Leicester winning 5-0 tonight meaning if they win on Monday at Preston they are promoted which may make the final game slightly kinder

Edit - if they beat Preston then a point against us guarantees (not mathematically excluding a 15 goal swing) they are champions assuming Ipswich take maximum points in their games 

Maybe we just make a gentlemen’s agreement like we did with United at Ewood that it would be lovely to draw 

Either way - they aren’t winning!

VAR

15 hours ago, Tom said:

We don’t make things easy as a club do we?

I’ve not been back to Ewood since my dad passed a year or so back, my wife said she tried to book tickets for me and my eldest as a surprise but couldn’t get through the website which kept throwing up issues.

I assume it’s to do with her not having a purchase history but still we seem to complicate things!

I would like to place on record my thanks to whoever made it more difficult to attend, small mercies indeed 

15 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Are you sure about that?

First bit is still true, the likes of Stoke and QPR would canter past us we just have to somehow hope Huddersfield and Brum save us now 

I think that’s it, we’re going down, so avoidable and self inflicted 

Just now, K-Hod said:

I can accept other teams having more talent, but I can’t accept being out fought and out worked. Pathetic from this lot.

Not even sure it’s that, we’ve just given them the win, they’ve offered very little but haven’t had to

3 bang average loanees coming on, sums it up 

We’ve now turned next week into must must win and ramped the pressure right up, go into the last game needing something and it’s game over 

Why didn’t he dive on it and take the free kick? 
 

Amazed how bad this is after the position we were in 

There’s no point even commenting on that 

Huge task now, wind in their sails 

Wouldn’t mind but this lot have been abysmal 

The standard is shocking here from both sides; that passage of play with JRC and Bannan summed it up 

The lad they brought on looks a train wreck we need to pressure him 

They’ve done nothing but we look so dodgy at the back

What Is Pears doing there he’s walked out past the ball 

Come on ref it’s an obvious yellow that one, set the level now!

1 minute ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Get involved in the game Gallagher!!

His link up has been exactly what you’d want from him so far 

Just now, K-Hod said:

I’ve criticised Pears as much as anyone, but for me, Hyam is at fault for that goal.

Man’s half asleep.

Both for me if you come that far you have to be getting it to safety 

Ridiculous Sammie, he’s just insane 

An absolute stinker of a goal to concede that, Dolan wasting the counter then shocking from Pears and Hyam 

Ideal start, Sammie KO’d after 30 seconds 

We don’t make things easy as a club do we?

I’ve not been back to Ewood since my dad passed a year or so back, my wife said she tried to book tickets for me and my eldest as a surprise but couldn’t get through the website which kept throwing up issues.

I assume it’s to do with her not having a purchase history but still we seem to complicate things!

1 hour ago, NeilInBristol said:

Of course stoke won

Of course QPR winning 

Ffs 

We couldn’t have asked for much more today, stoke and QPR aren’t relevant in reality, plus if you want to consider them then as least Stoke winning meant Plymouth lost 

4 hours ago, philipl said:

I believe Wednesday have sold their 7,000 so the home restriction is to prevent Wednesday infiltration.

That really would kick off with a 27,000 crowd (assuming Blackburn End upper remains closed) with another 7,000 from Sheffield spread around the home areas and some Rovers fans unable to get tickets...

As it is, it will be a rum do if we can't get 15,000 home fans for this one and a crowd of 22,000+.

Back to my boring a MUST NOT LOSE game but a draw pretty well secures Rovers finishing above Wednesday unless they can get a 17 goals swing in their favour in the last two matches...

We will be playing knowing the Huddersfield v Swansea and Rotherham v Birmingham results so we could be playing for a win that makes Championship football in 24/25 a certainty.

 

 

Doesn’t matter how the results go on Saturday in terms of the maths, win Sunday and its mathematically impossible to be relegated 

20 minutes ago, 47er said:

As I keep saying we need 4 points to be mathematically safe! As of this minute!

Or 3 if it comes on Sunday.

If that happens there is no permutation of results that enables Sheffield Wednesday and one of Huddersfield or Birmingham to catch us along with Rotherham occupying the bottom spot 

52 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

A draw was a fair result between Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City. They'll be a handful next week though. 

For all their supposed battling Sheffield Wednesday aren’t making the most of it, it’s a tough game but one that they will now be much more nervous about than I expected this morning.

Thought we’d be going into it on the back of two losses and level on points with them resurgent instead they’ll feel bruised today.