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No news on Blackburn's interest in Ross Stewart in the Lancashire Telegraph and the Rovers Forum reckons the news is bunkum including one of my mates who is a big Rovers fan. Apparently the club has a £10k a week maximum wage so would expect Ross's Agent would be looking at something north of that. Perhaps we could offer him a reasonable signing on fee plus a decent wedge each week plus a bonus on games he plays and the goals he scores.

And Ross is still a Free Agent!!

Disgraceful. Not one double barrelled name amongst them!! Seriously, best of luck to all of them and hopefully see a few of them in first team kit in years to come.

Definitely Venkys. Absolutely hated by the Rovers fans.

Just a little bit of comparison from the past. Just after the end of WW2 Saints nearly got promoted twice from the old Second Division to the First Division. The older supporters (or more likely their fathers) will remember one season (1948/9?) when Saints were 8 points clear at the top at Easter (when there were only 2 points for a win) and they fell away after star striker ,Charlie Wayman, was injured in the 1-0 win at White Hart Lane in front of over 70,000 supporters. The Saints Board announced a profit of £20,000 for that season!! Mind you when I first started going to The Dell, the cost to get in was 1/-, equivalent of 5p in todays money. Johnny Haynes of Fulham was the first £100 a week player in the 1960's. Most players had to get a part time job outside the season as they were either on nil or restricted wages.

Better result than achieved by the Saints last Saturday!!

I think David Armstrong was judged to have been offside somewhere on the opposite side of the pitch and no where near the goal. Would have been a goal in todays offside rules. Some people on the TV saying he was a true scousers!! Fact was he played for Liverpool, England, Hamburg Newcastle as well as the mighty Saints. He was born in Doncaster so definitely not a scouser.

I wonder how Donnie's law suit against the BBC is going? No news either on the 'investigation' over who was responsible for the bombing of the school in Iran.

The smells of dubbin and embrocation plus the discomfort of stud nails coming through the soles of your old fashioned leather football boots. The 'good old days'😗

It is appreciated that time marches on but when I was a kid we used to have fish and chips once a week from our local chippie. I guess the fish would have been cod or haddock. The cost for fish and chips, wrapped in newspaper, was the equivalent of 10p. But this was when the UK had big fishing fleets operating out of many ports, particularly Hull & Grimsby and potatoes were a staple crop throughout the British Isles. All that said, at the time none of our family had a car, nor such things as a phone/fridge/washing machine, and our 14" Sobell T, only able to pick up BBC and later ITV, was rented. Our holidays were basically coach trips to Weymouth, Bournemouth or Swanage or a visit oop north to stay with relatives. Our council house was bloody freezing in the winter and we had to queue for around an hour outside The Dell to get our best spots in the Chocolate Boxes. My first wage, after leaving school was £520 a year but I was able to save enough to pay for driving lessons and buy and insure an eleven year old car within a year. My generation had very little, compared to the younger generation of today but our expectations were low but we were lucky and relatively happy.

Apparently 15,000 season ticket holders have renewed out of a total 19,000 last season. More or less as expected, I guess. Will be interesting to see how many 'newbies' have decided to shell out hard earned income to add to me and the 14,999 others.

I wonder how much the Sky TV revenue is worth to us per game? Presumably the match fee has to be shared 50/50 with our opponents?

Is he any good?

Farage is a sensitive little soul out of the same box as his mate Donald.

When we hopefully trounce 'Boro at SMS next season, the song 'I Spy (For The FBI') by Jamo Thomas would be a good choice at the end of the game.