I’m worried about the ‘ Boro game. They’re in a good run of form and Wilder is still a good manager in my book. A win against them would get the show back on the road. The point that teams have found us out is hard to avoid. Down to the manager now. I’m just hoping Trav’s Covid hasn’t spread.

I thought it was 5 games - Barnsley, Huddersfield, Wigan, Cardiff, Hull.

Let’s hope he’s been watching the last few games.

Thanks Tony. We just carried on from Cardiff. As I said in another thread at least we won’t be going down.

Yeah we need a striker in at the club before Monday.

That was truly terrible. The only redeeming feature was that if anybody had the idea that Tony had turned into a footballing genius, think again. At least the thought of him getting another contract is disappearing over the horizon. We just carried on from were we left off in Cardiff. It was shambolic. It’s obvious that the tinkering around did us no favours. JRC was no where near ready for first team football and it showed. That should have been obvious to the manager. When you look down the line up outside the back 3 there wasn’t a tackle in the team. I was disgusted with our lack of aggression. Why weren’t we surrounding the ref after that ridiculous second goal ? We just shrugged our shoulders and looked at each other. . We had four bookings last night, all for trivial ,avoidable, incidents. What bugged me is that you could see the system wasn’t working after 15 minutes but we had to play an hour before any changes were made, and then it was all three at once. We should have subbed JRC at half time, moved Lenihan to RB and brought Ayala on. Gallagher off and Davenport on and reverted to our normal system. Buckley ( my MOTM for what it’s worth ) was playing way too deep. Rothwell had a couple of good runs and that was it. What Davenport has to do to get a game I just don’t know, why is he still at the club if the manager doesn’t rate him ? There was a massive gap between the back five and the front three that Hull played in all night. Khadra’s all pace and no brains. He should have taken the ball in closer for that shot. BBD was back being Brererton last night but he was really unlucky with the pen. The ref must have had his eyes painted on . Gallagher was awful, he seems to go backwards every time I see him. Edun was poor first half but got better as the game went. JRC, awful but not entirely his fault. The centre halves weren’t really at the races, they allowed their striker to do a “ Kevin Davies “ on us. If you’re going to play with wing backs it’s imperative that they play as much as they can in the opponents half. In the first half ours barely got over the half way line. On the plus side we should be able to get to 50 points before the end of the season so we won’t be going down.

I know Scotland aren’t great at the moment but they’re better than that. Gallagher wouldn’t get a game with Treasure Island going off last nights performance. That could possibly be the worst performance by a Rovers centre forward ina long while.

I’ll have a lot more to say tomorrow but can I just say for now - Iv’e seen plenty of poor referees in a lifetime of watching football and rugby league but that is the first time I.’ve seen a referee who gave us absolutely nothing. How many players did we get booked ? And for what ? We got bullied tonight and the ref let them get away with it. Every tackle they left something in or there was a little pullback. They’d seen us at Cardiff and thought “ These are a soft touch, they don’t like the physical side of the game. Too many nice lads and not enough bastards “. Only Travis will fight fire with fire.

Yes but that wasn’t in any way, shape, or form a “ tackle “.

I said that before the game. Ayala would have kept their centre forward quiet and Lenihan couldn’t have been any worse the JRC.

I’d have put Davenport in for Travis in and left that part of the team as it was. I’d have given some thought to leaving Lenihan at right back and bringing Ayala in.

Of course, you’d be foolish not to follow suit with the rest of them.

We need to change the rules. The Aussies only get one innings and we get two. The Aussies have to bat with their bats the other way up. We used to do that if there was a dispute wether somebody was out or not. The batsman had to face three balls using the bat handle to keep the ball out ! Anybody else do that ?

I think we’d know by now if that was the case.

We kept that quiet.

Yes indeed, it’s a long while since he posted. I sincerely hope the Covid didn’t get him.

I reserve my excitement for when they’re out on the pitch performing.

Nobodies rubbishing him. I’m just saying let’s see him kick a ball before we decide he’s the next Damien Duff. He could be the the next Keith Tracey.

You should know by now. We like to big our signings up without actually seeing them kick a ball first. It makes them feel at home. It’s what we do. Go back and look at the posts when we signed Gallagher for the second time.

Exactly my view Tony, a very frustrating performance to watch. Too many forward players were completely off their game. Some people say “ Quit moaning, we won didn’t we ? “ Well I say “ We’ve played better than that and lost this season “. Play like that at Hull on Wednesday and we won’t be so lucky. We‘re crying out for a midfield player that can give Buckley and Travis a break when they’ll not playing well.

Or the 61-62 season - we played on March 24, 28, 30. April 7, 10, 14, 17, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28. Or the big freeze season 62-63 - March 25, 29. April 2, 6, 12, 13, 15, 20, 23, 27. May 1, 4, 13, 20. 65-66 season was - April 8, 9, 12, 16, 23, 30. May 2, 4, 7, 9.

I’d take that now. It’s the best position short of automatic promotion.

Especially if he brings his elephants.

If he’s got/had back trouble I’m not surprised.

The new Chapman ?