Spurs need a keeper, that’s for sure. I’ve never rated Lloris.

According to the papers Everton are thinking of replacing Frank Lampard with David Moyes if Lampard gets fired ! It’s a great game if you can get on the gravy train. The worse you are the better it is.

Yeah the one for Jansen had a message written on it - it said “ Here, put this in “.

How many of those do you think Gallagher would have gotten on the end of, never mind put away ?

Fantastic.

Of course, the minute you think you’ve cracked it is the minute you start going backwards. We needed a better winger than Wilcox and a better centre half than Pearce. We didn’t get them.

“ Physical and rough “ has got more chance of getting you out of this division than “ playing out from the back “ unless we have £20 million to chuck at real footballers that are capable of doing it.

What does strong mean ? We don’t know our best team or our best way of playing - again.

Big Club it is then.

Players only come to Rovers if there’s no other realistic alternative.

I think Dack has to play. He was the only one busting a gut on Saturday.

Jonathan Llew has a good article in todays paper concerning the shambles at Everton but most of it could equally apply to the shambles at Rovers. ” There will be no trophies. There will be no famous Champions League nights at Bramley-Moore Dock. You will not get to see the worlds finest players in an Everton shirt. Your owner is a billionaire who will never speak to you or attend a game, and if he wants to run the ship aground there is not a damn thing you can do about it. No matter how loudly you sing, no matter how many blue smoke canisters you let off, the limit to your ambition will always be top seven and occasionally signing someone promising from Burnley “.

Nah, they didn’t like Big Sam and Dyche is just Sam Mk 2.

Pickering’s a very lucky boy to get another game after starting the rot on Saturday. I’d have made him sit in a darkened room on his own watching their first goal over and over for a good hour in training yesterday. If we’re going to play him and JRC we need to go to three centre halves and play them as wing backs. No way are either of them good enough defenders to play as conventional full backs.

No problem there then, there’s loads of excellent ball playing defenders knocking about in the lower leagues.

10/10.

24 months ago he wasn’t worth a carrot.

I didn’t even watch the twice yearly thrashing of the dingles by City. That’s how fed up of it all I was.

This “ stopping counter attacks” worked well at Rotherham. Trying to not give the opposition the ball would be a good start.

I’ve not watched MOTD since we left the Prem. Not once.

Gallagher needs to try his hand at basketball. I’ve come around to thinking football isn’t his game. You could have got somebody off the supporters bus to play as badly as he did on Saturday.

Somebody must be producing them for other clubs to be able buy them.

What’s this system of which you speak ? What I saw on Saturday is we pass it around at the back for a minute or two then we either lose the ball in a dangerous area or we lose patience and launch it long to nobody in particular. Gallagher stood there saying “ Is it a bird, is it a plane ? “ No that round thing coming your way is the fucking ball !

As my wife once said about a scrum half my rugby league team had just signed - “ He looks like his legs are pinned on to the bottom of his shorts “ He doesn’t look like he could snap a “ Kit- Kat “. A real luxury player. Back to old maxim - there are players that get you on top in a game and then there are players that start playing when the first lot have got the team on top “. Guess which group he’s in.

I was reading an article about Fergie giving Van Nistlehorseface a bollocking one day. They’d lost to City and he came wandering in with a City shirt having swapped his Utd shirt. Fergie hit the roof - “ That’s not your shirt to give away, it’s my shirt, it’s the clubs shirt, it’s the fans shirt, it’s not yours. You only get to wear it for a while. Do that again and you’ll never play for this club again “. Why haven’t we got people in charge that feel so passionately ?