As we all would, I’d be screaming for a foul if it was Rovers, but ultimately the Luton player steps into Traffords line and stops. Trafford then runs in to him. Had there been a few metres between them when he stepped across there would be no complaints, but the fact he did it when Trafford was so close to him made it difficult for the keeper to avoid him. However he didn’t ’barge into’ the keeper.

Also see about 7.17 onwards here.

He doesnt barge into him, but he moves late clearly to make sure he is stood in the keepers way. Its probably obstruction, and Id be furious if it was us, but if thats a defender shepherding a ball out for a goal kick they do it all the time and it never, ever gets given. Highly amusing.

And yet 7500 Leeds fans had to be moved from 3pm to 12.30pm kick off on police advise. One was on TV and one wasn't so I always suspect some of the TV money goes the way of the police in these situations. Who knows.

I imagine Lancs police may object.

And for some of us, it was blatantly obvious 10 minutes into the second half how that game was starting to go. We started well, got tired, had no plan B, lost. The end.

No one is jumping on Leo. I’ve heard no sarcastic cheers or abuse on the ground, and his name is sung after any great saves. But, like Brereton before him, people will always give their opinion whether in a pub after the game or online. I don’t like Pears and was clamouring for him to be dropped for Leo pre-injury. But Leo has made more mistakes and unfortunately looks even shakier. I get people preferring to stick with Leo, but to say he has been streets ahead of Pears is absolute nonsense.

If S4C show it, I presume it has to move from 3pm Saturday? (For once I actually need this moved)

You've said this a couple of times lately but that certainly wasn't my recollection of the game. We had a lot of posession but the only other real chance I recall (and shown on the highlights) is the Sigurdsson chance. We probed and had posession and territory a lot in the first half but, as we do, created little. The second half they looked far more dangerous and eventually their pressure led to 2 Wahlstedt mistakes. All the key stats seem to back up my view. When we tired we had no nouse to try and see the game out.

Cambridge were direct, and did score the twice they got the ball in the box, but couldn't really get it up the pitch to get us under pressure. Our style of football is very difficult to defend against for lower league sides. They just aren't used to coming across that type of play. That's why we put 4 past Walsall, 5 past Cambridge and 8 past Harrogate this season. I'm surprised a few people I've spoke to seem to think this looks particularly difficult on paper. If you remove the hype it should be fairly comfortable, especially as we know JDT will take it seriously.

And yet he openly admits we turned down more lucrative gambling sponsorships. If you are trying to compete on a level playing field with other team in the Skybet Championship then turning that down is a bit naive in the first place, but then going with Totally Wicked just loses any moral high ground.

Well we signed Ennis 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I presume it was some kind of rocket fired over the top of the stand. That makes it more dangerous as it could easy have fired into the JW seats. It’s just luck it seems to come down on the pitch. I may be wrong mind. I’m sure they will have it on camera within the ground.

It looked like it was from further back than just outside the riverside The smoke plume looked like it from higher up the hill on the other side of the river.

I take anything any of them say with a pinch of salt.

It looked like it was fired from the hill. There was smoke where it exploded on the pitch but also smoke from the trees behind the Riverside where I presume it was launched. It startled me and I just looked up to see sparks coming down over quite a widespread range. Looked like they might even have gone in the JW lower area from above.

Hope the nobheads who fired the firework got caught. That could have ended up being fired into the Jack walker seats for all they knew. Plus there were plenty of people on the pitch when it went off.

I’ll agree up until the Oldham away debacle he didn’t know how best to set us up.

By the second season back in the championship absolutely. He started setting us up to try and nullify the opposition including weird formations and team selections. In league one he just treated it like we were the better side and let them worry about us.

Yep. And a manager who in that league set us up the get the most out of the players he had and didn’t over complicate things.

I respectfully disagree. This is clearly a contentious one splitting us all right down the middle.

The big part of the reason we bounced back from league one last time was the experience of Mulgrew, Graham, Smallwood, Downing, Conway, Bennett plus buying the leagues best player in Dack. If we were to go down in the next two years I’d worry more about doing a double drop than bouncing back.

And yet he made 42 appearances in what was our best season since relegation. And since we’ve not been playing him we are plummeting like a stone. To say awful is pure hyperbole.

Very few?

Because he's clever in interviews. See the bus comments. Also, Tomasson was almost mocking of Waggots "our aim is to survive" at the start of the season. Saying along the lines of that may be his aim but we are more ambitious. However he now uses it as "everyone knows our aim is to survive" now that we are doing shite. So knowing that this wouldn't be a popular move, I dont think it's unreasonable to think that he's stretching the truth in his quotes. Even if they are true, as the club captain will be returning to Ewood in he summer (with or without JDT in situ) it's a bit unprofessional to come out and say it. But you are correct I don't know for sure. And in true Rovers style, get ready for the inevitable Tronstadt injury in January.