Hasta

King, Cairney, rhodes, gestede, Olsson, Duffy, Hanley. Yet we still couldn't get close to getting in the top 6. We only went under FFP the year he left. Nice guy, good eye for a player, failure at Ewood.

Senior has put himself on the back foot with some cringeworthy interviews that have show he will happily fiddle while Rome burns. However he has done 3 major things so far. Remove Coyle (the good), give us Jaoa (the bad) and bring in Mowbray (the ugly ). Going forward, the relationship between him and Mowbray will need to be exceptionally good if he's providing players, However it has to be Mowbrays call if he wants them. It's no good forcing players on a manager and forcing him to adapt his system.which brings us back to is a DOF a glorified scout?

Stop trying to crow Chaddy. Anyone with half an eye could see Senior wanted Coyle out and a 'yes man' to work under him as a coach from as soon as he arrived.. You also said you expected a foreign coach to come in.

So do I Chaddy. That's because when we let everybody out of contract go we will have no choice. They'll be in the squad whether they are any good or not!

Wonder if this is printed already in tomorrow's print version. Kean heads.

Williams: Lower end championship player. Gallagher: OK for this level. Graham: Decent for this level. Lamberts parting gift. Feeney: Birmingham game aside, totally useless Hoban: OK Greer: Desperate Emnes: Declined after initial promise. Uninspiring Mulgrew: Very Good but that contract length is madness. Stokes, Byrne, Samuelson, Hendry: All missing in Action because they are so poor.

Lol. What skill? He's had one good game where he caused a slow full back trouble.He can put a decent cross in sometimes but he's hardly Josh King quick and he's no trickery, control or vision. I was all for praising him against Birmingham as he was very effective but that is the first glimpse I've seen of anything from him. I'd still drop him for Mahoney now.

Nyambe I've not formed an opinion of as I've not seen him enough. However I don't think Raya is anywhere near good enough. Another downgrade that might be accepted because he's from 'the academy'.

Pity that Manchester is on a Monday. I might make a night of it and go Liverpool on the 20th May. I'm impressed they've put so many UK dates on.

"I can see Big Sam waving goodbye, God it looks like Big Sam. Must be the clouds in my eyes"

Let's go in on 18 minutes, get the whistles out on 30 minutes, throw a chicken on the stage and then leave on 75 minutes.

Exactly as Andyroversmad says above. We have a shortlist of candidates we are interviewing to find the best man for the job. Suddenly a candidate becomes available whose last three activities in football has led Bolton to relegation, failed at Wigan and then left Houston Dynamos when they are bottom of the league. Despite all of the interviews being completed, suddenly this guy becomes available, becomes front runner and gets the job. It stinks.

Barcelona need to beat Granada live on Sky Sports at 4pm to win La Liga. Only Ruben Rochina stands in their way.

As Bolton have spent most of that time trying to build every other local team up as their 'big rival', maybe they can officially have Stanley.

When they have had to replace guitarists and the drummer previously, they've always gone back to ex-members who have been in the band previously. Stevie Young and Chris Slade both had spells in the band in the late 80s / early 90s so, when they stepped in a few years ago, in a way it still felt like the same band. Alongside them, Cliff Williams and Brian Johnson had been in the group over 25 years each so they are no longer stand ins.I know there are no ex singers to turn to but turning to Axl feels completely wrong. It stinks of having 30 expensive sold out dates to complete and needing a 'name' to justify the huge ticket costs.

Axl Rose now confirmed as ACDC guest singer for the remainder of the Rock or Bust tour. FFS

You could see the fear in Stokes eyes as he prepared for that over. Bottled it.

AXL/DC ? No thanks.

Primarily Cole was quick and could be used as an outlet when under pressure. Once on the ball he could beat a man or hold it up and bring players into play.Not knocking Rhodes as he is probably the better finisher but Cole was far more of an all round player. I was surprised how good he was when he joined to be honest.

Sega themselves were perfectly capable of utilising the second processor for 3D. The vast majority of the 'elite' games were done by sega - fighters megamx, virtua fighter, Nights , Panzer Dragoon, Daytona and the (for the time) perfection of Sega Rally. ID software also managed it with Quake and Exhumed.The problem was most third parties couldn't achieve anything like those titles. EA demonstrated this by making an absolute shambles of FIFA98, which was superb on the Playstation and the less said about the Saturn version of Doom the better !!

One of the reasons I still fire the Saturn up is because modern games have too much story and cut scenes. Too many characters and too much plot. During most weeks, due to work I may only get 3 or 4 spells of half an hour long to jump onto a console. I want a quick arcade type game that I can chuck on, play and then come off. That's how it was for most games in the 80s and 90s. Now they are too deep. I do like a game with a story behind it (loved Deus Ex for example) but if you don't revisit it for 2 weeks you have forgotten what the hell is going on.

Once you start to slip, getting third party is not easy. Sega lost ground with the Saturn, despite being powerful enough, was notoriously difficult for third party programmers to work on. A lot of these developers new really returned for the Dreamcast and without enough games and developers as system is dead. Whilst my old playstations, Xbox and Dreamcast gather dust in the loft, my Saturn is still active alongside my ps4 though. Prob my fave console ever :-)

Good old Ciccio. http://youtu.be/aNrdEtCHrtc

Do you know what. After the draw last Saturday I will probably have to drag myself down to Ewood for most home games coming up. If we actually gave some of these lads a go, at least it would provide some interest to proceedings.

This has become almost fact now.We ended up 11 points clear of relegation the season before. He left in 2004 after 4 games, the last being a home draw against Manchester United. The problem was that people then still expected us to be challenging for Europe every season. We were probably too adventurous for our own good under Souness which cost us in a lot of games but the myth that we were doomed when he eventually went is bunkum.