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Can’t wait pal. Just you wait til Dacky’s back.

Don’t worry chaps. Chaddy will be on soon to tell us it’s a crazy league as Derby are beating Bournemouth.

Time to go Tony. You haven’t, will not and cannot sort the god damn defence out. Just go.

Lenihan is an absolute joke. Our record at coming from behind to win is awful, so expect a loss here.

Surely the players in question get tested? That or someone in their household has it.

Sharpe reckons Grayson and Magloire have travelled today.

Covid related. Hopefully Rothwell’s dicky back is better today.

Oh I think we all know they’ll score. As ever under Mowbray, it’ll just be a case of whether we can out score them! Looking at the form book I still think that’s very unlikely. Smells of another 3-1 loss or similar here.

Funny how Darragh didn’t get a mention. The new captain marvel?

One win in five. Ten points from eight games. Time to start delivering Mowbray. That or get on your bike.

Never ending. Tony won’t like having to bring Nyambe in! Has there been a bout of it in the camp? Protect Arma at all costs!

Reading look at a shadow of the team from Ewood. Even Esteves having a stinker.

Ssshhhh stop with the facts.

Yeah I’ve noticed this too. Ayala had a ‘chance’ of making the first game he’s missed. This will now be 3-4 matches he’s not made. Always the same with others who are ‘back on the grass’ too. As for the game, I like their team on paper and they’ve had a much more solid start than us. I can see them turning us over relatively comfortably to be honest and would be shocked if they don’t score at least 2.

Oh I saw it. Was a laughable attempt and must have been a millimetre or two away from sending us down to ten men. What on Earth was he thinking?!

Not the first or last time he’ll have a dig at him. I saw on his Instagram that he was out and about recently, so absolutely no excuses all round for him not to be involved on Saturday.

Forest will have won 1 in 4 after tonight under Hughton. No prizes for guessing who they beat. Sheff Weds getting turned over at Rotherham 3-0 too.

People keep mentioning Esteves. Decided to look him up - he's only on loan from Porto, just 18. Imagine they won't have a chance of holding onto him unless they get promoted and pay big bucks.

Oh absolutely. He'll vindicate his performance to them despite us not having a sniff of the play-offs, through the likes of Armstrong's potential value. What's the betting when Arma does go that TM will once again return to the 'Dacky off the big man' approach.

Slow witted and slow in general! Unless Nyambe is back there we don’t have anyone with an ounce of pace. Yet we’re set up like we have Cannavarro and Maldini at the back.

Perhaps Darragh is having one too many sleepless nights following the arrival of his new baby.

Indeed. The excerpt from TM’s post match presser used on the official Rovers social media posts last night was: ‘we can’t defend like we did tonight if we want to win football matches.’ Our media team must just have that on copy and paste.

Thought the new boys, Elliot aside, looked very underwhelming. Pears was out of his depth - another Mowbray favour to Boro (how many more to come?). Douglas looked okay going forward but very suspect at the back - his lack of pace means he tends to get caught out. Tree-bull was okay, but another who just got overrun. Doesn’t look to have a forward pass in him either. All just a bit meh.

We’ve also won one in four at home. Four points from fifteen available too. Would hope there’s a tad bit of pressure on Mowbray but I won’t get my hopes up.

From Rich Sharpe pre match: #Rovers used 27 players across the whole of last season, only three sides in the division used fewer. Aynsley Pears becomes No.26 of this season already, the most in the division. Been an ever-changing picture in these opening eight matches. Now I’m not professing to be Jurgen Klopp, but this may go some way to explaining our inconsistent performances under Tony Mowbray. The man is an over thinker who just cannot help himself with the unnecessary chopping and changing, square pegs in round holes rollocks.