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If I’ve upset anyone with my comment then I do apologies. Ill pick my words more carefully in future.

I almost deleted the line to be honest, though it might get me in trouble 😇

I only use this site, never had Facebook, never had twitter, tick tock or Instagram. I was once accused of being someone on The Telegraph website, never had an account, hardly ever read the comments. Social media can do a hell of a lot of good, keeps dispersed families connected, some of the charity stuff that happens via social media warms the heart, it really does. Its been a god send to many families with elderly relatives who are isolating during Covid for example. Some of the work to find donors for cancer patients has been massively expanded with the introduction of social media and much more. But the bad side is bullshit spreading, radicalisation, abuse, child abuse, sexual exploitation and I could go on. I'm not naïve enough to think this wouldn't go on without social media, but they do provide a platform and a relatively safe space for these people to operate. On a personal note I'd lose very little if they shut social media down tomorrow, I'd miss Jim, den, TS, Philipl and 47er of course, and many more, but I'd cope 😃

This is what I was replying to, not something 4 pages back or I’d have quoted that! its simply not true. Did you miss the Ayala header for example? I was off the settee, I scored it, he put it wide.

I take your point on the defence Sparks. He has tried to address the issues, Tosin last season, Ayala this, fullback required, maybe, Keeper sorted. Mowbray has this team firing currently, we should have won at Bristol, we should have won at Brentford, but for a red card, he’s got us heading in the right direction and long may it continue.

Rubbish. Ayala should have scored, excellent chance. Gallagher got in the way of one. Armstrong first time pass instead of the shot and that’s just off the top of my head. BBC said we had 22 shots, 22! 7 on target and 59% of play. I said earlier some have backed themselves into a corner, you’re one of them 47er. Fact remains we lost, but my god it’s 100 times better than last session.

82 World Cup, Zico, Robson scoring quickest goal against France, NI v Spain. Rossi RIP

Paul is spot on. You saw sideways and back last night, I saw attacking, one touch quality football, especially in the 1st half. If we carry on in the same vein we’ll be playoff contenders, with a budget that pales into insignificance compared to Norwich, Brentford.......

Wegerle Penalty?

Far to many people on this thread have backed themselves into a corner, it started back in the promotion season when 90% wanted him gone in October, we ended up getting promoted, clueless majority. Some of the football in 1st half last night was the best football I’ve seen us play in years. One touch, quick, decisive, tremendous at times, a level above in fact. If posters can’t see the progress we’ve made this season you don’t understand the game. Mowbray has us going places, if we can keep the squad injury free we’ve a chance of making the playoffs, a tremendous achievement on a crap budget.

Spain 82 - what a player.

I went to the abandoned game away at Cambridge, that was a long way back.... Ive just searched for the game in question, can’t find it, did it actually happen? Or have I dreamed that one?

A Tuesday night in February, away to Cambridge and a decent following, hero’s everyone that travelled. I salute you, 28yrs after the fact, but better late than never.

How good does our kit look? superb. We look a very good side, we’ve come on leaps and bounds since last season, I’m feeling optimistic about our chances this season. On the flip side, promotion winning sides usually win these kind of games away from home, we dominated the first half, losing the game is hard to take as we played really well. Tony has us playing well, long may it continue.

Big group of Newcastle fans on Bburn end that day, never seen that before, surrounded by police, got pelters when we scored. Genuinely think they got sold the wrong tickets, certainly not Gremlins.

That’s a tremendous result on the face of things, to grind out a draw at Brentford with 10 men for 45 mins is superb, shows great character. This side is on the right path, if we’re in the same position come Feb we’ve a chance.

This will be a real test today against last seasons play off finalists, a much better side than Fulham in my opinion who went up. Brentford are very strong at home and will no doubt be there or thereabouts at the end of the season. I'd take a draw now 1-1

Not El Greco but the top of the ramp, 60's modern.

Another Saturday night of boxing is ahead of us with the main event for me being Spence Jr v Garcia on Premier Sports overnight from Dallas. Both with superb records, two real classy fighters, looking forward to it. Anthony Yarde v Lyndon Arthur is the main event domestically from Church House Westminster, with a decent undercard too, on BT Sports.

It was time for Tony to move on, he'd done a tremendous job for the club over the years, but Hughes wanted to bring new impetus and he did just that. Good players, good football and a desire to win, I loved the Hughes years. Can we get him back?

I'm not saying this is wrong, but its the sort of thing I can hear my dad saying, him being fiercely protective over Rovers and our players, they could do no wrong

Then he proceeded to kick the ball out of the ground

Remember that game well, the original match was postponed due to snow/ice, we sold out for the Saturday and still took thousands on the Tuesday. The dingles were going to derby on the Saturday and the police were worried, think they staggered the rearranged games midweek, it’s was to cold to scrap anyway. Notts County had a decent side, was Warnock the manager? First division side at the time? The Speedie incident was never a sending off

I wonder if the Rovers fans stood behind the floodlight pylon had reduced tickets because of the restricted view Echo what everyone has already said, without doubt the worst day I've ever had following football, the journey home was mostly stunned silence.

That was early 80’s when racism was rife across the UK and football was a breading ground for the brain dead. It Certainly wasn’t the case in early 90’s, but thanks for bringing it up.