Sorry I didn’t realise it was March the first today ! Am I too late ? Edit - Just ordered one anyway. Hope I wasn’t too late.

It was like playing with ten. I’ve seen more energetic performances back in the pre substitute days when injured players were told ” no you can’t come off, go up front and do what you can “.

I understand the reasons for the “ passing out from the back “ strategy and it worked well for us last night on a fast pitch made for passing. You create space further up the pitch by drawing the opposition deep into your half. It didn’t work too well for Leicester on the same pitch though.

We missed JRC badly last night when he went off.

It’d be hard to play like we did last night on the Ewood pitch. Especially if it’s dry.

I only watched on tv but the pitch looked to be in perfect condition and it also looked to be pretty big. Where does their new pitch stand in the table of pitch sizes ? As you said earlier the wet conditions made for a fast paced game with some slick passing. I used to love conditions like that.

There wasn’t much to criticise apart from our finishing. I’m still expecting Hedges to burst the net in my mind with the one he missed. The game should have been done and dusted before they scored. We were slow to reorganise when JRC had to go off. Barnes had hardly been in the game until then. When they scored their goal he’d a whole quarter of the pitch to run into. Where Brittain was then is a bit of a mystery. After that they kept shovelling the ball out to their left and we didn’t come up with a way to stop this happening. We know Gally only has 75 minutes in the tank. With a bit of luck BBD will be able to come on when he has to go off again.

I’m with you on the Morton story. I’ve been a big critic previously, his sloppy play has cost us some goals in the past, but last night I thought he did more than ok until he ran out of legs. Where he plays on the pitch is crucial to the “ playing out from the back “ style we adopted again last night. This was especially so in the first half. You are going to get a lot of the ball in that position and not every pass will reach it’s target. As I say he ran out of legs midway through the second half and he should have been subbed 5 minutes earlier. When your legs go it’s partially because your brain has gone as well. When you get mentally tired you need that extra second to shape a pass and in games like last night that extra second isn’t there. In summing up I thought he played his part last night.

Jackie DeShannon - When You Walk In The Room

He reminded me of when we played United at Ewood and we went down to ten men with about 12 minutes to go. Souey sent Blake on with the obvious instructions to run his bollocks off for 12 minutes. Chase every long ball down, work their back four etc. Blake did the square root of nothing and we were under a siege right until the end. i think Blake was on his way shortly after that. If you can’t run around for twenty minutes at the end of a game like that you’re not my idea of a footballer.

Dougie used to get half a dozen 10’s a season. Not many others did then.

That was the hardest chance of the three he had.

Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour

I don’t care who we get in the next round but can we please be on the red button again ?

I feared the worst when Hedges missed that absolute sitter. The gods smiled on us at the end when that header hit the post but we’d earned a bit of luck.

Carry on like that and we can beat anybody in the division. I’ve lost count of how many games I’ve seen us out enthused in the last ten years. It’s my no 1 moan. Tonight we out enthused a really good side right from the kick off.

Nowhere to be seen ! JRC had that guy sewn up.

Not like Nixon is it ?

Yeah Gally hasn’t been great.

Best we’ve played for a while. Last ten minutes we started tip tapping it instead of the earlier crisp passing. We need to get back to the earlier quick passing.

First name on the team sheet tonight. We can’t keep leaving him out.

Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On

Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone

Big Star- September Gurls

Yeah, we needed a decent door stop at the time.