If you have a corner taker that can’t land the ball at head height on or around the space between the edge of the six yard box and the penalty spot when the chips are down and you’ve stacked the box you can’t blame bad luck. That’s just dumb football, pure and simple.

have to get something next week at hull,after hull it`s norwich,watford and ipswich,ffs it aint looking good

It's dull nonsense. Most Championship clubs have had a PO campaign or something in the last 10 years to shout about. We've had no POs, we're the biggest club in the EFL never to have played at New Wembley and the highlight of the last 10 years is runners up in League One. With all due respect even that achievement wasn't built upon nor that exciting as a fan. We're in purgatory waiting for whenever the Venkys have had enough and let us collapse. Bury, Macclesfield and Wimbledon may have been playing minnows, but it was a fun ride and the fans felt engaged and part of something. It's the community asset ethos the game is all about. The hopes of a revival wither with every year of purgatory as people drift away.

If we can hire the digital ad boards outside ewood - would happily chip in for a Pasha Out / Gestede Out / Venkys Out ad and of course that lovely quote from Mrs D about respecting Jacks legacy

I suspect we are going to have quite a few games like today where we cry the "unlucky" card but its a game we have thrown away. Dont agree that we "deserved" the win in the first place. Tavares was being hailed as a replacement and potential improvement on Travis. Showed clear immaturity, I dont think we do lose with Travis playing instead. We thought that discussion about Travis and contracts were allowed post match. Clearly not. At least they got club mole privy to say he refused to play to try and get fans to turn on him. Probably will work. Its going to be a long season

I'm talking about a recurrent habit of falling away and conceding defeat from the jaws of victory or useful points. It doesn't really matter what the pattern of play was, the result was the same.

Pickering has his limitations but I'd have him on over De Neve every day of the week.

the english game is to much for him,when you are that out of your depth you become a liability,he was on a minute and he let the opposing winger outmuscle him

It can.

Surely nobody can be surprised. Next level down the spiral. Group of players worse than those before. Result..... exactly as expected. Venkys out. Pasha out.

Senior player. Probably not happy Eustace left. Decent wage.

The club is to us but we aren't man utd Liverpool arsenal Chelsea etc

Pickering should have been sent on - not De Neve. He's an absolutely crap footballer

Its all down the subs today... wrong subs. End of. Ismael need to start winning. Dont think this winless run can continue.

Did anyone else see a young lad try and get at the ref after the game?

Officially 19,552 which would be about 12,500 Rovers fans. Having said that the concourse was light so I suspect a few season ticket holder s counted in there were absent for one reason or another.

You missed the boat

I was at a rugby league match with my wife and the opposing team had a young, very slight scrum half. My wife said - “ He looks like his legs are pinned on to the bottom of his shorts “. That remark came back to me when I saw DeNeve for the first time.

My heads hurting after that mate and it's not because of the overly priced beer.

Haven't seen anything of today's game and must admit these days of one of the first eleven kicked me in the bollocks I wouldn't know who they were. Although I'd never suspect a rovers player of being so on target. Anyway. Haven't all of our seasons followed the same pattern. Initial struggle, then put together an amazing sequence of wine, to the table, fall away gradually then either stage a recovery and push for sixth and not quite make it or end up lower mid table ISH? It's this season going to be more of the same? Seems not?

sidnei was struggling after the hour and should have been replaced.birmingham started to get on top at this time de neve at fault for the penalty,he was badly outmuscled and turned giving no choice to the defenders,they had to stick out a leg.frankly de neve looks more out his depth than telalovic did,if we wanted a **** wide player,we might as well have kept markanday today really showed how far we`ve regressed,birmingham an ok side but nothing special,we made them look better than they are results like today are hard to forget,i suspect results will now completely fall off a clff,it looks like we`ll only be saved from relegation by clubs that are worse than us,lets hope there are 3/4 of them

Said in jest but actually a fair point - if anyone can rent it out, maybe a suitable protest message? The annoying thing is - Rovers probably have some sort of veto over what appears on that board so a protest message probably wouldn't be allowed whereas a sickly message saying how wonderful the opposing Club is, is apparently absolutely fine. Symbolises perfectly what a joke Club we have become.

He’s on his way into my Blackburn Rovers worst 11.

Lot of effort and generally we were ok. However pieces of poor play combined to see us lose it. De Neve, Tavares and Miller have to stop that situation before the penalty. Tavares corner is shocking, as is the decision to commit so many men that far forward. Not sure who the defender is who doesn’t even stick a leg out to stop the cross for the winner. As Travis is clearly first choice midfielder then his promised ‘replacement’ should also be first choice. Let’s wait and see.