West Brom comms said it was a baptism of fire up against Furlong, spot on I'd say. Not many harder full backs than Furlong .

I have to say, Sean Mac looked extremely comfortable with the ball in his feet. Was very impressed with him.

Exactly this - acts like someone has phoned him up directly and said ‘Nathan we want you to be the first to know’ it’s common sense ffs

Hate that attention seeking illiterate

With the random obscure foreign signings, he has struggled to even pretend that he has any clue what is going on. This is one thing it is pretty easy to nail using his tactic of guessing based on what is in the public domain.

So true And we then buy defenders who can’t pass the ball out rinse and repeat we know what needs to change here

It was not top 10 performance or even top 15 first game of the season the lads should be roaring to go and be fully committed - no excuses, some of them just aren’t championship standards (?? Yet??) keep playing like this against better opposition and we will have a relegation battle by December and not one we can dig out.

Everyone's favourite X ITK.

OK ..Get to bed !

It's also a fact then, that Batth struggled today without Hyam. 4/10 on BBC

Might be but it is a fact ..

looks like pears and buckley are going,ffs just buy a centre forward with the money they bring in,i like yuki,he`s a tidy player but very lightweight

Almost 60% possession for Rovers and we dominate these stats, but it just didn't pass the eye test, we wouldn't have scored if we were playing now. If we don't get a striker (and unfortunately I think he needs to be better than any of our current strikers) then we are in bother.

Becoming a bit of a cliche that one

So I am not the only one?

thats what i don`t like about the modern game,relying on centre backs to pass the ball out of defence,they are there to head it away and tackle,if we had a centre back who could pass then he would`nt be here for long,venkys would have sold him

VI suggesting post match that Travis is likely to leave…….we are unable to keep any of our better players - surprisingly contradicts the owners “defiant” message season eve on our ‘determination to strengthen on the pitch and build on last season’…..

He wasn’t particularly bad, but his distribution was poor and he gave the ball away too easy.

He certainly doesn't look like a footballer !

West Brom missed two massive sitters, credit to Toth for making the saves, but they really should have scored at least one of those, one was point blank range with the entire net to aim at. I think the defence looked all over the place myself at times. I think if Albion had really gone for it rather than wasting time and sitting back on their lead they could have caused more problems. We looked more comfortable than we were because we had tons of possession which they were quite happy for us to have, because we didn't have a clue what to do to break them down with it. Edit - thinking about your comment, I did just see these stats, so maybe they do reflect an ok performance from the CBs, though I don't remember who made the individual tackles and clearances Total tackles quite even between the sides, their 49 clearances and our one shot on target tells the story I want to tell though, that I think we were shite.

I am a big Gueye fan but he was up and down with Eustace and since Ismael has come in I dont think he has had a single good game...

Not goals. Or many wins.

Hyam needs to play along side a strong physical leader !

i thought the back two pretty solid,mcloughlin was excellent and hyam was never troubled

I agree with that, but it wasn’t as bad as most are making out. We didn’t create enough in the final third, but besides that it was some neat passing and combative match. Thought Hyam was weak today. Sluggish and lacked creativity on forward passes.