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The number of losses for me is the more damning statistic.

Unsurprisingly, another good "spell" that means absolutely nothing because we have stripped our squad to the bone as far as decent players are concerned. I will say one thing - Ohashi scored a few last season, because we supplemented his weaknesses with Championship experience. Now we are seeing why that was so important. Real life isn't Football Manager.

Hate going to 3-5-2, it's not worked for multiple managers over the past few years. I understand the reasoning, but all I see is us playing at the edge of our own area and getting battered. Sod's law on the other hand says we'll nick a win here.

We'll either win 1-0 or get hammered 6-0. It will take a miracle to come out of this without being embarrassed though.

And hopefully that't the last we'll see of Pears. Glad he's locking down his position.

I know it's a friendly but can't argue with this so far against a Wales side who have generally been quite good under Bellamy. Good to see that we want to keep pushing forwards even at 3-0 - one of my biggest criticisms of Southgate was his inability to capitalise on momentum.

The two chances I'd say should have been 100% buried in the last 2 games didn't even result in a shot, and ended up with the ball in our own net in one case. Poor chance creation and even poorer finishers is a worrying combination.

To be fair to De Neve he's done a lot in this game, would be Cantwell with the assist though.

Stoke have sat off since the goal and know we won't lay a glove on them. Like, we've had a few shots and plenty of crosses but have any of them really caused any difficulty for their keeper?

Cantwell gets petulant at some point every game, he's going to get himself sent off eventually.

Do any of our long throws/corners ever beat the first man?

Morishita finally starts finding some positions in behind Stoke so he immediately gets hooked. It's like Ismael pays no attention to the game ever. Yuki already showing why he is ten times the player the other strikers are. Scored a few last season when he had better players around him.

We're a 2 man squad - if Cantwell and/or Alebiosu get injured we could start to see some real cricket scores.

And there we go. Game over.

Scored 0 conceded 6 after the hour mark - if that's not a damning indictment of Ismael's inability to affect a game positively I don't know what is.

Has Gudjonsen managed to get off a single shot for us yet? Abysmal.

How many times do we concede chances faffing about with it at the back?

33% possession at home to Stoke. Imagine saying that even a year or two back.

Every team we play against look like they'll score every time they come forwards. We're lucky if we get past the halfway line without a miscontrol or an offside.

You can see the quality difference just in the way players react to things. We're so slow to react to anything both in defence and attack. This is not a Championship level team.

Shouldn't have been anywhere near us once he left at the end of last season. He was at best average last season, left for free and now we're left like Baradji picking up his wages for absolutely no benefit. This kind of thing is exactly why no one trusts the team putting the squad together - literally everyone saw this coming.

I don't get to go to games often as I don't live near Blackburn anymore, but made it to the Charlton game last week. It cost us the best part of £100 for the day, and then we proceeded to basically do nothing for 90 minutes. The entire second half you could barely tell what was happening because the entire game was played at the other end of the stadium! That's not a "football isn't as good as it was", it's a "the football is so uncompetitive that there is no entertainment value whatsoever". It was my partner's first away game and despite my talk of how fun away games have been for me in the past, it was depressing. 30 minutes of half-assed chants following by 60 minutes of almost complete silence because there was literally nothing of value happening. It'll be a miracle if I ever persuade her to go again.

I'm going to go 0-3 on this one. The change would have to be seismic for us to get anything out of this game. That said, it is absolutely vital that we do. Going into the break with 6 points and then coming back to an absolute spanking from Coventry would be the final blow to what ailing confidence their might be both from the players and the fanbase.

This honestly should be the first question asked to Rudy every time he interviews.

I guarantee they just drop that £10k number and we struggle in League One as well. This has downsizing costs all over it.