There's so many things wrong with this it's hard to know where to start. I bet they love being at Rovers - it's an expectation free zone from top to bottom. You can be playing like a drain ( Lenihan, Douglas etc ) and still get picked for the next game. You can go on one of our regular death spirals and absolutely nothing happens. No criticism at the club or in the press, it's as though we weren't losing 6 or 7 games on the bounce. They're all on easy street, especially with no fans in the stadium. Has Bennett kicked a ball for us this season ? If he has I must have missed it. One of the best defenders ever to kick a ball, Paul McGrath, was known for never saying a word on the pitch or in the changing rooms. Do you really think Armstrong has loyalty to Mowbray or to Rovers ? You're deluded, wait while this summer, you'll see what loyalty looks like then. That's if he's still here in Feb. The only manager modern day players have loyalty to is their bank manager. For your information I was gutted when Sam left and the first thing I did was look in the paper to see how many points we needed to get to 40 because I knew we were in big trouble. This bloke has had long enough to fashion a team with a coherent way of playing that is capable of beating teams around the top of the table. We're no nearer now in that respect than we were 3 years ago.

What's the squad going to be like when the more ambitious players bail out in Summer ?

I mentioned it earlier. I was playing that day and after our game we all crowded around " Radio Rentals" shop window. They had all the TV's in the window set to " Grandstand ". When the teletype score came up - Oxford Utd 3 - Blackburn Rovers 1 I turned around to my pal and said " They'll have got that the wrong way around ". They did make mistakes from time to time but usually they corrected them shortly afterwards. Not that day though.

Me too. As I said the other day I've come round to accepting lack lustre performances when the chips are down. Nothing will change with this guy in charge. The writing was on the wall for me in the promotion season. The best squad in the comp and we played lackadaisical, constipated, dull football lots of the time. I'd have said thanks for getting us promoted Tony but we need someone who can set us up for another promotion push and to be honest you aren't that man. 3 wasted seasons.

I've got a few of those " Philosophy Football " shirts, my favourite is - " Beyond The Touchline There Is Nothing ".

That's one of the reasons why he wouldn't be anything like as successful at the top level. He'd need a much more effective shots to goals ratio.

We don't have Magloire at the moment.

Yeah, if Armstrong isn't on song scoring goals just got a lot more difficult.

I get the feeling he's not that bright.

We could do with a few more goals scattered around the team. We lost between 6 and 10 goals when Mulgrew got dropped that we've never replaced.

Tom Finney troubled most people. I remember watching him in a testimonial game at Burnley shortly after he'd retired and although it was only a testimonial he was brilliant and he ran the dingles ragged. I liked the story were he deliberately took it easy against Dave Whelan when Whelan was coming back from a bad leg break. My youngest son got his autograph outside Ewood one Saturday. It was really nice - To XXXXXX, Best Wishes from Tom Finney. Lovely clear handwriting and all done without a trace of ego. He was a real gent.

I'd also forgotten what an elegant player Gordon Cowans was. They should have Buckley watching these old videos.

From I hear the problems with the Cowley's were more off the pitch than on it.

This site and an engineering site I go on are the only two social media contributions I make. I waste enough time as it is.

Serginho wouldn't have got in the current Rovers team, neither would the goalkeeper. They didn't used to be noted for goalkeepers, I read somewhere that they reckoned Pele was their best goalkeeper in training but obviously they weren't going to play him there.

If they are all fit I'd bench Lenihan and go with Ayala and Williams. Lenihan needs to learn mistakes have consequences.

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.