Not when our defence is threadbare. It would be a severe misallocation of funds, again.

I figured the same, I was just pointing out how far off the pulse his finger is. But at least he seems to have extracted it from Mowbray's arse.

He had reported the clause passing either before or at the same time as he reported the bid...

It was remarkably predictable that it was going nowhere, wasn't it? My immediate reaction was just 'knew it'. More window dressing.

And yet you seem fine with this.

Get over what? We are a significantly larger club than Doncaster in all regards - historically, financially, current status, playing squad. This result is a fuckup and I have no idea what you're trying to argue here. It's embarassing. If we are no better than them at the moment on the pitch on a given day, that only enhances the embarassment.

That's a wider phenomenon than Tony Mowbray and Blackburn Rovers, sadly...

I don't, no, but I'm going to predict it will be along the lines of: It's only the cup, we can concentrate on our promotion push now It's not Tony's fault the players can't finish their chances We had to rest too many players and have too many injuries But just look at how many (off-target) shots we had! 20 to their 5, and we had 68% possession, we were just unlucky (ignoring the shots on target stat obviously) The pitch wasn't suited to our style of play. We will do better when we are back at... *checks notes* Ewood Park... One game doesn't change anything It will all come good soon, we need to be patient Blah blah fucking blah, ad infinitum.

I rage-quit the FA Player when the commentator described us as 'a minor scalp, we can maybe say'. Fuck off, not only are we a full league above them but we are, as you say, repeated winners of this trophy, have real significant heritage in the game, and have only spent what, 3 or 4 seasons at the level Doncaster currently are? Meanwhile...they're fucking Doncaster. Their greatest achievements are that they once won the third tier we were embarassed to be in, and once won the Football League Trophy we are usually in too high a league to be entered in (our u-23s have been entered into it once though). This result is an embarassment for us. Right now I feel like it's going to be very hard to give a fuck about the rest of the season. I'm sure I'll fall back into the trap of dreaming again at some point though, and put myself through the same torture every Saturday, sometimes twice a week.

Absolutely. Said it many times and so have others. All well and good passing it around the edge of the box looking for an opening, but if nobody moves to draw players out of position there won't be any openings.

Terrible Buckley, just terrible.

To each their own but honestly I just think you or anyone that doesn't see it is talking absolute bollocks. Been a bit poor second half mind.

He has goals and assists. Until he got dropped a couple of months in they were fairly impressive too. Has more of both than Rothwell and this has been Rothwell's best season for that, with much more game time than Dolan I'm sure.

BB having a mare.

I don't go memorizing everything so can't describe them to you no, but he created several openings for players if they had more nouse about them. We only created one clear cut chance as a team all game, but in the positions Dolan found himself in he did excellently. He has however been quiet this half and made a couple of poor decisions with the final ball. But also teed up Downing. These spectacles are not rose tinted. If anything I'm a miserable git, especially right now! But this lad frightens defences.

Wow from their goalie there. Brilliant. Should be level.

This Rovers side. So many games where we knock on the door all game but never find the key. Meanwhile we leave ours wide open.

.....I'd suggest actually watching the second half mate.

On that goal, I feel like Johnson would have kept backing off until his back was touching the net if the lad had kept going.

To each their own, but I honestly think you're blind to it. Makes things happen nearly every time he is on the pitch.

Nobody fucking moves for him to release the ball earlier.

Johnson allowed way too much space for that shot too. Need a CB immediately.

I'm not convinced Dack is quick enough at changing direction to ever play that role effectively for us. Fucking hell that's dire from Pears. Shouldn't have been starting today.

Honestly. Dolan is just making a mockery of the fact TM hasn't given him considerably more game time recently.

Absolutely. Sick of it being so screamingly obvious yet our professional management team insisting on playing the same way.