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Woah! Wasters? What sort of comment is that? I just give up with your with these sort of comments and you couldn't even answer again the most basic of questions.

Feels like the Club is dying,Ewood is a morgue,an air of doom hangs over the place. The squad is of poor quality bar one or two,the results and our league position tells all we need to know.There is nowt to look forward to. Thats how I feel this morning folks,Its hard to swallow and its all self inflicted by those in charge...really sad times.

de Keersmaker was the perfect shithouse midfielder for them but our play was too tentative and slow allowing him to be so disruptive. Tavares probably needs a sports psychologist - there is a player there if he can build his confidence. Baradji looks the real deal now if we can get more than ten minutes a game from him. Cantwell easily best player on the park when he came on. The rest of the team needs to learn howe to play with him again. Ryan's final balls were poor all night but he was constantly getting into position to deliver which is more than can be said for the others. 10,255 the official crowd so estimates of 7k or less actually being there not far wrong.

I don't think Ismael is a particularly good manager, but yeah, for me the issue is and has always been those above the manager. The owners and those they employ to run the club are what is holding us down, not whichever patsy is sitting in the management dugout at any given time.

Ismael offering to relay the pitch rather than buy a player tells me there is zero budget for January transfers.

But we are so limited in our currently available personnel we would ship a load of goals without the 5 men defence. As it was we gifted Oxford a goal and a couple of gilt chances last night.

Regardless of the shite squad and injuries, ultimately the way the manager sets us up means we don't score enough goals. If we don't score goals we won't win games, as on display at Ewood in every game this season and last under his management. Playing a 5 man defence at home against a bottom feeder like Oxford with a holding midfielder is never going to create a raft of chances. Fine when Leicester or Coventry come along but you have to be more attack minded when the expectation is on the home team.

We could have been lumbered with far worse. Some of his judgement calls have cost us big time but others have worked where most of us wouldn't have chosen them.

Play him on the right wing with miller at rb

About what ? You missed him off your list.

He's a shite manager who's been given the worst squad of my lifetime, possibly ever (I wasn't around in the 70s so I can't say whether that squad was worse than this current one). This squad will also be worse come next season when anyone who can kick a football will be sold.

Any other League club with one home win going into Christmas the manager would be under immense pressure and scrutiny. Not here though, the robots just carry on, groundhog day, nothing happening here. The ever diminishing numbers turning up, totally understandable given the behaviour of the club and product on offer (see the insulting statement about the pitch yesterday for another recent example) yet nobody bats an eyelid. Sometimes I wonder if 0 people turned up, or even just a few thousand, would they just carry on, like robots, same routine and story, not bat an eyelid. Nobody down there appears to have any interest or pressure on them to reverse the decline on or off the pitch. Just shrug shoulders and carry on collecting wages.

Don't be shouting that too loudly, that would be a dream for Pasha. Although I think they would opt for it to be the Jack Walker stand open.

Glen Mullan needs to be on that list. Calling Steve Kean a manager is an insult to football. Also need to be on the list: Jerome Anderson SEM Kentaro The story of this era cannot be told without the inclusion of these parasites on humanity.

I wish people would stop making excuses for this manager. He is complicit in the shite and wafer thin squad that we have. Every team gets injuries and suspensions, he doesn't get a pass because of it. If the recruitment and turnover in players was below his expectations and worse than what he originally agreed to, he'd walk out, like most managers (see our last two). He's still here and has never said a word about it, so stop feeling sorry for him. We looked tactically clueless last night. Alebiosu tearing down the wing and putting in (mostly) good quality deliveries to no one. The other key tactic was to hoof the ball down the middle of the park to Ohashi and Gudjohnsen, who are short, slow and not overly physical. As the game drifted on the 'tactics' went out of the window and we looked clueless. That's all VI's fault.

You could have easily fit everyone who was in the entire stadium into the Blackburn End or Darwen End. There is no way it was one third full.

The alarming thing for me is that although they may be sitting outside the bottom 3 at the moment, Rovers have failed to beat any of the teams from 15th place down, excluding Portsmouth and Sheffield Wednesday of course who they are yet to complete a 90 minutes against. 5 of those games were at Ewood as well. Of those 7 matches, 5 were at Ewood if I'm not mistaken, and 4 of them were defeats. We better hope that away form keeps up for the season, otherwise relegation seems the most likely outcome.

Tell you what Baradji can hit a ball where on earth did that come from??

That and we have only scored 19 goals as much as he complains about injuries we have had our front line available all season and all we can score is 19! The lowest of the league

Attendance 10,000 What was the away ticket allocation?

I wonder with Cantwell back whether Ismael will be tempted to go back to a back 4. The change was made when Cantwell got injured and initially it worked really well for 3 games but not so much since. Cantwell has to play but im not so sure it suits him as much, and it also would lack balance if we had both him and Miroshita with just one proper midfielder doing all the work, even if its Tronstad. The issue is, the squad is so horribly imbalanced and full of crap whichever way we play. The defence is a bombscare, Miller is poor, McLoughlin is below average and Pratt has done remarkably well for a young lad who was at Chorley a month ago but I dont think honestly he is at the level yet. We also have the issue of right back with Alebiosu about to leave for AFCON. And with Hedges out, we dont have any competent options whether its left wing back or left wing.

But we have loads of summer signings and/or Gestede signings that are simply not good enough. If they were even ordinary, and had we not let Hyam go or at least sufficiently replaced him, then the squad would look far more competitive. Toth is just unfortunate although Pears has been fine since he came into the team. Tronstad again unfortunate but hes only missed a small number of games, it happens. Cantwell, again unfortunate. But you will get injuries. The primary reason we look so stretched is because of failings in the summer. The main area we are stretched is in defence and that is because we came into a season with 3 natural centre backs, 2 of whom have terrible injury records. It might not be directly Ismael's fault but it is the fault of those above him. Montgomery has not shown that he is capable at this level, how many games has he started for us? Not having him as a major loss. We have had 3 midfielders on the bench in the 3 games that Forshaw started. Tavares, Henriksson and Baradji. All summer signings. The first 2 are awful, Baradji we signed knowing he wouldnt be fit for ages. So we cant complain on that one. No sympathy in midfield, we are short because of a mixture of signing awful and injury prone players. No sympathy in defence for the reasons I mentioned above. The main reason for our lack of depth and imbalanced and poor squad is not just hard luck. Its poor recruitment. Dont let them fool you otherwise.

Quite frankly, the squad shouldnt be so short and have so many absolute wasters in it.