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I can forgive miller for a bad touch, or Foreshaw for being limited. I can never forgive a player for a complete lack of effort.

Still can’t get over DeNeve. Should never ever play again. If I were playing I would have made him quit and rather played down a man

Should have come on at half. 10 min down a goal isn’t a great introduction

no point blaming val or the players,we are were we are because of shit owners and two snake like lackeys who run the place,we all know what will happen in january,thats why thousands of fans have given up attending

From the excellence of Friday tonight was the polar opposite. It was like the players were still basking in the win and that turning up was enough. We were slow, ponderous, lacked intensity, such woeful passing and a general lack of intent. QPR were streets ahead of us in almost every area of the pitch and our abysmal home form continues as we went down without so much as a whimper. It looked to me like Ismael has given up to with his substitutions which actually weakened us (if that was possible) and we lost all semblance of any shape we might have had. Ismael is responsible for results and right now he is being dug out by away results but those victories won't continue for ever and we will have to start getting points at home. It's a real conundrum and one I don't think he has an answer to. Of course we missed Tronstad tonight but Montgomery and Gardner-Hickman were run ragged and chased shadows for most of the game. I honestly can't recall us winning a second ball all night. There is no doubt we are going to be in a dog right and could be on course for a record low of home points. I will cut Pratt a bit of slack tonight but the rest of them (included the manager) have to take a long, hard look at themselves after this woeful effort.

His use of substitutes has fook all to do with the crowd but a lot to do with another defeat. The quality of players and coaching has fook all to do with the crowd but everything to do with club policy, form and tactics. 19k home fans turned up v Derby....we lost.

Barnes is kissing the Club's arse.

Dan Barnes in LT giving 6 & 7s for players ratings. Was he there? More like 3 & 4s for me. I was there!

I’m sure Pasha and Rudy are moving heaven and earth to extend his contract!

This excuse of blaming the home crowd/atmosphere for shite displays at home has to stop and needs calling out if Ismael or any of the players allude to it in future.

Good review @DE. Think that echoes my thoughts of not being too concerned desspite todays loss. As younsay Oxford and Portsmouth haven't really kicked on and though I rate Rowett, having the lowest budget in the league is making it tough. Neither team look comfortable yet in this division. Sheff Utd have a lot of quality so you feel they'll get out of it sooner or later. But the rest I feel are well in the "race". Don't think Swansea or Norwich have done well in the manager stakes and feel that could really haunt them. West Brom seem to be sneaking the way down the table. Tonight's last minute draw will be a huge blow to them. Think they'll get out of trouble too especially if they appoint a seasoned hand. But its a nice mix of teams down there keeping us somehow looking comfortable of staying up.

Ismael’s record at Ewood P15 W3 D3 L9 Thats why the crowds are even shitter than usual. Doubt i’m bothering for the next two Tuesdays after that.

Weren't even that for the first ten games!

None of us there to blame. I'd love to know what figure they'll pluck out the air for tonight's attendance. We know the stadium has 31,000 seats. It was barely a quarter full, they'll still announce it as 13000 or something mental.

Perhaps we are a one-man team.........Tronny

Let's be honest everybody in a position of seniority at Ewood maintains a view that the fans are the bad guys. The "fans support away from home is amazing" is a dig. The football witnessed at Ewood under this manager has been shambolic and screams of a victim mentality amongst the squad that playing at home is some fearsome tasks. It is absolute crap.

Inexplicable isn't it,5k Rovers fans at Preston showed how much they cared...then they put a display on like that as a thanks.Everything pointed to confidence being high tonight but they looked like it was all too much effort.One step forward,two steps back Fookin beggars belief!

I thought QPR played far better than PNE did last Friday.

I'd take Richard

Has Ismael blamed the fans yet? They’ve been planting that seed all week.

We signed 5 (five) central midfielders this summer and there’s a chance he’s the best of the bunch.

As this season goes that was the most disappointing performance. In fact we were really bad, wrong footed, no ambition and no ideas. Some of those young lads our there tonight need a bollocking.

I don’t know. Forshaw has nearly 100 premier league appearances to his name. Don’t think many other of this cobbled together rag tag bunch have enough quality to do that in their careers.

After Rovers wearing me down to apathy this season, watching the Preston game revived my interest somewhat. My biggest question is how on earth are those two performances from the same team? We battered a team in the playoffs yet laboured against a struggling team. Against Preston we played some fantastic football and looked fairly threatening. Today... Looking back across the two games as well as being gloriously (horrifically) inconsistent. On reflection though there are probably a few consistencies within our inconsistency. 1) We aren't ruthless enough. Against Preston we should have won by more. When on top we should get more goals, when we are struggling we create little and don't have any "something out of nothing"/take the one chance we have. In wins and losses it feels like we lack a clinical edge. 2) As everyone knows and has said the squad quality is poor. Too many who aren't cut out for this level making us overly reliant on our best 11 to always be fit and performing at their best. We can't afford to have so many passengers in the squad and the substitutions significantly lower the quality of the team. 3) We don't seem to defend crosses too well. Preston in their sole 20 min spell had a free header their CB should have got on target. Today was a shambles. Definitely something to work on. Not sure #2 is redeemable with Venkys and mid-season. But 1 and 3 surely can be worked on.