Well, there's the equaliser. It was coming. After a bright start we've practically been begging them to equalise and they have duly delivered.

Huddersfield all over us at the moment. Keystone cops defending. Need to get our heads back in the game as they appear to have gone a little at the back.

Stonewall penalty for them turned down, total clumsiness from Lenihan which we haven't seen in a little while.

I think the formation is more important, 4-4-2 is suiting us a lot better with Gallagher much more in the game alongside Graham than he is out on the right. Huddersfield hit the bar after a mistake from Tosin. Some nervous moments in our defence which fortunately haven't been punished.

Horrible mistake from Travis losing possession in a dangerous area, nearly cost us but a good save from Walton.

Really happy with how we're playing at the moment. Looking bright and alert, playing quick passes. Completely different to the last couple of matches.

We've started off really well. Came close with a Gallagher effort. Lovely chip into the box by Travis there for Graham to nod in unmarked.

Unlikely with Holtby as he did an interview afterwards and there was absolutely no mention of a knock.

Jeez, what were we doing in training between the last match and today? MMA?

Downing is starting at left back by the looks of it.

Is Holtby injured?

If Holtby was the full package he wouldn't have ended up here on a free transfer in fairness. It's obvious he has some natural talent, arguably more than anybody else in the squad, but he's hit and miss when it comes to implementing that. He also appears to have some fitness struggles which mean we probably won't be able to rely on him to regularly appear and contribute as Dack has been over the past couple of years.

Agreed it's far from concluded, just my gut feeling that the current three are really going to struggle to get out of it. I don't think Luton and Barnsley quite have the quality needed to survive, although they both have enough endeavour that they could still catch an underperforming team above them with a bit of luck. Wigan's away record is so utterly poor that they are facing a serious task to stay up imo. A lot of people seemed to be impressed with them after their draw with us, but I was just left feeling that if they couldn't beat us when we were that bad then good luck for the rest of the season as there won't be many teams putting in a more insipid performance than Rovers during that dire 0-0.

It must be a pretty small list of players who have transferred to PL clubs from the lower leagues (having never played in the PL before) 27 years or older though. I believe our own Keef would be on that list as I think he was 27 or 28 at the time? I could see a recently promoted Championship club possibly taking a punt on Dack if he comes back looking decent but that's about it.

This is ultimately a bit of a circular argument as it is Mowbray and his team who select and coach the players on the pitch making poor decisions. The blame lies somewhere in the middle although the reality is that the buck stops with the manager - he's been here long enough now to have created a team that should be able to follow his orders and not make poor judgements that deviate from his instructions. If that is still happening now then the manager should be concerned. With that said we're still in a decent enough position with January approaching, but we need to shake ourselves out of this malaise sharpish or our form will end up swinging in the wrong direction and the pressure will begin to build again.

Smallwood didn't want to leave in the summer because he apparently felt he could challenge for the first team. Hopefully now he sees he is way, way down the pecking order and has a rethink. Although honestly I think best case scenario is that we loan him out for a % of his wage until the summer then release him. Same for Samuel. Bell will probably hang around due to our lack of options at LB. No idea what Hart is on or even what he looks like tbh.

Stoke now out of the bottom three and I suspect the current residents of the relegation zone will be the ones to go down, although Barnsley are looking better under their new boss.

Same old same old. Hopefully we won't be back to waiting another couple of months for the next win.

Did you miss the Charlton, Luton, Barnsley and Wigan matches? It's obvious why people wouldn't be confident about our chances today as we continue to struggle against teams in poor form some way below us in the table.

Happy Christmas all, hopefully Rovers can cap off the festivities by smashing big club on boxing day.

I never thought he was Championship quality, but he seemed to have enough about him to do a job in League 1. I didn't expect he'd end up at a struggling League 2 club. At 22 he still has time to improve but I figured he'd be good enough to do that at Blackpool - seems not!

I don't think we've beat anyone by 3 clear goals this season so sadly unlikely! In fact since Mowbray has been here it's hard to remember many games where we've won by three more than the opponent. We had a couple last year with Wigan and Hull, but both were in the second half of the season and weirdly the Wigan result was sandwiched between that horrendous run where we lost 9 out of 11.

I think we've got quite a job on in the summer assuming we don't get promoted tbh. New keeper needed as Walton is a loan, still needing at least two, maybe even three centre backs with Tosin going back, Mulgrew likely leaving (and not good enough anyway) and Del not being a long time answer even at back up imo. Left back needs addressing urgently if we don't do anything about it in January, we also have decisions to make on the likes of Brereton, Chapman and Rothwell. Graham surely will be gone and before last night I would have said Dack likely going too, but with his injury now who knows. Still going to be a lot to do if we don't do much in January.

We'll realistically need to aim for around 72-75 points, so yeah we need to be slightly better in the second half of the season and avoid any major nosedives in form.

I honestly thought Nuttall would do alright at Blackpool but it doesn't seem to have worked out for him.