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I can't see him playing left back before the two we have return from quarantine.

You're the spitting image of my grandson at that age Herbie, You've never worked in Rochdale have you ?

Can he play in goal ? Can he play up front ?

I know, that's why we get bullied too often in games.

I can't believe we're thinking of signing Downing again, What's going on down at Ewood ? Has Billy Butlin taken over down there ?

Nothing to apologise about matey, we all have opinions and we like to put them over. The point I was making is if you don't try to get in and around the six yard box you aren't going to score many goals unless you're Alan Shearer Mk 2. How many goals does Dack score from quite close in. You could argue that Brererton is playing a deeper role because he's being told to play that way but from watching him I don't think that's the case.

Or Brererton. He doesn't know where the six yard box is.

According to a poster who's word I respect a lot we were offered £10 M for him recently.

It's never got that bad for me either. That's because I'm a bad loser, always have been, you might have detected that. I'd never bet against Rovers either although I knew backing on us to go down when we appointed Coyle was a licence to print money.

Not cashing in on Lenihan is starting to look a bad decision now.

Is Douglas injured or shielding ? We've that many cry offs you need a spread sheet to keep up !

Let's hope so, I'm back to looking forward to the International break again. At least Rovers can't ruin your weekend then !

It's funny that in my lifetime with some teams it's gone from 2-3-5 to 5-3-2. Has it made football better to watch ? Err, No.

Well this time last year Johnno would have been a very popular choice if we needed to appoint a caretaker manager. Now as far as I can see he'd be well out of the running having been tarred with the Mowbray brush.

Wycombe beat Sheff Wed yesterday, didn't they also come within an ace of getting a draw at Norwich ?

Just to lighten the gloom. I've been re reading " Inverting The Pyramid " which is a book about the history of football tactics. Why don't we give 2-3-5 another go, it worked great when I was a kid. Goals galore. Kaminski Nyambe, Douglas Holtby, Ayala, Trybull Dolan, Armstrong, Brererton, Rothwell, Elliot Do you think Tony would go for it ?

When did you last think " I'm proud of the lads today, every man jack has given 100% for the cause, they can all hold their heads up high " ?

He came off after 34 minutes, he'd already got a yellow card so maybe it was tactical ?

My main complaint is Mowbray has accumulated all these players and he still hasn't come up with a successful way of playing. I suspect it's not possible. It's like accumulating random pieces from several jigsaws and trying to fit them together.

I don't bother with anything he says these days. I'm waiting for the football to do the talking. I realise it may be a long wait.

It was James Bond that made me lust after a " Rolex " Submariner as a young lad. I got one eventually, after about 30 years ! I wish I'd have bought more, they're better than any savings account.

I was going over to Bury quite a lot then. I knew a local lad who was on the fringes of the first team and played now and again. Jimmy Kerr was the real deal. I'm not sure he was Colin Bell level but he might have been. He was one hell of a young player, a bit like Dunny in style. The player we really wanted and we so very nearly signed was the left sided centre back, Alec Lindsay. I thought he was going to be the next Bobby Moore, he had it all. He could tackle, head the ball, he had good vision and a fantastic left foot pass, long and short, along with a very calm and un flustered temperament. A lot like Bobby Moore. I believe we actually announced he was signing but Liverpool came in right at the last second and stole him away. He had a great career at Liverpool but mainly as left back. He never really got to play in his best position again. So then we signed Jimmy Kerr instead. Bury had a Scots right winger called Greg Farrell at the time. When he was on his game he was a real match winner, he was fast and tricky, a left backs bad dream. Imagine a fast Bradley Dack ! Unfortunately he was also blessed with film star good looks and I think he liked the night life. He could blow hot and cold like most wingers. When he was hot he was unstoppable.

I see a " Caddis " scored for Swindon yesterday. Is that our ex player ? Ben Gladwin got on as sub at MK Dons who had Fisher in goal. Champagne Charlie played in a 2-0 win for Fleetwood, the lad Camps scored again for them from midfield. Is he better than Ben Whiteman I ask. Dom Samuel got dragged off after 66 mins at Gillingham, they lost 2-0. Barrow finally got a home win, well done Dunny and Matty Platt.

I was talking to the chief exec of a Rugby League club last week and he was out lining what was being expected of the the testing regime. The costs were eye watering, and that was before yesterdays announcements.

Absolutely no rigour at the club. The " buck " doesn't stop anywhere. At other clubs the manager would be being called to the boardroom tomorrow morning for the hard word. At Rovers it'll be just business as usual. I thought the idea of bringing Johnno into the coaching set up was to allow him to have a greater responsibility for the first team. As far as I can see at the moment he's a glorified stats man.