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Really poor result. The manager's lack of courage and our love of conceding goals will torpedo any playoff hopes. Mid table is still a decent achievement but it's going to be a shame to think of what might have been, much like GB's first season in charge.

Was hoping Brereton would be given a chance to impress from the start today, whether that be up front or out wide. Seems like a good game to give him a shot.

In comparison to their last season in the Championship, yes, but they've still only won 4 games out of 16 and are two points from the drop zone. -9 goal difference and only won one of their last five games. Granted they've managed three draws in there, but still, no reason to expect anything other than a Rovers win here, other than the fact it's Rovers.

Most definitely for Lenihan We beat Rotherham 1-0 at Ewood in 2015 and they were one of the very few teams we actually beat with Coyle in charge at Ewood, 4-2 in Sept 2016. Along with beating them 2-0 last season we have a pretty solid home record against Rotherham in the past few years.

I remember us being superb for the first 60-70 minutes of that game, definitely one of the better performances from last season.

With a manager like McCarthy or Allardyce at the helm I think WBA would probably be in the top two spots. The football would obviously not be as 'entertaining' but it's all about getting out of this league as soon as possible. Every season from the moment of relegation becomes tougher. Look at how we fell away under Bowyer - from 7th, to 9th, to 16th with three wins from sixteen games and GB sacked. The quicker you escape this league the better. You really need to give yourself the best possible opportunity from day one to bounce back.

It seems increasingly rare for older players to be able to cut it in the Championship, particularly if they've been plying their trade in the PL for a number of years beforehand. It seems to take a certain, fairly unique type of character to make the step down and thrive.

If he really wanted Chapman I'm sure we could have made Boro an offer they would have accepted much earlier than the last day of the window. We had £7m to spend on Brereton after all. It was clear from Mowbray's quotes that he never considered Chapman a serious priority.

Seems Tony was right to hold fire on this one.

It feels like some of our own fans were more upset about the decision than QPR's!

It's inevitable that we'll go on a poor run of form eventually and eat a few defeats along the way. The overall attitude and determination across the squad gives me confidence that we'll come out the other side of that okay though. We battled back last season after a very disappointing start, with huge pressure as favourites to get promoted, and got to where we needed to be. No reason to think based on our start this season that we should be worried about being dragged into a relegation fight - it would take some really bad luck in the form of injuries or Venky's being Venky's and nuking the club with another stupid decision.

This time two years ago we were 23rd with 13 points after 16 games with a -9 goal difference, having just lost 2-1 to Aston Villa to make it three defeats in a row. Owen Coyle did his best Steve Kean impression by saying we "dominated the game" in the first half and claimed "there is enough in the team to know we will move up the table". True, but not with you at the helm, Owen. That said, you can't doubt the managerial credentials of a man who says "I've told the players, and I was quite vocal about it, that they must not give away soft goals when we are in a winning position". Such insight must have blown the players minds. Compare and contrast, we just beat QPR to go 8th with 25 points after 16 games with a -1 goal difference. We already had 9 defeats under our belt this time two years ago, compared to just 3 this time around. Also despite winning our latest match and doing very well results-wise so far this season, the manager continues to demand improvement from the team. The difference between a proper manager and a fraud imitating one.

I said at the start of the season I felt WBA would regret not bringing in a proper manager. Not too often that the coach who has a half decent run as caretaker transitions that into long term success. Bowyer was a different kettle of fish as we desperately needed somebody to steady the ship before we sunk completely. Generally speaking bouncing back at the first attempt from this league is the best chance of getting out, and WBA should have put as much effort in as possible to ensure they had the best opportunity to do that. Sticking with Moore was not, imo, the optimum way to go about that. That said, I hope Moore does turn it around as he seems like a decent bloke, but much like GB I think his inexperience will cost WBA too many points in the end.

Depends on how you define a dive. He made the most of quite minimal contact, but there was contact. You see them given often enough. We'd probably be annoyed if it was given against us in all honesty, but I think we'd also be questioning why the defender is going off his feet when the attacker is running the ball out of play.

Just saw the penalty on the Quest highlights show. Soft, yes, but the defender shouldn't have slid in. He did catch Brereton's heels and made no contact with the ball, so, he's giving the ref a decision to make. Brereton wasn't really going anywhere so if the defender hadn't gone to ground chances are there's no penalty, no goal and the game ends 0-0.

For sure, but that's the nature of the beast. Bad decisions happen. They only had one shot on target the whole game, so if they were on the receiving end of a bad decision they were always going to be losing. If they'd tried to actually win the game they might have had a goal or two to make up for a poor decision against them. When he says that QPR did enough to win it I lose all sympathy. By the sound of it they did everything possible to make it a miserable afternoon for everybody.

It was clearly an insipid performance from us today, but I'd be more angry as a QPR fan. On a great run and they come to Ewood to face a Rovers without Raya or Mulgrew to try and grind out a 0-0 draw, only managing five shots the entire match. That's pretty sad, although if they'd come to actually make a game of it maybe we would have come out of our shells too. McClaren: ""It's a bad decision which has cost us a point and continuation of our run." Wrong, Steve, it was your decision to play for a goalless draw that ended your run. Try to be a bit braver next time, you might get something from the game. As it stands you left yourself open to a sucker punch and duly received it.

They've been on a hell of a run recently. I thought they might get rid of Farke in the summer but they kept him on and appear to be reaping the benefits now. Lambert nearly had a repeat of what he did here, beating Preston in his first match in charge. Wasn't to be though. They really could have done with winning that one too.

QPR only had five shots to our ten, they couldn't have been that good?

The sooner the better, although I don't see it happening any time soon. Ultimately I think it would just end up with different clubs having money pumped into them and making the playing field uneven again.

It's just the prism we see the concept through. At our current level of technology we envision computers, servers, hard drives, etc. In a thousand years (assuming we make it that far) the concept will still exist but probably in a somewhat different guise, based on how far we've advanced by then.

I probably confused things a bit joking about the NG+ scenario. Simulation Theory in of itself doesn't suggest reincarnation as a possibility, but it doesn't exclude it either. It would come down to interpretation of how consciousness is programmed which is an entirely different discussion. Similarly it doesn't suggest that our actions correlate to how the universe behaves, at least not at the basic level of that theory. It's pretty wide open to interpretation due to its open-ended nature. Also on an unrelated note free will doesn't exist. Just wanted to throw that out there as a general comment.

I'd need a microwave, a mobile phone, access to the LHC and a ton of Dr Pepper, but yes, it's possible.

That's the crux of it. Even more compelling when you get down to the lowest levels of physics and it starts to become pretty hazy and chaotic, like it was only programmed to a certain level of complexity. Obviously we only see things through a very limited scope, but quantum physics is pretty wild. Computer simulation at its core isn't a new concept though. It goes all the way back to Descartes and Cartesian philosophy, but now we're going way off track. To tie it back to Glenn, reincarnation is just respawning. I guess to Glenn when we respawn our former stats are carried over, like NG+ mode in RPGs.

The logic behind the theory is surprisingly sound. It's an interesting rabbit hole to go down. If I'm an NPC I'm probably okay with that. If I'm the primary character then something's gone wrong somewhere.