Nice to get some business done early for a change. Never heard of the guy until a couple of days ago. 24 years old and 13 goals in a title winning L1 side last year sounds decent business on a free. If he can add a bit of strength and pace up top it would be an improvement. Pretty sure George Hirst had 13 L1 goals before we signed him and we all know how good he was.....

We all knew this was coming as despite a decent spell after Christmas he seemed to fall out of favour with JDT again. Still a bit gutted though as I think we could have found a way to use his instincts around the box. Those two injuries were a sickener right in his prime.

Cant see there being any truth behind the sacking rumors, but the comments on there are full mowbray. Already talking about how good the teams coming up from L1 are and how hard it will be for little sunderland next season.

Where did we finish last year? On current form we might be on track to finish lower than the mogdagon days

Loss of form at the wrong time. The team doesn't seem to be have been playing badly of late but no one of any quality to take the chances up top. Them 4 dropped points in the last seconds of the last 2 games make this loss a killer. No way Is Brereton anything above championship standard. Should have sold him for £5m early in the summer.

Wtf.....95min and 94min to drop 4 points. Those 4 points would have made top 6 fairly comfortable. Simply can't afford to do this and expect to get away with it.

Did we seriously just conceed a 95th minute equaliser to their goalkeeper? Jesus christ, we really do know how to fuck things up. Win would have been massive looking at other results. No killer instinct in this team.

Why has Thomas fallen out of favour? Uninspiring line up.

How don't you win a game with 80% possession and 16 shots to their 9. And normal championship standard striker would bag a couple today.

Kiss the play offs goodbye. Even if we did sneak in there isn't a hope in hell chance that we'd be good enough to beat the other sides in there. Our position is mainly due to the weak league this year but even that has caught us now. No decent striker and no decent midfielder has been our ultimate undoing.

Not just us that are loosing our better players on a free. Seems to be much more common in recent seasons. https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/norwich-transfer-blow-blackburn-rovers-26640431

You just knew it didn't you. Absolutely nailed on to happen

Had no idea Khadra was at Brum. You know he's going to score probably for the first time since he last scored against us.

Not really an Academy player but a young player nonetheless. According to my football app Dilian Markanday has only made 1 sub appearance for Aberdeen since his Janurary loan. Not sure if he's injured but not what you'd expect if he had any decent prospect for us

I don't think from an on the pitch point of view losing BBD is the end of the world. We will miss his goals of late (still top scorer this year), but the games when BBD was injured we arguably played the best stuff all season. Others will need to step up and we will have to do sensible business in the transfer marker to make up them goals but its not impossible. Id rather keep Hyam. The massive loss is the lack of a transfer fee to re-invest. Annoying but not the end of the world. Loosing good players on a free is an unsustainable position for a club like us. Thankfully it looks like they're trying to sort it. As others have said its a funny one with BBD, because he was absolute garbage until 18 months ago, and by then his contract was already into its final 12-18 months.

Not sure Mourinho is just a better version of Southgate. Very much in the keep it tight and win 1-0 category. Id have liked Eddie Howe before Newcastle snapped him up.

I think Southgate has done a good job for England and our recent progress at tournaments shows this, but I firmly believe that he is too cautious minded to really push us towards winning something. I also think he's had one of the best pools of players of any manager in recent history, and any half decent manager would have got us pretty far in all those tournaments. The Euro final at Wembley was there fore the taking. 1-0 up and tried to sit back from about 30 minutes onwards. Last night, dominate the first half and second half barely get out of our half. Yes Italy played better 2nd half, but this can only be an instruction from the manager. We won the game so fair play, but it made for a harder finish than it needed to IMO. I wouldnt loose any sleep if Southgate left, apart from Im not sure what other decent managers are available and would be interested in international football.

Game over. Absolute disastrous subs. JDT needs to take this one on the chin. Morton you little fanny, giving them the ball to try and con a free kick.

All over the place since these subs. Need Dolan on for some freshness up front. At least keep them occupied

Fuck sake! Britain out scrapped. Not set up to press for another now

Looking tired now. Need a couple of changes to freshen it up.

The game against Stoke was always going to be a tough game, especially when their confidence is up. This team isn't good enough to win every game so we were always going to lose at some point. The big test of promotion is following up a bad result with a good one. This game should be a must win. Wonder if we could drop Szmodic deeper against a poor reading side. Pears Britain Carter Hyam Pickering Szmodic Travis Thomas Dolan BBD Gallagher

Wow. This is back to the preson and Rotherham performances. I thought this could well be a difficult game but the manner of it is shocking after recent weeks. Apart from the top 3, everyone beats everyone in this league. Difference between 4th and bottom isn't a great deal.

Well it was nice while it lasted! Had a dodgy result written all over it this one.

No surprises its an unchanged side. I'd like to see us with Britain in as I think he's our best all round full back, but would he harsh to drop Pickering after a goal and clean sheet or JRC given his form. Big show of support to the front three that BBD still on the bench.