Angry_Pirate

That's as clear a pen as you'll see, and the ref (and his linesman) have absolutely had a shocker.

Another standard Tuesday away performance (and result) looking nailed on after 33 minutes.

Conditions are woeful for football, yet one team is at least trying, and are playing and spreading the ball wide with pace. Kasey Palmer running the show in 2024 was not on my season Bingo card. Living by a prayer that half, and trying to play like it's a glorious sunny August day. If there ever was a set of weather conditions for Makhtar Gueye.

Kwarme Poku, James Hill and Louie Barry. Yes to any, yes to all. A proper #9 is or course the priority, and another player to slot in front of McFadzean on the depth chart. I'm sure Southampton are already planning for life back in the Championship, seems nailed on that Brereton-Diaz will get a head start on them by a window, wonder if there would be any mutual interest? Pears, Brittain, Batth, Hyam, Beck, Travis, Tronstad, Poku, Cantwell, Brereton-Diaz *New* Squad: Toth, Hill, JRC, Pickering, Carter (start when fit), Baker, Dolan, Hedges, Ohashi, Barry, Weimann. That's playoff level. Absolutely none of it happening.

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Hyam well offside... oh well.

Fucking Dolan. Take longer next time you weapon!

VAR and that's a red. Looked "orange" on first viewing, so you know the home team in the 12th minute get away with it.

Yup, at least 2. And my William Hill bet reflects that confidence. You can usually tell within 15 minutes how these midweek games go... and that's typically because we lose 80% of them over the past dozen years without scoring. Prove me wrong!!

Win, lose or draw, this substitute cameo form JRC is a 0/10.

Rovers just lost to maybe the worst team I've seen at Ewood Park in a decade. Embarrassing performance.

You could write a book called "The art of promising attacking football and fucking it up", and just show that half. Delaying passes, taking FOREVER to attempt a shot, wrong decision after wrong decision, oh, and some downright shite technique. If Stoke would have rocked up at Leeds or Burnley with that performance, it'd be 3-0, at least. Stoke should also be embarrassed by what they've shown that half, time wasting from kick-off. 1 minute of added time could have easily been 8. Of course, if/when they win 0-1 they'll call it masterful. What a waste of a first half of promise.

I'd maybe prefer JRC there and Brittain behind, but i agree with the rest. Far to open at the back IMO. Chasing players up and across the pitch leaving huge empty areas. Lucky to be 0-0. All to play for.

Refund all away supporters. Unacceptable.

Didn't know they showed walking football on this new Sky Sports +. Absolutely tragic effort, performance, and result.

Do not underestimate the massive tactical advantage that sidestepping 3 cones and sprinting to a 4th cone oming out of the half brings professional athletes.

Agree with a lot of the above. The referee bottled the 2nd yellow card foul on thier RB, and then 5 seconds later shows a red anyway. Must take Hedges (and honestly Weimann) off now. He's had a stinker and is on a yellow. 2 of Cozier-Duberry, Cantwell and Gueye need brought on straight away. Eustace massively let us down last week playing too safe vs 10. This is a home game. Cantwell coming on. Excellent. Should be Hedges.

1-0 up in a 0-0 game... suppose you can content with that. Ohahsi's first touch is like a tombola of quality. Pears doing his best to look poor keeping a clean sheet and 0 shots faced. Hyam growing in confidence. Need one of Dolan and Hedges to step it up. Looking forward to the subs. Bristol cannot be as bad. Their fans sarcastically cheering back passes is discontent at its finest.

Dingles/Refs 1-1 Rovers Officials did everything they could to get Burnley them 3 pts. Truth is they didn't look like scoring barring the ref gifting them one. The best 2 chances in the 2nd half clearly came our way. Oh, and we did actually scored a 2nd goal, too. Burnley are lucky to get a point there. Fucking scummy cunts. Like the defense ability shown by Beck, didn't like much of Baker. Travis was excellent. 8pts from 4 games is a massive start to the season. We'll beat them cunts at Ewood 11v11.

That fucking was a booking. But he can't do that. Cunt of a ref was always going to be key.

Onside. Playing 11 vs 14 here.

"Bring on the Dingles"

Agree. We only have 8 bonafide defenders at the club, and that includes Duru and (more terrifying) McFadzean. JRC and Travis can cover RB and could utilise Pickering as a LCB in a 3. But still the 5th senior CB is a miss.

Sun sets late in the ribble valley.

The delay was having to find batteries for the drone and the pointless 20 second video.