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I'm not so sure going forwards. Graham, Marshall, Conway and Joao are better forward options than we appear to have, and were technically better. That seasons younger Gallagher was better than the one we ended up with as well. Far more mobile. Mulgrew and Lenihan against whoever we put at the back now ? Both were better on the ball than any option we have. Todays full backs appear better, but not by a wide margin. Williams was player of the year that season V Ribero? Not a lot in that. And Nyambe wasn't perceived a weak link, albeit Abeliosu is clearly much better going forward and wins that one on what we have seen. In midfield you have Tronstad & Whoever against Lowe & Evans. However I always said it was in centre midfield where we failed that season. Smallwood coming in was a breath of fresh air. Tronstadt & Travis was clearly better, but we are scrapping around for a decent partner for him. Then you have a poor morale level and a manager I'm not sure they will respond to. We were 9/2 to go down at the start of the season and 7/1 to go down now, which is simply huge.

Either Phillips or Thomas to score (guessing Gally is injured as ever). One thing is guaranteed, Ismael to bemoan the officials or Lady Luck for another tragic result.

The fish rots from the head and I’d include Pasha in that along with our ‘owners’. But make no mistake this clown is one dangerous snake who needs booting out of our club with a king sized rocket up his arse. When the time ever finally comes for new ownership I can’t wait to see chancers like this fall down the footballing ladder. No self respecting club would touch the likes of Gestede with a 100 ft barge pole.

Gestede is a weasel. How any self respecting Rovers fan can accept him back at the club after he binned us off is beyond me. His lies, smug prick face and corpo-speak make me sick. He's insidious, malignant and has smelled a club with a void of anyone capable and inserted himself deeply into our hierarchy to feed on the club from inside. He may not be the cause of why we're in this mess but he's definitely accelerated it. Grade A wanker.

No he isn't, but he is a good player

Unless there is a significant improvement from the team, we are getting turned over comfortably here. 0-2

Is that in Welsh?

In all seriousness though, a Swansea fan on Reddit has it sussed Got away with one there. We were poor first half, much better after the subs and glad to see Sheehan has realised we have actual squad depth now. Quite funny to see Cantwell spend the final ten minutes incandescent and trying to get himself sent off after not getting that pen. Suppose it somewhat evens out some awful decisions at Millwall and Birmingham from our perspective, but very unfortunate for Blackburn. Will probably be a long season for them especially if decisions go against them like today and the Ipswich write-off. Fans also seemed very subdued, I know it's a tuesday night but the Venky's hoardings were the loudest thing in the stadium after Cantwell. He and Alebiosu looked a bit dangerous but no real threat from anyone else. And on the opposite end of the stick to us, it didn't seem like they had anyone half-decent to bring off the bench.

I asked a Swan mate what he thought of the game

Gestede has links to Steve Kean and Thats no coincidence in my opinion. As we know, Kean had no experience as a manager, but replaced Alardyce and we know how that ended. Not only that, but Alardyce sued Kean and if Im not mistaken ended up with an out settlement. We now have Gestede throwing his weight around by alegedly, threatening a fan with legal action and I would not be surprised if this with the LT is down to him. He simply knows the right people in my opinion who were here from the start and his appointment has nothing to do with his ability to do the job. Just as Kean did before him, this will also end in relegation, but we could be stuck with him for a while.

Kargbo needs firing off down the leagues for a 6 month loan in Jan to learn how to actually be a winger in England. Everything we feared about importing cheap continentals into the rough and tumble of the Championship and the British weather is coming to fruition and it's not even November yet. Instead of developing they start going backwards rapidly because they've not experience of the struggle at a club like this and they've no bollocks for the scrap and neither have most of those around them. This was all so predictable so why was it allowed to happen ? Commission plain and simple, move them in, get them games, move them on. As proven by the last shower of shite Ennis, Leo. Tel etc they ALL got moved on quickly and they all got a small fee. And the agents running this show ALL got their commission because the advantage of cheap wage foreign players is you'll always find them somewhere else back abroad and they'll be only too glad to go after a dire experience here. This club is now an agency vehicle again existing to get guys Championship mins and move them on again it's the budget version of the Kean/Anderson scam.

All three!!

Anything close to what we've shown for the majority of this season and we'll get pumped. I don't know what team we should play or what positions they should play in but it's going to need to be a lot fucking better than what we've seen recently.

Iley and Ince.

It's true, a lot happened after Gudjonson's mistake, but if he controls as he should do, the rest doesn't happen. Probably our best chance led to a goal for Swansea.

I’m coming back up north for this one. Mainly because the wife’s away and don’t think I’ve got the patience to look after a baby and a toddler by myself so will seek refuge with the grandparents. There’ll be 3 generations at Ewood in my dad, me and my eldest. Pity the latest generation won’t get to experience what I got to in my youth (any time soon anyway). Unfortunately I haven’t watched Rovers win at home for a few years now (not through a lack of trying, just unlucky). Hopefully that spell can be broken but I don’t have my hopes up. I’m normally more glass half full but struggling to see how we survive this season at the moment.

Must win against Stoke on Saturday to stop the rot, the run of games after that is really tough. Ismael appears untouchable regardless of results so we just have to hope he gets it all to click together before its too late.

Ismael et al are blind to the fact that the players are full of mistakes, and the majority aren’t good enough to play at this level, so the default position is to blame others such as the referee, the EFL and the Telegragh etc.

VI appears to be unsackable, we will surely be playing L1 next season

Good signing but he won't be able to save us from relegation

By end of November, my prediction is we will be firmly rock bottom and we won't be able to get out of it. Relegation is staring at us in the face. If we goes down this time round, we'll be down there for a very long time.

In terms of technical quality we probably have a better set of players than when we were last relegated, that was a really awful team. But its a different game when you're low on confidence and scrapping three games a week. Then you need players who are physical, motivated, bonded as a team and dig out results. I cant see any sign of that.

Ismael

It could be argued that our best centre back partnership both left the club this summer 😉

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