i can`t rememer tony`s masterstroke tactical changes ever succeeding tbh

presumably bennet will be on the left,complete **** because his left foot is only useful for keeping him upright and brereton on the right,i don`t think the lad is much use,but please give a chance to show us he is`nt by playing him in his rightful position,i said this on wednesday,mowbray can`t help himself,not just one or two changes,basically a bloody new team with players out of position

brereton and gallagher both start,so 1/1000 that one of them will be on the wing?not sure why the in form evans has been dropped,it should have been travis instead

you`ll need a spirograph to work out this formation

the tea lady would probably contribute more as well,i bet she can actually trap a football better than brereton as well

you should forward this to tony,like a rallying cry to attack,he`ll have the lads tighter than a nuns knicker elastic tommorow,especially with dack out

our streak might end tommorow but we can look forward to some extremely winnable games over christmas,forest away might give us a few problems,but new years day games are great levellers as both sides will be shattered after 3 games in a week,i`ll be ****** off if we can`t build on some great recent form

i rasie you with david goodwillie,the scottish wayne rooney

it says everything about the last decade that the only candidate can be corry evans,i don`t rate him,he`s basically a water carrier but however limited he always put 100% in,if you launched a poll for worst player of the decade,i could fill the whole page!!!

the lads have put a big shift in lately,i hope mowbray is letting them relax,a night out and a shedload of beers will be a boost to team morale

a valuable point,i thought we`de get turned over tonight tbh

i think we can forget about the play offs?

lets be honest,we are a poor side who should`nt be,we should be quite good,is it down to bad management???

funny is a weird game,we`ll probably end up winning!!!

at least we are still in it,somehow!!

they are professional footballers,if you can`t do two games a week then you should`nt be in the game

i can` t agree with that,they are professional footballers,it`s maybe a problem with fitness under the current regime,we do drop our levels a lot during games

it`s a sign of a very average player that has got no time on the ball

cmon lads,dig in ffs

has someone tied mowbray up and only released him after the team news,it`s very unlike him

first started watching the mighty rovers when howard kendall was managing,my duncan mckenzie hating dad decided i was old enough and the rest is history,two games that stand out in the era,the fa cup games against coventry and villa,got a perfect view of andy crawfords goal against coventry as i was on my dads shoulders!!!he would`nt take me to the villa game,citing crowd trouble,most likely reason is he fancied a session with his mates before the game!!!kendall did a sterling job on absolutely nothing,built us a rock solid defence,only blotted his copybook when he tried to sell garner to halifax,allegedly my overriding memory of bobby saxtons regime is the 84-85 season when we should have got promoted,top of the league at christmas,beating leeds on boxing day,unfortunately he was another one who fell foul of our financial position,when tiredness and injuries kicked in we did`nt have any cash for reinforcments,i think it was oxford(propped up by the crook maxwell)man city and birmingham(two big clubs who could afford new players) who pipped us for promotion don mackay,a big talking scot was the next miracle worker who produced arguably an even bigger miracle than saxton,gave us back out pride with a trip to wembley and on absolutley nothing had us in the play offs on the brink of promotion three years running,i still shake my head in sadness when i think of the palace games,they were terrible in the first leg,everyone was convinced we could`nt not go up,less said about the second leg the better,whether it was a penalty or not,we bottled it big style,we were never the same side after that and poor don was history a few seasons later what can you say about dalglish,he took us to new heights,but during his first season caused me more stress than iv`e ever had watching rovers,we were cruising to the newly formed premier league when the wheels came off,losses to wolves,leicester,barnsley,charlton,watford and worst of all port vale had us all on a tight string,the vale match in particular was the breaking point,i remember one of my friends workmates deciding he would walk home from the potteries to ease his frustration,it took a whole hour for my mate to talk him out of it,tbh,id`e have left the muppet to walk home,we did`nt get back till 12.00 pm,we made it though,after a tense 90 minutes against the ariel leicester attack.In 1995,though it was great for the club,we started to see rovers shirts everywhere,suddenly there were rovers fans in my local who had patently never been to ewood in their life,what right did they have to suddenly announce they were lifelong fans,did they have to suffer the misery of the palace fiasco,were they at rotherham for a league cup tie when lenny johnrose kicked it skyward and the wind blew the ball in the top corner,where they ****,what gave them the right to wear the shirt?? loved the souness regime,he took no prisoners,made jansen a total footballer and had us playing like it should be played,anyone remember that freezing friday night game against bolton when we won 4-1 and jansen put their keeper on his a**e before walking the ball in the net.Souness was always going to blow up though,he never replaced duff or dunne and was unlucky to lose jansen,in the end it was a bit sad,you can`t kick off with experienced pro`s like cole and yorke,i was thankful he left when he did tbh less keen on hughes due to his treatment of tony parkes,though he did make us difficult to beat and gave us two defensive collosus in samba and nelson,he also got up wenger and fergies skin more than once,which was ok by me,the grass was greener in the end for him,he should never have gone to city,it was to big for him and his reputation has eroded further still with subsequent appointments

ici was just down the road making the stuff!!!!later on they sponsored us

hoping tosin thinks 1st team football is better than earning a fortune playing in front of 200 every wednesday night and the odd bench appearance

bit before my time when he was at rovers,performed miracles at oxford in taking them from the 4th div to the 1st and having to put up with robert maxwell as chairman,a proper football man

most managers these days are terrified of losing,in the premier league and to a lesser extent in the championship if you go on a losing streak you tend to get the sack,hence the lack of 4-4-2,and expansive play,iv`e always been of the opinion that if you`re getting overrun then the second striker drops back into midfield and helps out,the two wingers must track back to help as well,all about fluidity imo,it`s a simple game is`nt it??