They're absolutely tragic, aren't they? Should've got MGP to do a long throw training session with Brittain when he was at Ewood a few weeks back.

We need just one of Birmingham, Plymouth and Wednesday to lose next weekend. I think this afternoon might just have been enough.

I thought we switched to a 4 at the back when Pickering went off with Brittain moving up the pitch.

With the way the club's going, I wouldn't be surprised if he's the only central defender of the current crop who's still here and fit next season.

Kaminski wouldn't have just been the difference this season, but I strongly felt that not bringing him back in when Pears' form dropped off last season was the difference that meant we missed out on the play offs.

Travis has his shortcomings (although that applies to most of the squad tbh), but he's always seemed to genuinely care about the club and been proud to be a part of it. Even on the day he signed for Ipswich, he was liking tweets from our fans who were outraged at the decision to loan him out. I've never felt that same passion from Hyam.

I've defended Hyam a lot this season as I think he was rushed back from injury before fully fit and hasn't looked right since, but his decision making has been incredibly questionable this season on the pitch and I think he, ultimately, doesn't have the right temperament to be our captain. Captaincy has been a bit of a poisoned chalice at Rovers in recent years. Mulgrew and Travis frozen and then loaned out, Bennett eventually (rightfully) dropped after being constantly shoehorned in to the detriment of the team, Hyam completely out of form and grumbling at the fans. Only really Lenihan who's worked out in the role and he couldn't wait to jump ship.

I had to laugh at the Wednesday fans urging the ref to blow his whistle at FT. Hardly like they were under constant attacking pressure from our lot! Wouldn't have been surprised to see us back pass a penalty on the basis of that "gutsy" second half performance.

We've been really lucky in recent seasons because someone has always stepped up (often out of nowhere) to deliver the goals. Arma after Dack's injury/Graham leaving, Diaz after Arma was sold, Szmods after Diaz left You look at who's left (Gally, Dolan, Markanday and Telalovic) and we ain't getting lucky again without major investment when Sammie is sold.

You may very well be right. That was just my immediate interpretation of it.

We missed the Pears howler because we were (naively) trying to work out who was warming up to come and change the game (ha ha). Saw the replay on Twitter and Szmodics immediately signalled to his teammates that Pears had given them 2 goals today.

Hyam picked up a loose ball in the first half and broke forward. Looked like he was running in lead boots. There's a lot that needs to be addressed at this club, but the complete lack of pace in team is chronic.

For such a big unit, Gally doesn't half wimp out of using his body as an attribute.

Don't make a confidence keeper your #1. It's as simple as that. That Leo is the other option says everything about this club right now. We gave a brilliant performance in front of a Darwen End full of vocal Newcastle fans. Today we looked scared and out thought by a team who disrupted us very cleverly.

The ticket strategy was a mistake, but that does not excuse that absolute clusterf*ck of a performance. We were naive, ponderous and completely lacking in any creative vision. And that's before you even get onto Pears reminding us all why we dropped Premier League, International Kaminski for him.