I didn't watch it. One of my least favourite people was proved right. Bruce said he would play his second string and win. He did. They did. Putting it simply if we cannot dominate Newcastle Reserves, there is something very wrong. Sounds like we were told to keep possession rather than shoot. Sounds like Ben muffed his chance to lead the line. Sounds like Dolan twinkled again. Sounds like Ayala was sorely needed. Sounds like zero inspiration.

He is on the bench discussing terms for his return to the Toon

Rovers 83% possession so far so about to let one in any moment now....

Not available here despite trying with a VPN and a UK card number. RATS

Come on guys, another 500 pages and we get a left back!

He is of Maltese descent- get him into the national side immediately!

I know I said don't fiddle with Saturday's team but I would really like to see Buckley and Davenport given proper chances.

Not available internationally though

With Greaves, we'd win 5-3 every week.

Newcastle fairly comprehensively undid West Ham and looked far more potent in a long time so a bit of a thrashing might be on the cards tomorrow night. We have been drawn against them rather often in the past 30 years so getting progress past them is rather over due. Just hope Ben is not asked to take a penalty... I would stick with Saturday's line up but fancy we will see Tony's tombola.

Dack would displace Holtby in the Bournemouth 4-3-3 set-up.

Isn't there a Bournemouth player out of shot getting back to cover the line at the back post?

Haven't got time to re-watch it so thanks for doing so. I did wonder if Bournemouth had got the measure of the ref given Rovers rarely foul to the extent they were penalised in that first half. Your point about shooting is well made. We missed hitting the target on at least those four times when anything directed between the sticks would have stood a 50%+ chance of going in.

Actually I disagree. After five minutes Cook and Smith knew exactly how to snuff out his trickery. It would have been a fantastic learning for Tyrhys against very seasoned Premier League level defenders and hopefully the coaches will be running every second of his time on the pitch at Bournemouth through with him. Definitely keep him for impact off the bench particularly in combination with a second speedster- shock horror why not throw Dolan and Chapman on together?. We lacked pace in the first half where starting Rothwell could have made a difference

Thanks, I did so at half time. Interesting that Bournemouth use the live feed from BBC Radio Solent rather than having their own commentary team. Imagine having Radio Lancashire and getting pre-match comments from Turf Moor...

Very encouraging performance with the gutting defeat - all too predictable and in fact I predicted back at the start of this match thread. My fault lads. Seriously, we should have won today except from Red Sea parting of the waves at the back and three really excellent strikes from Bournemouth. Both Dolan and Rothwell were electric when they came on but the Bournemouth experienced defenders pretty quickly got tight enough to Dolan to snuff him out and sadly force the error which cost us the defeat. I hope Mowbray perseveres with Dolan because he is going to win more for us than he loses and he certainly injects a level of watchability. Anybody seen a replay of our disallowed goal? I thought we were played on at the back post.

Very encouraging debut. The defence parted four times in front of him- three excellent strikes with no chance of saving but the strike which he could get to he did and produced a save you only realise how good it is when replayed in slo mo afterwards. Really like his distribution. Ball going two thirds of the pitch and giving our players a very decent chance of winning it. Noticed second half it was all pass it short so Mowbray must have taken the aggression out of him at HT.

Mowbray is simply not good enough

No criticism of Kaminsky on their goal- that was as good a strike from 25 yards as we are likely to see in a Rovers game all season. Great to be back in it but Johnson had not inspired before that strike. We lack conviction in the final third but otherwise this is very promising. Bring Dolan on to inject pace and I think the Bournemouth defence will struggle.

Woops. The commentary is from Portsmouth!!!

Wow, They must have sorted out their log in. Straight into the video in a couple of seconds- well done.

Good luck to Kaminski on his debut today.

Let's agree to disagree. Last sentence is nuts though.

Surprised at Brooks not starting. Bournemouth had a strong end of season and almost escaped so could presage a strong start to this season. That Rovers side should have enough about it provided Bell and Johnson are not having a sleepy afternoon.

Pretty useless IMO