Hasta

During the interview Szmodics did with Big Sam in the summer, he says he didn't play in the away game but that the players had commented on how much animosity there was from the stands. Many of this lot also played in the last game at Ewood, including JRC kicking one of theirs after the final whistle. Hyam should be haunted by that Tella photo of him. There's enough in that dressing room to understand what it mean. Hopefully Gueye can keep a lid on his OTT aggression.

For me, Danny Batth is player of the season so far by quite a distance. Not because he scored today, just because of his level of performance practically every game. Tronstadt and Hyam the only two who come close. As someone said earlier, best veteran free signing for a long, long while.

Weirdly, Coventry did down at their place.

Never really heard of this Ferguson, but google tells me Fulham, Everton and Leeds and interested so that’s a no go. It still makes me sick looking at Deniz Undav’s record over the last few years. We actually had him in the building and couldn’t get it done 😫

Burnley already announced their first signing of the window. A recruitment team and club obviously on the ball. Let’s hope we are still not waiting for an Indian green light still in the last week of January.

If Whittaker was to leave, Burnley would be all over him like last August. And he would be a guaranteed starter there.

That’s exactly why it’s strange!! You don’t employ someone with a failed track record to be your manager cos you were in charge of them when they were a teenager 25 years ago.

Yep. The media and news sites are clearly looking at a different forecast than the one the met office and other sites are providing.

That left side was looking very, very good until Pickering got injured.

So what you are saying is at the start of every season if you did a predictor for every game you think we are going to go unbeaten?

Looks like there is only about 3 left.

Boro reminded me of Rovers. Got into great positions but a lack of composure let them down. Either played the wrong ball or miscontrolled at the crucial moment.

Those two offsides at the end were really frustrating.

I know. Most of us know. Very few people (if any) are saying they expect top 6. It doesn’t mean today wasn’t a bad performance and can’t be called out as such.

I think the disappointment on here is more that we lost team who hadn’t won away in 8, and only scored 3 goals during that period. @Forever Blue over-dramatised it by picking up that someone said the death spiral had started. I think your point is actually aimed at him - “you’re expecting us not to hit a death spiral with a non scoring forward line? let’s have some realism”

Last year Ipswich, who were near the top of the league and far exceeding their expectations, had Travis wrapped up by Jan 5th. Let’s see if we can move that quickly.

ACD was the obvious positive but it was a day when quite a few negatives reared their head. Firstly Cantwell was awful. You’d expect it would be his attitude and work rate that might be an issue, but his quality on the ball was piss poor today. The miss and the ‘offside’ through ball summed him up. We’ve still not seen too much of Baker, but he’s seems a big downgrade on Trav. Slows everything down. Big Mac once again came up dry and looked poor. Beck hasn’t looked as good defensively over the last couple of games. I suspect he needs a rest but there’s no ideal cover. On our corners, they left us 2 V 1 every time. In the first half we exploited it which led to Bakers header at the back post. However in the second half we just put everything directly in. I’d have had ACD with Cantwell, give it him and let them go at the sole defender. Ref was a clown. Stoppage time additions were way too short, and he still blew early in the first half. The first ‘drop ball’ was a difficult call,but the second one he only blows the whistle when we are in possession. Therefore it should go back to us. It wasn’t all one way. He gave soft free kicks to Beck and Baker which riled the Hull fans, and from a free kick into the box he gave another phantom free kick to us. Forgot his cards as well by modern standards. And finally, I think I’d genuinely rather have Garrett coming on than Buckley, and he can’t even get in the other BRFC team. Bah Humbug.

I notice he says “stadium security” rather than the police. So I suspect it’s internal.

No tickets left. I just hope it passes off peacefully and there’s no infiltration with home fans in the away end. 😉

Dolan is replaceable if you spend an average budget on proven championship players. The problem is we won’t. Therefore when he leaves I suspect it will be a noticeable loss to our squad. I also suspect he will spend most of his time ending up at a similar club to us with similar performance levels in the Championship - only better paid.

Last time we played Burnley at Ewood the Rovers fans in the JW upper were a lot more ‘angry’ than those we usually get up there. So I wouldn’t like to be a Burnley fan jumping around even up there. There will be a few in corporate in the centr, but like every rumour of infiltration it will be over estimated. If you listen to Sunderland fans, they were supposedly all over the home ends.

I wish those Millwall player last Saturday had ‘moved on’ and cut inside instead of crossing into the box in the last minute.

Pears Brittain. Batth. Hyam. Beck Dolan Tron Baker Hedges Cantwell Yuki Although I have a feeling he might put JRC in front of a Brittain today to keep a tighter look in Travis’s absence.

Bit late, but from twitter:-

When you think about it, despite the clubs official channels confirming that Eustace first official game in charge was Birmingham away, it was a strange situation that some fans were desperate to credit him that win some 3 months later. Even odder they still bring it up out the blue 10 months later.