I will be there again. I changed my work schedule at Christmas thinking promotion. There’s one born every minute.Positives the ground is only 15 mins walk from the station unlike Coventry which was in another town. Wetherspoons is 5 mins from the station cheap beer. Negatives I fear 90 minutes of absolute tedium. Result 1v1. One down half time. Equaliser in first 15 of second half. Strange substitutions after this. Sit back and see it out Mowbray good point at a difficult place. Doesn’t want to listen to doom mongers.

Pickering had a poor game but from the outset he was targeted by Critchley because he lacks pace. This went on throughout the game and Mowbray did nothing to address it. It needed dealing with and it wasn’t and gave Pickering a 90 minute nightmare.

On the Rothwell point I think what he is producing now is more typical of his time at Rovers than earlier in the season. He as always been very frustrating having a lot of ability but let down by application.

My choice Rooney. He has proved to be a great motivator and a tactician without money or stability. I never thought I would use any of the above to describe him but he could just be a good manager

My wife who to be fair has been to quite a few games when my son can’t make it made these to comments. It’s like watching the same game everytime. In the second half I caught her yawning. I asked her if she was bored. She answered this could put a glass eye to sleep. I think basically what she was saying is that We repeat the same formation and tactics over and over again. We lack any sense of urgency and she is correct it’s mind numbing. Is it 2 wins in 13. To avoid the play offs it needed relegation form and as if by magic Mowbray has delivered the post Christmas disaster. Average form was the play offs even without recruitment. He or us need to look at why this happens because it’s to consistent to be an anomaly.

Rooney

I want Mowbray out but I’m starting to realise that we are just a bunch of journey men.Journey men can make it with clear leadership see Nathan Jones but we don’t have that. I can’t wait to get to Coventry I’ve heard it’s beautiful in spring

Correct absolutely spot for on. Every season Mowbray starts with a plan. It works up until Christmas then teams work us out but we don’t change the plan. In reality this is no different than every other season we just forgot the second half of the film and got our hopes up believing that it may end differently

I’ve not read any preceding observations because as usual I’ve been to depressed so if anyone else as said this I apologise. Watching the games at the moment are like watching the same game over and over again. Rothwell man marked unable to get into the game and dictate it. This leaves us slow and predictable.Travis trying to do his job and create. Gallagher control with his back to goal is poor. Teams defending deep and limiting our chances coupled with an inability to take the clear openings we get. The squad lacks a plan b which in my opinion should have been the big old target man. Lump it up to him bring it down an lay it off to the runners. Unfortunately we don’t have that. It is difficult to see how the cycle is broken. Opposing teams have learnt how to deal with us and we are slow to learn how to overcome the two banks of 4 you can have the ball. Hopefully Dack and Diaz can save us and positively we are still in the mix

They did. It was known as our annual fight against promotion

I watched Gallagher last night and he does run around a lot. He’s quick to get to the opposition player with the ball but at the point of impact slows down. The result is he never gets in a tackle and the player lays the ball off. Dolan is the exact opposite he runs to get the tackle in and therefore robs the ball from the defender. Gallaghers first touch is poor. His anticipation is also poor the result is always a split second late or rocking back on his heels. In all honesty I’m not sure what the answer is because it’s not effort it’s football intelligence that appears to be missing

Not a great result or performance but I still think we have enough for the play offs. Lacked firepower but with Diaz Rothwell and Dack out it was always going to be uphill. Fulham is a funny old ground with very civilised support. Easily the best team in the league but will be straight back down because that style of play from the back football will get picked apart a division higher. Now is when the real test of our credentials comes not many challengers left to play and lots of mid tablers. COYB

That is a disgrace. I’m sat here and it’s sunshine. Maybe he’s afraid they may get sunburned

Praise the Lord. Game off and I was on bedroom painting duty. That was a narrow escape

Less if they put their back into it

Nothing wrong with that. Old days consider a good pitch. Jumpers for goalposts etc

I hope not it’s took me 90 mins to Bolton station from Adlington and I’m on the train to blackburn. If the pitch is not frozen sweep it for gods sake. It’s not as though it’s turned into the artic circle

I wouldn’t want an Armstrong return. Diaz back out wide and Armstrong playing for himself and shooting on sight.

Sorry Sparks I’m a bit tense tonight. I feel personally shafted by his action so I’m swinging wildly

No it’s not business. This is about individual decisions making

Even more than that I couldn’t look them in the face knowing what I’d done for money. Loyalty had a price. If we where mid table it means nothing £52000 I would do it for millions because I like to feel proud o FC myself

And if he walked into my dressing room tomorrow on that premise after letting down his own team mates to help the rival I know what I would think of him. I know the answer footballers think differently because there special

Is money everything. How empty are you. If I had £200 a week yes I would because it provides for my families needs. If I was on £10000 per week I have a choice. I am always at a loss by men who would sell themselves for money. Particularly when they have more thanthey will ever need. If you really believe that the definition of success is defined by money and that every individual can be bought by it then you really don’t appreciate that there are much more important things that define an individual than pounds. I don’t know Rothwell so can’t answer for him individually but if his search is for money at the expensive of the less quantifiable moral characteristics then he will eventually find its an empty chase Finally before you come back with the club would not be loyal argument you make your own decision on what you want to be not on what others would do.

The fortunate thing is this team is not built on individuals but team character. The loss of one will make no difference to the whole.

The road sweeper is on a couple of hundred quid where money is the difference between food on the table or not.yes I and everyone else would take it. More so his entire shift would applaud it. Let me try again this guy is on a fortune by not only road sweeper standards but the average guy in the street. This buys him choice the opportunity to express the man he is not the man he would like to be. I am at a complete and utter loss at this individual’s moral compass. If it’s about a few extra quid in the bank for four months before he can choose where he goes then it’s unexplainable. I can only assume that as an individual he is hated by the entire dressing room and wants a change to be more popular. I cannot find a single excuse for this including yours above. Absolutely unexplainable and more if I was a guy in the Bournemouth changing room I’d have a very low opinion of him because I bet they don’t get it