Displaced Rover

It’s a total joke, instigated by the 6/7 richest clubs at the expense of the several hundred all the way down the pyramid that rely on FA cup money. International appearances aside, it’s a complete fallacy that top end Premier League sides play more. If you’re a decent L1 team you’re playing 46 league games, potentially play offs, long EFL trophy run plus whatever you get in league cup and FA cup - sure that averages out as more than most Premier League sides, with far smaller squads and much poorer facilities. This moaning about elite sportsmen, in their 20/30s playing too much will never ever make sense to me. They should be fucking grateful of the chance to do it for a living.

Need 3 players on international duty to postpone a game in L1 I believe. Didn’t we sign Jason Leutwiler (?) as sub keeper purely because he used to get called up by Canada?

I mean he was always fairly average (golden 6 months aside) but he looked especially crap when played through the middle. More effective when operating as a wide forward. I'm not so sure. He's signed a 4 year, £40k a week deal - £8m ish over the length of the contract, plus presumably a fairly chunky signing fee, whilst making him more marketable to Spanish speaking fans. It might have been a poor move from a football perspective in the long term (as he's clearly not good enough for that level) but financially it was absolutely the correct thing to do for him and his family.

...with a massively increased net worth

Glad to see they've come out with a 16 game bundle for the exact same price per game as a full season ticket was in the summer. That sort of outside the box thinking is sure to get all those on the fence piling in. Hope the website and phone lines are up to the job....

It's a coping mechanism. I've come off Ewood loads of times after defeat and said "they were just as shit as us".

Another opposition manager has had a lovely evening watching us knock it about nicely without offering any threat on their goal, as we roll over for another defeat. Great. Give me shithousing our way to 1-0 wins all season any day. No points for style.

We’ve not even tried to stick the ball in the box in injury time. No urgency

The way they were able to waltz through the middle of our defence before the shot is so worrying. Far too easy to beat.

Ref giving another decision on crowd reaction. Laughable

Tronstad looked a lot more assured tonight than in previous appearances

Why the hell hasn’t he passed that?!?

This ref seems to just react to the players/crowd. Awful

In real time I was surprised it was given but once it was how has he allowed the AR (who is about 4 times the distance away) to overrule him?!!

Knock it around nicely but just no end product (which is obviously entirely predictable when you play sans striker).

Alright. Although if his name was Morton he’d been getting pelters…

Acres of space. Could have taken a touch or left it to his mate

Opening all looks very pep re full back positioning. Not sure we have the players Jon…

This is giving last days of Souness team selection vibes…

This has 3-0 Coventry written all over it. Long season incoming.

I’d genuinely rather JDT registered himself than play Dolan

Dolan on for Siggy really illustrates our lack of depth/quality. It’s like giving up

For a post that said we’re in “danger” of a relegation fight? The childishness of trying to make schoolyard bets with strangers on the internet aside, I’m not even sure how you’d decided who won? My post never said we will definitely get relegated. Was just an incredibly silly response

What a childish post

Anyone who doesn’t think we’re in danger of a relegation fight is kidding themselves We’re defensively incredibly frail/open, we have one confirmed shit keeper, with another who must be crap to not have displaced the former and to top it off have zero threat up front.