I don’t recall the inter league games ever being played at Ewood Park. I think we hosted an Under-23 game or two in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s.

It’s not just about the starting 11. What will be bench look like ? In modern football the bench and players coming off it to change the game is crucial.

Gueye has to start for me instead of Weimann. We’ll need his height defending corners with the lack of height in that team.

How many goals would Messi score playing for the “ Treasure Island “ that is Sierra Leone.

Joe Haverty, for the even older ones. He was 5-3”. I remember seeing us line up with Dougie, 5-7 ish, Bobby Craig, 5-5” and Joe Haverty 5-3” all in the forwards.

I can’t see any point in rushing Travis back given how many other players are missing. If he aggravates it again he could be out longer still. If we had anything like a full squad I’d say it was worth the risk but we don’t and it isn’t. Travis is too brave for his own good.

Is Litherland only 18 ? He looked older when I saw him play. He looked quite handy but you should be making your debut in a settled team ideally. Not in a team full of players that have never played together before.

Junior Walker And The All Stars - Shotgun

I know, we never got a peep out of them last season.

That speaks volumes - Dolan and Hedges who have done nothing for weeks. So we sub them for Weimann and ACD on the hour and then they do nothing.

We don’t know who’s going to be available for selection. Thia would be my team if everyone was available. Let’s see how many make it out onto the field - Pears Brittain, Carter, Baath, Pickering Cantwell, Travis, Tronstad, Beck Gueye, Ohashi I expecting about 3 of those to turn out. Let’s think about that before we critique the manager. I expect our first choice back 7 players to be un-available. That unprecedented at any club at any time in my experience.

I thought at the time that using all our subs with what must have been 20 minutes playing time to go was very, very, risky. Especially given that several of the guys still out there are injury prone. That led to JRC exacerbating his ankle injury. I thought that a big mistake.

Eustace to Bolton ? Do we need to be worried about?

Is it you ?

Roy Head And The Traits - Treat Her Right The white “ James Brown “.

If you’re going, take your boots, you might get a game.

More like 60 yards

I’d rather see him playing in the Cantwell role.

Colour me shocked.

No doubt somebody will correct me if I.m wrong but at this time last season weren’t we on the same number of games and points ? Then we stayed in the league hanging on by our finger nails. 6 games that were considered as winnable, so far we’ve won one and lost one.

With all our current forward players, with the possible exception of Leonard, their first movement is towards the ball. None of them move away from the ball and into space behind our opponents defence.

I never realised how slow he is.

He was awful at Ewood. For someone who was reputedly a good crosser of the ball he couldn’t even land a corner. I also heard he wasn’t popular with the other players.

Nobody scouting him so far will have been sending back glowing reports.