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No they don't. JDT signs players, coaches them, sets the tactics and style of play and picks the team. Responsibility is HIS ALONE. Seen enough of this scented bullshitter to know HE IS NOT the man to take us forward. We are feckin fortunate to have scraped a good many of our wins - good luck rather than good management Let's cut our losses and move on

Not the right mentality! You have to be confident in improving matters. We aren't exactly looking to replace a Pep or a Jurgen!!!

This lot sacked Big Sam when we were a comfortable top half PL side!!!

More chance of me waking up with Beyoncé in bed.

Does himself no favours. Refs now wary and won't get benefit of doubt when maybe there's a genuine shout for penalty in the future.

Football is a funny old game as evidenced by the number of league games we've managed to win of which I think at least a third have been rather fortuitous wins.

Two separate bets for me, Rovers' win and 3-1.

Need a nice glass or two of red after that. Only consolation is my two bets are still in play. Hope Mogadon runs true to form and screws Sunderland for the second half.

No awaited judgement necessary when you've chased your number one striking target all summer, landed him and he performs like Hirst............!

Has been so evident for so long. How JDT and Broughton can't see this is beyond me. The one midfielder with a real talent, Wharton, is inexplicably frozen out.

If I had a time machine it would be 442 with Shearer and Fred Pickering up front..............!

They weren't great but my God, they were light years ahead of Hirst

I wish............! I like quality but they are out my league.

Agree with Markanday but I think Hirst is virtually talentless - one of the most ineffective, if not the most ineffective, centre forwards I've ever seen in a Rovers' shirt in 60+ years and feck me, I've seen some real donkeys.

It was shocking both inside the ground on the Spion Kop where the incident happened and outside the ground afterwards. Think about half a dozen, including one policeman, were detained in hospital overnight. Pretty certain it occured round about the time of Martin Luther King's assassination back in 1968. For the record, Rovers won the game 1-0. Don't recall Stuart Baird (the original and real 'Birdy') having any involvement in the incident. This guy was as hard as nails and sorted out Millwall's F Troop behind the Darwen End with some of his mates. Think today's Rovers' delinquents would have run a mile if fronted by him. As far today, fancy Rovers strongly and gone for the win at 12/5 - fill yer Christmas boots! Fun bet at 33/1 is a 3-1 score.

Great choice - elegance personified! Chablis and Chateauneuf-d-p - Christmas Day traditions.

Merry Christmas everyone. May the joy and peace of Christmas be with you throughout the year.

I always stand to be corrected! Think the jury well and truly out on Broughton. Hyam - an outstanding signing Brittain - shown flashes of what potentially capable of but looks injury prone Szmodics - really think Posh saw us coming and took our knickers off Morton - too inconsistent. Want to see him do something when it really matters. Worse still, is he holding Adam Wharton back? Mola - Has brought nothing to the party Hirst - I think a disaster. Could he even cut it at Pleasington on a Sunday morning!? Also, new long term commitments to both Buckley (who's done virtually feck all since signing) and Travis (who is now looking at least a league out of his depth). 1 maybe 2 out of 8 'good' signings is nowhere near good enough. Easy to be cynical but Broughton paid feckin good money to do better than that IMO.

So JDT and Broughton tell us Hirst was our number one striker target and we chased him all summer. Feck me - says it all. A sackable offence for both. Goodnight.

Honestly don't know where we go from here. Manager stubbornly naive. Players showing no bottle and no appetite for a fight. Some fortuitous early season wins will probably be enough to keep us from relegation. But my God, these are deeply worrying times and are equal to, if not worse, than the darkest days of Iley, Ince, Kean, Coyle and Mowbray etc. If we avoid defeat at Norwich by 3 or less, it will feel like a result after the Burnley and PNE debacles.

The scary thing is there's been little response in the second half. Our players should be busting a gut after the Burnley debacle - they have been found sadly, sadly wanting and are on 'easy street'.

He shouldn't even be in the team. Whiteman has eaten him and spat him out!

Words almost fail me. Utterly and utterly embarrassing. This is even worse than Mowbray's Rovers at their worse. Hammered by Burnley and now PNE at home - FFS, can we get a manager who knows what he's doing.

This is a complete sh1t show. However, it is Christmas and the season of hope so just lumped £25 on Rovers win at 6/1. We can only get better and football is a funny old game (PNE should be at least 2 clear). Had to open the red already. Have to say, Whiteman making Travis look like a real muppet.

Don't think you are quite right there. Agree we don't see players like a rampaging Souness, Keane or Batty etc but it is still not a game for the fairies! All successful teams have players who can make a hard tackle and play with a physicality and aggression - they can 'mix it' when necessary and other teams are aware of it. We have no one of that ilk - the only thing we can offer is petulance from Travis who would have been eaten alive by the likes of Batty and Aaron Mokoena (remember him!?). Bottom line is we need some feckin aggression.