Who's just returning from a serious injury. Look somewhere else Tony.

Well he's had plenty of practice.

I didn't realise you were Southgate's agent matey. You kept that quiet.

I didn't rate Eriksson either, he was another charlatan in my opinion. Capello's heart didn't seem to be in the job.

I don't rate him Chaddy. He's not got what it takes at top level. Same with Phil Neville and the women's team, they get found out in the big matches.

I think " The Guardian " have had enough of Southgate. They've been running knocking articles about his management style recently. Great son in law material but a second rate manager. I was only thinking the other day I'd rather have Mowbray than Southgate as a Rovers manager. They're both cut from the same over cautious cloth but Mowbray will be cheaper.

That's what pitches were like back in the day !

I had them all bar the last one. My youngest son has them now.

I thought that when we were trying to sign Kipre. The lad looked to be a good defender but I didn't get the impression he was a ball player.

Drink driving incident with other people injured apparently.

Or give them away apparently.

Yeah, why have him making waves at the club, he's obviously disaffected for what ever reason.

When I broke my leg as a teenager I was desperate for anything to read so I swapped all my programmes with a mate for a huge pile of football magazines. " Charlie Buchan's Football Monthly " and one called " Goal " or " Shoot ". I could kick myself now - I had the " Rochdale V Norwich " League Cup Final home leg programmes. Look it up on the internet - it goes for mega bucks now. I used to get one called " Foul " which was football version of " Private Eye " , That was hilarious but it didn't last more than about a year.

We need a quality centre half and a quality full back more. No point bringing in a new centre mid to take Buckley's place on the bench.

That's assuming the Chicken Chokers have learnt enough in the last ten years to know the difference between attackers and defenders. I can't see any evidence of that.

I agree, I don't rate him either. Nice guy but not a winner.

What was Atko thinking of ?

Well weren't Villa desperate for a striker ? I thought they were in for Wilson as well before he joined the Bar codes. Fingers crossed they get the cheque book out.

I liked Chris Brunt a lot as a player but that was back in the day. We may as well have given Downing another year as sign Chris Brunt. I won't be losing sleep over that signing. Good player in his day but that was a year or two ago. He might fit their plans but we don't need him.

There's only one transfer expert on here.

It's looking like he'll be understudy to Holtby in that withdrawn playmaker role.

There was a time last season when if you could guess just six of the starting line up you were doing really well.

It's even better if they don't like you. You get fired pretty quick, paid in full, and you get to start all over again at another club. Trebles all round boys.

I'll give you a million to one against that being our starting line up.

To be honest I'm not sure we can put two good halves together never mind two good games. We're very consistent in our inconsistency.