But it will be available at a non Premier League ground for the semi-finals and final. And they had it at Burton for the dead rubber game against Man City when the first leg score was 9-0. That's the FA for you. Guardians of standards.

If he needs somebody to come in and challenge him to improve him then that shows a lack of professionalism and application from Raya. I don't doubt he works hard, knows his faults and tries to rectify them. I just don't think he is or ever will be competent at all aspects of goalkeeping.

I can't agree. How will a new keeper improve Raya's kicking and general decision making? I have my doubts whether a new coach can either because they both pretty much are natural traits. In my opinion he costs us too many goals and will continue to do so.

I've just seen on the LT website that in our four of our last five away games we have scored two in each but have garnered one point. That summarises exactly were we are.

After the Brentford game in February I spoke to Dack at Piccadilly Station and I asked him why only him and Rodwell were on the train. He said that most of the players were having a night out in London. Hew also said that provided you ask in advance Mowbray was pretty good and relaxed about social events. I asked him if Mowbray was going out with them and he said the staff were travelling back on the coach from London. I remember the incident when Dunn wanted to stay in Southampton with Beattie after a game there when we were particularly poor. Souness wouldn't let him stay and made him come back on the coach. Each manager will have different ideas about things like this and if the players are due a few days off they will all be up to different things.

I think Hughes and Allardyce liked taking the squad away for some disciplined warm weather training. This looks like a jolly up for two under performing players.

And doff their caps to her.

She wants it to succeed? We are around £120m in debt, the vast majority accrued on their watch. We have lost around ten thousand fans and have had people in charge of the club who bordered on being corrupt. And many, many other things that I honestly can't be bothered writing down. So I am astonished she wants us to succeed given her and her families calamitous and destructive reign.

If he wants to be critical and call out individuals he should have a go at Armstrong as his cameo appearance was poor in the extreme. He was caught offside several times and he has a first touch like an elephant in several promising positions. And he paid £1.75m for him.

The deal has been reported asup to £7m presumably with add ons. That tells me that Rovers believed him to be worth that much and the down payment and subsequent instalments I believe would have been a big chunk of Mowbrays budget. And what have we got? A lad who can't get on the pitch for the first team and now plays for the under 23's. I honestly don't know who put the ridiculous valuation on him or who watched him apart from Mowbray saying he was played well against us in our relegation season. Somebody has to be accountable for this.

That makes the situation even more galling. So he knows what is wrong but he hasn't (or can't) done anything to fix it. That is probably the best definition of poor management. I think he is all over the place with his interviews and makes himself look silly at times.

Another stick to beat our beleaguered manager with is the number of early goals we are conceding and how slow we are starting games. Even the game against Wigan showed a lack of intensity early on. I think it's a by product of the weak mentality that Mowbray has running through his team. One of his favourite phrases is having a balance of 'soldiers and artists' but the collection of players he has put together, with a few exceptions, doesn't appear to have many.

The general co consensus is that we need up to eight new players who can be in and around the first team come August. The big question for me is do I think Mowbray is capable of bringing the right players in and then fitting them into a team. The next question is what he does with the dross he gave lengthy contracts to as a reward for doing their job. I'm wavering on both at the moment.

I thought we played quite well today offensively and under normal circumstances scoring two goals should get you at least a point but once again defensive errors cost us massively. To describe them as schoolboy errors would be a huge injustice to schoolboy footballers. My patience has completely gone with Raya who I don't think has the fundamentals of goalkeeping and simply is responsible for too many goals conceded. He does the difficult things comfortably but some of his basic goalkeeping is shocking. I would bench him for the rest of the season and sell him on in the summer. Our full backs today hardly stopped a cross coming in and that's dangerous when the centre halves can't head it (Magloire excepted) or defend pathetically. I haven't heard Mowbrays interview but read he criticised Joe Rothwell. He was the player who excited me today going forward. He was a breath of fresh air and I really think Mowbray could be losing the plot as his recent interviews are all over the place. He needs to look at himself as much as his awful defenders. I suppose the big question is would anyone trust Mowbray to rebuild the squad given that the bulk of his signings have been poor and some players who I thought would push on this season have regressed.

It's interesting to see that Rankin-Costello has been converted to a full back. Do you think that's were his long term future lies? Given that we are thin on the ground for quality full backs it's an interesting move.

I don't mind mate if you want to swap.

He retained a 10% ownership in Salford when he took the Oldham job. I think there was also something about each club not being able to do transfer business with each other. As you rightly say it doesn't matter now but I was surprised the EFL allowed him to have any interest in another club particularly one on the verge of promotion.

To my knowledge it only happened once to me. Referees are often publicly criticised but it's not that often it is of a personal nature.

Which bit are you meaning?

I'll do Villa.

All players and managers are in the public eye and therefore will receive criticism (and praise) but that should be limited to how they played, not what colour they are or what their faith is. I once read in a national paper that a manager said I was a disgrace. I took umbrage to this and rang him to tell him that describing me as a disgrace reflects on me, my family and the responsible position I held at the time. He apologised and agreed that in future he would criticise decisions and not the individual.

I'll do one. I don't mind which.

In the article below it says we could only name six substitutes for the second time that season. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14213138.FULL-TIME_REPORT__Newport_County_1_Blackburn_Rovers_2/

I have a recollection of us not having the full quota of substitutes in the recent past. I'm sure a couple of players fell ill on the morning of a long distance away match. Anybody remember this?

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17501598.rovers-suspend-supporter-after-defender-racially-abused-online/ This is the LT article.