As a goalscoring forward / midfield player he's been a good signing but a striker he ain't

Hirst, Ennis and Telalović.... the sum total of Gregg's efforts to find a striker

This isn't about finished articles or even potential. We shouldn't be "in the market" of buying crocks - full stop. And if we end up with more "punts" like Ennis, we won't have 11 men on the pitch. Signing any injury prone player when things are so tight financially doesn't make sense, especially as he was signed early in the summer and presented as some sort of coup

Thanks Gregg. Great PR as usual

So the obvious question is, why did we sign him? It doesn't make any sense, particularly with a small squad, limited finances and every player having to provide some sort of value for money

Tommy Smith, now there was a genuine hard man. Dave Mackay and Ron Harris others. Souness was hard, and brilliant too. Not sure about Roy Keane -I'd class him more as a thug. What he did to Haaland was criminal (literally).

McManaman would jump out of the way of a passing butterfly, so I wouldn't pay much attention to him A "genuine psychopath" isn't a hard man, he's a psychopath. Salgado never struck me as a "hard man" during his time at Rovers. This is all subjective and makes for an interesting discussion but no one's defined what a hard man is yet

Southgate should have been binned, or resigned, after the last World Cup. When you're the subject of a West End play, it should be obvious your time is up. He's done well but losing the Euro final, our own midden, was poor, and showed his limitations The players look like they're not listening to him now

Hughes was a tough nut all right I remember him scoring for United - can’t recall who it was against - picking the ball out of the net and running back to his half with the ball under his arm banging shoulders with opposition players on the way. He used to get his retaliation in first as the late Welsh rugby coach Carwyn James used to say.

ahem....

Normal players who could give or take a tackle - as stated We need a definition of hard men - real hard men.

Key in an article in the Times said England had suffered from "concentrating too much on Tests" in the recent years to the detriment of the 1-day game To which the answer must be, why not both? Other countries seem to manage it and the ECB have far more resources than most other countries It doesn't matter that England have done well in ODIs in recent years. England have let us down - badly

You could say the same of any of Speight, Neill, Nelsen, Gayle, Reid, Hendry, Berg, Givet, Baptiste, Jones, Salgado or Mokoena.

What's the difference between a hard man and a thug?. If you're going down that route Neill was a thug too. I think we need a definition of "hard" and most of those I wouldn't classify as "hard" at all, just normal players who could give and take a tackle. Is that hard? I don't think so.

John Bray frightened the life out of me - and that was standing watching from the safety of the terraces. I'd have hated to play against him We've had some hard lads over the years - Keeley and McNamee were in a class of their own, but the likes of Fazackerley, Branagan, Mail, Todd and Savage were hard too. Every team needs an enforcer, and we don't have one at the moment. Preston showed why we do.

FFS, not them, anyone but them. Even India. This is thoroughly depressing and highlights even further England's miserable, pathetic effort

Still think he’s an “excellent” player? He gets worse with every game.

If Ennis was seen as a risk or a gamble, and they weren't sure about him, then why hand him a 4-year contract? Like alot of stuff at Ewood it doesn't make sense. As it stands, he's a waste of a wage and a place in the squad and is offering nothing of value to the club or the team whatsoever. So far, Broughton's solution to the striker problem has turned up Hirst, Ennis and Telelovic (sp?). This is where the problem lies

I woz there, but not in the queue because my dad already had tickets. 42,000 on Ewood, it was dangerous

Watching the Chelsea-Rovers game at Stamford Bridge apart from Sterling, James and Gallagher I didn't really know any of their players. Same with most Prem teams - I can name one or two in most teams but the rest are just a blank. It's not just getting older and a declining interest - I just don't identify with these teams in the same way we did 30-40 years ago

Sums it up and confirming what many of us have been saying in here Wet-behind-the-ears young lads against tough, experienced Championship pros

Potts is big, strong and fast. I'd like him in the Rovers team. In fact, there's a number of Preston players who would improve ours just for their physicality. It's been said many times before, but we're soft.

Nonsense. The owners and the executives aren't responsible for performances on the pitch. That the job of Tomasson, who has to pick the team and formation and get the players ready for the match. It's also his job to coach the players - and therein lies the problem. Tomasson is too dogmatic in that he has Rovers playing only one way - a high tempo, pressing, passing game that is pleasing on the eye and takes apart similar teams such as Norwich but comes unstuck against strong, well-drilled and organised team like Preston. He needs to be more pragmatic - changing tactics to suit different teams.

Wolves come back to beat Spuds in extra time. What a good appointment O'Neil was and Bournemouth must regret letting him go now. Perhaps his name wasn't foreign enough. Tomasson would do well to look at O'Neil's pragmatic approach - attractive possession football isn't everything. Even Guardiola's City go long sometimes.

And Preston possibly this year too. Preston were derided last night for the way they played but they won. Pretty football is nice to watch but doesn't necessarily win football matches