I noticed that several fans who bought them wore them on Saturday. I wore mine for the first time albeit under a jumper so being superstitious it has been washed, will be ironed and ready for Wednesday. If we beat Forest rinse and repeat for Boxing Day. Hopefully it will be worn out by the time the next batch are available 😂😂.

BBC 5 Live were reporting that the absence of Tella yesterday was 'unexplained' and reading between the lines they are expecting Southampton to recall him. Have you heard anything?

The significance of not playing Travis yesterday was apparent to me. I like Travis. He seems a decent person, loves the club, relates well with the fans and lots of other things but his limitations really stifle us. Our midfielders yesterday could both take the ball on the half turn, press higher up the pitch and pass the ball quicker whilst under pressure. Travis struggles in all of them aspects, aspects I believe make us better and stronger as a team. If Tomasson wants to play him regularly then he has to have a different way of playing. I'm not scapegoating Travis by the way, I'm simply pointing out the evidence of my own eyes.

I wholly agree Ian. That particular law change has had a seismic effect on how many managers try to play as a poor and limited imitation of the top teams. With the correct players it's not as much of a risk but as we saw with Norwich (and ourselves recently) some players simply aren't good enough to do it. Significantly the Norwich fans by us were booing after twenty minutes yesterday and as the game went on they were mocking their manager and several players.

Well, well, well. I honestly don't think anybody saw that coming. Tomasson has rightly been hammered by the vast majority of Rovers fans over the last few weeks but to give him his due credit he got it pretty much spot on today. His team selection and tactics were what won us the game today. The pace, aggression and intensity so obviously missing recently was there tonight in abundance. Tomasson went back to his front four tonight and rotated them to share the workload particularly when pressing the Norwich defenders. And it worked a treat. After twenty minutes the home crowd were agitated about how their team were trying to play out when the players aren't really good enough to. We all know how that feels 😂. I didn't think there was a real stand out performance tonight but Buckley and Dolan deserve real credit in my opinion. Hopefully Tomasson has seen the error of his ways and continues to mix up the long and short passing. Two incidents aside the risk taking was minimal and the reward from longer passing resulted in a goal and several other chances.

In our last eight games against the Canaries we have lost six and drawn two. I don't normally do predictions but I can't see anything else but a loss by a least a two goal margin.

Is it two shots on target in the last two games? I want to see quick, accurate passing through the thirds, intensity, pace and commitment. In reality I expect slow, predictable play strewn with self inflicted errors and consequentially a big defeat. I am going to the game and sometimes question my own sanity. It's the hope that kills you.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/club/job-vacancies/ I couldn't find an appropriate thread for this but it's for current vacancies at Rovers. Amongst them is one for a first team physiotherapist and the closing date is December 28th. Andy Procter was doing this role - does anybody know who has left to create this role? Unless it a new appointment just to look after Callum Brittle 😂😂.

So the sycophants to whom the club can do no wrong are wrong. And the blame lies with the club who won't but them because the don't think they will sell them. And just before Christmas too.

In a nutshell.

Hopefully Tomasson stays true to his word and keeps the nucleus of the side that have got us this far. I still of the opinion that the two most enjoyable performances of the season were at Bradford and West Ham

I don't know if this has a bearing on the number of tickets showing as sold but when I got ours on the last day you had to claim your own seat I was offered two options. The first was a standard paper ticket and the second was to update your season card to allow admission using that.

Southgate is an extremely intelligent man who will do what is best for him and his family as the majority of us would do. I shuddered when I saw Brendan Rogers being linked with the job today though. Not because he isn't English but because I just don't rate him.

In truth Andy I haven't seen too much quality from Brittain at all. Defensively he has been found wanting and as you rightly point out his self inflicted injury was entirely down to him not fancying a 50/50 ball. Is he an upgrade on Nyambe? The jury is still out for me.

We are 22 games in Gav and to many it's apparent that some of our players simply aren't capable of carrying out his way of playing. There hasn't been any indication that they can neither. So how long does he persist with it? It's already cost us several goals and given up numerous chances to the opposition. There is some suggestion that he will bring players in that can play this way and that will be at the expense of those who just aren't good enough. What is frustrating is that he keeps trying it and it's patently not working. It's hurting us and will continue to do so I believe.

Pass and move can work but it has to be done with pace and two touches. We have far too many players who are slow in the footballing mind and execution of play. It's incredible that Tomasson hasn't worked this out yet.

Pukki will have us on toast if we try and play the slow, ponderous boreball from the back. This is a huge test of Tomasson's credentials in my view and he simply has to show us another string or two to his bow.

Spot on Andy. In old money he 'gibbed' out of what was a fifty/fifty ball and got hurt. When I first started playing men's football at 14 in the Darwen League the best advice I was given was never to pull out of a challenge or you'll get hurt.

I agree entirely. If Tomasson was going to change anything he would have done it by now after the catastrophes of previous games. He must see it like we do and the many, many Rovers fans who are unhappy with it can't be wrong. My belief is that he is too stubborn and arrogant to change, it's almost like an admission of failure. Norwich have the best presser in the Championship in Pukki. He will have a field day next week if we persist in suicide football.

We are third which some are using to defend Tomasson with. That is indisputable but the reality for most of us is that we are as far away from promotion into the Premier League as we have been in twelve years.

It's simple really and not rocket science, just play to your strengths. Tomasson plays to our weakness.

I wasn't going to post this because of the million questions that follow criticising credibility of source and other things but I was told by somebody close to the players that many players aren't happy with Tomasson. The exact words were 'he is only two senior players away from losing the dressing room'. I was also told that Broughton struts around Brockhall like he owns it.

Not his dedication that I am questioning. His big failing for me is the lack of variation in play and tactics. We are predictable, so much so we are easy to play against. He is asking players to do something they aren't capable of and yet he persists with it. I honestly don't know what he sees when the vast majority of fans can see how we can't play his way.

We stuck with Mowbray for five years.

In truth we have seen very little of his football intelligence. We have gone behind in nine league games this season and lost them all. Surely that is not the record of an intelligent football man. He has played and managed in several different countries so I don't buy the away from the family argument. He knew that when he took the job and is being handsomely rewarded for it.