The one thing the famous video revealed that he could do was he could run with the ball once he'd got turned around and was facing play. Unfortunately there wasn't a massive amount of end product from these runs. A bit like Rothwell. We used to have a saying about certain players - " He dribbles when he comes to a pair of feet " IE they're a bit head down.

Our biggest problem will be holding on to our better players. Travis, Lenihan , Nyambe, maybe Armstrong. If the Chicken Chokers decide it's time to cash in again they could all be gone. That's why failing to go up this season could be a disaster.

I don't care what anyone says, for a tall guy he's a poor header of the ball. Maybe he closes his eyes.

Somebody needs to give him a quietener early on.

Back in the 1960's we had great bespoke shirts when we were getting gates not much more than the current ones. I can't recall the makers, shirts didn't have logos then.

Either play him up the middle or leave him on the bench. It's as simple as that for me.

That's were the " wingerless " formation is all going wrong.

Definitely a must win today after the last no show. I'd love us to put this lot to the sword but I'm expecting a score draw. My forecast is the season will peter out to a slight improvement over last season leading to several of our better players leaving in summer for more ambitious clubs. I sincerely hope I'm wrong but that's how I see the cards falling.

I was still playing 5 a side around that time so one birthday I treated myself to a real Sampdoria shirt to play in. " Phonola " was their sponsor then. There was a shop in the Manchester Arndale that sold real replica shirts from all over the world. It was a choice of the Samp shirt or the Napoli shirt with " Buitoni " as the sponsor. Best shirt I ever had quality wise, it was great to play in. I gave it to number 2 son to sell on Ebay when he was hard up. I think it went for £60.

What a bloody awful shirt. Was that really the best Nike could come up with ? Everything is wrong about it. I haven't bought a shirt for about 20 years. I'm still waiting for the club to bring one out worth wearing.

I was never a big fan of Sven's.

Brian Barry-Murphy at Rochdale has been linked recently.

How can you get to this level and not be able to cross a ball ? It's beyond belief. What do they do in training ? I remember watching Marshall and Carney in that competition were they were trying to score direct from a corner. Cairney got the ball in the net from both wings in a couple of goes and Marshall wasn't far behind. If you can do that you should be able to cross a ball.

He can run with it after a fashion but the next Bohinen, Berkovic,or Dunn he isn't.

The only two players that Mowbray has signed in 3 years that appear to like the physical side of the game are Johnson ( when he can be bothered ) and Smallwood. The rest of of his signings are just nice lads who haven't got a streak of malice in them.

Travis will never be an " unlocker " if he lives to be a thousand, that's not his game, just like Savage wasn't a playmaker..

A win can make up for a dull game. Most people will be back again. A boring 0-0 games makes you want to kick the cat when you get home.

The thing is Jim we brought him to Ewood in case anything happened to Dack so he rarely got a game in his best position. A pal of mine saw him playing for Bradford last year and he was the best player on the pitch, he absolutely ran the game. There's a reason why players with bags of ability drift down the leagues, they lack consistency. You see players in giant killing cup games looking like they could make the step up on that one showing. Watch them again the following week and they're back to being Mr Average. Players at top level can perform for maybe 30 games a season at a good level, the wannabes can only do 10 at the most.

What you seem to be forgetting is that people go to Rovers to be entertained. I do anyway. I want to see players do things I could never do as a player. They go to be gotten up out of their seats every now and then. How many waiverers do you think performances like that will attract back to Ewood ? I'd rather knock nails through the back of my hand. The football most of the time is dull, one dimensional, pedestrian, lack lustre, un inspiring and all the other adjectives you can think of. The blame for that lies at the managers door.

I agree. What you need for these games is a Berkovic type player who can carry the ball into the last third and unbalance teams who park the bus by drawing them out. Rothwell has the ability but not the football savvy or consistency.. That's why he was at Oxford. Buckley would have been a better bet last night.

Same old, same old. Too much walking football. receiving the ball stood still etc. It's been like this for the last 3 seasons. I thought Johnno might have improved things but he hasn't.

If you look back at England Youth teams loads more fall by the wayside than make it to the top. If you get 2 or 3 out of 11 playing in the Prem you are doing really well. 4 or 5 will be playing non league after a few years. Even in the past when they had an U-23 team were you'd think they'd all be playing at the top level already plenty fell by the wayside.

Put Tosin or Lenihan up front and a CB on at the back ?

Mancini was a class act as a player.

Of course.