I don’t hate him. He just needs to grow up, he behaves like a child much too often. The penny might drop now but somehow I doubt it. That’s the problem when you get players who’ve been lauded with praise from being about 8 years old. Not all of them can handle it.

When you got the cold water out did the rad not warm up at all ? For what thermostatic valves cost these days, before I started removing the rad, I change the valve. There are tutorials on YouTube showing you how to do a “ racing change “. 15 minute job if it all goes to plan.

Charlie Austin signed for Swindon.

There aren’t any hard men nowadays. That side of the game has been legislated out. When you get three games for doing what Buckley did it tells you all you need to know. I presume they’d bring back the death penalty if you broke somebodies leg !

We can live in hope !

I can’t think of another case. Of course there are always signings that flop at one club then really thrive when they move to another but BBD is a one off.

It’s all good fun if you can get up and walk away afterwards. It was a shocking tackle that could easily have broken a leg. Clearest red card I’ve seen for a long while. Absolute stupidity from Ball. We were only 1-0 up and the game was in the balance. After that the red card it was game over.

Remember that season were we were that far ahead the bookies stopped taking bets on us for promotion ? Then Mike Newell broke his leg. We just scraped into the play offs on the last day.

Yeah, that was a really bad decision.

They’re both vying for pole position. You can’t afford guys that are yellow card addicts.

Bestie could have been anything he wanted to be. If he’d have had Messi’s mentality he could easily have been as good as Messi if not better. He was completely two footed and he was a good header of the ball, unlike Messi and Maradona who were all left foot. He was also a terrific tackler when he was in the mood. A guy I used to go to games with was a scout for City and he told me a story about Best when he was a kid playing for Utd res at Ewood. Best had been a bit greedy in the first half and some of the senior pros had a go at him at half time in the changing rooms. ” You think you can beat everybody on the pitch “ they all moaned. Best said “ When we kick off in the second half just give me the ball “. So they give him the ball and he just dribbled right through the Rovers defence and slotted the ball past the keeper. Eusebio was up there for a few seasons. Nobody hit the ball harder.

I just had a look at their site. Matt Jansen is their player liaison officer apparently.

Whatever happened to that James Brown we signed last year ? What was the point of that signing ?

We’re not getting yesterdays results out of the system though are we ?

Whatever happened to the Jack Hixon’s of the football world.

I think we drew the game were Todd got sent off but up till that point we were all over them like a rash and winning 1-0.

That’s why lots of games in the recent World Cup were so thrilling. The refs let the game be more physical.

Are they thermostatic valves or just the plain ones ? Thermostatic valves can jam easily. When you bled the rad did you turn the system off whilst you did it ? I presume cold water was coming out of the bleed valve. Did the radiator not warm up from the bottom at all ? When you are bleeding the radiator resist the temptation to remove the bleed screw completely. I made that mistake once about 10 seconds before the scalding hot water decided to put in an appearance.

He never developed. He was making the same mistakes at 25 as he was at 18. Some of his injuries were caused by him being rash and over committing.

That was always going to happen. They would have had to throw the ref under a bus and they’re not going to do that just for Rovers.

Yeah, if you’ve had a succession of injuries you try and protect yourself to the detriment of your playing ability. I think he’s now gone all in. Let’s hope it pays off.

Same applies to Brentford and Fulham this season. The minute you drop out of the Prem you’re standing still and the rest are running. The longer you’re out the further behind you are.

For most of the time “ survive “ is the operative word. Until the day you don’t survive. Looking over your shoulder all the time. We had it with Ince and Kean, bloody awful.

I’m not, for obvious reasons. The referee’s decision has to be seen to be supported.

Neither am I but I’d be more unhappy if he gets 3 matches. His previous record won’t be much help there unfortunately.