That is pretty much where I am. For a club like ours paying anywhere near his reputed wage is madness.

Given Mowbrays often public show of fairness I honestly can't see us paying wages which are not on parity with the current highest earners. One sure fire way of upsetting the spirit and morale of the current squad is by bringing somebody in and paying them way above senior players.

Once the game has restarted they can't go back on the decision but I get your point. The emotion of your team scoring is the best feeling in football. Them emotions may have to be held in check whilst someone is reviewing the incident in a studio miles away. The powers that be and suits probably won't have had that feeling.

The marked difference is that goal line technology is factual and can be proved that the ball did or didn't cross the line. All VAR referrals will be subjective and rely on a human being to make the call. I accept VAR will offer more empirical evidence and should arrive at the correct decision but there will be occasions when it won't. Quite simply it won't be the exact science that many are predicting.

I speak to close friends regularly who are actively involved in VAR so I have a good idea on the process. The most surprising aspect to me is that next season in the PL the on field referee won't get the chance to see the incident again pitch side. Quite simply he will be told what the decision is.

I don't like it at all. The whole concept goes against everything I enjoy about football. The emotions, the spontaneity and talking points are to me what makes it enjoyable for m6as a fan. I don't want sterile stop start football.

The game stops when the referee blows his whistle or the ball goes out of play. Assuming no offence has occurred as advised by VAR then the game restarts with a drop ball providing the ball was in play when the referee blew. Tonight the ball was out of play when he blew. As no offence was committed the game should have begun again with a corner.

I retired in 2006 before VAR was even thought of.

Correct but they have to enforce the Laws of the Game. The VAR should have advised him on the correct restart having reviewed the incident. By the way I refereed around 1000 games of football over a 25 year period.

He blew when the ball was over the goal line. That's the reason he should have started with a corner. If the ball was still on the field of play when he blew then a drop ball is correct.

But the game is stopped so the ball is effectively dead as it was by the ball going over the goal line. Once this happens the handball in your scenario can't be penalised as the game us stopped.

He did but the ball was over the goal line when he did. VAR overruled him as no offence was seen. The restart should have been a corner.

If the ball had still been in play yes but it wasn't.

But there was no offence committed so as the ball was out of play a corner should have been the restart.

But the ball begin out of play overrides that as no offence has been committed. The referee didn't stop the game when the ball was in play, the ball was out of play so a corner was the correct restart.

You are correct. The game should have restarted with a Wednesday corner. If I had been the Wednesday skipper I would have insisted on a contested drop ball. It looked to me that the referee took it upon himself to drop the call to the Chelsea keeper.

I understand the PL Chairmen and Chief Execs wanted it that way. I was speaking to a friend who is in a senior position in refereeing and I said the on field referee might as well be redundant if the big decisions are taken away from him. Any game changing calls are out of their hands. It'll be money for old rope for them.

Next season when they have it in the Premier League all VAR referrals will be decided on by a referee sat in a warm studio at Stockley Park. There will be no viewing a monitor pitch side by the on field referee, he will be told what decision to give.

I just had a nightmarish flashback when I saw Agnes just then. Poor bloke looks like that tosspot K***.

In an ideal world yes but football has a reputation for disloyalty and greed. I'm not saying Rodwell will jump ship but you can bet your bottom dollar his representatives are putting his name out there. He will want some security in respect of a deal. I think Rovers are being slow off the mark by not yet speaking to him.

There is a stigma about long balls but many of ours from back to front are to Graham who not only retains possession but quite often brings others into play. I thought for 25 minutes yesterday our tempo was excellent, as good as I have seen. You don't have to have quick players to play that way but move the ball quickly and lots of running off the ball.

I said at the time that Rodwell was the lowest risk signing in recent years. The bad press he had from Sunderland was ridiculous because he wouldn't walk away from a lucrative contract which they were happy to give him. No pay off or deal, just walk away. My real fear now is that he is free to talk to other clubs as he is out of contract at the end of the season. Mowbray and Waggott should be speaking to him and his representatives this week with an offer on the table.

It's either personal Rev or you simply don't understand the game. Graham is fundamental to our play, he is the focal point of the team and brings other players into the game. He is a dying breed in the modern game where many managers prefer smaller, quicker players who run in behind. I would imagine most Rovers players would say he is our MVP (I don't like these Americanisms but that description is most apt).

The first 25 minutes were as enjoyable as anything I have seen watching Rovers for a long time. Intensive, incisive, hard working, quick and completely dominated. And for a change we scored whilst in the ascendancy to reflect our dominance. The pace dropped a little after that but the hard work continued and we were professional in our play. Lots of really good performances but for me young Travis was involved in nearly all the good play. His desire to get on the front foot has, for me been instrumental in our upturn in form. And significantly Evans is showing a rarely seen side to his game as he gets forward a lot more. Defensively sound once again and three clean sheets in a row in the league is something for us all to behold. As I was skimming through some earlier posts I couldn't believe the criticism of Danny Graham. He is so important to us and his hold up play is up there with the best. Anybody who can't see that clearly doesn't understand the game. Winning is undoubtedly the best feeling in football and hopefully we can keep this run going. Clean sheets is the way forward as I think we will always score in any game.

I was quoting somebody else hence the quotation marks. I personally would put his tenure into the good category.