bluebruce

Ffs! Really want to see this lad in action, sounds ideal for improving our approach. Starting to think it won't happen.

Utter piss take that they still have to play in that league in favour of a bunch of media darlings...well done to them for keeping it together and showing the corrupt decision up for what it was. Can you imagine if something similar had happened to our first team?

Terrific yesterday. Has he somehow gotten even better whilst out injured? You'd have thought he was our right winger. Changed the complexion of the game.

Haha! Not very charitable Chaddy, let the man buy you a drink with all that gambling money he's won...

OK. It's just, that isn't looking like a sound strategy. No offence, but your hunches (at least about Rovers) seem to be terrible. Which does usually happen with your own team to be fair, hard to look past the red rose tinted spectacles. But all these grand proclamations rile people up - could you not just keep them to yourself, or at least state them less matter-of-factly? Ie, 'I've got a feeling we're getting back into this' rather than 'Just sit back with your pipe and slippers, and crack open the champagne lads' when we're 1-0 down?

Do you ever look at your own 'Don't worry, it's in the bag' style comments after the game and think..."Ee eck, I'm a bit of a wazzock sometimes, maybe I shouldn't say that crap?"

Thing is, Armstrong is full of pace, Nyambe has been bombing down the other wing second half, Palmer has OK pace...maybe needs a runner directly in front, like oh I dunno, Brereton. Graham has been off the boil lately with some shocking finishes, and Brereton supposedly smashes them in for fun in training... Edit - thinking about it, a runner coming from behind too, like Rothwell, would help when Dack has his back to goal. I just can't quite figure out where Rothwell belongs.

He doesn't need dropping. The main reason he isn't shining like we know he can is that teams are double-marking him and making sure he gets zero space. The fact they have to do this to him opens up space for others though. He just needs to learn to cope with it better.

Thanks Mercer, that settles it. 1-0 Rotherham it shall remain. Edit - OK that went in quickly haha....still, never seen a Mercer prophecy come true, so I doubt we are going to win it.

It should be immediately apparent why. If you think you're going to be happier with Jayson, I think you're in for a surprise.

Bizarre comment.

Pretty sure we just fabricated that on this board actually. I saw one person during or just after the game questioning if we had driven down on the day since we looked so lethargic. A page later someone was saying 'Did I read we only went down on the day' then it snowballed. Brfcs whispers.

Two games in a row, too. Got a worrying feeling that we are going to keep bringing our 6-7 million quid young striker onto the wing, whilst we stick our diminutive, attacking mid talisman up front to replace our big forward.

It does happen. When you don't change a single player from the team that played three days ago.

A previously poor QPR team are hitting form at an unfortunate time too, only a couple of games away.

Plus an out of position Dack thrown into the bargain, isn't it?

Aw crap. I was really enjoying the win, then I read this - and realised I'm still dreaming.

Aye, although one of them on there admitted they saw him doing quite a bit in the few minutes they watched, so they had to turn it off!

Rothwell wasn't free. Just cheap. Somewhere in the 300k bracket. Bolton's team are hardly chock full of multimillion pound signings either. Player cost is irrelevant on the pitch though, only quality. Agreed with the rest of what you said though (which I deleted).

Wigan comes in a whopping 3 minutes further than Bolton.

Google puts Bolton as 35 minutes drive from Blackburn. Liverpool at 59 minutes. So, no. Also, their distance from Lancaster is irrelevant, just their distance from us. Bolton is a derby...it just isn't the derby.

Thought the ref was actually good throughout, for a change. Agreed with the vast majority of his decisions for and against us. The only complete head-scratcher I can recall is when Evans got knocked over twice and then they were clambering all over him when he was down, and he gave the decision to Bolton. The penalty turned out to be the wrong call, but my first instinct was that it was a penalty. If the linesman hadn't excellently spotted the offside, I feel the replays were still a little inconclusive. First decent officiating we've had this season in my view, although a little overly keen to book for time-wasting.

I could see why we would bring one of Evans or Smallwood on but why both? Also, I don't get why Tony is always using up all our subs by about the 70 minute mark. It is going to seriously bite us on the arse at some point. We have been lucky with no late injuries.

Magennis the Menace in the book now.

Christ that Wildschuut is massive. Clearly bringing him on to take even more advantage of our aerial weaknesses.