League one was the pits and I never want to return to that but I did start to enjoy my football and watching rovers again. In the premier league under kean I hated the man so much I never enjoyed wins and perversely felt happier with defeats because I believed (incorrectly) his tenure would end. So clearly the prem is a better better place to be than league one but in this specific scenario for me it would be even north west counties division two under anyone than kean in the premier league.

I still feel physically sick whenever I see that porcine toad. Head of recruitment indeed this poor Cretan side will be swamped with obscure and aging Portuguese players in no time.

Not sure what jennings has done to deserve a recall. Foakes must feel a bit hard done by there coping it for a crap top order. I rate Buttler but he needs to start doing a lot more. Same for stokes with the bat as talk of him playing as a batsman only. Also Bairstow needs to start using his brain. The ecb will have to reap what they sow. That is to say producing a bunch of t20 players who have to then pretend to be test cricketers.

We always rise to the small occasions I fully expect a win in St Lucia.

Not one positive from this. Our batsmen look like they only know how to slog, not a defensive shot between them. So Ramprakash as the batting coach needs relieving of his duties. Clearly as good a coach as he was a test batsman. I appreciate Bayliss is leaving after the summer anyway but he’s probably taken England as far as he can. Suppose when the ECB continuously undermine county cricket in favour of McCricket this is what we end up producing. Sri Lanka probably papered over huge cracks.

77, 246, 187 and 132 is pretty pathetic series. Another feeble performance. Bravo lasted 216 balls our number 3 has a massive swipe and misses a straight ball. Can’t adapt in any circumstance in real cricket. So irritating.

£7m could well be an unlucky fee. Davis, Grabbi and Brereton. Think Barry Ferguson was in that ball park as well.

Goes to show where we are. Not a criticism but this talk of play-offs is fantasy. Not a million miles away but not a chance this season

I like Mowbray. But as soon as I saw those subs I said 3-2 or 4-2. Could well be 5-2.

So many points given up from winning positions. So many.

Unbelievable. Thrown this one away

Really. Christ almighty. Must be this ground I remember Jason Lowe recieving the ball under no pressure doing the same.

Why wasn’t rothwell brought on instead of Conway. Surely a better bet

Not sure Denly is the answer but Jennings certainly isn’t. Get him back to Lancs. Might go with broad for Deidre instead of the extra spinner. Think denly is a part time spinner as well so probably no real need Ali, leach, root and denly. Especially as their equivalent of root took 8 wickets. Still stunned by that. Considering pace did for us in the first innings (horses for courses and that) shame olly stone got injured. Sadly the only other quick who comes to mind is the perennially injured mark wood. Well until the ecb change the residency rules for Jofra archer.

Still 3-0 vs Hull!!!

The most worrying thing long term is in the first innings we couldn’t cope with slightly extra pace and bounce (again). This innings we can’t cope with a spinner who doesn’t spin it.

I do wonder sometimes what the locals make of a load of thirsty Englishmen. Take this bloke who presumably soberly at some stage thought I’m off to the cricket today where’s my Freddy Mercury mask, yellow jacket and inflatable microphone. E5643101-A064-4C5B-A9D7-3BDD17766C40.MOV

Having never seen England lose home or away it’ll take a miracle here to keep that intact.

Well that was a shambles.

I do really really like Mowbray as a person and whenever I feel like slating him tactically etc. I think back to that era where I hated the owners, the manager, the players and after the way the likes of hunt, Agnew et al conducted themselves I hated the club as well. They damned nearly lost a fan forever there. Sadly few of my mates have been lost.

For me shearer vs Crystal Palace. Debut. We’d paid mega money back then and I thought will we see a return. The class he showed on that day. My grandad said to me after that game if today’s anything to go by you’ll never see a better player in a rovers shirt. I haven’t but may be reading too much into it but wonder what he meant by YOU perhaps he’d seen better. Worst orr vs Wigan. Tbf can’t actually recall him doing anything (imagine) but his post match comments. Aaaarrrrgh

Best: 1 derby (play offs 92) 2 dingles (5-0) 3 Newcastle (ve day) 4 Norwich 7-1 (1st vs 2nd) 5 spurs (league cup 02) Play off final, full members special and naturally Anfield 95 Worst: 1 beating united at ot under kean (convinced he kept his job that day) 2 palace play offs (George Courtney) 3 Cardiff league cup (kean forfeit) 4 Man U 7-1 (sacking of fat Sam leading to madness) 5 first dingles defeat in 3 decades.

Confident of a draw now.

Probably need another

It’s their 3rd choice keeper and frankly could have been me in between the sticks. Not even needed to claim a cross.