Rovers manager Gary Bowyer was left feeling unhappy after Rovers slipped into the Championship’s bottom three with a 3-2 loss at Hillsborough on Saturday.
Our boys were improved from recent performances but allowed any improvement made to be wasted with some fairly basic mistakes allowing Wednesday back into the game and ultimately to emerge victorious.
But Bowyer feels the rub of the green didn’t favour Rovers with the Sheffielder’s penalty in particular looking more than a touch soft.
“Some decisions didn`t go our way again and that seems to be a recurring theme at the moment,” Bowyer told the Lancashire Telegraph.
“Ours was a definite penalty, the goalie pulls him back when he`s clean through on goal and going to score and he gets a yellow card.
“For their penalty the lad`s 6ft 5ins, he`s a big strong boy and he`s gone down like he`s been hit by a truck. No disrespect to Josh Morris but he`s not built like a truck.
“These are the things that are set to test you and they`re going against us at the moment.
“But we`re not going to feel sorry for ourselves.
“The things that went against us, we can only be pleased with how we`ve responded.
“Our luck has got to change with the work rate and the effort we showed.
“It will hit someone`s backside and go in, and we`ll win 1-0. (Ed – A clean sheet? Chance would be a fine thing!)”
Without a win in 11 fixtures, Rovers now find themselves with only the hapless Bristol City and Barnsley below them in the league standings and on a run of form that needs to end immediately if we are to stand any chance of avoiding a second successive relegation.
“At half time we said we`ve got to keep trying and keep playing, and I thought we totally dominated the game in the second half,” Bowyer continued.
“I thought we were camped in their half in the second half and not to come away with anything is a blow.
“But I think you can take a lot of positives out of the way we ran around, we closed down and we played.’
Sadly, it looks bleak…
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