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What made you think that people who had never actually seen a game of Premier League football before they bought Rovers would have enough grey matter to appoint a better manager than Sam Allardyce ? I really struggling with that. They’ve been in charge for 15 years and they still wouldn’t have a clue who to appoint tomorrow.

That’s what we had with Big Sam.

This was a topic for discussion on here last night. Just saying.

That’s the way I look at it also.

His timing was all wrong, Ohashi did everything right. He put it on a plate. I could have hit the target from that pass, bad knee or not. The only other point is Kaminski did really well to get down to spread himself for the shot that he thought was coming. Maybe that put Guyere off.

He won’t buy into the Eustace team ethic. I wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole.

Taxi for Martin. What a day. Should we be worried now ?

I must have watched the incident 10 times and I still can’t figure out how he missed his shot.

He’s not a bad as Mowbray was as an interviewee. He was miserable even when we were winning.

Yes that’s true. They are very close. They also have a great statue of “ Desperate Dan” in the town centre.

His temperament worries me, he seems to have a very short fuse.

OGS ? Whatever next. Football is mad. Jonathan Wilson has a good article in today’s “ Sunday Observer “ about the goings on at United. The guys buying into clubs these days have more money than sense.

There was something about him I took to right away. He wasn’t flash and he was obviously here to do a survival job. With the way his first priority was to sort out the defence I could see a bit of the young Big Sam in him. We were at the point of needing to score 3 goals to get a draw when he came in.

Taxi for O’Neil at Wolves.

There have been rumours linking Markanday with Stockport.

There was a time when a club like Wolves would take a gamble on a relatively un proved at top level manager like Eustace. Newcastle did it with Gordon Lee, Sheff Utd did it with Ken Furphy and Everton did it with Howard Kendall. However times have changed and I suspect Wolves will be looking abroad as per usual.

How far is Wharton off returning ? Anybody know ?

Looking on from the outside it seems that Eustace has been successful in creating a really strong team ethic. A player may not be starting today but they are just as important as the 11 that will be starting and at some point they will be called upon to play a significant role in the future. No “ Us and Them “ mentality that can emerge when players aren’t being kept in the+loop.

When you look at what he’s got to work with it’s a terrific achievement. Unfortunately it won’t be going un noticed by clubs further up the food chain. Shades of Ken Furphy, Jim Iley, Gordon Lee, Howard Kendall etc. Back in the day when we had a succession of up and coming top managers.

If we do get significant reinforcements in January they need to be the sort of players that buy into our recently re-discovered work ethic. Those of us with really long memories will recall Man City running away with the league and buying Rodney Marsh as “ the last piece of the jig saw “. Marsh was top class but by the time they’d assimilated him into their way of playing it was too late and the league title was gone.

He’s doing well but he’s not tearing the league up. I think he’ll stay until the summer at least.

No mate.

He’s at Las Palmas at the moment. I can’t see him swapping that for Ewood Park.

If only Salah was playing for Rovers.

Ohashi put the ball on a plate for big Mak for his second “ assist “.