Talk is cheap Jim, it's action we want.

I saw all of them play as well and your dad was right. An old time Rovers fan told me about a Central League game at Ewood when the reserves were playing Utd and very young Best was playing inside right for Utd. They kicked off at half time and their centre forward passed the ball to Best who just dribbled past most of the Rovers team and slotted it straight past our keeper, turned on his heel and walked back to the centre circle. Apparently their centre forward had blasted Best at half time for being greedy and not passing to various team mates. He said " You think you can beat the whole bloody team and you can't ! " Best said " When we kick off this half just give me the ball ".

Yes and putting Rothwell in Dack's role. I suppose it makes sense to cover every eventuality.

That's a decent set up. I'm just trying to justify spending £12 million on two strikers !

Let's hope they've still got what it takes.

I can be ignorant without trying. I'd like us sign players that look like they're good enough to go straight into the team. We've enough squad players.

We could play 4-3-1-2. With the two young lads up front and Dack in behind. As in. New Goalkeeper. Nyambe, Lenihan, New Centre Half, New Left Back ( or Bell ) Travis, Johnson, Downing ( or Rothwell ) Dack Brererton, Gallagher.

What did we sign Downing for ?

Re the all Ireland set up. I'm not a big fan of deciding on a formation and then shoe horning players into it. You look at what the skill sets your squad has and then you design your system to suit that. In my opinion anyway. It's like Rovers, if we still had Hird and Bailey on the books or even Perez and LeSaux you could play a wing back system but if it's Nyambe and Williams out there you're wasting your time.

You probably don't remember " Marshall's Misfits " . How he converted various players from their original positions as young players. Fred Pickering from being an average reserve left back to the second best striker I've ever seen in a Rovers shirt being one. Andy McEvoy from a reserve midfield player to a guy who capable of scoring 30 odd goals a season was another. There were other examples. You'd think they'd be trying players out in practice matches all the time but who knows today ?

That was then. What's he done since ?

Playing out goalies - nearest to the goal is the keeper.

His nickname's " The Wall " also.

There's only one real rule - Are they good enough ? Although with old players they can be good enough today and not good enough tomorrow.

They had a way of playing at home and a slightly modified way from home. Same players, just a different formation. The same team picked itself every week. Everybody knew what the other player was going to do in any given situation. Work hard and play in your opponents half as much as you can. It's not complicated !

I agree, that's a great kit, proper blue as well. Alan Hunter, just what we need today, a real centre half who could play a bit as well. Even Dick Mulvaney would be handy today. I'm not so sure about Coddington, especially if it came to a penalty shoot out. One or two of those are just what we are short of today. Billy Wilson, a better left back than Bell, Williams and Hart all rolled into one. Eamon Rogers, a Travis with better ball skills and more of an eye for goal. Stuart Metcalfe, what a winger should be like. The incomparable Sir Keith, a Rolls Royce of a full back. How that squad didn't really look like getting promoted I'll never know.

I agree Gallagher hasn't done much since he left Ewood. I've had my say regarding Brererton.

Yeah, he was very average. Didn't he come after Adam Blacklaw ? Another one who looked like he lived out of the chip pan.

Yeah, he could if he plays a 4-3-1-2 system. Who knows with Mowbray, it's defensive enough. Travis, Johnson, Downing as the three and Dack behind the two lamp posts.

Maybe he likes the regime at Rovers, It doesn't strike me as being too demanding.

Liverpool, Utd, City etc can put the boat out and buy potential, we aren't in that position. To be honest we haven't been in that position for 10 years now at least.

It's big money to us. Especially if they don't shine. I've said before I'm not Gallagher's biggest fan but he made more of an Immediate impact than Brereton.

I wouldn't be a big fan of that formation but at least there would be a place for Dack in it. However I can't see any of the other players being the 1 apart from the rapidly aging Graham.

Yeah I did see that. It was about 7 minutes of him more or less being in possession all the time .Like I said he looked handy running with the ball at his feet out wide but look at the areas of the pitch he was playing in. I can't recall him ever getting into the six yard box and he didn't spend a lot of time in the penalty area. These are the areas you need to be getting into to be a goalscorer. That was playing for Forest not Rovers.

Where does that leave Dack ? Out of the door ?