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The top gear lads didn’t find it too friendly.

Oops, changed it!

It’s brilliant to watch and the desire to play attractive, attacking test cricket is fantastic to see. England rightly see themselves as leaders in a new era, a new approach. If they are successful and blow teams away regularly other sides will have to follow. As in any professional sport though, It “IS” about results. Play this way and win and you’ll be number one in the world. Every side will fear you. Play this way and start losing regularly and nobody will fear you. You’ll become cannon fodder and derided. As for now, it’s superb. Ben Stokes currently looks like the best cricket captain in the world.

He excites me. He doesn’t look like a footballer though, does he! If I didn’t know him and he was leant on the bar in the queens- and somebody told me he was currently the best footballer in the world, I would never, never, ever believe you. Id have put him down as an Amazon warehouse worker.

What I’m seeing now is a little different to anything I’ve seen in all the years I’ve watched Rovers. We’ve had some really poor managers, really poor players and really poor teams. I’ve never seen any rovers side contribute so much to their own downfall as this lot do. Week after week, through trying to do things they obviously can’t do, they’re gifting the opposition goals and losing games - and they carry on doing it. Madness.

The recent transfer “policy” makes the signings of the likes of Endean, Fryatt, Mcnamee and Branagan some kind of golden era.

TBH building from the back is good, it’s how most international teams play now. JDT’s problem is that he doesn’t have the players to play that game. He can try week after week to get them to do it but doesn’t know what to do when it’s not working. He came into this with no experience of championship football and it shows. I don’t believe he’ll turn this around.

JDT won’t have a clue what to do now. That’s for certain.

I’ve seen quite a few relegations but I’m not sure I’ve seen anything this bad.

PNE are simply organised and we can’t deal with that. 😏 So much wrong here. Defenders go missing whenever we lose “possession “, no midfield at all - and as for strikers? What bloody strikers?

Never seen anything like this

No midfield

This is absolutely terrible

Korea have made a few chances against Brazil. If England play Brazil in the final we can beat them. As long as we can stop them being Brazil as well 🙂

Everybody thinks the performance against Burnley was pretty pathetic - yes? Some posters think because we are 3rd in the league, severe criticism of Sundays display, or any other poor display is somehow over the top, uncalled for or unfair. Right? Really?

Playing out from the back has to be applauded. The absolute key to it though is not to get caught on the ball. It’s a simple philosophy yet we get caught on the ball time and time again. WHY?

All Burnley had to do was turn up Arbitro. Standard championship fare was more than enough to embarrass us. It embarrassed me, I hope it embarrassed absolutely everyone at the club as well.

I think JDT would have woken up this morning with the realisation that he has a lot to learn about English football. If he didn’t, we’re all in trouble.

I think now is a good time to take stock of where we are. A little bit of honesty needed. We aren’t a good team despite what the table might suggest. We’ve lost 9 league games and it’s only mid November. Good teams don’t do that. Burnley only had to turn up today to win at a canter, - it could have been 5 or 6 - in a Derby game. Thomason was found out to be totally clueless as to how to get a performance in such a game. He was found out to be tactically naive and fielded a team incapable of posing any kind of threat. It also has to be said that while we have a number of talented youngsters at the club, we are pretty close to being a one man team. Stop Brereton and we have almost nothing to offer. Today should mark a big wake up call. We are lacking in a lot of areas. Thomason has a lot to learn.

Could have been 5-0.

Clueless and embarrassing. Couldn’t have got it more wrong.

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Looking at that forecast, there won’t be a final.

Terrific performance from England. Absolutely tremendous. At no point was it a thrash. It was controlled and calculated. Aggressive cricket at its best. One more time on Sunday please.