I MUST take Peter White to task about Graeme Le Saux.

It is true that Graeme has not been at his best, but he certainly has not been the worst. At his best he is great, at his worst he is still better than many in the team.

We all know that Peter White is Tim Sherwood's biggest fan, and he doesn't exactly dislike Jason Wilcox.

Against Man Utd, Jason should have been taken off at half time, he was so ineffective. He lacked the ability to beat a man and does not tackle.

Tim Sherwood wasn't exactly the man of the match against Man Utd - in fact the midfield created nothing.

George Donis, Stuart Ripley and Nicky Marker have good reasons to wonder why they are at Ewood.

And I am amazed that we paid over £2m for Per Pedersen to put him on the bench for 75 minutes. It was only when he came on we started to play well up front.

I believe Tony Parkes has gone as far as he can, and I just hope we can retain our Premiership position.

But I have my doubts about the coaching at Ewood, we are hopeless at set pieces or corners and very seldomly get anything from them.

I sincerely hope that we have a complete new start for the next season, with a clear out of surplus players who were over-valued when we bought them.

ARTHUR FINCH, Cowell Way, Blackburn.

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