That's got to be the Pears experiment over now.

You mean players missing sitters? That's been the story of our season.

A negative goal difference at this point in the season suggests they're pretty damn bad (for their relevant level).

Literally nobody upfront. Dolan is dropping deep to get the ball as a #10. Brereton-Diaz is playing wide left as per. JRC is probably making the deepest forward runs

I'm sorry, but A. Wharton just oozes quality. What the hell does(n't) he do in training?!

We literally need better attacking players - that's why we never come back.

It is, yes.

I thought Friday's performance was fine - if our players take the chances we created it's a draw. They didn't so he's changed things up. The formation change is because he's taken off Gallagher, so now we don't have a tip of the spear to play a 4-2-3-1.

Awful for us, awful for England.

You must have built a 4 bedroom house by hand during Mowbray's reign.

I can't be the only Rovers fan that hates Hodgson?

The standard of football in the Premier League is as bad as I've ever seen it. The match this afternoon between Leeds and Crystal Palace - good lord.

Gallagher actively runs away from the ball in the box. If we play a ball into the near-post he's at the far post. If we play a ball into the far post he's at the near post. If we roll one across the 6 yard box, he's on the 18 yard line. It's genuinely uncanny.

Not Waggot and the Club Secretary?

You're lucky anyone turns up at all. 12 years of the worst owners in football leeching the life out of the club.

Bingo. His style of football requires the two CMs to be pivots and the two FBs to provide width in attack. It's no wonder we look much better with Buckley / A. Wharton in CM because they can actually pick a pass AND turn on the ball. Instead he's had to adapt to the limitations of the squad e.g. he's pushed Travis upfield (or drops him back to cover at RB for JRC) in possession (i.e. preventing him from fucking up on the ball like he did against PNE) and asks either Pickering or JRC to provide the extra man in CM... rather than push on in attack. This is still mostly Mowbray's squad. If Broughton / JDT bring in 3 more permanent signings in the summer of the same calibre of Hyam / Brittain / Szmodics I'll be absolutely delighted - more so if one of them is a bloody striker! I've no doubt we'd be comfortably in the Playoffs then.

I find it amusing that everyone is overanalysing JDT (tactic only works when teams are attacking us / doesn't know how to get us back into games etc). It really isn't that complicated - a top end Championship striker would have scored 10+ goals since the start of January and we'd be looking forward to our Playoff semi-final. We create chance after chance, but we have absolutely nobody upfront. It really is that simple. Gallagher couldn't score in a brothel, Vale is awful and he doesn't fancy Leonard (at this moment in time). Yes Dolan, Szmodics and Brereton-Diaz chip in with goals, but nowhere near enough to cover for a #9 that can't even bundle it over the line from 1 yard out.

He literally had to change the Goalkeeper - Kaminski needed knee surgery. I'd change them back now that he's fit, mind. Scott Wharton isn't as good as Carter or Hyam imo - he's a very able deputy (when he's on his game!). What do you mean by "not bringing any contacts in like [Kompany]"?

Thomas for Hedges I don't understand. Brereton-Diaz for Dolan I can - even when he's drifted out of games he can still bag you a goal. Morton I'll never understand, but my hope is this tough love saga will make A. Wharton a much better player (hopefully for us!).

I mean even today in a 'poor' performance - JRC missed an absolute sitter, Gallagher couldn't bundle it over the line from 1 yard out (and missed a free header 6 yards out) and Norwich cleared one off their line. We simply cannot score enough goals with this forward line.

Look at where that team with the biggest budget / best squad finished this season after he left.

Gallagher is sent through 1-on-1 with the goalkeeper. Your life depends on him scoring. Are you reaching for the bubbly or the phone book to call the undertaker?

I hate to be a spoilsport, but we're going to lose that game in hand as it's against Burnley.

I think JDT is a fantastic manager - my big gripe is about his substitutions. They're often far too late. More than that I HATE seeing the subs bench dicking about passing the ball around in a circle at half time. Absolutely nobody looks anywhere near ready to come on. I miss the days where Hughes had the subs going through warm ups and drills at half time.

Potentially - although I don't see how a RW, LW and CM would have stopped two counter attack goals that totally exposed our lack of pace at FB? Norwich had better players all across the pitch - and indeed on the bench.