Have the gambling commission been in to look at Tony's Tombola? Gallagher AND Bennett out? The cynic in me thinks Tony expects a loss and a battering and can use Nyambe going up against Benrahma as an excuse to cement Bennett in at RB until the day he's sacked. Armstong on the right wing, for his one good game in 9? Hope Raya has a good game, regardless of result.

Team on Wednesday should be: Leutwiler Nyambe - Lenihan - Tosin - Bell* Travis - Downing Holtby - Dack - Rothwell Graham (Won't happen in 1,000,000 years) I expect i will be 5 out, probably 6, as I'm sure Rothwell will be dropped for not scoring from 40 yards, and we know that Walton, Bennett, Armstrong and Gallagher HAVE to play under this manager. Evans and Johnson probably get the nod in CM aswell ?

Will never forget the "Alan Fettis game" in the late 90's vs Arsenal, when they were 4 up in no time. I remember the snow starting to come down and the Rovers fans calling for the game to be abandoned. ? Fettis, might be as good as Walton. The fact we had Armstong up top for 60 mins today as we watch Walton hold the ball for 20 seconds before booting it out to nowhere is painful enough, but as soon as DG comes on Walton legs it to the edge of his 18 and hammers it down the channels for Danny to "chase" just highlights how clueless and poor he might actually be. Really nice guy though! ? (We NEED Mowrbay gone before the January transfer window.)

I made a comment a few weeks ago that Mowbray has created a culture where "mediocre is acceptible" as the likes of Walton, Bennett, Gallagher and Armstong get to play shite game after game with no fallout. Walton: You might actually see grown men cry when we get to compare him to the one we let go (Mowbray forced out) 3 months ago. ANOTHER goal we can "credit" to him. Armstrong: Quite simply shit. 5x offside in the first 18 minutes. How he continues to play (90mins!) is mind boggling. Bennett. I give up. Get a fucking yellow card already and give us a week off. We didn't make a sub until the 84th minute at Preston, but it was guaranteed that both Holtby and Rothwell would be gone long before that today! Never seen a manager with such bias agendas. How can, more importantly why does, a team which 80% doesn't look like they're playing for the manager, keep scoring 88+ minute winners and subject us to more of Mowbrays turgid dogshit football ? Mowbray Out.

Shocking defending for the pen by our left side. Seemed soft but probably a pen as Tosin has to win the ball, didn't, and made contact with Ayling. 2nd goal looked offside by Bamford for me, but a nice goal tbh. Williams made amends for being wrong side for pen with his goal. 4-5-------------1 formation is not working, we are poor in possession but definding well for the most part (which doesnt ultimately matter if you switch off now and again). Leeds look slow at the back so why not give Rothwell a try and throw Arma up top for 15 mins before bringing Graham on. My super six prediction was 4-1. And I stand by it. Could this be Mowbrays last game? ?

Forget the score for a second but the difference and quality between the managers post match press conferences on Radio Lancs (Preston) says it all. Don't get me wrong Alex Neil can say those things after winning and probably was too impressive that way etc but Mowbrays interview was just bitter. What I'd give for a manager with a bit of charisma who can actually inspire a team.

????? Mowbray Out!

Gallagher making amends for the last time he played against Preston for Rovers. Time to get a few quick on a Preston win to secure the result! ?

I feel sorry for those travelling (I've got better things to do!) I always want Rovers to win BUT... This might be a game where if we're going to lose, I wouldn't cry if Preston hammer us and it would get this "Mowbray Out" train up to speed in the terraces. Big loss and I fucking hope the fans give him the shit he deserves "We might get beat and they might be better than us!" Fuck off Tony.

The more times I see the 2nd Huddersfield goal the more annoyed I get at the "quality" of Walton (not his fault) and the whole Raya fiasco (100% Mowbrays fault). Positives: Going forward I'd like to see Nyambe stick at RB, and a midfield 5 of Downing -Travis in the middle behind Holtby - Dack - Rothwell. Could be the makings of an exciting team... when we get an exciting manager, of course.

Not caught up on the last 10 pages so apologies if I'm coming across like a broken record. Dismal from the 14th-96th minute. We lost 2-1 against a team that came for a 0-0. Again. I haven't seen time wasting quite like that in a while... maybe we're all just annoyed that we cannot time waste effectively unlike every other team in world football. We got what we deserved after the first 1/6th of the game. Why is time wasting only a bookable offense in added time? Good job we sold Raya because of his poor kicking and loaned Walton for his great penalty box presence. Cunningham was poor, he has a great cross on him but I lost count how many times we had an entire left side open in the first half and hes holding hands with Derrick and not getting forward. Dare I say a game for Bell. Also, it was his daft foul that set up the winning goal. Never realised how one footed (or shit) Gallagher was. Johnson and Downing are getting worse by the day. Dack played for the shirt today. Travis was the only on who actually "played" for the shirt. Dominic Samuel is now a RWB? As the old saying goes "If you dont shoot... you'll probably play for TMs Rovers".

Honestly I've not been this pleased with a signing since Brett Emerton and (later) Benni McCarthy. I was going to say "excited", but I'm a grown man now and no longer care anywhere near as much as I did 16 & 13 years ago, and we're also no longer a European chasing Premier League team. But I'm as excited as I'm going to get. Cracking interview too! Already has a chant and will become an instant fan favourite I'm sure!

Hopefully that is kind of the point. ?

Buzzing!

I'd say with almost 100% certainty that Smallwood is gone when his contract expires summer (not sooner). Sounds obvious I've heard his attitude is beginning to stink up the place (he "apparently" point black refused to play in the Lancs Cup match last week when the likes of Nyambe, Chapman and Graham etc played). He is on the contract of his life, has already refused to go out on loan and will be taking said wage for the next 9 months before he plateaus into lower L1 next season. No chance he gets a new deal at present... rightly so. His one year improved extension has simply been a disaster. Next summer we will have Evans as our only "proven" cm who isn't either possibly too old (Johnson, Downing) too inexperienced (Buckley, Davenport, Rankin-Costello) or likely to be desired elsewhere (Travis). Holtby is a must sign if available, feasible.

No brainer, if he's as good as we think/hope/remember, sign him. Downing is on his 1 and (probable) only season. Dack (and Lenihan) are (most likely) in thier last season Graham is (most definitely) in his final season Rothwell (might well be) fed up and asked to leave after this season Smallwood (99.9%) gone after this season (hopefully January) Johnson has (maybe) another season or 2 in him Gallagher, Armstong and Brereton are strikers (not wingers) Bennett is now (apparently) a RB After this season our midfield is probably left with Evans, Buckley, Butterworth, Rankin-Costello, Davenport, Chapman, Johnson and Travis (if we can keep him)... ie, Yuk. We also need money saved to buy a GK, CB (replace DL) and LB since we dont own any good ones. Holtby on a "free" and a 3 year deal should be a no brainer... especially since Mowbray loves a settling in period for (most) new signings and by god will we probably need him come January/August 2020.

Comfortable 2-0 win in the end where we missed 3 clear chances and took our foot firmly off the gas last 15. 2nd half much better than the 1st (Buckley a passenger?) and defended most of it well (we did have 5 defenders and Johnson tbf). Bennett maybe had his best game of the season - he also wasn't at RB all game and did miss a very good chance. Rothwell... how he isn't in the XI I don't know. Dack ran the 2nd half. Tosin seemed okay but had very little to do. Mahoney was pony. ?

Absolute paint drying football here at home with Mowbray. A footballer should make it 2-0 there... unfortunately for us the chance fell to Elliott Bennett.

Ahh wonderful, the crabs are back.

Absolute Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Manager has zero clue how to field an XI and probably can't even spell "tactics". Gallagher on the RW is beyond a joke now for me. So dull. Mowbray is holding us back.

HT. What an unbelievable snooze fest, as always. 6 games in, 1 first half goal (penalty). Tony Mowbray is a boring manager. Could literally buy a (second) half season ticket and you'd probably miss 3 Rovers goal. And for christ sake, leave someone on the half way line when defending set pieces. We have zero counter attacking threat. Yawn.

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Harsh considering Nyambes "chance" was alongside two teenage youth players and the crabs in midfield. Put Nyambe in the first XI and see who is better. We have some real leadership finally, Bennett simply isn't needed as he was in L1. Good win, I wish we could show a bit more desire to get a 2nd and use our brains a bit more. That stat on the Lenihan-Williams partnership is staggering, positive.

Williams, with a header, inside the six yard box ????

Sam Gallagher, what the actual fuck.