Forced errors, they chased us all over the park and played better than us when they won the ball. Sometimes you just have to hand it to teams, theyre tactics worked which is why we had to sub Gally after 30mins otherwise theres every chance we could of gone in 3-0 down.

Personally I thought PNE were dead and buried at half time, you completley stopped us playing for 45mins. Our back four was makeshift at best but thats no excuse, it was blackburns half by a mile. I'm a north end fan so cant comment on blackburns previous games but that 45 was prob the best half any away team have played at deepdale this season. Second half i think rovers looked apprehensive from the start. A bit fragile. We started playing long balls (which is not our game and the reason Stockley has hardly featured this season) and we got the early goal. After that we just kept applying pressure and rovers fell apart. Ive seen pne lose like that before and its def down to a lack of confidence. Based on first half i wouldnt be sacking the manager just yet, this is a tough league and whilst youve got a glorious past you're just not that team anymore. Theres no quick fix, build on the first 45mins and if it takes 2 or 3 seasons then so be it. We've waited half a century ffs!