Watching the highlights. For JRC's effort why wasn't Gallagher running in and taking a chance of poking that in? If you watch it he stops running. Then he stands there head in hands at JRC's miss. If I was his manager I'd be saying why did you stop running you stupid bloody lump?! Earn your keep. That was the first offence. Second offence, missing a toe poke into the goal. And his reaction to that wasn't one of frustration, just "oh well." Third offence, the motherf**cker knocks the ball away from their goal when he's right next to it. Which striker in any league has the instinct to knock it back across goal when the gaping net is an inch from them, with goalie nowhere near them? That's what you get from spending £5m donkeys. You can't get rid, you have to play them, you have to re-sign them to save face and they waste valuable opportunies week after week. What an awful and uncommitted player he is. I'm more angry now than watching the game.

I hate to heap more negativity on an already shitty night, but vultures will circle when that day comes. We'll be an asset stripping exercise, then admin. I can't see any other reason for someone taking on such a huge debt. That's why promotion would have been so important, it may have actually made competent people look at the club favourably.

We keep playing midfielders up front, and a dosile lummox of a number 9 wide. Where did it all go wrong?

People also forget that Markanday is another winger.

I know but I meant neither of those goalscorers were going to be good for the run in, and it was known in advance. If you read the interview with Mowbray he didn't have his head screwed on right. He thought someone else would step up out of a squad of players that didn't have 15 goals between them.

I used to enjoy 4-4-2, back when football managers didn't complicate the fuck out of the game. So so long ago.

If that was true he wouldn't have got a new contract. There's no way he'd be still a Rovers player if his fee wasn't £5m.

We couldn't sign a loanee, even though we signed several other players?

Even with those, there's only two of them who has ever scored goals out of the lot of them. And for one reason or another we knew in advance we couldn't rely on either of them in a promotion push.

Will any journalists bring up his refusal to sign a striker in Jan?

No need to listen to TM's post match interview. It was all explained on 4th Feb. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19898505.tony-mowbray-explains-blackburn-rovers-didnt-sign-striker/

Mowbray, another missed opportunity which falls entirely at your door.

"I had Premier League teams ringing me up about big number 9's but we don't play that way"

Good to see Vale on but way too late.

And two of those would be better than what we have at the moment.

Why not stick on Vale for the last ten in place of Gallagher? He's been remarkably poor tonight.

I remember when managers would sub off under performing strikers early on, then they wouldn't be back in the team for weeks. Then again I can't remember a manager leaving us without a fit striker after a Jan transfer window.

If we had someone who can head a ball on target, Giles would provide service.

Only Mowbray would buy a player high up the assists league when we've absolutely no one to get on the end of crosses.

With Gallagher, they can discuss all the best ways to not score.

Tony probably thinks the defence is playing just fine.

He forgot who he was playing for.

That's our £5m goalscorer. It must be demoralising to the other players that they rely on that for goals.

Why the F wasn't Gallagher challenging for that at the back post?????

Our alternative Hedges has scored 5 goals this season for Aberdeen.