Tough game and tough place to go to midweek. Would take a draw but here's hoping for 3 points

Not going to read everyone’s views on this game. Its ok playing pretty possession football but you need an end product, Tony we didn’t have one. More defensive calamity defending cost us, Bennett’s incompetence and The defence backing off again. Tonys love in with Bennett needs finishing, he is costing us dearly. Tosin was class alongside Williams. Armstrong and the diddymen were disjointed upfront, we needed height and guile of a centre forward someone with ounces of class TM left him on the bench.

Anything to do with Kean and Coyle, both make me sick to the bone.

David Artell? what a bag of daz that snippet of information is

I think we will really struggle and see a defeat coming our way. Instant meltdown afterwards with the world set to end at 1700hrs !

I blame the member who called this scenario a few weeks back !!!

if there is a plus side ALL the loanees can be recalled at the opening of the transfer market ! Looks like we should be scraping the barrell for a freebie ch as well now. Johan Djourou, SAMBA and James Collins all free and club less, Marc Wilson also a freebie at the moment

Stop gap needed for me, Martin Olsson still a freebie and half decent for our league

Silence on the injury front is a worry Phil in my opinion

All 4 goals were conceded by school playground defending they were awful goals to concede. On a side note someone called it in here about losing 2 or more of the back 4 well it has now happened!

Looks like today is a game too far no creativity no effort and back to our usual away day shite? safe but long journey home for the away support

The morning after.... If the forest that battered Stoke would have turned up to play they would have hammered us, thing is it was a stifled performance from both teams, midfield cluttered and little by way of creative football in the first half. I think it was both teams not willing to give and not willing to concede. Rovers for me in the first 45 played too many passes to get the ball to feet, yes sometimes it looks pretty but others it is so frustrating. I do not think Rovers play well with the 4 at the back, for me it has to be 3 5 1 1. I feel for Gally, he wins a header and there is no one there to benefit, there is very little support in the supply line to him because as we saw, if Rovers do go direct we score ! Second 45 was better however how many time do we need to learn that by backing off we concede and what irked more was that it the cheat that is Lolley that again benefitted a Forest steal of a point at Ewood. I have to say that I though Walton went down like a sack of spuds and I haven't seen it on the reply yet. I felt we did enough to win the game the half chances that came and went didn't go for us. I think its 5 points lost for us over the last 2 games.

Gally on the right is NOT working it’s causing us a problem TM needs to change the formation and stop this tippy tappy shit football we are not Man City and he is not pep g??

I think I would be more concerned about the amount of rainfall forecast today, 2 weeks worth of rainfall in a few hours? Can Ewood Parks pitch handle it? I remember a good few years ago Wimbledon game had to be postponed due to the deluge!

Nice one Chaddy

Great post with some great research. The proof will be in the pudding tomorrow evening!

Tough game can see a draw but we do owe forest from last season when they cheated through Lolley to nick a point at Ewood

Negative at the ko? We had almost 100% possession just not in their area for 20 mins. If the two CDs miss headers you concede stupid goals like we saw today

Too much fannying around and not enough direct football taking far too many passes to get exactly back to the same spot

Possession football which is aimed at wearing Luton down we have had so much ball but little in the way of goal mouth chances.

Brereton will come good he is a quality footballer give him a chance ! Sherwood was pilloried as poor the first season yet he became a hero the next!

Rain stopped at Westhoughton however m61 closed 2 lanes due to flooding

I think the future is bright as it stands. If we can put mini runs together, cut out the last minute stupid goal scenarios then we have a real chance at the Play Offs. I actually believe we can out do the likes of the Derby, Boro and Forest by simply closing the silly goal issues that have cost us. We have goals galore in the team we just need to ensure we keep tight and clear of any serious injuries. Midfield wise, I don't think there is a better one in the league experience and ability wise.

I actually think Dom Samuel could do a job in The Championship/ Granted his efforts in L1 were sometime way off the mark but its a league full of clodders and plodders. Being alongside and against better footballs sometimes brings out the best in you and allows you to show exactly what you can do!

Stuart how would you describe the Rovers performance v the artistic spuds?