Exiled_Rover

Honestly, he's a twat for that. I can understand pulling out of tackles if you're a young loanee and don't fancy getting injured (I don't condone it, but I can understand the instinct), but he literally stopped running and let their LW pick his cross. He'd never play for me again.

He's a bafflingly bad footballer. Somehow his touch is worse than his positional play. He was put in a few times today, but his first touch absolutely killed the opportunity. He must be a frustrating player to manage. He'd be useful if he actually put his 6'4" frame about more - at least you could play off him, but he's too soft to even do that.

I imagine the game plan was to not gift them 2 goals. They literally created nothing.

He was the messiah after Tuesday. Talk about a swing. He's clearly a decent Championship manager, but he doesn't play aspirational football and his only directive will be to keep us up every season on a shoestring. It's grim, but that's what the Venkys have reduced us to.

Judging by the transfer business we did do they were perhaps wise to hang onto him. I was happy to drive him to Ipswich on deadline day for £2m, but clearly we had no plans to ever replace him. We didn't even have a recognised striker on the bench today.

It's been dying for 13 years. Unrecognisable from the club the Walker Trust sold.

Who's in your strongest 11?

It's not though, is it. We've been better defensively since he arrived. He's suffering from the same problems that JDT had - zero attacking options and a weak squad. Selling A. Wharton and not replacing him was suicide.

What would you tell the customer if you'd (wrongly) accepted the blame for something, put measures in place to stop it then your CEO had deliberately sabotaged it again a year later? He's in a no-win situation here, short of accepting a job at a new club.

Did he really tell the fans to fuck off??!

And yet he's been much better than Markanday.

This ref is going to get brutalised by her assessor. She'd had a mare.

Can we sub Markanday off yet?

Swansea pulling out all the time wasting tricks in the book.

How long have you been watching? He's nowhere near the top 100 players I've seen in a Rovers shirt.

I think it's Lee Trundle.

Two fans from the home end, essentially.

Fucking Dolan again - Brittain does well to get on the end of a long ball down the wing, plays it back to Dolan who cuts inside, refuses the easy pass to Szmodics, does a little turn in his own 5 yard circle (allowing all the Swansea players to get back) then gestures "where's my option?". Prick.

Pickering is simply too slow.

I worry that some of you are hoping Gilsenan can come and save us - I don't think he's that level of prospect.

Injured in training, apparently.

I maintain that you'd do less damage giving the most vehement Burnley Twitter troll the reigns at Ewood than leaving this club in the care of the Venkys. Selling Ennis and scuppering the McGuire transfer has left us with nothing on the bench upfront. They really are bastards. The fact that Gallagher is an awful footballer and we'd badly miss him if he was injured again is criminal.

Their CB has just stepped on Gallagher.

I wish we had a left footed Brittain to play at LB too. He's a good Championship RB, if a little soft.

He is, but he's exactly what Waggott wants. He'll keep us up on a shoestring (if he can keep us up past this season), but it won't be pretty football.