I WOULD like to comment in general about the present Rovers predicament.

I would suggest that Graeme Souness should drop any thoughts of buying more players and concentrate on employing a good backroom tactician.

Week after week we watch Rovers playing aimlessly in the hope that someone in the team will provide some spark and create something from nothing.

While we had Duff, we had someone who could do this and he tended to hide the general weakness in the Rovers' lack of tactics.

I believe that the present group of players are certainly good enough, but they sorely need a plan of campaign. What is the use of hopeful balls being pumped into the penalty area when we have no one up front who can capitalise on them?

If figures were available, I would think that the success rate for Rovers of balls into the box would be less than five per cent. Surely this isn't playing the percentage game.

What we ought to be doing is playing to the strengths of the players we have. With the speed of say Gallagher or Jansen they need the ball being sent to the open spaces in the penalty area for them to chase.

I would suggest that we play Andy Cole, who I think has just lost his bite in front of goal, but who is someone who can really read the game and can keep a cool head in the box, in the hole behind the two strikers.

I would play a 4-3-1-2 game with Andy Cole behind say, Gallagher and Jansen, or even behind Gallagher and Martin Taylor. Remember the two goals scored at Birmingham from through passes from Cole? That's the kind of football that brings results.

Since the arrival of Souness I have yet to understand or comprehend just what the Rovers tactics are.

As a lifelong supporter of the Rovers I wish them well, but please, please Graeme Souness, decide what you are trying to do before each match, don't just send the players out to sort themselves out.

At the moment they look like 11 strangers with each man for himself.

JOHN McGLYNN,

Grasmere Avenue,

Lammack, Blackburn.