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Tavares has done nothing except raise my blood pressure since turning up at Ewood. Very early in his time here but there is nothing so far to suggest he is even as good as Travis, who was himself a standard, consistent, hard-working, championship level player- but nothing special. I feel like if he truly had anything about him either Leicester City or Porto would have kept hold of him, he wouldnt be at Ewood.

I was about to swear loudly at him for shooting from there when it smashed against the bar

Maybe he'll grow one like that Colombian goalie and do the scorpion kick when he next plays in FA Cup 3rd round

North End with what will surely be a late winner. If they hang on they will have beaten Leicester, Ipswich and Boro at Deepdale already this season. Heckingbottom turning things round?

I'm sure there was a season more recently than that where they were both in third tier, maybe around 2012/13?

It's got worse since my last post, no exaggeration to say this should be 7 or 8 here for Ipswich.

Not very high quality but it took 7 or 8 minutes. I'm sure there are creative types out there who could do better. The sentiment is right if nothing else.

Ipswich cruising here against Sheff Utd. 58 minutes and the blades have just had their first shot on target, a very tame effort. Not looking forward to seeing Philogene at Ewood in the near future, he's gonna have a field day. Edit - Three nil to Ipswich as I go to click post. Wonder what happens with Selles, looks like a nightmare appointment .

Sadly, I think we'll lose narrowly tomorrow. Probably 1-0 or 2-1. Watford aren't very good, but our inexperienced, injury prone, cobbled-together defence has me expecting the worst. While I've been very unimpressed with our opening 5 matches, the defence wasn't so much the main worry in going into those 5 matches, it was the other end of the pitch. We've looked very tame in attack aside from the Hull match, because we don't have a proper striker at the club besides Ohashi. Hyam leaving last minute and McLoughlin out will have me watching from behind the sofa. Who am I kidding? Wharton and Carter to stay injury free and play a blinder, 0-4 Rovers (Gueye x4) Venkys, Suhail and Rudy out.

Everyone has a right to have an equal say and all views welcome on the message board etc. Having said that, I can't help but think there is some unusual behaviour on the message board recently. Some new accounts with extremely optimistic outlooks on our shite performances and shite transfer dealings. Some other accounts which have been around a while which have occasionally gone on a flurry of just down voting criticisms of the club are back and active too. Wonder if they belong to people at the club who just want some feedback for their podcast? 🤔

We managed three shots on target against Birmingham and West Brom (combined). They were both poor teams on the day and we couldn't beat either of them. We didn't come close to laying a glove on Albion, it was a stroll. That's all there is to it. Everyone got excited when we beat Hull but it turns out they're absolutely rubbish as well. Norwich not a very good team and we didn't manage to beat them either. We missed some sitters but so did they, we lost 2-0 but it might have been 4-2 to Norwich if both teams had scored the sitters they missed. Puzzling that we looked better with ten men than eleven, that's not a good sign. We seem to have forgotten as well that we played against a team newly promoted from Division four who made 6 changes to their starting eleven and they also dispatched us out of the cup. I have seen one good performance from our opening 5 games and it was against a team I expect us to be scrapping with to stay up. I'm not having that the performance against Birmingham was a good one. We played like we were away at Anfield or the Etihad against the mighty Birmingham City at Ewood Park, it wasn't a performance to be proud of.

Another milestone for the Venkys and Pasha. England's tenth most successful football club now unable to keep hold of their best defender because he would rather play for *checks notes*... Wrexham. Good luck to Hyam and Wrexham, enjoying their own journey and nothing against them personally, makes no difference to me. Just shows what these owners have done to this football club with how far down the footballing pecking order we are. Venkys, chickens, pecking, what does it all mean.

Just seen the news about Hyam leaving. So that's McLoughlin, Wharton and Carter at centre back is it? Miller at a push? We are f***ed

He looked okay, did well trapping a long ball and then trying to have a go at the defence, hope he keeps that up. Didn't do much wrong. The play in the middle of the park and the wings wasn't too bad today, it was the completely toothless nature of the final third that made sure we once again really struggled to score. We played much better today than we did against West Brom and Birmingham but quality tells and we still came away with nothing 👎

I couldn't fault the effort today from the players but we're just not very good and the only reason for that is the owners and their appointed clowns. 1 win in 5 matches and we haven't actually played any good teams yet. 1/4 wins in the league is relegation form. I'm not having people blaming unlucky penalties and referees, pathetic excuses. You make your own luck in football. If you have enough goes against the opposition you'll get a decision go for you sooner or later. There's not some grand conspiracy against us.

He's unbearable isn't he? Talks about them like they're Real Madrid 😄

Norwich are really not a very good team and will be nowhere near the top 6 this season. They were all over the place at the back - we got in several times and we still can't score. I said at HT I'd be stunned if we got anything from that match, having stood through that second half I feel like any other team in the league WOULD have got something from that half with the chances created, even with ten men. That Hull game was a false dawn, because they are also clearly rubbish. Christ I hope we bring in this other striker by Monday, Big Mak was horrendous, I hope we offload him.

If the player had any nouse/brains, he could have 'attempted to play the ball' and would have only been booked. Instead he yanked him over like an idiot. Now misses next 3 games as well. I'll be stunned if we get anything from this game now

I'm not a fan of the revisionism that Mowbray was some complete donkey and I'm not interested in nonsense conspiracy theories about how he didn't want to get promoted. We spent several years not really going anywhere in the championship under him but we would have spent several years not really going anywhere under Pep Guardiola or Arne Slot. It's not the manager or 'head coach' that is the ceiling for this club, but he's an easy scapegoat. He made some poor signings during his tenure and there was a couple of horrific runs where I expected us to part company, but I don't understand the vitriol towards him, as if he were some kind of double-agent. People seem to brush over the fact he got us out of League One at the first time of asking, as though we had a god-given right because we were a big fish in a small pond. Forest, Leeds, the Sheffield clubs, Charlton, Bolton currently, and so on. All 'big' clubs that rotted or are rotting in that shite division for years and couldn't get out, with bigger crowds than we manage. We bounced straight out of it and we are very fortunate. He gets a lot of credit for that. Given how these lot run the club, who knows where we could have been now if we didn't come straight back. He was good enough to get us out of that division but not quite good enough to get us out of this one, not accounting for the fact we are run like a lower league club by our overlords

Yes they did say on radio that it should have been red for Peck. Having to listen to Dingle donkey Iwelumo on co-comms 😄

Been listening to Boro Sheff Utd on radio, Brittain sounds like he has hit the ground running, sounding very involved and influential in a team that have already won 3 matches. With Sheff Utd I think everyone did a double take when they appointed this Selles, he must just interview unbelievably well. I thought they would go and get Sean Dyche, or maybe someone like Steven Gerrard. He might be the first for the sack.

Very early days, no one relegated or promoted in August, but a couple of teams have surprised me. I'm very surprised with Preston, I expected them to really struggle. Their start to the season looked a nightmare on paper but they've played possibly their two toughest home games of the season already and won them both. I expected Heckingbottom to struggle and a lot on here incl me thought he would be first sacked. He will have bought a stay of execution now. At the other end Sheff Utd have also surprised me in the opposite way. Selles seemed an odd appointment and it may end up being a disaster. Talksport said that Wrexham's fans booed them off the pitch today for drawing 2-2 with Wednesday. Apparently they've only lost 5 home games since returning to the EFL, and they booed a draw. Wow.

Wow, what a result. I was extremely downbeat and expecting the worst going into this, given that the last two matches we offered absolutely nowt in attack. I haven't seen the game, I listened to the commentary. Sounded like our best performance under Ismael so far to be honest. Hull not as strong a team as WBA or Bham, but you can only beat what is in front of you and they had started the season well. Let's hope it's a similar performance against Norwich and nothing like the barren nothingness that was the first three matches. Brilliant result. Pasha out, Venkys out.

Jesus Christ, Ryan Hedges 😂