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How can anyone have no problems with the substitutions when he consistently favours the terrible De Neve for the experienced heads of Ribeiro and Pickering. I know which two of the three I’d be bringing on to bring some calm and experience to the backline with the view of managing the final minutes of a game.

Maybe Danny Murphy. Nobody gets lower than him but Gueye is close.

One thing I did notice was they’ve changed how they think ‘they’d get their money back’: From promotion to the Premier League to; Sustained membership of the Premier League. How the extreme unlikelihood of this hasn’t led to a write down of the value of their investment is beyond me.

I watch Chorley occasionally and i say this with ultimate honesty that is where Gueye should be. I'd be questioning if he's related to someone involved at Rovers because whoever saw fit to elevate him to this level needs ignoring next time they recommend someone. Add to that he is now a lazy bastard which is unforgivable, don't think iv'e ever heard a player booed ON at Rovers but it's coming.

We will lose this one because everyone is expecting to win so easily. Rovers 0 Sheff Wed 1 (Cadamarteri 90+3) Seriously though if we don't win this it's time to just shut Ewood for the rest of the season.

We need a repeat this Saturday.

175 pages of this thread... imagine how much lower that would be if we could only state fact! For what it's worth, Daniel Sturridge, and most other pundits, are absolute dirge. I find football on TV immeasurably better on mute. I don't have someone at Ewood or wherever else I end up in person telling me what I just saw, why do I need it for watching it on TV? Half of it is just pandering for social media clicks later... G-Nev OUTRAGED by VAR call... Roy Keane TEARS INTO West Ham left back... Micah Richards AMAZED by concept of gravity. Get it all to launched into orbit.

Haven't won a home match against any of the teams in the bottom half of the league this season. Will have to play all those teams away from home in the second half of the season. Don't usually get anything at places such as Swansea, Oxford, Sheff Utd or Portsmouth. Absolutely need minimum 4 points from the next two matches.

That image is yet another embarrassment heaped on this football club. It's also extremely 'memeable' and will no doubt come back to haunt him and us. You can now edit anything on to that sheet of paper for a laugh, maybe it will eventually be 'P45' come May, or maybe not.

VI simply has to stop putting on Gueye and De Neve. They are game changers - just in a negative way. Gueye should be fined for his performance last night. I can forgive him for a lack of talent but not for his complete lack of effort. He refused to run around, chase the ball, and make himself a nuisance. Totally unacceptable. As for De Neve, no lack of effort but just totally out of his depth. As others have said, it makes no sense he comes on rather than Ribiero when we're holding onto a lead. I suspect it's a contractual issue with Ribiero. Countless former players have said they were not played due to contractual reasons and triggering of contract extentions etc. That surely has to be the case here too.

We don't have a choice, we have to accept them. We can't go back and 'correct' any bad decisions, so complaining is pointless. One angry manager's tirade won't change the level of reffing, regardless of how poor it is. Every team gets a handful of stinkers against them over the season, ours just seem to have come all in a short space of time. It's bad luck, but crying about it on TV and using it as an excuse for being 18th in the league is pathetic imo. When we eventually get one of those controversial decisions going in our favour, there is not a cat in hell's chance he will be on TV saying we didn't deserve to win, that were just very lucky and that refs are awful. The suggestion that the referee was biased towards Ipswich because they were recently in the Premier League is extremely pathetic, so I won't accept those comments from a Blackburn Rovers manager, it's embarrassing. He will probably get a fine for this and he deserves it. I still remember in the early 2000s when West Brom fans turned up at Ewood on the last day of the season and staged some bizarre protest against referees because they argued that they had been relegated because of bad decisions against them - Not because they had been shite. That's what this reminds me of. Laughable.

In the same period since we scored a last minute winner in front of fans, we have conceded 10 last minute winners to lose games. I thought it might have been more to be fair, although we have conceded plenty of last minute equalisers too.

If we cant win this one we are in serious trouble make no mistake. No score prediction..over to you Ismael.

Sadly, that tells a story. I wonder how many last minute winners we have conceded during the intervening period, a lot is my recollection🙈

If we play like we have done the last two games, I’m sure we can win this game. With key players returning back from injury helps the squad a lot.

In the spirit of fairness we had a lot of Gestede era signings out there who played well (Alebiosu, McCloughlin, Miller, TGH, Gudjohnsen, Mori, Forshaw).

Good spot, 2/3 foot and and now amended.

yep, depends on if they are more bothered about having an experienced head (Tavares not experienced but is moreso than Atcheson/Litherland), or adding a few £s to the value of someone Edit - What about Forshaw (when is Tronstad back?) & Baradji in central midfield, with TGH at wing back? Sounds better than Tavares to me

Prepare to be disappointed....

But we continue to show an inability to avoid conceding late goals and a number of the signings brought in by Gestede and endorsed by Ismael are coming on and really causing us problems because they are nowhere near the level. Supposedly "deserving" 3 points and not getting 3 points is not a good sign.

Be brave to go with say Litherland and Pratt in the same defence at this stage of the season, but maybe. Like you say all about the pathway.

Against Wrexham he kept crossing the ball into the area instead of taking it to the corner in injury time giving them possession back far too easily. Last night, I would have to see the goal again but it looked like it came from his side again similar to the QPR one.

Genuinely think we may play both Mori and Cantwell. Think first team when we have the shorter term injuries back is : Toth Miller McCloughlin Pratt Alebiosu Mori Tronstad Cantwell Hedges Ohashi Gudjohnson Subs : Pears, Litherland, Pickering, Baradji, Forshaw, De Neve, TGH, Montgomery, Gueye

Both 90+xth equalisers came through poor defending in the left back position when holding a 1-0 lead albeit Wrexham leading to the corner from which they scored. Ribeiro is an accomplished left back, De Neve is on the pitch to run at and hopefully past opponents and a largely haphazard presence when in his own box.

I agree entirely. It is sad that plucky performances against Wrexham and PNE are seen as a ‘good display’ nowadays but it is where we are. I can’t imagine anyone is actually content with the overall direction of travel. We are circling the footballing drain. If we manage to stay up this season which we are just about on course to do then what happens next season? Without a change of ownership or a Venkys personality transplant the only way is down. That aside, it’s entirely reasonable to compare the squads of Wrexham/Ipswich with ours and say that the team has done well with the tools it has at their disposal. The overall downgrading of the squad is not the fault of the players. They can only do their best and I don’t think effort or application is the issue (apart from Gueye who appears to have given up). I think we are actually exceeding our expectations by a considerable amount when you look at the squad and some credit is due. Late heartache aside these are 2 good points on paper! The more controversial discussion is about Val. I happen to think he is doing well with a limited team and for some reason I quite like him. I also have massive reservations about his overall integrity given his apparent accord with the owners and stooges.