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.

Just watched 24 Hour Party People. Class movie. I wasn't too sure what to expect seeing Alan Partridge (I'll always see Coogan as Alan Partridge...A-Ha) on my screen doing a mock TV report when opening a movie about the Manchester punk turned dance scene. I figured it out eventually, but it had me doing a doubletake. I'm sure many of you have seen it already, but I am glad I FINALLY saw it. Taught me a few things about the scene, that's for sure...

and look where the director is from.

RB gotta say I disagree - watching the match back on Sky I was amazed to see McCarthy tracking back on a significant number of occasions.

Not one of McCarthy's better matches - but at the end of the day strikers are about scoring goals - which he has done frequently and in matches that count - aka Arsenal. Believe me - if Rovers decide to let him go I am sure there would be a long queue on clubs wanting an 20 goal a season striker in their squads.

I thought Benni worked harder than normal, in a more withdrawn position than normal and that Derbyshire played further up.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.

At the same time being arrested for drunken driving.. (LET)

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.

I thought Tugay looked very tired today. Hopefully he'll get a couple of days off this week, hard times ahead.

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.

What were Duff and Dunn then?

They were prior to the Academy.

I didn't realise, or had forgotten about this, but according to that Harry Berry book, when he was transferred to Newcastle in 1976 because we needed the dosh, he had a knee condition which prompted Newcastle to put in an appearance based clause.

They then refused to select him and we never even received the fee! (Despite appealing which we lost!) He then went on to make over 200 League appearances elsewhere!

Sounds like it's not just in recent times we've been shafted by "a clause!"

Sir Roger was unlucky I think to be around at the same time as the likes of Banks/Shilton/Clemence and to be playing in the old third division at a time when it received zero media exposure in comparison with today.

I'd argue he was better than Friedel, but he was certainly in a different class to today's contenders for the England jersey such as Robinson and James. He'd be a shoe - in for England keeper if he was in his prime and playing today.

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'm surprised this topic has not come up

Showed fantastic composure for his goal today, albeit against some pretty lackadaisical defending.

That's 3 in 4 now

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.

Remember one time stoke 1 up & roger dropped two clangers,2-1 rovers f/t might even have been his last ewood visit.sang his name all day.SIR roger jones,SIR roger jones.

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.

Its nothing adding to the Sunday Telegraph link earlier.

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.

Scorers?

They were not mentioned in the LT.

Anyone know the result? Did Jeffers play??

We won 4-0

Im a big fan of Forrest Whitaker (sp)

never seen a bad film that he's been in

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.

Agreed - and Hughes has been in charge for some time now, so it makes you wonder why he has not made significant changes both to the scouting structure and the personnel. The academy obviously needs a shake-up.

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.

That Last King of Scotland looks good. I'll go and see it sometime. The last film I saw in the cinema was Jackass, so you can guess that I don't go often.

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.