That's a shame. I'm going round to his place tonight to watch the Man Utd v Rochdale game so I'll try and put a rocket under him. I've got loads of cuttings from the 1963 era, mainly from the " Last Sports ". Lots of those little" Sam Says" cartoons - One after we'd beaten Sheff Wed 3-0 on Good Friday - " Yon Owls Played Like They'd Been Up All Neet ". I've got reports and photographs of the famous Bryan Douglas goal against WBA the next day. Still the best goal I've ever seen by a Rovers player. I started playing myself the following season so my visits to Ewood became a lot less after that.

I agree Chaddy, now we've got a settled pairing at the back why change them ? You should only be left out for poor performances.

It's the only time I thought I might be watching a fatal injury at a football match. I've seen a couple of incidents watching Rugby League were I thought the player might have been killed though.

I agree that playing well in what amounts to be our reserve team ought to be rewarded. Having said my reservations regarding Samuel is that he seems to need lots of chances before he puts one away. Last night excepted. He reminds me a bit of Jason Roberts in that if you give him a chance where he has to react instantly he does ok, give him time to think and he usually fluffs it.

I could say we'll never have a better chance of going up than this season. If the goals keep coming we'll be there or there abouts.. My only worry is with the exception of an aging Danny Graham none of our strikers appear to be prolific goalscorers and we've struggled to get goals from all over the pitch previously. Excepting Mulgrew who is no longer at the club.

I've found it but I'm having trouble getting No2 son to come around to my house to sort the job out. I'll do my best to kick him up the backside. If you live anywhere near Rochdale you're welcome to come and view it in person.

In spite of tonight I don't think he's a finisher at top level but I'm prepared to be proved wrong.

I agree with you Phil but if you look closely he got a bit of luck with the deflection off the defender that foxed the goalie who was initially going the right way. Given the way he managed to get the shot away whilst a defender was hanging on him like a cheap suit he deserved a bit of luck.

Mm, could he be on the bench on Saturday ?

Yeah Dack's been great. Pound for pound one of our best signings.

I agree. £5million is a lot to pay for someone to run around a lot and make a nuisance of themselves, even in today's market. Whoever's playing up front has to carry a goal threat. This weekend would be a good time to start.On another point I believe Luton have a midweek game also.

One centre half should be covering the guy who's jumping for the ball with Gallagher. Meat and drink to most Championship centre halves. It'd be another story if somebody rapid like Armstrong was playing up there on his shoulder, but norrnally he isn't.

He crossed a ball into the box, Dack had all the work to do after that. It's not like he laid on a tap in for Dack.

It's only a problem if you have an opponent competing for the ball with you. Like I said what goalscoring opportunities came from all the headers ?

What with a header ? I thought Dack made that goal for himself to be honest.

What came from them ? If I was marking him I'd let him win the flick ons if I knew nobody would be picking them up.

That's my worry, he may be hardworking but is he a blunt instrument like Samuel ? Obviously you need to be hitting the target to have a chance of scoring.

Not enough ! On a more serious note your view of what constitutes a chance may vary with mine so that stat is a matter of opinion.. The one that Gallagher put over the cross bar was a definite chance for me, he should have worked the goalkeeper at the very least.

Yeah and even the best centre backs in the Prem have a habit of setting up goals for the opposition on a regular basis - Keane for England the other day being a great example.

I still have the dream we'll fill the ground on all four sides again one day.

It's pretty rare that when you have an illness in the team, especially when you're travelling to away games, that it only affects one player. Maybe Travis was suffering from a bit of " Rothwellitis ".

Well if I had a £10 note for every time I've seen Rovers teams over the years struggle against " very poor " visiting teams I'd be reasonably wealthy. Let's hope we can put them to the sword. My mind goes back to the that game were we were playing West Ham at home two days after beating them 8-2 away at Upton Park. I had a paper round then and I distinctly remember " The Daily Mail " having a cartoon on the back page showing us selling cricket style scorecards instead of programmes outside of Ewood Park on the morning of the game. We played like drains and lost badly 3-1 !

Winning's great and I was walking around with a big smile on my face yesterday because we won well. In fact I'm still smiling now ! Having said that we're also in the entertainment business and if we are hoping to attract back the stay aways we need to be entertaining as well.

If we carry in in our recent form we'll be there or thereabouts. We need to rediscover the sort of consistency we showed when we got promoted. We were winning regularly without blowing teams away then. We usually found a way to take the points. This weekends game against Luton will be good pointer. Win well and I'll start believing, if it's a repeat of the Charlton game it'll be back to square one.

This year is going to be wide open. If we can get our act together we must be in with a chance.