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Quarters.

Halves

Rovers have played in blue and white halves all my supporting life. I’ve never heard anyone refer to them as anything else.

Picked wrong team again.

They don’t see football like this every week at Man City, do they.

So - lay down or fight like men?

Our midfield is woeful. That’s where most of this is coming from.

We are very weak in midfield. If I were boro I would stick 5 in there.

Only Reed and Evans are true midfielders. Those two are going to need Brereton and Armstrong to do a lot of defensive work to give cover for the full backs. There lies a potential problem. That’s a worry for me.

He’s got to be able to make a position his own Parson and at the moment he doesn’t look like he’ll ever be able to do that. That’s what I think you’re saying and it’s what a lot of us on here think. Being able to run with the ball does very little towards that.

We need a bit of Howard Kendall’s approach. The first thing he said he would do - and did do - was make us hard to beat. In other words he concentrated on and succeeded in keeping clean sheets. We are far too easy to score against. The two goals we conceded last night were down to firstly awful defending from Bell and then poor marking in the box - and for the second goal people are blaming Rodwell. If you get the chance to look again, see if you can spot any cover from the midfield. There was none. Far too many midfielders caught chasing the ball upfield. Why - we had just got back level, we weren’t losing. That all comes back to player discipline and being hard to beat. still, I personally put this defeat down to Mowbray. I can understand PL clubs leaving some of their better players on the bench against inferior sides, because they would still have the fire power to beat these teams. For Rovers though leaving a host of our better players on the bench away at another Championship club? Do me a favour, we’re not that good yet. Starting under strength then going behind possibly because of it is giving the opposition an immediate advantage and like I said, were not that good yet. Start with a strong side then if things go well change it if you have to. Don’t give them the advantage before we kick off.

Bells useless isn’t he.

Get t’ subs on!

Puzzled at that one.

Fabulous words from Pele (attempt two) https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12027/11635417/pele-recounts-gordon-banks-1970-world-cup-save-in-moving-tribute

Sorry Biz, can’t go along with much of that. Bottom line is that he hasn’t shown us a thing. Nothing. Zilch. That’s nothing to do with how he’s being used. is your desperation to defend him blinding you to that fact?

This one Chaddy?

Passed away aged 81.

Burns gone first ball!

Not read all the thread, but just one general point..... The club can’t and won’t move forwards by trying to attract lapsed fans to come back to watch championship football. They might attract some fans back for Premier League football, but once fans stop attending regularly, generally speaking they don’t return. There’s only one way to increase the fan base and that’s by attracting youngsters to Ewood for Prem football. Then you have a lot of them for life. I applaud any attempts to attract people down to Ewood though, but know you’re audience.

Might make the trip to have a look at it sometime.

As good as Shearer. Who am I to doubt Bryan Douglas.

I was meaning from that forward line of Ferguson, McEvoy, Pickering, Douglas and Harrison Tyrone.

My favourite shirt as well. well favourite kit actually. Didn’t someone say they loved those socks?

Couldn’t resist.