Neil Danns, who was quoted in one paper as saying he wanted a transfer as he had not started a game since November, came on for Damien Johnson and was sent off against Barnsley after the game had ended. "To compound matter, captain Jonathan Douglas was shown a red card as he left the field for foul and abusive language."(Daily Telegraph)-Colchester against Leeds.

Fantastic-welcome back.

and look where the director is from.

I thought Benni worked harder than normal, in a more withdrawn position than normal and that Derbyshire played further up. MH has also been quoted in the LT as saying he was thinking about re-negotiating Benni's contract after his success this year.

Looking at the teams in the Sunday Telegraph today, Garner was sent off yesterday.

According to Radio Lancs today, he will be disciplined by the club.

Jeffers has played a number of games and has hardly looked effective; maybe people want to get rid of him because he has missed so many games that maybe a more useful player could be brought in next year.

I liked the way he played other people in-Warnock, for example.

I have seen a figure quoted -maybe in the LT- of £1.5 million, but other sources have suggested high wages.

He played very well at Arsenal, and also, in a different role, today. 2 games when he seemed to be playing for a contract.Disappointing when he came on as a sub on Thursday-seemed not to want to get hurt rather than score an important goal.

According to the LT, despite Tugay's retirement from international football 4 years ago, he has been called up to the international squad by the new manager. MH is worried he will suffer from " burn out ".

My only reason for feeling that it was a good thing for Neill to have moved on, given that the question was one of timing rather than anything else, was that defensively I felt he had started to struggle-it is hard for a right footed player to play left back. I accept he had done well in an attacking sense and I am not really knocking him.

They were prior to the Academy.

As a result of the situation with Newcastle, in which we were literally shafted because of the Roger Jones scenario, we ended up being stopped from doing transfers for some time: the Newcastle chairman was also very high up in the Football League. Gordon Lee, who had been our manager and who left us to manange NU, agreed with his chairman that Jones was not fit- then Sir Roger went on to make all those appearances elsewhere. I lost respect for Lee after that. I thought Jones was an excellent keeper, despite his nervousness as we headed for promotion, but I think he was slightly on the small side, which would have cost him in the top division.

It could turn out to be an interesting signing. In many ways, it is last chance saloon for Dunn, who has seen his last 4 years go backwards. If he doesn't make it with us, it is possible somebody else in the Premiership would go for him, but it would not not be guaranteed. For him to succeed, he will have to be very professional in his approach to his career-controlling what he eats and drinks, training properly and listening to advice from the manager and his team. If he does all this, he has a higher chance of succeeding but it is very easy for high paid young men to think they know everything!

I am pleased he scored-although I am sure Weaver will have been disappointed to let it in on his near post, so well done Derbyshire. However, a bigger test for him will be to score for us when there is more pressure on him because we are not well ahead, like in the Arsenal game, although I appreciate he scored the first goal at Everton.

I am sure it was this match-Stoke had a young Garth Crooks playing for them-he missed loads of chances and they should have beaten us easily. I remember a Stoke fan in the away Directors' box telling me how much bigger they were than us and we were doing well to keep it to 0-1. How times have changed.

It actually seems to be taking something away- the favourable comments about the Rovers!

With the apparent bid coming in for Burnley's Lafferty from Celtic for £0.5 million, it reminded me that Burnley had also produced Chaplow who was sold to WBA for approx £1.5 million a couple of years ago. If we contrast that with the sale of Danns, plus his sell-on clause, and the sale of Johnson to Wolves, the only 2 players I can think of that we have sold in a similar period, we also have McEveley,who many deem not to be a Premiership player and Gallagher who MH does not seem to rate, both of whom could be sold. Derbyshire certainly seems capable of making a career in football though it is still not clear at what level. McEveley and Danns came to us at 16, I guess Derbyshire came at 16/17. Lafferty, I presume came to Burnley at 16/17. Oh, and Burnley are still in the FA Youth cup. All this success might be a flash in the pan, but it should make uncomfortable reading for the people at the Rovers Academy that the job they are doing is really not good enough, whilst Burnley are producing some results with a lot less money being put into their system.

Neill has every right to leave us. I suspect he did want to improve himself and I suspect he is disappointed Liverpool have apparently offered him such comparatively low wages-probably not low for you or me-but he still wants to leave. I also suspect that he is going to end up leaving simply for an enormous (grotesque?) increase in wages but as a result will go to a club that is not really in a better position than us and I suspect he will not really feel a great deal of satisfaction at his new club. After all he is at a "proper football club", as Sherwood described us some time after leaving Spurs. Indeed Sherwood is one of many players who has left us to go on and improve themselves, and than appear to have regretted the move. As someone has previously posted, not many players who leave us go on and improve themselves.

They were not mentioned in the LT.

We won 4-0

Forest Whitaker(You're correct) was also in Ghost Dog which I have half seen a number of times and has had great write-ups. I though he was really good despite not knowing a great deal about him.

One of the most successful managers in my life time of supporting the Rovers was, like MH, an ex-MU player, admittedly with less managerial experience than MH. As a young supporter I don't actually know if the manager I am thinking about instigated, or was the lucky recipient of his predecessor's work. He produced 2 England internationals and a Welsh captain and I have been half expecting MH to replicate the success of Johnny Carey in that department.

We went to see Last King of Scotland today- in Burnley as it wasn't on in Blackburn and Manchester wasn't convenient. I would be the last person to recommend a film about Amin, especially one that might glorify him, but I went because the critic in The Daily Telegraph said Will Smith will be nominated for Best Actor( can't remember if it was for Oscars or Golden Globes etc) but that Forest Whitekar in LKOS would win. It was really worth seeing.