A classic, cheeky chappy Cockney. Popular with all and sundry but with no sense of responsibility, and no idea what real friends are, but knows plenty of hangers on. He should be doing this community service in Blackburn Hospice, then he might get a sense of how privileged a lifestyle he leads.

In other news, it’s now ok to break the law and not be subject to criticism from, among others, those who help pay your wages.

The club didn't have to stand by him after his initial offence but they did. They even covered it up for him in public. Mowbray has stuck his neck out for him and he's initially repaid that by knuckling down and taking his game to the next level . He got off lightly with just community service (he assaulted a police officer ffs!) then he didn't do his sentence. Which he's presumably lied to the club/ Mowbray about doing. He's had numerous warnings which he's just ignored. It's real F you to the club. This needs to be a wake-up call for the lad. He simply has to do his community or he's going to prison next time. But more than that he's needs to sort his priorities out now before he's telling some lads in a bar in Marbella about how he could've played in the premier league and how good he was in league 1 in the 17/18 season. Mowbray has stuck his neck out for him again and it should be the last time. Next time he gets himself in trouble he should be on his own. We can all guess as to why he's done this. If I was Mowbray I would be asking the lad to take a long hard look at the people around him.

If " The Daily Mail " told me today was Wednesday I'd go and look at a calendar. They'll know a bit about liking Hitler though, they were part of his fan club before the war.

Mr Dack...you are the Clubs best player and popular with the fans. That aside,please do not take the Pish out of the Club that pays your handsome wages and especially do not waste the time of our Manager who has better things to do than defending your sorry arse in a Court of Law. Screw your head back on to avoid further embarrassment for all concerned.

I know I should be furious about this but I'm not. I've seen it all so many times with kids at school. You misbehave you get 10 mins at break, but when the class is dismissed and you're meant to stay, you walk out with everyone else. So the teacher makes it a lunchtime detention and you fail to turn up. So it goes to a formal after school detention with notice to parents and you fail to turn up again, at which point you get the parents in and mum or dad has to guarantee they attend the detention. At each stage the kid thinks it'll get forgotten about and their parents will never have to know. But generally, however long it takes, they have to bite the bullet and do the punishment which is always worse than the initial offence probably warranted and would have taken no time at all to complete. As someone said earlier, footballers are, in many cases, just like schoolkids. He needs to sort himself out and stop letting down decent honest folk who have gone out on a limb for him and to get himself back playing asap

Here’s an alternate theory: the problem isn’t due to him mixing with the wrong sort, it’s that he is the wrong sort.

You'll not hear many who know him say a bad word about Andy Todd, Brown on the other hand..... ?

Phil Brown had it coming as far as I can tell. It was meant to be a team building trip and Brown wouldn't leave off slagging Todd over his old man resigning from the Bolton job. Todd was one of my faves during that era of Rovers. Wouldn't mind someone like him on the books today. Could be the steel to Mulgrew's silk.

Lads made a mistake. Look at the likes of Troy Deeney. He has a choice now. Sort his head out and focus or be a "I could have been somebody" at the end of his career. I'm not sure I buy into completely slating him. He's grown up in a different world where egos can become inflated very easily. Hopefully this is a reality check, brings him back down to earth with a bump and he looks at what's important going forwards. He's been a nob, he's been stupid. Accept it, change going forwards

Kalinic got slated on here when he did the same thing at the recent World Cup.

I am struggling to understand how the Club management including Mowbray and the tightly knit dressing-room did not know that this situation was developing. It developed over many months, someone else at the Club just had to know. Ordinary Joe Bloggs would be eatinģ porridge for breakfast well before now. I am also convinced he has been missing recent games because of this and nothing else despite our being fed bullshit.

I can't help but feel sorry for the chap. Argue the toss about whether he was good enough or not, but that's a really rotten injury for him. As far as I know it's the last year of his contract? Open to correction on that, but it means his recovery is really a 'make or break' situation. Good luck to him.

His arse now needs kicking until it's too sore to sit down. New contract, probably a nice pay rise and a big price tag then in typical football brat style he starts playing up. Fooking idiots these lot no wonder Souness didn't fancy it anymore dealing with plebs like this. Lets hope Mowbray puts his foot through him and we don't have another Uncle Gaz type environment brewing.

Dominic Samuel .. ACL reconstruction.

I can understand his frustration as well but refusing the bench and going out instead, not really acceptable.

In a packed episode hosted by Ian Herbert, the panel of Jen Bellamy, Linz Lewis & Michael Taylor, reviews August, both on & off the field including the transfer windows, speculates wildly about the value of Bradley Dack & we have three (count 'em) guests - Bill Arthur - takes us back to the 50's & 60's & his boyhood memories of supporting Rovers Ian Futter - shares his Essex heritage & shares what it's like supporting Rovers from North Wales Bruce Wilkinson - a regular contributor to When Saturday Comes magazine shares his love of Rovers Ideal listening for the journey down to Bristol...please tell all your Rovers-supporting pals and spread the word ! If anyone would like to contribute a piece to a future episode along the lines of those from Bill & Ian, please let us know on this thread, via PM or on the @brfcsdotcom Twitter feed. Thanks again to all the contributors for giving up their time...hope you enjoy ! http://brfcs-podcast.brfcs.com/?name=2018-09-01_brfcs_episode_98_1.mp3 iTunes here https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/brfcs-blackburn-rovers-fan-community-podcast-from-brfcs/id1282664472?mt=2#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fbrfcs-podcast.brfcs.com%2F%3Fname%3D2018-09-01_brfcs_episode_98_1.mp3

I think it’s a bloody good job you’re not a magistrate then! The prosecution case was that he was accused of criminal damage (a charge that was ultimately dropped). When he was told by the police officer he was going to be arrested, he “shoved” the officer once and ran off, before being arrested further down the street. He pleaded guilty to assault pc at the earliest opportunity. A man of no previous convictions. Full time employment in a promising career. Never in a million years did it warrant an immediate term of imprisonment. He has however subsequently taken the mickey with the Community Order and he could easily have gone down yesterday. He benefited immensely from Mowbray’s eloquence and a sensible District Judge.

If I remember rightly there were similar fitness issues just before something broke about him last time around ? Hopefully if he gets his nut down we'll benefit for a few months with some quality stuff on the pitch like last time then his price will be high. Sadly as much as I think he's a cracking talent I don't see a long and happy future with this lad at Rovers. The root cause of it is probably something to do with him not settling right well up here, not the club but area he most likely spends his spare time chasing up and down back to Essex as well as after that fame hungry skirt. That could well have contributed to him not doing what he should have. The old 'he's here to play football and nothing else matters' is also possibly how the club have looked at it seeing as he was doing well but they should have looked beyond that knowing his character type.

Part of the problem was that he hadn't told the club from what I've been told. Now that they know TM has confirmed they will make sure he turns up!

Handy player in his day. He didn't mind a bit of the rough stuff if it was needed.

Again, you missed the subtlety that I had actually moved the discussion on. Possibly because of the way your mind works or because you couldn’t wait to get another dig in. And it wasn’t even that subtle. My post was nothing to do with the photo but what that photo might have meant for sorry young Bradley if the judge had been made aware of it. His character is very important in those circumstances and Mowbray has stuck his neck out for him. Hope that loyalty is repaid when the time comes for it to be tested.

Hammering Phil Brown after he insulted Todds dad is a bit different imo. Toddy was an old school hard man who was probably fine as long as no one took liberties. Brad seems to fall under the worrying snowflake label of modern players who just want to do as they please and expect someone else to clear up the mess, in short they don't particularly care for the rules then melt when they have to face up to them. Marshall, Jake Kean, Stokes now Dack the list is endless and the clubs should deal with serial offenders swiftly and harshly or rip up their damn contracts.

I await the LTs account of this, no doubt to be confused even further. Mind you they tend be a bit slow on this sort of thing. Can't wait to hear the punishment handed down by Conway Mulgrew, who sound like a Scottish Legal firm or a Scottish prison warden played by Fulton Mackay. I think they will just do the bedsheet trick. Thing is how did he pass our own much promoted fit and proper, right sort, good personality tests.

"You've got great legs Mr Midfielder Partner, and I love what you've done with your hair" That kind of thing?

You would suspect not. I like Smallwood but I don't think he's good enough for this level. Thank him for his fantastic services and let him get onto a club where he can be a central figure again next summer. He did his job and did it well.

Pleased you agree with me!

Those 8 points could make all the difference

Lancashire tie with Somerset. 8 points each.. Maharaj takes 7 wickets. Very lucky but surely Somerset will.lose points for poor pitch

Perhaps all of this nonsense is part of the reason other clubs avoided signing him before we did? He's obviously pretty immature and the adulation and money coming from football is making things worse. It could easily spiral out of control so somebody needs to have a word with him and ask him what his priorities really are. It's possible Mowbray already has and it hasn't worked. He's our most talented player by far so we really need his head in the game. As good as Dack has been for us nobody is irreplaceable, so if I was Tony I'd at least have one eye on who to bring in as the next Dack should he be sold or be unavailable for non-footballing reasons. We don't want to put the club's future in terms of results on the pitch in the hands of a man who clearly hasn't grown up yet.

‘Head in the sand attitude’. More like ‘let’s go to Marbella/Dubai/other chav hole to get f*cked up all summer while I should be doing community service’ attitude. Decent player but a cretin off it. Sort yourself out Bradley, you are in serious danger of being a what might’ve been.

Surely it's obvious what Booth meant. It's the Kevin Keegan school of football which works great IF you are able to defend well, but we often can't so more often than not we'll end up drawing or losing if we don't pay more attention to the defensive side of the game. Particularly as we struggle to score from open play without Dack in the team.

No. I agree with you in regards to the need for professional athletes to look after themselves. The photograph and other incidents indicate Dack isn't doing this and it could lead to the situation Egyptian Pete described. I don't believe the photograph had any influence on the team's performance at Bristol - it seems to have been a typical Rovers performance with the difference being in this league we'll get hammered. Last season we got away with wins and draws when we only turned up for one half. Nowt to do with photographs and everything to do with the mystery of why we do it!!!

See i agree I don't see Williams as being much better Defensively. The one area that he's better is in the air. I don't think his positioning is better I don't think his passing general ball control is better I don't think he's a better 1v1 defender than Bell. Bell is clearly better going forward. I'd stick with Bell but I think Tony will go back Williams after the international break

Garner went to jail for far less. Dadley Brack is a lucky boy irrespective of middle finger photoed in the act. The club has stood by him beyond ordinary loyalty.

Yep, man. You're dead right. I looked it up and he's under contract until the end of June, 2020. Cheers!

200%. If he makes a balls of it again after this there'll be no coming back from it, I'm sure. For Rovers at any rate. Hopefully the daft git gets the message.

Now, that I can believe. Always seemed a complete bell-end!

I wish it was possible for you to move on for non event but instead you obsess with Dack posing in a pic with a woman on Saturday night whilst not in the 1st team squad due to injury

Criticism is fair but some of this is way over the top.

Think he signed a 3 year deal.

Agreed. The picture is irrelevant. He probably didn't even put it on t'web himself anyway and probably had no idea it was going on. I'd be amazed if it was mentioned by the judge! Missing his community work three times is a joke though. No time for tossers like that.

What an absolute dickhead We've missed him for a few games on the back of this as well, if that was you or I we’d be carted off to custody now!

I wish it was possible to have a normal conversation with you, Chris. Sadly, your are devoid of any depth of comprehension. Enjoy your day.

I thought unpaid work in the Rovers store?

Hope it's not a case of Evans playing for a contract over a team. He isn't the same player that we have seen the last few years that's for sure.

I did. You describe the events perfectly. I actually think Raya could have done better, but if it wasn't for him overall they could have scored 6

A lot of the time we are far too one dimensional. We don't have a single out and out winger at the club, that's pretty poor, nobody can argue it isn't. Bennett isn't a winger, I'm sorry but he isn't. Therefore if that's the case you need your full backs bombing up the flanks, but they aren't doing so, bell is the most capable, but whether he's being told not to or not, I'm unsure, but his forward play at fleetwood tells me he's good at it and likes it, therefore he's being told not to. Nyambe for all his plaudits, isn't all that great at going forward, he will run with his head down for 20 yards or so and then turnaround. Therefore because of this, we put the majority of play through the man who plays behind graham, or long balls to graham himself, especially away from home. Only way around that is playing 3 cbs and two really forward playing wing backs, but we don't have 3 centre backs good enough to play thay system at this level. Lenihan and mulgrew aren't top half championship centre halves, simple as. After them there are no other proper centre halves bar a downing. The sqaud isnt strong enough to challenge the top teams. We need another couple of windows and need to hope Tony doesn't stick to his favourites and knows when to drop some when they aren't all that good.

Again, taking criticism about an INDIVIDUAL match and both managerial decisions and player performances that may have caused the INDIVIDUAL thrashing and using them within a bigger picture to try and make a mockery of valid points. You say its a massive leap, something that people are basically in universal agreement and understanding on. Believe you me, if we had lost 4-1 to Rochdale or Fleetwood then criticism would have been twice as strong. You say cut a bit of slack, but people are commenting about ONE GAME in the appropriate match thread. Please highlight quotes whereby people are suggesting that they think we will struggle throughout the entire season, that there are questions about Mowbrays future, or anything that demonstrates anything other than criticism over an individual performance and result. It might happen on occasion, but if it does, it will warrant criticism. Just as if we do it to someone else, we will get praise.