I sincerely hope 3,700 go home disappointed. Goodness knows we’ve had plenty of disappointments.

Absolutely. We’ve slipped to 8th; three pts could get us back in playoff places, pending other results. However, I’m afraid our flirtation with promotion has left us for good. Other suitors have left us in the dust, and kicked sand in our face.

I want to be this bold; I was never this optimistic, even during the 6-game win streak

Anything else (for reasons other than injury), and I would assume Mowbray isn’t interested in winning. I really haven’t given the guy a bad time, but it’s getting very hard to defend anything he does anymore.

If we could pull of consecutive wins (Blackpool, @P’boro), this would put us firmly in the race for a playoff spot. Will this happen? Nah. But I will say, 2-1 on Saturday. COYB!

We say this, but I do not believe it, unfortunately.

Crap crap crap

WHARTON!!!

God bless Bradley Dack

Terrible

Take your choice, Dack, Dolan, or B-D off the bench to make it 1-1, salvage an otherwise dreary match.

This is a good point, as we are abysmal scoring pk’s & totally inept on corners.

Yeah, we’ve got a patchwork squad for sure… Tony will resort to square peg/round hole philosophy, & bemoan our lack of success postgame. Heck, he doesn’t even have to think up a new speech, he’s got that one down Pat! 😆

I know I get this game on ESPN+. Well worth the $7.35/Mo I pay, when I figure in all the college sports I can watch. I went to a smaller university (Stephen F. Austin, Nacogdoches, Texas), I can watch most of their football (collegial tackleball, to most of my English friends 😁) & basketball.

I was unaware of Pike’s injury, thanks for the update. We are painfully thin on defense. I picked this 1-1, if we get this result, I won’t complain.

Dan Pike recalled from Fylde. He’s not a natural centre-back, but with our troubles, he might be on the bench this weekend.

Back to the injured list… Can we assume Nyambe, Edun, Deyo, & BB-D will play? I’m not sure if we can assume or infer anything.

I just read “Mowbray’s injury update”… Eight names are on it. Only a couple of them look likely to play. Ayala, warmups with team; Markanday, with physios; Khadra on grass; Lenihan, with physio’s. At this moment, we have ONE fit centre-back. This is not very encouraging news.

So glad to see Dolan have an impact for England. We probably need a point to stay in the top 6, as M’bro likely wins at Peterborough, and we only have 2 pts over them on goal diff. Hoping & praying that carries over vs Coventry, I will say, 1-1.

I will say 6.5… I was genuinely glad when we got him. He had a knack for getting teams promoted, or being in position for same. TM obviously knows talent, especially bringing in older guys & squeezing 1 or 2 more years out of them, and in development of younger players, and finding great loaners. As a tactician, he’s a real head-scratcher. if we stay in playoff places, it is more a case of “in spite of him”, than “because of him.” He had a great chance to win undying devotion from our fandom from @Luton to Bristol, a run of nine games; unfortunately, we got 6 points from those nine. Poor, by any measurement. Give him a barbecue testimonial dinner, and a hearty, “thank you”. At this point, I would not be interested to re-sign him. Only his 2nd promotion at Rovers would merit that.

If/when we break from TM, I would take Sami Hyppia. Great footballer, and he has won a couple of titles, albeit, at a lower level.

I can’t say; but watching our performance in the first half, I got the feeling our players just were not excited to be in the position of chasing promotion. Lifeless, dull, and not at all prepared to boss a side in the bottom four on the table. Really puzzling. But, a definite lack of leadership and fire on the touchline.

We’re definitely not a side seeking promotion,. it’s doubtful we’re even a playoff side. merry early christmas, Royals

Kaminski, again. Reading his lips, exhorting teammates, “cmon, c’mon…”

Not looking good, but Kaminski with the great save