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Devil's advocate mode on: The owners APPEARED to be prepared to sanction a small fortune in wages to bring O Brien in in Jan - until someone at the Club sabotaged all incoming deadline day business. Either by negligence or intentionally by design

Nothing will ever change whilst we are still glibly talking about "projects" or "journeys" that may or may not come to fruition many years down the line. We need a mentality that results and performances are required NOW and if we don't see them it simply isn't acceptable. Players and management team alike. I'm not holding JDT solely responsible as imo he inherited a right load of shite and problems off Mowbray but it's not Mowbray's fault for example that we haven't signed another striker since he left

Seems that way.

Poor player/signing for me. Career journeyman, another clearly not good enough if you ever want to achieve anything.

Absolutely spot on. It's like Conte said about Spurs for me, they like playing under no pressure. When they're asked to obtain a result or set of results to achieve anything they won't/can't do it. Been the same since Hughes left for me with the exception that Allardyce was able to engineer enough results to keep us out of relegation trouble in the Prem.

And Gallagher. You can barely afford one passenger, let alone two. Then, if you listen to JDT/Broughton it doesn't sound like either are remotely interested in the play offs let alone automatic promotion at any point. I think we know how this all ends - in similar fashion to last season.

Poor from the manager for the second week running for me - if you're starting Gallagher and leaving your most effective striker on the bench you're not really that interested in winning the game or making the play offs in my book. Dumped out of the Cup last week after winning with 10 mins to go, beaten today, this has all the hallmarks of another spectacular collapse/bottle job at the business end to put alongside the one that happened over a longer period last season

Why do you trust Broughton to bring in 2 decent strikers in the summer? He hasn't brought in a single decent one in his first two windows.

Absolutely nothing. Subsequent events have shown as most of us suspected we had absolutely zero grounds for an appeal and and the entire process was a complete sham. And predictably Broughton hasn't come out and explained exactly what went wrong as promised either.

I also forgot to order by the deadline I'll have one of each in medium if still possible.

And a credible Chief Executive and an actual Director of Football as opposed to an overpromoted Academy Head.

Heckinbottom has just been on the radio saying that they're going to ask Citeh if they're willing to waive that rule.

Agreed. It was a very creditable performance for 80 mins but the bottom line is we were winning with ten minutes to go, the manager chucked in the white towel with his substitutions and we didn't even make it to extra time. So I think it's going somewhat overboard to say how superb we were, superb would have been holding on and winning 3-2. We can show we've learned from this by making the play offs and performing well in the play off games however.

Each to their own but chasing after a lost cause you've no chance of getting to make it look like you're doing something isn't putting in effort in my book.

Might seem harsh after a very good performance for 80 mins today but everything Conte said about Spurs yesterday applies to us albeit at a lower level. There's been a losing mentality at the Club, probably since Mark Hughes left. Losing the game today after leading twice and not even making it to extra time after leading with ten minutes to go. Three out of three chances of a trip to Wembley for an FA Cup semi final spurned with defeat in the quarters.. Not even one finish in the play off positions in eleven (?) seasons in the Championship. A shocking indictment. Can we start to put that habit of failure right by at least finishing in the play off positions this season? Let's hope so but I fully expect us to somehow contrive to miss out even if success looks likely come the business end.

No he isn't. Gallagher creates the impression of doing something. but at the end of the day he can't be arsed getting into the correct positions from which he is likely to score.

Ten minutes away, two goals up -absolutely gutted. Wanted the win today far more than any play off challenge, you'd imagine that chances to finish in the top six will be fairly commonplace whereas chances to reach Cup semi finals, finals win it will be very rare indeed. Odd substitutions - if it ain't broke, don't fix it, having made those subs we were always stuffed if we conceded the equaliser.

It has met your emotional needs on plenty of occasions this season then.

Think it's a bit harsh to blame Dolan. Hyam missed the ball for two of the goals.

Fuck off Gallagher, stunk the place out as usual then loses the ball for the 3rd. But hey, we allegedly win more points with him in the side than not so it's all OK. Normal service has been resumed. As we seem to be able to rise to the occasion in the Cups however I'll settle for an FA Cup win.

Really, based on what? He doesn't have a single redeeming quality in my eyes. To say he's decent at this level is probably as much of an exaggeration as saying he's the worst player ever to play for the Club.

Will give you Brown. Did say "one of". Vale is only young, Campbell was better imo, don't agree about Brereton and I wouldn't class Butterworth as an out and out striker.

It really isn't.

Pretty dreadful looking starting line up. How does Gallagher keep getting selected? Must be one of the worst players ever to pull on a Rovers shirt.

I wonder what odds you'd get on us not winning another game until the end of the season? Has to be a fair shout given our striking options and the incompetence of GB, the recruitment department and whoever messed up the two deals. Hard to imagine JDT is too enamoured with life at the moment.