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That’s how the game is going, less tackling more interceptions etc. I read about full backs making 5 tackles in a game. I’d make more than that in 10 minutes back in the Stone Age.

BBD won’t play up front. If he was going to do it he’d have done it by now. His strength is running from deep wide areas with the ball. Not playing with his back to goal. You can forget about that one. He needs to stay where he is and we need to sign a Gallagher replacement who actually likes playing up front.

Getting dicked is getting dicked, it happens. But losing a game because of the wrong team selection and tactics is another story altogether.

If we could have the Big Sam we fired - yes. Obviously a decade has gone by and the Sam of today is probably past a serious management role.

I’m all in favour of playing the lads who are in form but you need to be careful. Young players can have a blinder one game and go missing the next. That’s the nature of growing up as a player. If you’re not careful you get into the Mola situation were one good game against West Ham led to him being playing against the dingles and having a shocker. Previous good form has to come into the equation also.

I can think of a couple of strikers who would have filled the keeper in going after that back pass.

Typical Chicken Chokers, all smoke and mirrors. It like me asking you to go out and buy me a new television. When you ask me “ how much can I spend” - I say “ I don’t know, it all depends on wether I can sell my car “. Crackers.

It’s not for me. It was inevitable that sooner or later the gesture would be returned over Ewood. I’d rather not bother.

According to Jim we’ve played them twice in the FA Cup since 2000. I think Jim’s right.

Same thing happened with that Rakeem Harper. Another Mowbray success story. How long to that kid Palmer hang around ?

Definitely.

I remember a 3-3 draw in the early 1960’s there. Bobby Craig, who didn’t score many goals, got a hatrick.

I can’t recall many wins there.

That part of the world has always been a bit barren for us. How many times have we won at Ipswich ?

I thought that but that’s the rumour.

JDT has probably won more cup games this season than Mowbray did in 5 years.

I thought that lad Fofana looked a handful up front when he came on late in the second half. Players were bouncing off him.

Then he’s got to stop to get it back onto his favoured left foot instead of crossing it right away with his right foot.

The paper talk is Everton are trying to use Simms as a make weight in a deal for Gyokeres with Coventry.

9 out of 10 of our players haven’t got the composure, vision and awareness to spot Vale was making an un marked run. They would all have gone for a blast at goal. The shot might have gone in, it might have gone in row Z. Dack made sure it was a goal.

It was only simple because he made it simple. You see passes like that ballsed up regularly, Too hard, too soft, behind the player, in front of the player. Dack’s was perfect.

We’ve been pasted because when we go behind we don’t have many answers. If JDT can solve that conundrum we might get somewhere.

I’d have given him a couple of years - in Strangeways.

He’s got the X factor. What we desperately need if we’re going to score more goals. How many players today would have had a bang at goal instead of playing the perfect pass to Vale for a tap in ? Most of them. He was smart, aware and un selfish.

If we can only have one player it has to be a striker. However am I being greedy in asked for a centre midfield player also ? They need to be starters not bench fillers.