This ref has let everything go. Don’t hate it, at least consistent

Living very dangerously here. Need someone to just calm it down 

Fucking hell we’ve got Cafu playing wide right 

The shite goalkeeping is catching. Lovely build up play though!

Just now, BlackburnEnd75 said:

Do you recall Wigan away?

Not a patch on this

1 minute ago, ItsRoverZ said:

Lads it's just one mistake, he's saved us against Cardiff, let's cut him some slack here. Pears made many many errors 

He never made anywhere near this sort of error. Two times the ball ballooned up in the air and any competent keeper comes to get it. Then compounds it by letting it roll right through him. Genuinely the worst goalkeeping I’ve ever seen for Rovers.

Fact we spent our only transfer fee on him makes me want to cry…

That’s the worst piece of goalkeeping I’ve ever seen. Not only was it shocking to let that roll in, he also had 2 chances to come claim it and instead  stood rooted to his line. Awful.

31 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Rovers food is awful on the concourse and Rovers need to do much better and offered a better range of food which including meat based food simple as. 

Are you suggest we should used plant based food? 

The point is that the quality of said meat (at £4 for a pulled pork burger) wouldn't be much higher than what you'd give your dog. There are economics to consider as part of F&B pricing, it's not just plucking a figure out the hat that you think is fair.

Has Raya made the required number of appearances yet? He’ll be out the team again soon. Been awful for weeks

That is f'ing superb. Illustrates what a nothing club they are.

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?

29 minutes ago, riverholmes said:

It's a calculated risk from them. If it doesn't go well but he does eventually score a few goals, which he's surely capable of, there or on loan, he'll retain some value and some desperate newly promoted Prem club might buy him. 

I think he might still come good if he sticks in there. Look at Joselu! Something of a failure/disappointment at Stoke and Newcastle and now Real Madrid's starting centre forward. Not sure where BBD is playing but a shift to the six yard box might be what he needs.

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. 

39 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Short-term yes, but possibly will hurt it in the long-term. 

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.

29 minutes ago, matt83 said:

He’ll be back at Stoke or somewhere next season

...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....

1 hour ago, oldjamfan1 said:

The older guy wasn’t very magnanimous was he? At least twice he said “Blackburn weren’t very good”. Suck it up you miserable old cunt. 

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?!!