Can we? Of course! Will we? Of course not!

1/4 - as bad as me!

Excellent read that arrived in the frozen tundra in timely fashion. I was a bit piss poor at the Just Look at Them Now Quiz, getting just one of them! Although #2 is clearly a young Lionel Jeffreys, he of The Railway Children and Two-Way Stretch.

Image of the day from the game. Cry away you cheating gits

15 starts and counting this season Stuart. And the bloke is 25, he’s as developed as he’s going to get.

I thought that at first but watched the slo-mo replays and Walton didn’t go early, although he clearly had decided he was going to go.

Another prediction: he won’t be at a club that finished higher than us

I’m in the OldEwoodBlue League 1 show pony camp. The only times he looks good are running sideways across midfield. When he gets near the box his head down, quick short touches running style fails because of increased traffic. Can’t cross and two poor shots today. I really don’t see what he brings to the effectiveness of the team.

Yes he scored, but it really was a peach of a ball from Nyambe and the goalie dithered. The missed header at the end reinforced my view he just doesn’t have it. Barry Endean would’ve put that in.

Graham has always taken pens when he’s been in the field as far as I can recall, and it was a much better struck one than theirs: one goalie guessed wrong and one guessed right.

Well, despite it being a dead rubber game against a lesser team in a nothing season with a manager determined to not get promoted, I for one leapt off the sofa when the equalizer went in. Given the players out we can’t afford for our remaining allegedly creative players to not perform. However, Armstrong and Rothwell did nothing at all to worry Swansea, so it was always going to be uphill. So, to get a point with a missed penalty, hitting the post and Gallagher missing the an unchallenged header from five yards counts as a point won for me. Cant be doing with all the alternate reality if only-ing and the “we needed..” soothsaying; if we are still three points away at 3pm on the last day we are still in it. However, for all the online togetherness of this group of players, Swansea showed we are clearly seen as a team you can take liberties with, until Johnson put his elbow into someone’s chin.

Two good goals to be fair. Armstrong and Rothwell doing nothing with Samuel not far behind.

He was never going go to drop Gallagher after that article. Plus it’s taken a team-full of injuries and suspensions for Bennett to get a start, I for one did not fancy Mulgrew again, not least because he makes Bell even worse. 3-0

The equivalent of forecasting racing wins when the jockey is fat, old and falls off regularly.

Five points sounds a lot but all four playoff teams are catchable, and it would be unusual for one of four not to implode.

Having been to a Boca Jnrs game there I agree, the noise just bounced straight back off it.

Surprised not to see credit given to our goalkeeping coach for Walton’s improvement, given he was personally responsible for every Raya error.

The Ewood Bombonera. A bank of private boxes along one side.

Well you couldn’t take your eyes off that game for a second - never a dull moment! The back five with Johnson and Travis in front of them were terrific I thought. If they can all stay injury free we definitely have a chance. The subs made us better, at then end it was us more likely to nick it. Armstrong getting two 1-on-1s was as much as we could’ve hoped for. I was screaming at him to take the second one around Raya who had shown with the first one spreads himself for the shot. Refs are killing the game though. 22 players gave everything toe-to-toe and the ref awards two goals for touching, not even pushing or pulling.

Same for me, I though Tosin lost him.

Impressed by Brentford’s speed of thought and passing, Nyambe and Bell having to stay back and still getting done too often. Great battling performance though against a technically better team. You can see why Brentford score a lot and also concede, our goal was made simple by a dozy defender, great touch by Arma then the world-class Raya completely in no-mans-land.

Very good read and indicative, IMO, of the strategy put in place by the consultants, which I hypothesise as follows: 1) Promotion at all costs as early as possible is not the plan IF you assume that the owners are rich as Croesus and not bothered by an extra year or two of funding losses. Given that promotion now guarantees you at least £300m even if you come straight down, an extra year or two of £20m losses is irrelevant. 2) The synergy between a player-producing academy and a manager willing to take the long view in bringing them into the team as they mature is deemed more important to the sustainability of the club than reacting to short-term results and bringing in a manager who ignored the academy. Add these two together and: - Mowbray would have to have a really bad season for his job to be at risk. - He will be judged at the macro-level. So while Brereton for £7m is endlessly focused on on here, it doesn’t matter strategically which of Armstrong and Brereton cost £7m and £1.5m. - The next manager is Johno.

I can’t say that many fans were excited when the ex-manager of ten losses in a row 4th Div Coventry walked through the door, or when we still went down (although to put it at his door after 30 points from 32 games Coyle is extremely harsh). From that point on however, would many of us have EXPECTED to be higher than we are right now? I do understand the “not the man to take us further” point, although sacking someone for what he may or may not do in the future is not a standard many of us would accept if it was applied to us in our own workplaces. But hey ho, given the owners didn’t sack Kean for raping and pillaging the club, I think there is zero chance they will sack Mowbray for some hypothetical future failure. There is no clock, ticking or otherwise. Lastly, I don’t know Chaddy, but cannot for the life of me understand the mass obsession with what he thinks, or thought, or both. Strange world.

When looking at opponents, I deduct the points advantage from the first head-to-head to see how we have each performed against everyone else, and these boys are miles ahead of us, versus the likes of Preston and Fulham whose points advantage is entirely due to one-offs. I’d take a point now.

I would have found it amazing 9 months ago to think that we could top such a table without any goals from Dack, Graham and Mulgrew.