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.

But that's the whole point, only Hyam made an impact last season, to a much lesser degree Szmodics. Other than that, he inherited a squad which he took to 7th,some say he overachieved with that position, others say the opposite. I'm not so much comparing how they both did, but the situation they've left the club in. We'd all now take 7th bottom. You're making it a Mowbray v Tomasson thing, but Mowbray's situation was largely of his own making, Tomasson has been reliant on The Goonies. He's been badly let down, which is a shame because there's a good bloke there. It's just a good job that the club was as stable as it was, because Broughton and Co look to have taken us back 3 or 4 years. They've actually employed about 10 more people and made it worse.

I wouldn't dispute any of that, and some of the football under Tomasson has been the best in a decade,especially earlier this season. The trouble with Mowbray, with the club as it is, it was always very much a case of careful what you wish for. It's this insistence that him leaving was the best for the club, when in hindsight it's looking like a right dog's dinner, we can't even get paperwork right. Incidentally, we never seem to cock up when it comes to selling, especially for £22 million.

He left a squad which finished 8th then 7th, where are we now less than 12 months later? My God, we have fallen off a cliff.

Mowbray's points averaged over the season would have had us in 8th.The damage, as well you know, was already done. Said at the time he should have been given another 2 years, just as a safe pair of hands. We finished 7th last season with virtually all the players Mowbray left, except for Hyam and maybe Szmodics towards the end of the season. The dismantling of his good work has been startling.

Ronan Keating has rung me, he said if you must quote him, at least get the words right.

Here is my problem with any protest. Let's say that it achieves the objectives you've stated, the protests smash their reputation to pieces and everyone thinks they're a bunch of incompetent morons. Would you say that it aids the club in reaching an amicable separation, given the debt involved? I'm with Mr T on this one, to say it's a delicate situation is an understatement.

Absolutely, it isn't so much if and when they leave, but how they leave.

Could you try to sound a bit more condescending next time.