Nine

Game over

The end for Rodgers?

Carraghers constant defense of his mate stevie is comedy

Yeah, he’s limited mentally. The physical side of him doesn’t hold him back at all, he just hasn’t developed like Rafa hoped he could when he signed him.

Sounds about right ‘just go out there and play son’

He’s a monster

Horrendous, might have been his worst game for us today

Aye, 4 points down now due to officials. Will be more come may.

Going to a good player if managed properly which Howe will. I still think its a bit much to throw him a start at this stage though but its defo coming, lets not forget hes had one season in league 2.. lets take our time with him and trust Howe to find the right moment to start him.

So overly harsh We all know he lacks in the gold standard of stats (Goals, assists). He lacks the composure and decision making at times that would make all the difference for him on those stats, however if you cant see what he brings to this side then im not sure what to tell you - one of the best engines I've seen on any of our players and follows the game plan down to the letter. Just a shame for him that when we are struggling for goals he tends to take a fair bit of the frustration as hes a forward hes expected to score but for me he makes up for those short comings with his overall output.. he'll be a very effective sub to see out and protect leads in future when we can add a new RW. At this stage in our development of this squad hes a fine player to have around, we could do alot worse.

Great today. If he could strike a ball cleanly towards goal he'd be a hero here.

I think we played well in periods, and I agree. My point is with Bruno and ASM we would likely win that game comfortably.

The run end of the last season was always going to get people a bit carried away going into this season really, it was to be expected. Always said I'd be happy with a top 10 finish as this imo is a transitional season.

That is true however the style we play under Howe defo invites more injuries than it might otherwise, just the nature of the beast really. Looking forward to seeing ASM and Bruno back as we are heading into a pretty favourable run of fixtures now.

Also Anderson has looked great in his brief appearances so far. Can understand why he’s not being started though although I think it will happen in the next 4/5 games, we look tired after this run of matches. Let’s manage this kid carefully and not throw him straight into the deepend after only having a season in league 2.

Most of us knew but today really showed how badly hit this squad is by 2/3 key injuries, the drop off in quality is massive. We just lack that cutting edge going forward without ASM and Bruno.. with that being said we should have still won that game between Isaks, Willocks chances and the wrongly disallowed goal.

He’s how he getting that shot off with 3 players on him there

Was worried he’d bring Wood on

Miggy overall might be our best player today, shame he can’t finish

That ref needs to lose his position in the PL for that alone

Hahahahahahah fuck man

Wish Miggy had played that out to Trips, good end to that half though

Miggys been very effective for the last 10 mins or so

Starting to lose the battle in midfield now, Bruno to Longstaff in that position is a huge drop off in quality