That’s our Achilles heel, our inability to perform for more than a half at a time. We either fail to get going in the first half and spend the second half trying to catch up or we have a storming first half and spend the second half hanging on. It’s been like that throughout Mowbray’s time at Rovers.

How long has it taken him to learn what I learnt at 16. You set up your way of playing to suit the skill set of the players in the team.

Good luck with it.

He’s very handy to have on the bench seeing that he can play in several positions. He’s not a starter in my opinion.

Thanks once more Tony. Sounds like Dembele was a handful.

Yeah, the harder he’s worked the better he’s got. There’s a message there.

Where would you be looking to strengthen the team ?

I can’t see Dack dogging defenders like Dolan does. He made a goal out of nothing last night. Not for the first time either.

Yes, I heard that.

Speaking of Freeman is he doing anything these days ? I never hear him mentioned. Did we dodge a bullet ?

For a few seasons we had a team to go with it as well. The 63-64-65 team could, and did, give anybody a football lesson. That team was best Rovers side I’ve seen and that includes the team that won the Prem. Ask anyone who was lucky enough to see them play.

I’m not expecting anything special from Dack for this season. You could also say the same about JRC.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this game. I’m going for a boring 1-1 draw.

That’s presumably before he grew his hair long.

What about this lad we’re supposed to be interested in from Scotland. Isn’t he a winger ?

You can’t stay as the manager of a club when you have other people signing players and expecting them to go straight into the team. I’d be really surprised if Solksjaer actually wanted to sign Ronaldo.

That’s a great photo Jim. He really was a class act. I tried to imitate him as a player. I think that might be Eamon Rogers in the background.

Yeah, you’re right about Duffy.

I agree, who could you see him playing for in the current PL ? The only way I can see him moving to a PL team would be if he was prepared to be second fiddle most of the time. Like Kipre probably was last season at West Brom

A very young Tony Parkes there I think. Where did all those years go !

Thank for that Tony, very interesting reading as always.

Z Z being talked up for the job according to the BBC.

Well I thought that also but the daily papers were full of the City- Ronaldo talk.

I get the impression they only signed Ronaldo to stop him going to City. They didn’t need him the way Cavani was playing.

I wonder who’s next for the hot seat ? There’s no real stand out candidates that I can see.