Tyrone Shoelaces

He still needs to be getting in the box if he's going to be scoring goals. That's what MGP did when he was scoring goals. As time went by he stopped getting in there and the goals dried up. You don't get many 25 yard shots into the top corner in a season. If you're on the left wing and the ball is out on the right hand side - get in the bloody box !

I'm not a Brererton fan by a long chalk but from what I've seen his main ( only ? ) skill set is running from deeper positions with the ball. I think playing him up the front has been proven not to work, maybe playing a bit deeper may work. Regarding the game - as on most occasions it'll be the team that wants it the most that will come out on top. That'll be Barnsley then.

My major criticism of Mowbray is in all the time he's been here he's never discovered a way of " winning ugly ". We all knew what Wigan away would be like, just like they were when we played them at Ewood. A dogfight. Armed with that knowledge we should have been ready to roll our sleeves up from the first whistle and get stuck in. We're not too bad against the less physical teams that let us play, but the minute we get in a game that calls for the battlers in the team to emerge we discover we haven't got any. You can't play well every game but the successful teams learn how to " win ugly ".

I've only seen it once but the defending as a whole for the first goal was school boy standard. Every time we could have got control of the ball we took the wrong decision. We were on the back foot and Wigan were on the front foot.

I remember when we were debating wether he was worth signing again somebody on here trying to tell me what a good header of the ball Gallagher was. Maybe he meant Kevin Gallagher. David Speedie was a foot shorter than either of the two young giants we have up front and he was a better header of the ball than both of them.

It should be obvious by now that Mowbray has an aversion to playing young players. They only get picked if he's absolutely desperate.

Was the hairdresser " John Peers " by any chance ? Failing that, Mrs Shoelaces cutter " Greg Cousins ".

I think the players like life just the way it is.

If you watched his " highlights " before we signed him it was mainly of him running from out wide with the ball. There wasn't much goal mouth action in it.

Are we still talking about Sam Gallagher ? The guy who's 6' 5" tall until a cross comes over when he becomes 5' 9"

Take a bow " roverandout ".

It sounds like we were " out enthused " again by a pretty poor team. If I'd a £ for every time that's happened over the last ten years I'd be a rich man. I can take being out skilled but being out enthused - never !

To score goals he needs to do two things that he's shown no signs of doing so far - 1) Get in the bloody box ! 2) To quote the great Paul Ince, SHOOT !

I'm surprised by that.

Exactly what my son said and he watched the game. I didn't but once I saw the team I knew it was going to be one of those days.

How many of those games has he started in ?

How much do you reckon Rothwell is worth ?

Your views on the signing of the three players mentioned mirror mine, Armstong - good. Brererton - not good given the fee involved. Gallagher - why, especially when he 'd done next to nothing since leaving Rovers. However I've just been reading a very good article in today's " Guardian " regarding Klopp at Liverpool. His strike rate regarding signings is a lot better than 1 out of 3. We all know you live or die by your signings as a manager. I'd expect the average Joe Bloggs to get as many right as they get wrong. The Klopps of this world will be up around 75% if not more. I would suggest that a strike rate of 1 success in 3 signings would get you the sack at most normal clubs.

Let me put it this way - If you had control of the signings Rovers make and a time machine, which ones of Armstrong, Brererton or Gallagher would you still go out and sign ? I'd have signed Armstrong given the relatively modest fee we paid. I wouldn't have signed the other two.

We're not talking about buying vintage cars to put in a garage or modern art to hang on a wall here. We're talking about buying footballers to come into the club and have an impact.on our ability to win games. It's not solely about "investments " , it's more about scoring goals and putting in top performances. That has been lacking in 2 out of 3 cases. As for getting £15 million for Armstrong,. he's not even guaranteed a starting place at Rovers.

I'd expect the manager of a team in desperate need of a new goalkeeper to be aware of the names of the most likely prospects as a minimum. In an ideal world he'd know everything about the likes of McLauglin etc. He's either lying to save face or he really is a muppet.

I've only seen him once close up but like you I was amazed we'd signed him in the first place. A deeply average player.

Jet 2 keep cancelling our flights to Spain, then they want to charge us a £35 fee for re-booking a new flight. On top of that they want to increase the cost of the new flights by £50 per person. Just because they're wearing a mask it doesn't mean they can rob people. According to my wife we are being charged another £135 for a problem that isn't of our making !

It's pretty damning that Hart couldn't even get in the massed ranks of the bench warmers when both the recognised left backs were unavailable and a young utility player had to fill in there.

Doesn't young Grayson also play centre half ?