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Yep, and it's not as if he was an outstanding player even in his pomp. He's been without a club for nearly 2 years and no one's been willing to touch him with a bargepole Neither should we https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9950467/Free-agent-Daniel-Sturridge-issues-come-plea-social-media-post.html

He's a bad apple who would more than likely upset the good team spirit within the club. Avoid

For personal reasons, I remember an end of season game against Charlton in 2001-02, nothing riding on the match though we were going quite well, a few hundred from Charlton but no more, but there were more than 27,000 on Ewood in the spring sunshine. I know thousands have drifted away never to return over the past 10 years but 14,000 for the last home game was disappointing. I'd hope we'll be nearer 18-20,000 for the Huddersfield match

Difficult game, good side, but then so were Bournemouth and we beat them on their own middin. I'd be happy with a 1-1

27,000 at Forest tonight. 30,000 at Boro the other night. 14,000 for us against Barnsley isn't good considering how well we're doing

Bournemouth 1-0 up but Stoke and QPR losing

They are; but as it's clear 95 per cent of the population (not including myself I should add) have decided Covid is just a "bad cold", and that they're going to carry on regardless even if it is a threat, I would have expected at least 18,000 on Ewood in view if the team's recent form and the general air of optimism.

Agree with that. A very poor turnout

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.