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Callum Davidson has just become available.

It had outstanding reviews in your favourite newspaper the other day.

Keeping Markanday would have been a better bet and I don’t think he’s up to that much.

We Five - You Were On My Mind

Doesn’t know what system to play. Doesn’t know his best eleven. I feel sorry for him slightly because we seem to lose a player to injury in every game we play. What are we doing in training ? The sooner we get Baath and Beck back the better.

That makes us looks a bit thin in midfield then.

I just woke up feeling like a day off football. Maybe they’ll win if I don’t watch. The last couple of really poor performances have left waking up for a pee about 3-00 am and not being able to get back to sleep. It was my birthday yesterday, let’s hope I get a belated present.

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I just got a text from my grandson who’ll be setting off from Rochdale for Ewood shortly. “ This is the least excited I think I’ve ever been going to the football “. That’s a sad state of affairs for a lad who’s Rovers daft. I’m still wondering about going up to my son’s place to watch the game on TV !

Winning mentality.

Well he was never going to win one, that’s for sure.

Just when you thought anybody would be an improvement on Southgate Tuchel proves us wrong.

Clash of heads going for a contested header.

Like you I thought we’d toughened up earlier this season but the old frailties are back again with a vengeance. Losing to teams who play in a more direct style, always losing once we fall behind etc.

2 weeks I think in rugby league. Unless you have a previous history.

We got bullied throughout the game. Chaddy’s right about that. How many 50/50 balls did we win ? How many times to a Derby player just run through our attempts at “ tackles “.

Right, I didn’t see that. Last I heard he was out until after the international break.

Buckley is out with concussion apparently. A strange one.

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I missed last nights game as I had a very boring lecture to attend. Looks like I was the lucky one ! What I don’t understand is on Saturday we started out with a back four. Kargbo gets injured and we immediately go to a back five with wing backs. I thought that got us back into the game to a certain extent. However because the wing backs ( Ribeiro especially ) failed to get forward our attacking threat was minimal. We had no goal threat what so ever in the second half. I fully expected us to revert to a back four last night given we were playing Stoke and not a good side like Leeds or Sheff Utd. I don’t understand why we went to the back five again. . Reading the reports on here last night was just a repeat of the Derby second half. I hope we go to a back four again on Saturday against Cardiff. Unless there’s a big improvement I can’t see beyond another lack lustre performance leading to another defeat. Then the knives will really be out.

Get burning some Indian flags, they won’t like that !

I haven’t seen the programme because I haven’t got Sky but Rugby League has always been forwards thinking and innovative. The treatment of the match officials is just one area we could learn from.

My son won a Rovers signed ball in a raffle a few years ago. It came with a written key to explain who the signatures were ! The one almost half way up on the left could be Shefti Kuqi.

Boiling frog syndrome.

Quite a few are falling out of love with football. I remember thinking during that Norwich game recently - “ If football had have been like this when I was a kid would I have got interested in watching and then playing ? “ Possibly not. The boring possession based tactics, play acting and diving, the crazy wages, games on at stupid times, the death of the FA Cup etc etc. I speak to guys at the Rugby League that I played with and against who were football daft back then. They haven’t been to a football match in years.