Lancaster Rover

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?

the one thing that is synonomous with Blackburn Rovers is halved (we know it's quartered) shirts, across the globe that would be the defining feature that your average fan would know about Rovers. To celebrate our rich history we've decided to ignore that which makes us almost unique

I showed it someone at work and they said it looks very Klu Klux Klan

Tuesday night away game in November, we all know how this one goes.........

It's so unbelievably shit, bad enough we might be playing in it, even worse they're selling it!

I’m not talking about posession based, I’m meaning more that we are unable to keep it for more than 3 passes. We’re literally giving them the ball back rather than playing balls into channels. We’re playing like the ball is on fire

The overriding issue we have is how uncomfortable we’re looking with the ball. Great example there where we win it, ohashi sets it back for Henrikson or TGH (not sure which) and we twat it over the top rather than trying to build it

I like De Neve, quite an old fashioned full back. Not technically the best but a strong runner, looks to get to the byline and out the ball in. Similar to Owen Beck in a lot of ways

We simply can’t keep giving the ball away so cheaply, we will get caught at some point

Reckon there is any chance we can keep the ball a bit?

Smash. And. Grab So much for being unlucky!

Totally agree. The whole FM stuff is lazy and disingenuous. The lad moved from Belgium to bloody Myerscough at 17, had his B license by 20 and was an analyst in pro football (Belgium 2nd Divisionn) by 21. People talk about him like he was playing FM and got plucked from obscurity and parachuted into the Reims job

But, but, but VI is always so honest…….

Dermot Desmond doing his best to torpedo any chances of Rodgers getting another job anytime soon

My issue is he’s only ‘honest’ when it suits Gestede’s narrative. Re the Travis thing, he may have been ‘honest’ about his desire to leave/push a move but without the context and ‘honesty’ about why he wanted to leave its a half truth

I’m also an analyst at heart, one of the major flaws I see in xG is that it doesn’t take in to account situational context of the shooting opportunity i.e. who is the forward, who is the keeper, etc

I thought TGH was excellent and probably the only player to come off at half time who played to par or above

I think if we’re playing 3 at the back you can’t have TGH and Tronstad together otherwise we end up too deep. Tronstad going off changed the dynamic in the middle of the park where you had Montgomery and TGH on different lines for the first time which I felt gave us more balance and allowed us to use the space created much better

Shortly after the subs. Right on the aisle between 04 and 05. Around row 23 ish. Not good to see to be honest, when you’ve got rovers fans clouting each other shows the split in the fanbase