ISN'T IT just typical that as soon as the possibility of strike action becomes a reality that a few members of the Professional Footballers Association get the wobbles.

The threat of loss of wages and the thumbscrews being turned by certain Premiership chairmen, with Ken Bates (unsurprisingly) and Peter Ridsdale to the fore, seems to be having a chastening effect on some PFA members.

After a 99 per cent-plus return for a strike in the players' union's ballot all of a sudden chinks are appearing in the armour.

While no names have come forward and no individual has said he will not back the strike, you can bet your life the waverers will be among the elite band at the top of the pay scale.

If it comes out in the wash that the strike-breaking blacklegs are the guys on enough money a week to pay off most people's mortgages in a fortnight then I feel they should be the targets of scorn throughout the rest of the season -- if not their careers.

The whole point of the PFA's argument is that the funds they are seeking to ensure are for players at the other end of the scale and those whose careers, and with it their earning potential, have been cut short by injury.

If you want to know what it means to some former players just ask ex-Rovers and Clarets goalkeeper Chris Pearce, who has been helped through a period of illness and injury by the union.

The PFA funded necessary operations and also helped Chris with retraining as he looked to build a career outside the game.

Or maybe you could ask Rovers defender Craig Short whose brother Chris has been helped in a similar fashion after injury.

The stand the players have taken is a moral one. The supporters can take the odd postponement and the majority of fans are right behind the action -- so go on lads bite the bullet and put up a fight.