*As an overseas fan, I don't feel any particular way about Burnley. I do sympathize with the extra joy or gloom it brings other supporters when we win or lose against them, but for me personally they're just another team. *Tom Cairney was never that good. *The fact that our current team sports four players straight from the academy that have proven to be dependable or better at Championship level has been supremely underrated.

Terrible result, reminiscent of the Bowyer days when we always seemed to self-destruct whenever the playoff places started to look like a real possibility. The difference from then is that today we have a team of young players on the up, and that the club has gathered a bit of momentum over time for the first time in ages. It's no surprise that we become a highly weakened team without both Graham and Dack, let's just hope it will happen as seldom as possible.

They ended last season in 8th place, they're in 9th after today. Hardly the fall of Rome.

AndERS Andersson! Andreas is this handsome lad:

He was out of contract after last season and very clear with wanting to move on and play abroad, so I'm sure he was shopped around and probably passed through the Rovers network some time or other. He's decent, but nowhere near the national team (his caps are all from B-level games with players exclusively from the Scandinavian leagues).

Not entirely sure if this fits the thread, but it's too good to go unnoticed; Don't miss you opportunity to own a genuine 1999 Dario Marcolin away shirt! https://www.ebay.com/itm/Blackburn-Rovers-18-Marcolin-Player-Shirt-1999-00-Large-L-Uhlsport-Jersey/333026064602?hash=item4d89e678da:g:h~oAAOSwTEZcRMIU:rk:9:pf:0

His goal against Millwall was a fairly good example. Since wingers generally play much narrower these days it becomes a waste to have them primed for crossing the ball, if anything that's the full backs' job.

He's not meant to get to the byline and cross, he's meant to cut in and shoot or play in Graham or Dack.

Because he oversaw promotion from League 1 and has us mid-table as newcomers, mainly on the strength of players he revived or brought to the club on a comparative pittance? Sometimes I feel like the indignity of playing in the Championship (and, shudder, League 1) makes us overly hostile towards the team and manager. There needs to be a reasonable balance between lowering expectations to realistic levels and avoiding settling for too little, but I think we're currently focusing too much on the latter at the cost of the former.

Not while playing for Rovers though, same goes for the lovely Gael Givet.

There's usually a fifth one in the stands taking note on the first official's performance if I remember correctly, might have been that guy. As others have mentioned, terrible game as a whole. Millwall brought the play down to their level and we didn't have enough about us to respond, although they never got close to scoring. Lenihan and Rodwell battled well, although you could tell Rodwell was not really in synch with the rest of the defense. Raya was also OK, but apart from the goals I wouldn't say anyone else played particularly well, even Travis. Still, our attacking players bailed us out in the end, really shows the value of having plenty of players who can play a bit in the team. Millwall looked like they never could have scored goals like Armstrong's and Nuttall's (well, at least the buildup to it), too little attacking quality in their side.

Honestly, nothing could be as bad as that! It's certainly a poor game here as well though, Milwall playing very scrappy and we're unable to take control of the game. If Armstrong is fit he needs to come on sooner rather than later.

Perhaps I'm forgetting something obvious, but wouldn't he be our most successful international footballer as well? Turkey won the bronze medal in the 2002 world cup with Tugay in central midfield.

Shouldn't Nyambe be resting for the QPR game?

Thought he looked highly promising when he was on loan here during the relegation season, shame how things turned out. Also, why on Earth would you replace Bruce with Moyes? What exactly would he do differently than the last regime?

Don't know about "Premier League legend", but he was certainly a tough enforcer in his day. The Dutch tend to know their youth development as well.

Allardyce doing a favor for an agent? I have loads of these, but the one that immediately comes to mind is that I though Grabbi might come good after all when he scored one or two times after he came back from a loan spell in Italy (?).

Decent punt, as long as he's on reasonable wages. It's worth noting that while his main problem throughout his career has been injuries, Mowbray and the medical team has managed to keep notorious sick note Charlie Mulgrew on the pitch for over a year now. My main misgiving is that this has the potential to take valuable first team minutes from Travis, Tomlinson and Wharton.

Norwich started with three ex-Rovers today; Rhodes in attack, Ben Marshall at right back and Hanley in central defense.

Rhodes in his prime would never have created the space and opportunities for Dack and others that Graham and Armstrong do though.

Grow the hell up.

Is Freeman being brought in as compettion for Dack? Or will he be played out of position on the wing? Seems like a strange hole to spend £4 million to plug.

Lucas João came off he bench for Sheffield United and got an assist earlier today. If the owls were ready to part with him I think we could do way worse, massive potential in that lad if he'd be given a it of confidence and a clear role in the team IMO.

I wouldn’t be so quick to get rid of Evans. We’re basing our team on young players on the way up in their career, which I think is the right way to go, but we still need a contingent of experienced players who knows this level or higher, certainly in the central positions.

It's the Premier League as a whole. West Ham, with no money from player sales, European cup play or commercial revenue has still just bought a player for £35 million, and has brought in 6 players before him. Just being in the PL, regardless of quality or result, nets you enormous money these days.