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The ref was being overly friendly with Hackney first half when he was having a moan about a blatent foul on Tronstad. He had the best view in the house of the red card incident so all I can think is subconsciously he decided to not apply the rules and let him off ''as hes not that sort of player''. Regardless, we were superb yesterday given our injuries and the number of young players getting valuable minutes. We seemed to have much better stamina/fitness levels and only one team looked like winning it when we entered the final 10/15 minutes. The defence was strong and every player gave 100%. A shame we didn't have a goalscorer to turn it into 3 points.

McLaughlin is bang average which was highlighted plenty of times earlier in the season at left of three centre backs. As the central defender of three he is even worse but has been protected well by Miller and Pratt either side who have natural defensive instincts. Mclaughlin wins very few duels, gets too tight/easily turned and thinks hes better than he is which means he spends far too much time playing at the back when we should be trying to get the ball into Cantwell/Morishita and the 2 strikers. First job in January is to get someone competent to replace him as the central defender of the three. No issues with him as a sub/backup as hes always fit and gives 100%.

Finally someone who sees what I see! Poor lad was stranded in the previous formation and was given no chance to succeed. With the support of a second striker hes been a completely different player and will be a great player at this level and potentially beyond given time.

Sleepwalking into another repeat of the contract fiasco with Toth it seems. Only 18 months or so left on his contract and no talk of any extension unfortunately. He has been superb lately so a no brainer for any forward thinking club. I won't hold my breath!

Feels a bit knee jerk to me after one fairly tough away game on paper at least. Hard to disagree he's a downgrade on the last two men in the job but I'm prepared to give him at least 10 games before I make any firm views on his competency.

1. Winners of the Championship Ipswich 2. Automatic promotion (runners-up) in the Championship Southampton 3. Four Play off semi-finalists in the Championship Birmingham Coventry Norwich Derby 4. Three relegated sides from the Championship Sheff Wed Hull City Stoke 5. Where will Rovers finish in the Championship? 16th 6. First Championship club to change manager (after the season starts) Phil Parkinson 7. Winners of the Premier League Man City 8. A notable wild card prediction of something that will happen in the Rovers universe during the season (e.g. Donald Trump visits Ewood Park) Yuki - 20 league goals.

Could be a very good week if we pull this off. Sad to see Brittain go but £3.5million is good business for a player who was behind JRC 12 months ago and had one year left.

Very positive about this Miller signing. Seems extremely driven, passionate and feisty. Still 4 more needed but it's a good start.

Norwich won 2-0.

We need five or six to have a similar level squad to last year. Despite links to some players who would have undoubtedly improved our team, we have ended up going for cheaper players on lower wages. From the outside looking in, Pasha is cutting costs further and the only outcome either this season or next is League 1.

This is what I am asking for but in a way that stops us being portrayed as entitled football supporters.

Ive had a think about it and I got it slightly wrong with my initial opinion that the fans should all just stick to asking for venkys out. Although that is the end game, it can get twisted by the club and certain elements of the media so what we should be asking for are two things and two things only. 1. Owners that engage and show up at the stadium occasionally (minimum once a season). 2. A competent senior management team and coaching staff. At present we have Suhail who has never had a job in football prior to here, Waggott who has been at Coventry during arguably their worst years, Charlton the same and also Northampton, Gestede who has just finished work experience and now lands a top championship head of football operations role and Yasir Sufi who has gone from club sec at soccerdome and dissolved marketing business to head of commercial at a Championship club. You've then got David Lowe who has gone from an u23 coach to first team coach and Ben Benson from Carlisle u18s gk coach to our senior team goalkeeper coach and set piece coach at Championship level. All of these people would almost certainly not see an opportunity present itself at this level or even the level below at a functional club in my opinion. If we had the above two things, engaged owners and a competent hierarchy, most fans would be very happy. No demands for money, no demands for premier league football, just engaged owners and a competent board/coaching staff.

If you had significant incentives within your contract of employment to reduce costs and make a profit, would you potentially have a reason to 'accidentally' scupper any transfer deals that could be quite expensive to the club and negatively impact your own income? Quite the conflict indeed.

Call me deluded but I sincerely hope this long term managerial contract will be the start of a domino effect for important first team players..

Wrong line up and completely inept tactically. We would comfortably go down with a very lowe points total if Dave was in charge full time.