This debate will be irrelevent when the Admiral is back

Bucky I certainly agree with both examples that you've listed. How Tugay didn't get his ban overturned was a joke. However I think that the Henchoz one was more or less right (certainly at least a yellow) and didn't hold any hope of a reprieve. I think we would have all been pretty annoyed if it had been a striker of ours and their defender in the same situation and he hadnt have got sent off. As for consistency and us getting a break or two...well that's a different matter!

This is one subject that I dont think anybody can back Hughes on. A silly decision and one that gets worse with every game that he wears it.

Congrats Danlad-I hope Rovers can give you something extra to celebrate! I'm going to go for a 1-1 with Sav bagging one for us.

This is probably bad news for us as they will no doubt get a better manager in. IF he does go surely a bet on Sven would be worth a tenner or so. Edit: As Circo just said...hes gone!

Reverting to 4-5-1 would not doubt make us harder to beat. But question: If we were to fall behind could any one on here see us coming back from behind to win? I cant for the life of me see any goals in this team at all and that is the major worry. 4-5-1 would no doubt make the goal scoring problem even worse.

Your sounding like Mark Hughes Eddie! That must be about the tenth game this season at least where we havent shown up first half. Its like the players need a rollicking from the gaffer to even start a match. We lost again, and the only reason we probably won't go down is because there are at least three awful teams who are worse than us in the league right now-although one of whom beat us on Tuesday.

Dont worry Mokoena will be on in a minute to conserve what we have

And who is going to score two goals pick32?! I think we would have more firepower with my Nan upfront. Looks like Rovers have again provided us all with another cracking weekend! Bottom three by Christmas is a cert.

Although Ive predicted a defeat a win is so so important when you look at our fixtures. Looking at them we have Reading and Arsenal away next and then Liverpool at home. All three of these fixtures will see embarassing defeats if we play anything like we have of late.

Just fear the worst right now and I think that even Hughes is getting concerned. Surely we should beat them at Ewood without Shearer though? Rovers 0 Newcastle 1-Sibierski

No way should we place our hopes on getting out of danger on another Nonda or Yord coming in on loan. Strikers available on loan are usually available because they're not good enough (Smith perhaps aside). We need players who are going to fight for the club.

Ooijer and co probably concur!

Could the duo be any worse than Nonda or Gamst though ?! You know what Im saying though-a half decent footballer to compliment the pace would be preferable.

We clearly lack pace and it's becoming more and more evident with each game that passes. Harry Redknapp was speaking a day or two ago and said that come January he's after 'pacey' players. Does anybody have suggestions on who we could possibly go for that fits the bill (price/availability etc)? I don't believe for one second that Hughes himself doesn't think that we lost our major weapon in Bellamy's pace and I would think and hope that he tries to rectify our lack of it come January. But as Redknapp and others will be snifing about it wont be easy.

Judging by Mark Bowen's bulging folder at full-time last night I'd have to agree!!!

I've said it before but for me McCarthy's most frustrating point is his lack of directness towards goal. He gets the ball, dwells, tries a flick, attempts a trick when really we want our front two to run at defenders. We desperately need somebody pacey to compliment Benny, because at the moment he's just a luxury we cannot afford-especially away from home. As for Shabani 'goal machine' Nonda...

Absoloutely gutted. Bad day for me too...fly home from scorching Tenerife to freezing England and when you need a pick up Rovers again do their utmost to bring you crashing back down to earth. God we need January to come..Lacklustre and lack of concentration just about sum up our Premiership season so far.

Hughes cannot have been too happy with the first half...Good to see Gamst finally being replaced. Comon boys Charlton are there for the taking!!

Sky Sports are reporting tonight that Aaron Mokoena is to be offered a new 2 and a half year deal by Rovers. They go on to say that he performed admirably as Sav's deputy recently.

Similarly, which i doubt that a man as wise as Hughes would, if he were to say "we're too good to go down" or taking some fans' opinions that we literally have to turn up to beat teams such as Watford and Fulham then we're in trouble. No team is too good to go down and whilst I don't expect us to be involved in a dog fight we need to roll up our sleaves and fight for every point now rather than later.

Billy Sharpe is the man who put two past my local team Yeovil Town on Saturday. I agree with Billy there are good young strikers out there in the lower leagues who deserve a crack in the prem. Ie. Sharpe and Eastwood spring to mind. Also has anyone seen Jarvis of Gillingham play? I haven't but he's meant to be a very pacey winger-something we could perhaps do with.

One rumour site this morning says that Chelsea may enter the running for Lucas.

God I hope that this article is correct. IF he did recover his form of old,which he sounds confident of, then que another good run in the league as I said above.

Nice preview Rog. I suppose I should predict nearer the time but I'm going for a frustrating 1-1 with Sav for us and Mcbride scoring against us again. Surely we can't be dragged nearer to the bottom three