That's the problem with footballers, yes they are adults, yes they should be responsible for themselves, however they live so far outside of the 'real world' they are in essence like children. I was watching a programme the other week with Matthew Upson and Liam Rosenior, who both speak very well, and they went into detail in respect of how footballers are looked after, i.e. their bills are sorted, their appointments are sorted, their washing and ironing is sorted (all in house) they are treat like children, so subconsciously they still act like children and that is the reason so many of them go off the rails when they retire etc. This probably has something to do with why Dack hasn't complied, if the club knew he would have completed his hours undoubtedly, but because he's in such a routine of being told what to do etc, he doesn't know what to do when he has to think for himself. I am sure the club yesterday, sorted the solicitors, told him what and what not to say, got mowbray to attend etc etc

haha

Has future appearances for other things coming up, so I doubt he's learning.

A lot of the time we are far too one dimensional. We don't have a single out and out winger at the club, that's pretty poor, nobody can argue it isn't. Bennett isn't a winger, I'm sorry but he isn't. Therefore if that's the case you need your full backs bombing up the flanks, but they aren't doing so, bell is the most capable, but whether he's being told not to or not, I'm unsure, but his forward play at fleetwood tells me he's good at it and likes it, therefore he's being told not to. Nyambe for all his plaudits, isn't all that great at going forward, he will run with his head down for 20 yards or so and then turnaround. Therefore because of this, we put the majority of play through the man who plays behind graham, or long balls to graham himself, especially away from home. Only way around that is playing 3 cbs and two really forward playing wing backs, but we don't have 3 centre backs good enough to play thay system at this level. Lenihan and mulgrew aren't top half championship centre halves, simple as. After them there are no other proper centre halves bar a downing. The sqaud isnt strong enough to challenge the top teams. We need another couple of windows and need to hope Tony doesn't stick to his favourites and knows when to drop some when they aren't all that good.

The coverage was dire you're right. It was good for our home game against Reading though. It did annoy me yesterday, as it said there would be replays etc, but there wasn't, it was basically what you watch on ifollow. Personally I like the fact there is more EFL games on now, I can't be doing with La Liga it's so boring, EFL games are quite often end to end, you can't beat it. Also the more EFL games sky do, the more money it brings into the EFL.

Agree on both points mate. Why smallwood is starting I don't know, but to put him on set pieces is bewildering.

He was pictured at a party, its a nothing story pal. Agree with what you say about tale of two halves, happens nearly every week. One thing that really concerned me today is smallwood was put on free kicks and corners, one question, WHY?

There's been lots of halves like that under mowbray, however oppositions haven't been good enough to exploit it, once you play top half championship teams they'll bag 3 or 4 every game if you defend like that

Did you not see them last season, they played man city of the park in a semi final, had a good league campaign until last 10 games or so. Their a good side. Our back four is basically the back four that got relegated, once williams inevitably comes back in. That's the problem, additions should have been made at the back. However we also need attacking options. Next summer hopefully we concentrate on the defence.

We aren't good enough to compete with these sides this season or probably next. 12th to 15th will be a respectable finish for us.

Game over, defending atrocious again. The easy start will now start to show, playing proper teams now. Commentator said mowbray trying to give nuttall enough time to make an impact, i presume he's never seen him play then.

If we win we are 4th if we win by 3 we are 3rd. Draw and we are 9th. Lose and we could drop to 12th.

2-2 now

There are no sales on the day, so the 1050 or so who have bought tickets will still go no doubt.

good signings for them, they need some experience there and both are good players at this level

Your wallet will be nervous soon after that engagement, Mike. Congrats.

I would assume that's exactly the case, because if he was released tomorrow he wouldn't be able to sign for anyone until January, if players are released within the transfer window then they can join other clubs as a free agent.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/16608452.rovers-insist-bradley-dack-is-not-for-sale-at-any-price/ going nowhere

No worry at all pal, we won't sell Dack for less than £20mil and West Brom won't pay that.

and why the heck would we replace him with Josh Vela!

Only trains 3 days per week though, as he does the bins Tuesday and Thursdays.

So who's the next multi million signing?

Nonsense, Turkey is a fantastic destination, the UK is more likely to be the subject of terrorism. Tourist numbers have risen around 60% this year for turkey with some holiday companies (around 2.5 million in total), so you are labelling a lot of people thick, pal.

150? Where have you come up with that up from? Deary me. There were a good 400-500 or so in there. It just looks poor. I remember that Mark Hughes days when it was never used for home fans and it looked rubbish. Big Sam sorted that out and ensure home fans were in that end as he said it was important for players to have home fans in the Darwen end and it added to the atmosphere and he wanted all away fans in the upper tier. Forgetting the away fans, please don't tell me it's better with no home fans, and there certainly is more than 150.

That's what I was thinking, especially with Graham playing