Hasta

Again, it’s tit for tat as Blackpool reduced Preston’s allocation at Bloomfield for 2 years. I think Blackpool started this one.

Spicy local derby. Big away following. Good chance anyone who really wants tickets will definitely get one. What's not to love. 😉

I think it will get to open sale with being on Sky, but you never know. I do think though that the minute it hits open sale it will sell as there will be loads of groups wanting to go to this.

2 minutes 40 seconds of young and physically small Adam failing to sparkle against Championship animals. https://youtu.be/pGH0TBjJrBg

He's not very good, although if he had to stand in for 1 game it wouldn't worry me that much compared to Mola. The first half performance by Mola against Notts Forest made Edun look like Maldini.

On open sale as of this morning.

If he’d come through our academy, or we’d brought him in from a lower league club, you’d have said he had had an ok season for a 20 year old, and he will probably be an OK Championship midfielder. The problem is he’s played far more this season than he would have done in the above scenarios and he’s looked worse the longer the season has gone on. He had finally been taken out of the firing line but then Buckley got injured. The question is is Garrett any better? We haven’t seen him start since that mauling at Rotherham, and I’m guessing JDT thinks no he isn’t at the moment.

Relevant Good Friday fixtures: Millwall v Luton (Sky 12.30) Rotherham V West Brom (West Brom are just still in it) QPR V Preston (As we’ve got to play Preston, we don’t want them getting too close) Swansea V Coventry Also if Burnley beat Boro they are officially up unless Luton win.

When the full game is up on rovers website I’ll find the two balls which were played in that frustrated me. One went across goal and one was cut out by the keeper centrally when a striker running across him would have got in at the near post. On both occasions Gallagher was on his heels. It’s not the quality of the balls, it’s the movement. As I said, it’s no coincidence that Dack had two chances from within 12 yards and he had only been on the pitch for 10 minutes. Gallagher just doesn’t have that instinct. You are right on the second point. If we are to play Gally, we need somebody else to get in the box and help him out, and that’s why I said I’d play Dack instead of Szmodics. Very harsh on Szmodics but it’s difficult but unless you play Brereton up top (which we won’t), then I think you’ve got to add the threat of Dack. Id love us to try Brereton up front with Dolan and Thomas wide and Szmodics behind, but I just don’t think he will.

The ball often goes in the box but he’s nowhere near it. We crossed a few in yesterday that either went across and our, or the keeper claimed it, and Gally was never closer than a few feet. Getting the ball in the box wasn’t the problem, getting on the end of it was until Dack finally got on the pitch. JDT needs to be brave now and not just take the easy option of following the status quo, as I really can see us blowing this.

The more we watch him, the more we see how much the O’Brien cock up has potentially cost us.

No connection to your point. I just looked it up from yesterday and was suprised to see it was still a bubble as it had previously been relaxed.

That game yesterday was still a full-on bubble game.

And if the shot that got slightly deflected and the jutkiewicz shot had gone in first half we would have been 3-0 down. Other than the Hedges shot, we had no real chances until the last 5 minutes once Brereton and Dack had come on. The last 10 minutes of that game are clouding people judgement. We got what we deserved, and if we play like that for the rest of the season, with that lack of midfield tenacity or cutting edge, we will fail.

Lets me have £340 on Skybet. Only £120 available on BF.

11/10 Skybet. Fill your boots pal.

That but I’d drop Szmodics for Dack. Harsh on the lad, but as Gallagher can’t score we need to increase goal threat.

Not to their fans, but it’s hardly attractive viewing for the rest of us. “Ooh, which team might get into the Europa conference league.” I’ve sat down, put the tv on, seen what game it is and turned it back off. Other than either of those teams playing Fulham, I couldn’t think of a more drab fixture with the league as it currently stands.

It’s not down to luck.

I do worry about bottle from here on in. We know Gally and Brereton have been part of sides that have faded. Attacking-wise, we need Szmodics and Thomas to keep up the form they have showed over the last few months. Both were poor today. We will find out a lot about character over the next fortnight in games we should perform well in.

As much as I want to say “oh fuck off Sparks”, he was actually excellent in the first half I watched against Blackpool today.

Exciting Premier League season. 9 clubs in relegation danger. A genuine title race. Man U, Spuds and Newcastle battling for 2 CL places. Brentford and Brighton above Liverpool chasing Europe. And yet we’ve got Chelsea V Villa on Sky this evening. It’s possibly the only fixture possible in the entire Premier League that’s a dead rubber. 🙄🙄

Agree on the CF, and thus the Dack issue raises its head again. We put numerous low crosses in that either went to the keeper or got cut out . Gallagher is nowhere near them. Dack comes on and makes 1 good run and has a shot in the box, then ends up with another chance reacting to a rebound. Other than Dack, there is a serious lack of striking instinct in this squad.

I thought we were second best first half clearly. They had far better chances. In the second half I can only recall the Hedges shot until the last 10 minutes. We then had two chances late on, the Dack effort, and the Travis / Dack effort, and put some pressure on later, but generally I thought they clearly deserved it. They just won most battles in midfield. Every little scramble or melee they seemed to come away with.

We got exactly what we deserved. We were second best both halves.