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It'll be interested to see how that one turns out. Maybe he ditched the ripped jeans ?

Yeah I don't know why you bother Stuart .All their other signings have been good apart from Raya. What can you say ? I suppose you need eyes that see.

Good job they weren't making these flags a year or two back. The manager would have been gone before the flag was finished.

There were plenty more on here that got carried away with that signing ! £ 7 million = he must be a good player. Err, not always. Ditto the Gallagher signing.

It was obvious at the time if you didn't get carried away with the thrill of chucking major dosh at a kid that most of us had never heard of.

No you're right, that would take somebody with integrity. Not many of them around in pro football.

The owners have absolutely no plan what so ever. They've already forgotten all about football, Blackburn and anything else.They don't know how to resolve the situation so they are just ignoring the issue ostrich style.

My youngest son texted me that Big Sam had been fired. The first thing I did after I put my phone down was look at the League table and see how many points we needed to get to 40 pts. I knew immediately we were in deep shit.

We got the wrong keeper from Brighton. That Sanchez on loan at Rochdale looks a better bet to me.

Brighton obviously don't think so.

So what is it now then ?

It's a mugs game unless you have top class players playing in those positions.

Maybe they're knocking it around the back four and midfield most of the game like we do. You need the ball in the danger area to score goals.

There's an interesting article in my paper today regarding the up coming Bournemouth v Watford game. " During Bournemouth's downturn their possession has increased and their passing accuracy has gone up, as has both the number of passes attempted ( from 385 per game in their first 11 matches to 449 subsequently ) and successful ( from 289 to 357 ). Yet they are scoring 0.6 goals per game down from 1.3. In Watford's upturn their possession and passing accuracy has gone down, as has both the number of passes attempted ( from 403 to 354 ) and successful ( from 311 to 251 ), yet they are scoring 1.1 goals per game, up from 0.6. In the 4 games where they have had the greatest possession Watford have lost by and an aggregate score of 9 to 1. Bournemouth have extracted 2 points from the 6 games where they have had the ball the most." Has Mowbray backed the wrong horse implementing this new brand of possession based walking football ?

And if you rolled them all together you wouldn't have a right winger as good as Damien Johnson or Keith Gillespie for example.

I think so too, I like his style. It's the little things he does. He sees things really quickly. I saw him go after a ball out by the wing in his own half. He wasn't under any pressure but he was off like a rocket to claim the ball, that gave him time to look up and find a player to pass to. Our lot amble after balls like that and then they find they're under the cosh and have to clear the ball anywhere.

I see that kid Matheson scored a really good goal today for Rochdale. He's playing right back at the moment but I can see him moving into midfield when he's a bit bigger. Newcastle are the latest team to get interested in him apparently.

You do realise Dack probably won't be playing whilst next season ?

There's a few goals in that team !

How many wingers have we had over the years that were " mavericks " ? Especially back in the days when individuality wasn't being coached out of players I go back beyond Mike Ferguson and he was certainly a maverick. Even at the level we are at now Eamon Rogers, David Wagstaffe, , Stuart Metcalfe, Noel Brotherston, Scott Sellars were all mavericks. They blew hot and cold and but when the blew hot they were match winners.

Correct, I'd like to see a few of the Andy Todd, David Speedie, Paul Dickov types. That's my idea of character. Possibly not the easiest to manage though.

I have seen much sign of character in most of his signings. We seem to specialise in players who's heads go down when we're up against it.

Cunningham might have been.

Yeah I've watched him a few times, Put's himself about a bit, winds opposing players up, likes a tackle, get's up and down the pitch, not going to score many goals. Very similar player to Travis. If we sign him it could be that Travis may be on the move in the near future.

With my scouting hat on regarding the down side - he lacked real pace, wasn't particularly good at beating an opponent one on one, he wasn't particularly tricky running with the ball, he didn't appear to relish the physical side of the game. It's quite interesting that nobody came in for him when we'd turned into a selling club. Putting that to one side he appears to be a genuinely nice guy who had a lot of real affection for the club.