JamieUK

Re Lawrence Shankland...

Buckley returned to light training 2 weeks ago. I expect he'll be back in February? In terms of numbers I'd say we have enough to get through to the end of the season - Tronstad, Garrett, JRC, Ayari, Buckley. Chrisene can also play there. Questions over the quality but there are other areas of the pitch to look at before midfield for me.

If only it was that simple... It's been discussed to death on here but the ticket office closes at 5pm so you'll need to buy one online... 😕

Gilsenan reminds me of Harry Chapman. A lot of hype from the fans and at a young age. There looks to be something there when on the pitch but for whatever reason, chances have been minimal. I wouldn't be surprised to see him end up at the same level and not fulfilling the potential. Lets hope not.

Admin. My only fear if/when that comes is will we lose the academy? It's still the one glimmer of hope that's left. Though I suppose it would be fitting that as Venkys lose control of the club they also f... us out of that too. One last hurrah.

Give over. He went out on 2 separate occasions - I've not noticed any other players do that this season or any of the other subs yesterday. They do a warm down after full time. They forgot they made a sub in the first half. It's a shit show from top to bottom.

I think it sums up the circus when Harry Leonard went out to warm up twice after we'd made 5 subs. Everyone's heads have gone - management and players - it needs a change.

Most of those were his second touch.

I don't expect we'll see any ins or outs until after this court case - spend money and there'll be an argument of why do you need to send this much if you have money for transfers. Sell players and bring money in = why do you need to send this much when you've just recouped £x.

If only we'd recently signed some left back cover 🤔

Re Hayden Carter - When he was being treated they heavily strapped his ankle and foot to restrict movement - to me it looked like he'd rolled it. He was struggling for a while before signalling to the bench and going down. I think if we'd had options on the bench he'd have come off.

Hope to be proved wrong but I can't see Carter being fit for this and the Rovers comms on Saturday thought S Wharton would need to sit out 7 days if concussed. Whalstedt Travis Hill Pickering Brittain Tronstad Wharton Moran Szmodics Dolan Leonard Through form and injuries the team picks itself for me.

Approximate starting appearances in the Championship for the team last night - tells it's own story, especially the bench. 7 - Wahlstedt 56 - S Wharton 7 - Hill 170 - Travis 27 - Brittain (+37 for Barnsley) 43 - Szmodics (+40 for Peterborough/Bristol) 7 - Moran 7 - Sigurdsson 23 - A Wharton 7 - Tronstad 63 - Dolan 0 - Hilton 0 - Atcheson 0 - Gamble 0 - Batty 4 - Garrett 6 - Leonard 5 - Markanday 0 - Ennis 0 - Telalovic

The arseholes have put netting over the padded seats upto row 13 and have 2 external security grippers at the bottom. Presumably to protect Waggott from getting any stick. He'll be in there GB has just come out. Edit. Or not. Looks like he's bottled it which says it all.

The ticket system will feed into the website rather than the other way around - they're able to sell tickets over the phone and in person but with the online channel down it will put more pressure on the ticket office. The next amateur-hour move has been made - emails have gone out with pre-match info but full of broken images because they're linking to the rovers.co.uk hosting 😕

The website's not working because there are no records telling the domain where to route traffic (the A record and MX records are missing). If it was a problem with the DNS provider (the company that controls those records) they could simply update the nameservers on the domain to somebody else and reinstate them. It does take a while to propagate but no longer than an hour or two. It's straightforward to remove then re-add records. You'd think 'surely not' but it is an easy way to stop/slow down sales to fit the narrative of closing the Blackburn End whilst blaming technical issues. I expect there'll be people here who have more insight but that's my take.

If anyone does wish to give him a bit of stick he usually sits on the BBE side of the closed centre seats - around row 10. You'll be able to walk along the row of padded corporate seats and be a few feet away from the incompetent arse hole 👍

Thoughts from walking the dog but I think most have been covered: 1) Time is well overdue on starting with the new GK - 11 goals conceded in 4 games 2) Adam Wharton's value is dwindling playing how we are. We forget his age - he still needs managing and taking out. Unfortunately the ideal replacement is at Sheffield Weds 3) How does Dolan continue to get minutes? Please can we try someone else there - Gilsenan, JRC, Batty, anyone.. 4) They can't continue with this brand of football / shape. Reminds me of the period before Christmas (I think) when we got dicked against Burnley & North End. We then went with 3 in the middle and looked a lot better - time to shore up. 5) As much as I like JDT, the blame is starting to land on him. He's the best manager the club has had in years but we're trying to play a style that doesn't suit the players available. Is this to prove a point? I don't think it's sabotage but what is it? Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? 6) Linked to 5 - why didn't we go into the game with the same set up and mindset as the Watford game? We don't have the players to come in to the same positions to change how things are going and for me there's going to need to be a tactical change if we're to pick up points from Leicester and Coventry. oh one more, need a positve... 7) Bradley Who? Really impressed with how Sammie Szmodics has stepped up this season. Despite the history and sentiment he is showing it was the right decision to not renew BD's expensive contract in the summer

Jesus 😕

Missed in your post is that Stoke were playing in the Premier League in 2018 - of course they're going to have slashed their Premier League wage bill in that time.

Wahlstedt Buckley Gamble S Wharton Pickering Tronstad Garrett Moran Markanday Gallagher Gilsenan

Was fairly amused on Friday at Fleetwood when How Much Is The Fish? was played before the teams came out.

Just back. Absolutely no width - each time the ball got to either side, 9 times out of 10 it was cut back and go onto the stronger foot. Crying out for either proper wingers or proper sided fullbacks who overlap. With the side tonight though there was neither. It was all too predictable at times. First half was dire, last 40 minutes much better but lacked anything up front. Wasn't impressed with Tronstad. Yes he kept trying a shot but none looked like going in. Gave the ball away in dangerous positions with sloppy passes. The lad who came on for him Charlie Weston looked better though he was a different type of player popping up all over. Thought he stood out more than when I've seen Jake Garrett. Szmodics probably the best player - seemed most things went through him when he turned it on. Defence is sound with JRC, Carter, Hyam. Brittain not the answer at left back if we're not playing a left footer in front of him. Gallagher was Gallagher - a lot of running, had a header saved very well and hit the post but he's too much of a 'nearly' man. I'd love him to hit 20 goals this season but more often than not we see he's the wrong side of those fine margins. From that starting XI I see Kaminski, JRC, Carter, Hyam, Szmodics as good enough to be regulars in a top 6 side. Add in Adam Wharton, possibly Pickering but for me we're still nearly half a side away.

The U21s have the second worse record at home in the league. Away they're fifth and have won the last 3. I get there's disappointment that a lot of fans won't be able to go but I don't think it's going to impact the team too much.

Pockets of Bumley fans celebrating in the corporate seats. Next to me around row 15 a youngish lad was cheering after the goal, He was told to fuck off by a few people then others took it past words and started throwing punches. My big gripe here is on that stairwell they've got an old dolloper as steward backed up by a short woman. It was clear before the game started the padded seats were full of their fans - saw loads taking photos of the away end and another guy on the phone waving to someone in there. They needed proper security there. The lad shit it - he wasn't a hooligan and the old steward and girl tried to get him out but they got followed on to the concourse where I saw him on the floor taking a few kicks. They managed to get him up and he wasn't hurt. After it was over around 10 coppers and security arrived. My big gripe is at Rovers here - the same shit happened against North End and they didn't deal with it then. They're happy to take 200+ people paying £100 a head and skeleton staff it. One Rovers fan got taken away by police and will no doubt get a ban when the situation should never have been allowed to happen.