I don't think we missed him as much as we might have done but that meant having to play Bennett there. Two good right backs there.

Bloody hell, he didn't take long to jump on the treatment bench.

I saw him play once and I could see something there. He's been injured ever since.

If we'd have had Dack and the Raya of last season I think we would have stayed up that season.

He was bought to play there in case Dack didn't shape up and he thinks he's better than Dack.

We've got Dack , Palmer and Gladwin who can all play in that role. Plus maybe one of the two new boys and Bennett at a pinch.

I agree. At least one is a must. Preferably before Saturday.

This isn't you being " soft " is it

I could see that's very true in the bit of film I saw on YouTube. He does run into people and not space and he has a tendency to try and beat a third man after he's already beaten two. But so did Matt Jansen when he came here at first. Souey sorted him out, let's hope Mowbray can sort this lad out. He's got more pure footballing ability than most at the club he needs to be taught it's a team game and a pass is quicker over the ground than any player running with the ball.

Clubs were the same in the old days of the maximum wage. You'd have blokes at a club for 10 years who'd played 8 games for the first team. The reserves and " A " team would be full of pro's. On £20 max a week per player they could afford to do it. Once that finished they all got shown the door.

He came from Ipswich Town although he later played for Halifax Town.

If the choice was a fit Armstrong or a fit Chapman I'd go for Chapman. It's the fitness issue that's the problem. I can see him being the sort of player that misses as many games as he plays as he gets older.

Time will tell but he looks to be a better player than Payne was. At least that's a plus.

Good signings usually equal good results.

Exactly. We've been Venkyed again.

You're forgetting about last season's big name signing - Whittingham. As a manager you live or die by your signings and Mowbray has got as many wrong as he has got right.

If we never won anything else we've had a good run in my time. That early to mid 1960's team with Ronnie and Dougie, Newton, England, Pickering etc was poetry in motion.

It's all very well if your wing backs are good attacking players and can do the job. If they're just trundlers you've got a problem. I like Nyambe but he's not a great attacking player. Enough said about Caddis. Williams isn't much better going forward and I haven't seen enough of Bell to form an opinion. Bennett is good out there but he's good in other positions also.

Yeah and how well did we play getting there ? I would suggest that those three were the major reason we didn't get any further. It's like any system, you need a system that suits the skill set of the players. It doesn't work the other way around.

How did that work out for England ? And that was with 3 so called mega stars playing that role.

It's time Stevie Wonder gave up designing our shirts and got back to being a musician ! Well that's saved me a few bob.

Bellamy was one of the best strikers I've seen at Ewood. No pass to Bellamy was a bad pass, he'd make a hoof ball his own 9 times out of 10.

Mokoena wasn't the world's best footballer but he had opponents looking over their shoulder when the ball was coming their way.

That was what got my goat. We've had too many players who weren't up for a scrap in the Venky's era. It'll be interesting to see if referees in the Football League start letting more things go as they did in the World Cup.

You need guys who " don't take a backward step " as we say in Rugby League.