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Well, as a bleak positive it means I'll get to watch Rovers again at Portman Road next year. Been a while. Hope we'll have an actual striker by then.

Thank goodness BBD had his purple patch in the first half of the season. If we'd had BB for the first half of the season as well then we'd have been at the opposite end of the table, and January wouldn't have been any different.

Would be nice to move him on, but can't see him getting a better deal anywhere else, so yeah I imagine he'll be here until the bitter end. Need at least two decent strikers in the summer for that reason - assuming Gallagher stays I wouldn't want him higher than 3rd choice, and nowhere near the right wing either.

Didn't deserve to be on the losing side, that's for sure.

It's the old saying about a fish rotting from the head down. The mentality at the club has been all wrong since they darkened our doors, and remains a black cloud over Ewood. Even when we stumble onto appointing somebody decent, or securing a genuine talent like Harvey Elliott for a season, they're hamstrung by the absolute incompetence surrounding them.

Or more accurately, has never scored 10 goals in a season since signing permanently for us, and has only done so once in his entire career - in a season where we had no defensive structure for most of it and were relegated. If we start next season with Gallagher as our main forward then it won't be a season worth watching.

Think they'll scrape enough to just about survive. But yes, Leeds or Bournemouth over Leicester or Everton would be ideal. Have to disagree with the idea that if we play like tonight we'll get into the playoffs, simply because we can't score. We didn't force their keeper into a single notable save tonight, unless I'm forgetting something. That won't get us anywhere, and hasn't for the last 7 games. We have a huge, huge problem up front and it's going to cost us a playoff spot this season. If it isn't resolved in the summer, and I have less than zero faith in the people in charge of that, it'll be more of the same.

For what it's worth I think it'll be Leeds, Forest and Southampton... so not quite as bad, but this is two seasons in a row where we've let a golden opportunity slip through our fingers.

I think JDT might be too. It's going to be hard for him to forget the clown show that was our January transfer window. How can he have any faith in Broughton or the recruitment team when they couldn't manage simple things like faxing the correct paperwork on time - for two signings no less - and didn't manage to secure a single striker despite knowing since the fucking summer that we were desperately lacking in that area. It's a total embarrassment.

Probably would have missed the penalty anyway, but what a cursed season.

Our form since we lost to Sheff Utd in the quarters has been shockingly poor, there's no question about that. We've completely collapsed and when it comes down to it, we were in the playoffs for most of the season with the same squad, so it's certainly not all down to what happened in January. It's by far the biggest factor overall though for me.

Based on the match threads I don't think they've been given a free pass on here tbf! Ultimately BBD has always been a confidence player, Gally has never been a player, Vale is far from the required standard and Dolan isn't a striker in any real sense of the word. It was so obvious we needed reinforcements, and we didn't get them. It's absolutely killed us.

18 goals in 19 games tells you all you need to know. 7 games without a win at the business end of the season is a killer blow. We've been unlucky in some games, but ultimately it all comes down to the absolute balls up that was the January transfer window - for the second season in a row.

Can't help but wonder how often JDT has watched us recently and wished the recruitment team hadn't screwed us over in January.

We struggled for the first fifteen minutes or so, but grew into the game from that point and ended up dominating the rest of the half. We just lack quality up front, as has been the problem for most of the season. Really frustrating as with a couple of decent attackers you have to think we'd be a goal or two ahead now. Wharton a class above everybody else on the field. You have to think the vultures will be circling for him in the summer. Not sure what we can do to change things, without any real options on the bench. Just have to hope we can scrape a goal from somewhere and keep a clean sheet. Big difference from our performance at Turd Moor, at least. Appreciate it's a weakened Burnley team but the difference in attitude is obvious.

Wharton is just sublime. You have total confidence every time he has the ball.

Wharton's composure in a game like this, at his age, is so impressive.

Barnes doing what he does best. Ref needs to get him booked and stop this from getting out of control.

We've weathered the early storm and are starting to get a grip on the game now. Just need a bit more quality in the final third.

Good pressing to force their keeper into a mistake. Need to do a lot more of that, don't let them be so comfortable in their own half.

Jesus lads. This passing around at the back bollocks nearly costing us again.

For a £200k-ish purchase of a player in their mid-20s from Aberdeen he's done better than I expected. A versatile squad player who can do a job. Every team needs a player or two like that. If we had actually signed a decent striker at some point in the last year maybe we wouldn't be relying on Hedges to score us a second goal in the dying minutes of a match.

Can't really think of any highlights of his time here, barring the face-clutching that helped cost us the quarter final, which obviously isn't a positive. 2 assists and no goals, isn't it? I appreciate we don't have the best options in attack, but even Travis, Ayala and Pickering managed at least one goal. Wharton has 2 assists with much less time on the pitch. His time here has been unimpressive, but sometimes it just doesn't work out. Doesn't mean Morton is a bad player, and good luck to him in future. I wouldn't have him back though. Would much rather develop Adam Wharton and John Buckley than have Morton blocking their paths, particularly with loan agreements that may stipulate % of playing time.

Redknapp last managed six years ago, leaving Birmingham second bottom of the Championship, being sacked after five defeats on the spin. Not comparable to Roy in the slightest. Would love them to appoint him though, just for the laughs.

We definitely wouldn't have gotten relegated in 16/17. With that said, the squad and the club as a whole was in a very sad state at the time, so it may have just contributed to us treading water for another few years at best. Warnock may never have been given the backing Mowbray had, instead having to contend with what Bowyer/Lambert/Coyle were given around that time period. In some ways the relegation seemed like a bit of a wake up call for the owners, as at the very least we haven't spiralled back into the same dire situation we were in between 2015 - 2017. The squad hasn't regressed to that point at any time since then, and we haven't had to suddenly rely on emergency loans (cash, not players) to get by, as I seem to remember we were in 2015.