Would have been goal of the decade- I give you Ruben Rochina:

All 5 English and Scottish club should survive their Europa League draws.

This topic is so difficult because Garner '80s, Shearer '90s, Tugay '00s are so obvious. Players like Douglas and Faz straddled two decades. Rhodes first half of this decade and Dack second half would be my choice but both fall below numerous players from previous decades.

I have not seen Buckley at any level other than Championship. I'd say he has had two decent appearances, one ok and one stinker. He should not be written off for the stinker.

Spuds get lucky. Chelsea a very long shot to prevail v Bayern. The two Madrid's are stiff but beatable opposition especially with home second legs. That said Real v City the outstanding tie and everyone wants the winner of Atalanta and Valencia next. Dortmund no pushover for PSG.

Banana skins don't usually come in blue and white stripes (or whatever concoction Wigan play away in) but this one does. I haven't recovered from Charlton and Luton at home yet... If we get to 23.00 on Monday next and have collected another three points I will be very very happy And relieved. Answers to all Q's are in Tony's tombola...

Encouraging news Paul

I think we all expect a thin attendance against Wigan but if we win and produce a decent performance on TV then we should be looking at 20,000+ on Boxing Day to kick start much better Ewood gates next year. Going to be very important to take a large raucous following to Huddersfield.

If only we could make Tosin permanent.

Thought Sam was immense yesterday. Ran himself into the ground and a big part in our victory by hurrying Bristol into repeated mistakes. Starting to look like an astute acquisition.

Magloire put in a decent shift in Rovers' 3-1 win over Leicester Friday night before being subbed on 75. Contained a dangerous Leicester forward line pretty well. Isn't Hart injured currently?

Rovers paid City £1m for the season long loan of Tosin. There is no recall clause apparently so they would have to pay serious compensation to negotiate a recall.

Agreed. He was clearly intimidated by the crowd and was giving nonsensical fouls against Rovers (at one point, any ball won by Lenihan was getting penalised) and allowing all kinds of subterfuge by Bristol City to go unpunished. For the foul count to be 16 each when Bristol turned into one of the dirtiest sides we have faced says it all. The yellow card for Gallagher was for a nothing tap when there were at least five yellow card challenges by Bristol City players. It also seems everybody except the officials saw an elbow smash by Lee Johnson on a Rovers coach then threw the ball after the half time whistle yet Johnson wasn't cautioned again for either incident.

This is the jinxes everything post but suppose we make it to the play-offs and win them. Then what??? Top half of Premier League class: - Bottom half of Premier League class: Tosin, Lenihan, Dack Not Premier League class but one or two might pleasantly surprise us if given the chance: Walton Nyambe Cunningham Bell (yes I know but the kid has talent to spare) Travis Gallagher Brereton (still very young) Butterworth Rankin-Costello Mols Fisher Could hack a game or two without letting the side down: Williams Johnson Evans Downing Not Premier League class/ need either wrapping up for return to Championship or shipping out: Mulgrew Bennett Rothwell Armstrong (they are all quick in the Prem) Graham (tempus fugit) Lieutweiler Too far off to venture an opinion on: The rest

Had a look at Brentford 1 Fulham 0 expecting to see a Raya master show. In fact the Fulham keeper performed heroics keeping the score to 1-0.

Cracking win for Accy yesterday. Morecambe will be extremely fortunate not to finish 92nd though. Probably to be replaced by Barrow.

Oh come on, that second half was a complete performance.

I'm in hysterics here- thanks for a load of belly laughs. The diet has appreciated it. Somehow I no longer feel hungry... All the best to Mrs OB for a speedy and full recovery.

Just watched the Rhodes hattrick- doubt you will see a better trio of goals all season.

One thing I will say is that I never heard even the faintest whisper of Mowbray losing the dressing room. Yes he acted decisively shipping out Charlie Mulgrew, but even after the Prestojn game when I was convinced he should go, the players were solidly with him. That doesn't detract from the reality of being ten points worse off than we should be had Mowbray not got things so horribly wrong against Charlton, Luton, QPR and Preston. We can get away with horrible long runs in the Championship but we ain't going up and certainly not staying up with these sorts of prolonged patches of defeats.

I will put my hand up- that was my post at 2.55 yesterday (Blackburn time)

I would be tempted to stick with the same eleven for Wigan knowing that we are going to be starting 18 different players over the Christmas period. That performance yesterday was so exceptional I'd give that eleven the opportunity of an encore at Ewood.

This.

The 4-4-2 against Bristol City worked a treat.

Let's just concentrate on avoiding a Wigan banana skin. Rovers' history is littered with games at Ewood where we know exactly how high we would leap up the table if only... For Leeds and West Brom, victory next weekend will give them a very substantial cushion. For Fulham, anything less than a win and the most talented squad in the Championship can kiss automatic promotion goodbye.