All of my contemporaries that had tattoos done years ago bitterly regret what they did now. I don't know one that is still happy with the way they look. It's the " dado rail " of fashion, but at least you can get rid of the " dado rail " when it goes out of fashion.

Classy lady.

Just seen it on the BBC news. The ref's eyes must be painted on.

Cheers for that. I remember seeing Doyle and Tomlinson play for the youth team , they caught my eye as having something about them. I liked their attitude. Having a good attitude will take you a long way in all walks of life, not just football.

I'll be going on Tuesday to watch the game at Rochdale. I can't wait to see some of these lads play. If it was the usual first team I'm not so sure I'd be bothering. Any of these young players seriously knocking on the door Parson ? Of course they'll find it really difficult getting in given the scintillating form of the senior players ! I like how they function as a team in spite of the chopping and changing caused by the first team call ups. It's really difficult being a reserve team manager most of the time for that reason.

They probably don't know who he is or what he does but they'll know how much he's paid, you can bet on that.

We need this guy more involved coaching the first team ASAP.

From what little I've seen of Tomlinson I think there's a decent player there. I'd give him a game tomorrow instead of Evans if he's fully fit.

Mm, it's certainly going to a lot of it over.

My point is Shankly suspected that Francis would be prone to these sorts of injuries throughout his career and he was right.

Players like Chapman that rely on bursts of pure pace are always liable to that sort of injury. I remember when Trevor Francis, a similarly quick wide player, signed for Forest for a British transfer record somebody asked Bill Shankly why Liverpool weren't interested in signing him. He said " Because he'll spend as much time on the treatment bench as he will playing ". He wasn't far wrong, Francis was plagued with similar injuries all his career.

Boo Hoo. That's a massive blow to Rovers and the player.

Let's hope we can hold onto him. His efforts won't have gone un noticed in the football world.

I'd vote for that as long as I can bring my shotgun with me.

There'll be a reason why no other club does it. See if you can guess what it is. April the 1st is next year now.

Sorry to keep banging on about times past but we threw the 17 year old John Byrom into the old First Division team when we were struggling for goals. He came up with the goods. When you're that age you play without fear.

Downing only played in the first place when Champagne Charlie was injured playing for Scotland.

The game's not over for us at 2-0 up because we can't defend a lead.

I remember waiting at that bus stop near Bill Eckersley's shop to get autographs on match days. Fred Pickering, Keith Newton and Mike England all got off the bus together and I got all three autographs. No Ferrari's or Bentley's for them, just a seat on a Corporation bus if they were lucky, I supposed they had to pay as well ! At that time only Ronnie and Bryan had cars.

Rigger has it right. Forget all the fancy systems, when you cross that white line the thought uppermost in your mind should be that the player you're directly playing against will be wishing he'd never bothered getting changed. Win the individual battles all over the pitch and you'll win the game.

Trying too hard to impress ?

He made a very good double save at the end that saved us going further behind.

He did OK, one or two decent saves. He couldn't do much about the goal. His kicking is shambolic though.

I didn't say " worst signing " I said " wrong signing for this league " . He's not mobile enough and he plays too deep. Graham came on for an ineffectual Antonsson after about 55 minutes. To be honest I didn't notice a difference. Having said that the service the strikers got was really poor today. Nobody played well all over the pitch.

I thought that Whittingham did OK doing what he's good at. Moving the ball about . The trouble he can't do the other things that are essential for a midfield player in this league. Running, tackling, closing down, challenging for headers etc. The wrong signing for this league. We needed a player to do what Jack Byrne did today and carry the ball into the last third at pace. He killed us today, especially in the second half.