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🤣🤣🤣 All I can say is thanks.

Not sure if you mean me there but I didn't say Boro were a briliant side. They played well the other day and we didn't. Mowbray was back to his old tricks of square pegs in round holes. They've won the last 5 games. We've been tired and lacking inspiration since New Year. We are without the second top goalscorer, a couple of other key players and our new signing. Facts. Your optimism is admirable but why you won't acknowledge we're forced to field a weakened team in a tough match is a touch pedantic. And why you're so bothered that anyone might think we may struggle to get anything out of this one is a bit weird. It was never a jab at the club, just objective thoughts based on facts.

A keyword in that sentence was "think". I don't think we have a snowball's chance in hell. It's called an opinion, a thought, a guess. At no point have I disputed that we did have a chance. It's football, anything can happen. Unlike you I'm not trying to be the thought police, if anyone thinks we're going to get 3 points tomorrow I'm all for it. I hope we do.

He's pacey and gets himself into goalscoring positions if the opposition allow him. Give him enough chances and he'll score at least one. In the PL (with a mid table outfit like Southampton) he won't be getting enough bites. You have to be a brutal finisher to be prolific in the PL.

We're underpowered at the moment and playing against the team that's the top of the form table. Is that a fact? I didn't "compare their run to ours", or "write us off", so now you're just being silly to win some bizarre argument that Rovers can win this match, which was never disputed.

They are the in-form team in this league, that's their current status not an opinion.

That and Gallagher being the only other striker that’s scored a senior goal.

Good player but wouldn’t it be nice to sign someone with a bit more experience at this level - a goalscorer preferably.

Now the transfer window isn’t looking too clever for us considering the money for Markanday could have gone elsewhere. No ones fault but this is why ffp doesn’t work. If you have long term injuries you’re afraid to spend cash.

No it’s common sense to look at the facts and say, this is going to be a tough game and the likelihood is, we won’t get 3 points from this one. I can’t see it. It’s also common sense to go, it’s a game of football and anything is possible (see Wigan game). So of course they don’t have the 3 points tied up.

It'a not panic it's common sense. We've lost not only our goal scorer but a big personality in the team, we've been off the boil for a few games, Tony reverted to fantasy football and we're playing the in-form team of the league. Gallagher didn't look arsed the other day and he's going to be our top goalscorer. It's not treating Boro like Man City, it's treating them as what they are, the team that's currently in-form - and treating Rovers like they are, without their leading goalscorer and suffering a few absences.

I guess you didn't watch us against Hull then, and now we are relying on Gallagher for goals. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/blackburn-rovers/top-scorers

They are one of the form teams in the league, that's a fact. I watched them in their last match and they look like us when we were playing well. We are on the back of a poor mini run where we've looked tired, uninspired and every bit the team that finished 15th last season. We are without our top scorer, our attacking fullback, possibly our only combatative midfielder and we all know what happens when Mowbray has to replace players - he goes fucking mental. Add to that the guaranteed inclusion of lazy Gallagher and our new signings not being ready. Expecting a good result is folly.

It was clear to anyone watching that we were playing with ten men.

I agree with this. I don't think we have a snowballs chance in hell, especially without Pickering and our talisman - we have literally zero strikers of note to count on. I hope Nyambe and Travis are back but I fully expect Gallagher to be back in and more appearances from the likes of Johnson and Buckley playing deep. I fear it'll be more tactical nonsense against a team in very good form.

It would have been most likely he'd scored that penalty which may have given him a much needed boost.

I wasn’t being serious, it was a hypothetical question.

Adebayo would be good but I can’t see Rovers paying the necessary amount even if Brereton was sold.

He’d slot right into the not being available for Bournemouth role.

This one. Edit: I missed longsiders earlier post saying the club have rubbished the article. I’d be worried if I were them though, their new owners sound dodgy.

If that report that was posted earlier is to be believed the new owners are struggling for cash.

The recent news reports would suggest they have nothing to spend.

Only if we can buy Mitrovic with it.

Is that halfwit still around?

Nyambe should be back at least, hopefully Travis too which would allow Buckley to return to his forward role, but Brereton is out so I expect more tinkering. I’ll be very surprised if Gallagher isn’t playing. We could really do with signing a player who knows where the goal is today.