An even better goal when you factor in the number of touches he had to make at that speed, any of them less than perfect and he gets caught.

Watching the goals again (and again)…Sammy takes 5 touches for his first goal, all at full pelt, and each one of them perfect direction and distance for what he wanted to do. Gallagher hasn’t had 5 perfect touches all season. The second goal, I cannot remember us ever having a run on an empty net from that far out, nor seen a player celebrate a goal that long before putting it in.

Shit first touch takes Gally too wide, they he fails to anticipate Chrisene’s cross.

To my mind, Adam Wharton is blossoming because, for the first time in his life, he’s playing with lads who are as good in their positions as he is in his. I’m not convinced he would have developed any further at all had he stayed with us, especially after JDT left. No matter how many sublime passes you play to Gallagher, he isn’t going to control any of them, and Eustace binning passing out from the back would have greatly reduced the number of touches he got in a game. If there was going to be an auction for him, I can’t see why it didn’t happen in January. He isn’t typical of the kind of player our academy produces, nor should he be as players of his ilk will never stay long enough in the first team to make any meaningful difference. I’m wondering how good Harry Leonard is given he’ll be playing without Adam’s passes for the first time in his life.

His first and last home games notable only for performative touchline antics. Plus the Dick Emery joke shop teeth. Once he’d gone it seemed pretty clear Johno and Plug were not part of the in-crowd.

Pears - didn’t chuck one in huzzah. Now clear off Brittain - taken a real dislike to this fella, not fit to lace Heaton’s or Brannigan’s boots. Eff off. Carter - the only defender who makes a forward worry what might happen if he traps the ball. Mcfad - a worthy past it successor to MacNamee, a real captain’s performance. Hyam - worst captain in our history. Only not a spineless disaster when he has no-one to mark and got his dad beside him to tell him what to do. Get rid. Pickering - too timid to play wing, too slow to play back. Cheerio. JRC - I like him as the extra attacking midfielder, not convinced by him being the attacking midfielder. Play him in a 3. Tronstadt - Automatic pick Dolan - when he plays 1/2 touch he can be really effective, once the triple salko’s start he’s Sunday league. Sammy - start carving the statue Gally - oh, there’s the statue. Sayanora, finally.

Has Gallagher even had one attempt at goal since coming back from injury? I can’t remember one.

The more I watch the goal the more I think it was made on the training ground. All three were stood very close then as soon as Pears launched it, Sammy peels away and Dolan edges forward. When he got the flick on, he knew where Sammy was without looking.

Best Pears game since he came back, Carter added some much needed bollocks and rarely gives it away, Hyam played safe, Wharton showed why JDT binned him, midfield two good as ever, McFaz immense - paid for his swansong gig in that one half, Sammy our only threat, but what a lethal one.

Skipper my arse, get Carter back in.

We are indeed blessed to have his 15-months senior-level management experience then. Did many of the clubs whose offers he spurned have double-digit top honours wins, 30,000 seat stadia and Cat 1 Academies? He’s a novice at this level; he may come good and I hope he does, but currently he’s a lot luckier to be at Blackburn Rovers than Blackburn Rovers are to have nabbed him.

JDT was very employable, wanted to go places quick, knew - and let be known - who wasn’t up to it, and wasn’t afraid of getting fired. Eustace was on the scrap heap, grateful to get another gig, is delighted to not be managing complete donkeys, and will cling on by his fingertips no matter the indignities.

Great goal! Hilarious that Gallagher’s contribution was a fuck up getting a lucky rebound.

Glad to see we are implementing the 8-touch Scottyball plan today.

I bet he’s very deflated by the shit players coup. How many chances will he get now from Brittain, Wharton and then Pears booting it straight to opposition centre backs.

I thought he was much better playing JDT ball, 1-2 touches, buzzing around. Now he’s gone back to stepovers, going round in circles and falling over. His interplay with Sammy that led to Sammy’s shot was JDT stuff.

Actually Eustace reminds me of the fella who took over from Iley, John Pickering: decent bloke, fractured squad, no pot to piss in, but not good enough to impose himself on the squad and get enough points to stay up. Unfortunately we won’t be getting Howard Kendall in over the summer.

Under 70s rules it’s offside end of story but then Sammy would never be in the team for getting goals disallowed by being offside so carelessly and so often. The new rules have made players not bother about going offside while making them ridiculously bothered about where their arms are. Madness.

I actually can’t see what Eustace and his henchmen have brought. Less playing out from the back but replaced by long punts to midget forwards. Still individual game-losing errors aplenty, but hey, Brittain and “our” Scotty are happy now because their inability to pass to teammates doesn’t matter to the new gaffer, because he has no playing system anyway.

The clips I’ve seen of Adam playing for Palace made me think we were already holding him back by making him play with donkeys like Brittain and Gallagher. Better players making better runs are already enabling Adam to look much better.

There’s no doubt we play better with a back 4 who play it out from the back, and have an extra midfielder to play it to. JDT had them practise it every day for 18 months, and we’ve seen how crap they are at anything else. I like Bucko but his slowness of thought vs A Wharton is why he takes 4-5 touches before he sees a pass, if he doesn’t lose it in the meantime. He can pass though. Of all Gallagher’s many shortcomings, his stupid runs that offer the passer no possibility of finding him annoy me the most.

Had to laugh at Gallagher being fooled by Sammy’s dummy

I’d give Clive Dunn the hook at HT, get Garrett in front of a back 4. Hyam is just marking empty space anyway.

Tightened up at the back my arse

I’m loving this “no excuses” culture he’s introduced. So refreshing we’ve seen the last of lame get-outs like lads being drained after Newcastle, no time on the training pitch, and the team having to adapt to a new style.