There was one comment about him ‘looking sick on the bench’. Probably thinking, shit we’re getting a bit close for comfort to the playoffs here.

The lads in the north east are very happy tonight. It does seem surreal watching a Mowbray team go on a decent run in January/February rather than complete collapse. I’ll admit, I do miss at least having the odd entertaining game

Not looking good so far tonight. With likely defeat tomorrow we’ll drop to 10th, and I doubt we‘ll be climbing any higher than that for the rest of the season.

In principle with this horrible 6 month foreign club rule he shouldn’t be playing for us any more. Deserves dropping, just like Buckley, Travis etc earlier in the year. I’d like to see Hedges and Thomas out wide personally.

Yeah that’s fair, my personal opinion is that a team like us with limited budget should lean on the loan market more though. Feels tragic that Mowbray only managed a 15th place finish with Harvey Elliott, Armstrong (2nd top scorer), Brereton and Rothwell (Dack injured that year I think).

For what it’s worth I completely agree about the number 9 with yourself and exiled rover and every one else. We all know we’re missing a decent striker, it’s horrible it wasn’t addressed in January (Venkys). But, I don’t agree that it’s the missing piece. Our midfield and wingers don’t do enough, we play pedestrian with no pace. I’m hopeful Thomas changes this a little but the 11 is far off it unfortunately.

But i also think we rate towards the bottom for shots on target, touches in opposite box, passes in opposition half. Almost everything that measure us as a team, we rank 20th down. We don’t create chances.

So you think we have a better team and squad now than what Mowbray had, but we’re in an inferior position both literally and with every stat in the league showing we’re a bottom 5 rated team?

Wait, what? 4-0 Rotherham, draw with bottom of the league and draw with Bristol City. xG 0.65, 1.16, 0.96 You constantly mention “not taking our chances”, “we’re just missing a number 9”. Absolute nonsense. We create zero and we’re a terrible football team to watch.

About 12th - 16th

You continuously post this but all I remember is “Brittain > Nyambe, Hyam > Lenihan” from a few months ago.

Nice gesture from the club, one I’m sure many fans will get behind. I’m going to fly over for this, gutted I missed West Ham and it feels like it could be our last shot at anything this year. Hopefully we get to extend our allocation

Pears JRC - Carter - Wharton - Pickering Travis - Garrett Thomas - Dack - Hedges Dolan Assuming we have no Kaminski, Ayala, Hyam, Brittain or Adam Wharton Struggling with #9 given Thomas' skill is crossing the ball. Could give Leonard a go given he's sticking it in the net at youth level. No Brereton, Gallagher or Vale as all are way out of form or just not good enough. Perhaps even go to 433 with 3 in the middle to help us, but not sure where Dack fits in there and he's the only one capable of sticking it in the net recently. Either way, there are a lot of decision to made, every team posted in here has been different, shows how poor we have been and lack of consistency (of the good variety). For what it's worth, I expect JDT to play Morton, Brereton and either Vale/Gallagher

So Burnley v Fleetwood and Leicester v Rovers. Either of us win (obviously Burnley, not us) and derby day is postponed to a likely mid-week night match.

Talking about squads mate. Forgot we didn’t have a single injury for the last 5 years and that Hyam hasn’t played all year.

It’s funny how the narrative changes…. Many said Hyam > Lenihan, Brittain > Nyambe, fully fit Dack, Adam Wharton impressing. You’re fooling yourself if you think it’s a worse squad than what Coyle left us.

Who even is on our board these days? Is Waggot not one of them?

Great point, a lot of talk about ‘if we had a decent striker we win that’ or that ‘we’re just missing a number 9’. As you say, we’re creating barely anything. What 2 or 3 decent chances against the worst team in the league at home? A top 6 creates at least double that.

What I’ve taken away from that shocking 2 hours (remembering we’re at home to bottom of the league) - Interesting that the comms mentioned we’re 24th (rock bottom) in xG, it’s starting to become well known how truly bad we are. - I wouldn’t play Diaz again all season. Thomas, Hedges, Dolan to rotate on the wing. - JRC has to keep his place in some form when Brittain is fit - Adam Wharton should be straight back in when fit we haven’t solved CM despite Travis performing well. You thought Buckley was bad….up steps Tyler Morton with as poor a cameo as you’ll get. - Whatever they’re being coached, it’s shocking. I’m sure I read we have a set pieces coach too, but our throw ins just get lobbed down the line to nobody….then that free-kick, wow! We also looked dodgy on every defensive corner. We look worse and worse each game and the football quality is as bad as I can ever remember. This lot aren’t up to the job I’m afraid. 24th in xG….keep going at this rate and that’ll be reality next season. Shite pitch and facilities, a January window more embarrassing than any we’ve ever had, CEO from a TV sitcom, extremely boring football and completely uninterested owners. The joys of Rovers!

JRC our best player to be fair, starting to think I’d give him a run at #9 😂 would be a vast improvement on anything we’ve got!

Yeah - think he meant 2nd half stats that they quoted

WHAT ARE THEY COACHING THEM?

Our shocking pitch doing some damage.

Diaz touched the ball this half? That bloke isn’t playing for Chile again.

Thomas looks an improvement on what we had, both physically, but also as a proper winger. Would like to see himself and Hedges wide. Would have been nice alongside an O’Brien / Wharton midfield