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Very even game. Bell has improved. Bennett has got worse. Need to get more direct.

This isn’t the cup final..

Fine with the line up other than Nuttall. Not up to this level. I’m ready to be proven wrong.

But it was Evans who tripped Perez for the penalty. Brereton did nothing but he’s not to blame for that.

Had nothing to do with Brereton. Just more clumsy mistakes

Evans fault. Gave the ref a decision to make. Soft but can see why it’s given. Stupidity.

Anyone able to sign in to ifollow? It just doesn’t want to know. I’m in danger of having a pleasant evening in otherwise.

Awful day. Deserved nothing. At least we turned up for half the game at Bristol. Clearly TM can’t let go this false number 9 nonesense. It’s never looked like working. At best it should be a last resort. We may not have beaten Preston regardless but at least get the right players on the pitch. Nyambe was our most dangerous player, think that says it all. Waste of time and money. Won’t be making the same mistake again until at least Tuesday.

Nyambe was a force yesterday. Prem eyes may be on Dack at the moment but it won’t be long before he starts getting recognition. Transformed over the last 18 months.

That’s 6 players in the bad category and 11 players in the good. I’m being pedantic but it’s more like 70% success. Id also say that signing Dack alone (from £700k to now £20m+..?) easily makes up for the likes of Gladwin and Samuel.

Poor transfer record..? Dack, Smallwood, Reed, Rothwell, Rodwell, Bell, Armstrong - all current first teamers and Mowbray signings. Can also add Downing, Palmer and Payne who have made contributions. If anything, Brereton is one of the few failures (based on limited appearances).

This side is streets ahead of anything we had in the Championship under Bowyer. Several of our bench players yesterday would be starting in many Champioship teams. The depth is really impressive. I think we can genuinely start talking about the play offs being a realistic aim. Momentum is so important. We just seem to find ways to win and we’re now doing it against decent teams.

Good comments from Mowbray afterwards. We need to be much better. Awful game and a poor performance but I’ll take the win especially with a clean sheet. Level on points with 6th place at this stage is as good as we could have expected at the beginning of the season.

The easy answer is to lower prices. But we are a business and have had low prices for many years. I’m not justifying the increase from last year but I can understand both sides to an extent. I’d like to think that if we can sustain this good start then fans will slowly come back, particularly for big end of season games. Oxford showed everyone that the fans are out there which is a start. Cant understate how significant having every midweek game available on Sky is turning out to be as well. A £10 ticket initiative for a non televised game would be my suggestion. Get people back into the habit.

Armstrong played no better in the latter part of his time here on loan. Lots of running but doesn’t actually pose a threat. Don’t know what Rothwell has to do to get a game. Real shame he hasn’t been involved since the international break.

Logged in for the first time since the match and we’re still discussing a photo of Dack. I really think we can move on.. Played well in the first half but didn’t take chances. 4-1 flattered them but can’t say we deserved much. It happens. TM clearly took a gamble second half and it didn’t pay off. Other days it might. Couldn’t fault the effort. It’s a reality check not a crisis.

Because he’s injured. Injured. Like he was last game. And the game before that. You’re reading far too much into this

What on Earth are you talking about? Dack clearly wasn’t due to play and (at this stage have to assume) was allowed to go out. Unless there’s evidence to the contrary, this isn’t a story. looking forward to this. Good to see if Brereton can get on at some stage.

In your own time.

Disagree. There were virtually no home fans in there when it was open. At least the JW looks a bit fuller than normal. Having 150 home fans in a corner of the Darwen End doesn’t look any better than just giving the whole lot to the away fans imo.

Rodwell has everything to prove. He won’t be on big wages and he’ll know what everyone thinks of him. It’s an underwhelming signing at best but I can see the logic. I’d like to think this is one of 2/3 deals between now and the end of Aug and if that’s the case then I’m ok with it. Down to him to prove himself now.

Genuinely impressed. Commentary was slightly out of sync but the picture quality was good and there were multiple camera angles. However, £10 per game is steep. £6/7 and I’d happily purchase for each available game. Overall it’s certainly a good option to have.

What a sad comment. Been one of our best players tonight. Cant fault that. Great effort. Considering the injuries and being down by 2, I don’t think many on here gave us much of a chance. Rothwell looks a real player as well. Lenihan has an off day but it happens. We need bodies through the door ASAP but putting that aside, we did really well to get back into it tonight.

So who would you have played on the wing? Clearly you wouldn’t play Conway or Samuel so I’m not sure who is left...

Our season tickets are always cheaper than most. We got promoted and they’ve gone up. What did people expect? Guess what, if we go into the prem then they’ll go up again. We’re playing better teams and better players. I’m not saying that it wouldn’t be nice for the tickets to cost a fiver each but this is the real world. They were always going to go up at some point if we had some success. I reckon we’ve still got one of the cheapest season tickets in the Championship. Happy to be proved wrong.