We’d be 100% better, that’s for sure. And one or two would be down the road.

Butterworth looked really promising until he had that long term back injury. After that he wasn’t the same player. Having had disc trouble myself I’m not surprised.

I blame them both. First rule of goalkeeping - do not parry a shot back into the danger area.

Only Burnley could lucky enough to be the one team Coyle had any success with.

We got out enthused again.

If that would have been me the captain would have had me by the throat. Pathetic half hearted attempt at nothing. Some managers would have subbed him after that.

I remember Brian Clough parading Ian Storey-Moore around the Derby pitch on the Saturday. He signed for Man U on the Monday !

The Chicken Chokers hire and fire - not the fans.

He’s got none of the tools you need to be a striker. What’s he like in goal ?

Like our midfield letting their guy walk through them to get the shot off. Who was it thinking - “ Shall I track back ? Nah, fuck it, I’ll let somebody else do that “. Typical I’m afraid.

Just saying like it is. Nobody can lose you a game quicker than your keeper. He needs to get his act together.

He wouldn’t need to be.

Only the Chicken Chokers. Lets put it this way - if by some miracle Big Sam rocked up at Ewood on Monday morning the derby game would take on another complexion all together. I’d actually fancy our chances.

He threw one in last week as well.

Mm. Would they be interested in a swap ? JDT for Big Samm?

Why have we got so many players injured. I reckon that’s about half a team missing.

Yes that true. You forgot about the guys giving you a good kicking and getting away with it. I’d been going to Rovers for two years before I saw a player get sent off.

Vale and Morton again !

Yep, keeping Kean on after relegation was a bigger mistake than sacking Sam was. Indeed keeping Kean on after he very nearly relegated us the first time around was a bigger mistake than sacking Sam. It was downhill all the way once Kean was allowed to waste the parachute payments.

If it’s another no show today do you think for one minute there will be any consequences ? Just business at usual on the training ground on Monday. Have them all in tomorrow for a bit of punishment training ? Why would we want them to do that. No sweat guys, just drift on to the end of the season. We’ve only just started on the “ journey “. To the hero’s going down today. I’ve got a hammer and some nails you can borrow. Just knock the nails through the back of your hand. It’s less painful. By the way how many “ unacceptable “ results have we had this season ? When does “ unacceptable “ really become “ unacceptable” ?

Yeah, I thought that’s ten wins more than us. I can’t see that. After the latest no show at Rotherham I can now.

How is he better ? Raya is in the Spain squad. Kaminski can’t get in the Belgium squad. Is Kaminski worth £20 -25 million ? You must be in a minority of one thinking that.

Mowbray made a complete balls up of the Raya situation. Then he followed it up by signing Walton.

Dougie was a better dribbler and quicker over the ground than Tugay but he didn’t have the range of subtle passes that Tugay had. That ball to Jansen was a classic example. He had it on a string. He was up there with the best playmakers I’ve ever seen going from Didi, Di Stefano and Gerson, Ardiles etc back in the day and coming up to date a bit with Riquelme and Georgi Hagi. Having said that ball is easier and the pitches are infinitely better now than they were in Bryan’s day.

Yeah it had back spin so it sat up for the striker to lob the keeper. Best passer of a ball I’ve ever seen at Ewood and I saw Dougie play when he was in his prime.