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Did they have a shot on goal, besides the blatant foul the ref ignored?

Last night summed up for me the sad decline of our club over the last 15 years. With no investment in the Stadium infrastructure, playing squad or fan base Venkys "generated" the lowest league "attendance" at Ewood in many a year. Where does this all end with no creative thinking and fan engagement at an all time low ? I genuinely think the only option left is a match boycott to attract some media attention but would the happy clappers simply tut and attend ? It's hard to even press the Red button these days so kudos to those that attend but some people need to open there eyes to what is going on.

Early days, but he looks promising that's for sure.

You'll have lost several thousand from the gate after Saturday. It was raining again and there are clearly no guarantees a game will be finished at Ewood when it rains. I was absolutely livid walking up the hill back to the car on Saturday - I made the decision not to go last night for the above reason.

Since it was clear we were shipping out all our championship experience and replacing them with cheap punts from abroad, I have always felt that we will spend the season in the bottom 6 with a 50% of going down. Seen nothing to alter my opinion, home form will kill us unless we turn it around very quickly. We will start losing away before we start winning at home unfortunately. Gut feeling say it's going to be very close but Cantwell's quality if he stays, and Gudjohnsen sniffing out goals I think will see us finish where we are now or one place lower.

but to sign 8 in this window is unrealistic and as is selling players after only being here for a few months.

Similar player to Emerton. Incredibly athletic, so a dynamic WB, but if you played him solely at RW he'd be stood up by the better LBs.

Yes please ❤️

It's been a disaster Chaddy. Good job they have managed to to get a few away wins as we would be adrift with Wednesday.

yes home form hasn't been great but you could easily counter that by saying our away form is brilliant. our home form and wins at home this season should be much better but don't take our chances. We have 4 great chances yesterday and scored none of them.

This train of thought is what we have been reduced to and personally Im so tired of it all. This is not the proud Club I grew up supporting,I barely recognise it in its current form.

Absolutely shocking stats. The bloke is a dreadful manager, you couldn't see what the plan was last night against Oxford. Another absolutely horrific first 45mins. Needs sacking asap.

But but but - he's "honest!".

are any of those really number 6 defensive midfielder? no they aren't so you can't expect them to be. They are more of number 8 box to box midfielder or number 10 players. Forshaw and Montgomery are the back up for Tronstad not them. How can you not see that? Baradji is number 8 player and someone who is getting fitter and looks to have something about him I don't know what you have against Montgomery but you always against young players. some signings have been good, ok and bad so far. That natural under recruitmen5 Toth is level above Pears and he is different keeper who command his area much better. Tronstad not being available is a massive miss as Cantwell and not something we can really afford. I did call for another centre back before the window closed but Miller is comfortable in back 3 and I don't think he is as bad as you and others said in a centre back pairing

I dont know whether to dignify that remark with a response. On the rare occasions Kargbo has been available he hasnt shown anything at all. The point is, in the summer, ismael signed ten players Mclaughlin, De Neve, Miller, Tavares, Baradji, Hickman, Henrikssen, Forshaw, Moreshita and Gudjohnssen. He would no doubt pretend they're all decent players and can make a difference. Last night all apart from Forshaw were available. All sides will pick up a few injuries and suspensions along the way, to blame the fact we sit in 20th or have one home win two weeks shy on Christmas on injuries is laughable. it's the abysmal recruitment and poor management which is to blame. Still a couple of weeks ago it was the atmosphere at Ewood, last week it was the officiating, I suppose injuries can be this week's excuse. (Rotate as necessary)

The Nigerian AFCON squad is due to be announced today, my guess is that he will be included. Would be great for the lad but terrible for Rovers.

That’s totally normal for rovers though.

Really sad times indeed. Difficult to look at Rovers in pretty much any capacity and not think that the club is dying/nearly dead.

19 home games for Ismael, 3 wins. No home clean sheets since Ismael took over. Worst points total after 10 home league games in our 150 year history. What a job this bloke is doing.

As a supporter you now have to ask..whats the point of it all? We are being ground to Dust.

@roversfan99 never said 8 signings were realistic, he said that’s how many he thinks we need. That isn’t a difficult concept to understand, unless you don’t want to of course.

No we didnt

Woah! Wasters? What sort of comment is that? I just give up with your with these sort of comments and you couldn't even answer again the most basic of questions.

Feels like the Club is dying,Ewood is a morgue,an air of doom hangs over the place. The squad is of poor quality bar one or two,the results and our league position tells all we need to know.There is nowt to look forward to. Thats how I feel this morning folks,Its hard to swallow and its all self inflicted by those in charge...really sad times.

de Keersmaker was the perfect shithouse midfielder for them but our play was too tentative and slow allowing him to be so disruptive. Tavares probably needs a sports psychologist - there is a player there if he can build his confidence. Baradji looks the real deal now if we can get more than ten minutes a game from him. Cantwell easily best player on the park when he came on. The rest of the team needs to learn howe to play with him again. Ryan's final balls were poor all night but he was constantly getting into position to deliver which is more than can be said for the others. 10,255 the official crowd so estimates of 7k or less actually being there not far wrong.