Said at half time, why aren't we putting more balls in the box,they obviously weren't comfortable, especially against Gallagher. Lo and behold, a cracking delivery from Pickering and towering header from Hyam and we're level. You're spot on about Gallagher, well worthy of man of the match.

Good debate guys, the thing that shouts at you is the reliance that we still have on the players Broughton and Co inherited. The shiny new "recruitment" department needs to get its collective finger out.

It's just my opinion, if anyone thinks we could sell Gallagher for £1-1.5 million, sign his replacement for that money(even if it was used), and on less wages, but also be a better player, I think it's for the birds.

He definitely isn't, very few are, but he's worth a lot more than the £1 million, or even £2 million some wanted to accept.

There's no doubt Tomasson suffered from injuries, especially Dolan and Gallagher(who some wanted to give away for a million). I'm not particularly backing Eustace, or having a go at Tomasson, but we need points, however they come. A decent team tonight would probably have seen us off, but maybe Eustace saw it as a chance to rest 2 or 3 whilst still nicking a point? If that is the case, and it certainly looked that way, it's maybe the Championship nous we've been short of.

You've got to take it in context though, we'd taken 5 points from Tomasson's last 11 games, we've taken 5 points from Eustace's first 4. You have to consider the form and morale of the team when Eustace took over. I enjoyed watching some of the football under Tomasson, but we were going down.

Pears, Carter, JRC, Pickering, Hedges, Gallagher and Dolan. Those 7 are in our best 11 if everyone is fit,i don't think anyone would argue, and that's without Travis or Wharton, who would definitely be playing now. There lies the problem, a shiny new director of football and his large recruitment entourage but we're still so reliant on the players who they inherited. I dread to think where we'd be if they'd started their tenure from a weaker position.

Agreed, need to go strong against Newcastle.

Just reading elsewhere, we've taken 4 points from the last 3 games, and 5 points from the previous 11 games, so definitely not terrible. Also nice to come off a derby game with something for a change.

If you mean Fleck, he was sold a hospital pass and had to commit himself. If he'd limped off with a strain I'd tend to agree, but not in this case.

Just listened to Atko on the way back, he said if Rovers play like that every week they'll be fine, and I agree with him. Not pretty, but we'd have taken a point before kick off. Surprised Millar was on the right, but glad he was, Hedges had a good game and kept him quiet. The obvious thing to do with Gallagher is extend his contract, get him signed up now.

Pears, Carter, Pickering, JRC, Dolan, Hedges and Gallagher are still cast iron first team choices when fit, and no doubt Buckley or Garrett will join that list over the remainder of the season. That's without having Travis here(another fiasco). We're still massively dependent on the players who were already here, I dread to think where we'd be if Broughton didn't have those foundations to rely on.

It finished 7th last season, only Hyam made a difference, the rest were already here. The decline of the squad since has been staggering. I dread to think where we'd be if Broughton hadn't taken over on such a sound footing, we all know his hands are tied to a degree, but his recruitment has been sadly lacking despite a large increase in the recruitment staff. Tomasson obviously has questions to answer on how this season has gone, but virtually all the blame is down to the recruitment.

To be fair, the yellow he did get was all down to Hyam, Garrett didn't have much option other than to take the booking.

He inherited a squad which finished 7th, it's the subsequent transfer dealings (or lack of) which has let us down.

It was the same 11 which hammered Stoke first half but fell away 2nd half. No lack of ability at 3-0. As I say, I'll give them the benefit.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for last night. I don't blame Eustace for fielding an unchanged team, but with Mcfadzean, Dolan, Hedges, Gallagher and Costello all having returned to action recently, maybe it caught up a bit. They closed down well early on last night, but it soon faded. Thinking back to Saturday, we were hanging on a bit second half, thankfully Pears saved the pen. Maybe they were running out of steam even in the second half against Stoke. I'll cut them a bit of slack and hope it was more about fitness,although it was pretty dire.

Got tickets in block Q yesterday afternoon.

If we can come out of the Brum game unscathed, he'll have a real chance to endear himself to the faithful, we do need a Derby win.

I've doubted Brittain for quite a while, but two crosses and two goals, the first one was as good as you'll see

A much needed win, 3 good goals but when was the last time Brittain put in a first time cross Szmodics scored a header A big bloke flicked a header on for a little un to run on to and score. Three unusual goals for us.

There are enough of them, you'd think they would know between them how to tell the time and which button to press.

On Eustace, good luck to him, he just has to look at the second goal we conceded against QPR to know where to start. It was truly pathetic.

Exactly as I see it, some of the football and goals under Tomasson was brilliant. He really got a tune out of the players he inherited. But that's been the problem, as soon as Broughton and his extensive new recruitment team had to actually recruit, the wheels have fallen off.

There was someone on this thread claiming that the crowd against QPR was less than announced,must be related.