And UTD second I believe.

I think the " Holiday Camp - Minimum Effort is OK " mentality set in under Kean and none of the subsequent managers have managed to eradicate it.

I'd class his transfer dealings as pretty poor - 3 or 4 out of 10 at the most.

How will getting lower level foreign managers pan out with Brexit ? I think you can forget that. I read yesterday that they must be able to speak good English,

Dack signed because he's realised he isn't going to get a better offer until he starts producing on the pitch again.

He had a bit of a run out and then I think he's realised it's going to be a long journey back to his previous form. He might as well sign, " a bird in the hand ", and all that.

That's what it's like to really be going for a play off spot. Great to see Garner at his best, the Rovers answer to Jimmy Greaves. Armstrong is nowhere near him in terms of finishing ability.

Dack obviously doesn't think so Stuart.

Don't mention Sciatica to me. I had it in my left leg about three yeas ago. I couldn't walk more than 200 yards without having to sit down for a minute or two. Getting comfortable in bed was impossible some nights. It went on it's own after about three months but I still have a bit in my right leg now but it doesn't really handicap me. The worst of it was we were having the study re-vamped at the same time. I'd begun to clear out our filing cabinet but I had to break off to have a lie down because of the pain. All the contents were being put into boxes and taken up to my wife's sons place temporarily. When I got back on the job the filing cabinet had been moved outside for the scrap man. So I assumed it had been emptied by whoever moved it outside. I never did find out who took it outside, the builders ? My wife's sons ? Whoever took it outside had locked it and stood it upside down for some reason. If it had been the right way up I would probably had a look inside because I had the key. There was no way I was wrestling with it with my sciatica. It was there for about a week before the scrap man took it. About the same time the study was finished and the boxes of documents came back. When we were sorting these out it suddenly dawned on me that all the car documents that I'd kept for years were missing ! Then Mrs Shoelaces said " Where are the deeds to the house " ! ! Yes - they were still in the filing cabinet, along with lots of other important stuff. We flew up to the scrap yard but the cabinet was nowhere to be seen in a mountain high pile of junk.

He signed the buggers, he should know how many of them have the heart for a battle. As far as I can see he's not signed one player that would give you a hard time out on the pitch. If you rolled all his signings together you wouldn't have the fight of a David Speedie.

It's always been my opinion that we got lucky with him when we got promoted. We should have cashed in our chips then.

I played against a team called Langley Villa back in the day. Langley was a really rough Manchester overspill council estate near Middleton. The sort of place were coppers went around in threes. The lad I was marking was wearing a studded belt around his waist. Sensibly I refrained from giving him my usual welcoming kicking !

It reminds me a bit of Kiddo's downfall, a team with some decent players but looking totally lost.

Is it time to get the annual relegation thread going Jim ?

It's like we're playing another game to what we are playing today.

I've got a replica shirt from " Philosphy Football " , it's got a quote from John Paul Sartre on the front - " Everything in football is complicated by the presence of the opposing team ".

He did well to come through all that !

I can't summon up any enthusiasm at the moment but a win always puts a smile on my face. Even a hard fought for away draw has the same effect. I've long since given up trying to anticipate what the team will be or even what team I'd like to see out on the pitch. Head says we'll play like drains and lose. Heart says we might put in a performance and get a draw.

I would have thought the chances of this season being played to a finish aren't great.

I was ambivalent about Kiddo but thought we could have done better, I thought Hodgson was a poor mans Sven. Souness I was pleased with and I thought Ince was a massive gamble we didn't need to take.

Entertainment yes. Watching Rovers at the moment, maybe not.

I've not really been happy since the day Mowbray joined to be honest, indeed I've not been happy since the Chicken Chokers joined us. It's been a miserable ten years. On the other hand I've been fortunate enough to see several Rovers teams that were terrific entertainment so it's not all bad.

Yeah and it's not like they've had no reason to is it ? How many of us wanted Kean, Berg, Appleton, Bowyer, Coyle, Mowbray ? I was pleased with the Lambert and Co appointment, I thought that was a sensible appointment. Yet they managed to balls that one up. As for the rest, none of them were popular choices.

That's what I mean. It's dawned on him that the Premier League move isn't going to happen. In that case you may as well stay at the holiday camp that is Brockhall.

It's called " in the light of recent experience".