Very sad. I’ve been to Boundary Park many times for both the football and the rugby league.

How many points were we behind Fulham after the 0-7 banging ? We’d nearly caught them up until this week.

Bloody hell, getting stats like that is nearly impossible in a game of football.

In theory that works, in practice it doesn’t.

Not hard enough.

Super bit of skill to set himself up for the chance that should have led to a pen. What can you do if the ref has his eyes painted on ?

I once went to a Rugby League match at Oldham were they came out after half time and started with 14 players. They’d been playing about 10 minutes before the penny dropped and the referee was notified.

He’s gone backwards in the time he’s been at Rovers. Not every player improves with time and experience. Last night he was jaw droppingly bad in my opinion and I’ve seen some poor centre forwards at Rovers over the years.

We turned up thinking they’d just roll over. By the time we realised we had a game on our hands it was too late and we’d lost the initiative.

I think he would have dealt with their centre forward better than the other lads.

Hand on heart I don’t either. We haven’t got a strong enough squad and the manager isn’t good enough to get us promoted. It pains me to say that because we’ll never a better chance. Of course if the chicken chokers get the cheque book out things may change.

Kenny or Sparky or Big Sam could have done it. I accept that the people running the club at the moment probably couldn’t.

He got them out of the mire.

If we weren’t being run by the chicken chokers and we had a management team capable of spending that money wisely in such a short time scale I’d take it. That could get us three class players that would do more than one striker who’s hit and miss at the moment. Too many if’s in that idea though.

Carter’s been at Portsmouth since last week.

Only if you don’t count the three we threw in at Wigan.

They didn’t like Big Sam and he won football games.

It was looking that way earlier on but they’ve just got £25 million.

My mistake. I was thinking he was left footed with him playing out on the left hand side. I can understand anyone giving Gallagher the shepherds crook after last nights no show. He was truly awful. I’d make it clear to him he’s drinking in the last chance saloon. How anybody thought he was worth another contract is a mystery to me. He should be putting himself about like their centre forward did last night. You don’t even have to be much of a footballer to do that.

I think that happened last week. Not really what we need unless it’s to give John Buckley a rest.

Do you think either one of Lenihan or the Flying Dutchman could play in that defensive midfield role ? We could bring Ayala in to replace them. What do we do in training ? These things should be tried out on the training pitch. If Mowbray had been managing Rovers in the 1960’s Fred Pickering would still be playing left back in the Central League and Andy McEvoy would still be Ronnie Clayton’s understudy..

I’d have Nyambe back in at right back and unfortunately Gallagher up the front on the understanding that he gets his fortune told before the game and he has to pull his finger out. If he can’t wring the sweat out of his shirt when he comes off he’s done. The two lads you’ve got up front look to be clones of each other as far as playing style goes. Both tricky and left footed but a bit lightweight. I don’t think we can play them both together. I can’t paint you a picture were we get anything out of this game unfortunately. I just hope I’m wrong.

Starting Markanday will make a short team shorter. Just saying.

Yep, he was dreadful first half. He never got over the half way line. Second half Tony must have told him to get forward more and he looked a better player for it.

Davenport for me. Travis needs to be 100% if he plays . JRC playing half fit was enough last night.