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I’m annoyed and also worried by the performance Morton put in yesterday. After his costly antics against Sheff Utd I’d have expected him to have received an absolute bollocking from the senior players and coaching staff. Obviously that never happened because he was backing out of 70:30 challenges in his favour within 10 minutes. The fact he lasted the full game was as concerning as it was baffling. He will never be a useful Championship player, not only is he not robust enough, he doesn’t have the heart or desire for it. Maybe he could do well elsewhere or in a different league, but I couldn’t care less. His performances and his words suggest he isn’t bothered about what happens while he’s here as he knows he’s going back to Liverpool on a long contract. He’s been more of a hinderance than a help to us this season and is frequently a weak link. He’d be 8th choice to partner Travis for me and I’d rather play Wharton, Garrett, JRC, Edun, Harlock, Dack or Szmodics ahead of him.

Dack up front is better than nothing. And that’s what we had up top today.

That’s the one!

Criminal how Morton has played 90 odd minutes there. I maintain my wish to see him dropped from the squad after Sheff United was anything but knee jerk, he frequently underperforms and costs us. His backing out is very costly - it led to Travis getting booked today which completely nullified him. A handful of intelligent forward passes per game, which have about a 40% success rate is all he brings to the table. I sometimes thing Gallagher gets an undue amount of stick, but he was completely useless today. Literally zero positive contribution and he surely only finished the game due to a lack of options. Time for Leonard to get some minutes from the bench. If we’d made the first two changes before going a goal down it may have been a different story. They were more than happy to hold on to the 1-0 and did a very good job of nullifying the threat of our wide players. As it was Thomas had his worst showing in Rovers colours. Pears repaid the managers faith, Carter was excellent again. JRC with another strong performance, he was doing the job of several players and we lost an outlet when he went off. Results could’ve been a lot worse for us. A draw would’ve been very handy. Luton the big winners today and they look nailed on for a playoff spot.

Morton off for Dack… I’d seriously consider Wharton for Gallagher too.

JRC has put in a more effective centre forward performance than Gallagher today.

Ref being quite kind to us here

Thomas and Diaz for Hedges and Dolan in the next 5 minutes would be nice.

Morton annoyed me early on by visibly not fancying what was at least a 70:30 in his favour. I can forgive the passes that don’t come off, but not lack of commitment. Need to show a bit more composure at both ends. They’ve had the better of the chances for sure, but 3 points are very much there for the taking.

Dolan needs to keep his head here after that silly booking. Absolutely no more ludicrous dives.

Nothing Gallagher is doing is working so far. He usually scores soon after I say that.

Everyone who means about the aesthetics of the Riverside, watching this should make you appreciate what we have!

He wasn’t back in training til Thursday though, so understandable. Impact player off the bench if required.

Some options on that bench! Let’s get at them quickly today. Do that and I think it’s another 3 points.

On the bench today apparently

I agree he was good until the latter stages against Sheff Utd, but him rolling round on the floor pretending while we were backs to the wall completely blotted his copybook and for me was the final straw. He’s got away with his half hearted displays too many times and I think this last stretch of the season will only be a success with maximum labore. He’s been halfway back to Liverpool in his head since he signed that new deal with them. With Harlock, bit of both I suppose. I do really rate him based off what I’ve seen, good range of passing, loves a tackle, seems to have a great attitude, a leader. I was surprised when I read that article, a bit disappointed too, although it actually states we were going to trigger his year option but allow him to move on. His cause probably hasn’t been helped by younger players coming through ahead of him, but he’s still younger than Travis was before he broke through.

I’d drop Morton from the squad going forward. Play Wharton and promote Harlock to the bench. Can’t afford any shirkers and bottlers for the run in.

I can see this leading to a lot of work related injury claims if a player picks up a long term injury on the pitch/in training.

These international breaks have a lot to answer for!

Sounds like the sort of mistakes young players make and hopefully learn from. More than happy for them to do it in England colours, they will be better players in blue and white for it.

No. You pay a higher initial payment, it’s about an extra £40 on top of your first instalment. Not something the club have any control over I should add.

Sign in to your online ticket account and you’ll see a renewal option for season tickets next season. Mine in the Riverside is down to £379. 20 quid reduction. Not the pricing structure I’d have hoped for, but could’ve been worse.

I’ll take it please @Herbie6590, if it’s still available.

A few weeks back Waggott told members of the Rovers Trust board that the primary reason for this was that they see our home form as being key to securing a playoff spot, and they want to give the team every advantage they can. No specific discussions around what tier they were going in, but he told us they were getting less tickets than they gave us, and that Burnley were not happy with him and it categorically was not a police decision.

They’ll be telling the story for years to come about this 50/50 divide in the fanbase… how a quarter of a million boycotted, and a quarter of a million were dotted around the home ends.