Are you only allowed to recommend Irish players ?

As my mum used to say " What can't speak can't lie ", On a scale of 1 to 10 how well coached do you think we look as a team ? We make the same " individual errors " every game and we have been doing for ages.

You mean 6 or 7 more squad fillers who don't actually improve the team ?

At any other club he would be getting summoned to the boardroom at 8.30 sharp this morning for a frank exchange of views as to what was causing the current collapse in form. I'd be telling him that if things don't improve significantly in the next month he could be on the way out. I'd also be quizzing him as to the imput of his coaching staff because for me we play like we haven't got any. Having said that we aren't a normal club so it will be business as usual and the lads can laugh it all off just like it never happened.

Playing up front with no support, just dealing with aimless long passes ? The biggest arse kicking job in football. It's soul destroying.

Exactly so. Even the dogs in the street knew we needed a proper centre half and a proper stand in for Graham. Maybe they don't exist !

No you're not. The correct Diet for a sportsman is vital. I wonder just how seriously Dack takes his career ?

If you watched the " Highlights " video somebody put on here when we were talking about signing him that's all I could see. He was picking the ball up wide and running in field. There didn't seem to be much end product. He wasn't particularly quick or strong. He wasn't looking to get a shot away once he'd opened up the defence. The wasn't much penalty box action and certainly no 6 yard box action. You couldn't judge his heading ability because he never headed the ball ! I thought was amazing for such a tall guy. He didn't seem to be aggressive or relish physical contact. In fact there was nothing on that film that would have induced me to pay much more than about £500k for him. And that was his highlights FFS . I got shouted down by plenty on here for saying these things at the time but the same people are very quiet now. I could have put a short video together of Samuel last season that would have made in look 10 times the player Bretherton is and we know how good Samuel really is.

I've been saying that for ages, we just don't look a well coached team. I watched the first half of the Doncaster v Palace game. Even Doncaster looked better than we do on the ball.

What's the point of that ? Do you seriously think the Chicken Chokers will have heard of any of them ? Knowing them they'd probably promote Lowe. Who saw any of their appointments coming ?

Bugger, we fly to Spain on that Friday morning.

You don't think we're going backwards at the moment ?

Anybody who's ever played football knows that teams don't like travelling away. Even top pro's prefer to be at home. The time to get at teams when you're at home is right from the off. The first 5 or 10 minutes. Get your foot on their throat and keep it there. When did we last come out full of running and aggression ?

And slow him down a bit more.

I haven't seen the game but when I saw the team just before I went out I thought there was no balance between attack and defence and nowhere near enough bite in midfield. Every game we play there are multiple changes. In my opinion that's another game lost in team selection. I'm afraid the manager has lost the plot regarding our best eleven and is starting to also lose the players, if he already hasn't done so. At any other normal football club he'd be getting the hard word tomorrow morning. " Sort it out or you're down the road ", but we aren't a normal club so nothing will happen.

I'm not watching the game but I got a text from my son who is. He said exactly the same as you and he's been watching Rovers for 30 years.

Not really impressed with that team. Very attacking but not really balanced.

There's much more pressure to perform at Ewood than there is in an away game. Away fans tend to be a lot more enthusiastic and forgiving of poor performance.

And look what happened to Shrewsbury after he left.

If I was in his shoes that's exactly the game I would want to be playing in. An away game so no real pressure from the fans and you're up against a very poor team. Fill yer boots !

Whatever position he plays in I don't think he'll be scoring many goals. I know Mowbray reckons he's brilliant in training but so is Gladwin.

Mowbray's response to last nights game is worrying. Rovers last few managers since Sam all lost touch with reality at some point and started talking bollocks and I fear he's going the same way.

Move him upstairs, get Johnno in as first team coach. Venus and Lowe can go and paint the stadium.

I remember watching the game live. When Jairzinho did Terry Cooper on the goal line I thought " This looks like bad news ". When I saw Pele head the ball I thought " This is a goal ". I couldn't figure out how Banks kept that header out. He had to get across the whole of the goal and then get down into the far corner. England were brilliant that day, it's still the best performance I've seen from an England team and that includes the '66 Final. Moore and Mullery were outstanding in keeping that tremendous Brazil team to 1 goal. We really deserved a draw and we would have got one if Jeff Astle hadn't have missed a great shooting chance late on.

And then you woke up.