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Is it just the 7 points? I can think of 7 points from 4 goals. 2 v Birmingham 3 points 1 v Wrexham 2 points 1 v Ipswich 2 points.

I was meaning his subs, when he signed for Rovers his previous clubs fans said he was atrocious with subs. I recall on a Watford forum someone saying, you're playing well then he subs on 3 players at 60 minutes, with no thought given to the quality or position of said players, and then you have 30+ minutes of defending attack after attack when he's fucked up the gameplan.

As a defender you never want to run towards your own goal with the long ball over the top. But we invited pressure on ourselves and with our recent history of conceding late it's getting increasingly tough to ride the pressure off. Some really good performances have turned into heartbreak this season, but when you look at tonight's game how many times did we really threaten Walton? Ipswich looked as comfortable as we did against QPR; shit all night but not too troubled. Positive that we're looking a lot better on set-pieces. Need to sign bodies in January.

Ipswich were so poor that we should have been at least two or three up. Whilst I agree the ref was an absolute disgrace tonight, with a better team we simply aren't going into injury time needing to once again cling on to victory. What we're seeing is a curse - the Venky curse.

We have two actual left backs on the bench though! Why are they even in the matchday squad if they’re not going to be used in this exact scenario! If you’re going to drop someone in for the last 10 minutes for Hedges it goes Pickering, Ribiero, a random bloke in the Jack Walker, then De Neve. As others have said, it’s like they’re trying to justify the transfer policy by only playing Gestede players.

I'll bet the crowd on Saturday will be one of the lowest ever for a game against Sheff Weds.

Ipswich are the luckiest side to have come to Ewood in a long time. Outplayed and losing the initial game; rage quit and rematch. Outplayed and should have been down to 10 men in the rematch; equaliser with the last kick. Standard of officiating was beyond horrible, even by EFL standards. They were really poor and won't be anywhere the top 6 come May. As for us, we need to learn how to see games out. 4 points dropped in 3 days due to last-gasp equalisers.

Just seen the replay of that last minute. We get the corner , get 3 men round the ball and Gueye plays it off one of theirs for another corner. Ref gives a goal kick and the rest we know. What with the red card and that last minute fiasco you just wonder if we are cursed somehow this season

I don’t care, sack him tonight.

That wasn't luck, it was the arrogant prick in the dugout thinking that repeating the same mistake over and over will somehow yield a positive result.

We’re not blessed with options, I’ll give Ismael that, but for the love of God, STOP bringing on Gueye and De Neve. They’re a pair of useless, lazy tossers who perform terribly every single time they take to the pitch. It’s hardly bloody rocket science to see that they’re having a negative impact week in week out.

Think he brings subs on to give them game time. Useless man.

But all that is unknown, we may not have scored against ten men. What we do know is we were 1-0 up going into injury time and conceded again, that’s on us. Control the controllables!

He doesn't set us up well defensively. Everyone cuts us to ribbons on the counter. I'm amazed he's an ex-CB.

We're lucky to score one goal a game, concede late goals for fun and can't win at home. I'm not sure why you wouldn't include us in that conversation.

Ismael...leave the fucking side alone,stick your subs up your arse man!!!

I’d find a lot of value in betting on us going down with this many late conceded goals, if I was a masochist

I think we'll just about scrape by, but we're bloody unlucky at times, get nothing from the refs and clearly only have about a 15 man squad.

With Rudy Gestede still kicking his heels in France somewhere, just imagine where we would be!

I mean they did play 50 extra minutes with 11 men. I'd say the ref had a big influence on that result.

If I was a neutral I dont think id fancy us to go down with our results and performances.

Sickening

He needs to have a word with himself. He's been like this at his previous clubs according to their clubs fans.

It was mainly because we decided to once again sit back and soak up pressure - maybe that's all we can do with the quality available to us. As soon as Ipswich decided to start playing rather than fall about constantly they actually looked a threat, but I'm sure it's not a coincidence that it coincided with the likes of Taveres and De Neve on the pitch. Is anybody going to ask Ismael why he refuses to give Pickering or Ribeiro - far superior players - any game time? I suppose not, as they'd probably get banned.

Afraid so.