I would imagine they’ll acclimatise better than many of their European counterparts though.

For those looking forward to watching it, who are people's tips to win it? Hard to look past the South Americans (Brazil and Argentina) for me. Weather will help, whilst the Brazilians have the best squad IMO. Argentina are unbeaten in 35(?) games - so they'll be a tough nut to crack for anyone and have some real match winners.

I don’t know how we keep grinding these out, and I fear that can’t continue. But tonight, who cares. Get in!!! 🍻

A Wharton the future GOAT.

Beaten them four times on the spin - without trying to pull a Merce, there should be nothing to fear here and hopefully we’ll have the 3 points come 5pm! COYB.

Jesus wept, missing out on talent like that due to being a footballing dinosaur. Thank God he’s out of our club.

Great 3 points! I genuinely thought we’d fold today so I’m delighted to see us take the victory back down to Ewood. May have been covered on here, but why were Wharton and Gallagher withdrawn so early? Sounded like both were having great games.

Inexplicably dropped from the squad for a few matches. Kid needs first team games - he’s a player.

Darragh pulling a Duffy. Good lad.

A goal away from home. Jesus Christ. Edit: apparently a Lenihan OG haha

Not a bad lineup but harsh on Hedges. A victim of JDT’s odd use of him.

Hirst jumping from Leicester’s youth team to ours - only for us to (very likely) be picking up a fair chunk of his wages.

I’d wager Hirst will have under 10 Championship goals in three years time. He’s terrible. As for today, like most on here I expect our WL sequence to come crashing to an end! Fear our away performances will lead to a drubbing sooner or later, and today could be that day.

What’s the documentary called? Likes of Milan seem fanciful. I love Ben but he’s not that good. I still hope he heads for the continent - ideally Spain - rather than the PL though.

What a surprise that is. Most pointless signing for quite some time - doing nothing but hampering our own youngsters progress.

He's clearly not an idiot, so I can only assume he/Broughton have committed to the owners that this is our style of play, this is how we'll increase 'value in the squad' and despite the many bumps in the road, this is how we'll continue. 100% wrong IMO, but there's got to be more to this than just JDT being stubborn. The only thing that flies in the face of this though is not playing our own players over loanees (the likes of Vale/Markanday over the awful Hirst, Wharton over Morton, Phillips over an ageing/injury prone Ayala etc.).

Save for Swansea and Blackpool, you'd have been forgiven for thinking we were playing against the Premier League Top 6 for our matches on the road this season. 1 goal in 6, an XG that is embarrassingly low, no shots on target last night, two the match previous (one of which was a penalty). It's like we're little minnows aiming for a giant killing...against the likes of mighty Luton, Wigan and Cardiff!

I'd suggest last night was almost a carbon copy of Spurs away where we didn't have a shot.

It’s either A) we’ve committed a certain amount of game time to Leicester or this permanent ‘deal’ we’ve arranged as part of the loan is more likely than not, so we’re already looking at increasing his ‘value’ (lol at that one based on his performances to date).

When BBD goes - which he will come the summer at the latest - I struggle to see a single goal in this side (naturally I’m not including Dack given JDT’s opinion on him). I struggle to see a single goal in this side away from home now - and that’s with BBD still about!

They’re the only three plus perhaps Kaminski (although he was parrying too much tonight) and Pickering who I would give a nod to as well. The rest were complete and utter trash with Travis (captain or not he needs dropping), Szmodics and Hirst leading the way. It says a lot about the team that you could genuinely make a case for dropping 8-9 from the starting eleven come Saturday. And we’re saying the same thing every other match!

Downing pointing out that the way we’re playing doesn’t suit our personnel. Glad someone is saying it in the media! Boro away on Saturday who are desperate for a win. I think we know what happens there.

‘Bad on the ball’ is why we created nothing apparently… He’s waffling big time.

I have a feeling JDT’s Rovers will have a few nominations come the end of the season.

Two shots on target in two away games. And one of those was Hirst’s penalty. Jesus Christ.