The best Rovers crosser I've seen, and I've seen a few - Alan Shearer, especially off that right wing.

That was a really great game. Brazil had everything apart from a goalkeeper and a centre forward.

The bottom line for me is we're just not good enough, especially when we haven't got our first 11 out on the pitch. Given the circumstances of this season I don't expect us to be able to field our best 11 ( Whatever that is ? ) any time this season. We've just too many unable to cope with the number of games being played. I wish that wasn't the case but unfortunately it is. I've accepted we aren't going to get into the play-offs unless things change at the top. I can recommend acceptance, it's much less frustrating when we lose games like last night.

You're a hard man Stuart. When did he play last ? No run outs with the stiffs. Straight in at the deep end. I'd cut him some slack for that.

I'm considering the quality of the opposition. Lets not get carried away with the games against 10 men.

I've seen lots of centre halves over the years that were good players when we were under the cosh and on the receiving end of lots of pressure. Balls were coming in left, right and centre and they could get something on all of them. They probably spent half the game in their own penalty area. Where they weren't so good is when we were on top in a game and had our opponents pressed back into the last third. They weren't so good at countering a sudden breakout. They'd either doze off, couldn't sense danger, or hadn't the pace or strength to cope. Just saying. I need to see more of Ayala before I make my mind up where he fits in..

I'm inclined to agree with that. Billy Wilson was a good left back and I think John Bailey would have given Wrighty a run for his money. I agree he was a great little player though. He could attack and defend equally well which is really rare. I remember him having a real battle with Stuart Ripley when Stuart was at 'Boro and he came out with a draw on points.

I don't know what it is with Mowbray and left backs, he also signed Sam Hart for whatever reason. That was an inexplicable signing if ever there was one.

We needed players to hit the ground running not ones that take three months to get up to speed. The season will effectively be over by then. Somebody on here was telling me happy days are here again when we signed Douglas, Trybull, Ayala and Kaminsky. Well apart from the goalkeeper I'm a bit underwhelmed.

I know we didn't score last night but normally scoring goals isn't a problem. It's keeping them out at the other end.

If you rolled Douglas, Bell and Williams into one you still wouldn't have an Alan Wright at left back. Some poor signings there, I'll except Williams because he's a reasonable centre half.

If our home form was " Fortress Ewood " you would have a point. The problem is we are no better at home than we are away.

It also allows your better players to be poached by other more ambitious teams. Maybe the clubs who did get promoted.

His game is limited at the moment. He needs to be working on the weak elements - like how to take the ball around the goalkeeper. My one and only trick - slip it past the keeper on the goal side and go around the other side. It doesn't fit every chance you get, opposition players may be running back as well, but If you're quick like he is you can do it.

I just had a look in my record book - Howard Kendall's promotion team won 11 games 1-0. See that word lads - " Promotion ".

For a " top striker " he's hopeless when he's through on goal. He's got no idea how to go around the keeper.

When did we last win a game 1-0 ?

Aggression has to be channeled in the right manner. Lenihan is a loose cannon, he's a card waiting to happen.

How many years have we been saying that for now ? The manager has never signed anyone who you could describe as a " handful ". Travis is the nearest to that and he came up through the ranks. When we were getting pushed around back in the old third division days we signed John MacNammee, all of a sudden we weren't getting pushed around anymore. Anybody who tried it on would get sorted out and they knew it.

Let's be fair Stuart, under normal circumstances he wouldn't have played last night. He must have put his hand up to play knowing he wasn't 100% fit. I can't criticise him for that.

That's my take on Holtby, he has one good game and then four or five mediocre games. He'd be the one to leave out for me when Travis is fit again. You don't need luxury players to get out of this division. You need players who don't go missing in the tough away games. Looking back at the " Nostalgia " thread Gordon Cowans was his equivalent in that team and he made us tick most of the time.

How many of the back four have 90 minutes in them ?

Great goal from Hendrey. We didn't deal with the ale house balls very well.

Just lumping it in from wide positions is just wasteful. I like to see were a player ( usually a winger but not always ) can get around the back of the defence and get the opposition playing facing their own goal. Then not every cross has to go high. Armstrong has spanked a couple of really good balls pulled back all along the ground into the back of the net recently.

Under Jack's management we had the most entertaining team we've had in my lifetime. He has to take some credit for that. Moving Fred Pickering from left back to centre forward was a master stroke.