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Not sure why we needed to go through that to learn anything, hard way or otherwise. I seem to remember most of us on here desperately hoping for a CB as we were so short on cover, and knew Lenihan was both injury and suspension prone. If that's a lesson anybody at the club needed to learn they're in the wrong job. It was obvious long before the Brentford game and our CB shortage came to the surprise of nobody with a brain.

Same old swings in form with TM. We all know it won't be long before we're leaking like a sieve and dropping back down the table. It'll be exactly when we have a chance to get in the top six. Might as well enjoy this while we can because it ain't gonna last. Anyway, doom posting aside always nice to get a win and clean sheet, even if the game was the usual turgid Rovers affair. Kaminski is the best pound for pound signing we've made in a long time. If only the fabled European scouting network could source us a good, cheap left back.

Also won damages from Kean back in 2013 and had the club publicly apologise to him, so I think he had his last laugh as far as we are concerned some time ago.

Lambert has done plenty of things in the last year or so which haven't been great for the image of the club. He's even aimed a few barbs at Evans himself. I don't see the newspaper piece doing much. Evans did an interview a couple of months back where he took a veiled dig at the fans with the old "be careful with what you wish for" line - going on to suggest that he shouldn't have caved to fan pressure to sack McCarthy. Remember that Lambo only got handed a new 5 year contract a year ago, despite doing a pretty poor job at the time, so there's obviously something there that Evans likes. He sees Lambert as a long term project, although if they miss out on the playoffs by a wide margin again this season I think he may be left with little choice but to admit defeat and make a change.

I don't think I'll pick up a PS5 until PSVR2 comes out, and by that point there should definitely be stock! In the meantime I've still got a ton of games on PS4 to play, so I'm in no rush.

Lambert has been attacking the media for a couple of months now, going so far as to ban one journalist from the TWTD forum from attending press conferences. So, not a surprise to me that they are snapping back at him. Not sure this will make much of a difference as far as Evans is concerned though.

If it was the other way around we'd all be spitting fire and fuming that it wasn't a red. We were lucky to get away with it today. Warnock's reaction was OTT for sure though. He admitted in his post match interview that he didn't think Branthwaite meant it, and don't tell me he's never managed a player - especially a younger player - who made a reckless challenge. No need to go at Branthwaite like that at the end.

With the right diet and training regimen he can absolutely bulk up to be competitive in professional football. If we were talking rugby or American Football I'd say yeah, he's probably not cut out for those sports at a professional level. As it is he doesn't need to end up looking like Hulk Hogan, just needs to seriously improve his core strength. He can look to Brereton as an example - the lad looked similarly weak last season but has obviously worked in his strength in the summer and looks much better prepared this season.

Not the first time he's looked completely lost out there. Today will have dented his confidence for sure, but we'll see the measure of him as a player in how he reacts to this. Mowbray and the coaching staff really need to look at what is best for Buckley long-term - whether that means going out on loan or bulking him up a bit to contend with Championship football. We're not talking about a real youngster here either - he's 21, so only has a couple of years realistically to get these issues sorted. Otherwise I think he'll end up dropping down the leagues.

It would be nice for us to play 4-3-3 well, but the reality is that formation only works if a manager has a firm grasp of the defensive side of the game. Despite being a defender Mowbray has proven time and time again that as a manager he simply doesn't and I don't think ever will. To go anywhere under TM we will unfortunately need to grind out results using a fairly attritional setup. It won't solve our defensive problems but it'll make us a little harder to score against. It is not a good use of the talent available though, so I would advocate a new manager with fresh ideas before sticking with TM reverting to attritional football - because let's face it, we'll still finish mid-table.

I'm sure none of his players have ever committed a dangerous foul. He should be angrier at his own players for being unable to score against a dire Rovers team for 70 minutes and then totally withdrawing into their shells for the last 26 minutes.

I think it's time to drop the 4-3-3 idea and switch to a style that better suits the likes of Dack. We haven't played well using 4-3-3 for months now, it worked at the very start of the season but has been steadily declining in effectiveness since then.

Terrible first 70 minutes, then came to life after we scored. Boro looked shellshocked and were unable to recover. Obviously massively lucky not to concede a pen at best, play most of the match with ten men at worst. With that said I didn't see anything from Boro to suggest they'll finish any higher than us. We gave them the majority of the game to score and they didn't take it. Need to seriously consider sending Buckley somewhere to develop. Not ready yet. Douglas continues to look like an incredibly poor signing. Arma missed some key chances and spent most of the match isolated. Branthwaite at times looked good but at other times, especially in the first half, looked out of his depth. Par the course for a youngster though so not going to criticise him any more than that - I'll only say he was a lucky boy to still be on the pitch after that big boot. On the plus side it was Lenihan's first solid game in a while. Kaminski was incredible. Nyambe struggled at times but was a key part of our goal. Rothwell and Elliot similar. We still play most of the time like a team with no real identity or direction. I'm like a broken record at this point but get a good manager in and this team could go places. Under Mowbray this WDL overall season pattern won't change. Too much reliance on individual skill digging us out of holes, not enough team coherence.

Dack has done more in a minute than Buckley did the entire time he was on the pitch.

Great time for both to come on, after a sucker punch Boro are struggling to recover from. I'd say Buckeroo coming off has helped us a lot as well.

Boro haven't half collapsed since we scored. Knocked the stuffing right out of them. Suddenly we're looking like the team we were at the start of the season.

Should be forced to watch us week in week out for the rest of the season. Am sure they'd change their tune fast enough.

BBC suggesting Elliot wasn't happy at being subbed.

As I said at HT, because the league has a massive amount of poor teams in it. If Boro were anything special, as Mowbray claimed, they'd be out of sight by now. As it is they've missed chance after chance (combined with Kaminski having a stormer and the ref and his assistants either being blind or unaware a boot to the face is a foul) and been punished for it.

Imagine we'd loaned Walton in for another season? Probably be battling it out in the relegation spots right about now.

I don't think Mowbray has "lost" the dressing room in terms of the players disliking him, but I do think most if not all of the players are losing or have lost belief in what Tony is asking them to do. We aren't getting thrashed in any matches so there is obviously some effort there, but without the belief to go with that it translates to the disjointed mess we are now witnessing match after match. I think it was @Gavlar Somerset Rover! who said this doesn't feel like one of the normal 'death spirals' and each match makes me think that more and more. This feels like the end of a manager's time at a club, except in our case 'the end' normally comes months after it becomes obvious things aren't working.

He really does need a loan out somewhere he can play regular first team football and work out how to influence and be properly involved in games. He looks like a boy lost playing a man's game the vast majority of the time he's with us. We've seen glimpses of his talent but it's not much good if he only shows it once or twice in a match,

Wait until SG is brought on to play right winger again.

It's baffling that we are still the Championship's leading scorers. Those early thrashings really boosted those stats, although it's also given non-Rovers fans the false belief that we're an attacking team scoring for fun.

Yeah. Is he going to bring it up with Mowbray post-match or just tweet about it?