League 1 is a lot better standard than it was last time we were in it

Overall the majority of problems stem from a lack of quality throughout the side, this leads to poor decision making, crumbling under pressure, whatever you want to call it. Using Wharton as an example, not because he's the worst but because he comes to mind first. Wharton is slow, he makes decisions slowly and is criminally one footed. This leads to us moving the ball out from the back ponderously, which leads to possession being heavily concentrated to one side of the pitch when he has the ball, leading to players having to play with their back to goal (predominantly right footed, receiving it on the left). Teams squeeze up, our players move over to condense the play and try to get numerical superiority, we make mistakes and the compounding impact multiplies over a phase of pay with players being out of position to cover mistakes. They switch the play and we're caught out time and time again. You could replicate this model across the pitch where individual deficiencies cause massive problems that lead to a disjointed unit that when playing anything other than trench football, with 11 men behind the ball struggles.

I think JRC has been generally garbage since returning from injury, he seems to be under the impression he’s a much better player than he is. He gives the ball away cheaply so often and is challenging Buckley for the walking booking trophy.

An absolute disgrace from start to finish, I said to my son (8) this morning that we’d get a draw at best. The mentality of this bunch of players is that after last week the job is done. Turned up today believing they’d waltz around and take all 3 points. Genuinely embarrassed by the team this afternoon.

Scales is so slow, the amount of problems be causes himself in possession by how ponderous he is with the ball is criminal . Terrifies me.

Aye, they've been going in the Anchor across from Parched Library while the Tavern was closed but they were back in the Tavern on Saturday.

I go up on the Blackpool Shamrock CSC Bus which I think a few of the lads from ours get on yours for cup games, etc!

Eustaces’ will be neither clean nor dirty for me, he’s been brought in to do a job, if/when the job is fulfilled then I’ll say well done. To this point he is on target to achieve his goal of retaining championship status, how he gets there is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things and I don’t think has much bearing on how a team would set up next year. There has been a job to do, some very acute problems to be solved and a seemingly chronic lack of morale that needed boosting. Eustace appears to have been doing the job he was hired for, nothing more nothing less.

He seemed pretty desperate to get himself sent off, maybe Eustace was denying him the pleasure

Easiest penalty a ref has had to give this season, terrible decision making by Hyam.

I think it says everything about the nonsense that is EPPP and tribunal fees protecting developing clubs. Eze and Olise are outliers in that they’d both been in and released from several elite academies. Being given a ‘last chance’ and Millwall and Reading academies respectively before making a name for themselves in the EFL. So neither club had invested heavily in the players development. However Adam is exactly the sort of player EPPP and tribunals are designed to protect, people will argue £18.5 ml is a realistic/good figure but we all know Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask! The reality is that the game is rigged to benefit those in the EPL, a closed shop who vote for each other and will sell us and the rest of the pyramid to the dogs for their own gain.

Eze had played over 100 games for QPR and Olise had played a lot at Reading. Both been at several academies, none of which were CP. What CP look good at doing if anything is lowballing teams in turmoil for their best young talents, certainly not something the guardian (who decry the financial might of some clubs) should be celebrating

Hopefully we see that JRC from last year and earlier in the season, he was chucked into it on Friday but looked miles off it. We were better through the middle when he was replaced

Bit of revisionism going on re Amari’i Bell, he was crap for us. Huffed and puffed going forward and was decidedly suspect when defending. Nobody was particularly bothered when he was released.

Is it on the Red button today?

No chance the Bhoys in Green pay 10million for him. Mentioned plenty of times my family are big Tim’s so follow them closely and the transfer strategy is to buy lots of young unknowns with the idea one will generate a big fee in years to come. It’s a constant point if discussion/falling out between the fan base and the board, bringing in big fees for Dembele, Edouard, Jota with little of note invested. Will be the same this summer when O’Riley and Kyogo are both likely to move on for fees upward of 15million.

Been on the national curriculum for 10 years or so I think to teach a modern or ancient foreign language at KS2.

All schools teach Spanish and/or French from KS2 Y3 onward, so the notion that languages aren't taught in Britain until high school is factually incorrect. The general attitude toward learning languages and the small man mentality vast swathes of the nation has toward Europe is the root of the problem.

There needs to be a Sammie chant to the tune of Stone Roses classic, Sally Cinnamon

The medical team can be overruled though, they present information and give advice. It is on the powers that be to make the decision. For all we know the medical team could well have said he has weaknesses around his fib, associated muscle problems and is likely to break down. Waggot or Broughton could well then come in and say sod it, he's cheap and it's a risk we're willing to take if we get 5 games out of him.

Think that's harsh on Brittain, his vision and delivery is his strongest asset IMO, that pass for Gallagher against PNE was incredible. He's got the 2nd highest assists with 6, 4 in the league and 2 in cups. I think we will see more from him as the season goes on as he's playing as a more traditional FB/WB where he seems most comfortable. Inverting him as JDT was doing doesn't get the best out of his ability to get up and down. JRC is the man for the inverted role, although that could be a thing of the past under JE.

He did win a 50-50 though, I think it was more due to not being able to get out the way rather than trying to make a tackle

On the defensive side there was one particular passage of play where he battled Burn for the ball over 20 yards, it was obviously a duel he was destine to lose but he stuck at it, delayed him and did his job for the team. Something we've not seen before. To be fair he wasn't the only one, they all seemed much more willing to engage in duels last night rather than closing down and pressing without initiating contact

Getting to and from Ewood last night was a total mare but couldn’t spoil a Fantastic night, had a lot of the good bits of JDT with some defensive steel mixed in. Every player to a man deserves credit for tonight. I though when the subs were made we’d fold like a deckchair but they performed admirably, even Billy, who for 5 minutes looked like he was plucked from Sunday League before calming himself down and making a few valuable contributions. Shame to end with not going through but a fantastic evening and great to see Ewood bouncing

Markanday was very direct last night, every time he got the ball down he looked to run at them in straight lines and commit them. It was a joy to see, if he can carry that through he’d be a handful.