We should destroy them but we know how these things go. Always a risk being over-confident when you support Rovers.

Probably pay him off, or partly off. He's 30 now so can't expect those wages for the rest of his career. Probably bull though, as we'd be paying yet another injury prone CB not matter how low his wages are.

With Mowbray, not making any sense isn't such a stretch of the imagination. Bizarre manager.

They were all sweating buckets, I just think WBA have some good players. One thing I was impressed with is that JDT was making sure the players were okay and getting them to drink plenty when they could. Before his substitution, JDT personally checked if Phillips was okay. Everyone was laboured walking to and from the match, I can't imagine running about for 100 minutes plus in that heat. My best wishes also go to the brave soldiers in the Riverside stand who must have had blinding sun in their direction, for the duration.

Steady on!

If we got Styles that would be a massive signing in my opinion. Perhaps the need to cover other areas may have meant this was put on hold.

We weren't leggy, it was freakishly hot. There won't be another matchday as hot as that this year.

I know I've been a strong advocate for signing Swift in the past, but he was absolutely dire yesterday thankfully. I imagine Bruce's dinosaur tactics have vacuumed any creativity out of the fellow.

I'm probably in the minority here but we still need a goalscorer. If BBD gets injured the goals will dry up again. Just his presence means that other attacking players get more space.

The excellent start is probably curtailing any rush for signings. We'll struggle if we continue to push our luck though.

I didn't hear them until they scored.

Some wonderful trolling by WBA fans today about how quiet Ewood was. From where I was sitting it was the loudest it’s been for some time. Atmosphere was pretty good fuelled by the current wave of optimism I imagine.

Agreed. If it did come down to us selling him we'd have to go for someone like Adebayo at Luton, or someone similarly ruthless in front of goal.

His referee was dominant too, adding that ridiculous amount of time on. Brucey has obviously been taking tips from his old boss Sir Alex. Didn't work though did it, you wrong nosed c*nt.

I just want to say, now I've cooled down, that the players today should be commended for playing in this freak weather. It can't have been easy and most of them gave 100%. For the first time I'm now thinking we should try and keep hold of Diaz. Those goals are too valuable, along with the assist today for goal 2. Get him signed up, give him what he wants. Every other fan in the championship wants him in their team. Seeing his goal today brought back memories of Shearer hitting it from outside of the box.

Den Berg and Styles would give us the defence needed for the way JDT wants to play. Styles could also play midfield if needed so gives us options.

I agree with all of this, although I didn't forget to put my contacts in so I could see everything. I did forget it was a cashless Ewood though so I had to go all game without a bloody drink! Oh well, winning made up for being dehydrated.

I was closer and he was abysmal.

I meant Van Den Berg. My head's a bit burnt.

Just got back, massive win and at one stage I thought we'd be stinging from a WBA fight back. Edun was appalling today. We need a couple of defenders and another attacking midfielder - Morton, Styles and Bowler would be perfect. Would love to see a good striker added to the ranks too but I can't see that happening with all the goals flying in over 3 games.

Be great if admin could add it to the site header to save everyone the trouble.

In twenty years time people will still be bringing up Bradley Johnson as a false 9, just as they'll be bringing up he got us up from L1.

With our league position and knowing that BBD was being lost to Chile it should have.

I saw a Burnley discussion and they were desperate to sign Adebayo from Luton. We should have signed Adebayo in January, along with Swift who is now at WBA (for free!)

He must be a decent player for them to be crying about it, although I'm wary that those Preston fans may not be the most knowledgable bunch.