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are all those 3 signings can play the number 6 defensive midfielder role?

Ismael said post game it was tactically and Cantwell came on for him

For me last night was an absolute "must win" game which yet again we failed to convert. The only positive thing was that (on TV at least) the pitch looked absolutely fine. If it's true what Mike Graham said on here yesterday that we hired some machinery from Lancs Cricket Club then it did it's job admirably and it's what we should have done after the Ipswich game. Should keep us going until we can sort it permanently.

Hate the club under this Gestede/Pasha stewardship but strangely encouraged by some of the new players. A team with Cantwell, Baradji, Gudjohnsen, Mori, Ohashi and Tronstad is a team should be exciting - yet it's not ('ish). The problem as I see it is that we have made a wall of good bricks but no cement, we're far too easy to push over. Yet getting these guys on the ball fills me with more optimism than say the Gallaghers and Dolans of this world that we had in previous seasons (yes I know Dolans doing OK this year). Things clearly haven't clicked and I'm getting tired of "mañana, mañana, always mañana". The cement was thrown out in the close season (now doing its work in Derby and Wrexham) to be replaced by flour and water paste. Stupid, hubristic, amateurish arrogance by you know who. Keeping the likes of Travis, Baath and Hyam and ADDING the new guys - I think we'd be in a totally different place by now. After 15 years I shouldn't be surprised by the arrogant incompetence but I still am. What could have been. We're going to be lucky to stay up.

So how many signings in January is realistic is what my original question was which you didn't answer? If it wasn't realistic when you factor in that some signings have only been here less 6 months. MGP took 6 months to get going and his first real impact from memory was Cardiff away in FA cup in January

If you read the post properly and used common sense, it was clear he meant Alebiosu as he mentions Bardji further down in the post. I just knew you would try and pick him up on it though.

we knew we would have to wait to see the player when he had surgery but its a signing Ismael wanted. Sometimes you have to made a brave call. Lets see what we get. who are looking at internally Gestede? did he sign every player or was it part of team decision between Ismael, Gestede, Owen and Cairney? I suspect the latter to be honest

I also made the decision not to go last night after Saturday’s fiasco and getting so pissed wet through that I was still drying out yesterday! Part of that decision was mitigated by the fact that I could watch on TV and suspect there are thousands of others doing the same each game. Whilst the club are benefitting from the increased TV money it does have a negative impact on attendances. Probably the worst that could have happened to a club like Rovers but good for those who don’t attend. The fans who want to be at Ewood supporting the team (and there are a lot on the evidence if the Derby attendance) desperately need something positive to make it worthwhile their effort. I’ll be there for the Millwall game (pitch permitting)

Gudjohnsen mike not it overall? 🤣 6 goals in 15 goals and international player, scored important and crucial goals in our wins like Southampton at home, PNE away and Leicester way Baradji has been really good? based on a few cameos of what? for me, waiting to see him properly and starting games before given proper judgement, done decent enough so far considering lack of pre season and the injury he had Alebiosu has been the stand out signing, McLoughlin and Miller more than decent enough, TGH decent, Morishita has shown what he is about and for me, improving game by game. Tavares has been the biggest disappointment for me, Henriksen has been poor, De Neve had a couple of good games/cameos but overall poor.

Interesting , I wonder why ?

Oldest saying in the book - "The table doesn't lie". If the away form reverts to what you would normally expect from a team around 20th, we really are struggling.

It is a very poor league this season , unfortunately we are in the piss poor bracket ! The squad , imo will be weakened during January , relegation will happen , I also think the owners and their acolytes have been wanting relegation for 3 seasons . It never happened because Eustace and JDT were far superior managers to Ismael !

Exactly. After nearly half a season, we absolutely deserve to be where we are in the league.

Same around me in the JWL, a lot of ST holders taking the comfortable option of watching from home.

Sorry, 4!

Teams that go down are always full of sob stories. But guess what? Jettison your experience and bring in cheap replacements who don't know the division and you end up staring down the barrel. Not 'unlucky', not 'if we'd just'. We aren't and we didn't and that's solely due to the very conscious choices made by this disgusting regime.

That's somewhat of an indictment on the recruitment when you signed 3 central midfielders in the summer.

One of the main drivers of the decay has decamped to India apparently and isn't even there to witness his handy work over the last few games. Convenient eh.

McLoughlin is nowhere near good enough to be in the middle of a back 3. That header for there goal summed him up. You might get away with him on the left side of a 3.

I could see this being a disappointing night. Everything pointed that way We have the basics of a competitive squad but it is too imbalanced. Not enough competition in the right places, combined with injuries, has meant that we lack options from the bench to change our style and the game. I think we did well to get back into it and get a point where in times gone by we may have collapsed. Ribeiro had a poor game but has not played much. Tended to move backwards instead of forwards. We miss Hedges down that left-hand side for sure. I'm guessing that Gardner-Hickman got injured but he was a big miss in the 2nd half. Tavares just hasn't got it has he? I quite like it when a player looks relaxed but as I said last night, it isn't relaxation with him it is being lackadaisical. He gives the ball away too often and there were times he played these short passes with absolutely no purpose other than to move the ball on. I don't think he has it cut out to be a player in the Championship We were unfortunate not to finish the Gardner Hickman chance. He couldn't do much more and the keeper made a fine save. It was a lovely knock down by Gudjohnson. The Yuki chance was another which should have gone in. Except this time it was poor finishing instead of good goalkeeping. I think if Gudjohnson was there, it becomes 1-1. I am not overly enamoured by our defensive options either. McLoughlin is a bit slow off the mark and a couple of occasions him being turned back to his goal nearly brought problems. There's still glimpses of hope. We aren't as bad of a squad as I thought going into the season. We need to defend our box better and we need to be better and more ambitious when in possession. For sure in January we need a centre half but we also need a central midfielder who is prepared to take this game by the scruff of the neck. Take Tronstad out of the team and we don't half look like a pushover in midfield

But they didn't. Because they're not good enough.

As has been said above, put them together and we are sat in 20th. Nowhere near good enough, all could have and should have's. Lose on Saturday and we'll be in huge trouble with the next few fixtures coming up.

Quite a few regular ST holders who sit near me weren't there last night, I suspect that they had the same view as you. I pretty much had the whole row to myself. 8k tops on Ewood last night I reckon, and it'll only get worse.

The protest has happened and is continuing to happen. We had an average crowd of 25,000 when they arrived, how many people were *actually* in the ground last night? 5,000? Any other club this would be leading to end game, the owners would know the jig us up. Here? Does anybody really think alarm bells are ringing? Or will it just be Suhail ordering more cut backs for next season and the next and the next until we are sharing facilities with Accrington Stanley.

"Hasn't been great" 🙄 Worst in 150 years.