So did Andy Cole but his goal scoring instinct to get into those places for those chances spoke for itself. Same with Dack.

Don't play him. Fair enough. But if we are poor or need a goal give him 45 minutes or half an hour. To have him on the bench and either not bring him on or give him a few minutes right at the end when we need a goal is baffling. Interesting that every starting lineup on the Boro thread by members on here has Dack in it. No hate to Sammy by the way. He's not shown enugh apart from odd flashes but he's not alone and the system maybe doesnt help him either.

Has he been closing down though?

I don't want to sack him. I just want him to stop messing around passing it about within 20 yards of our own goal when we are in danger. Cost us at Luton. Cost us last night. Also, try playing your more threatening and creative players more often. (Not at full back)

Wait till it's 0-0 on the Turf in injury time and Ayala's one-two with Kaminsky goes astray and they score.

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Not what I’d have picked and I fear we will offer little going forward. However it’s still early days for Hirst and Sammy. They’ve got a chance to impress so let’s see.

Scotty beamed us up in 1992. Then retired. I have no real recollection of him playing for either Newcastle or Bolton.

Pretty well. Won AS Roma their first trophy in 14 seasons.

Not sure you can leave it too long. Curbishley admits he turned down offers after he left West Ham, but then he didnt return quick enough and soon became forgotten and the offers stopped coming in.

It's not that he doesnt believe him. It's just that if he is professional Brereton cannot possibly say anything else really.

Good watch. Although If this is it then it’s not Sky and doesn’t show any footage of him in tears at Birmingham - which is what I suspected. Just some research based on comments on here based on 1 tweet which was generally debunked by those that attended.

Or Southampton or Leeds if they became available.

Can you see if you can find it, because the Birmingham story was debunked by the majority of fans that were there and has become an urban myth. I've not seen any documentary on Sky regarding BBD.

Whether it is a big following or not will depend on how many people returned tickets when it was cancelled.

Szmosics had a good game and the team played well, but there was no high press.

Whilst I was pretty worried until the penalty, once we got in front we played some good stuff and were pretty comfortable. I’m surprised they had lost so few before today after watching them, but even so it was a good confidence-boosting win all in. No one was an outstanding 9 or 10, but with everyone probably rating 7 with a few 8’s in there made us clearly the better team overall. Atmosphere was pretty flat from both sides.

My mate was offered the spare season ticket in our group on Wednesday and he said the same thing. Tried him again this morning and he still said no.

Not necessarily because in the 4 minutes that were left I wouldnt have put it past us shipping at the other end, as my examples above and several others from recent history highlight. If the ref had literally blown the whistle after the goalkeeper kicked it then I would say yes. But he didnt.

Just going to give this a bit of a bump as I started the Michael Hodkinson book No Nay Never last night after having left it unread at the side of the bed for almost a year. As others have said its a brilliant read, and I'm only on the early chapters so far. If you missed it or ignored it last year, well worth checking out.

Therefore Brad Friedel once won us a point at Charlton. And Charlie Mulgrew won us three points at Leeds. We ended up losing both of those games.

The problem is he’s not doing it slowly. From about 4 games in it became clear he is insisting that the players we have play this slow build passing game from the back. It doesn’t suit the players and it shows in the performances. In fact I first noticed us doing it at Celtic.

It was the insinuation that you need premiership payments to achieve success. I replied its not true because clubs that dont have premiership money DO have success and DO get promoted. We're in a bit of a circle here. Howver forget we are talking about Rovers. The point is you can trade your way to promotion. It's difficult but this is sport and it does happen, and probably more often than your post above implies.

There's nothing new I can say that I havent said after the Luton and Millwall games. Slow pointless passing putting ourselves in trouble and losing the ball and creating little threat. When we went a goal down we suddnely started trying to get the ball forward quicker and looked a bit more dangerous. Also helped that we had an attacker on the pitch who knows how to find himself in dangerous positions. However i'm sure we will be back to the same slow build from our own half "project" next game. Jon Dahl Stubbornsson

No. You said without parachute payments ( "premier league money) you couldn't succeeed in this league. If you trade properly you can. If you put a Rovers hat on, would we have been allowed to invest as much of that money from sales in as Forest have? Almost definitely not.