Interesting quote from Mogga: The boss said of Dack: “The last two games he’s been pretty poor and we have had a good chat about it. “His performance level, how he’s got to look after himself, but he’s a great kid. He's obviously well aware that he's been spending a bit too much time in Essex nightspots these past few weeks

Have any of your pals now found an undying love for Stanley, K-HOD?

Really? We do get up, but Mogga loses his marbles and goes to Ipswich, I hope he’s near the top of any list of replacements.

Oh I agree, but you can certainly see WHY managers stick to ‘proven pros’, the stakes are that high for managers these days. If Mowbray had flopped this season, that was probably it for him at a decent level - and the earning power etc that goes with it.

Then on the flip side, the owners may think why keep a Cat 1 Academy going? Though, these days a lot of managers may think; why do long term planning/take a risk, i.e blooding youngsters in a promotion hunting campaign when they’re a run of bad results from the sack?

Though he did have money, he spent well over a million quid on Dack, Samuel etc.! That's the problem when you nick a song from Sheff Wed!

Of course, there is still BAE, Samlesbury site has a BB2 postcode, you know!

As ever, most other clubs have had theirs out for weeks, if not months - even if they are unsure of what league they’ll be in next season. Cynic in me says they are holding off because they have two substantially different prices up their sleeves - i.e a price hike on promotion.

Just for Gav http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/16133225.Comment__Are_Rovers__and_Tony_Mowbray__getting_the_credit_they_deserve_/

Sounds about right, quite a few Hyndburn based folk on my Facebook who I know were Rovers fans have suddenly found an undying love for Accrington Stanley.

Ginola?

Who are these 'lower league fans', Rovers fans? Are you still even a Rovers fan?

It will be a complete disaster at the World Cup. FIFA will state it was ‘just a trial’ and it will never be head of again.

India are sending a lot of their team over here for country cricket, great prep, much better than that pathetic knock about we had for this series. So thay are certainly coming here to win. The England Test team seems to have had a bit of a cosy, jobs for the boys feel to it for sometime now. It needs a shake-up.

It is always a small minority of half- wits. It had seemed to die down in the mid 00s, I went to Germany '06, massive England following, but really well behaved from what I remember. I think Social Media, with live video etc has brought it back, I see evidence from my Facebook etc., of folk I half know from Rovers away days, they have little real interest in the national team, but seem to think singing about '10 German bombers' and so on whilst chucking plastic chairs in canals in the height of hilarity and what you do when going abroad to watch England. Just pathetic really.

England team that were knocked out by Portugal in World Cup ‘06: Robinson, Neville, Terry, Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Hargreaves, Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Joe Cole, Rooney Game of opinions and all that, but that side above didn’t compare to 1996, certainly not when it came to leaders.

Was watching the highlights of England Holland Euro 96 on the Beeb website this morning. Now THAT was a team of leaders, with real quality too. Seaman, Pearce, Adams, Southgate, Neville, Ince, Gascoigne, McMananaman, Platt, Sheringham, Shearer. We've had a real decline this past twenty years.

Disaster of a first day for England. Perhaps a two day knockabout as the only warm up wasn't the best idea...

Read the other day we'd sold around 2/3k for each of our group games. Far cry from the hordes we took to Germany in '06 (though a decade of shite performances since may be another factor!)

Two years left on his contract, would cost a small fortune, you would imagine. Season long loan could be a goer though...

Another reason to get out of League 1 ASAP

I just hope that if this season does go the way we all want, the club capitalises on it and doesn't wait until July to get them on sale...

Story in The Times this morning. ’Burnley are the subject of a £180million takeover attempt from rival US and Middle Eastern investors’. Walkers sold us for... less than £30million, with TV deals exploding. Our players were worth more than that, never mind our PL income and real estate. Obvious who was the savvy one in that family...

‘Frozen pitch’ according to the club website. What’s happened to the under soil heating?

Watched the beamback in Blues, noticed that the sound was about a second ahead of the pictures. Didn't really matter due to the noise everyime we bombed forward!