We’ll be back to gates of 5,837 before too long.

That pitch looks better than Ewood.

Armstrong could probably out sprint Rhodes running backwards.

That was a while back, Gally’s not done much since wherever he’s been. If you had a time machine would you still go back and sign him ? I agree if you are going to play him it’s right up front or nothing, asking him to play out wide is crazy, he hasn’t got the tools. I’d like to see him and Armstrong together up front just once with somebody out wide who can put a ball in and a midfield player who can pick an incisive pass now and again. I don’t hold out any hope for Big Ben.

I think it says more about the goal scoring abilities of Brererton and Gallagher.

I don’t want Mowbray getting another penny.

Anybody know how many Dumb and Dumber have got between them this season ?

I thought I heard on the radio that all next Saturdays Championship games have been cancelled. Help or hindrance ? Hindrance for me.

Wasn’t there talk about him joining Shrewsbury around the last window ?

My mum last night - “ Don’t tell me they’ve cancelled Coronation Street just because Prince Phillip has died ! “

Bang on. Your manager is the most important man at the club and should be paid accordingly. Spending £7million on a dud striker and signing a manager on the cheap is idiotic.

2 in 12 isn’t much of an improvement on 1 in 12. Regarding the Dale - I live in Rochdale, I have mates who watch them regularly and I usually watch their highlights as well as going to several of their home games each season. So I do know a bit about them and their players. Until quite recently they were well known for bringing through a few decent players, especially when Keith Hill was there. The kids I’ve mentioned on here previously as pretty decent prospects were the goalkeeper they had on loan from Brighton who’s now first choice there and has been called up to the senior Spanish squad. Another one was centre half they had on loan from Wolves who’s now at Shrewsbury, Rathbone who I saw as a poor mans Travis, and that young full back who signed for Wolves recently. We’ll soon see if Humpreys is any good enough or not because I expect him to move on to one of the teams in our current league this summer if the rumours are to be believed.

How can a manager stay on when his views on who should be in the squad are ignored. One position you should never get in in your working life - “ Responsibility Without Power “. Ideally you want “ Power Without Responsibility “.

Me too. The handing of the League title to Wigan was enough for me. I’d have fired him then. The man has no ambition other than to stay in the job. He’s completely dissipated all the goodwill that the promotion engendered. When we get back to “ normal” gates will be a lot lower than they were when he came to the club.

Not exactly prolific is it ? I don’t know wether the lad at Rochdale would make it at a higher level or not but I’d be prepared to give him a go as long as the price isn’t silly. Somebody at our current level will take a punt on him this summer, I’d say that was a certainty. As you said earlier, he’s a bit different to what we have at the moment given Dack’s injury.

How many goals has Brererton got in his last 12 games ? Or Gallagher for that matter ?

Have a look at his highlights video, it’ll be worth it. Some of the goals are Bradley Dack style efforts. My only reservation is does he want it enough to put in the effort in maintaining his fitness.

Nobody is going to be banging loads of goals in at Rochdale, they’re the bottom of the league for a reason. Humphreys has got size and he can use it, unlike Brererton. He got a good shot in both feet, again unlike Brererton. He can lead the line, unlike Brererton, he scores headers - need I go on ? You can look at his highlights and you’ll see goals. All sorts of goals, free kicks, headers, dribbling finishes, tap ins etc. All I saw on the Brererton video was a guy who likes to run with the ball in wide positions. On the down side he’s had a couple of muscle type injuries. Would he make the step up ? Plenty of our rivals appear to think. I like the lad at Blackpool as well, he’s handy and he knows where the goals are, but £4 million ? Having said that he’d be better than 2/3rds of a Gallagher. In fact he’d be better than a whole Gallagher. It looks like we’re in the hunt for the Armstrong replacement.

0-1 defeat as per usual.

He’s the lad I mentioned a month or two back. I like him a lot but like Pickering it’s a big step up. There’s potential to improve him though, more so than what I saw in that Brererton video.

The politicians that use “ drilling down “ for facts etc when they’ve obviously never drilled down anything in their lives.

We need a game or two against teams that are mid table with the deck chairs out.

I heard their stand in manager on Radio Lancs tonight. He said “ Get the defence right first and foremost, start getting some clean sheets “. Obvious isn’t it.

Who spent £12 million on strikers ?

Totally uninspiring interview once more from Mowbray. I heard Alex Neil’s interview when he was in a similar situation a week or two back, he held his hand up that he’d taken them as far as he could, didn’t know his best team etc etc. At least he was honest about things, our guy’s a con man.