Hasta

The farcical policing situation doesn't help. I've spoken to 2 people already since Saturdays game who said they might go to the Leeds game, but when told it was 12pm kick off and on Sky's red button said they wouldn't bother.

They didn't. They gave it to a Bolton player.

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/11034440.vote-who-are-bolton-wanderers-biggest-local-rivals/ I know a few and they all class us as their big local rival. Plus go and ask someone from Bolton if they are a Manc or a Lancastrian and see what reply you get.

Bolton is obviously sly a local derby but I don't class them as a local rival. I don't like losing any game but I particularly don't like losing the Burnley or Preston games. Bolton is like losing to Oldham or Stoke. Wigan fall in the same category although with some of their current staff and with last season it would be good to get one over on them.

I disagree Chaddy. Going 3 at the back didn't work really well. It stifled us going forward so much that we hardly got out of our own half. The 3 men at the back may have helped keep the clean sheet due to sheer numbers at the back, but we still got dominated in the air. The 'penalty' came from a knock down, they had another offside given against them in injury time after they had knocked it down, Wheater got his head on 2 corners, they won the vast majority headers and flick ons from the long balls from the back. We will get dominated in the air regardless of system until we're get alternative personnel at the back. All I've ever seen 3 at the back do for Rovers in the last 18 months is disrupt out attacking influence.

Positives:- 3 points. A great first 20 minutes Raya Rodwell Clean sheet Linesman Negatives:- 3 at the back. Our performance when DG is off his game. Getting caught in possession and giving the ball away in dangerous positions. Inability to win headers

Arte et Labore

We can't go defensive because they win 2 out of every 3 headers in our box. We have to keep taking the game to them.

If you see the replay of the Dack goal again, just watch J-Lowe. Shocking.

You constantly ignore the fact that it's not our jobs to know players when we have this argument. However, if you listed all of the players who moved clubs for £2million or less over the summer, plus all of the loan signings, plus all of the forwards who were linked with moves, either permanent or loan, in those price brackets then I would gladly point out some signings that may have been better. From what we have seen so far, it can't be difficult to find someone for £2million or less that would have contributed more than what Brereton has so far. However I'll reserve judgement until he has played more minutes in his preferred position but £7million is seeming massively over priced on what we have seen so far and his current professional statistics.

But if we have a crucial league game with a few injuries soon it will probably be Palmer that plays. Therefore I'd rather Palmer got his confidence up / playing competitively regularly. Unless of course we think Butterworth is as good / better in which case I'd play him.

Raya Travis. Rodwell. Williams Bell Rothwell Bennett. Tomlinson Armstrong Palmer Brereton

I'd be surprised if the Darwen coaches were setting off that late. They left at 11.30 to go to Oldham !

I'm in the Czech Republic at the moment and even the main game wasn't playing. I spent about 30 minutes messing around before giving up on it. SkyGo works fine but the app doesn't seem to work over here for Championship games. Similarly, if I try and view the highlights of any previous Championship games it says not allowed in this location. Other vids such as post match interviews work though.

I couldnt get the Skysports App to stream the game either. I ended up eventually on some stream of Ill-repute.

There's a still on twitter I saw on Saturday night where you can see the wall is too far to their left. It's from right behind the ball and you can just see the outside of the post which should surely be blocked.. Hourihane hit the free kick so well that had we had an extra man on the end, it would have still gone around the wall and in, but had the wall been different it might have changed his mind or execution on what he was going to do. Whether the wall is Raya's fault, or he was ignored, we will never know. I notice that Mowbray blamed the wall a she well in his post match interviews. Anyway that's off topic. Nyambe was excellent again last night.

Only saw the second half and it's amazing how not witnessing the first half changes your opinion. In isolation, the second half was pretty even with both teams having half chances and Rovers coming into it thenlonger it went on. The commitment and effort was outstanding and II thought all the back line looked good, it was the inability of the midfield to hold and keep possession which bothered me. Also, apart from one Smallwood delivery from the right, set pieces were pretty terribly taken. Just on the 2nd half it was a deserved point. However from commentary, comments and stats it looks like I missed such an atrocious first half performance that it slants the view of the whole 90 minutes for those who saw it.

I know SkyGo now works when you are in the EU. Time to find out if the skysports app will work as well !

Well 10 other players turned up week in, week out and the fans decided that's Williams was the best player over the full season. I'd be pretty proud of that if I was him.

He's worth about £900 million but how much of that is available to spend is anyone's guess. I spoke to him a few times about 16 years ago, both professionally and socially. Lots of talk about horses but I don't remember him ever mentioning football once. Most owners in the Champnship seem to have to be prepared to fund a small debt in the hope of getting lucky one season and the riches that come with it. The excessive parachute payments mean the relegated sides have a huge advantage but if it doesn't come off straight away it can also be a bit of a noose once they wear off.

Probably not, and that's a big problem with this league. If Hemmings has put in £73million, and is still funding it at £6million every year, what are the fans expecting him to do?

Did Derek Williams not make more than half of his appearances so far for Rovers in the Championship, the same year he won the player of the season award? ,

Off topic point scoring again.

Are they currently being run at a profit, or are they running at a loss and the fans are expecting the owner to throw more money at it?

To be fair that allowed us to push the wingback further forward which instantly led to a period of pressure which we scored from. I think that was a shrewd tactical switch rather than just getting Williams's on the pitch.