He was excellent against Barnsley and we were much weaker when he went off. I feel he is someone that should be competing for the CB spot with Lenihan as they are quite similar ability. I don’t expect him to keep his spot for long once either Ayala or Williams are back in contention though. Given out injury record it’s good to have 4 reliable CBs to choose from now.

GALLY!! That was a beautiful finish.

Carter looks like he's seen a ghost.

Another injury..

Raya who? What a stop!!!

Alright... that was just awful from Elliott. I'd sub him after that.

Brereton not doing enough for me.. I would take him off for Gally or Dolan. Elliott not done much either except the pass for Nyambe's assist. Trybull has been excellent today.

Barnsley have setup perfectly here to nullify us... we are struggling against the 3-4-3 as they've packed the centre of the pitch, which is stopping us from controlling the game through the centre. We look dangerous when Bell and Nyambe are brave and attack down those flanks. Both were very sloppy for most of the first half, which was hampering us considerably. Given we're 1-0 up now, not sure if we need to change anything around. Barnsley aren't posing us any particular problems, they were just nullifying us quite well.

ARMA!! Nyambe is a machine.

Getting into it a bit now. Bell's little foray forward seems to woken everyone up a bit.

Our system just not working for us at the moment, probably needs a change of formation at half time if it's still at 0-0 (or worse). A lot of misplaced passes and inability to find space.

Barnsley look well up for it today, but bodes well for us as the game's more open than usual.

Same 11 for me. Don’t mind if we have Trybull or Johnson in the DM role. Frankly I was impressed by Davenport’s cameo on Tuesday and would like to see him get more chances in the side.

Feel so chuffed for him! Someone needs to put together a highlights reel of all his moves against PNE... he really made fools out of them!

All our subs did really well. Dolan obviously popped up with a goal, but Davenport and Buckley controlled the game really well. Shout out for Douglas as well who is a massive improvement at LB. A beautiful 3 points there!

Preston messageboard in meltdown atm ?

Dolan!!! So fuckn happy right now haha

He said to judge him after 12 games, well we are struggling to keep up the win rate required to challenge for the playoffs. He needs to be winning 50% of matches, but we’re 2 wins behind at present. I don’t know at what point we say someone else needs to come in and try to get this team promoted. We need a significant improvement for the next 12 games.

That's what I thought initially as well, but the ref was actually Gavin Ward not Darren Bond.

That was absolutely abysmal refereeing. If there aren't some sort of repercussions for that ref after this game then it will be a fucken joke. It's not even that important a game really, but I am livid.

This referee needs to be sacked. FUCK OFF!!!

How have we not scored???

For what?

Stoke, Swansea, Watford, Millwall all winning. Bournemouth beat Reading earlier. Bad results for us if we want to make the playoffs. We need the 3 points here.

Elliott and Brereton have struggled to get in the game so far, so chances have been limited. Not sure who you could bring on to change the game. Buckley for Trybull maybe, but I thought he was doing quite well keeping things ticking in midfield. I don't think Dolan or Gallagher would be able to change anything.