To be fair looking at stats like that dont give a true reflection of a game. I'm as critical as anyone, but when the triple sub was made just before the penalty I was feeling pretty good, thought we had set up pretty well with what is available to us and we're well worth the win. Thought the lads worked there nuts off. Really liked Kargbo and Hedges being on there correct sides offering a good balance, and even though raw and inexperienced I thought Alebiosu did well too. Birmingham never looked like scoring until we gave there goals and thats the most frustrating part. For me, I've seen this kind of team before at Ewood, done ok, nicked a goal, looked fairly organised before throwing it away. I have a feeling this result will set up how the season is going to go, we're in huge trouble.

Positivity has to be based on reality otherwise it’s merely delusion.

The disease that is the Venkys has many many symptoms.

Unfortunately the dawn never comes here.

We can all opine on what we would like the wage structure to be, all that matters is that the actual wage structure is and obviously that isn’t one that leads to our players signing new contracts,

Based on what I've seen so far, this is what I think we would need to maintain 7th spot from last year. Backup GK, assuming Pears goes Starting CB Replacement for Trav. 2nd string CM Starting RW Striker (and not some £200k pickup) If we actually fancied improving the squad, you can add a LW and another striker to that. We're led to believe the club expects one (1) more new recruit, and to replace Trav. What should happen and what will happen are so far apart, that I question the judgement of anyone who tries to assert we're anywhere near the strength of last season. Unless the above signings are completed I'm pretty confident we'll be battling Wednesday for bottom of the pack.

So the buck for defeats no longer stops with the manager, but with individual coaches. That’s a new one.

Really? We have no points. We are easy to beat. We have lost the majority of our experienced players. We have no funds to replace them. That's the actual reality. Your interpretation of the facts as 'Looking like a... league finish in mid table' and 'if things click quickly' and 'a couple of quality (of) signings' ?? That, fella, is the epitome of 'rovers coloured spectacles' (pardon the pun). Somewhat over optimistic, if you ask me (which I know you aren't). I suppose you could argue that at least we are having our traditional poor run of results early this season, in August instead of December / January. No likey likey. VENKYS OUT!

Nope. The RAO family and their pernicious and calculated campaign to kill our club through systematic withdrawal of financial support are 100% to blame. Everything else is a side-show to make us think we still have a chance. We don't ! Not under this lot. VENKYS OUT!

I'm beginning to get it now. The Raos think that they can save face by running the club down to a point where from a business point of view they can say it is no longer a going concern. Therefore it can be shut down as such, without it troubling their tiny conscience. The alternative, to sell the club to someone interested in making it work, would involve too much scrutiny of the wrong-doing, the ineptitude, the facts and (crucially) the figures, potentially bringing issues to light in public that they would rather not be faced up with. So, what we are seeing is the further deliberate undermining of the football club, to salve the pathetic egos of people who long ago realised that they were in over their heads, had been duped and shown to be commercially incompetent, and who now (for a long time indeed) want nothing more than the embarrassment to go away. Fuck the consequences for the true 'owners' and 'stakeholders' of the club (i.e. US the supporters). Tell you what - the FA should introduce annual 'fit and proper' tests for owners, that actually require realistic and real benchmarks to be surpassed, and commitments to be made and honoured by those claiming to own the 'business assets'. Wankers. The lot of them. VENKYS OUT!

It said that on Rovers TV

Think you have to question why Birmingham get both their goals from experienced wide men running at defenders and either getting into the penalty area and causing panic - one wins a pen and one slides a cross across for a tap in winner. Our wide men - de neve, kargbo look nothing like causing such opportunities and chances. It’s simply lack of talent and experience in recruitment and it’s going to bite us in the ass like so many predicted. So toothless in attack , I really don’t see what our game plan is going to be. Try and nick a goal from 0. Something xg and then hold on for 30+ minutes. Always going to lose more than we win

Brutal We were much better 2nd half. We just aren’t going to score goals until we get a Right Winger and a striker.

I don’t mind the bloke, quite like him in interviews etc but seems a limited manager, more to the point it seems inevitable he’s just passing through and will be gone by November either way. Sadly I’m feeling it all just feels hopeless right now.

How can we be a point from the relegation zone when we have 0 points?

A season in transition and a finish in mid table. 15 years into the ownership. Project number……? Please. I don’t believe that is acceptable, especially with the money made in the last 2 years on incomings. It’s called managed decline, and exactly why JDT and Eustace left.

Hedges isn’t good enough at this level. I’m afraid Scotty is damaged goods, & we’ve lost other popular players due to injury, that simply weren’t the same afterwards (Dacky comes to mind). Miller, McLoughlin, Ribeiro, & Hyam aren’t a bad back line, but it appears Hyam is on his way out. Dittos in midfield with Tronnie & Travis. It’s a mess, guys. We’re 1 point from the relegation zone now… once we’re hit it, we’re not climbing out. how we go from 7th place, 2 points from playoffs to relegation, Rovers Admin & staff are to be blamed. Only Rovers appear able to get into such as mess as this, in so fast a time.

3:30am, woken up, still seething 😑

Well this is it. He's no highlight reelist but after much flak deserved 👏 for his efforts

Missing from the stats is Brum players falling over at the slightest touch. They were the same against Ipswich

There will be a defeat Parson because the club is set to fail, I think the owners are annoyed we did not go down last season . This year they will not fail . I maybe wrong but history tells me i won;t !

There is nothing open and honest about the whole club, be it the manager or anyone else. They spout any old shit and hope some fall for it, which they still do, but in dwindling numbers.

There’s glass half full and then there’s completely clueless. You’re falling into the second with some of your comments recently.

That's offensive to all plants, especially succulents.