The way we are fixed for injury prone centre halves/defenders I'd have him back. He'd be better than having to play Smallwood or Evans at centre half for instance Magloire is back playing for Rochdale. He's been starting at right back for them. When does his loan end ? I've got tickets for the Rochdale v Newcastle FA Cup game on Saturday and I was hoping to do a bit of scouting.

There just one thing missing in this master plan - The player concerned needs to have some ability to start with.

I'd certainly drop him for the cup game on Saturday.

He can't say he wasn't warned either. Brereton was deeply un-impressive on that video and Gallagher had done nothing in his time away from Rovers.

I'm spitting feathers - Wigan and Big Club at home, Hudds and Forest away. 10 points from those games would not have been too much to ask from a half decent Rovers team.

If that was a decision I'd have made in my old line of work I'd have been fired and I would have had no complaints at all.

If Freeman had have been signed I doubt that we would have gone anywhere near Brererton.

Permanently yes but he signed on loan at the start of that season.

No. I'd say 16months or a season and a half.

Frank Large would do for me up front at the moment. Haynes was a class act even at the end of his career. Super Mac was another converted left back. Maybe we should give Williams a run out up front !

Another beef of mine with some Rovers players is that they'll get in a tricky situation on the ball and then they'll pass the ball to somebody else who's in a worse position than they were. Good teams only do that occasionally, we do it all the time.

I'm old fashioned but I like to see right sided players playing on the right and left sided players on the left. Gallagher in the middle is where I thought we'd signed him to play.

Keeping the ball means the other 9 outfield players working hard to give the player in possession plenty of options. Whenever I watch Rovers play I see too many players stood still, players not showing for the ball etc. We play walking football. If you press the ball vigorously against a team playing walking football you'll always force errors and regain possession in dangerous areas.

I'm expecting a repeat of Wigan-Big Club-Hudds. Out enthused again.

I remember going to watch Rochdale v Everton in a pre season friendly. Howard Kendall took a throw in right in front of me. I was near enough to nearly touch him and I could see that bald patch emerging. I didn't feel so envious for a minute.

If that really is the case we should be worried. I was thinking maybe a change of face and voice in the dressing room might get a bit more out of them.

It's like last week against the Pie Eaters. Are they a better team than us ? The league table would suggest not. Did they want it more than us ? In my eyes, definitely.

I was doing cartwheels around the room when we won at Doncaster the season before last. That was great. Having said that the next day it was over and we needed to step up. Going off the level of performances that season I had doubts about Mowbray even then. We never out battled anybody that season, our superior levels of skill for 30-40 minutes got us through. That was never going to be enough in this league.

You're looking at things from a fans point of view. These guys are doing a job of work. They want to be doing that job for as long as they possibly can. One of the best midfield players I ever saw, Franz Beckenbauer, moved into the back four at a really early stage in his career. Do you think that was because he liked heading the ball ? He said himself it was to cut down on the amount of running he would have to do so he could play at the top level for longer.

You should never ever be satisfied, especially when the team is only perfoming for half a game. Being satisfied with the team that won the Prem meant that the following season we ended up a poor seventh in the league. The start of a downward spiral. Do you think Fergie was satisfied every time they won the league ? The minute you decide you can stand still you are actually going backwards.

What gets me is he seems to just collect players without any coherent way of playing emerging. Everybody on here could pick a team and it would be a different team. We have enough players to field two teams when we're all fit yet at least half of them aren't up to the required standards and most of those never will be.

How many games in that season did we play well for more than 30 minutes ? You could count them on the fingers of one hand.

If it at the end of every game we can answer the question " Did we give that game our best shot " with a yes, I'd be happy. I don't expect miracles but I expect every player to give 100% to the team. Hand on heart I can't recall many games in recent seasons were I've felt that. Too many are falling into the trap of thinking they can prolong their careers by playing within themselves.

If you look at Sheff Utd last season you could have said their players were in the same boat as ours. They'd no really outstanding players last season. They still stormed the league. I'd suggest that their players went for it because they had faith in the manager and had enough confidence in him coping with the Premier League to buy in to a promotion challenge.

If we had those two playing for us they could play where ever they liked. Our two are much more limited players so they need to make the most of what skills they have.