You mention being on the break but we appeared to have no attacking game plan, therefore no matter how long it took, I suspect that first goal was inevitable. I don't join the calls purely for aggression unless its channelled correctly and coupled with other parts to his game. Garrett is full of aggression, not sure what else.

Not that I am aware of, may be wrong? He could have played as a number 10 had we gone for the 5 at the back, or Hedges could have played there. With the Gallagher situation, it says a lot that our number 1 striking target can't get off the bench, a failure in recruitment.

I don't understand why footballers use social media in general, what he is doing makes sense, a week rest before a mini pre-season and back again. But surely he realises that it just rubs people up the wrong way. I remember back in the Shane Duffy days when his "unlucky lads, we go again next week" tweets became a matter of parody, same with Elliott Bennett, better off without it.

Again you seem reluctant to blame Tomasson SPECIFICALLY REGARDING YESTERDAYS MATCH. Tomasson will sort it and we are 3rd in the league are your 2 standard lines, without showing any accountability. You also are now implying that players should or indeed were going away from the gameplan, a football team is an embodiment of its manager hence why so much stock is placed into their importance. Your comment about my view of the academy players is not only incorrect but childish. Garrett was ok v Sunderland although never man of the match worthy, but in general I have not been overly impressed. Ashley Barnes is a tosser but it was a perfectly valid goal, momentum took him into Kaminski albeit there was certainly some intention to leave one on him, but the ball had long since crossed the line. I dont even think that it is about being cleverer, Cancelo initially moved to left back to cover a lack of that position in City's squad, and is obviously so talented and both footed that as you imply, incomparable. You mention Belik, do you mean Bielik (on loan at Birmingham for the season) or Helik? (former Barnley centre back, recently moved to Huddersfield) Neither would be unobtainable but Bielek is more of a technical midfielder anyway. But I dont see why we just need a brute and why it has to be one extreme or the other. We need someone with the ability to help in blocking those spaces that teams often get between our defence and attack and also who can play the game at their pace, ie Cullen.

But this thread IS about the bloody match in isolation! Do you agree/disagree with my comments regarding the mistakes that Tomasson made, or are you simply choosing to ignore them? Your last comment is a particularly petulant one, even for you. Are you implying that I have no faith in youth graduates/younger players? In which case, someone must have misinformed me as to where Adam Wharton is from, who is a class above Garrett and who I do very highly rate.

I don't know anything about the situation, nor do I profess to.

Especially when even if you try and get past the raw emotion a day on. There are a number of terrible decisions that Tomasson made which directly led to the defeat.

If he does, then I do worry. Not only out of his depth quality wise, but lazy too.

Clearly not otherwise it wouldn't conflict so much!

You are specifically in the Burnley thread within the following hours of a quite frankly embarrassing battering at the home of our local rivals, when it is still raw, not as much as the place to eulogise over the project. People aren't saying that the defeat was bad enough that it means that 3rd isn't good enough, but as ever and as posted, elsewhere, there is no accountability. The manager messed up and if you are keen to avoid such criticism then is this the thread for you? We didn't lay a glove on them, 3 nil flattered us. Blame the ref all you want, we had one shot and they were sadly far better. Garrett isn't up to it at this present moment.

Or because Nixon is covering all bases linking him to every club possible in each weekend prior to the Summer Window.

The manager chose to select Clinton Mola over Scott Wharton. The manager chose to select Callum Brittain on the wrong side. The manager chose to select Ryan Hedges as a wing back. The manager chose to select Jake Garrett over Adam Wharton/Bradley Dack/Harry Pickering. The manager chose to bring on Jack Vale for Sam Gallagher. How about some bloody accountability, just as he gets rightfully praised when we win for decisions made, he fucked up yesterday.

He said "we." Who pushed, was it Broughton was it Tomasson. The signing of Hirst and the pushing of Vale into regular first team minutes could suggest that playing ability as a striker does not necessarily translate to utilising one as a manager. He also said "Rovers fans should look forward to seeing a striker with a goal threat, good link-up play, the ability to press from the front and an ideal mentality for our environment."

Of course you do.

How can so many people be aware of specific negotiations between the club and Raya, to such varying amounts offered as wages?

Was it your idea to earmark George Hirst as our number 1 striking target?

Doe he just name a new Spanish team each Sunday to link Brereton to? I guess eventually one will prove to be true.

A day on from a truly pitiful, gutless, shameful performance against a side that were far better. Tomasson got his team and tactics horribly wrong and far from the first time this season, we didn't compete, we didn't create, we were embarassing. Our squad is massively lacking in certain areas, made much worse by bizarre selection. Garrett is miles off the quality needed, why is he starting such a big game, and Adam Wharton misses out on the squad? Jack Vale will not be close to a Championship striker as long as he has a hole in his arse, he is a lazy prick too, half arsed. Says a lot when our "number 1" striking summer target can't get on the bench over him. Also, what is Mola about, and why is he starting over Scott Wharton? This inverted full back shit needs knocking on the head too. Also, people genuinely name dropping Mowbray in when looking for blame? That's a stretch even for his biggest critics. I don't even understand how anyone can have gone yesterday and not felt it in the pit of their stomach.

How do you know the exact amount and the inner workings of the transfer?

Typical English disease? A number of players from various countries have had to miss out due to injury.

I think the Raya situation is a good example of how because it became so sour with Mowbray in the end, that people struggle to be fair in their analysis of things. It is easy to forget how error prone he was in the season prior to being sold but even so, we definitely sold him for less than we should have done. Then came the worst part, loaning in the inept Walton for a season. There seems to be no focus however on how he then went and signed in my opinion a better keeper for a seventh of the price.

I continued to back Mowbray? 😂 (You've moved away from your initial point that Mowbray would make changes dependant on the supporters so presumably youve come to terms with how stupid it was)

You clearly don't appreciate how stupid your argument is that Mowbray was stubborn yet he would make subs based on supporter reactions. Both of them can't be true, and in this case the latter is fictitious nonsense.

The wages issue is reportedly a banking issue whereby the payments are always made but a day or two late. Now I would be skeptical of that and either way it isn't acceptable, but still. That bein said, does that mean that they can not expect a better manager than one that has them sat 23rd after 1 point from 7 games? Your initial complaint was that not enough "loyalty" was shown though, why would that come into the decision? Mowbray would still be here if we decided to be "loyal" to him rather than looking for an upgrade. As I said, turn it round and if Richardson had a better paid job waiting at a higher level, he would not have given it a second thought.

@chaddyrovers in the past you have been staunchly against comparing ticket prices to other clubs because you deemed them to be incomparable, even when they were local clubs such as Preston, whereby the prices are noticeably cheaper and their season ticket sales were massively higher as a result. Now you are comparing to one off comedian tours following a huge period of time without or totally different sports! Also, what is this bollocks about dismissing people because "they haven't done anything about it?!" It isn't down to anyone on here to do anything, there is someone paid £300k a year at the club who has that responsibility. And he has never shown any willingness to listen anyway, even when ticket sales have been consistently piss poor.