I can see that being our starting line up with Samuel on the right and Bennett on the left.

Pamela Stephenson, the lucky sod.

I saw us go to Burnley and win with four Blackburn born lads playing in attack. Douglas, Pickering, Byrom, Ratcliffe. We'd be hard pressed to field four lads from Lancashire these days.

He's as funny as being whipped.

I'd be surprised if Armstrong plays. He needs to be signed first for a start. I think Samuel will start instead.

I don't know but that kit is 100% better than the new kit.

Always injured. He's got lots of ability but he doesn't play enough.

Not right off the top of my head. I haven't watched as much football as I used to do in the last few years. You can bet your boots there'll be players out there that can do that job. This is were our scouting system has to step up. We need to be looking outside the football league.

I think the lad is a good player and he's an excellent finisher but like every player he has his flaws. He's one of the best young strikers out there but he not the sort who " leads the line ". He plays best off the shoulder of a player like Graham who can play him in. I don't think he's a winger , certainly at the higher level we find our selves at now. Are we going to play two up front ? Putting him out wide on one wing and Palmer on another looks ok on paper but may not work out so well on grass.

Bloody good signing though. The new Chris Samba.

I'll be happy if after this we sign a more conventional central striker, IE somebody who can hold up the ball and bring other players into play. If Armstrong is the sum total of our recruitment striker wise I''m not so impressed.

I can't recall a win at Ipswich in all the time I've been watching Rovers and that's along, long time. I just don't fancy us for this one, as somebody else said we rarely start the season well. Whatever skill they lack Hurst will have them make up for in effort and organisation.

Yeah they'd be tackling each other to try and get the ball ! Team shape is all about balancing skills and abilities. No good having too many chiefs and not enough Indians. There's one chief too many in that tribe.

He's be buying or loaning for buying's sake. He's not the sort of player we need.

Is he better than Dack though ? Could you play both in the same team ?

That's because the people running the show have no idea.

I saw him playing for Swansea after he went back and he ran the legs off the opposing left back.

I'd be hoping for better but if that's what we end up with it's not the end of the world. He'll be better than Nuttall and hopefully better than Samuel. This Palmer lad looks to be better than Payne was. That's how you build a successful team. You need two or three coming in every year who are better than the guys they are replacing. Do that and the end result is happiness. Do it the other way around and the end result is misery , as we've found out. The minute you stand still like we did after winning the big one you're actually going backwards.

I'm not a big Gallagher fan but he's better than what we've got as back up for Graham. Palmer I like the look of as a player but we have several players who could play in that position and we're very light in other positions. Good cover for Dack I suppose. The City lad I know nothing about, same applies to a mystery centre half. I can't see anyone taking Caddis off our hands, free or not. I'd loan the other two out. I'd also loan Whittingham if we could but again I can't see anyone talking him off our hands. Almost as bad a signing as Dack was a good one.

Fielding is out injured for the next three months apparently. So that's one down. If we get one of the other three I'd be surprised.

I agree with that. It made us look very foolish in the eyes of other clubs.

I'm a retired engineer so I'd say if the glass is half full they made the glass too big.

Talk is cheap. I'll be jumping up and down when we actually make some significant signings.

How many did we lose by ?

No point beating around the bush, the shirts are an embarrassment. When I first started watching Rovers it was a shirt to be really proud of wearing. Now I wouldn't creosote my fence in a free one.