I'd say it was divided into 2 halves - you can't see the shirt from both sides at the same time after all. Is the Bristol Rovers shirt divided into eighths? It's been done to death but still splits the fans! Back to PNE anyway. About time we beat them

Have to pick you up on the "quarters" Bazza. Always halves to me

Yet another soft goal given away by poor defending and the surprise was we actually equalised. Poor performance overall and typical of a mid-table side that's going nowhere.

Gawd, here we go again. Every game is difficult to Tony. Excuses already in place. Luton 2 Rovers 0

No comment required !

My memory of Green was that we rejected him as not being good enough....might be wrong though

I was sitting in the Nuttall Stand that night ....... it was literally shaking! Never forget the swaying of the crowd on the Riverside.... how those barriers held up I'll never know. 42,000 on Ewood!

That place is now a Co-op.....how can a great pub like that go under/

Luton were a decent First Division out fit under Pleat in the 1980s. The Futcher and Stein brothers played for them - good players. Saw them lose to Arsenal in the League Cup final around 1985 I agree with your post though. The likes of Bournemouth, Watford, Brighton, Crystal Palace etc , to me are third and fourth division clubs playing way above their level. To fans of a certain age it seems incredible to see them in the top flight while clubs such as Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday, Middlesbrough, proud Preston, Birmingham and Forest langusih.

Playing with your back to goal and shielding the ball with a defender up your backside is a difficult skill and takes years to learn - Danny Graham was very good at it - and Brereton is getting better. The lad can play too outside the box, as he's shown in patches over the past 2 seasons. He needs to score more goals though, get on the end of crosses, be brave and stick his head and boot in to get the last touch in front of defenders, and be more cute in his movements inside the area. When he starts to do that we'll have a .very good forward worth the £7m we paid.

Que?

The lad is 22, a full time professional footballer who has just been given a 4-year contract, not a 10 year old learning the game. Not having the goalkeeping basics at his age (which he doesn't) is like an outfield player not being to control the ball. From what I've seen he should not be anywhere near the first team.

Dealing with crosses is as basic as catching the ball. It's one of the main functions of any good goalkeeper. An amateur keeper would be embarrassed at dealing with crosses the way Pears does. Any Championship manager watching that tonight would tell his team to pepper the Rovers box with crosses. He's a weak link and not good enough to be a No 2.

Dealing with crosses is goalkeeping basics and irrelevant to the way any team plays

Q. So why are "poor side" Boro in 5th and "poor side" Rovers in 15th? A: They're a much better side than us with a better manager

A "poor side" in 5th place . So what does that make us?

Old joke but Pears is like Dracula..... he doesn't like crosses. Seriously, Pears inspires no confidence whatsever.

Boro were excellent 1st half when they should have scored but poor in the 2nd I wish we were awful and in the top 6

Blimey Philp... I lost count of the number of cross he misjudged, missed or flapped at

Yes I agree. It might help us avoid relegation

Point gained. That was awful

Pears catches ball shock

Gallagher built like a brick wottsit but no idea how to use his body Another ball pears allowed to bounce across 6-yard box

Williams off....probably been our best player

Dangerous free kick from losing possession at a silly throw in