I assume so. Think there there were only those two slots for football league games, so we should be alright now.

Shocking, but to be honest I'm just pleased that it's not us.

Excellent squad, have to be amongst the favourites. That said, still not of the same vintage as their WC/Euros winning squad in my view. If England were to draw them in a knockout game, I'd make them favourites by a fair margin, but not unbeatable.

Agree. Obviously would love for him to have a future at Rovers, but this is one of those cases where you just want to make sure that the lad has a career. Promising news that's not a recurrence of the previous injury at least.

The one thing that gives me hope (ridiculous, I know) is that as far as I see it there's none of the other top sides look unbeatable. Not disagreeing about the squads you mention being better than us by the way, but there is no, say, Spain of a few years ago for instance. Germany aren't as good as they were last time out in my view, Brazil have clearly improved but don't strike fear in the same way previous sides have, and there is Neymar's fitness issue. As ever, Argentina look amazing on paper but only Messi's heroics mean they're there in the first place. France have a quality squad, but their big guns aren't on form in the same way they were at the Euros. Spain look good too, but don't carry the same air of invincability that they did in their EC winning sides. Basically, I think it's wide open! Just a shame that it's almost certainly not going to be England that takes advantage!

Especially if they go up, which is looking more and more possible through the play offs.

Agree 100%. It's the high that you feel after your team scores which makes football so special. I watch a lot of rugby league, and whilst I see the value of video refs in a game which has a lot more technical offences, even there so much of the feeling you should get once your team scores has been dampened by the time any points have been awarded. Thinking of some of the memories I have watching Rovers that would've lost their edge, I sincerely hope this dies a death before it gets going.

He would've been top of my list by a million miles if Tony had walked in the summer. Working wonders on a small budget & still refers to Rovers as 'we' on the odd occasion you get him on the radio. Magnificent hair too.

For it even to be slightly viable (I'd guess it's not even on the cards, and just lazy journalism) we should be talking of the lions share of the £11million they've just received. Speculating here, but I'd wager that they'd also need to offer him the sort of contract that Pritchard was on to turn Bradley's head. Can't see it happening for this alone.

Awful. The sort of nonsense you associate with tiny clubs & Bolton. Probably the most annoying non-Venky's related aspect of supporting Rovers at the moment.

Doesn't sound like a world beater, but could well be what we need alongside Whittingham & another ball playing midfielder, whoever that turns out to be. More importantly, Mowbray knows what he can do, good luck to the lad.