Show pony for me. The new Per Frandsen.

Mowbray’s interview - zzzzzzzzzz - Holtby is leaving.

I thought he was dead.

Given the situation regarding the virus in India I’d be amazed if the cheque book comes out again this summer. I think we’ll be back to the old situation of replacing good players ( Armstrong ) with inferior ones ( Dozzell ). Previous experience tells me that only ends one way.

Although Armstrong has obviously matured as a player there are still gaps in his ability. Taking on goalkeepers one to one for a start. I’m not impressed by the coaching at Rovers. Lots of players seem to reach a certain level and just stay there. Nyambe, Lenihan, Travis etc. They’re still making the same mistakes as they did as beginners.

Yes he was up there with Gestede and Santa Cruz in the heading a ball stakes.

We haven’t got a game tonight, it’s on Saturday.

Their results have been dreadful but they’ve lost a hell of a lot of games 1-0 recently. They’ll be going all out on Saturday.

I don’t like the idea of doing to Derby what Huddersfield did to us a few years ago and turning up with the reserve team. We need to maintain the integrity of the competition. Plus I’m never happy about us losing, irrespective of the circumstances.

I’ve got 3 of those as well. They’re really for show/framing. I was wearing one to wash the car one Sunday, the one with No 10 in red on the back. Ian Callaghan, the old Liverpool and England player, was seeing a glamorous widow a door or two up from me at the time. He saw me and said “ A Bryan Douglas fan I see “. He told me what a great player he though Bryan was. Like a lot of the older players he was a really nice guy with no edge at all. I think the widow wore him out.

They’ve lost at lost of those games 1-0 and they’ve never given up. We’ll need to be ready for a battle on Saturday.

Yeah, the good ones can. They go up with the centre half and they’re still up there when the centre half is going back down. When I first started watching we had a striker called Ian Lawther who was really good at it.

That was the first shirt I ever had. Still my favourite.

He be a better bet than Mowbray. He didn’t pull his punches in the early days at the Dingledome and sorted out what had become a real mess. He turned them from a joke club to being contenders again.

He had the longest run up to the ball I’ve ever seen by far, Jimmy Anderson fast bowler style. 15 yards to 20 yards, if not more ! He was a really big guy and I though this is going out through the back of the net. He slowed down as he got to the ball and gently side footed the ball straight into the arms of the Palace ‘keeper ! It was like a back pass. Unbelievably the ref then said “ Take it again “. Why I don’t know. Even more unbelievably Coddington did exactly the same thing again with exactly the same end result. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Later on in the same game the ref gave us another pen, he must have had us down for a home win, and Eamon Rogers slotted it away in style.

Lots of tall guys aren’t great at getting off the ground. Some smaller guys are really good, Denis Law, David Speedie, Kevin Keegan - all capable of out jumping bigger guys. Matty wasn’t bad either.

I’ve just got my season ticket for my local Rugby League club. I don’t consider that a conflict of interest. It’s another code and they play most of the time in Summer.

Mentioning John Coddington - anybody else see his penalty against Palace ? I still burst out laughing when ever I think of it ! Good job we won though.

This “ resting players for the play offs “ could have a big bearing on who goes down. I understand it, but I don’t like it.

There was some really good players in that squad. Sir Keith was sold to Everton for big bucks and World Cup fame. Alan Hunter went on to great things at Ipswich under Bobby Robson. Ken Knighton, Eamon Rogers and Billy Wilson were top class. Laurie Calloway, who went on to big things in the USA, hardly got a game at left back then but was twice as good as Douglas or Bell. Leaving Sir Keith out of the equation, if you could choose which one of those players who would you like to see in the current team ? Alan Hunter for me, just in front of Ken Knighton.

10/10 There is no point speculating about signings until we decide what way of playing we intend to adopt next season.

Charter was an Ashton lad who signed as a youth player in January 1968 when he turned 18. He made his debut for us against Oxford at home on Sat March 14th 1970. He kept his place at right back from then until the end of the season. Next season he had several games as a sub and a couple in the No 11 shirt. He left Rovers in August 1971 to join Stockport County, he played 90 games for them.

I’d be crying if I was playing for a team that just got relegated irrespective of my loyalty to Rovers.

So after he’s been here 4 years we basically need a new team ?

Gallagher’s ok jumping against full backs, he’s not so hot when he’s up against a big guy. I agree with your thoughts on Armstrong. He needs 3 chances for every goal, he won’t get that many in the Premier League playing for the teams he’s been linked with. ’