38 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

I'm going all out with this one. 3-0 away win 😎

Some would say you ought to change your name to "Back to Front"!

Free hit?? Absolutely not, esp given some of the other fixtures.

This is the chance for the team to put things right. THAT defeat will forever be an embarrassment for us as fans, but also for the players as professionals. It will be mostly the same personnel that play, and this is where they can show what they've learnt since in terms of intelligent, counter attacking football & game management. 

Didn't Leicester beat Southampton 9-0 at St Mary's a few seasons back, only for Saints to win the return fixture?  That's what we should be looking to emulate.

5 hours ago, Miller11 said:

Super Atko goes nowhere.

A man after my own heart!!

Good point really, a fair result too. Becomes a great point if we follow it up with a win on Saturday.

Hope BBD is OK.

Who was the ref? Was by far the best I've seen all season.

Poor Giles, not even named in a 10-man 11!!

Frustrating, but let's not be too down.

On another day that's at least a point, one poor bit of defending lost us that.

Plenty of time to go yet.

9 clean sheets in 11 don't forget. If we don't concede  1 goal wins the game fir us.

I think you're being overly pessimistic. Perhaps understandable but still...

2 minutes ago, J*B said:

I’d rather be in Bournemouth or QPRs position right now, it’s in their own hands. Appreciate that might not be the general consensus, but it’s mine. 

No it's not it's in ours, we play them both at Ewood soon & have points in the bag!

The BBC are reporting that it's turning into a memorable season for Boro since Wilder took over, that they're unbeaten in 13 games in all competitions. 

Erm, hello?!!

They're as bad as sky sometimes...

7 hours ago, WacoRover said:

Nine clean sheets in our last 11… I never thought I’d be saying that 😅

Seriously, that’s where this game will be won. Our defending has been amazing. They aren’t perfect, but they are talented, & confident. 
 

 

It's a fine stat fir sure, but as much if not more so than talented & confident, they're brave & committed. It's great to see!

Vale now has his hatrick, & Brennan hss scored too. 6-0, 25 mins left

4-0 now, Vale with his 2nd just before HT.

U23s 3 up after 30 mins; Vale, Phillips & .......

.................

Dack the scorers!

On 12/08/2021 at 08:22, Herbie6590 said:

Full results now available on the Home Page….

 

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/season-202122---what's-in-store.../40

This says it all about the job TM & the team have done so far. Amazing. It's gonna be a tense 3 months now but what a season it will have been, however it ends.

9 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

Even though others below us are winning games, Bournemouth are the ones I want Rovers to be gunning for. The antics of that club over the past few days has added extra spice to the rest of this season and I quite like that. We've had plenty of bland seasons with PNE as the only game with an 'edge'. This time we're really fighting for something and Bournemouth know it. Bring it on, I say.

I wasn't all that fussed about them up until Saturday, but their behaviour since then has got me going into Keegan mode.

Clearly rattled, they try to unsettle Rothwell and our squad. They go on a spending spree to try and blow us out of the automatic race. Then to top it off they beat us to Dembele. The pressure is on Parker and I'm going to enjoy watching them drop points. Just hope we can keep applying the pressure, a win on Saturday would be a big help in that regard.

I'm also loving the fact that 6 out of our next 7 are on Sky, there should be more to come later on too, you'd think. It's going to be nervy and exciting to watch it all unfold. COYB.

I agree with all that apart from the last para.

Whilst I like to watch as many games as possible and can't get to away games due to family commitments, our record on Sky is rubbish & I'm sure all the random KO times mess with travel & pre match prep routines for the squad, and the fans.

And the club loses matchday revenue on the home games; dunno how that stacks up against the match fee sky pays, but still... I'd prefer bums on seat at Ewood & a more buoyant atmosphere to being watched on TV, I'm sure the players would to.

All that said, it's a good dilemma to have!

Well they tried a newish face in Ismael but that didn't work out too well...

Interesting to note that many of the managers who lots of us were touting as worthy replacements for TM in the summer (Hughton, Ismael, McCarthy, Jokanovic, Karanka  Johnson, Cook) are all polishing up their CVs...

Football eh?! 🤣

That's bad news, there's more than enough ability in their squad for a decent manager to get a tune out of.

Still, we have a good lead on them, so if we keep our own house in shape we don't need to worry about them. Not losing to them later this month is imperative though.

10 minutes ago, booth said:

Comparing us to Bournemouth and Fulham doesn't really work. As well as having a prolific striker they do have others chipping in to a greater extent than our supporting forwards. Fulham are out of sight. They also have players providing much more assists than us. I think it speaks volumes for Brereton's finishing this season that he's managed to get 20 goals with less support than Mitrovic and Solanke (on paper).

I don't think anyone was asking for a 30 goal a season player, just a bit of strengthening in that area. Butterworth has gone and Gallagher looks a passenger in most games.

It sounds like Mowbray was trying to sign someone, I imagine that's why they let Butterworth go on loan. Maybe we'll see a free agent come in.

Fulham are clearly streets ahead in an attacking sense, but the point re Bournemouth stands up so why shouldn't we compare ourselves with them? We've scored one more goal than them (ergo also got 1 more assist), and only Billings is in the top scorers chart for them besides Solanke, but he's only got one more goal than Gally has in twice as many games.

I have more faith than most in Gally, and believe his stats back that up.

My main fear re Bournemouth now is Keifer Moore; I think he could easily score 12-15 goals in the remainder of the season in a side that plays long ball & puts good crosses in, but then again that's not Bournemouth's style. They prefer to play on the floor and I can't see how Solanke & Moore can play together in either system  so it's either one or t'other most games.

5 hours ago, booth said:

For those that think we'll be okay if Brereton is absent for a period of time, turn away from your tv screens now.

Thing is, that table could be overlaid on last season, only with AA ahead of BBD (or BB as he was then!), and SG below them.

This season, BBD has taken AA's place, albeit to most people's surprise. If BBD gets injured, any one if SG, Khadra, Hedges or even Dack could cover him.

Take Mitrovic's 30 goals off Fulham, Solanke's off Bournemouth or Grabban's off Forest and they're in a similar position.

Yes another goalscorer would've been great, but they don't grow on trees & I'm not convinced Maja or Healy or Dembele would've been the answer.

I take the view that compared to every other club bar Bournemouth, we seem to have had a reasonable window, in that no-one key left and we've made some shrewd acquisitions. Shame about Markanday obviously, but the others seem to have something to offer that we didn't previously have.

Another striker would've been nice, and / or a CM, but I think we're OK. Up front we have BBD, Gally, Khadra, Hedges, Zeefuijk to fight for 2/3 spots, Dack to return, plus Buckley as a false 9 & JRC.

In CM we have Travis, Rothwell (assuming his head's right), Buckley, Davenport, Johnson, possibly also JRC, Edun & Garrett. Even Lenihan could cover there in a real emergency.

There's plenty of options there if we have a worsening personnel crisis.

Bournemouth will either walk away with top 2, or fall further away. I don't think they got rid of anyone yesterday so to add SIX players in 1 day must be a desperate move on their part.  Why are they so desperate? Because this Rovers squad (and perhaps QPR) have scared the bejesus out of them with our spirit, desire, fortitude & no shortage of ability. If we can keep that, and stay no worse off with injuries etc., I'd rather be TM than Scott Parker right now having to find an identity in such a large group in such a short space of time and all the pressure that he'llbe under given the cash splashed.

COYB!!

I've realised that I now hold an intense dislike for every club that Eddie Howe has been employed by.

If he ever gets appointed at Rovers, I'll be in a dilemma.

I'm not getting much work done this morning...😲

30 minutes ago, superniko said:

It was amateur hour during the stoppage in play against Boro. 
They were all stood around for 20 minutes kicking a ball about like under 12s, then play resumed, one sprint and he was holding his hamstring. 

Whilst Boro had the trainer on doing warm ups. 

But then again, we scored afterwards & Boro didn't!!

Zeefuijk in for Khadra then? Upsets the system the least