Broughton probably mentioned the international break hoping by that stage we'd be mid-table and he could just reel off a few lines about next season and tying up the player then, to which happy clappers would defend him and the club. It's backfired for him (as has everything he's done since joining the club pretty much), as we're now in a relegation battle and he's going to come out and explain (or remind us) of how much he cocked up in January whilst we're 1 point above a relegation place and in free-fall. Hope the curry was nice at least.

Tonight's match feels like one of the biggest in recent memory (for the wrong reasons), and it looks like we'll see one of our lowest ever crowds for a league game in recent decades, all thanks to the appalling way the club is being run. Anything less than 3 points simple isn't good enough now.

Infuriating as others have said. We’re getting 18 minutes out of him for a probable cost of around £500k in wages. Zero accountability at Rovers. Rock up for a job for life, regardless of your competence.

How is playing shite a positive? Short-termism that will bite us (and has) in the behind. We were clearly not moving towards mid-table and instead closer to the bottom 3 - nothing to be positive about. I was positive on Tuesday as the players actually looked like they were interested in the shirt they were wearing, which can’t be said often recently, and clearly wasn’t backed up today. Anyway, besides the back and forth, we’re in agreement that we’re run by morons, the majority of players are weak at worst and uninterested at best, the owners have ripped any quality we had apart and any manager would struggle to get a tune out of what’s left. 6 points from Millwall and Plymouth needed.

You said we should all be positive because we scraped a draw in a shocking performance at Cardiff. As well as your belief we were marching towards mid-table and no longer slipping towards the bottom 3 (which was factually incorrect at the time, and further eye-opening now) Judging by your posts tonight, you’re no longer positive so that last sentence is hypocritical. Glad you’ve seen some sense anyway, sort of.

Glad to see you’ve come around. You were telling me to come around to reality and it only took you 2 weeks to do so yourself.

6 points from the next two and I’ll be confident we’re staying up, 4 points and I’ll be hopeful, 3 points and I’ll be worried, less than 3 and we’re down.

Absolute dross bar 3 or 4 who can hold their head high. Gallagher wide forward. No more needs to be said except VENKYS OUT

If we do go down, we ought to hope it’s Pompey, Derby and Bolton going up this season to give us a shout at being fancied to bounce back

Still not a peep out of Greg and co. about how they managed to fuck up a 3rd transfer window either. They’re stealing a living. The whole upper management needs gutting.

Yep, people started using results against JDT but not much has changed. 3 draws and 2 defeats in 5 matches he’s taken charge of. Defence looks just as bad as before and that’s with an extra defender in there. Ominous, as others have said, we need 6 points from the next two. Has Sam Gallagher ever been in the right place at the right time? Must have the worst positional sense of any striker I’ve ever watched.

Some posters on here appear to have completely forgotten the transfer windows he endured. 3 separate occasions of incompetence leading to transfers falling through - yet no consequences for those involved.

But remember our coach is state of the art…

There was one in the first half where Buckley had his legs hooked, the ref must have been 2 yards away looking straight at it and awarded nothing. Some stuff really had me scratching my head.

Grow up

Give over. If I won a million trophies with Newcastle (lol) and they were then playing Rovers in a match there is still only one team I’m supporting. He’s a Newcastle fan, at the end of the day.

Probably covered in other posts but 2 coin tosses. What a completely ridiculous rule. Football over complicating itself again

1) What a joke that coin toss rule is. 2 separate tosses so Newcastle got their end and chose to take 1st. Surely the loser of the toss should get the other choice. 2) Ref was diabolical, is that seriously the best we have in this country, he was that bad I wouldn’t be surprised if his coin had same image on both sides. 3) Hats of to the manager and the players. Great performance all across the pitch and not a negative to be said about any of them. Too many players to shout out in all honesty, you were all excellent. Well done Eustace, hopefully we can freshen up and do a job and stay in the league. I’d be hopeful if it’s 20th (or whatever number it is) time lucky and you actually get some backing from Venkys. I won’t hold my breath though. 4) Hopefully a prospective buyer watched on somewhere and saw a historic football club, historic colours, famous stadium bouncing, great entertainment and 100% commitment. But hopefully said buyer isn’t rich with blood money like those cretins.

They must be thinking the same about Pears!!!

I’d be getting Pickering on now I think

Played like him tonight to be fair

Sigurdsson even broken sweat yet? Absolute luxury player and not a particularly good one at that

What on earth was the non-league level Liverpool lad doing then. They’ll be targeting him until the end if they have any sense

The ref has been atrocious. Missed so much a yard in front of him. Buckley one in the first half was shocking

Maybe John Buckley is a £10m prem player after all 😄