IMO, no agent worth his salt would decide the next four year’s contract for his player based solely on who the manager was today. The average club will have three managers during four years. Even Venkys aren’t going to leave Mowbray in situ till 2026. Anyway, I thought we were getting the PNE reject any day now.

Personally, after Huddersfield and with the two right-sided defenders out, I’d have put Travis and Davenport in front of the back four, and Dolan out right as he puts in a defensive shift. Edun in front of Pickering looked good enough. I love Rothwell’s schoolyard dribbles as much as anyone but, when we don’t have the ball, I feel we are playing with one centre mid., and a not very disciplined one at that.

Two awful goals and not just Maglore at fault. Ayala’s header for the first was poor, the guy it went to was in acres of space as our centre mids were AWOL (I seem to be the only one who thinks that’s a common occurrence when Rothwell is one of them), Maglore was sucked in toward the player but not aggressively enough, then Ayala got done too easily. The second I thought was mainly Pickering’s fault for leaving his man at the back post completely unmarked, it’s not like the move was a quick breakaway. A lot of the above faults were on display at Huddersfield in the first 10-15 mins when we should’ve been 3-0 if they could finish.

Although he had a couple of duff touches, I really enjoyed his performance tonight, did 10x more in the game than that bloody cart horse Gallagher.

Three awful goals and three rubbish subs.

Personally I thought we had enough problems when we were 4-3-3, we were very lucky not to be three down before Nyambe went off

Well, plenty to get annoyed at there. Shame for Bucko as he was just starting to dominate when he gave up the ball. Hopefully, he’ll learn from that. Gallagher though, what a fkin useless donkey, couldn’t even get a job on Blackpool Beach. And I definitely wouldn’t have wanted to be in the trenches with Rothwell. I’d like to know why Ruffalo hasn’t been clattered - they have been bullying us.

Ayala reminds me of a better non-psycho John McNamee: veteran, slow, but transformative to those around him.

Glad to see Tony’s system backs up what I thought I saw with Carter - he contributed a lot for only being on the field 35 mins.

Even stranger when they played exactly where they usually play, except after Dolan went off. Excellent day all round. Clayton Left Boot’s son can already start spending his enormous Diaz jackpot I think. Thought Carter did very well when he came on against a team of giants.

Excellent half. Two great goals then the world’s first goal to have assists from four different defenders. Buckley two seconds ahead of everyone else on the field. I’m yet to see much evidence of McCarthy’s technical superiority, Tockholes Farmers Lads 11 played with more finesse than this lot.

He’s not even in the top 25 all-time top scorers in the English top division, so not quite an all-time great yet.

6th, clean sheet, good effort but not enough quality especially upfront. Trav and Bucko fought hard today I thought.

Nondescript half. Travis having his best game for a while and I’m liking Pickering more. Great 1-on-1 save by Kaminski after Lenihan was nutmegged. Rothwell needs to do a lot more for a centre mid given he can’t defend and very rarely scores. Could go either way.

Missed the first half, which seems a blessing. I like how Ayala at corners has little Dolan right in front of him and pushes him into DA’s marker - gave him the space for his excellent header. Diaz’s goal looked good but most teams won’t let him take four touches before shooting. Infuriating last few minutes when both Diaz and Rothwell lost the ball in midfield trying to dribble and both times Hull were able to run with the ball at our centre halves - lucky nothing came of those.

Took him the first 32 mins to pass to a teammate. Worst performance by a number 9 I can ever recall seeing, John O’Mara territory, and a brain-dead manager did for us, along with a classic Graham/Dack goal at the death.

Those were the days when the centre forward was the best footballer in the team. Gallagher is one of the worst.

Well they need to get a move on given your prediction we will be in Admin by Christmas!

Amazing it never occurred to Nyambe or his agent to inform the host of clubs eager to sign him that he wasn’t actually injured.

Who knows what goes on but, personally I’m not sure just how valuable these assets are versus what might be the cost of keeping them. The Dack saga showed that player assets can plummet in value while the cost of keeping them always has to be paid. Have we even had one offer, ever, for Nyambe? In his last year, where is the Armstrong-like rush of interest? I’m not sure I’d fork out on a multi-year, multi-million contract on him if it were my money tbh.

I thought Brereton swerving rightwards at the last second turned a clearance into an error, and also prevented the ref from giving a foul as the two would’ve clattered had Brereton kept straight on.

Especially when another 22 clubs/managers won’t get promoted either.

….after a ball he miscontrolled. Does anyone ever get excited when he gets the ball?

Surprisingly watchable second half. I thought Ben did brilliantly for the goal, Carter is a revelation, Gallagher as useless as ever.

Gave away a goal, held our own for 46 mins pretty well then undone by a very good attacking move. But you can see the difference between their players and ours: bigger, older, stronger and better. I don’t know why everyone thinks Clarkson is playing as a false 9, he’s clearly playing a good 10 yards behind Gallagher and Ben.