Southampton have a literal giant at centre half. That Quarshie bloke is a monster! Also, Wrexham hit the bar!

Wrexham should been ahead at St's Mary Stadium

We want Venkys Out! Nothing else matters!

You need investment for that though.

Jeez, grim reading... if only we'd have "expressed ourselves" a little better back in the spring.

Google not confident in a Rovers win 😢

Moving to a back 3 to park the bus etc, tactical tweaks, those are examples of versatility which I said can be very useful. What I am saying is that we shouldnt sign less players because of that versatility. Because one player cant play in 2 positions at the same time. Regarding Leonard, you was clutching at straws. Gestede said we planned to sign a striker. Most of us feel we need a striker. Including you. Now we seemingly will fail with that objective, you suggested that the reason behind that was in these last couple of months in which Leonard hasnt been even with Ismael, perhaps there has been a sudden realisation that Leonard is Championship standard and crucially set to avoid continued further injury complications. I would respect your opinion more if you stuck to your guns. I wanted us to bring in a striker, if we dont then I feel we will be short in that area compared to what I wanted. You seemingly share that opinion. Just stick to it, you dont have to parrot the club, shrug your shoulders and assume that Ismael/Gestede are infallible, or come up with nonsensical reasons.

Sadly, I think we'll feel battered, bruised and depressed after today's game so If I was on holiday I'd be making the most of it and wouldn't bother trying to find a stream. If it's your first time in Tenerife, pretty sure it wont be your last! One of our favoured places for a winter break. Enjoy!

Straight from Bala's heart ❤️ No one can even be bothered to sit down for 5mins and write a 200 word message to the fans. They think that little of us.

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He was a bit lightweight in the days of killer fullbacks. He’d have done much better under today’s refereeing attitudes.

On Travis - I do expect him to go this window, not based on anything other than a gut feeling. I imagine that the likes of Suhail and Gestede aren't overly fond of him because he was such a supporter of Eustace, and he appears to actually care about the fans and the club...something neither of those two seem to give two hoots about. Trav to Derby makes a lot of sense. I'd be gutted if he went there though, probably more so than any other championship side. I don't really have any ill feeling towards Derby, but the fact that they've taken so many ex-Rovers now is just so disappointing, especially when it could've been so easily avoided. Outside of that situation and the obvious need for a RW, we appear really short up front. They've not replaced Weimann or Dolan really, while Leonard looks unlikely to ever make the step up either. Where will the goals come from if Ohashi and Gueye are not firing?

So true! Barrie Ratcliffe obviously fell short of the other three but a lovely bloke and we used to buy our meat from him on his 3 day Blackburn Market stall.

Candelaria 👍🏻

I've said it before but Cantwell's issue last season was that teams found it too easy to isolate him and push him off the ball - I used to think that the answer was to drop him deeper so he could be covered by the midfield a bit more, now I'm hopeful that the seeming drive to get the rest of the team looking bigger, fitter, stronger in general will help protect him. We also need another player on the pitch with that 'aura' that the opposition are a bit scared of, so that the markers get split up rather than just seeming to having three on Cantwell at all times. Maybe that can be Kargbo or Henriksson. Still think he'll work out fine.

In an ideal world Miller and Axel are both good to start, but I suspect Miller will only make the bench. Axel has a better chance of starting probably. Axel to start with Cantwell missing? Or will Tyjon get the nod? Ohashi in the number 10 role with Gueye leading the line is another option, but then that leaves Rovers with very little in the way of a plan B off the bench in regards to attacking options. I'm going for Axel to start. Seems to be a very confident type and wouldn't be phased about being thrown in. I'd love to see Kargbo start, but I just feel with it being away from home and Rovers expecting to probably be under the cosh for extended periods, that Ismael will favour De Neve. Having said that. The counter attack would be something else with Kargbo's pace.

Looking forward to reading far too much into the starting 11 and whatever the BBC guesses is our formation at half two.

Well, 5 players.. can only have a max of 5 loan players in a matchday squad

No I haven't misunderstood anything thanks RF99. I thought examples weren't allowed after you starting kicking off when I used an possible example of us easing Leonard backinto the first team. No its doesn't create another problem given we have another right back but sometimes you might want to go 3 at the back for the last 10 minutes of games so moving Miller next to Hyam and Wharton whilst bringing on Alebiosu for the right winger makes perfect sense. Have you actually thought of that?

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It is the only Sky game live on the normal Sky Sports channels. So any sports bar will have it on.

40 years ago now, blimey

A reflection of a Rovers season, 1984-85 I did a good few years ago. Rovers annual fight against promotion started here Lots of pics and news reports of a monumental year Flickr Album

Where abouts in Tenerife mate

On a related note, now that Wednesday's embargo has been lifted I actually think they could be a dark horse. They've lined up two United youngster on loan. I wouldn't be surprised if a whole load of PL Academies dump their players there for a year to get Championship experience. You know they're going to get a lot of football.