Bonnet de douche Rodney. what a 24 carat plonker you really are!

I wonder if the Wharton brothers have been a little too excitable in training this week?

I think we are a work in progress. Good enough to be competitive. The important thing for me is to create as much space between us and 7th place as a crack at the play offs would be our biggest success for about 20 years.

Yes, but will he get the clap from Sweaty Gussets?

Interesting! It was clear from watching yesterday that Szmodics had won tackle after tackle. At 2-1 up, away from home I felt that introducing him rather than Dack was the correct decision. He harrassed Boro and broke up their consistency. He can both score and assist and looks to have a bit of pace. I wouldn't go so far as to class him as a top end Championship player but he is useful in the Dolan impact sub role and I believe he will prove to be better and more effective than Hedges over time.

Szmodics won more tackles in 15 minutes than Pickering did all game.

2 midfielders on a yellow but Wharton subbed.

Travis needs subbing before he gets sent off

Unless he is already down to his leotard

Just posted my team Chaddy. We have 8 of the same players but a different formation. Travis, Szmodics and Hedges lose out to Adam Wharton, Dack and Gallagher in my team. for me Dack is many times the player Szmodics is, and Gallagher offers more, all things considered than Hedges. Regarding Travis, I thought he was dreadful last night, slow in possession and something of a liability. Vastly overrated in my opinion.

Kaminski Brittain Hyam Wharton Pickering Dack Morton Wharton Gallagher Hirst Brereton Absolutely no chance of this but it's how I would line up. I think this team would find a way to win.

Agreed. Kaminski has the option to pick a long ball from a goal kick in a controlled environment where he can select which area to target, whilst under no pressure. Instead he plays it short, we panic and he gets a dangerous back pass, so then resorts to punting the now moving ball upfield, under pressure from a striker. How can that be the preferred option, and why do we keep doing it?

5-1 half time. Free for season tickets, fiver otherwise

How funny; I was just about to post his name. Think he came twice on loan, perhaps from Sunderland. I thought he was a great player. If memory serves he played in the big 3rd round cup tie in January '83 against Liverpool. That game recently popped up on YouTube and is well worth tracking down.

Buckley coming on 2nd half I think. Probably for Wharton

I likened Wharton to Barker after his debut the other week. Very similar players. Wharton looks quicker than Simon, and lighter on his feet. Barker very often bossed midfield like all great players in that position. Barker spent much of his last season at Rovers (the Archibald season) injured, hence a cut price £400k to QPR. He would have been better staying another season as we would have walked promotion (Palace season) with him playing instead of someone like Jon Millar. If Wharton can score goals with the frequency of Barker (and I think he can) we will have some player on our hands.

Phil Starbuck

Oh God! Not on your honeymoon! What on earth will you find to do?

My trusty 'Blackburn Rovers A Complete Record' by Mike Jackman, reports this as taking place on Monday 25th March 1967. A crowd of 21,740 saw Douglas score the only goal of the game.

Great to watch him yesterday. Simon Barker -esque.

What was the attendance? Surely a bumper crowd with tickets priced from as little as £2. Particularly following the massive publicity and achievement of the national side this summer.

Let's hope in next weeks cup game Bradford don't become Leon Spinks

Pickering giving the ball away on his crosses time and time again. Unbelievably poor.

Go to a flat back 4 with Pickering or Edun off. Morton into midfield and Dack for Szmodics. Got to play higher up the pitch.

Idiot!