Well done. Proud of this manager and his players!

I guess-to really understand it-you have to compare this to the ebb and flow of attendance nationally...

A prize for getting those two names in the same sentence!

Yeah..this was where I came in...Christmas 1969 the death spiral of all death spirals, following the departure of Keith Newton. Re not backing the manager etc, I clearly remember the fans chanting "Spend some money of f**** off!" at Bill Fox and co...

That you, Sam?

Hmmm...I bet there was a distinct lack of unanimity in agreeing to that ..er..compromise....

Let's face it. Bowyer was a decent bloke, but he simply did not have the CV.. Not to get into the play offs with that fantastic squad was an abject failure!

David Vincent knows...

More like a Windscale/Sellafield situation...

Yeah...I guess it's just a choice between traps....recency bias or fresh start syndrome!

Seriously?

There was a long and very interesting exchange in one of the supporters meetings back in 2017, where Cheston et al were challenged but struggled to be explicit about Suhail's role at the club.. ." I'll confirm his exact title..I just can't remember at the moment.." You couldn't make it up. ...I think the minutes of this discussion is in BRFCS archives-# Find Pasha...I think he dubbed himself Pasha previously.... around the time people were also asking questions around his work permit-just saying lol

Ssssssurprise surprise

Maybe, he has wiped it. There used to be...

I know for a fact that some guys in one of the protest groups did a lot of research on this a few years ago. One actually spoke to a couple of Kentaro people, referenced on Suhail's profile. The research confirmed that Suhail Shaikh is a former Kentaro employee. One Kentaro employee described Suhail as a "Kentaro fixer.".Another ex Kentaro employee had placed a review on his Linkedin. Suhail's own profile said he was"responsible for the successful acquisition of BRFC by Venky's"" Remember that the football authorities "knew" Kentaro was running the club-against F.A. rules and turned a blind eye.. Now Suhail Shaikh has come out of the shadows. ..and we are to believe he is "no longer" employed by the Kentaro people...( even if their original named company is now conveniently extinct)

Seen a few Rovers wins in The Sliding Rock in Shantalla and certainly drowned my sorrows after defeats in The Crane Bar....

Best manager we have had, since the remorseful day, when bastard Venky's showed up imo. He is great man manager and an absolute master at setting up his teams. And, yes, I am worried about another club making him an irresistible offer...

JDT-False prophet

From memory, I think we had beaten them 5-0 at home with that wonderful Tony Field solo goal. I know the run of form contained a Bournemouth away win, followed by a 1-0 away win at Port Vale. Following the Vale win, there was a piece in one of the national papers, where Gordon Lee (still Vale at the time) was lavish in his praise for Tony Field. I was still at school for the 3-1 Watford away win, which you might be remembering... Within a few short months Field had been sold and Gordon Lee was Rovers manager.

I'm getting that Ken Furphy echo... December 1973...What was it 4 or 5 wins on the trot.?....Then, in came Sheffield Utd...

It ruined my kids' and my lives....

Agree. Wrong to sack him.They should have backed him...but it was decided long before they showed up. Bastards!

Let's be careful not to re-write history lol... The Big Sam era was far from easy on the eye. I felt he "fulfilled fixtures"/threw games to concentrate on beating the teams around us..and the hoof ball was bearable the first season he kept us up...After that, I know a lot got bored and stopped going as often as they did. The plan to sack Big Sam was made before the takeover. It was an agents' conspiracy. When he lost his job brutally, so soon after arrival of "the others", most of my friends were shocked. He certainly deserved a chance to manage with some cash behind him. So, in my opinion several things are true at the same time. The hoof ball( with little funding from the Walker Trust) was awful at times. Nevertheless, he was treated shamefully and we would not have been relegated, had he stayed. Sam's dismissal had nothing to do with Rovers fans. It was construed to get Steve Kean into the job.

Class!

Not sure about that. I think he is well up there, but I do acknowledge that he stood out amongst a wedge of crap keepers under Venky's.