Big enough for what? I never thought we’d go up and we are safe enough to not go down. i can remember quite a few windows where we didn’t sign anyone who was any good.

I think the number of season-ending injuries for first-teamers has been exceptional, I certainly can’t remember anything similar.

Can’t believe you didn’t mention Fryatt’s equaliser in the Man City cup tie Kamy - easily the highlight of a grim couple of years back then.

And, a bit like Rudy, it’s all “Jim, Jim, bang one in!” could do. If any old footballer was going to get Alzheimer’s, it was him.

Au contraire, I can only ever recall Ewood turning on managers who had us nailed on for relegation: Quigley, Iley, Kidd, Ince, Kean, Coyle. Maybe Saxton as well when we were footling around the bottom 3.

That’ll be Tosin, who I don’t think moved at all throughout!

Masterclass in naive defending by Nyambe for their goal. pic 1: ideal position: can see the ball and his man pic 2: Makes unilateral decision to push out for a non-existent offside trap pic 3: Out of position and in his heels as the shot comes in pic 4: Spectator

Fairly dire game enlivened by a terrific goal and an even better save. Best game yet for Bell while Nyambe’s defending was mediocre at best: rarely stops a cross coming in and I though was AWOL at the back post for the equalizer. Travis is easily our best midfielder and I thought it a good debut for Rankin-Costello, certainly didn’t look out of place. Draw was a fair result.

Not if he doesn’t buy better players, doesn’t pick them for months until they “learn how we play”, plays them out of position, picks Bennett and Bell alongside them etc etc. FFP means that transfer decisions today will impact transfers in Summer 2022 and all windows in between. I am hopeful we’ll have a better manager by then who can spend the money better. We were never going to go up this year no matter who we bought, too many average/inconsistent players, dodgy keeper, top scorer crocked etc etc,

If he’ll never get us promoted it doesn’t matter who he buys.

I’m confused as to how people who think Mowbray is a clown who will never get us promoted can be incensed he didn’t buy any players.... Of more interest to me is that on-one left. Our fringe players are not good enough for lesser teams and/or overpaid, our “stars” such as Lenihan/Travis are not attractive to bigger teams, and no-one dislikes Mowbray’s style enough to want to leave.

Can’t say as I’ve ever harboured much desire to be average in anything. Other than cricket, because I was hopeless at that! But you are no doubt correct. People who up sticks to another country almost by definition are optimists. Hopefully the improvement will be over the next 11 games versus the same timeframe last year. In fact, I think I’d be up for a wager on it....

Did those basket cases include many billionaire Indian dynasties? If not, I’d suggest that whatever insights you gleaned from the various butchers, bakers and candlestick makers you tried to salvage may not be totally applicable to our owners’ financial strategy.

Wasn’t top of my mind watching us beat a decent team tbh. Two league defeats in the last 13 games (three whole months) suggests “shambolic” to be a touch OTT.

Well I for one was happy that Bennett was brought on to help out Bell who was getting absolutely skinned by Samuel, not least because he was constantly left one-on-one. Despite our good play in the first half we were lucky not to go in 2-2 because of the problems down that side. And we won the game, the sole object of playing it.

Blimey that half was dire. I thought Bennett coming on was the right move, no-one got past Bell again. Nyambe however, for all the love on here, was absolutely awful defensively second half, completely at sea. Too many no-shows today, inconsistent players.

IFollow really is the pits: Norman Collier commentary then watching the game from within the QPR fans. Rothwell best player by a mile though it looked a stonewall penalty against him at the end there. Anyone know why Gallagher and Holtby didn’t come out?

Counting isn’t reading! ? 0-1 Stan Bowles winner, a greaser jumps out of the Blackburn End to kick their goalie in the nuts, and we get subsequently get relegated. Yes, it’s 1969 all over again.

3,000 posts on tombola, Bennett etc. instantly forgotten until next match thread opens. Personally I think Rothwell is a bit lucky to still be in the team. He needs some end product tonight to avoid getting the hook for his soon-to-be nemesis, JR-C

My rule of thumb is to ignore any posts that include the words “Chaddy”, “Tombola” and “£12 million” which miraculously results in a daily reading burden of 8-10 generally interesting posts. Back to transfers, Mowbray’s approach of giving out overly-generous contracts and allowing said lucky players to decide for themselves if they stay or go is an abdication of the term “management”.

Exactly, we are inconsistent partly because of the manager fiddling too much and partly because most of the players are quite capable of having shockers. Definition of a mid-table team.

Anybody else’s dad play in this St.Josephs team on Ewood in 1938?

It was St. Joseph’s, I just found my dad’s winners medal from the game in 1949.

Good to see Joe Rothwell neck and neck with Walton, Nyambe and Brereton on goals and assists from his 12.5 hours in the pitch. 0-0

Not even deemed a yellow. And it’s not like he had his head really low.