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Not the final ball from Brereton hopefully. He was wasteful yesterday.

Pickering, Dolan, Kaminski, Ayala - all first team regulars now. Some of those were on a free, but as I understand it not on the cheap. He signed 14 players in all inc loans. He had a 29 goal striker. Besides that £12m worth of attackers. 15th place finish seems unacceptable when you look at the bigger picture. And when you look at it game for game, his regular tinkering led to a lot of dropped points - not necessarily personnel. Regarding the other teams (inc loans). Norwich signed 14. Watford 19. Brentford 21 (inc Toney)

The frustration lies in Mowbrays influence over those two matches. Today his subs allowed Barnsley to come at us which almost led to us losing a point, when it was pretty even up to that. We were 2-0 up against Luton and he decided to park the bus. With a bit more imagination we could be in second place. He did great against Hull and went for it. I've no idea why he chose Clarkson, a 19 year old midfielder, over Butterworth, when we could have nicked a goal with the amount of times we were getting forward.

We desperately need a senior striker that can stay fit and give the opposition defence problems. If only we'd spent that £5m for Gallagher more wisely!

I hope he makes an appearance against Cardiff. Both Poveda and Clarkson looked very poor. Replace Brereton with a more composed goalscorer and we might have nicked today.

Playing without Kaminski. Put some of the GK's we've had in the past in goal and we'd have lost today.

13 shots, 4 on target.

For context though, Barnsley are down the bottom and have injuries. That was a terrible performance and Mowbray managed to make it worse with the subs.

But despite everything, we're 6th!

Mowbray is riding his luck.

I'm just glad we managed to get away with it. That was by luck rather than judgement. Tactical cock up by Mowbray again.

Clarkson ffs. Pathetic Mowbray, he's a bloody kid.

He doesn't get that we're better defensively when he doesn't play defensively. Takes pressure off the defence and keeps the other team busy.

Almost a Pickering own goal. Mowbray has really put us under pressure here.

Why are we playing Clarkson at all? He's not been great. Butterworth on the other hand changed the game the other day and he leaves him on the bench.

We'll likely get none.

Why's he not bringing Butterworth on when we need to nick a goal?

These commentators are bloody annoying.

Very poor. Overhit the ball then had no chance to strike it properly. Ffs.

Mowbray's helped out Barnsley here.

To be fair the whole team looks shit at the moment. Another game where the opposition aren't world beaters but we're making it difficult for ourselves.

1 shot in 45 mins - oof. Though Barnsley look like they have 20 men in defence when Rovers go forward. And they still don't look convincing.

I never know where to look.

Is Poveda on Brereton's shoulders to form the Megadiaz?

Bah! Thanks for the reminder.