Nobodies rubbishing him. I’m just saying let’s see him kick a ball before we decide he’s the next Damien Duff. He could be the the next Keith Tracey.

You should know by now. We like to big our signings up without actually seeing them kick a ball first. It makes them feel at home. It’s what we do. Go back and look at the posts when we signed Gallagher for the second time.

Exactly my view Tony, a very frustrating performance to watch. Too many forward players were completely off their game. Some people say “ Quit moaning, we won didn’t we ? “ Well I say “ We’ve played better than that and lost this season “. Play like that at Hull on Wednesday and we won’t be so lucky. We‘re crying out for a midfield player that can give Buckley and Travis a break when they’ll not playing well.

Or the 61-62 season - we played on March 24, 28, 30. April 7, 10, 14, 17, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28. Or the big freeze season 62-63 - March 25, 29. April 2, 6, 12, 13, 15, 20, 23, 27. May 1, 4, 13, 20. 65-66 season was - April 8, 9, 12, 16, 23, 30. May 2, 4, 7, 9.

I’d take that now. It’s the best position short of automatic promotion.

Especially if he brings his elephants.

If he’s got/had back trouble I’m not surprised.

The new Chapman ?

He’ll to be careful in English football, it’s rapidly becoming almost a non contact sport.

I know football isn’t like the normal business world but that sale seems to be in a league of it’s own.

We’ve all complained for years about Mowbray chopping and changing the team and our way of playing over years. At last we now have a settled system. The down side of that is guys playing every game can get jaded, especially in this division with 46 games. It can be very demanding on players in the “engine room” of the team. We could do with somebody to give Travis, Rothwell, Buckley a break now and again.

We definitely need more options in the attacking midfield role.

I think it’s about height and heading ability in a team with a lot of players who aren’t good headers of the ball.

Sounds like Garlick knew what he was doing to me.

What’s this “ Operation Save Big Dog “ I’ve been reading about in the paper today. Is he in danger of being fired for lying to the board ?

There was an 1/2 hr tribute to Ronnie on bbc4 on Friday night Gav.

I might be inclined to leave Lenihan there and bring Ayala into the back three. I don’t think JRC is ready and the new guy needs to watch a few games to get his head around the refereeing in this country. We need Buckley as a playmaker.

That’s as bad to read as it was to watch. Good job Cardiff were toothless. The stats show were the problem was - only Rothwell out of the front five had a significant score. When all your attacking players have an off day at the same time you’re very lucky to come away with 3 points. Much better performance required against Hull.

There’s only one role for Gally that I can see. Chasing long balls out into the channels and up the middle. He can’t play hold up football in spite of his size. He just hasn’t got it.

Yeah, we had that in a quiz once over. Nobody got the right answer.

That’s why we need another attacking midfield player. Maybe that lad at Peterborough ?

It’s hard to know where to start. I agree with you that the game is broken in the UK. We haven’t the batsmen to play test cricket and we don’t produce spin bowlers any more.

Two Bairstow’s in there Chaddy. I could say he’s so good they named him twice but unfortunately he isn’t.

A lot depends on how Dike gets on.

When you’re that tall your brain is a long way from your feet.