Exiled_Rover

Imagine getting beaten from 40 yards to lose the £160m game. Calamity Raya strikes again.

This Hector bloke is an utter donkey.

Two over-hyped average teams from a cloggers league bottling it.

Both Reed and Cairney lucky to still be on the field imo. Ref has been very lenient.

They were both due to come on - suspect Mitrovic felt his hamstring again.

Bloody hell, what game are people watching? Brentford just had 5 minutes of unbroken possession where Fulham couldn't get near them.

Brentford more likely to score.

Must be nice to sit at home for three months then go on holiday for two weeks.

Aye, you must be.

Golden boy Reed has had an absolute mare tonight. Should have been sent off and continues to dive into tackles. His range of passing is poor too.

It's the one position you shouldn't be cheap at. Hey, maybe they've found the next Guardiola. I just doubt it.

Similar to when Newcastle came calling for Souness, I'd struggle to keep a straight face.

It's different strokes. Mainly based on talent, I think. You have a lad like Mbappe who was playing at an insanely high level at 18. Then you have lads who don't get a proper chance with a first team until they're 21+.

Travis is the only one I care about. The other three are basically irrelevant.

There's so many massive clubs in this division and we're little ol' Blackburn Rovers. We'll do well to finish midtable.

Our midfield is poor, especially if we want to play any sort of possession game: - Evans only plays well when it's contract renewal time. - Johnson is here for the pay day and is a 1 in 10 player (was also desperately trying to get a suspension post lockdown!) - Davenport never plays. - Bennett isn't a Championship calibre player. I appreciate that CB, LB and GK are priorities, but just because we have bodies in midfield doesn't mean that it's not a huge problem area for us.

We'd be raving about him if he was breaking through now. How times have changed.

He really is a fantastic man manager, isn't he? "We really want you - just not as much as a GK and a LB, so hang fire." Definitely a bloke I'd want to play for.

Bet he thinks he's getting Tosin back on loan.

Pretty much - I don't respect the football acumen of a manager and scouting team that spent £12m on Brereton and Gallagher and thinks Bennett should be anywhere near a Championship squad.

Defend from the front.

I wouldn't be surprised. The PL money has exploded in recent years. Remember when Rooney getting paid £300k a week was an outrage. Now it's the norm.

Joking aside, I'm sure our scouts know about these 16+ y.o. players who've been trained at elite Academies since they were 6. It's convincing Liverpool, Chelsea et al to loan them to you for a year. Our best Academy players are rejects from their Academies. The stranglehold they have on the game is insane.

Absolutely - as one of the people who has been pushing for Wharton to be involved with the first team next season, I'm all for him being moved on in January if he's clearly not up to snuff. It's a meritocracy after all, I just don't understand why he wouldn't be given a go considering his decent CV - it's a cloggers league, a young player who has done well in League Two should be viewed with a mild sense of excitement.

If he persists with one upfront it's got to be Armstrong, with Gallagher and Brereton fighting for the role off the bench. That said, if he's going to persist with one upfront he can't shoehorn Gallagher and Brereton to RW as neither can play it effectively.