When he hit the pass the Blackpool fans jeered like it was a crap ball, too high/hard and was going out of play. It then holds up a bit and Thomas brought it down on the touchline perfectly. Watch the Sky Sports highlights and you can hear the Blackpool jeers as he plays the ball out wide.

After years of any long ball into our box causing panic, it’s good to now have 4 centre halves who are all adept and dealing with the basics. And we now appear to have 3 full backs, 1 who is able to play left or right. I enjoyed last night from the 30 minute mark onwards. Great finish from Dolan whose decision-making in the second half only cost him MOTM to Brittain. The only negative is Blackpool looked truly awful. Not only was their general technical play shocking, but so was their inability to get close to us in possession. We were stroking the ball around at the back like vintage Barcelona in the second half. The number of times we could play the ball into midfield and turn in yards of space was alarming for them. Contrast that to Swansea, who until they tired every time we got the ball in midfield were nudging, pressing and harassing us.

Hari Kari incoming

Yep. We've been pretty dull and slow as ever but they've been shocking that half. Worst team we've seen down here by a mile so far

Pears Brittain Carter Hyam Pickering Travis Buckley Thomas Own Goal Dolan Ayala

I like Dolan but when you watch him enough though, you actually realise he's not very quick. There was a chance on Saturday to break near the end and yet the defender got back at him. He looks like he's fast, but actually isn't.

Just noticed only 4 teams have scored more goals than Swansea in the Championship this season. Likewise only 4 have conceded more.

It’s a decent point only if you accept Wigan was a shocking result. (sorry, didn’t scroll down 1 more message to read the next post)

He probably left on 88 mins to beat the traffic.

Well that worked. Get in. 😀

Dangerous free kick to Rovers. Which of our set piece wonders hits the wall with this I wonder?

I would bring a bucket on for Morton.

Morton showing he is ‘further along in his development’.

Fucking around at the back again. Fuck off JDT.

We have been spoilt by Charlie and MGP over the years.

It’s still probably going to take about 70+ points for the top 6 even in this strange season. That means we need 7 or 8 wins from 16 games. I just can’t see us getting anywhere near that.

Well, Thomas played his part in setting it up along with Brereton, Pickering, Dolan and chiefly JRC. But I would hardly say he 'set it up'. Would definitely start for me though.

People talking about why our other strikers don't get chances. Watch the Rovers goal again and it's classic Dack. As JRC receives the ball and turns Dack is tightly covered by one defender with another one close by. Everyone watches JRC as he's clearly going to shoot. Dack isn't watching, he's backpedaling quickly into open space. It's simple but is the reason why he gets chances in the box and Vale / Gallagher don't.

If you watch the 15 minutes highlights shown on Sky Sports (the tv, not the website) its shown on there. Its a foul.

@longsiders1882 So who was worse. Rovers or Preston?

I thought it was soft but a bit stupid by Gallagher. He just lent into him with his arm. Allowed him to go down.

Good point and decent performance in isolation. Watford were on top when they scored. We then changed it removing Dack and Brereton which, for once, helped us get back into the game, albeit removing any goal threat. Just another game that reminds us that, outside of the top 2, this league is very ordinary all the way through.

Did you know JRC stands for Joe Roberto Carlos ?

As far as I am aware the Rochdale move was permanent with him coming to Rovers immediately.

It's clearly covered by the unexpected income the cup run has generated. Regardless, it's still a nice touch by the club.