I remember saying when Mahoney first came into the reckoning at Rovers that he could be the new Damien Duff or he could be the new Keith Tracy. I think I know which way that guess has gone.

Charlie Austin is a good example. If he gets you promotion and you think you need a better striker for the Prem you sell him on to another Championship club for more or less what you paid for him. If you don't get promoted you keep him for another go at promotion. That's a much more sensible purchase that chucking big bucks at some kid who may or may not make it 2 or 3 years in the future.

We'd be very, very lucky to get as much as that at the moment. Why would any other club want to buy him ?

How long as Mowbray been here ? Yet to compete at this level we appear to need 5 new first team players !

If you're intending to play 4-4-2 to accommodate the Rhodes type of player you may as well play Armstrong up there. At least he's quick and he won't cost us anything. I think Rhodes is finished as a starting player because hardly anybody plays that way now.

You think so Chaddy ? If I were a Stoke fan I'd be hoping for better than that. If Mowbray were to walk in front of the proverbial No 17 bus I wouldn't be over the moon about those three.

If you're not moving forward you're going backwards in this game.

I thought the manager's time was up 8 months ago but unfortunately our views count for nothing matey. As that's the case I'll just enjoy a relatively rare home win.

I don't care what the circumstances are, I always want us to win. Yesterday was no exception. I was down cast with the Rugby Union but for me it's a side show, Rovers will always be No1.

Bang on, they lost interest in us years ago. If that wasn't the case they'd be at games. This is just a damage limitation exercise.

I used to to the Rugby League with a pal who left home games with 5 minutes to go every week no matter what the score was. " To beat the traffic " was his rationale. There'd be about 2,000 at the game !

Danny McGrain was one of the best right backs I ever saw. A Rolls-Royce of a full back.

I hope so, the ball was crying at the end.

No, we looked nervous right from the off, especially when Sinckler had to go off. Several wild passes early on when calm heads were required. I thought the ref gave us nothing and the Welsh ref would have been a better bet. Having said that the best team won.

I agree about the Buckley goal. We've been shot shy from around the box for a long while now. When you have a bang into a crowded goalmouth you can always get lucky. Maybe Walton could have come out a bit quicker but the rest of the defence was slow to react also. A win always makes my weekend, especially when the dingles get turned over as well.

Well it's made my day after that England defeat this morning. Get something at Leeds and who knows ?

What they don't realise is watching a football team is not like going to the theatre or the pictures, were you go sporadically. Going to home games is a habit, once people start giving it a miss it's really hard to get them to come back again. Especially on a wet, miserable Saturday afternoon with Xmas around the corner. £45 will buy you a fair bit of booze.

Yeah, I like De Klerk. He's what a scrum half should be like. Having said that anybody can play there when you're playing behind a dominant pack.

Mm, a game to forget I'm afraid. We looked very nervous right from the off and losing Sinckler in the first tackle was a blow. Having said that we never got to grips with their old fashioned style of scrum and line out dominance followed by a kick based rugby. I'm not sure I'd want to watch that every week, they nearly won today without scoring a try. Incidentally I thought there were two little forward passes in their first try but they don't bother about things like little forward passes in Rugby Union. I don't think the ref did us any favours either to be honest, George Ford got clattered off the ball at one point and nothing happened. No real complaints though, we were a poor second today. Well done South Africa.

Once a teacher, always a teacher. Lol.

I watched the 3rd and 4th place game this morning. New Zealand won comfortably against Wales without ever really hitting top form. They made several mistakes with the ball simply by over playing their hand. Two line outs in really good attacking positions in the Wales 25 were blown because they were overthrown into no mans land. That's not like the Kiwis of old. Could be that they're not what they were years ago. Looking forward to tomorrow's match. Come on England.

Sounds like a " Bunker Mentality " is starting to emerge. When managers start trying to tell the fans that black is the new white they don't tend to last much longer.

He's been in football long enough to know who are the leaders are in the game. As far as I can see he's hardly signed a one. In my book players come in two categories - The group of players who can get you on top in a game and the other group of players who will play well once the first group have got them in a position to do so. Mowbray has signed too many that fit into the second group and not enough that fit into the first group.

Sutton sitting on Tugay in the second game stopped us playing.

I think the rot really started with Coyle with all those goals conceded in the last ten minutes but Mowbray has done absolutely nothing to remedy it.