Angry_Pirate

Who's gonna be the first to brave the individual player ratings after that... Mowbray needs to man up and take the blame for once... the players come out and apologise often enough when the blame is continuously more often than not fully at the managers door step. Now, he is on thin ice for me. Fans are turning.

I'd be handing in a transfer request soon if I were Rothwell. This is worse than Preston.

Made the "joke" after Preston that last year was the 5-3-2 debacle and this year was the no strikers joke... Tony had a dream... The dream has been realised here. Laugh, before you cry.

Wouldn't say thin ice, but I've had a but feeling since before the season that he doesn't make it throughout the season. No first half goals in 66% of matches Smallwood first name on the team sheet Shit scared of every opponent we face Average of 1 completed pass per 30 seconds. Subbing DG for Williams when 1-0 down. Wow.

Woeful. Yet again. 3-0 Would be fair. 95 completed passes in 45 minutes!! Let that sink in... 95 passes. Also, wake me up when win a meaningful header! Gutted for the fans that have bought tickets for these last 2 away games. Where is the passion!

The frustration is that they fully deserved the win yet only had 39% possession, 6 shots, 4 shots on target and scored 4 goals...(85mins stats) 1. Lenihan came charging for a ball he was never gonna win and got schooled. Good finish. 2. Poor pass from Nyambe and nice move after, Robinson showed good speed, strength and composure. 3. Williams got turned FAR too easily... however it's actually offside as when the PNE lad shoots before it deflects off Nyambe, Moult is offside and a deflection is still the same phase of play. 2-1. Add to that that Brereton was very much onside for 3-2 and it could have been very (undeservedly) different had one of those calls been correctly given. 4. Lenihan (and others) defended poor, Raya actually maybe had a chance at that one too! Williams, Palmer, Smallwood out for Wednesday please... maybe a striker? I got the "Wigan 5-3 - Santa Hattrick" feeling as soon as the game started... mad thing is their keeper made 2 worldies in the 1st, we have a goal wrongfully disallowed and we still fully deserved to lose by a few. Try again please Tony.

My gripe is what happened to the "6 second rule" as it seems every goalkeeper takes at least double that before it even becomes a question. I think there was a Liverpool game in europe last season where the foul was eventually given after something like 23 seconds. Change it to the "10 second rule" and actually enforce the bloody thing! Today, I did notice their GK doing 5-10 kickups with the first 15 minutes but ultimately it's up to us (Amari Bell, Armstong, Dack, Graham) to score in the first half of games and end the time wasting before it starts.

I don't think Brereton was (as) poor tonight, but it's the whole package of changes like people are saying that caused the collapse... Why swap Reed and Armstong at half time? Why take Graham off and play that personnel in that formation? Why does Bennett play so rubbish when we're on the ?? Fact remains the game was a 0-0 (besides a clear penalty gifting us a goal) until they get oh so unlucky/lucky for their first after 65mins. Then we fall apart for 15 mins before Bennett should score and keeper makes a great save from Dack for 2-2, within 40 seconds it's 3-1. Not as bad as Bristol City 2nd half, but far too many similarities... not least at the feet of the managers poor tactical changes. Does anyone know when we travelled down, the commentator said we took a 5 hour coach ride... looks like they might have done that this afternoon given how quick they fell off the pace last 30 mins. Lots to learn from our away performances of late...

Dont think i've been as underwhelmed by a win since we beat Hull 1-0 at Ewood under Big Sam and they got booed at the end for being far too negative. Bolton were dreadful and yet we park the bus for 70 mins. They are a mid table league 1 team on that performance (Bolton). Interesting that Mowbray isn't (publicly) gloriously pleased with the performance. Thought he'd be rock hard after his back 5, 5-5-0, 2nd half clean sheet. We were a crossbar away from throwing away 3 goals in 13 minutes, 9 points lost in the last 10 mins and defending a 1-0 for 70mins isn't going to float for me. For the record i thought we played well for 22 mins and then defended very well (mostly) thereafter. Players need these 2 weeks off, that's for sure.

This second half tactical switch is just inviting Bolton on to us. Poor from Mowbray, see what these subs do. Wow, Smallwood and Evans. Wow.

Yeeesh, The biggest positive from that is that this is the first time in 25 home games we can discuss negative comments with just cause. This team needs a shake up now. Rothwell, Rodwell, Travis need more minutes. We REALLY missed Nyambe as he's leaps ahead of Bennett as a right back. Thought we were better from 45-65mins but bar that it was very pedestrian. Dack was well off his game... and even though we aren't a 1 man team, it reflected the team. Their 21 waltzed past 2 of our players on a counter for 0-1 when it was clear someone (Reed especially) should be taking a tactical yellow there. Brereton... why oh why do we agree on Loan-to-Buy players with no exit clause. He looks very very poor at this early stage. Positives, Raya made some very good saves, Rothwell, Bell as a LWB, another game closer to a new cm. I'll be putting £20 on a Leeds win, were bound to go from 25 unbeaten to 2 defeats in a row... it's the Blackburn way.

Struggling to find any positives with that.

Looks bang on 10 yards to be fair... they just usually only put them back 9.

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Not to increase the nervousness, but I would be very surprised if there wasn't a release clause put in to Dacks new contract. ... of course I fully expect it to be Premier League teams only and over £20m.

Regarding Dack, I think he loves it here and would be very surprised if he pushed to leave us to go to a Championship club. If a team comes down and offers £20m + that's different. But for as long as we're trending upwards, I can't see him or Lenihan looking at anything except Premiership. For the record of trending upwards, we've gone from 5-1 to 14-1 to be relegated.

?? Harsh. But amusing. We definitely still need a winger.

Actually, now Caddis has gone. Releasing or "trading" (can't call it selling can we) Caddis, Gladwin and Whittingham fundamentally makes no difference... we will still need to pay them 60% of their remaining season wage to make either happen as no club in L1 or L2 will pay more than 25% of what they're on here.

The earlier article someone posted said that there was interest in both Whittingham and Caddis... why haven't the gone yet then? Surely it will be a matter of what wage % we will have to pay as we can't be asking for a transfer or loan fee for either? I'd like to see up to 7 depart today, those two and Gladwin permanent. Nuttall, Tomlinson, Butterworth on loan. Travis I'm happy to keep but if the option is outstanding he will benefit (only till Jan though) Fisher just signed a new contract, which judging by Roversway if working means he'll be off today too. Edit: Bye bye Barrel. He actually looked like the only player who knew how to play Mowbrays 3-5-2 formation ?

He seems like a good professional and role model too... all in all he probably won't have even cost £1m total so he's not to be classed as a huge failure by whatever stretch. Could we offload him now and save ourselves a hundred grand or two... It'll probably pay most of Rodwell's wages.

Probably for the best. Didn't he accept less weekly wage for a 2 year deal when he chose us over Cardiff? He probably only has about £350,000 left on his contract if he was on about £8k which is likely given our L1 status. Doesn't sting anywhere near as much as the 4 year £30k per week Leon Worst was on (£7m).

Highlight of my night yesterday was (after watching him try 3 times prior to fake cross and cut inside only to run straight into the defender) when Caddis did his man and unleashed a left foot shot that almost went in... my and my sister were in stitches quoting tractor boy "he's done him, he's done him!" Irrelevant side info, I did my PGCE with his (Tractor Boys) younger sister... she's a beaut. Agreed we should be turning our attentions to outs rather than ins though. There's 67 teams below us in the football league... surely one will want each of Gladwin, Hart, Caddis, Whittingham, Tomlinson or Nuttall.

Well for as poor, slow and bad as we were for most of the first half, they were in complete control, creative and professional second. Mowbray seemed to send them out after only 10 mins of half time... and it showed. But still, 5-3-2 (it's never 3-5-2) is only the answer if the question is "which formation should we R.I.P forever?) Second half, credit where it is due.

I can moan all i want thanks, paid £24 to watch this off the back off "We won't make 10 changes, etc etc". This formation fully nullifies Nyambe and Bell, it seems to be a 5-1-1-2 formation with Conway trying to figure out where he's playing... ... and just like that we unveil Bereton.

This formation is quite honestly abysmal. Doesn't help that Rothwell is having a shocker and still waiting for Graham to touch the ball.