I thought the pass to Hyam was poor. He was stretching to clear. Anyone know who played it?

Not really surprised. I don't JDT will be too disappointed, we could be 2 or 3 - 1 up. 10 more mins, see how we do then look at Dolan and Markanday. Hope someone has given Gallagher a bollocking. Wake him up a bit

The ONLY time we'd miss Gallagher is if Rotherham get a corner. I can't remember ever seeing a player who boils my blood as much as him. Fantastic pass by Dack and he made a complete mess of it. A lot of angry posters on here, but I think we've actually played OKAY. Dack is our best player by a country mile. Those fans that wrote him off and wanted him sold should hang their heads in shame. Rotherham are a team of workhorses, but they're pretty poor. If we can't equalise here it's a real wake up call for the powers that be during this window. Vale and Gally as our strikers is nauseating.

Turns out the rumours weren't true anyway, but can you itemise the £6.5m? I've got a feeling that figure is about as accurate as Gav's claim that when Gally plays we average over 3 points per game.

I thought the support was very flat tonight, and the reason for that is we had absolutely nothing to get behind. The most rousing moment was BBDs marvellous effort that was so, so close - beyond that I feel like the life was sapped out of the fanbase. We became pedestrian, passive and lethargic just like the players, and no wonder. Truly awful performance - the two strikers were an embarassment, S. Wharton's distribution was terrible, the Travis RWB experiment needs binning and Tomasson needs to make changes earlier. I was watching the bloody clock tick away in horror as we sat through the same methodical, backwards, sideways, slow, nonsense over and over again. The movement off the ball was pathetic and Coventry never looked remotely worried. We had about 2 or 3 mins of urgency after the triple sub... Sadly the red card sapped that sharpish too.

Hmmm, he's averaging about one yellow card every 4.5 games throughout his career, and one red card in his entire career. For a combative midfielder whose job it is to be in the heat of battle, I'd say that's not indicative of someone with poor discipline.

Did you used to think the same about Robbie Savage then? Quite similar players - wind up merchants but in my opinion not whizz tops or players that resort to violence, they're smarter than that and leave it to the people they're winding up. But for poor refereeing, Travis would have had two opposition players sent off in the last 3 games with absolutely no danger of getting sent off himself.

How many red cards has he had in his career?

It's actually a really, really close call. Ayala dropped back just as the first header was flicked on. Incredibly tight - we'll take it.

Less than 48 hours before this post you lambasted me for daring to question why our strikeforce won't tear up the divison... I quote "But hey look you just stick with the negative outlook on this one." Seems a bit hypocritical now doesn't it? In fact, here was your original quote on Thursday.... "The ingredients are there, this division is shite, we really are a left back and a midfield general away from the Premier League imo. Top class keeper, solid centre halves now, talented but young midfield and a front line that can tear up this division." Gone from PL in waiting to absoutely not up to it and substandard in many positions, from Thursday night to Saturday afternoon 😂😂😂😂

Okay, barring one shot which went over (first half I think) and one volley from a corner (not related to Pickering's performance, I can't remember him having any joy whatsoever. He's not my favourite by a mile, I've been extremely critical of him, but if Blackpool's best player has little more than a sniff against him then he's done his job, has he not? Just on the... "he's left footed mate" - he's a Premier League footballer - if he doesn't have the capacity to beat a full back on the outside and cross with his weak foot, he shouldn't be there, frankly - especially when his preferred avenue has clearly been found out by the opposition. Grealish could be a decent comparison - right footed naturally plays on the left, and certainly isn't afraid to go on the outside and keep his opposite number guessing.

I'd have to watch again, but I can't really remember Bowler getting to the byline too many times... I felt like the more obvious threat was coming from their left (our right) in the form of Lavery and their left back (name escapes me).

I thought Pickering did pretty well. His main nemesis is pace, of which Bowler isn't blessed with loads. I was also extremely worried about him vs WBA with Jed Wallace' crossing ability, but he just about managed there as well, barring one or two hairy moments.

City is a remarkable choice for comparison because BBD scored just shy of 40% of our goals last season, KDB scored 15% of City's. So the example you used is exactly the opposite of what you are expecting Rovers to be this season... Heavily reliant on BBD again. What was your point? City are a brilliant example of scoring goals across the team - we are likely to be the absolute opposite. Not withstanding the fact City's new striker has just scored 9 goals in his first 4 games of course.

Only Brereton can be said to have lived up to expectations in the last 3 years. Dolan has 7 in 71 for us, Gally has 23 in 118, Hedges has 0 but scored 11 in 66 in the SPL, Szmodics did well in L1 and Hirst the same - no real Championship track records there. Dack is another question mark, desperate for him to get back to where he was, fingers crossed. Just found it a bit odd given the calibre of Championship attacker we have, for you to suggest we're gonna tear up the division. There's very little evidence for it, particularly considering we've scored a solitary goal in the last 4 games. Regarding the stats - if you don't focus on how many shots we have or how many times we are in the opposition box then that's your prerogative, but I bet managers and coaching teams will. What's the old adage? If you don't shoot....

If at the start of the window anyone had put Travis and Buckley forward as 2nd choice right backs there would have been outrage. Travis is a sticking plaster there. He's not a right back and does tend to drift and get caught out of position. A lot of Blackpool's play went down that side last night, and a few times Lavery wasted good positions with poor or wasteful play. Buckley is exactly the same, a midfielder. I'm really pleased with some of our business and Brittain has started well, but we should all be praying he can get fit quick.

Haha negative outlook. I asked you what brought you to the conclusion we have a strike force that could tear up the division. We've got Brereton who I acknowledged is great and Dack who I love but hasn't played in practically 3 seasons. The rest have a lot to prove and a lot to do. Surely you can understand that without calling someone negative? You ignored my comment about actual stats from our opening 6 games... Why?

One or two big ifs in there. Desperate for Dack to do well... There's very positive signs him and BB have a good understanding AND Dack sees the game unfold ahead of everyone else. How many has Hedges scored so far in a B&W shirt? Looks good, nice touches but we need people to weigh in with goals. Gally won't score more than 10, rest are probably 6 or 7. Let's hope Hirst can weigh in.

RV is Ribble Valley. Where he lives and talks about a lot. Howard.... Every Howard on the planet drinks gallons of red wine. His tweets also remind me of Mercer in terms of structure and wording. It's a theory, they're there to be disproven.

Right. I actually have a theory that this twitter account is Mercer. And hence, I have a theory that this is a load of bollocks. But I shall watch with interest.

What's this based on? Brereton is great obviously. The rest haven't scored more than.... 6 or 7 a season in the Champ? Dolan is a 15 minute pest, Vale is young and needs games, Hirst is unproven at this level, Gally is Gally... Szmodics needs to show a lot more. Pre-match last night we were dead last in the division for every attacking stat except goals scored, where we were 15th. What logic dictates our front line can 'tear up the division?'

An injury to BBD leaves us practically toothless and with a lack of pace and quality in forward areas. AND, it now most likely means that yet another multi-million pound asset walks out the door for nothing. Tad disappointed that our two final signings are loans. That 'special player budget' must be going back on ice for now. Okay, loan to buy 'option' but as we've read millions of times in the last 24 hours and seen with your man last season, there's absolutely no obligation to spend any money. Last night's result and emergence of Wharton came at a perfect time for GB and Co. It completely placated a tetchy, nervous, frustrated fanbase. The squad isn't great, new players have to prove themselves and I still think we're in for a nervy season.

At the risk of bringing out the tooth puns again, I think you better brace yourself for that particular outcome. If we don't sell today that's that I would say - he can sign a pre-contract in Jan as far as I can understand. But, only with overseas teams? So if he does want to play PL, we might still have a chance...

Yeh, sorry I was talking about first I saw Mola's name - Sharpe seemingly had a sniff of it before he was holding the shirt above his head. That's what gives me hope that Dembele is a possibility.

Sharpe has said 'not aware of anything' regards Dembele.... but how much did he know about Mola? First I saw his name was about 20mins ago from Joe H. We're getting there now in terms of a squad, but that could be blown to smithereens with a Brereton late departure. Even with Dembele through the door I'd be very fearful there's nowhere near enough goals without him.