not the club.

Any news on Carter? Looked like an ankle/lower leg injury from my seat (albeit the other side of the field in the Riverside). Hopefully weeks not months out!