I've not read the messages on here yet, I don't want anything to blinder my emotions....but my god, I couldn't fault a single one of those players today. I've been a critic of Evans and Smallwood together in the middle for a long time but I thought they were excellent today, superb even. Hats of to Tony, looked more like a 442 at times with Dack up front and I thought this let him get more involved with Graham in an away game. The usually suspects were solid and immense, the high press pressure was an absolute pleasures to watch, my god have we had some uninterested dross over the last 7 years but today was the cherry on the icing on the cake, it may sound like an over exaggeration (winning 3-2 in a championship match) but jeez how good does it feel to watch players perform like they love and want that shirt. I've a huge smile on the back of those performances. It's what we all want and have craved for years. Players looking to win, tracking back, putting effort in. It gets me on to the main man, Danny Graham. What. A. Performance. Up against some giants at the back. He won everything. He held it all up, he makes Dack look better (if that's possible for our most classy player). Can't praise him enough right now. I left that stadium just wanting to continue clapping him, he was superb. Brilliant Rovers, brilliant Mowbray. We made it nervy as we always do, but were savvy in the last 5/10mins. Enjoy it lads. Stoke looked like us 5 years ago. It's a delight to have the lads and manager we do now. COYB

Hopefully that's the bad half out of the way....

I think we need to play both rothwell and reed .

I bow to Tony's superior knowledge I'm just guna STFU over here and wait for the goals to roll in ?

Derby already 3-1 up. Puts our "disastrous " performance on Tuesday into perspective.

Can see Mick McCarthy getting a call from someone soon.

Had we not dropped points in the last minute at ipswich and villa home we would be top of league.. thats how good this team are!!

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/teams/blackburn-rovers/11505559/stoke-2-3-blackburn Highlights. Bennett is God.

THIS. !!! I'm 75 and I don't want my beloved Rovers to give me a heart attack.

The last 15mins was mental, but it shouldnt detract from what was a ruthless first 75. Great energy, workrate and controlled agression.

that full time whistle ...like ice cold milk after a ghost pepper

That’s a huge and unexpected three points. Fortunate perhaps but well done TM.

Are we all still alive - can we have a head count please?

No Rothwell again wtf

Those assists by Bennett too - the guy is the man!

What a thriller! Here is me thinking we a cruising for a monster victory only for 15 minutes of madness. The scoreline does flatter stoke to be honest, albeit they were the better side in the last 15 minutes. However we could had a few more well before the mayhem of the last quarter. Hoping Brereton can get a start soon, would like to see more of him. Reed looks good, and Bennett was an excellent skipper today. Next up Premier League Bournemouth! We got this.

I found this comment on an Ipswich forum quite amusing: An improvement except for the most important part - winning?! Just shows how it really is "anything but Mick" for a lot of the fans. A total failure to see the forest for the trees. Some of them still don't understand WHY they were playing that way.

I have a strong feeling that today's result is huge, especially the bit of luck we got at the end. Letting a 3 goal lead slip is the kind of thing that really knocks a team, especially after what happened against villa. I think we would be feeling very frustrated and the team very low on confidence. Would be hard to get them up for the next game. Big, big result. You need luck somethings and by God do we deserve a bit

I agree that Mulgrew is still an important part of our team, no doubt, but I think we could find a player to replace him and still be fairly comfortable defensively. We seemed to struggle in the transfer window to identify a backup to Graham, and finding a player like Dack is one in a hundred. So much seems to hinge on those two as far as our attacking threat is concerned. Still, I'm not going to worry about it tonight. Three points and it's fair to say we've had a very good start to the season. I haven't agreed with some of Mowbray's dealings in the transfer market this summer, but he's brought our momentum and team spirit from last season into this one and it's serving us well. A million miles away from that hugely depressing start in 16/17 under Coyle.

I listened on Radio Lancs and bloody hell, those 1800 fans of ours sounded like 5000! Good effort!

They were two divs above us last season plus at home. Ok a mad last ten but a brilliant first 80! Well done TM!!

True. But bloody hell fire. There was no need for that.

Look forward to final whistle.

At the beginning they looked all fired up, but have gone to pot

If carlsberg did starts to the 2nd half........

Why are we so mint?

TM has his doubts on here, me included in some of his team selections. However the job he is doing atm is incredible, and this team is playing for him.

This team has its faults, but workrate and desire isnt one. Tremendous effort they show every week

Excellent team goal - pass, move, pass move. Bell excellent so far.

I'm starting to really question some of Mowbray's signings this summer (albeit mostly ones I was questioning at the time). Not in terms of the player quality - far too early to decide that - but in terms of where we recruited and what types of players. We signed as attacking players: Armstrong, Brereton, Palmer, Rothwell. We signed to play in the defensive mid role: Reed, Rothwell (sometimes), Davenport (admittedly injured). Possibly that Lyons bloke. Yet we play Smallwood and Evans together basically every game (I think the cup games were the only exceptions?). The attacking players are increasingly struggling for game time - not a single one of the signings in that area is in the starting team today. The only player we have on the pitch who we didn't have last year is Reed, out of position. I don't understand why we collected all those defensive mids in particular since we wouldn't let Travis go out on loan either. Hopefully it works out today and hopefully it's just a specific approach for a specific game which will rarely if ever be repeated, but it is starting to make me wonder what Mowbray's vision really is. Not that I will care a jot if success comes.

No wonder we are drawing so many games atm. Does Mowbray know one win is the equivalent of three draws. If he weren't so cautious he was capable saving us from relegation. Whatever our ambitions this attitude will cost us

You're playing 12 again...

Get that pinned up in the dressing room

Just a bit. An improvement on what we have, looking forward if we could keep him, Rothwell and Reed in centre mid could run games.

Palpibrate good times, come on!

After being in hospital for an ECG last week my old ticker certainly didn’t need that today!!!

Great result! This is TM's first ever managerial win v Stoke following 5 defeats and 1 draw, all with WBA. Found a decent link but the fecking rain here put paid to that. Followed as best I could, which reminds me that the BBC website is one of the worst, it keeps back dating itself. Will see the 10 min highlights on iFollow when up plus whatever shows on youtube.

We should know by now rovers don’t do it the easy way lol

Rovers making Stoke look like Mugs.

Another great move. What a finish by Graham.

Get in..lovely goal

Sad to see so much negativity towards the managers tactics on here pre match. I think he is doing a top job and we must trust he knows whats best.

Jesus sooner or later we have to go for it..disappointed with the line up but always back the lads...rothwell has to get some game time..lets wait and see

Bring back a few memories for you Tyrone.

It's the new 4-5-2 formation

Cant see it. Theyve made some good signings at a fraction of our budget and are so well drilled. Nick Powell is a quality player underrated amidst all the Dack comparisons and Windass is a shrewd signing. Easy to dislike manager but they should do well this season.

He never tried? he walked in front of a on coming traffic and was hit by a lorry wasn't he?.His mental health issues are well documented...what do you know that proves different?Its easy to say i havent got a clue or call him a wrong un. Unless you have absolute proof that he doesnt suffer from serious mental health issues then its bad taste to comment on such an issue like you have. If you have proof fair enough

He may owe people money but clearly the guy has mental health issues, he did try to kill himself, you don't do things like that if you have nowt wrong with you

Raya- No Nyambe, Mulgrew , Lenihan-No Bell/Williams-No Evans-No Reed-No Smallwood-Maybe Bennett-no Dack-No Armstrong-maybe Rothwell-time will tell, but I think no Palmer-No Graham-No Most of our players are not league 1 players, hence why we aren't there anymore. Plus we have improved the squad since then