Dolan had his worst ninety minutes in a Rovers shirt today. Is it any coincidence that he was being asked to do something that is completely alien to him?

It was like somebody threw the magic boomerang (for the older ones amongst us) and momentarily everything stopped. I had to do a double take as he was stood inside the goal with the ball in his hands. It was bewildering. In fairness to Pears I watched his reaction at full time and he turned to the Rovers fans and held his hands up in a kind of 'my fault' gesture.

Me and my big gob (or fingers in this case).

I'm desperately hoping Swansea lose for no other reason that we can play them on a Saturday (5th Feb) which is the date of the fourth round. Having had our last two matches when we could attend in midweek it's a bollocks of a time to get home.

It was never officially confirmed (maybe out of embarrassment) but the rumour was there was never an ambulance there in the first place and nobody noticed until half time.

It won't be forgotten by me and I'd wager a few thousand others. It wasn't the defeat as much as the manner of it and my worry is the attitude which cost us today becomes a mindset.

I feel really let down by Rovers today and that is primarily down to questionable attitudes from some of our players. Against a poor Wigan side too many just weren't at it as the tempo was slow and players wanted too many touches. Scoring first I believe actually helped Wigan as we went even further down Easy Street and allowed Wigan back into the game and ultimately chucked the game away. As strong as we've been as a unit recently today we simply weren't as players struggled with the simple things. I heard on the radio coming back that we haven't progressed beyond the third round in five years. That is an absolute disgrace for a Championship club.

In the League Cup if you don't play a game then you get kicked out of the game isn't played before the date of the next round. I don't know if that applies to the FA Cup.

We have Tim Robinson who gave what I thought was the best refereeing performance of our season at Stoke recently. There's the kids of death 😁😁

Does anybody else find it strange that after the plethora of Premier League and EFL games called off recently due to covid no FA Cup matches and only two EFL matches are off today? Every day record numbers of positive cases are recorded and yet it appears that footballers are now immune. The clubs have run rings around the authorities in my opinion.

I'm sure an under 18's match was abandoned at half time recently because of no emergency services being present.

My point was that there are several posts saying they are happy with him when they have never heard of him.

It really is becoming one of my pet hates in football. Swindon are trying to play out from the back against City and have conceded two goals in no time at all by doing so. When the players just aren't good enough why do they try it?

It's amazing that some posters are happy with a Dutch player to replace Nyambe who, up until a few hours ago had never heard of. We are in our strongest position for years and could be on the verge of losing several key players and replacing them with players nobody knows. Besides that will Zeefuik even qualify for a work permit? Only in the world of Venkys.

In my view it's about giving players who haven't played too much recently a game along with a couple of under 23's.

There has to be a result on the day and if necessary extra time and penalties. For anybody booking the train this should be factored in.

Burke signed for Sheffield United when they were in the Premier League and will be on a wage which will eclipse our newly acquired 'wage structure' I guess. But for me the most damning statistic is that he is 24 and has had seven clubs already. There is a reason for that usually.

I don't get the Rankin-Costello is a better fit than Nyambe for our system and the way we play. Personally I need some convincing that JRC is good enough in any position. He has only played 26 games at this level and without stating the obvious is hugely injury prone.

I have watched the first two episodes of Anne on ITV. It's about Anne Williams who wouldn't accept the Coroner's verdict after her 14 year old son died at Hillsborough. It's powerful and the cast is headed by the excellent Maxine Peake.

City could be in the same boat as they are at Swindon on Friday night.

Had the referee been consistent he should have done. Van Hecke's body language indicated to me he thought he was off.

I would absolutely accept that as a penalty against us. It wasn't too dissimilar to the one not given for a push by a Spurs player on Jota recently. That was almost universally accepted as wrong. The main thing a referee can offer in any one game is consistency then everyone knows where they stand. Yesterday the only consistency was his inconsistency as some free kicks were allowed to be taken yards from the incident and on others he insisted on the blade of grass where the incident occurred. Similarly what was a foul one minute wasn't the next. And this was for both teams.

The second challenge is a penalty. How is it acceptable to shoulder an opponent in the back? If that happened anywhere outside the penalty area it's a free kick don't you agree?

With a wilting red rose and three red kisses. It's probably some bored 12 year old Dingle having a break from a family night of fun and games.

The referee interpreted this as reckless and cautioned for it. Not only that he passed the buck by holding his earpiece and looking at the AR in an effort to tell everyone he was advised by the AR to caution. Shockingly poor.