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No attempt to protect his own player. It wouldn’t have been difficult. It would have been the decent thing to do.

Website. Currently 302,000 miles away but moving PDQ. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Sorry - just before 9 pm.

For those interested, it begins its landing tonight just before 8 pm. Fascinating.

5 mill should have bought goals in this league. That would have made a huge difference to our league position. Then add the 7 mill on Brereton and where would/should we have been?

Gallagher might have been better playing central, but he’s still hopeless as a centre forward. He must be one of the worst we’ve ever had - and we’ve had some bad ones. Name me one successful rovers team that has had only one goal scoring striker? I mean, even 10/12 goals from a proper centre forward would have had us up there challenging.

Thank you Alexis.

They’re a good side so we’ll just welly it every time we get the ball? - because from where I was sitting, that’s all we did. This is one day after saying he couldn’t play the short passing game he wanted to play because of Danny Graham.

That busy whingeing, missed our goal.

What positives can he take from this?

Spot on Mercer. If a manager hasn’t got that, he shouldn’t be managing. Would he not want that from his players either?

Labyrinth and Emile Sande - let me see beneath your beautiful.

No they wouldn’t because the pitch deteriorated badly - which is my point.

Maybe you’re right guys. Rohit did bat well for sure. While the wicket was breaking up yesterday, it is disintegrating quickly - it will do once the top has gone. It would have been a worse wicket today for sure, but not that worse to explain the difference between the first innings scores. To have had any chance on this wicket though, England had to bat first. As I said after just half a dozen overs - if India got a big first innings score they would win the test match.

Pitch not fit for 5 day test match. It was breaking up after 6 overs. All about the toss. If India had lost the toss there’s every chance they would have gone 2-0 down. Write this one off, take it on the chin and move to the next test still level.

I can’t really believe they don’t care. Nobody puts in hundreds of millions to anything they don’t need to without at least being interesting. Being so far away and not knowing very much about the football business, they have to rely on others. Since the day they arrived they made the wrong staffing decisions. After Williams and Finn only one CEO - or was it deputy CEO under no actual CEO (can’t remember his name - hunt?) stood up to them and was promptly sacked. They don’t like being told they’re wrong, so nobody tells them they’re wrong.

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Correct ARA. The two centre backs had needlessly been dragged wide leaving their man completely unmarked right in front of goal. Nyambe HAD to come over. If I were Nyambe this morning and had heard Mowbray singling me out for being at fault for the first goal, on TV, when I’d done the right thing I would be blazing. I’m sure he is - along with a few more.

😀 He had no idea he’d been bowled. Awful shot.

This is where the CEO comes into his own and advises the owners as to what needs doing and when. He’s got to point out to them the consequences of doing nothing - to both results and their investment. Anyone at all on this site believe that’s happening?

6 overs in, on day one and the top surface is already breaking up. The toss, won by India is massive. If they get a big score in their first innings it’s going to be very difficult for England. Very early prediction from me - India to level series here.

Gutted. Defensively we were pathetic, soft as sh1t. Preston weren’t great and could have had four at least. Up front we had nothing - could have put crosses in all night with no one capable or good enough to trouble their defenders. Plan B is to change players and keep doing the same thing. Tactically this squad gives us no options.

Keep saying it, we need a centre forward

Check to see if there’s one behind the other goal? Ball boy is my guess.

Rotation @47er. Something like 17 test matches this year and lots of t20/one dayers.