Maybe but beating the Aussies in their own backyard with a severely weakened team says lots about their strength in depth. We'll be doing really well not to get shown up in India.

India must be the number 1 Cricket nation at the moment. Even one test win there will be an achievement.

Some times with a back injury you have a friend for life. I speak from personal experience.

They'd never played for the 'Boro.

Being sat down doesn't help in that respect. Previously you could always move around a bit to keep warm.

I think he's got a bit more about him than Joe, more brains for a start.

You were brave to have the back op but I suppose if you're in constant pain something has to happen. I had sciatica once for about 3 months. It was awful. I couldn't walk more about 200 yards before I had to stop and rest my leg. The pain would go and I'd walk another 200 yards and I'd have to stop again. Then it went away without any reason. I can still feel a slight twinge at times but it's nothing compared with how it was.

You mean his fan club on here did. I liked the lad a lot the first time around. I thought he had a future in the game but once he sustained those injuries I would have left well alone. It was a risk we didn't need to take. He relied massively on his electric burst of pace and once that wasn't available he became a much more limited player.

In the Morsy-Dack incident over a year ago whilst Morsy didn't actually foul Dack he was un necessarily physical with Dack going after a ball that was going out of play. He helped Dack on his way. The injury was caused by the way Dack landed. I've seen Shearer do it with centre halves, he just helped them on their way over the touchline. How they landed is another story. It's being careless with a fellow pro's career.

It's entertaining in the same way that stopping kicking the cat when we lose is entertaining for the cat. Luckily for any cats out there I haven't got a cat.

My record collection of 30 odd years went the same way.

You've got a point there but all aggression and not much creativity doesn't normally end well

I think Brererton has come back the same player, unfortunately.

You could argue that Dyche's football is just a means to an end. The longer they stay in the Prem the richer they get. Money can buy you better players which should lead to better football out on the pitch. The Hughes team was pretty attritional in the early days.

Set up not to lose, we know how that usually turns out. Too much of the game gets played in our half.

We watched all 6 episodes of the " The Investigation " on Friday and Saturday night. One of the best things I've seen in a good while. It's a really understated depiction of the true story of the Scandinavian guy who built his own submarine and then murdered a female journalist. It's not sensationalist at all but a gripping example of how dogged police work wins in the end. It is sub titled.

I'm always happy after a win or a good away draw. Having said that even winning teams can be improved. The really good managers are happy with wins but they're constantly looking for ways to improve the team and their players. You should be happy with a winning team, if we ever get one, but you should never be satisfied. Rovers were happy and satisfied when we won the Prem, Mowbray was happy and satisfied when we got promoted. Look what happened then.

Just researching that Beatles appearance I discovered that earlier that year The Beatles actually played in Darwen ! On the 25th of January 1963 they played at the Co-operative Hall in Darwen. It was a gig arranged by " a local Baptist church youth club " ! Supporting The Beatles were The Electones, The Mike Taylor Combo, The Mustangs with Ricky Day. Four acts for what was probably pocket money. This would be just before " Beatlemania " swept the country. The entrance fee would have been in the 2/6 to 3/0 range. If anybody had a poster advertising that gig now it would be worth big money. Those were the days when none of us knew how things would turn out. Do any of the old Darwen lads on here know if the Co-operative Hall still exists ? Anybody remember the gig ? Thanks to the wonder of the internet I discovered that there are repro versions of the poster from the Darwen gig and the admission fee was 6/-. Roughly 30p in todays money but half of what I got per week for doing my paper round then. Apparently the Co-op Hall has been demolished and replaced by an " Iceland " store. Bloody vandals.

You must be thinking of another show. The one that the ticket is for was in 1963. The acts were obviously The Beatles and Roy Orbison, plus Gerry and the Pacemakers, Louise Cordet, and a few other lesser acts. The Beatles set list that night - Some Other Guy, Do You Want To Know A Secret, Love Me Do, From Me To You, Please, Please Me, I Saw Her Standing There, Twist And Shout.

I am actually on that photo along with my girlfriend of the time. I've got a much better, bigger, glossy version of the photo so I spotted the the two of us. If you look to where that pole is in the centre of the picture, right at the top, next to the pole there's a bloke in light coloured trousers. Look just to the left in the photo and there's a couple stood close together in dark clothes roughly in line with the guys feet. That's me and Janet. The game is against Aston Villa 2nd of January 1965. We won in a canter 5-1 in front of a crowd of 18,292 on what as the game went on became a tricky, icy pitch. We were unstoppable in really difficult conditions under foot. For those interested the team that day was Else Newton, Joyce Clayton, England, McGrath Ferguson, McEvoy, Byrom, Douglas, Harrison. Scorers - Byrom 3, McEvoy 2 Gordon Lee played left back for Villa according to the programme I have. Villa were really bad, I think they went down that season.

That's my main complaint regarding Mowbray. We have no coherent way of playing. We look like a pick up team that just rocked up at the local rec on a Sunday afternoon for a post Saturday night piss up kick about. When you watch a well organised team you can see a method in what they are doing, you can see why each player is playing in the position they are in. Together they amount to more as a team than they amount to as individual players. You can't see that at Rovers. We become less as a team than we are as individuals. That can only come down to one thing - the Manager and his coaching staff.

Yes he was a unique performer. You don't get Roy Orbison tribute bands because it's not easy to equal his singing. I remember seeing the Four Pennies and they did a great version of " Running Scared ". I was there that day they played " live " on the pitch at Ewood.

I usually walked up to the ground when I got off the Rochdale bus at the Boulevard but now and and again I got that bus. If I was late or it was raining.As soon as it filled up it set off and it was replaced by another bus. The fee was a a standard fee, 3d seems to ring a bell. I'd gone early one day and I remember waiting by the bus stop near the ground for autographs and Keith Newton, Mike England and Fred Pickering all jumped off the bus and signed my book as they walked to the ground I remember reading that Roger Byrne who was the Man Utd captain and England full back at the time getting on a similar football special in central Manchester. It was only 5 standing downstairs then and he was the sixth. The conductor told him he had to get off and wait for the next bus, so he did.

You could play four defensive midfielders if you like but if none of them get over the half way line you'll always concede eventually because the ball will be in your half most of the time.

It's over for this season Phillip. Once you accept that as a fact life becomes much less stressful. I'll be more happy when we get to 50 points though.