Some of us apparently think Dack is on the bench, or out of the squad, for footballing reasons. JDT naively wants Dack out of the club in January, to use his wages to buy 2 quality Hedges-type players, and he knows that the only way to achieve this is to directly disrespect and frustrate Dack to the point that he asks for a transfer. As I say, it's naive, as Dack will hang on at least til the end of the season. It's pitiful to watch, but there is no way Dack will play more than a few minutes at the end of every game, Saturday's 20 minutes was the exception...

Ahhh.....it was Vale's fault that they should be 3 nil behind. Genius! We should have realised. Thanks for your insight and leadership, Jon.

Anyone, cheerleaders obviously excepted, who has watched Rovers live this season, predicted this. He was sooooo sure Vale was the answer that he left Wharton and Morton totally exposed which makes the defence nervous, and takes our front two totally out of the game. Bravo! Whatever you think of JDT, he can be so bloody clueless. I don't know what he bases his midweek away selections on but it certainly isn't how the players have performed in previous 1st team games. It seems to be based on a hunch, or maybe how they play in training. Clueless. Please explain and justify, someone......as he is now replacing Vale with Hirst. Ha ha ha. Clueless....

Who do you think JDT expects to break up or prevent the waves of Coventry attacks? Wharton? BBD? Bizarre......

Need Trav or Garrett alongside our midfield boys, and 99% of fans would agree with that. Doesn't mean we won't win, but the selection gives Cov hope, then momentum.....

So, is Pickering unfit? If so, he wouldn't be on the bench? If Pickering had played tonight, I'd be confident that we would keep a clean sheet. Without him, I'm nowhere near as confident. Trav is in to allow JDT to play another forward, which I would usually applaud, but this selection will invite Coventry onto us. More nervous than I should be. Last coupla Coventry attacks prove my point....

Just hope JDT doesn't expect Trav to do what Hedges does when he is RWB. That would be fun 🤣 Circumstance and selection, has given Coventry a chance, but we should be confident, take the game to them, and win. Game on!!!

The Vale selection is, for me, identical to the Hirst selection when he started. 'Here is your chance, take it or lose it'. I had seen nothing to justify Hirst's selection, and I have seen little from Vale to justify this selection. In fact, when Vale plays, he has lost the ball a number of times resulting in swift attacks for the opposition. When everyone except Chaddy predicted the outcome of the Hirst experiment, based on all available evidence, we were all proved right. I think the Vale selection will split opinion, although the available evidence suggests that Vale will struggle, and be replaced after 65 min. I hope he proves us wrong, or at least understands that he needs to hold and keep the ball and bring into play his senior colleagues. Dolan would do a lot of running to protect the exhausted BBD, and Vale will need to do the same. My worry is that Diaz will have to run more to protect Vale. This a big risk for Saturday. COYB!!!!!!!!!!!!

JDT said he needed a rest post-match Saturday, so every possibility he'll get the last 30 min, rather than the 1st, and only if we are not winning. That will allow Szmodics to retain his place. Who knows...😃?

I'm happy with this, should exorcise the ghosts of Wigan, Cardiff, Reading etc... Know its the wrong thread but still think the club should be doing more to advertise Saturday's brilliant pricing, which includes under 18's for £3....

So, thoughts on yesterday. I agree Gally had one of his better games, although feel like he was able to move up a gear as it was his former club, which might answer why he often drops below that level. Looking back at the 1st half comments, Travis received some criticism, but after saying earlier that I was worried about his passing ability unless he plays alongside Wharton and Morton, I was happy that he was back to breaking up attacks and passing it simple, which in the main he did well. We have not been solid at the back all season, which includes our midfield defensive contribution. When teams like Sunderland and Brum take control, Morton and Wharton can go missing, and our defence isn't able to calmly and clinically mop us, as we were doing at this time last season, although van Hecke was a big reason for that defensive stability. If we can score twice, it seems to be enough to win, however much we are overrun in the 2nd half. If we can add defensive stability I predict we will be promoted, but as I always say, that's a very big 'if'. We are getting away with playing our academy starlets more than other teams do, and this will only improve the squad strength. Kaminsky's performance reminds us that we need to sign a decent back-up keeper in Jan. Finally, I hope The club starts to do a better job of advertising the much reduced ticket prices for the next home game. I couldn't find details anywhere. If everyone knows about this by this week, we could have close to 20000 on. A good initiative.

I really think Brittain must start more or less every game. Trust me, when he has a run of games, we will see just how creative and effective he is. You can't drop Hedges after his MoM performance on Tuesday, so Pickering must warm the bench. I'm worried about Travis interrupting our generally positive forward-thinking flow, with his crass inability to think quickly and select an accurate forward pass. I know you will say that's not his game, but it needs to improve if he wants to play every game. I still think the future is Travis, Wharton & Morton in midfield, with Gally and BBD up front.This allows Travis the easier job of breaking up attacks, and making simple 15 yard passes to our 2 starlets. Who knows what JDT will surprise us with today, but I fear Pickering will return at the expense of our best full-back/wing-back. Glorious day for a wander down to Ewood. COYB!!!

Brilliant effort. As others have said, the Fox & Hounds on the McDonald's roundabout, has loads of screens, even outside on this beautiful day, and although busy, you will be served quickly. Only 1 minute walk to the ground. Enjoy!

Increasingly this season we have grown slowly into games at Ewood, gradually asserting ourselves, and often overpowering teams in the 2nd half. Interestingly on Tuesday we almost scored the second too early, which allowed Sunderland to throw caution to the wind, which we struggled to contain for 15 min. We seem to learn game on game from these experiences, at home at least, and JDTs experiments have more chance of working with the 12th man/woman behind us. I really enjoyed Tuesday, I think we were all inspired by the work-rate (and now a bit of quality) of Hedges and Szmodics, so if they can add consistency to the mix, and we can re-inforce in January, we could have a good season. A hell of a lot of big 'ifs' there, especially for anyone who witnessed the preceding 4 or 5 genuinely impotent away debacles. The expression roller-coaster season is over used, but it exactly sums up our last few months. Interesting that the Mowbray return was over-shadowed by our pure interest in the latest edition of the 'project', although I enjoyed watching his increasingly resigned body language. Hedges, Travis, Morton, and Co. could now step up with the odd goal, and I am sooo keen for us to retain BB & Gally as a front 2, although this needs the wing-backs to provide constant width. I really can't wait.....

So, I think we should win on Saturday, esp with hopefully 500 more on the gate to back the team. My only concern is that Birmingham are the opposite to the last few teams that have visited Ewood. They have at least 2 forwards who will gleefully snap up the kind of chances created by Rotherham, and other teams who create good chances but luckily can't hit a barn door. What they are not as good at is defending and creating those chances for Hogan & Deeney. So, will be interesting. These are the games that the teams that are promoted consistently win, so we'll see. I really hope we get a few more through the turnstiles, it makes such a difference. COYB.

This will give QPR a real boost. We need to match their results to stay in the top 2.

I'm all for promotional pricing, but our matchday prices are already cheaper than most of the Championship prices, and many of the League One matchday entry prices. As I said, we have 1000+ going to the pub or paying for a Now TV or Sky Pass. What A Night ! ! !

We sung and chanted about Burnley a lot more when we were vastly superior to them in terms of League position, and dominance. The rest of the ground, and opposition fans, have heard the Blackburn End a lot more recently. The raison d'etre of the BB End, for me, is to generate the atmosphere, that the rest of the ground continues. The atmosphere generates around 10 points per season. Please sing about Burnley, or any motivational subject, to ensure the players hear it. It is vital. Everyone is welcome to join the singers, and influence their choice of songs, and chants. The Jack Walker and Riverside are soooo much more vocal when the BB End are leading the singing...

Was around 3,700, very impressive by any standards. That means there were 11,000 Rovers fans, and 300 or so season ticket no shows. We really need a thousand or so floaters to understand that this matchday experience is better than their mates tell them it is, and certainly better than masturbating over the red button. There are 1000+ Roves fans who consider going to the game but decide to spend £12 on Now TV, or spend £20+ watching it in the pub. Please don't reply to this if you are unable to get to Ewood, for whatever reason, this isn't directed at you. It is a genuine, top class, sporting experience, and it is on your doorstep, for the price of a few pints. It may be the final piece of the jigsaw..

This is the kind of analysis that I want to see from the posters on here who feel that criticism of our play, and of JDT is unfair. All I hear is how the criticism is unfounded, and how the project needs more time. Please back up this criticism with some footballing, tactical analysis of what you are seeing in our away performances that makes you so positive that we are on the right track. These away performances are worse than under TM, so please share with us what green shoots we are missing.

I don't think that it is logical to say that it is somehow acceptable and understandable to play this consistently poorly away from home, in the name of patience and 'project wagebill-reduction'. I know it is becoming clichéd to say this, but it really is the definition of mental shortcoming to endlessly repeat the same action, and expect a different outcome.... The half-time substitutions had a brief impact but as soon as Wigan adjusted to the changes, we were again ineffective, and I believe this is because we do not have a plan or tactical system to swiftly, or slowly, move up the pitch, passing the ball around the opposition and progressing towards their penalty area. Cardiff, Reading, Wigan et al all had a plan and system to do this, and therefore made it into our penalty area numerous times, and scored. We look like men at home, and boys away, and JDT doesn't seem able to recognise this at the moment, so will continue to think it may change, magically. Depressed of Blackburn saying good night. Keep calm and don't kick the dog, or anything else...

What's your honest take on our away performances since 6th August? And our ability to make changes both between and during games, to improve our chances?

I didn't see a single comment on here tonight, agreeing with or praising the selection of Hirst, but you can be sure that there will be criticism of those of us daring to venture that we haven't yet seen a player in him. No-one knows whether he will make it at this level (although most of us think it looks unlikely), but what we do know is that to play him in the starting eleven right now is not a footballing decision, or at least not one that has much interest in whether we win games or not.

What's your honest take on our away performances since 6th August? And our ability to make changes both between and during games, to improve our chances?

The end of the Dack era is not just a footballing decision, JDT desperately wants his wages to fund an already earmarked purchase in Jan. Dack will only go if he feels unwanted, so JDT must make him feel lonely and belittled, to make the deal happen in Jan. We will have lost quite a number of away games due to this little feud/stand-off before Brad is sold for £750,000. JDT will play literally anyone ahead of BD, to ensure he's not here in Feb.