Really miffed about Ben not getting a start against a defence he would probably profit against

And they are on a good run and are decent footballing side. Going to need Walton heroics to return from Oakwell with anything and based on the three goals we have conceded since the restart, the likelihood is close to zero.

I know we have had injuries but how often has Mowbray put the strongest team onto the pitch from the squad available in the last two seasons? I am really struggling with this.

The expected defeat will end our season this evening. The side looks odd and unbalanced all over the park. Brereton and Armstrong should start together. Barnsley must not have believed their luck when they saw that teamsheet.

Mowbray out thought Lee Johnson twice- excellent but not on his own in that. Conversely Paul Cook owns Mowbray. Incidentally our response to facing a team which hadn't conceded in six games? Why of Course Mowbray left our leading scorer on the bench. A bit obvious to play Arma in place of Gallagher but too obvious for Mowbray so we lost instead of winning.

Like Wigan, Barnsley on a fantastic run of results. Unlike Wigan now, still scrapping to escape the bottom 3. Barnsley much more of a footballing side which has been their undoing in the Championship. If we are to end our pursuit of top 6, I'd rather it happen at Oakwell freeing us up to be a pain in the arse team for the rest of the season.

Another serious step forward from Ben today.

Pretty abysmal. Walton at fault for both goals. Bennett lack of a left foot neutralised our attacking ability. Gallagher- oh dear. Cannot play with 9.5 men out there. Four headers in front of goal and only Samuel forced a save. Brereton improved again. Davenport again a nice cameo. Johnson mostly useless.

Very even game. Need to crank it up second half. I would go Dom Samuel for Gallagher from the start of the second half. Don't sub Brereton- give him the 90.

Luton showing how dangerous the clubs down the bottom are- as we know to our cost. Could have done without Cardiff resuming like a rocket. Here's hoping we do enough for our away game there to be important.

So rotating the front three again after 60 minutes...

Looking forward to seeing Ben today. Hope I am not disappointed!

I had to faff around for 30 minutes last week. Eventually got in by completely re-entering myself using the Safari bowser. Normally use Chrome. I wonder if we are going to get more than 75 minutes plus the pre-match chat today? I also missed the first few minutes of the second half because the signal had frozen. Only realised I was missing out when I spotted chat about match action on here.

Rarely do this but I will stick up for Bennett. He had a pretty good winger/full back combination to deal with and he hardly gave away a foul or put a foot wrong all game. Also ZERO misplaced passes. Please keep it up because he does bring an in your face and energy quality to the team. Yes, I expect Tony Tombola but for a Championship side, there are a lot of goodiies and not too much sawdust in the lucky dip. Getting way ahead of myself but if we go up through the play-offs, we have close to zero Premier League quality and likely the shortest pre-season in history. Talking of history, our play-off hopes will be history if we don't get at least a point today- realistically we need all 3.

Brentford's strong restart is really putting the cat among the promotion pigeons. We have totally messed up so many games without any opposition help that we can only concentrate on beating what's in front of us. There isn't a team we can't beat in the Championship and certainly no team we can't lose to. Today's clashes between clubs at the top only helps us IF we help ourselves. Otherwise it's all academic.

Of the 6 forwards on display last Saturday, Ben and Arma were easily the best.

Huddersfield looked either not 100% or giving Wigan too much respect. Either way we need to be more disruptive and stop them from playing. Stop the supply lines from middle and back for Wigan and should be OK. They also have a man mountain up front.

Ben looked a real player v Bristol City.

Reminder of how few Rovers games were on TV and what an occasion it was when we were televised.

Great match intro JoeH! Will repeat what I posted ion the Bristol City thread- City are on a run of games without wins and we extended it for them. Wigan are top of the current form table on their own- W4 D1 L0 without letting goals in! This is one hugely challenging game. Win this and we really are contenders.

Here's hoping Tony can conjure up a 12 match winning run now. If we make it to the Premier League, I think we'd have more chance teaching a stone to swim than Mowbray keeping us up.

I tipped Rovers to finish 7th and unfortunately it looks a very good call. Will be very pleasantly surprised to make it into the play offs. Having said that from 3rd to 12th there is no side you would write us off against if we get into the play off lotto. Leeds and West Brom have too many points already for either of them realistically to slip back so we won't be facing either of them if we make it. Even if Brentford win 8 on the bounce now they get to 85 points and Leeds and West Brom only need 2 points a game to pip them. The biggest challenge will be getting Mowbray's noddle in the right mind set. On that basis he made an excellent start on Saturday.

We extended Bristol City's run of 5 without a win. Next up Wigan W4 D1 L0 zero goals conceded on their own at the top of the current form table- don't want them extending that run.

HE has left Sunderland at the end of his contract.

Going to be a wild run in.