Considering I've never been a season ticket holder for sporting and then working reasons I've been lucky to see some great games almost by random chance. Beating Man Utd 3-0 at Old Trafford was pretty special. Bryan Douglas running Law and Charlton, Stiles etc ragged was another great performance. It was incredible that when Bryan was the best attacking midfield player in England for about 2 seasons he only got one game there. We played Switzerland away, won 8-1, Bryan ran the show in midfield, scored a goal - and never got another cap !

Looks like you were right.

Great stuff, I loved Speedie. He had more enthusiasm and fighting spirit than any of the current lot and only Dack could match him for skill. I would have hated to play against him. You would have had a tough 90 minutes.

I was at the Plymouth match as well Jim. Two great performances but different in character. In the Spurs game we totally out skilled them from start to finish, Possibly the best I saw Bryan Douglas play, they'd no answer to him in midfield. it could have been 10-2 easily In the Plymouth game it was more about our fighting spirit and determination to run Plymouth into the ground, especially after half time. Our level of intensity never let up and they were well beaten at the end. I would have liked to have seen that Boxing Day match, West Ham 2- Rovers 8 game.

You should have been wearing your Rovers tie Chaddy.

Easy, Rovers 7- Spurs 2 , back in the day when Spurs were the equivalent of what City or Liverpool are today.

Yes, he was obviously a man of taste and discernment.

They're all a bit 20th century. I think we're talking about Williams and the team at the moment.

Did he do anything after he left us ? Just asking.

I didn't watch the game but regarding playacting - I hate it, it's putting me off a game I've loved most of my life.

Well we'd all love to be discussing our latest signing or signings but seeing as how we've got to 200 pages without there being any we have to make do with the usual stuff.

How did he cost ?

Can you see Souness signing him ?

Mm, that's what you can get with lots of left footed players, the right foot is just for standing on. In my book that's a right footed clearance down field and you need to go for it like you mean it. He wasn't exactly quick at sensing the danger either.

That's a steal along the lines of us signing Dack.

Yes, I understand that. Modern football - it's crackers.

Working out a partnership with the other centre halve is the key as you say. Maybe the other lad he was playing with at Barnsley covered for the weaker points of Linsay's game. I never saw them play so I wouldn't like to comment. For instance Bobby Moore never looked as dominant playing in the old Div 1 alongside Ken Brown at West Ham as he did when he was next to Jack Charlton for England and the class of opponent was much better.

If Robinson is the left full back who played against us at Ewood he's a class act who's playing seriously below his level at Wigan. I thought he was the best player on the pitch that night. He'll be too rich for our blood.

I may be old fashioned here Joe but I'd like some wingers to be where the wingers would normally be. It seemed to work Ok when we'd Ripley and Wilcox or Duff and Gillespie or even Emerton and Pedersen out there.

That's worked out well then. I thought he played cautiously because he's cautious by nature.

We usually concede goals when we are not in possession, although not always, see the Luton game for instance. When we're defending if we have the guys with the required skills playing in the right areas of the pitch we may do a little bit better. Johnson dropping back to fill in at centre back and a centre half taking over the left full back role seems to be a recipe for conceding goals to me.

When you consider that we have a back four with two midfielders playing more or less in front of them we leak a hell of a lot of goals. I'd expect to be grinding out plenty of 1-0's wins set up like that but we don't. Maybe if we concentrated on playing in our opponents half instead of our own half we may be more successful. Evan's seems to lose the plot completely in front of goal, Travis is a better bet as a source of goals.

When they're both on song we look pretty strong there but in an ideal world I'd like a bit more creativity and a few more goals coming from that area of the team.

Yes, he was a very good player in his day but nothing is for ever.

Bayern - 26 shots - 14 on target. Possession - 49%. What do you think of that Tony ? It'd take us a month of matches to get to 26 shots.