JPVH starts for Brighton in the cup.

I believed that until he signed, but soon realised he was actually pretty clinical. And most of the chances he got was because he was in the right place at the right time. The ‘five chances to score a goal’ was a myth spouted by Hoddle to justify not picking him. You rarely put a ball in the box and thought ‘why is no one there with him in the team’.

Taking out the fact of how competitive the Championship would be for Rovers next season, If you could hand pick 3 teams to be relegated from the premier league from the teams which (realistically) could go down, who would it be? Mine would be Everton, Wolves and West Ham. Everton to finally have a brand spanking new ground and yet be out the top flight. Wolves to show the Portuguese model hasn't worked. West Ham to be playing Plymouth and Rotherham in their practically free super-duper Olympic Stadium. I think West Ham will have enough to avoid the drop, and Everton normally rely on a decent home record at Goodison. If they fail to beat Southampton at home in their next game I would be even more concerned.

Defenders practically assaulting strikers in order to 'shepherd the ball out for a goal kick'. Mass encroachment on penalty kicks.

He’s slagged Dack off most of the season until he got recalled and proved him wrong.

In the context of the post you replied to, it wasn’t extreme enough for me to believe certain posters wouldn’t genuinely say it in defence of JDT !

Clearly not judging by the fact he names JDT and his “knowledge of the position “ immediately before.

And if their guy had squared it instead of shooting, and then they’d got their shot away on two other occasions instead of delaying, we could have been 3-0 down. As it was we had slightly better of the first half and slightly better of the game overall.

If you think that Rovers could have won that game by half time at a stroll then I don’t know what to say. I was sat towards the Darwen End and, although we had more of the ball in their half as you expect as the home side, the chances were pretty even. I’ve also flicked through the Sky coverage and at half time most of the chances focussed on are theirs, and the opinion is Cardiff are doing well but need a cutting edge.

And Brittain. And he deserves this window and the second half of the season before any major judgements are made on him. As I said, I only explained the point to Chaddy.

Rovers’ Director of Football Gregg Broughton said: “We are delighted to welcome George Hirst to Blackburn Rovers. “He has been our first choice recruitment target as a striker all summer and, considering Jon Dahl’s knowledge of the position, this shows just how highly we regard him. Therefore I’d say yes JDT had input.

I only explained what he meant by his post. I didn’t say it was my opinion. However I would say JDT didn’t exactly “ rock up” and inherit Mola and Hirst now did he?

I’m really pleased with a win however it came about. But don’t talk shite. Whilst we had more of that play and the better positions, they had as many chances as we did in that first half. Us grinding that out by a solitary goal was about the right result.

Weather looks ok. Darling you’ve got to let me know. Should I stay or should I go?

Disagree. They scored straight from kick off. Then the only noticeable bit of play was when we had the chance where Brereton squared for Gallagher who couldn’t get it past the keeper at close range. Then the sending off happened. I suspect they might have changed tactics and got on top second half without the sending off, but there was nothing in the 4 minutes after the goal which showed us that. The sending off massively altered the dynamic.

How do the stats show that? With regards to the 7 goals he has been involved in, for only 2 of them did he come on as a sub in during the second half. He contributes when he starts.

Back to the game, I think we will win this as it’s one of the easiest games on paper of the season. We showed enough at Norwich and in the first half against Boro to give me hope. And, crucially, Cardiff will come with a negative game plan so won’t press us high.

He means if you are good enough you don't need 5 transfer windows, a team of nerds and a 3 year project.

That's harsh. Dolan can be limited but has 3 goals and 4 assists in 879 minutes of Championship football. Thats a goal involvement every 1.4 games. Plus you get the work rate to go with it. Let's put this into comparison with the other attack minded players. Dolan 3g / 4a / 879m / Contribution to a goal every 1.4 games Szmodics 3g / 1a / 912m / Contribution 2.5 Gallagher 3g / 1a / 1263m / Contribution 3.5 Dack 1g / 1a / 642m / Contribution 3.6 HIrst 0g /0a / 272m / ZERO CONTRIBUTION Vale 0g / 0a / 303m / ZERO CONTRIBUTION I think Dolan is far from the problem with our team at the moment. Ideally I would have him in every starting line up Brereton, out of interest, comes out at 9g / 3a / 2164 / Contribution 2.0

In fact I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Two derby drubbings with suicidal tactics followed by a nightmare Christmas is pretty anger-inspiring.

Brittain has been decent when he plays. Not sure he’s an upgrade on Nyambe but in the position the new team found themselves in he was a good signing. Hyam has been a good signing when we needed a solid Championship defender. I’d rather have managed to grab JPVH as I think he is a level above and could improve. Had we got him it would have been an investment, which Hyam isn’t. However he is an upgrade on Lenihan so that can be seen as a good signing. Morton is a funny one. Started off looking a good loan signing, but during this terrible run starting with the Burnley game is has been poor. Teams seem to play past him easily and he gets drawn to the ball instead of his man often. He’s ok, but I’d rather the loans either filled gaps or added something special. In this case he may well be blocking what we already have who may well be as good. Probably needs a spell out the side. Szmodics looks a good league one player to me who struggles to have an impact at this level. At £1.8million plus any add ones I’m not sure it was the best use of resources. Mola has gradually been exposed as pretty terrible. George Hirst has also looked terrible. If you watch his Portsmouth highlights you’d be surprised it’s the same player, but he just cannot do anything on or off the ball to create anything. At least I’ve seen glimpses from Vale. I’ve seen nothing from Hirst. One thing that isn’t his fault was the “he was our number one target” quote. Can’t remember if it was GB or JDT who said it, but I bet they wished they hadn’t as it doesn’t reflect well on their summer efforts. Therefore I’d say from the summer two good, one ok, one underwhelming and 2 poor.

Just search “booing” in the search bar and go back. There’s talk back in 2019 regarding the crowd booing and shouting “Mowbray, sort it out”. That’s basically one step from “We want Mowbray out” As much as there’s a lot of anger on here, I don’t feel it’s as bad at Ewood as you believe.

Only because in the previous 2 seasons to last year, the end of season death spirals we’re behind closed doors.

They got booed off practically every home game they didn’t win in the second half of last season if that’s all you mean.

The crowd won’t turn other than the usual boos at half / full time when we don’t win.