Tyrone Shoelaces

I was just thinking Rovers usually manage to ruin my Saturday evening and some of Sunday. This time they've gone one better and ruined Friday night and all of Saturday plus the usual Sunday blues.

They'll be more interested in the cricket. To be honest, so am I !

For me you either play him up front in a centre forward style role or you don't play him at all. The idea that his height is handy for defending set pieces doesn't outweigh his uselessness as a winger/fullback. Given the state of the pitch at the moment I'd be inclined to go full on ale house football and pair Gallagher and Armstrong up front and just go long ball most of the time.

Mowbray's " approval " rate must be at the Kean/Coyle level by now.

It's a toss up between Gallagher and Brererton as to who is the softest. David Speedie, who was about 8 inches shorter at least, would have outjumped the pair of them with ease.

Prior to the Chicken Chokers taking over none of our previous managers would have lasted anything like as long as Mowbray.

Any good senior exec would already have a few names in his head. You need to have an on going succession plan even if things are going OK. You never know what is around the corner in football.

That's telling it like it is for once.

He'll be telling us how bad Mowbray was when he finally gets fired.

You'd have to pay me to watch that lot. Not fit to wear the shirt comes to mind. I remember the last days of Kiddo, we struggled woefully against QPR and lost 2-1. The team was booed off at the end. I said to my lad " Don't worry, he'll be gone before the next game ". And he was.

Not for the first time either. The Stoke goal came the same way. Preston will have seen that.

It's all just words when action is required. Do you think they'll be in for extra training tomorrow morning ?

We're actually going backwards.

Well the way we are playing we haven't moved forward an inch since those days.

The way we're playing we're more likely to finish 8th from bottom. Our current form is relegation form. We are not out of the woods yet. Let's just waste the rest of this season just like we've wasted the last three.

If Big Jack was running the show he'd be long gone. If by some miracle he'd have hung on until until now he'd have been fired after tonight's game. It's over for him at Rovers. Come Monday morning we should be looking for the new guy.

The one he did with Bruce Springsteen was good _ " This Little Girl " ? " Quarter To Three " was the other big hit he had along with " New Orleans ".

3 years too late for me. Anybody else " managing " that shambles would know it's time to go.

Holtby wouldn't have made any difference tonight. As I said this afternoon - the team that want's to be out there the most tonight will win this.

Recent form would suggest we aren't that good.

Archer is having problems with his elbow apparently.

The recent results mask the fact we've being playing pretty poorly. We got very lucky at Boro, 99 out of a 100 refs would have given a pen and a red card. In the Luton game if the linesman had have blinked and missed that very narrow off side that game would have ended 1-1. I make that 5 points we probably wouldn't have got. Last time out we completely failed to overcome a deeply average QPR team who hadn't won at home for ages. The options from the bench are good because we don't know what our best team is. Will we be subbing another four players on the 65 minute mark ? Tonight, given the conditions, it'll be down to the team that wants to be out there the most.

Players basically come in two types. The players that get you on top in a game, and the players that can keep you on top once the other players have done their stuff. Holtby belongs in the second group. We've too many who belong is the second category and not enough who belong in the first.

We'll have to improve 100% on our recent form to get a win tonight. I'm not sure we can. We've too many players blowing hot and cold. 7/10 one week, 3/10 the next. I think Tony Mogadon had baffled them with science.

I suspect you have to be on nodding terms with an amateur pharmaceutical entrepreneur to get the full effect CLB.