The truth is we are used to having fantastic keepers year after year for decades, irrespective of what league we were in. Sadly this all ceased with Venkys. Like much else.

Chaddy Whitehouse!!! Love it!

I mix this one up then! I was there---sort of it seems!!

Can Lenihan and Tosin play every game?

And some are inconsistent.

A night match. Absolutely beautiful day and night and two sublime goals. Sigh!

True to a point! Definitely threw caution to the wind when he spent £12 million on two strikers who can't strike and when he gambled on Adebayaro and Lenihan staying fit for the season. So fair enough he can be reckless.

Tell me---are we an attractive side to watch? Tony promised us excitement, we'd be watching "on the edge of our seats". He didn't mean we were counting the minutes till we could go home! And nobody is claiming we are the most attractive side to watch!! I wrote, in response to your stats; So in the previous 22 games we scored 29 goals with our best attacking players available! See what I mean? You didn't address that at all did you? I agree with Jim, we have quite a few out, TM has fewer options so we have a more settled side. So we are gaining more points. Just like I've been arguing all season!

Please don't!!

So in the previous 22 games we scored 29 goals with our best attacking players available! See what I mean?

Come on, we can all pick games where the line-up was too defensive, the wrong players were substituted for the wrong players, the games where we hardly had a shot the whole game and the games where we were behind or level but didn't mount a siege of the opposition's goal for an equaliser/winner. In addition, his total disdain for wingers is a sign of defensiveness in itself. if you're not convinced that TM is ultra cautious, then that's your opinion and you're welcome to it. Surprising we're not selling out the ground if we are so attractive to watch!

I laughed when people referred to us being only 3 points out of the play-offs! If the fixtures had been reversed and we'd played on a Wednesday and the others played on Tuesday we'd have been 9 points behind! At that point do we say "its impossible"?! We're back at our usual 6 points and that's where we've been just about all season.

Brereton showed his usual lack of control in that incident though. Was a sitter but his first touch was atrocious and the ball bounced away from him. Absolute stone-wall penalty I agree. If we'd still been 0-0 then there'd have been a riot (a little one!) Brereton at last showed something, let's hope its a sign of the future and let's hope he never plays on the wing again.

It was a "prim and proper" comment from Chaddy alright! Odd!

Memories of Tugay eh? Can't put into words how much that player meant to me. Will we ever see his like at Ewood again? (playing for us I mean).

Just as some of us don't put loyalty to Mowbray over common-sense.

Are you seriously contending that TM is not an over-cautious manager? Mind-boggling if you are.

Sorry, I should have written “much” of your time.

Well that's very bad news if we don't make it this season! I don't see why it would be 6 seasons at all. We were always knocking on the door in the late 80's early 90's. I don't expect us to make the play-offs this season but I certainly don't expect us to wait 5 or 6 years. Club would be dead by then. If we have to wait that long under this managership, we should get another.

Aaaaargh!

Agree with others. Good No 2. Sloppy goals would be critical in a promotion run-in. If our aspirations only extend to mid-table then fine.

Don't mix loanees and permanent signings together though. They are not the same. The whole point of loanees is that, for a short period, you have players well above your usual options. That's not skilled recruitment. In any case we have had loanees who didn't work out eg Palmer.

Dack was a great buy but , like Maddison, he had no Championship experience when we signed him. Just like Maddison! You have to make projections about how a player will go in a higher league. If you don't, you will never sign a player from the lower leagues like Vardy! Waiting till he's free sounds OK but isn't it likely there will be intense competition for him in those circumstances.

Why spend most of your time on here slagging off other fans? Another one in same thread: Booing a player because he didn't sign for your club and then heading to social media to say how crap he was baffles me. Some Rovers fans, not unlike other supporter bases, are guilty of this. Same with Patrick Bauer, he's been great for Preston but you'll find quite a few who want to under egg how good he is for them, simply because he didn't sign for us.

Yes quite right, I'd base my assessment of Maddison on this one game and not sign him. I'd prefer a video collage of his best moments. Then I'd offer £7M.