Tyrone Shoelaces

That could be a very, very long list. You can add Ashley Ward and Dahlin to it.

Only if you're simple to start with. Are you seriously telling me that only the players that actually changed clubs were the only ones available for transfer ?

The older you get the more cautious you get. That's true in football just as it is in most other walks of life.

Anywhere out of the bottom 6 will do me.

What has any bodies thoughts on Dack got to do with the signing of Brererton ?

Not that one again. How are we supposed to know who was available and who wasn't ? If you come around with a cheque for £1mill Joe Bloggs won't be available, come around with a cheque for £3mill and it can be another story.

Coming on and actually doing something when Graham goes off would be a good start.

I'm in no way advocating firing our manager however I'm concerned about our recents results and the constant conceding of goals.

We can forget all about Mowbray being shown the door. Rovers are still running on auto-pilot with no real director involvement that I can see. In this case things would have to get dramatically worse before the Chicken Chokers took any action. However I think the board of directors at other clubs would be walking around with nervous looks on their faces this morning.

Yeah we're back to where we were a while back. No obvious first 11 and no real pattern of play that suits the skill set of whoever we put out there.

I've had the feeling all along that Mowbray was offered the chance of taking this lad on by whoever runs the show for Venkies. I'd be surprised if Mowbray had actually had him scouted at a serious level. It was a take it or leave it deal. He possibly thought " What have I got to lose ? " . Well we'll soon find out out. For that sort of money we needed somebody who was the first name on the team sheet, not somebody who was the first name on the subs list.

He needs to grow up. It's not a school playground on here.

You may not have noticed but Nyambe is injured.

You can forget that, he's our player. We just start paying for him in the New Year.

Lost in team selection I'm afraid.

Towards the end of his time at Rovers he was poor. I remember seeing his stats and he was bottom of the class regarding saves made. Like you say every shot from distance was a goal. Maybe he was " bad with his lamps " as my dear old mum says.

Thanks for that Tony, I read every word as always. I'm very grateful that you take the time to analyse each game.

The problem is we can be 3-0 and coasting with 10 minutes to go and we all know the game isn't over. That's a ridiculous state of affairs.

Yeah I thought their players were using an " invisibility cloak " at one point !

Just watched the highlights. Looks like we'd " gone " mentally at the end. They had two really good chances at the end were we were nowhere attacking the ball. We rode our luck then twice but you can't keep riding it. We just ambled out when the ball is cleared, no pressure on the ball, so their right back has bags of time to turn around and throw it back into the mixer. We survive that but we were obviously still not at the races.The resulting corner is exactly were you want a corner to be, nobody in blue and white gets anywhere near it. I liked that bit were Rodwell ran the ball out and improvised a really nice pass under pressure. Little bit of class there.

As I understand it Brereton is a Rovers player. We just begin paying for him in January.

This is getting beyond a joke. It's been going on too long. That's the 3rd time this season that we've conceded with the last kick of the game in how many games ? We were within an ace of making it 4 on Saturday. Don't let anybody try to tell me we haven't got a problem playing games out because we obviously have.

Rothwell.

Looks like three at the back to me - Lenihan, Rodwell, Williams with Nyambe and Bell as wing backs. Conway, Rothwell and Palmer in midfield with Brereton and Armstrong up front as a pair.

Yep, I've read Batty's as well. Seems like all of them were just passing through.