Who was it who said that no team would turn over this present Rovers outfit?

Oh Yes that was me a few weeks ago!

Now it's one thing to get hammered by Man United or Arsenal but to ship five goals against Wigan! What's going on?

Following on from a four-goal home drubbing by Villa, Rovers have been transformed from Ebeneezer Scrooge to Santa Claus in a few short weeks when it comes to giving goals away.

Talking of Santa, what a waste of Roque's first hat-trick for the club.

That ex-Rover Marcus Bent also helped himself to a hat-trick, his first for seven years, speaks volumes for how inept our defence must have played.

For crying out - loud Marcus Bent scored three against us. Please tell me it's a bad dream!

Assuming I won't wake up to find it's still Saturday morning and it's all to play for at the JJB, here are a few simple ideas for putting things right: It helps to play the game with 11 men on the pitch.

I know we're getting so used to playing with 10 these days that this might come as a surprise but, funnily enough, it does give the other side quite an advantage if they have one more than us.

Pedersen needs some more of that lager pouring on him - you know the one that reaches the parts that used to be reached like his feet and head.

Either that or a spell in the reserves so he can rediscover how to play football.

Zurab Khizanishvili should be at least on the bench to give us another defensive option.

Is Ryan Nelsen fit? Is big Chris Samba feeling the effects of too many games?

Why has our defence suddenly started to make schoolboy howlers allowing the likes of Marcus Bent to plunder?

At the risk of sounding like John Major - let's get back to basics.

Let's concentrate on passing the ball to our own team and keeping possession.

Let's not get carried away with our own publicity and think we are like the present Arsenal.

In fact, let's think more like the Arsenal of old.

There's nothing wrong with 1-0 wins. They're certainly preferable to 5-3 defeats.