BLACKBURN Rovers is a club with a glorious history. You can go back to the late 1800s when we won five FA Cups to the early 1900s when we won two league titles.

It was a great honour, then, to get together two of the teams who brought the club success in its modern day history.

Thursday’s celebration at Ewood Park of the 1974-75 and 1994-95 championship-winning teams was a great success.

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The turn out from the 74-75 boys was absolutely fantastic and I couldn’t have asked more from the 94-95 guys.

When we, the Blackburn Rovers Former Players Association, initially thought about the idea of doing a dinner, we all said we would be happy to get 10 members of the team that won the Premiership to attend.

So to get 17 out of the 21-man squad was unbelievable.

And the boys really enjoyed it. It’s the first time we’ve been all together in 20 years and it was the first time we’ve really celebrated what we achieved.

The boys are not egotistical, they never throw around the fact that we became Premiership champions. I think that’s why, wrongly, people still say that we bought the league, when that was clearly not the case.

So it was nice to celebrate and the amount of plaudits we’ve had back have been amazing.

We’ve set up the Former Players Association to provide support for ex-players and their families.

And to do that we had use the dinner as a way of launching the association.

We therefore went to the corporate sponsors which had supported the club back in 94-95.

To our surprise a lot of those sponsors wanted to come and take a table.

That limited us in the amount of tickets we could open to the fans. To me, that was a disappointing thing.

But we raised a lot of money on the night, which will go to good causes, and the success of it means it’s opened the doors for us to do more events in the future, which supporters will be able to attend.

On the playing front we’re at that time of year when everything is fairly quiet.

But I see that Jordan Rhodes has missed out on a place in the Scotland squad.

To be honest, I’m not surprised.

Jordan finished the season in fine form, scoring goals, but you have to look at the way Scotland play.

And, if you do that, you can understand why they have picked the strikers they have, and not Jordan.

Steven Fletcher will be the loan striker, Steven Naismith will play behind him or out wide, and Johnny Russell is really useful if they change to a three.

That leaves Leigh Griffiths or Jordan to play back-up. And Leigh’s got the nod.