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Playing Ohashi off the main striker probably is a better bet for me, not that I rate Gueye, but Ohashi is way too slow and weak as the main centre forward.

I've had every emotion with Rovers over the years, tonight's is probably the worst. Acceptance. I accept the team tries, I accept the coaching staff try, I accept that trying to run a day to day Championship club with no owner help is hard. I accept that being arsed going to Ewood is actually falling down my priorities.

Ipswich, Southampton, Leicester, Boro A few of the teams we haven't had to play yet and we've lost 75% of games. The Hull win was against a truly dreadful team. I'm sick of being told I'm overly negative. Travis for Tavares is a monumental downgrade and I'm supposed to believe we've improved? Fuck off. We need to improve drastically and quickly.

Kargbo and Tavares based on all the evidence not just today truly are development players at this level who should be bench fodder at best right now. Speaking of development GUEYE has gone backwards from looking out of his depth with the odd 'surprising' performance to pure shite who cannot still fathom what staying onside is. Piss poor, knew today would be a way bigger test than Hull but even so that non event first half we should have gone in 2 or 3 behind regardless of the non penalty. Talk of the team needing to gel is correct but they knew that when they made so many changes however i fear the heart has been ripped out of it. Plenty huff and puff in the second half when they were happy to sit and wait for the killer strike but never having even remotely tried to replace Szmodics was highlighted again today. Even a poor to average side with a proper striker will take its fair share of points even when being shite.

Yep. Don't get it. Well, I do. Defenders just hate attackers getting ahead of them. But surely, these days, top players know that you do that and it makes it easy for a ref and will be given. In lower leagues, maybe, you might get away with it. In the prem, with VAR, never. But essentially, surely the percentages are against you and coaches must tell players that? The odds of the attacker of scoring a goal vary but you take the chance-your goalie might do the business. And they could miss the pen. But if you get sent off, it's more or less game over. So don't do it. Give your keeper a chance to shine, give their penalty taker a chance to miss. But I do get it also -it's instinctive.

You can bet today's pathetic performance, will take 3 or 4 thousand off the next home game attendance. We'll be lucky to get 7 or 8 thousand for the next home game.

Lost me with that clown up front.

VI should try Henriksson Trondstad partnership, Tavares shouldn't be a starter. Ohashi too weak to lead the frontline on his own 3-4-2-1 Wharton Hyam Miller Hedges Henriksson Trondstad Alebiosu Cantwell Ohashi Gueye

Grim.

🙂 I've just spilt my pinot noir.

Pathetic performance today, we didn't keep possession of the ball for 10 seconds for the all game. We've lost to Birmingham and Norwich so far at home, games were you expect to pick up points. We've a lot tougher opposition to play at Ewood, it's going to be a long hard season.

Another player worth mentioning is Ribeiro. I have maintained that Pickering is better, he is a really poor left back. Alebiosu is one glimmer of hope, still raw but I like the look of him. Doesnt appear that Ismael fancies De Neve or Hendriksson.

My worry is that we have played 5 average/poor teams and lost to 4 of them. It is habit forming. I know WBA have had a decent start but they aren't world beaters. Only 3 players started today who were not here last season but we looked very disjointed and there was very little talking or encouragement between the players. More like 11 individuals rather than a team.

1 win in 4, irrespective of any excuses it's just not good enough. We're in serious trouble, relegation battle ahead and we've shipped out all our championship experience.

Apart from Abesiou most of the new lads look crap. McGlloughlin cost us the game with a stupid red, Kargbo and Tavares with two of the worst performances I’ve seen in a long time at Ewood. Even then we still had chances to equalise or take a lead and messed them both up due to our pony attack. Genuinely think we are in massive trouble this season with our recruitment and lady luck deserting us most games. Hedges MotM for me.

It isnt. Very little of the blame goes to him. Mostly on Venkys, a large chunk on Coyle.

Not to worry you all but Gueye has a better return for a worst team in the same league as Gudjohnson - and by some measure

Worries really building about what is to come this season. A very poor start to the season with 4 losses in 5. We rallied a bit in the second half but the first half performance was shocking. Tavares was embarassing. Been told he is an upgrade on Travis already, a laughable suggestion. Kargbo is totally brainless, a very poor player. And Gueye, the less said about him the better. We need a few signings yet, and I am not confident based on what Ismael said. We badly need a midfielder.

Yep. Circa £8.5m from Germany.

Appreciate it’s early days, but not really been impressed with Tavares so far. Whilst I do get the red card changed things a lot, is Henriksson that bad that he couldn’t have replaced Tavares today? Or am I wide of the mark?

He looked okay, did well trapping a long ball and then trying to have a go at the defence, hope he keeps that up. Didn't do much wrong. The play in the middle of the park and the wings wasn't too bad today, it was the completely toothless nature of the final third that made sure we once again really struggled to score. We played much better today than we did against West Brom and Birmingham but quality tells and we still came away with nothing 👎

I'm sure Gudjohnson will improve the team, but he's not exactly prolific in front of goal, is he ?

Bet that atmosphere beats Ibrox hands down...safe journey home. 😉

Well said.

Or shite.