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Pitch issues aside, how bad was the first 20 or so minutes. Aimlessly and ponderously passing it from side to side before giving it to Miller to gift the opposition possession.

I’ve not been able to get to a home game due to work commitments since the Ipswich game. So I’ve not seen a game completed at a Ewood in over 10 weeks! Shambles from top to bottom.

Yes, I understood that as being due to the distance from goal Davies has chance to cover, also the trajectory of Davies straight line run probably influenced his decision. As I've said, I think it's a howler though I can see how the ref has made his decision regardless of my own personal feelings on whether it was or wasn't.

I think distance to goal is the main contributing factor in the refs decision

I think we need to turn it in with the refs are corrupt, EFL hates us. Plays right into the owners/VI’s victim narrative. The ref made a howler, no doubt over the season we will get howlers go in our favour. There will be countless other teams in the end of equally bad decisions on a weekly basis, but we don’t pore over their games with a fine tooth comb like we do ours mistakes in our games feel much more pronounced. The fact remains that we made numerous errors that contributed to them equalising. From substitutions giving them momentum to Miller giving the ball away needlessly to De Neve not being where he should. Referees neither score nor concede goals. Players do

The ref didn’t score.

His inability to offer any threat when ‘pressing’ is a joke. At least Tyjon would run around

It does to the untrained eye look like players are pulling in unnecessary appearance bonuses

VI does know this isn’t u11 grassroots and he doesn’t have to play everyone

So with De Neve, Tavares and Gueye we’re effectively playing with 8 men

He’s really developing that poachers instinct

Tavares is as bad a player as any I’ve seen play for Rovers

Tavares on is a weird one.

If we end up losing tonight and go down by 3 points it won’t be anything to do with the cancellation. It will be to do with not gaining enough points in the other 45 games. The fact remains we didn’t beat Ipswich, we were beating them, the 3 points weren’t secured and the abandonment was in large part due to inadequacies of the drainage systems at Ewood. whilst the club will dine out for months if we lose, the fact is losing at home to Birmingham, Norwich, Swansea and Sheff Utd will be the reason we’re relegated, not the debacle against Ipswich.

It's not really saving if you can get to all 4 games, if like most you'd struggle to make all of them over the festive period it's a terrible deal!

Incredibly sorry for your loss

Horrendous game management from Ismael. Yes the decision was stinking but it’s our own doing in sitting back in 5-4-1 for 30 mins. Appalling

The biggest issue with Gueye is that he doesn't press with any intensity, so centre halves can step in at any point giving them an overload through the middle of the pitch. I could forgive his profligacy in front of goal if he was a monster out of possession but he's woeful, I'd argue his tactical awareness out of possession is his biggest weakness.

This one has all the hallmarks of an 'after the Lord Mayors show' type game. Good performance and better result on Friday with the effort expended there coming back to haunt us to a sluggish and leggy defeat at Ewood

Great evening, hedges as good as when he played wing back under mowbray. Ohashi looking very sharp and an outstanding debut for Pratt. how whiteman stayed on the pitch I’ll never know

Whilst Cantwell has performed better as an individual, I still maintain we have been a more cohesive unit with him not in the team. With him dropping so deep we can look unbalanced with he, TGH and Tronstad all wanting to occupy the same spaces. Add in we don't have any natural pace or width high up the pitch we often end up having a lot of the ball in areas that don't hurt the opposition. Cantwell is IMO so much better when higher up the pitch, the further forward we can get him the better IMO. I hate seeing him dropping in and receiving it from the CB's or where the full backs are.

Assuming he had a hamstring graft for his ACL reconstruction this would set off air siren style alarm bells for any medical team.

with half the team regularly appearing on BBC Lancs it's unlikely they'd be caning the owners/regime and risk their employer being LET'd

If Cantwell plays it has to be further forward IMO, he likes to drop in to very deep positions. Whilst he has played much better this season I do think him in midfield unbalances the team as we end up Cantrell, tronstad and TGH playing on top of each other. Chuck in no natural width outside of full backs and it makes us a bit turgid. I'd play him as high as possible as a 10 (off Gudjohnsen) or false 9.

sunshine foreacast for saturday, will Antalya Pears be wearing a cap?