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Can we get Jim on a curfew every away game? I hope he's not going to the Dingle Dome.

One of the worst performances I've seen from Rovers, not helped with the team selection. A carbon copy of the Wigan game where it was like half the time couldn't be arsed and the manager felt like a night off. Playing Vale or Hirst is effectively forfeiting the game but Szmodics was abysmal too.

Amateur hour from the referee.

What a waste of a tenner. The people who travelled must be livid.

Referee playing for Coventry now.

And another 35 with Hirst/Szmodics.

Looks like you got your wish.

Too slow, no urgency to the play and several players are sleepwalking through the game. Manager has forgotten he can make subs. Coventry haven't been tested at all.

Get Szmodics off. Every time he gets it he passes to a Coventry player.

A pass it and stand still merchant.

I think he's beyond jinxing.

Unfortunately he can't play both sides and cover for himself.

A good striker and a couple of fullbacks I'd say.

We get at least one injury per game. Is it a fitness issue? Amazing that we need a goal and a moment ago only one player ran in the box for a cross.

What's happened to Gallagher?

Absolute joke.

Hirst for Vale. That ought to do it, well done JDT you've earned your beans with that one.

Move Travis from fullback and put Brittain there (bizarre decision not to in the first place), get Vale off, tell Brereton to channel his inner Diaz, start attacking the team, tell midfield to close down their players and stop ball watching, do not bring Hirst on.

Last January. We should have had another through the door in Summer too. At the moment our only proper CF is Sam Gallagher. I'd be happy for Vale to never wear the shirt again. They've all been awful tonight though including Tomasson who has got this massively wrong.

Brereton... "Vale cover their defender I'll chase that one down." Vale... "Oh right okay." Ball goes back to the goalie and he passes it confidently to the player that Vale was told to mark, who is about three feet away from his man. Get him off. And now we're 1 down...

A lot of ball watching when not in possession, he usually covers every piece of grass.

How did Brittain not get that on target? And then a really poor shot from Brereton. What an awful performance.

Adam Wharton is showing his age tonight, a bit of a lazy performance by his standards. Vale on the other hand is like playing with 10.

He probably sees about as much as you do but he's not spoilt for choice is he. The ghost of Tony Mowbray and his dislike of centre forwards still haunts the club (along with Gregg Broughton's bizarre belief that Hirst is the answer).

The team looks really unbalanced with Vale in.