This is crap. For all the shouting for him to play, Butterworth looks well off the pace. Although in fairness, he’s not the only one.

Not so much a gap between midfield and forwards, more a gaping chasm. So frustrating.

Bloody hell looks deader than Ewood.

If it ends up being the difference between finishing 6th or 7th because it gets us a couple of points more it’s a fucking steal at £85k. Obviously it won’t with Mowbray in charge but it could be difference between 15th and 16th!

Just got back. That one is entirely on the manager and his total inaction. He’s a disgrace. Stood on the touch line throwing his hands in the air instead of making a change. He spent 10 minutes watching us get dominated in midfield and did nothing. Coventry looked crap. If they’re 4th best in the league then a play off spot is firmly there for the taking with this squad, just not with that idiot in charge.

The only hope of us getting him to sign a new contract is sentimentality. He's good mates with a lot of the squad and perhaps that might swing it. On the flip side, his agent will be doing a poor job if he lets him sign a contract with anything more than a £15m release clause, because the interest for him will clearly be there.

On reflection. Decent bit of business. He’s not setting the world alight in the PL. We weren’t going to mount any sort of promotion charge this season with the clown in charge, so may as well get some cash to keep the lights on. Looking at some Southampton forums, he’s starting to cop a fair bit of stick, mostly along the lines of “good Championship player, not cut out for Premier League”

What a pass by Buckley

Gallagher is so poor. It’s like watching someone do an impression of a professional footballer…

He slipped cos he was fannying around. He could have smashed it off the pitch in any direction.

Poor from Nyambe. Very lucky there.

There's no danger of them buying us in the Championship cos they don't have the cash to pay what the Venky's would want. Only way they take control of Rovers is through an LBO in the same manner they acquired Asda (and the way in which the Dingles were bought). That would rely on us having a strong pipeline of revenue (i.e. Premier League TV cash) to support exorbitant debt payments. Then (much like the Dingles) we'd be very heavily reliant on not getting relegated, lest we face financial Armageddon. I'd much rather Rovers are heavily indebted to their current owners than owing external finance at c15% p.a.

Really impressed with Butterworth since he came on. Got to be worth a chance from the start.

Great goal! This second half just underlines how pish Hull are and what a travesty the first half setup was from Mowbray though…

Get in! Finally started playing.

Dolan has to do better there

Feels like Mowbray is just trolling us now. Trying to see just how toothless and insipid he can make us before he’s finally sacked…

Infected by Tony and his footballing “vision”

Awful from Dolan

God we’re shite. Hull (fucking Hull) knocking it around with such ease in our own back yard

Goalkeepers shirts in the 90s were supposed to be garish, I don't think they're particularly bad. I quite liked the orange one, I had that with Sutton on the back as a young chap. Worst kits for me were the Nike era. We may as well have ordered them straight out the team kit catalogue for all the effort they put in. The worst one definitely being the pale blue disgrace with Zebra Claims on the front.

Don’t wanna be that guy but I really don’t understand complaints about sizing. I’m normally M or L (depending on level of activity in previous few months ha ha). This year large fits perfectly well for me. Do you all want your shirts to fit like a tent?

It’s great, we should be trying to flog merchandise left right and centre. It would really sum up the current management of the club if the £7m player who has been crap for years, suddenly breaks through as we lose him for nothing.

Wish I’d got on this Big Ben to score 20+ gravy train that a few of you are on! Odds must be plummeting now.

Don’t mind the starting line up but bench looks like League 2 level. Worrying