I liked the Travis of a few years ago but the player I saw at Coventry in midweek was a shadow of that player, even allowing for the fact he was playing out of position. I think the Mowbray years have affected his game. He needs to go back to the Travis of a few years ago ,the more dynamic player who bossed the midfield and got up and down the pitch alot more. And he needs never to play at full back again

Yet when we've never been able to come back after going behind IIRC. The defence is miles better this season but you have to admit we ride our luck at times.

Chilwell is out injured

Tip tapping at the back…. Was Ayala playing by any chance? I wouldn’t pick him Ale house football created our few chances at Coventry too after 70 minutes of pointless passing

The performance sounds as bad as the one at Coventry except with a different result. How we’re in second place I don’t know except you have to say playing so poorly and expecting to get promotion is unsustainable over the course of a season. Is Tomasson a lucky manager? You’d have to say that he is so far because we’ve been very lucky with some of our wins. We’re in a great position though and I’d love the owners to give him the money to buy a bit of quality in January. We need some better players especially up front

Yes very satisfying. Especially on their own middin. I wonder who they’ll be supporting in the semis……England or India?

Apart from Ayala that's a reasonable team. At least it's not 5 at the back

England never make it easy. If they bat like that in the semis, they'll lose. Brook, Livingstone, Ali and Curran all played either loose shots or were going for the big hit when it wasn't necessary at that stage. Can't they learn that at only 7 an over they only need to nurdle it around for ones and twos?

Any "Sunday league manager", even one with a only a "tiny mind", can see when a formation isn't working so how does that place Tomasson when he still makes the same mistakes and refuses to change a system that isn't working? Is Tomasson therefore worse than a "Sunday league manager" because he's so blind to what's going on or so arrogant and stubborn that he refuses to admit he made a mistake? Using your great intellect would you like to pick a team?

After Tuesday I've seen enough. It's goodbye to 5-3-2 and the cause of our troubles Ayala must stay out of the team Stick to 4-4-2, strengthen he midfield, get the ball forward quicker and move it quicker and keep it simple This is the kick, bollock and bite Championship, not the pass-a-ball Champions League If fit I'd go Kaminski Brittain Hyam S Wharton Pickering Morton Travis Szmodics A Wharton Gallagher Brereton

So prancing around like a showpony passing the ball 10 yards sideways, backwards, sideway, sideways and sideways again ad infinitum earns a MotM. If ever there was a match where no one deserved a MotM Tuesday night was it.

Good post. I spotted early on that alot of our problems stem from Ayala. He's good on the ball but the interminable playing out from the back invariably gets us into trouble and he's usually the one who gives the ball away. The defeats at Reading, Luton and Coventry were cases in point I prefer Hyam and Wharton in a conventional 4-man defence with 2 full backs. The 3-man defence including Ayala with 2 wing backs only encourages him to play the ball around - to absolutely no effect. If Ayala plays he needs to be instructed to get the ball to the front men quicker.

You have to hand it to the Burnley owners/board. They identified Dyche as a top manager who did a great job for them for many years and they seem to have unearthed another gem in Kompany. They looked to be in disarray at the end of last season but there they are sitting pretty at the top of the league and favourites to win it. There's no long term "project" at Turf Moor - only promotion back to the big time in short order

Based on last night's non-event, we need one, preferably 2 decent Championship standard strikers and a combative, strong leader in midfield to give some direction to our promising young lads. A club with promotion aspirations doesn't have Vale or Hirst in their squads or have to look to Gallagher for goals. The best money spent might be a coaching manual for Tomasson on why square pegs don't fit in round holes, why plan B and Cs are important when plan A plainly doesn't work and visit from human resources to tell him not to be so arrogant and that his way might not be the only way

Please email this to the manager Tomasson wasted 9 hours of my life and £75 in petrol and ticket money yesterday

Virtually non-existent in terms of vocal support. Really odd - fans are usually more vocal away from home. Coventry fans enjoyed themselves though

Did Tomasson refuse to change the team quickly last night because that would have showed his original selection to be wrong and he didn't want lose face? Or is he so ideologically fixed to his way of playing that he wants the team to play that way regardless of how the games is going or the strength of the opposition? Either way, his unwillingness to change his thinking smacks of arrogance. It was obvious to fans last night that the team was set up all wrong and many couldn't understand why it took him so long to change it. After 20 minutes, when Coventry should already have been 2 up, Scott Wharton should have come off, Pickering come on at left back, Brittain switched to right back, and Travis pushed into midfield. At least then square pegs were in the square holes and the gaping chasm in midfield filled. Such a frustrating night but typical of the games I've seen this season.

As it happens I thought it was one of Szmodics better games - agree though that it's a low bar.

I understand also that Vale has recently been given a 4-year contract. I've only seen him play a few times but I've not yet seen even a glimmer of a Championship player. If he's regarded as the long term answer to our striking problems then we are in trouble This isn't meant as a criticism of him per se because the whole team including the manager was inept from start to finish.

I don't know how many fans we had at Coventry last night but there didn't seem to be that many (the farce over the venue may have been a cause) but even more noticeable was quiet they were I've never heard a Rovers crowd so quiet, there was no virtually singing in the concourse before the game and very little during the match. Coventry fans took note and duly mocked our fans. Perhaps they were anaethetised by the lack of passion and sheer ineptitude of the Rovers performance but for a team that could have gone top of the league the lack of noise from the fans was surprising And another thing: I could hear lots of grumbling around me about the players' performance and the manager, far more than under Mowbray even than on his worst days

Five matches, five defeats. I've got a 100% record, Tyrone And after tonight's diabolical performance, I've changed my mind and I'm not going to West Ham next week - so we'll probably win

But he didn't, and we didn't deserve to score. From the manager to the players, we were atrocious, wrong team, poor tactics, poor mindset, poor subs made far too late. I was pulling out what's left of my hair watching us pass it sideways and backwards while Coventry's 11 men sat and waited for us to give the ball away without offering any threat. I cannot imagine what the manager was thinking picking that team. Coventry are a very average team and we never once looked like getting at them or putting them under any pressure. They should have been 3-0 up at half time. It was worse than Reading and Luton in so many ways

Can’t believe what I’ve just witnessed. Worse than Reading and Luton away. A promotion team doesn’t play like that. Manager entirely at fault for that debacle

I’ve said it before watching a Tomasson team passing it sideways forever is worse than anything under Mowbray

We can go top tonight if we win. Do the players and manager want it?