Hate to break it to you but they don’t need 4 points if we don’t win another game. Birmingham just need to beat Huddersfield to pass us, and Wednesday need 1 win from either of their 2 remaining matches. Plymouth have a better goal difference so just need one draw from two OK fixtures. We could even be in the bottom 3 by 5pm next Saturday. I genuinely believe we need 50 points.

Just watched the 3 Forest penalties. The two fouls definitely are, and possibly the hand ball is as well. The problem is referees are too shit scared to give penalties now incase it’s over-ruled, so they just leave it to VAR. And in this case VAR is hiding behind the ‘not clear and obvious’ rule despite them being fairly clear. I’d love to take a forward make those challenges on a defender leading to a goal and the ref/VAR play on.

Coventry haven’t looked back since he left.

Reminder that when VAR was introduced, the developers said offsides dictated by the lines are only accurate to within 15cm So it killed the moment and there is no guarantee it was right.

Even taking the mistakes out, they worked far harder than us and had more of a gameplan. We just piss about with it in the hope Sammy makes a good run and we can release him. That’s it. That’s our plan.

Outthought and outfought. Most of them are spineless, but special mentions to Brittain, Hyam and Gallagher.

I wouldn’t be happy with a point and certainly would be going out to win it. It’s a game we really should be winning. However there is a big difference to the position we will find ourselves if we draw compared to if we lose. If there is 10 minutes left and it is 1-1, I wouldn’t be throwing the kitchen sink at it.

You can’t build a three man wall, split as the ball is kicked so that it is 4-man wide and put your arm out to fill the void you’ve made.

I’d be annoyed if I was Chelsea about not getting the handball penalty, but more annoyed that they have to persevere with Jackson up top.

Without points deductions there are clearly 3 that should be going down.

Which is massively important because it may be the difference between them bringing a small following, or this forum going into meltdown.

The Norwich & West Brom results today means if Coventry beat Hull at home in midweek they’ll still have a significant interest in the top6 when they come to Ewood.

Not really. If we lose tomorrow Birmingham and Wednesday would both only need 1 win from their 2 games to overtake us. A point on the other hand and I agree with you.

Great find by Bowyer. He still cost £200k and would have been on decent wages to get him away from Cardiff who had him in the Premier League on presumably a decent salary. I'd be surprised if that kind of overall outlay is available to us this summer. McGuire is 3 from 6 for Orlando since the January debacle. I've no idea whether he would cut it in the Championship, but I'd be gobsmacked if that got revisited.

Put these clubs in order of which you’d currently prefer to win the PL. (These are in my order) Arsenal Chelsea Newcastle Liverpool Man U City Spuds

[McFadz and Fleck nervously look away]

Even if we take away Whitaker’s 19 for Plymouth and Stansfield’s 12 for Birmingham? Plus he’s only scored 24 in the league. But not taking your point literally, I know what you mean. Lose him and don’t replace with 2 other options and we have bug problems.

I'd have left the FA Cup and would have made the League cup a competition for non-European clubs. Gives the European clubs time off in October to February. It devalues the league cup further but does give non-Euro clubs a better chance of progression / Wembley. If you won it you would still be buzzing. It would probably lose its European place for the winner, although you could introduce an end of season play off between the League Cup Winners and the highest place Premier side that hadn't qualified for Europe for the final slot.

Which again based on population of the area is no better, and probably worse, than we get.

Didn't notice or wasn't aware of any Geordies in the JW Upper DE side. Only game I've ever seen this happen aside from the Man City / Celtic games was, weirdly, West Ham in the FA Cup in 2016. There was a big group of around 30 or 40 of them.

https://hexus.net/business/news/internet/148243-uk-football-season-sparks-illegal-iptv-crackdown-fact/ 3 years ago. Same story. Made no difference. But we are off topic. The point is iFollow, and it’s knock on effect with IPTV and dodgy online streams, has always been a hinderance to Rovers attendances but the UK side of the service probably made it financially worth it. If it is just “abroad only”, clubs like ours could probably be better off financially not doing it at all, as it will increase home attendances.

They can’t. Otherwise they would. (And I mean Sky, Netflix, Apple etc, not Rovers) It’s like copying tapes or CD’s in the 80s and 90s, or illegally downloading music and films from the Noughties onwards. The advantage of selling the live experience is that the only way to see it is to attend. When SKY show a game and pay £100k per game plus the TV rights per year then fair enough. But for iFollow games, the amount of money it generates is probably less that what it costs the club in lost attendees. Of course your big clubs who sell out will welcome streaming as it won’t affect them. Plus their online buys will be huge worldwide. But a club like Rovers or Preston…..

Agreed. Therefore it’s no longer worth doing it. By streaming it overseas, that allows it to be watched on IPTV in the UK, and IMO affects attendances. For the small amount they make, it will cost them more in gate receipts.

I wasn’t talking about broadcast & production costs. I meant the club get £X amount from the people abroad who pay to watch iFollow, but they lose more than £X because people in the Lancashire area watch it on IPTV rather than attend Ewood

And allows it to be broadcast on IPTV worldwide. I'm sure attendance-wise, and probably financially, they'd be better off not streaming them at all.