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“When do you put Gallagher on? Sam isn’t someone who historically hasn’t scored goals from crosses, it’s something we’re working every day on but we’re finding it more difficult to score goals with the group we’ve got.” It's a nonsensical sentence but from those words he's actually saying the opposite, that historically Gallagher has scored goals from crosses. Apart from that I have no idea what he's trying to say or do, or the point he's trying to make. The only two things that are crystal clear are that he's blaming the players and taking no responsibility for his part in putting the team together and organising them. The second thing is he's completely and utterly clueless. Someone should give him a nudge and tell him that his problems are all his doing. He didn't sign defenders, he signed two duds upfront for a lot of money, he constantly plays them out of position and constantly tries to stop the opposition playing to the point of stopping his own players playing. The problem is the manager.

The usual suspects are blaming everything but Mowbray. The shocker is that they aren't spitting venom at people criticising Mowbray like they usually do.

They've probably not started drinking yet.

He'd never sign it, he's an honorable man.

Another poor game. Mowbray, Penus and Maggot out.

Tony Mowbray nose to proboscis with the fourth official.

Evans on 🙈

He's been there about 3 weeks. I know who I'd prefer.

The problem with a possession based manager is that the players never f***ing shoot.

When you can't be bothered on Fifa.

I’d pick the defenders we didn’t buy.

And one of the most expensive too, not just because £5m was a stupid amount to pay for Gallagher but it also meant we didn’t bring in a couple of quality defenders. However the £7m experiment the year before eclipses it.

“Sacked in the morning...” I remember when that actually happened after an epic bad run.

This is death spiral part 2 no doubt.

Robbed by the referee, but that shouldn't take anything away from the fact that the team was set up wrongly from the start and for most of the match it was dire. Mowbray out.

It's as much a penalty as the one he gave Brentford.

It's that spell in the match when they go full Mowbray.

This referee is dogshit. Actual dogshit.

How is Douglas on the pitch?

He's got clangers in him but he's not being tested.

And all because Tony had the dream of turning Elliott into a centre forward, and two £12m centre forwards into wide players.

Absolutely.

Or, they have it in a decent position then drag it back to give it someone else to cross - rarely it'll be a cross and even what it is it's a poor one. Keep them back if they can't do the job. Got to blame Mowbray.

Not any.

And c**ting Kevin Davies as the Sky pundit.