O'Riordan's a giant isn't he. McFadz gave everything. Dolan, Gallagher, Brittain and Hedges stepped up in the first half.

He only needed to kick it. He seemed to be waiting for the perfect moment but there are no perfect moments in football. Tells me he doesn't have a strikers instinct.

3 points, just what we needed. Some players raised their game today. Sadly Telalovic showed he's not got the quality for this league. Need to do Birmingham now, but nice to have a few days without a dark cloud.

Evoking memories of Moran and Hendry with the bandage around his head.

The second one was even worse.

And again!

Telelovic, wtf?

In the first half Stoke were dirty, niggling us and stopping us from passing the ball. Now they are passing it better and we're just letting them.

I think he's come down to protect the 3 points tbh. We were looking poor.

He's come down from the stand.

Well, Rovers have gone to shit. Believing they've done the job prematurely.

It helps that two players who were injured up till today got assists, and another who only came back three games ago got the other one. Another player who has been injured up till recently has scored two.

Was he your manager or head coach? What I mean by that is, was he signing the players?

You mean after they fucked up the January transfer window.

I'm waiting for him to say, "cup a soup."

I kind of gave up recently and haven't been keeping up with injuries. Is Szmodics injured for this one?

That lighting's a bit dramatic.

Hopefully we're not throwing that delicious irony back up, after the match.

Now I know they've had their knockers...

I'll support Eustace, like Tomasson it won't be his fault when he's trying to squeeze blood from a stone. I have a terrible feeling he's going to be another Appleton though. Was he "head coach" at Birmingham too, or is that just some bullshit to avoid paying Broughton compensation?

I took it that he didn't sign up for a relegation battle so if they didn't want to try and get promoted he may as well go. I suspect your second paragraph has a lot of truth to it and he thought he'd just have to make it through to January, but then it didn't happen.

I hope he doesn't turn us into a Non League Barcelona.

Didn't he say something like... I offered to go in the Summer when a hand grenade was thrown and the project changed to staying in this league and developing players. I'm more ambitious.

Well, he said he wanted to go in Summer.

Eustace will be in a hotel somewhere.