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BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:00 pm

Your substitutions were all wrong. How did Olly Tanner stay on the pitch. Why did he keep Callum Robinson stay on for so long. Terrible performance. The only positive is we didn't get beat.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:02 pm

Total over reaction. We had that game won, it wasn't terrible but disappointing we gave two points away.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:04 pm

Chill out it’s not BBMs fault.

Blame the ones above who haven’t bought more players in, to give us better options.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:05 pm

Definitely not an over reaction. Why did he take willock off and keep Tanner on. We were lucky to get a point in the end.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:06 pm

No one knows what has happened this week; a few may have minor injuries or carrying knocks.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:07 pm

Top of the table, 8 points clear of 3rd. First team to 60 points in the top 4 leagues. If a draw is a bad result we will be ok. Everyone was saying this would be a tough game and so it proved. If we win at home and draw away until the end of the season we will get automatic promotion.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:16 pm

He started and finished with the wrong team.
Crazy decisions. Complacency.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:25 pm

I thought we were poor today. Not the end of the world with a point, made worse by most of the chasing pack winning. It goes to show we are desperate for another striker. Move on to the next game, there will be a few games like this today, and a point ain’t real bad

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:35 pm

Wasn’t our day that’s all. Ref was awful, and they score two fluke goals.

The pitch looked very heavy which didn’t help our game.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:41 pm

BBM is very honest and the fact you’re seemingly having a go at him for a a draw away from home is ridiculous.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:42 pm

Stockport done a number on us.. Salech put out of action... If we can keep the boat steady until
Salech& Rubin come back we'll be OK.
I'm not counting on any signings in this window

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 6:20 pm

There was no reason to change the team that won , when we played at Barnsley.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 6:57 pm

stickywicket wrote:Stockport done a number on us.. Salech put out of action... If we can keep the boat steady until
Salech& Rubin come back we'll be OK.
I'm not counting on any signings in this window

Those two plus a left back and (perhaps) someone further upfield, will feel like a glut of signings going into the latter parts of the season! :ayatollah:

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 7:02 pm

In my WhatsApp group I said i hope Burton are another footballing team as Robinson, Willock, and Kellyman are not the most robust at the best of times, but away I always believe you need a bit more dog.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 7:03 pm

llan bluebird wrote:In my WhatsApp group I said i hope Burton are another footballing team as Robinson, Willock, and Kellyman are not the most robust at the best of times, but away I always believe you need a bit more dog.

Sorry, another ‘what’ footballing team? :ayatollah:

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:16 pm

I won't bash bbm he's been incredible this season but today his substitutions weren't effective

Tanner was hanging out of his ass after 70 minutes and struggled to track back, Robinson was in effective at holding the ball up

I thought Kellyman should have gone up top last 20, Joel on in the 10 and then tanner should have come off

I'm not gonna get to dispondent we still have Lincoln and Bolton at ours to play beat them both and today's point ends up being ok

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:20 pm

llan bluebird wrote:No one knows what has happened this week; a few may have minor injuries or carrying knocks.


That sums up why we need signing asap to give other options really as said. I can assure you we wouldn't have had a 16 year old on the bebch otherwise as he's only been seen on the bench in that shitty virtue trophy but come on done well tbh. On to the next one :bluescarf:

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sun Feb 01, 2026 8:47 am

BBM was brought in to develop the youth players, not spend VTs money. Enough of that has been wasted already. And as for criticism of BBMs decisions, he’s a young Manager learning his trade. All this chat about backing Murphy, those days are gone. And rightly so.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sun Feb 01, 2026 8:51 am

I wonder if yesterday will highlight further our need for a couple bodies. Depending on how long Salech is out for we surely need a different option than Robinson

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sun Feb 01, 2026 9:33 am

Jestrix wrote:I wonder if yesterday will highlight further our need for a couple bodies. Depending on how long Salech is out for we surely need a different option than Robinson


This has been evident especially the need for another striker murphy has been forced to play Robinson due to salec's injury he has been on the bench all season under murphy, that's self evident to anyone that murphy does not see Robinson as a starter, but super sub.

Re: BBM Hold your hands up.

Sun Feb 01, 2026 9:57 am

There are multiple elements to BBM's job.

Coaching- Improving players
Game management- Selecting a team and setting the tactics and any subs
Player Management- Managing the human beings in his care.

I doubt many would question his coaching. I don't understand the game management, but I am an amateur who grew up in 442, and none of us know what happens in his office in his 1-2-1's with the players.


My wild guess, and that's all it is, was that BBM was allowing Robinson to prove he can start as a lone striker with a very attack-minded 10. It didn't work. After 14 years as a professional, Robinson has been an off-the-shoulder or half-turn, running onto the ball player forward. He is never going to be Mark Hughes or Shearer and adapt his game.
I'd be shocked if he starts again in that position. His legs have gone; he is on a big contract, so we are stuck with him, unless he wants first-team football and we do a deal.

I believe he was managing CR's expectations. Hopefully, a new striker is on the way or at least Daviess gets a run until Salech is back. In Tanners case i think he was beasting him to get his fitness back. He is a bull of a lad and takes an age to get match fit.