An unchanged team and Hull 1 Rovers 3. Bowen for them and Dack, Graham and Gallagher for us.

Blimey! Not to mention awkward....

Yes but surely you could argue that TM, and other experienced managers like him, are the reason they failed? You can’t have it both ways. (I’m in the sack him if I thought we could get better camp by the way)

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40 years old yesterday this record.....ironically The Jam - When You're Young

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The trees appear to be blocking the wood RB! This post is either the epitome of glass half empty or you have a particular narrative which you won’t deviate from. I’ll let you contact Alan Shearer and tell him the 50 or so penalties he has tucked away in his time don’t count as scoring.

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Clean sheet = same again. Has to be really. Cue Tosin walking back into the side ?

You’ve gotta love a 1-0 scrappy win. The beautiful game my arse. Give me 3 points any time. RTID

Picked up a knock in training. Apparently ?

You have to doff your cap to Smith. Two very evenly matched teams - but I think the Aussies do rely on Smith too much. He will fail at some point. This game looks like a draw now

A reasonable and fair post. Personally I think TM is sailing close to the wind with some of his decisions but I don’t think it’s an obvious ‘sack him’ situation simply because of Venkys’ track record on recruiting managers.

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Oh and I forgot to add - the example you gave (Milner) has been playing regular premier league football since he was 16. United’s class of 92 did okay as well, Rooney etc etc. You seem to think I’m comparing amateur football to the pro game - i’m not that silly (although your watching of a few Blackburn Combination 5th division games seems to have coloured your view on amateur football). My argument is playing young lads (and we are talking 18/19/20 year olds here not 16 year olds), needn’t be to their detriment. They will learn more and learn faster being fast tracked.

My “what a load of old nonsense” was in response to your assertion that there wasn’t much running in the Sunday league. Pretty ignorant point of view tbh. It wasn’t just about getting kicked from pillar to post at that level. As is the view that an 18 year old can’t hack 3 games a week in the lower leagues (and it isn’t every week anyway). Presumably they are all built like Olympians as well?

What a load of old nonsense - of course it wasn’t up to the professional level but believe me it was a school of hard knocks and the Blackburn Sunday league (at the top end of it) was akin to semi professional football in the late 70s and early 80s. Most of the lads we played with and against would be turning out for the likes of Accy Stanley, Great Harwood, Darwen etc on Saturdays. And plenty of ex pros like Metcalfe and Marshall Burke played in it too.