He's been fantastic in his other CM cameos this season. It was a difficult game to come on in as Garrett didn't pull up any trees either - and they were left with Dolan and Markanday as outlets. Zidane would struggle with those two upfront.

He's clearly at the bottom of whatever striker list they drew up in the summer - he's a hopeful punt. He's going to need time to settle in - it's a big jump from where he was playing.

So how would you have improved the team with 15% less wage budget than the previous season whilst also having to generate £5m in transfer fees to keep the lights on?

It should have been 3-0 before the dodgy penalty (he had two chances to even up the score, but didn't blow for the foul on Leonard or Telalovic in the box). We hate Mowbray because he's a morose cunt.

You missed out Markanday - he's a good L2 player that can maybe play in L1. Why he's still here is beyond me.

No, he'll want to win as many games as possible for his CV.

To be honest I wrote off our playoff chances when the window closed without signing a striker (or another wide player tbh).

Another game where you're shaking your head all the way back to the car in amazement. How did we lose that? Did I hear that stat right - 17 shots in the box? Fuck me.

The match against PNE two years ago should have been postponed - that pitch was unplayable. The pitch failed to recover for months afterwards.

Ewood Park no longer has excellent drainage.

I do wonder if they'll start deploying Leonard out wide until he gains more experience - I think he's going to struggle to lead the line without electric pace / imposing size, but he's a good enough footballer to play at this level.

According to Swag we'd bought a new coach too...

The damage to the pitch will already have been done.

He didn't do anything wrong, but he didn't stand out. This is the whole point of the loan though - he needs to play 70+ minutes of Championship football every week to see if he can iron out those inconsistencies. He's not getting that chance at Ewood.

He's a #10.

No he didn't - he played him as an AML, but their RB (or RWB, I can't recall) was running rampant so Gallagher ended up defending for most of the game.

No. He tracked back both times, but Hoever is thrice the athlete so he couldn't keep up with him.

Maybe it'll become the new announcer's thing. I hope someone sat him down after the match and told him he doesn't need to shout - he has a microphone.

But it is f'ing shit. Might as well own it.

Why not?

I'd like to see some extended highlights, but I feel like he missed an equally bad header with an open goal in the second half too.

I thought it was a wonderful ball from Leonard. Telalovic did the right thing by going high (the GK rushed out), but just put it over.

I thought we absolutely battered them, but we couldn't finish our dinner. If this Telalovic isn't a gem we're in the same position as we were post-January last year - playing lovely football with nobody able to consistently put it in the back of the net. The chances Dolan and Gallagher missed were criminal.

Lucky in the sense that Dolan missed two open goals, Gallagher missed a regulation chance and we should have had a penalty? Not to mention their GK making three excellent saves.

Can anyone see the new Bosnian striker warming up? Looks like Markanday is on the bench - late injury / withdrawal?