The three biggest games of the season (Sheff Utd, Cov, Preston), all fucked by bringing on Wharton and Brittain at a goal up. There's one thing having no striker, but JDT takes 100% of the blame. Tbh I wouldn't shed a tear if he wasn't here in the summer.

This game is too important for excellent but no goals to be the benchmark.

From recollection Morton has taken one half decent set piece all season. Is it another thing he is contractually obliged to do?

I disagree, we literally just got goal of the month for a superb counter attacking goal. We are great on the counter attack, but teams know that and let us have the ball that we then proceed to do nothing with.

Yep, GB and his "recruitment team" will be the main reason we don't reach the play-offs (if we don't) and it's a joke that he can sit there and be so calm about it all.

I don't see it. I think they desperately wanted to win it at Ewood and they are far more likely to turn up. On today's game, that team looks incredibly short of goals. This could easily become one of the worst weeks in the club's recent memory.

2-0 Coventry. We never show up when it matters.

Great comeback, and resonable performance but not enough. We needed 3 points from that game and I doubt we'll see the top 6 again this season.

Tbh, performances aside, being as we're intent on blowing any reason to try this season we may as well play players who will be here next year. Diaz and Morton shouldn't even be on the bench from here for me.

If you're consistently playing well, not scoring and losing easily... you're not playing well.

But Diaz is worth tens of millions don't you know!

Absolutely pathetic by the club again. There's absolutely zero ambition from top to bottom and then they expect the fans to buy into it. GB has messed up with recruitment, but JDT either doesn't care, or has no ability to change. To lose 17+ games in a season and by in the top 10 is pure luck, that is absolutely pathetic. If you add in the away performances and the absolute inability to show any amount of fight, that screams that the manager isn't good enough. Warnock is showing what a good manager can really do with a bad squad. He's levels above JDT.

He clearly doesn't care about results and it's showing.

No balls in this team. Season is done, only further thrashings v Preston and Burnley to come. I though we'd turned a corner in February but it's clear we're not up to it. Piss poor since Morton came back into the team and JDT doesn't seem to care. Everyone at the club should be embarrassed, we're begging fans to come back and serving up bilge game after game after game.

Yeah, Warnock knows how to get a team up for a game. Venky's blowing him off for Coyle really is one of the dumbest decisions they've made since we went down.

It really is pathetic isn't it? But we've been poor at coming from behind for years, it's definitely a mindset thing that's been ingrained over some time. We badly need some leadership in this team.

Really not a fan of Morton even in the changed formation, as I've seen very little to suggest he's up to it at this level. However, JDT clearly wants to try something new and that's what we need to do because today is absolutely a must win game.

You say that but the more seasons we blow good runs at the play-offs the more likely it will never happen. The money gap between the PL and Championship is far too large now and I'd say we were much more likely to drop to League 1 and stay there then they are to drop to the Championship and stay there for any prolonged period of time. I can't see anything other than a 4 or 5 goal defeat at Ewood, our lot have proven they have no bottle in big games and with the psychological blow of (by then) blowing another play-off run they won't be up for it.

I love how we have this cycle where the club complain no one turns up, and then the second anyone does turn up we don't even try. Literally every time. On another note, hadn't realised we were on a negative goal difference either. We shouldn't be anywhere near 6th in all honesty.

And there it is. Not a chance we're staying in the play-offs. We've been gash since Morton came back in for Buckley.

Other results may do but letting Norwich close this gap will probably be enough for us to drop out by the end of the season. A draw is the absolute minimum we need from this game.

He didn't need to go ultra defensive did he?

Waiting for the tram back to my car. What a sickener. We were all over them and creating chance after chance, and the second I saw those subs I knew what was coming. Adam Wharton and Dolan should have come on to keep the press going, and instead we sit back and throw the game. It's this kind of decision making that leaves tactical questions at JDT's door. Also send Morton back to Liverpool. I don't want to see him in blue and white again.

Massive! 3 points is all that matters at this point in the season no matter how we grind them out. Onto Sunday and hopefully a memorable day out!

Huge goal! Just need to hold on now lads!