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I think first half at Bristol was all stupid individual defensive mistakes. Second half , once we went 3 down, we downed tools. The mental difference between those two performances was massive.

Huddersfield have to play Birmingham still, so a win next Sunday would make us safe regardless of results on the Saturday.

Next Saturday. Ben, you have one more job to do for us.

Thanks. I was trying to remember which player it was that walked away that was always "just going to sign". Lucas Neil gets a lot of shit but at least we knew 18 months in advance what the crack was there.

https://www.efl.com/news/2023/may/efl-and-sky-sports-broadcast-rights-agreement/ Get ready for more stupid kick off times next season.

Credit to Hyam there as well. Bounced back well from his midweek horror show.

There actually is plenty up front, but every time we have the chance to break we balls it up. Bad passes, Gally just running into defenders and Dolan not releasing it quick enough. There’s chances on the break here, especially as they become more desperate.

Annoying, but the Burnley fans at work are frothing about it. "You're going bust and you still only gave us 2000 tickets" 🤣

Everyone knows you never go full Duffy. Slow? Yes. Own goals? It can happen. Bad attitude? Maybe. But he’s gone full Duffy man. Never go full Duffy.

Getting a bit desperate and started committing a few too many forward. Hit on break.

Birmingham been better second half with possession but looking bit toothless.

Only positive I have is that I watched the last 10 mins of the first half of the Birmingham game, and Cardiff looked the better side.

It's a penalty. Same as that Tronstadt foul at the start which you said was a soft free kick was absolutely blatant. Your blaming of referees in games we don't perform well in is becoming comical.

JDT was protecting his own reputation and future employment by shining a light on the incompetence of his employer. Almost saying “this isn’t my fault” Now he has left, as much as I’d love him to continue, it’s not in his interests to be seen as vindictive against the club. Ultimately he only did it for his own needs, but it just happened to align with the interest of the fans. And was quite funny.

I dont quite understand it fully, but had they failed FFP based on an individual year's P&L I would agree with you. But as it's over a 3 year period, 2 of the years which are contributing to this recent 'fail' are also 2 of the years which made up the previous 'fail'. I think that is taken into account. Plus was part of the points deduction originally not for trying to cover it up or being uncooperative first time?

If you think that you really, really haven’t read any of my posts on the Eustace thread then have you?

Your last line sums it up. His success or failure will not be judged by a comparison to JDT’s last 11 games. I don’t know why it keeps getting done.

That’s because we scored 5 in a game where we were able to field Hedges, Dolan, Gally and Szmodics for the first time, and we also had JRC, Hyam and Pears playing which JDT didn’t have at the start of January. If those 7 players had constantly been available during JDT’s last 11 games, does anyone really think we wouldn’t have better stats that what is posted there? Plus it again desperately includes the Stoke game to prove, err, I’m not sure what. That Eustace’s run is better than JDT’s worst run across 19 months when we had a massive injury crisis?

Cos Eustace himself said in an interview he saw that win as being his. Which you would say when you hadn’t won a game. Ive no issue with Eustace provided he keeps us up, but it’s embarrassing the amount of people trying to credit him the Stoke game as some kind of justification of his reign. Incidentally, at the start of January JDT was without 7 of the players that started at Sunderland and yesterday.

Yeah right. You were always insistent we wouldn’t go down. After the QPR defeat you said “we will not be in league one next year” and said it was “nonsense” to think we will. You then said you were “gutted and angry” JDT was leaving. Strange view for someone you thought was taking us down.

You’re recollection is way off. It was Brittain that got sent off, and we got battered all game. The late goals just gave the scoreline a true reflection of the game. If I recall, I said it was the worst first half we had put in since Burnley away last season.

However never underestimate how shite Chelsea are at the moment !

In 20 years time when people are looking at old Rovers managers stats and comparing them, there’ll still be some people popping up trying to give JE the Stoke win despite the record books. 😀 I don’t get why we are trying to ‘compare’ Eustace first 10 games against JDT’s worst run of 10 games. Practically everyone agrees JDT had to go so saying Eustace has done slightly better than JDT’s worst spell is pointless. As the only aim this season is stopping up, that is the metric I am judging him by. Providing we stay up, how good John Eustace will be for Blackburn Rovers will be judged next season.