Therein lies his mistake. He was asking his players to play in a way they weren’t capable of doing. In the end it looks like some of the downed tools.

I think JDT’s main problem was he wanted to play “ Rolls-Royce “ football with a team of “ Ford Mondeo’s “ . What he could achieve with a team of “ Rolls-Royce’s “ remains to be seen. I’ll be surprised if that happens at Sweden for obvious reasons. The thought crossed my mind after yesterdays game that if we had played in a similar committed fashion with a similar formation last season at the Dingledome we might have got a similar result.

I’ve got more faith in Eustace being able to get a tune out of the motley crew that will likely be Rovers squad next season than I would JDT to be honest.

Make the most of days like this because Summer will most likely be the usual Chicken Chokers flying circus.

Anybody who can rally the troops to put in a performance like today’s after the shit show on Wednesday night must have something about him. Morale, tactics and team selection - we were at it from the start so he got it spot on.

You couldn’t help but like JDT as a person. It was some of the football I didn’t like. He had me scratching my head when he referred to the modern style of possession of the ball at all costs as “ the Dutch disease “ and then promptly started to play in that style.

On another point. - inspite of the press rumours linking him with Celtic, Luton, Brentford etc Sammi has never slacked off for a minute. He’s always given 110%. Not like another recent striker we had when his head was turned.

Yeah, very aware of what was going on around him. Plus just the right placement and pace on the ball for Sammi to smack it into the back of the net.

He’d have given 2 I suspect.

How do you play in the centre of a 2 ? I would agree he’s better in a back 3 but most centre halves are.

He’s up there with David Speedie for me in the hero stakes. It’s just a shame he doesn’t have team mates as good.

Wharton put his hand up to play in a vital game when he was suffering with back trouble. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to say “ Sorry boss, I can’t make it today, my back’s still not 100% right “ . But he didn’t .

Scott English - Brandy

And chances coming few and far between, Todays goal was a classic goalscorers goal. He made it look really easy but it was far from that. . Reminded me of the old master -Jimmy Greaves.

I would hope we can do better than Gally for the money. If we can’t we’ll struggle again.

Great goal from the front 3. A good flick on, super awareness from Dolan , and Sammi making a difficult finish look easy.

Respect. I thought 15/2 was pretty generous at KO time. Anything can happen in a game of football as we have just seen.

Yeah, Ronnie running out with the ball under his arm, then he used to boot it high in the air onto our half of the pitch for the usual desultory passing drills.

That’s the problem. He’s no Ryan Nelsen is he ?

19/2 in a two horse race, Mm.

Yeah , we could end up with 5 at the back plus two just in front. How do we get up the pitch enough of the time ? Sounds like asking for trouble to me but our options are severely limited at the moment. Brittain and Pickering need to get forward as much as possible, no easy task given their immediate opponents.

The numbers of away fans are the one shining light at the club at the moment.

Wharton and Ayari are injured apparently.

My rugby league team had to play a play off final in France. They’d played the same French team a few weeks before in the league and lost about 36-6. The final was on our opponents ground. These are working lads, one of them couldn’t get time off work to fly out on the Thursday with the team. He had to fly out on his own on the Friday. Our opponents hadn’t lost a game at home all season. Some of the lads were playing injured. At one point in the game we were 16-0 down. Did they give up ? Did they bollocks give up. They got stuck in, ran their blood to water and ended up winning the cup and promotion by a couple of points. When they presented the cup it still had our opponents ribbons on it because our opponents officials were that confident of winning they’d never bothered to buy ribbons in our colours ! It’s what’s beating under the badge that counts when the chips are down.

I don’t know why people are surprised by these results. It happens at the end of every season. Teams that appear to be “ dead and buried “ start fighting for their lives. Tomorrow we get a chance to do the same. Let’s see whether we can do the same.