That’s why you can sub half the team in today’s game. Usually the players that do the most pressing. Of course if you only have a bench full of kids it’s not going to work.

It’s obvious, win the ball high up the field, play as much as you can in their half.

Don’t know matey. If it’s not in “ The Guardian “ ?

That’s why you’re out there Jim, they only have to get it wrong once.

Amy ?

There’s no way they’ll spend that sort of money on McGuire. It’s just smoke and mirrors.

It’s more the players who were getting picked to start every week start thinking “ new guy, I better pull my socks up just in case “ and the players who weren’t starting every week start thinking “ new guy, If I impress him I might get a starting place or a place on the bench “.

No, the new guy in last nights interview.

All I know is it’s 10 times easier being the pressing player than it is being the player trying to play out from the back. One mistake in the last third and it usually ends up in a shot on goal. Which in our case usually equals a goal.

Yes they do, and when Rovers have players of that stature again I hope we can play that way. At the moment we don’t have those players.

I didn’t hear that, mainly it was Blackburn.

He put all his signing eggs in the “ playing it out from the back “ basket and we’re stuck with that now to a great extent. I was surprised that we played that way after JDT mocked it as “ The Dutch Disease “ in one of his early press conferences. It’ll be interesting to see how Eustace deals with the issue. He’ll know as much about our players abilities as most of us do, possibly more, having played against most of them. There’s an interesting article in my paper today regarding David Moyes. He’s one of the last ones to hold out against the new “ keep ball, walking football “ way of playing apparently. It refers to “ L’Equipe’s report on West Ham’s game in August against Brighton describing it as a “ clash of styles that verged on the cartoonish “ as West Ham made 13 passes to Brighton’s 221 in the opening half an hour but still won the game. There’s a message there. Passing for the sake of passing doesn’t get you very far.

McGuire was a big gamble but at least he would have been another body in the squad. Anything happens to Gally, who’s not exactly a stranger to the treatment room, and we’re in real trouble.

If you took it to ITV with a view to making a sit com out of the story they’d laugh you out of the room .

Yeah, it wasn’t the greatest interview I’ve ever heard. Not in the Mowbray ( talk a glass eye to sleep ) class but a bit low key. Let’s hope he’s better out on the training pitch and in the dug out.

If I was the head honcho regarding transfers, after last years balls up, there would be no way that I would be letting anyone else do the job.

Me too.

The ball can go faster than anybody running with it.

A few years ago Johnno would have been a good shout for the managers job here. He seems to have fallen by the wayside and been tarred with the Mowbray brush.

He’s as good as we could have got as far as I can see. He’s got his hands full with the squad he’s inherited. As I said the other day - too many chiefs and not enough indians in the camp.

He obviously knows where the goals are as well.

Yeah, he won the old First division championship with Ipswich under Alf Ramsey.

Big Louie. I remember seeing him at Rochdale after he left Rovers. He dived full length into a really sandy goal mouth for a diving header. I was right behind the goals. I saw him pick the chewing gum up that had come out of his mouth and put it back in his mouth ! RIP Roy, I never saw him play although he was Bryan Douglas’s understudy for several seasons.

Don’t mention the “ C” word on here, you’ll have Gav on your case.

Really ? After a dozen years of abject failure !