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I should have said Alan Pace’s good fortune. He was one bad appointment away from a catastrophe. Objectively, he’s bought the club with their own money, overseen the sacking of your best manager and a relegation, and then bankrolled promotion from the championship all without putting his hand in his own pocket. What happens when the bank of Dyche runs out?

He did against Rotherham.

Dack can’t play upfront. We’ve seen this many times over the years. In the home game against Bristol Tomasson tried it. Gallagher played against Rotherham, as did Vale and Gallagher was worse. But the point is that our striker options are shit, shitter or untried. Can’t blame JDT for that. I’m not sure why you suggested Markanday anyway as he wasn’t selectable. Today who does he pick out of Vale, poor again at Rotherham, and Gallagher, poorer against Rotherham? Whoever he picks, it won’t matter much. Dolan? Depends which one turns up. They are a sorry bunch.

Replacing shit for shit.

I'll change my question, who else that's not shit at scoring goals does he play instead of Vale? Markanday's a winger.

I wasn't impressed today. Adebayo at Luton is ten times the player.

He wasn't doing anything for the team. Like I said earlier, when Ayala was sent off Carter came on in his place and Vale went off. Nothing changed.

Who else is he supposed to play upfront?

It's must be very hazy as that's a massive simplification. Whilst it would have been nice to have brought in a better manager, most fans would have been happy to keep SA there for the foreseeable. He even said himself he wanted to leave at some point, so it would have been intelligent to keep him here for stability, whilst conducting a manager search. Unfortunately, "intelligent" to Venkys is to give an agent full control of the football club they've just purchased and agree with everything he suggests, even when people who have been at the club for 20 years are telling them it's all going tits up.

I don't know, their current good fortune on the pitch still masks issues underneath.

Burnley wanted him and got rejected so that's unlikely. We should have signed Gyokeres last season, or Adebayo.

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I was hoping we'd finally be looking to sign a striker permanantly but we don't seem to do that any more. The curse of Sam Gallagher.

There was a brilliant moment when the lesser of said Wurzels claimed Wharton had stamped on one of their players after fouling them. Completely ignoring the fact that Wharton was stumbling uncontrollably backwards at speed. And it wasn't even a stamp, more of a moonwalk.

You've got players that can bail you out for sure. Our bench looks like a bunch of competition winners. Edit. Some of our first team look like competition winners.

Has O'Brien been linked to Rovers? To summarise, it's looking like we may or may not sign Undav on loan, Porteous permanent and the Russian goalie? Have I missed anyone?

Buckley will play a couple of decent passes, break up play but then turn into a passenger for the rest of the half. And he's been that way for a long time. Brereton has reverted to running about a lot with little end product. That miss in the first half was like going back in time. I think we've now seen the best of him before he leaves. Morton will put himself about, get an assist but then completely shirk defensive duties leading to a goal at the other end. Vale looked like he does in most games, not arsed. There were times he wasn't even bothering to jump or run for the ball. That's not a lack of quality, that's a lazy bastard. I'd say a big problem with our players is they don't want to play the full 90, or the full season, and that's something that's bred during the last five years, and continued in the last 6 months. We need to kick it out. On the other hand we're two of three good signings from making the rest of the squad look better than they are.

That was a grim game.

And you're still wrong. Square pegs in round holes again. The team isn't good enough.

Tomasson rates Vale? Gallagher or Vale, which would you use? There are only wrong answers to that question.

We're a team with plenty of poor players, a few good supporting players but not enough star players. Signing a CM and a number 9 is crucial. Preferably two of each.

When he got subbed we haven't missed him at all. We were playing with 10 when he was on anyway.

They won't because it'd take a miracle worker to improve some of them.

Shocking it was only a yellow.

Really, with these players and after such a soft red?