He did for the second too, was right there and would most likely have slotted in any rebound off goalie or post.

Three games in a row Bradley has been subbed. I wonder if Mowbray is making a point about all that arm-waving when he went off against the Baggies.

9 minute match report/rant from a Millwall fan driving home in his car Linesman was bent

If he’d put away the point blank sitters at Bristol City and Forest, we’d be on the heels of the top 6 and he might have stayed in the team.

Eyesore of a game but Rodwell, Travis and Nuttall were all positives for me. Nuttall was more involved in 90 mins than Brereton has been in his 300. Couple of smart saves from distance by Raya but I never felt we would let one in. Putting Benno out left at HT to shore up the dreadful Bell was a good move. I can’t renember a time when we have been so badly served at left back, they are both hopeless.

We scored three points Stuart, and never looked in danger of losing away at the Den. When they start awarding points for style and ifs/maybes, your points might be valid.

A messageboard gold matchday thread on the balanced and always fair to Mowbray BRFCS. Away win - check Clean sheet -check Positive subs - check Surprise selection forces a goal - check Sub for Dack seals a win - check. Conclusion - the manager is awful

The 16 penalties you awarded Millwall in those games probably helped quieten the hostility....;) I fancy a breakout result here, 0-3 to the Rovers, signalling a strong second half to the season.

Depends how you feel about the money you spent on house insurance last year.

Yes. But I suspect whoever stumped up to sign him for three years is more thinking along that time horizon than the first 300 minutes.

Must be right then! We can safely ignore what Sharpe wrote in the LT the other day when BB signed permanently, that it could rise to £7 million with add-ons (which, if triggered, would point to the lad being a success.) So, we haven’t paid £7 million; we couldn’t have retooled the squad with the money; there is no evidence that whatever we did pay up front represented the whole budget. (Just like 4/5 years ago Venky’s did, in fact, have a pot to piss in and didn’t sell the club.) Given they send over £15 million a year without a prayer of ever seeing a penny of it back, I would imagine they aren’t losing too much sleep over the small portion of that they have committed to a young English prospect with a decent pedigree.

You mean like Wigan and Rotherham have shown?

I like this guy, he’s a good tv analyst and comes over very well in the interviews. Very interesting to hear his take on Roy Keane as a manager.

Watching City demolish Rotherham; the sooner the top 6 eff off into a Super League, the better for everyone.

If I can stray for a moment from the Brereton/Mowbray blame game, Shelvey coming on was the much more obvious game-changer; he ran the game, almost scored two headers and gave them a much more dangerous look.

If we end up paying the full 7, by definition we will have done very well.

Certainly a better bargain than £13-15 million....?

Well, well, well. I’m surprised no-one has picked up on the following in today’s LT: “Brereton, who has played 17 times for the club, arrives on a three-and-a-half year deal, with the fee undisclosed.That could reach £7m depending upon clauses in the deal being triggered” So, the MOST he can cost, assuming we get promotion, he scores 30 a season and he gets more England caps than Bob Crompton (or whatever our clauses are) is £7million plus one man’s wages. And that’s if he’s a success. The key question is what are we in for if he is the next Chris Brown, which I expect we’ll never know.

I’ve certainly been wondering over the last few weeks how much it hurts some of the players to lose.

Plus all but 60 of those 300 mins have come in the last 15 mins, meaning they were all his first 15 mins on the field. A fairer comparison would perhaps be against how many goals other players scored in their collective first 15 mins. Not that he has impressed much in any regard so far.

Not suggesting anything, it was just a straw breaking a camel’s back for me. I’m surprised a teammate didn’t punch him for it.

The more I rewatch that penalty, the more annoyed I get. Of all the self-destructs in the last few weeks, that’s the worst for me. Raya I believe didn’t see the Brum player because of the now discarded mask. Williams is just effing useless. But Dack made a choice with that penalty to run towards, barge into and shove over a player who was presenting minimal threat just a few minutes after us going 2-0 up. Dack wasn’t beaten by amazing skill, it wasn’t a dive, the player wasn’t about to score - he had Reed right there and Benno between him and the goal. For the first time I began to wonder if there was something sinister going on with all these “errors”.

I’m of the view that Mowbray has two personas, the public one ever supportive of the players and the behind-the-scenes one, which I think came to the fore yesterday. Firstly, I don’t believe Williams is injured - he didn’t even go down against the Blades did he? Grayson on the bench in his place says to me TM has decided to make an example of Williams. Equally subbing Dack straight after that penalty. I think he’s had enough of whatever has been going on.

I see we are 8 points ahead of Wigan, who are four points and two places from the drop zone and have lost over half of their games. Maybe their summer recruitment was even more disastrous than ours. It’s also of note that we have played 9 of our 12 games against the top 6, which means other teams around us could well be facing 7 or 8 against them.

The bit before the above quote is more reassuring: “I’m delighted for Lewis Travis. He has a winning mentality and is a young footballer who is in a hurry to play football and progress," the boss reflected after the game. “He’s grabbed the opportunity that’s come his way over the last week. In the previous game, I felt he was fantastic at Bramall Lane, competing against one of the top sides in the division. “Today, against some experienced campaigners he was like a trojan. He played forward and was everywhere.”