Commentators are horrendous aren’t they. Dolan has a bad touch on a pretty average pass and they’re picking at him but not a word on Gallagher and his shocking control every week.

Fletcher playing very Danny Graham esque for them. Nyambe is getting loads of space down the wing. We need to keep feeding himself and Elliott

Have they done anything to stop Armstrong? We’re creating chances, just no composure to put it in the net.

Armstrong had to take it round him there

How many have you had? 😂

- Stoke are not good, we always have 1 or 2 clangers in us and they were clinical when we offered it to them. They’re the perfect team for us to play against, we just need to stick it in the net. - Gallagher needs hooking off at HT, he is our weakest attacking link by a mile. Offering nothing and giving the ball away at every occasion. - Trybull superb, very mobile, good pressing and good technically. Dolan for Gallagher or Davenport for Gallagher and move Rothwell up there and carry on as we are.

Gallagher is weak as piss too. Would understand it if he was a proper unit but he’s always out strengthened and look at that rebound. Prancing around with a hurt foot. Get stuck in! Trybull really impressing me as he did before the Lenihan red card vs Brentford.

Gallagher is absolute plop. Our left hand side of him, Douglas and Johnson LCB. Jeez. Trybull playing well, a huge upgrade on the Johnson we’ve seen over the last month

Absolute amateur hour. Very predictable with the LCB and LB combination

A win could take us as high as 7th depending on the Boro result, with 5th and 6th playing each other we could go into Boxing Day with a win taking us into the playoffs, so it’s obvious really, we win today, end up touching distance of the top 6 again then lose at home to bottom of the league on Boxing Day.

Kaminski Nyambe - Ayala - Wharton - ???? Dack - Travis - Rothwell Elliott - Armstrong - Brereton Bench: GK, Lenihan, JRC, Johnson, Holtby, Dolan, Gallagher Hard to accommodate so many and it feels like injuries will dictate it. If Armstrong was to leave in January I’d play Dack in that position and Holtby in the middle, and reinvest every penny into LB and CB and new contracts. Dack is potentially too deep, though I feel he is good enough to play in any of the attacking 5 positions.

Pretty much agree with this, not seen much of Stoke this year so no idea on how they shape up, I'd imagine Mowbray will go with Gallagher over Dolan for 'physicality' (not that I think SG has much myself). Outside of the obvious starters I think Ayala has to keep his place and Trybull should come in for Johnson (passenger for 4 or so games in a row). LB - who knows!

Yep, Buckley didn’t work in a midfield 3, especially with a non-existent Johnson next to him. He needs a rest. Holtby and Trybull in for them on Saturday.

Do I eat humble pie now?

Someone said that at HT and look what happened 🙈

I know you absolutely love him, you make a statement every time he scores, but he’s ridiculously wasteful, 8 shots per non-pen goal has to be one of the worst conversion in the league. Never Prem quality in a million years.

Armstrong has found his level now anyway, bottom half of the championship. I’d snap anyones hand off for £15m+ for him.

This is as bad as I can remember since Coyle.

Douglas doesn’t deserve to be starting going forward. Gallagher has already completely missed the ball twice in this half, not even bad control, just zero control. Lacking quality all over the pitch. Long gone are the days from our opening 5 or so matches.

Gallagher, Johnson and Buckley off at HT please.

Really turgid stuff this. Johnson has been poor for a few matches now, he’s not fit enough for 2 a week. Rotherham with the 2 best chances so far. We have to be winning this, and it doesn’t look too rosey right now.

No idea who it is to be honest. Just one guy on the red button.

Sky comms calling us flat track bullies!

Not sure if you actually read the article (I personally try and avoid the Mail), but that £30k refers to the highest earner within each team. Not the average for all Championship players, which I'd wager is sub-£15k

Worth noting these guys have big injury troubles currently, so we can't go using that as our excuse. Should be a comfortable win, anything other than 3 points will be a huge disappointment. We need to be picking up 11 points from 15 available before the FA Cup tie, to be in a position to break the top 6 in 2021. I'd give Johnson a rest for Davenport (rather Johnson is fresh for the Stoke match), and I would start Dolan and Elliott out wide together.