How did Rothwell miss that first-half chance when he was through one-on-one the keeper to the left of the goal? He did everything right, opened up his body to side-foot the ball in the gaping hole in the right-hand corner but somehow contrived to hit the post. A bad miss

Boro had 30,000 the other day; we had circa 14,000, which is pretty poor considering the time of year, our form and league position, Covid fears notwithstanding. Thousands of fans have parted company with Rovers for various reasons over the past decade and it's going to need a monumental management effort and some innovative thinking to get even half of them back.

After his management of the first 3 Tests, this has to be good news https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59823055 Is the malaise in English cricket the system or the players? My take is that the best players can play adapt to Test or one-day cricket and that England's problems are all down to poor coaching at county and national level - in other words, the coaches aren't good enough I'd clear the lot out, from Silverwood, Farbrace, Trescothick etc down and bring in outsiders from abroad

From the very first ball of the series, what an absolute shambles Silverwood needs to go, and his "coaches" with him, including the likes of Farbrace, who is director of cricket at Warwicks yet admits one of his own players such as Sibley has faults and is sub-standard Players like Sibley and Crawley only score heavily in county cricket because county bowlers are so poor Said it before, but there are better players in the club game England have been successful in the past 20 years or so only when we've had foreign coaches. Clear this lot out and start again

The lads are covering themselves in glory again this morning Silverwood is like Boris Johnson (or should be).... a dead man walking

"I think we've got too many batsmen in county cricket that have got techniques that are flawed," says Paul Farbrace, Director of Cricket at Warwickshire and former England assistant coach Yet Farbrace presumably coaches Sibley, who has one of the most flawed techniques I've seen in Test cricket Any decent club bowler would get Sibley, Burns or Crawley out. They have flaws so obvious it's hard to see how they've made it in the professional game. They certainly would not have done so in the 1960s and 1970s.

Football doesn't matter in a public health crisis

Boom-boom I've been trying to work out why we've playing so well

Yes, that thought occurred to me too, perhaps he's sending a message to India via the media, but then again I never had Tony down as having the brainpower to be that clever or Machiavellian. So really you have to take it at face value: he's telling clubs to make offers in the January window

No chance. 150 all out if we’re lucky

Hope this team stays fit.......they clearly love playing together. Injuries could undo us but at the moment it feels so good!

'Brereton Diaz will be thinking of playing in the Premier League' Joe Thompson (who he?) on the BBC website Yes, he will Joe, with Blackburn Rovers

One more and five would go a long way to repairing the goal difference column after the Fulham debacle Let's be greedy!

He doesn't. Bradley unlikely to be the same player again unfortunately The Championship table looks surreal at present

Results in our favour, no injuries, best 1st XI on the pitch, high expectations, excitement mounting and ............

A win today and we'd be past nosebleeds.... it was would be a case of full-blown vertigo

England’s most successful coaches over the past 20 years have been Fletcher, Flower and Bayliss, 2 Zimbabweans and.an Australian. Silverwood is the latest in a line of English duds.

I have. Wake me up when the agony is over. According to the BBC website England’s performance director Mo Babat (who???) said England put in a lot of preparation for this trip That’s good to know. Congratulations Mr Bobat on a job well done

I’ve only been awake 10 minutes and 2 wickets have gone down An innings defeat was always the most likely outcome and England of course never fail to disappoint

It was inevitable from the start. The top-order batting has been poor for years. Silverwood is hopeless and Root is a weak captain. England were under-prepared and in the wrong frame of mind. Burns getting bowled 1st ball set the tone I haven't watched one over live so far, and I don't expect to.

Four more weekend Premier League games off

Buying food isn't necessary?

Simple maths Rev At the current rate of growth and Omicron keeps this doubling every 2 days, you get to 11 million people infected in the UK by Christmas Day and the entire country on New Year’s Eve. Now that isn't sensible and growth is bound to slow but regardless of the numbers, it’s quite clear that this wave is going to be huge. Millions are going to catch this over the next few weeks and months and this is going to cause huge disruption to the economy and people's lives and livelihoods. Would I love to go to Ewood on Saturday? Yes, I would. Do I think it's sensible and the right thing do? No I don't.

No one wants another lockdown but if Johnson did the right thing for the first time in his life it is probably the best course of action, now, to prevent more excessive deaths - we already have one of the worst death totals in the world Football matches don't matter in a global pandemic

At the current rate of growth 11 MILLION people will be infected by Christmas Eve. If just a fraction of those end up in hospital (which they will), the NHS will buckle under the strain Going to football matches isn't necessary