jim mk2

Archer’s 32 is the surprise of the day, the lad can hardly hold a bat properly. Hats off to Root, a proper Test cricketer. Why can’t the others play like him and treat each ball on its merits instead of trying to attack all the time? Bazball nonsense. Is 325 a decent score? Let’s see

Seven down, Jacks chasing another wide one. Brainless batting. The bowler didn't have to do anything. I'd take anything above 270. Root 100. Well played Joe. Hope it sticks in the convicts' craw

This lot have a death wish it seems. Brook and Stokes both nicely settled and then doing something silly. The useless Smyth gone too. 250 all out?

Brook is vice captain, where's the responsibility in playing a daft shot like that? Good recovery after a disastrous start (Pope played another awful cross-batted shot) and Crawley played well but it's all or nothing with him - he's either very good or dreadful. A Test average of 24 in the past year or so says it all - he's lucky still to be playing Test cricket

He's as weak as a kitten for a man of his stature. He gets outmuscled too easily and rarely wins headers even against defenders less tall than him. He's clumsy on the ball, lacks pace and cannot play with his back to goal. And on the rare occasions he gets sight of goal he usually scuffs it. Sell

The question is why Ismael continues to bring on De Neve and leave Ribeiro and Pickering sitting on the bench. Both are better defenders - has he provided an explanation?

Daft comment - the match had to be replayed in full.

Ipswich deserved nothing from that game. In the end though we don’t score enough goals, trying to defend one goal leads is always likely to end badly

The tense of the verb is all-important. "Will" describes a certain future event while the conditional "would" describes a hypothetical or possible event In other words, that's the Rovers website predicting an Ipswich win. It's not pedantry; it's wrong

Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra

Some s****houses in that Wrexham team ..... not least Moore, O'Brien, McClean And with Hyam there too the immutable law of the ex will come into play Our team will not be able to stand up to that lot Wrexham 4 Rovers 0

Probably not. We've been written off in their eyes, consigned to the metaphorical bottom drawer to be forgotten about in the hope that one day we might come good. I can't any catalyst for them selling - at least not financial. In the grand scheme of their multi billions, we're a little blip on the balance sheet

Why should an empty stadium bother them, or for the matter declining income? Their solution as always is to sell another asset. The fans mean nothing to the owners - as we know.

Preston away, QPR home; the highs and lows of football. It’s a funny old game, except it isn’t when you have to sit through putrid games like last night. QPR were everything we weren’t : well coached, skilful players, playing to a plan: it was obvious they were going to win from the 1st ten minutes. They should have been 2 up at half time. Chair was a delight to watch. Most glaring of all was the sheer lack of ability in that Rovers team. They looked like a bunch of squad players making up the numbers- which is most cases they are. Apart from the young left back, who should have a good career in the lower divisions but isn’t championship quality, not one player had a good game. Made a special effort to get to Ewood last night after a 300 mile round trip of the country. I won’t do that again in a hurry. Awful. And the worst of it, there were some boos but most fans shrugged their shoulders and left. Apathy reigns at a depressing and depressed Ewood

Made a special effort to attend, ff knows why Absolutely abysmal. Such a poor team, all of them squad fillers, not one you’d have as first choice Barely 10000 there or so it looked, and like a morgue, just sullen resignation