I would give it Dack. He's our best, most important, most consistent player and probably the only player who is undroppable. Look at the impact on Jack Grealish at Villa of a manager thinking outside the box and imparting extra responsibility on their best player. Could've been a master stroke. But all irrelevant now cos Tony will never change his mind.

The manager should be rightfully called out for today's result. His relentless picking of the wrong team and poor man managing of certain individuals is so frustrating. His decision to not start Rothwell is unforgivable. Our standout performer from the last few games when our form picked up and he's sat on the bench for 70 mins. then bemoans our lack of a clinical cutting edge. Putting Downing on the right, Armstrong on the left. Strange. Benching our player of the season. Not bringing Brereton on when he's finally got some confidence. Persisting with his favourite Bennett over clearly a better defender, Nyambe. Replacing Raya with a keeper no better. Not signing a defender and then the one he does sign isn't ready and probably isn't ready to join the group on the grass for a few weeks. Even if he signs any this week, when wlll we see them? Probably need a few weeks of training. To get up to speed. It is infuriatingly incompetent when you see the dynamism of other managers in this division. And we are stuck with the same old same old sticking by certain players who took us down three seasons ago. It needs to change. But we could be stuck with very few points after five games. Maybe then the penny might drop. Play Rothwell Tony. It is the kind of shocking decision that Kean and Coyle would have been rightly ridiculed for. In Kean's case we would Ben more suspicious of such a strange non selection.