Without wanting to bang on about it, I see Marriott is now banging them in, said at the time he and Edwards should’ve been brought in. Would’ve made a lot more sense than this deal. Marriott would’ve been a great dg 2

It wouldn’t, we would try and defend a 1-0 defeat

With defence down to absolute bare bones, was wondering if we would be able to get Steven caulker - free agent- in for some cover

Bowyer was sh I te

If lenihan is out Saturday I’d bring Williams in centre half and play Rodwell, Evans and Reid in middle to make us compact. 3 up top to hit on the counter, dack, Armstrong and graham. Think last night was a reality check for a few who maybe got carried away after Leeds, I reckon we are a hard working mid table team, which at the start of the season is all we could’ve hoped/asked for. We don’t control games enough, create enough open play chances or defend leads well enough to be considered a promotion contender. There is always times in games we are heavily under the cosh and makes for uncomfortable viewing, especially as we are rarely involved in games where we have 2-3 goal leads. Very much a work in progress, bit more quality needed to squad, centre halves, skilful wingers/mids and a replacement/co striker needed for graham. Somebody we can be confident in for hitting double figures for goals- it ain’t Brereton at this stage. Iv rarely seen him have a shot or come close to scoring. Desperate for him to come good but it’s just not happening for him at the moment, everything is just a bit off. Fitness, ball control, passing, impact

We lost it when swans changed their mids and Fulton and fer dominated out two, pretty simple really. Think it’s fairly obvious mowbray was wrong with subs, we needed more physical in there which is why I’d have brought Palmer on but I think it’s obvious the reason he hasn’t been playing has been because of his defensive side and work rate to get back. Wouldn’t be surprised if he left January due to lack of game time. We were too open for them, contrary to how we usually set up on a lead, which is actually what was needed for once away from home and hit them on a fast break. For that reason I’d have changed the graham sub to Palmer, put dack out wide on the left and Armstrong up top to utilise his pace. dacks a victim of his own success but he hasn’t been at it for a good few games now. dont get the Bennett hate, thought he was alright other than being caught out of position trying to get the equaliser and conceding the third. Few of our players made rash challenges, another day and we would see red, Mulgrew for one. Brereton needs a run from the start up top, he can’t play wide and isn’t an impact sub. I also don’t know if he can play up on his own, but if he can’t he shouldn’t be signed as that’s what we play. Seen bell also criticised, thought he had a good game and won the pen. I really just wish mowbray would make signings and play folk in their normal position, but sick of this striker out wide experiment . I’d have taken 3 points from the double header of Leeds, swans. Not expecting anything from sat either, anything is a bonus but needs picking up again after that

I’m not too disheartened losing to Swansea other than we were leading and looking comfortable. Some points iv picked up on tonight, dack and Armstrong seem to get a hell of a lot of shots blocked, need to get it away quicker or create more of an opening as it just loses the ball. Brereton needs to sharpen up passing, on sat he would’ve put dack through with a better ball and there he lost ball by passing it into trouble. Smallwood for me is still the weak link in the midfield

Damnit, looked avoidable

I’d really like to see rothwell with a run in the middle, get Smallwood to feck

Painful this

Armstrong deserves a goal today

Bennet has been fantastic too

Don’t get the bell hate, I prefer him to Williams. Reed is a quality little player, would love if we could make this perm. Evans Rudy. Smallwood the odd man out for me, looks every bit the lg 1 player I thought he was. Armstrong improving game on game

Decent start, one thing tho, why does raya lump it towards Armstrong? Never going to win an aerial battle

Didn’t say we couldn’t be shit but Bolton’s squad is horrible. Our squad is full of potential

Bolton are the worst team iv seen in this league, full of has beens, never has beens and never will beens. I just wish we had changed to that defensive approach when we were 2 up instead of trying to hold the one goal lead. I wasn’t impressed at all with our performance, think we are a lot better than that and sadly didn’t show it on the sky cameras

Think the stat is more to with the fact we were never leading at ht

We as rovers fans are very fickle, when we got relegated I totally feared the worst for my club, but now feel entitled to criticise when we beat Bolton in the championship to go joint 6th. However am going to criticise anyway haha. The centre back situation should’ve been addressed in the summer, I’d have taken a 3.5 solid centre back and a 3.5 striker as opposed to Brereton who I haven’t been impressed with whatsoever so far. Asking graham to play 90 mins all season is a recipe for disaster. Armstrong doesn’t look like he is going to be physical enough to be a decent champ player sadly, he has never shown it. I can see him being a league 1 legend but not champ success. Lenihan cam look solid for 85 mins then a completed bombscare and over physical for the other 5, I fear a pen more from him than Hanley which is saying something. Palmer looks like he has a bit of skill about him but so lazy and slack at times, mowbray pulls his hair out with him so it’s surprising he signed him. Dont want to be completely negative so dack is my favourite rover in many a year although he needs to learn how to be effective when closely marked. I’m quite happy with Rodwell and see a player in there, looks like he want to knuckle down here to me. reed is excellent and if we have any money left over he would be my first signing, love his energy rothwell is a player, he glides over the park and can ping a pass. If he can develop a killer ball, a shot and a bit more physical attributes he will be a prem player. Joy to watch at times. Glad we took him over Payne.

That’s my point, surely the team could’ve been strengthened with first team regulars rather than one potential good player that doesn’t get on from the bench. It’s a very weird signing

Lowe pinged a few balls straight out of play too, he really is an awful awful footballer

As a side note, I don’t want to keep going on about it but we sign a 7 mill striker and he can’t even get on from the bench. When you look at our recent plight, that’s ridiculous

Our man of the match was the linesman who for once was very good

I’m highly frustrated with this performance even if we see it out

Think we are going through a poor spell. Look a bit devoid of ideas at the minute. Made a poor Bolton team look good

I was going to ask the same about Brereton, this looks a bombscare signing. Billy sharp showing exactly the type of striker we need for this league not this prima Donna