Expecting nothing but a complete reverse of form, based on the chaotic / idiotic / demoralizing / weird shennanigans in the no-transfer window. That debacle has been unsettling enough for those of us on the outside of the club to cause meltdowns and angst on a Brexitstential level, so goodness knows what the effect will have been on the lads in blue n white.... Boro buoyed by incoming signings and home advantage to do a number on us. That number, for me, is a scoreline of 3-0 to Boro. We're so sh!t it's unbelievable!

Am hoping that was a typo

Don't you lot have day jobs...? PLEASE can we have some actual transfer news soon?

Please can we have some ''transfer news"?

Hmmm. A shot stopper, but what is he like on coming for crosses, and what is his distribution like? Does he talk to his defence? Does he read the game, or simply react?

Ah, but the real question is, who has actually moved anywhere in the Championship so far in this window. I don't see any team tearing up trees to sign a whole new squad. It is what it is as far as the Rovers are concerned: We may bring someone in, which would be good (we hope), or we might not (which wouldn't be the end of the world, as we've seen what can be done if things go well for us). So, let's wait and see what develops, or not.. Que sera, sera.

And a thousand miles away, when you look for the results for the team you've supported since being a wee nipper sneaking on the Blackburn End when the gates open because your dad said you were too young to go to the football in the early 70s. And every time the classic blue and white halves are (mainly were) pulled on for kick abouts, strolls on the beach, cycling, walking around new cities, or even just as PJs at the end of the day. The Rovers supporter is not exclusively defined by his or her ability (or inclination) to get to Ewood park on match day. It runs much, much deeper than that. For religion below, substitute 'football'

Aye, but just because we don't like the people running the club, it doesn't mean we don't feel anything for the Rovers anymore. Supporting a football team runs deeper than just turning up blindly every saturday to consume whatever is in front of you.

That is nonsense, of course - there are still many thousands of people for whom Blackburn Rovers is a significant part of history, heritage and heart-ache. I would agree that fewer and fewer people have any feeling for the muppets owning and running the club, but the club itself remains a real focus and holds tremendous meaning.

Am very happy for big Sam Gallagher this evening - he took his goal this afternoon very well and it was a real 'striker's finish'. I just hope that it was enough to turn Tony's head so that he will play him as a striker and in front of the goals instead of making him labour in vain on the wings.

Thankfully it isn't our call. The ref appeared to be right up with play, and indicated it was a dangerous and deliberate foul by the Wednesday lad - in my experience your first instinct as a ref tends to be correct. Anyway, Travis certainly milked it for all he was worth, and didn't seem unduly bothered by the 'injury' for the rest of his time on the field.

Lol, more than happy to eat my words - if anyone had suggested we'd win by 5 goals and a clean sheet before the game started, I'm pretty sure they would have been laughed off the board!

I agree - another poor performance from the band of misplaced misfits allows TM to wallow in the slough of despond and garner (no pun intended) support for bringing in yet more baffling additions to our lopsided and deranged squad. A win would force him to have to look closely at the reasons for success (so as to be able to eliminate these) and would likely propel us the wrong way (in TM view) up the table. 2-0 to the Owls methinks..

Sadly, this autocratic and closed-shop / don't ask any awkward questions approach is now firmly established as the national game. Even if you do get the chance to put a question directly to the source of any contention, their response is to blindy dismiss any notion that they might indeed be wrong, and to seek to undermine you for having the audacity to ask in the first place. It happens from Number 10, all the way down to Nuttall Street. I blame New Labour, the Tories, absent and 'absent' owners, Donald Tramp, Maggie Thatcher Giro-Snatcher and Red Ken. Oh, and the Rovers Trust can feck off too, for lumbering us with parasitic inbreds whose vision for the club appears to be anchored around a sociopathical hatred of anything truthful and transparent that might connect with the actual fans of Blackburn Rovers Football Club gawd rest it's mighty and immortal soul....

Maybe that would be another 'stupid nail' in the apparently inept lean management approach that has been adopted at Ewood in recent years. I mean, who buys a racehorse just to keep the stables full, and then says it can't race because feeding it would cost too much. Unbelievable.. except at Venky'sville under the careful supervision of sem crafty conniving crooks. Ooh did I say sem? Course I meant 'some'...or semthing like that...

They're just old blokes on their jollies. Not real scouts. Not real options for us. Not a single piece of actual news about incoming players in this entire thread. I'm going to come back in a week & see if anything has changed. Not holding my breath. www.trashisfortossers.com

Haha! Revisionist rose tinted glasses eh? Please don't tell us you think the team / club has got better since the days of Rhodes and Rudy.. perlease!! As for negative hyperbole, ya, you got me. Mr Negative

But why would Rudy Gestede want to come back here? He is a decent target man alright, and can head the ball (into the net), but really?? We have gone sooooo far backwards since Rudy and Rhodes lit up our front line, and the trouble is, everyone knows it. I don't for one moment think that tinkerman Tony and his Tombola tactical ineptitude are invisible to others within the game. No, for players of that quality to come here, knowing it would be practically career suicide, there would have to be a large financial incentive - which we are not in a position to offer, as far as the evidence appears to show.

Bloke I used to know came into a moderate amount of cash. Bought himself a flashy car to impress the ladies (Maserati Bi-turbo Quattroporte I seem to remember). He used the car for commuting to his (mundane) job, and complained bitterly at the cost of servicing and repairs when it inevitably went wrong. Everyone said it was the wrong car for what he wanted it for, but he insisted on keeping it for commuting, despite the cost. Eventually the car was shunted into the field behind his house, and for a few years it was used for occasional muddy joy-riding by the local yoof. One day the fire brigade had to come and put the mysterious fire that had started in the old car. He tells everyone today that Maserati is a rubbish brand and that they should stick to cars that are designed for the job you need them for. Just saying....

Well, if crowd trouble does kick off, then Waggot should be prosecuted for his role in making it happen. Brain dead oaf. What was he thinking?

Yeah, like god forbid we should actually transact any business before 5 to midnight on deadline day.

It's hard to believe that MGP strike was 15 years ago! WTF!! Some of our supporters have never had anything to really shout about, have they?!

What we need, in front of goal, is the kind of hunger and drive that makes you think the net is going to burst because your player has hit it so hard / well... nostalgia is a killer, right? MGP we love(d) you!

Trouble is, he didn't tap it in - he hit it at Armstrong who then tried to tap it in, which was (correctly) flagged offside by the lino. The picture above tells you all you need to know. The ball was coming to our main 'striker' who had an open goal.... which he managed to avoid. Magnificent..............................................................................................................................................................................................Defending

Jones, Gennoe, Friedel, all well into their 30s and at the top of their game playing for us. Keepers don't (generally) get worse with age. Many keep getting better