DavidMailsTightPerm

A player is only worth what someone is willing to pay - I personally wouldn't have wanted to deny Szmodics his shot at the Premiership. Last season was either a flash in the pan - or a late blooming in his career - either way a gamble for any buying club - which probably explains why we didn't have a deluge of offers despite last seasons goal tally. No fan of Waggott - but he has been left with a weak hand - some of it his fault (and the owners), but also it is important that we aren't seen as blocking a player from his dream move.

Don't dispute we need a new keeper - but not certain what he did wrong tonight

Or that we have made numerous enquires - prudent to have a back up plan.

Boom or bust for me this season. New guys are an unknown quantity - are they the next Szmodics or the next Telalovic ? Only time will tell.

Do you not think they are sticking plasters until Wharton is fit again ?

A bit like all our transfers - up in the air

Shocked if we are part exchanging a Pepperami - far too valuable for the canteen and odd snack.

But I think it puts them in context. Even the so called weaker nations can defend well enough to keep out the so called favourites. England beware - Switzerland are the one that can, not only defend well, but have some talent and pace up front (that the likes of Slovenia don't have)

IMO Wharton is the missing piece of the jigsaw - somebody that will encourage better ball retention and passing accuracy. Kane is I believe for England, what Rhodes was for Rovers. Lacks outright pace so teams can play a high line against us. Kane"s goal scoring record is unbelievable - but over the last few years I struggle to think of goals that weren't penalties or relative tap ins. To make Kane effective the two wide players have to push up far more than they have been doing to give us that pace up top.

Wharton chances of playing in Euros have been improved by not playing tonight.

100% pass success ? I didn't see him misplace a single pass.

The biggest difference unfortunately has been our goalkeepers, especially Leo. I hate to single out a player - but his errors combined with the uncertainty it caused in the defence started a demise that led to us only just avoiding relegation.

It's a balancing act - but was it 3 at the back or 5 ? There are possibly things I would personally have done differently - but though not enough, that point could be priceless come next Saturday. We had enough chances to win the match - having 3,4 or 5 at the back doesn't change the fact that we have limited goal scorers across the team.

Strange thing - though Kaminski was better than what we have now - he wouldn't be in my top 10 keepers from my time watching Rovers (goes back to Howard Kendall era) - just shows how far we have dropped in the quality of our keepers.

If we are trying to position ourselves as a development club for promising youngsters - we can't put too many blockers on players leaving providing our price is met. Where it all fell down is recruitment - we spent what was big money for us on Kaminski's replacement - showing a reasonable profit overall - how the deficiencies in Leo's game wasn't picked up is down to the scouting (unless he is struggling to settle in this country and ends up a world beater - we can but hope)

It will be the worst couple of keepers I have ever known at Rovers in over 40 years, that will send us down. I appreciate without him we would already be relegated - but today Smodics gave away the ball that directly led to a goal and also missed a good chance to make it 2-2. I can't same I am optimistic, but I wouldn't be in the slightest surprised to see us beat Coventry next week.

It was the spin that took it away from him. Bloody awful keeping though

I have no words

Given his age and ongoing commitment, I wouldn't begrudge him a Premiership move if it materialises. Not certain where it would leave Rovers - as we would have been relegated without him.

Don't know what has happened to the player from last season. Possibly we start calling him Hyam-Diaz and he will rediscover his mojo.

Though the performance obviously wasn't great - we were very much undone by Bristols best attacker Hyam. The way teams set up in the Championship it is difficult to come back from 1 goal, let alone 2. You also have to look at respective squad depth - they brought on 3 attackers - we struggle to start with 3 attackers. TBH until Hyam intervened I thought the match had become fairly even - with them having some early chances and then us getting a foot hold and creating chances of our own. After going 2 goals down - they defended in depth and just let us huff and puff. Without Hyam's nightmare - not certain how the match would have panned out. TBH we created their best chances. What really p@#£ed me off was the 5th - seeing their player run through unchallenged - while in the background Hyam jogged backed. For me summed up his match.

I don't know why - but think we will get something today.

Three reasons we may get relegated: Goalkeeping Refereeing Paperwork

No way was Smozdics blocking keepers view - the ball went off their defender.

It would be another draw 😁