jim mk2

This could a few ways - we remain awful and get a tonking or we improve and nick a win. Or we play much better and concede 4. Or it could stay 0-0. The ever cautious Mowbray needs to give his old boys XI needs a big shake-up for the next game - is he brave enough to do it ?

Looks like a second division team playing a third division team at Pride Park. West Brom mullering Brizzle who put us to the sword

It's a Championship starting line-up according to the experts

Feel sorry for Conway as I've always liked him but he should not have started

Mowbray overthinking it again. How to be a manager: pick your best players at all times.

Raya's a big part of our defensive problems

This is like the first 45 mins v Reading all over again. We haven't turned up so far

Message to the clueless one. Same answer as before. With Cook's retirement, England don't have any decent 1, 2 or 3 and will be forced to play substandard players such as Jennings or a team or No 6s out of position, such as Mooen, who is a natural No 8.

Stand still in football and you lose. The teams needs to evolve and improve. He's signed the players and he needs to start playing them

Tonight's team is a Third Division line-up .....Mowbray's loyalty to last year's side is wearing a bit thin

No Mulgrew? Revised my forecast from 1-1 draw to 2-1 defeat.

Burnley now withdrawn that Tweet I think. Even Burnley Express is outraged https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/shameful-burnley-football-club-slammed-by-fans-for-unpaid-work-ad-1-9354550 Spectacular own goal really, and describing football club helpers as "heroes" is an insult to genuine heroes who give their lives on the battlefield

What are these "heroes" being asked to do - help serve the half time teas or save lives?

Liverpool and Manchester and Southport, Barrow and Widnes were in Lancashire when I was a lad. Amazingly, I received a letter last week from "Manchester, Lancashire". Good thread. Like to see the town teams doing well - even Burnley

Feel sorry for them both. I know what it's like missing the game you love through long term injury and it's much worse for them because it's their livelihood and their career. Samuel knew it was a make or break season for him and worked very hard on his own in the summer to improve his fitness and was showing distinct signs of improvement before his injury. Gladwin has ability but needs to play regularly, which is very unlikely at Ewood now; I doubt we'll see him in a Rovers shirt again.

What do you think sells newspapers - Brexit or Rovers' best player in court ? Stick to the day job and don't contemplate a career in journalism !

Moeen is not a 3. He's an 8 Jennings has proved already he's not Test quality, with a poor technique. The only virtue is he's young and might get better, but the best players look at home from the start, and he's a bag of nerves. Apart from Root, who is a 4, England basically have a team of No 6s and 7s - Bairstow, Stokes, Buttler, Curran etc shouldn't be any higher.

England effectively need a new 1, 2 and 3 because Moeen isn't a 6 never mind a 3. Well played, Alistair Cook. A proper Test cricketer.

Can a bare bear bear it when it bares its arse in bear market?

We should copy the French method of developing players. Most of them are from the Paris area. Brilliant article in the FT magazine on it back in the summer.

In view of Rovers' record of munificence against teams in need of a fillip I'd say the game is a nailed-on Villa win..

Fans were right to question Mowbray's appoinment. He left Coventry after losing about 10 games in a row and his record as a manager was mixed to say the least. I wasn't alone in asking why he deserved to be handed the Rovers job.

Mowbray should find him a nice Lancashire lass and tell them to settle down in the Ribble valley.

Astonishing finish at Taunton. Somerset needed 78 to win and were bowled out by Lancs for 77 - a tie !

Rather puts his "socialising" with friends before the Bristol game into context. The lad clearly doesn't know right from wrong.