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I disagree and I think that's really poor from Miller if he's said that. To the extent the ground is empty it's because of the owners and management and the Club clearly having no aspirations whatsoever of success or trying to achieve promotion. For those that are in the ground it's primarily the team's job to give the supporters something to shout about. We've (I think) lost four out of our six home League games and a League Cup tie against Bradford. Where's the enjoyment in that?

Ismael's logic for playing Hedges as a centre back in a three was flawed. He cited his height but being tall doesn't mean he is a good header of the ball, in fact I don't believe he is. Surely using someone who can head it should have been picked there. And as demonstrated last night we were further weakened against Derby because our best left sided player was playing at centre half. If Pratt was ready for last night surely he was ready a fortnight ago against Derby.

Corrado Grabbi had loads of ability, fantastic in his first few matches but as the luck deserted him, so did his confidence and that proved fatal. He could have had a hatrick in that early match against United, think he hit the woodwork twice.

I don't understand your point.

We need more than just defenders. You look at the bench and how weak it was last night. Gudjohnsen and Ohashi seem to benefit from the current system (as do a few others) but there is absolutely no credible alternative to the pair of them. If we are sticking to the current system then we badly need most likely 2 more forwards.

The two statements aren’t contradictory. Pratt may not have been ready for the Derby game for the reasons stated. So then it came down to one of Hedges, Pickering or Ribeiro for the left centre back role. Ismael may well have chosen Hedges on account of his height. Myself I would have chosen Pickering in that case and left Hedges out wide.

Couldn’t agree more and made this point many times. They prefer to play away, at Ewood the atmosphere is so funereal it is the clearest manifestation of what these owners have done to this club and its remnant and downtrodden supporter base. All a far cry from the loud and passionate cauldron that even the top teams feared playing here. Today, rather than being the twelfth man, they must feel like they are playing with ten at home. Of course, it is all very much the chicken and the egg and if the club was run properly and we could put performances and results together, ‘Rome’ could once again be rebuilt.

start him on wednesday definately,miller be unavailable so he should fit straight in,looks to me he`ll become a really solid no nonsense defender,bit short of pace but then again most centre backs are

He was excellent not sure what some people expect!!

Delighted and pleasantly surprised with both the performance and win last night. I really want to try to be more positive but it’s just so frustrating seeing us play like that with some fantastic individual performances knowing that the club will just sabotage any progression at the first opportunity. Take Tronstad for example: phenomenal last night. Yet seemingly the club are just content for him to leave for free in the summer. Cantwell too, no doubt off. Under any normal ownership there would be many reasons for optimism.

The boy did good on his debut recalled from Chorley and straight into the line up Clearly knackered by 70mins Thoughts on his future?

When did he say that? What a load of old tosh. He previously said that he picked Hedges ahead of Pickering and/or Ribeiro because he was slightly taller. Pratt is significantly taller than all 3 of them.

9 points of breathing space now, hopefully that is a big mental boost for the squad. We just need to keep chipping away and maintaining that gap and we can do it with the big six pointers we have coming in December 🤞 I think we all acknowledge that at least one of Sheff Utd and Norwich, if not both, will eventually begin to climb out. Another 10 wins needed this season to stay up, hopefully we can get 3 or 4 of those before end of December.

You're never going to get much help from the likes of Gallagher (in particular) or Bayes although tbf historically the latter has always been slightly tougher on the Club than the compliant Jackson who ironically is the one who's found himself banned.

Vi admitted we have no defence he’s playing pratt He also said we have no room in the squad Todd will be sold in Jan likely destination? Derby?!

Ismael has confirmed Pratt was going to start against Derby but having only returned to the club 24 hours before the game he didn't feel he had enough time to adjust to team patterns etc

What's happening in general with the Coalition and any protests? I know people can be very fickle and one minute they are baying for blood and two or three wins later a lot are as happy as sandboys, but it does seem to have gone very quiet and I'm not aware of anything at all happening during the Derby game. Are things ongoing or has everything been halted by the threat of legal action etc?

We were good all over the pitch yesterday. Well done George Pratt - fantastic game young man and looked ever so comfortable. His passing was on point and a couple of very important blocks. Didn’t look out of place even when that lump of a man Smith tried to drop on to him Gudjohnson is becoming my favourite player. He’s a real poacher. But for those criticising his play - the chance for Smith was made harder by Gudjohnson strength. Fantastic save by Pears, but only possible due to our Icelandic super star Morishita got in the way down the right hand side early doors. He was making good runs to underlap down the right, but that was into Alebiosus space. Once Morishita played more narrow and left that right hand side space for Alebiosu we roasted them. A small tactical switch that turned our attacking fortunes around Lovely win and we climb up the table again

It all depends who you mean by “ we “. I suspect Rovers won’t get anything.

India series and the 2023 Ashes series were drawn 2-2 and England should have won both. To be fair, England played some proper cricket this summer, dug in when necessary but they've reverted to Bazball type in this Test. We won't win the next one either if they play the same way

Very workmanlike performance last night and a great result but I think that's a very blue and white tinted glasses assessment. I think we're a pretty poor outfit and everything hinges on whether we can sort the home form out. If we can, happy days and we should be relatively comfortable this season but I don't think we'll continue in this vein of winning all our away games so I'll still be very relieved when we get to 50 points. The one thing I do agree on is Pratt. As I repeatedly said before the game there's rarely been a disaster arising out of handing a youngster his debut and so it proved yet again last night. I dont think people were overly critical about the prospect of selecting him , they'd have been a lot more critical if Hedges had started there again. If Ismael had been braver, and not made a ludicrously bad decision to start Hedges at LCB against Derby and started with the same line up as last night, I think we'd have got at least a point there as well.

@ParsonblueI agree this team is nowhere as bad as people think. We will have plenty of ups and down given how many signings we made and from overseas. One of PNE's supporting Work colleague admitted a couple of weeks they are mid table team. They lack pace and quality striker and centre back to play in the centre of back 3. He isnt a fan of Heckingbottom either. 100%. Never like him.

I actually thought Morishita was getting caught in possession too much in the first half but he seemed to be predominately on the right side. He moved inside in the second half and had a far greater influence on the game. Let's hope last night was a turning point as he appeared to be adapting to the rigours of the Championship. As you say Yuki must be a nightmare to play against. He is relentless in his pressing and last night worked the channels really well. His bravery is commendable too as he is not deterred by some big gorilla of a centre half.

Wrexham our next away game. I hope we can break the curse of not winning against newly promoted sides. Would take a draw there.

That's the worry and whilst Pickering and Ribero aren't being used and are clearly being eased towards the door (10k pwk guys probably) they do give us some depth on the bench. Cantwell is also clearly a gonner and of course the biggest question is shove two or three of those out the door who replaces them ?