I’m looking forward to this one but not looking forward to getting the train back to Preston from Mill Hill after the game. I’m guessing it’s going to be an absolute nightmare tbf! 

Whalstadt is a long way off where he needs to be. Shot stopping is generally ok but he can’t catch a cross. 

A blind man and his dog can see that Leo doesn’t want the ball at his feet. He’s nervous as anything and we are going to end up with him making a mistake leading to a goal. We’ve got a makeshift back 4 so stop inviting pressure on it!!

Is there no VAR today? 

When is Pears back? Asking for a friend….

Great win that although it’s not the fortress of years gone by and we have a great record against them. If you had to pick an away game for us it’s probably the one you’d pick 🙂

But even on the back of that, turning our season around after a bad run has been impressive. We’ve got a half decent home fixture this weekend and a chance to build some confidence before some tricky games get put in the mix.

37 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

That's an excellent result. Not many teams will win there.

We looked miles better than them. They chuck everything at you but don't have a lot of quality.

Tronstad and Hill have made a huge difference to this side.

4 visiting teams have won there already this season lol. 

Is this where we say, would Pears have saved that one?

Birmingham have sacked Eustace. Madness but he was favourite for the Rangers job so wonder if it was a result of asking to speak to them or something. Can’t be on form this season as they are doing well.

Rooney being linked.

They are walking through our midfield time after time. 

That team is very weak. Not a tackle to be seen in that midfield. Needed one of Garratt, Trav or even Tronstad in there to get a foot in. Can see us getting hammered here unfortunately 😞

I’d take Andros on a free. He’s only 32 at the end of the day. Still got something to offer.

Russell Martin has done nothing to have this reputation he appears to have. They have conceded more goals than anyone in the league and added another 3 to the against column this half.

£5m for the Raya sell on clause is interesting. Higher than people had thought on here. 

Thought he spoke very well and explained the Ash situation clearly. They could have given him more games but didn’t feel it was right. 

Not sure I would have played Hyam but I suppose the international break is coming up and he’s not going away with Scotland.

We’re 2 points up on the same fixtures from last season 🙂 

I feel for Dolan. Looks way out of his depth at the moment. 

WTaF was that free kick!

They’d isolated Pickering on the previous goal kick as well. Exactly the same on this one and he missed his header. No choice but to bring the player down really.

The short corner in the 97th minute was pointless. It was pretty much the final kick and needed to be put in the box. Poor decision making to take that one short.

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I think a few people need to calm down and relax. Yes, the performance hasn't been good enough but subbing Szmodics isn't the right way here or go 2 up front as under JDT we don't play with 2 up front. 

We play possession based football under JDT. 

He plays on the Left wing

This is why I would like to see a right winger with some pace but natural right footed to allow us outside of the defence. 

He’s missed a pen, given away a goal and been booked…… at what point would you sub him???

I think we need to sub him to avoid him getting a second yellow.

2 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

So that’s the problem. Glad we brought in another keeper. 

TBF the comments have been that the keeper didn’t cover himself in glory but also that the back line is all over the place so I don’t think it’s been great all round.

Just now, WacoRover said:

Might need to get Hyam on, maybe Pickering. What a downer, if we lost the 1st Cup match to a League 2 outfit

Can Hyam play in goal?

We cannot play it out from the back. Yet again it’s the same issue. Pears with a shit pass and Markandey (I think) lost it softly 

1 minute ago, Andy said:

Started a bit rusty, but thought Trondstad grew into that, really liked him.

Freeing Trav to drive forward as well, very effective.

Thought Leonard’s overall game was superior to anything that Gallagher would have given us today, if I’m honest.

Only really Dolan as the negative, just doesn’t offer anything (barring one shot) and seems to lose the ball more often than not.

Didn’t he play that peach of a through ball to Leonard that ended in the Szmodics chance?

It seemed obvious early doors that Sam was on for a card so took him at 5/1 after the ref had a word with him.