Yep. I do love a bite where Mercer is concerned!

When has any match in the past 9 years been 'a home banker' or 'license to print money' where Rovers victories are concerned?!

Have a funny feeling Lambert’s going to ‘do us’ on Saturday. Our players were out on their feet last night and this bug won’t have helped. They’re scrapping for their lives and I think that will make the difference in a 2-1 win.

I blame Mercer and his ‘license to print money’ kiss of death. Come on, Merce - get predicting a defeat for Saturday.

Been playing ‘ill’ for some time! IF TM was somehow promised full funds I’d look to cash in while the going was good for him. The cash part to TM won’t happen though so...

Simply not good enough. I’m just hoping (and praying) that it’s largely a confidence issue, but I’m not so sure.

I’m quite concerned by Tony’s relaxed attitude towards us not bringing anyone in - you can only hope it’s different behind the scenes. We could do with 2 full backs, a CB as seemingly Downing is off and we simply can’t be reliant on Mulgrew/Rodwell to stay fit. We also need 2 wingers for me and potentially still a Graham foil (dependant on TM’s faith in Nuttall). We can’t be leaving it all til the summer - there’s still a heck of a lot of points to play for and we’re simply playing too many out of position.

Dack just isn’t at the races tonight. His bird needs to get some Lemsip down him for Saturday. Very unlucky to be behind here but we’ve still been very poor defensively. Need some bodies back for Saturday or I can see us losing that.

4th was onside. Horrendous defending. Game over.

Yep - Conway has been horrid since coming on. His crossing which was his biggest strength seems to be way off.

Absolute bloody howler from Raya. And he’s offside.

That little clip there on BT sport of TM hammering tactics at Rothwell shows why he’s not trusting him. Looking forward to seeing him run at a tired Geordie defence.

Nuttall at least has a bit of technique and makes life uncomfortable for defenders.

Sub wise I think I’d get the big Canadian on for Raya. Raya never gets near to penalties.

That ain’t good news if Reed is out for any spell at all.

Brereton needs shipping out to a League One club or have a spell with our under 23s. He ain’t up to it at the moment.

Lascelles on. He’s a beast in the air so will need to be watched closely.

First decent thing he did all match. He’s best off up there out of harms way!

Get in big Darragh!!! They are here for the taking if we sort our formation out and get Brereton/Bell off. COYB!

Brereton cannot even control the ball. This is bad, folks.

Simply have to get Bell and Brereton off.

Good goal. Sort this fecking formation out and get back in it. They’re just as bad as we are. I’d get Grayson on for Bell and Rothwell on for Brereton and go: Raya Nyambe Grayson Lenihan Bennett Smallwood Travis Reed Rothwell Armstrong Graham

And then got skinned twice by Murphy. He needs dragging off. Edit: I’m mixing up poor Amari’i with Nyambe here.

Is there a reason why Reed persists in passing it backwards every bloody time? He did it all match against Millwall too. Pitiful so far all round.

Two FB’s at CB. 2 CM’s at WB. 2 CF’s out wide. TM logic.