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Whoever decided to play Sweet Caroline and follow it up with Status Quo’s Rockin all over the world at full time should be sacked immediately. There are dozens of recorded versions of Singing the Blues, and any of them (except the Cliff Richard one) was the only choice of post match song today.

Relief today. Should’ve killed the game off several times, and while I’m delighted with the three points we will need a better performance next week. I’d have liked to see a more positive change earlier on, think Dack could’ve had an impact and we tried shutting up shop very early. We won’t get away with it every time. Vale showed some nice touches but disappointed with a lack of graft. Pickering was sensational today. Great for our goal, cleared one of the line, let nothing down his side. Head and shoulders the best performer.

Tomasson today… “We are trying to create a new chapter. We should look at it in a different way, we should look at the journey we’ve had so far and the performances.” I had hoped we’d head heard the last about journeys when Moany Tony finally buggered off.

I don’t think you can ever prepare for that!

I think giving Buckley a new 5 year deal 6 weeks ago suggest ls he’ll be part of that dressing room for a while yet.

It’s also playing into Burnley’s hands, so I hope we don’t see it next week!

The top point used to really bug me with Mowbray. It was always to our detriment when he inexplicably left Nyambe out for Bennett or Rankin-Costello. It’s ridiculous that Tomasson seems to be doing the same thing. Brittain should be starting every game he is at least 75% fit for at right back/wing back. Sticking any old player in at right back to “do a job” is what you’d expect to see in an under 14s game at Blacksnape, not at Ewood Park in the Championship. I don’t know why it seems to only happen with right backs, but it makes the managers who do it look weak for accommodating players, or just plain stupid.

Are Hedges and Gallagher expected to be fit? I hope so, both are a big miss at the moment.

Kaminski Hyam Ayala Wharton Brittain Pickering Morton Buckley Wharton Dack Brereton Pears, Carter, Mola, Travis, Dolan, Szmodics, Markanday/Garratt (pending appeal)

I broadly agree, although he needs to try some new boots! His passing was woeful last night.

No makeshift right backs No actual right backs at left back No Brereton playing like an old fashioned winger No strikers who are miles off the required standard Less kamikaze passing in and around our own box Don’t think any of the above is too much to ask.

If they watched us last night who could blame them. Their wide players are really dangerous and if we approach the game like we did last night I think they will absolutely humiliate us. We need our best players in their natural positions, and we need them all to turn up to have a hope of taking anything from Turf moor. I don’t understand how we can turn in a defensive performance like we did at the weekend and then be as pathetic as is humanly imaginable 3 days later. On the flip side Brereton can definitely get in behind them. One thing is for certain, a performance like last nights against Burnley would be unforgivable.

When we are good, we are good. When we are bad we are absolutely woeful, hopeless, toothless, useless and clueless.

We would genuinely be better off sticking Ayala up front a la Hendry or Samba and lumping it long than persisting with Vale or Hirst.

Tonight is completely on the manager. It’s so utterly frustrating because we obviously have some good players and the ability to win games both pretty and ugly. Unfortunately I feel JDT has tried to be too clever for his own good, and then too stubborn to change things. This inverted wingbacks nonsense needs to stop immediately. We got away with it once largely due to Hedges, but it’s an absolute mess. Replacing Vale with Hirst was like swapping a yellow cone for an orange one. It was blindingly obvious we were losing tonight from about the 8th minute. There’s no excuses for a performance like that, and we shouldn’t be shrugging our shoulders and writing this off as a transitional season. Promotion is there for the taking. I’m almost as pissed off with the red card as I am with the manager, team and performance. Wasn’t even a foul, but obviously the powers that be want tackling consigned to the past and every team to make 3,000 pointless passes per game. There’s a good reason I watch barely any professional football that doesn’t involve Rovers.

If that is a red card I give up. Modern football is absolutely shite.

I’m not even that fussed about his missed chance. All he’s been able to offer in an attacking sense is exactly what people moaned about from Nyambe for years. To reiterate its not his fault, he should be playing in his proper position.

Brittain might be quality at right back but as a left back he’s defensively poor and ineffective in attack.

We needed changes at half time, all we’ve done is waste a sub.

He’s looked dreadful to me. Not his fault, he’s clearly out of position, but looks uncomfortable defending from that side and is always naturally coming backwards when on the ball.

Vale, Travis and Scott Wharton off. Pickering, Dack and Garrett on.

Play anything like this against Burnley and we are bang in trouble. They’d be 4 up by now.

Pickering on for Vale. Get Brittain in his proper position and Travis in the middle to hopefully cut out some of those through balls.

Dreadful start. Let’s hope they get the nonsense out of their systems quickly.

I don’t rate Pickering all that highly, but on recent form he can feel very hard done by to not be starting. Must be down to resting.