And what a waste of space that particular law is!

M of the Match? No idea really, but I do know that Mr Hughes played a shocker today. I don't know whats gone on but what I do know is that his starting 11 dumbfounded me rather than inspired me. Still we started well and should have taken at least a 1-0 lead but Everton were coming back into it when they scored a rather fortunate opener. We then lost Todd. Most opinion on the riverside and mine included was that it was indeed handball, but I thought it overly severe to red card a player over such an innoccuos incident when the referee plainly did not see the incident. More often than not the player would have had the benefit of the doubt and a stern talking too. Halsey however plainly did not learn any lesson at Anfield did he? Once down to 10 we were unfortunate to concede another before HT (on 45 mins for the second match in a row!), but from this point on Hughes really cocked up. 10 v 11 is difficult enough without passengers and imo Sav and Kuqi should have come out for the second half in place of the bland Bentley and Tugay / Pederson. Whatever anybodies opinion of those first two's abilities the fact is that they both do the work of two players. Also Bentley and Ped are most definitely not inspirational 'scrappers' are they? It hardly matters but Halsey's performance needs to be reviewed by the powers that be. He refused to give Everton players yellow cards that would have been nailed on certs if committed by Rovers players! His extra time allocation was criminal compared to the more usual 4 mins when we are in front. What is going on? I rarely subscribe to most conspiracy theories but things are being stacked rather to high against us at the moment.

Good report spoiled by one sentence. I thought Beattie was poor. Having said that Ferguson is now a joke. Bent should slap in a transfer request if that big lummox is played before him again this season.