I can't believe i'm reading this after the last few seasons when the main problem was messing around with systems and rotating according to opposition. Countless times the guy reporting for the local press got ten mins into an away game and still couldn't tell everyone who was playing where, nor was the formation actually was. Yes we need a plan B but most of the success this season has come from having a system that suits and sticking to it. What we really needed was another good goalscoring forward. For me though he needs to start with square pegs in square holes and shame thing up from the bench when needed. The use of subs recently has seen us back to predictable like for like changes and getting people on for the sake of it. There's nothing inventive about chucking Gallagher on on 60 mins and just hoping or throwing Hedges on as right wing back with not long left. That needs to improve.

Qpr never have up here but Millwall have had a thousand plus plenty times in the last decade. I can see a few making the trek to make that awful howl they come out with.

I think it's a result that stops the death spiral hopefully. Defend like that again Saturday and we'll get chances at the other end surely a goal or two is coming.

We don't sign strikers we only sign wide forwards.

The key to everything is scoring first and the earlier the better, For the best chance of this you need the best goal threats and creators on the pitch. GIles looks a good player, a lot of attacking is now coming through him but to date hes created nothing. We need to go back to what was working and also have that impact stuff available from the bench.

Used as he should be Gallagher can contribute and help this team. Used as Mowbray wants to use him he's more of a hinderence. This one is on the manager more than the player.

He did but then they tied to turn him into an apprentice Corry Evans which was never going to work. This season hes looked more like his old self but it seems hes been doing that much muck and bullets the other side of his game has suffered. If we played a different system you could maybe have Buckley with him as a poor mans Tugay and Savage. Not sure that works with the rest of this team though.

I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who can't grasp how much better Travis is than Lowe was. When you're looking for any available stick to beat with though.

Where's he going to play him though ? He's just yet another that wasn't signed for a specific job just to fill in in whatever place he's thrown on. This is the thing i feel Mowbray falls down on constantly and undoes some of his better work. He just cannot sign horses for courses and prefers 2 who can be chucked around the team rather than one who can slot his square peg into a square hole.

Good platform this now to kick on with a few home wins, defense back on song keeping it tight. That was needed so carry it forwards and get a bit more inventive up top and scrap the non false 9 Buckley for someone who can play there. By the way where is the JRC fan club ? Meanwhile the guy he can so easily replace slotted in effortlessly in a center position !

He hasn't got big enough balls to try something like that, the number of times we've been close to signing another decent forward. Then left it alone and gone for another utility type or two is ridiculous. Imo he's terrified of having to relegate Gallagher to a regular bench man, exactly where he should be and where he does his best work from.

Good point although i thought WBA were there for the taking. Mowbray really should have brought some fire power in to help our ONE regular goalscorer. Relying on Gallagher is like relying on a turkey to volunteer plucking and cooking itself for Christmas.

Looked quite comfortable that half but created nowt as usual yet restricted them as well. However Bruce will probably outsmart Mowbray 2nd half. Chances of him blaming everything on Nyambe and hooking him 1st chance he gets ? Evens.

Stats would be interesting on this and i know there's plenty times in past seasons where an unchanged or minimally changed side has gone on winning/unbeaten runs. I'd like to see how many times a team with 4 or 5 unforced changes has had the desired effect in comparison.

Looking out onto NO1 from high in the Jack Walker BBE side the impression i get is it looks better than it has done for years. Seems more vibrant and camaraderie than when i used to go in there anyway, you don't get the impression of it being toxic.

It was the single worst thing they ever did for football fans in this country by completely closing standing terraces. You see more kids and middle aged man childs wrecked on drugs and booze now than anytime back then. Why ? Because the craic as it was and should be has been taken out of it, can't stand with your mates and the more voiciferous and jump and and chant. Can't do this can't do that etc so they just tend to get wasted instead and that has become the rule of thumb for the day.

I'm surprised at the surprise they are so expensive as everything tends to be down there. I don't recall Fulham ever being cheap and given the area it's to be expected, also i presume home fans pay the same. Now if it was West Brom charging that i'd be spitting feathers. Yes it's too much for Championship football but they are very fortunate to be able to get away with it and still get full crowds in their tiny ground. It is though time for like for like pricing for the handful of their lot that usually make the effort up here, i think they paid £20 this season. They must have thought it was a steal off the pitch as well as on it.

What do you suggest instead Gav ? The Mowbray Walkway behind the JW stand complete Shankly style gates ....😂

Man gets statue just for doing the job he's been paid millions to do ! It's a funny old game.

If you go back 5/10/20 years you'd see the same reaction between fans and opposition keepers if they start gesticulating winding each other up. Certainly isn't right people overstepping the mark on the terraces but they'll get dealt with, equally it isn't right professionals being paid thousands to be professional engaging in this kind of thing. He picks the bottle up reports it to the ref and the ref reports it to the club/police and they look for the goon that threw it, job done situation diffused. He wanted to take on the BBE that was down to him nobody else so to try and totally absolve him for his part in something that could have got a whole lot worse is nonsense. From what a few Forest fans tell me he's a bit of a character so as always in life if you want to be the center of attention you deal with what it brings along.

I think Bruce will come in and just look at our weak spots and look to exploit them, probably not bother too much what we are going to do. In other words he won't crap himself at the prospect of playing the 3rd placed side at home but instead focus on revving up his own troops.

These young lads will always put a shift in and i think the prospect of another Fulham was the driving force the other night. What they need though and often lack is some clear direction and help from the sidelines. Not the same old subs for subs sake but some nous and thinking out of the box.

Correct. If they are issues that won't be aired then they shouldn't be mentioned sat all unless someone is dropping it in there to cover their own arse ! Crafty very crafty yet again.

20-25k would suffice and the atmosphere would be better but it is what it is and we've always had the fans (unlike Burnley & PKE). The trick in Blackburn has always been to get more in there who can afford it more often.

This is the knock on effect of the empty stadiums during the pandemic a lot of regulars have discovered the steaming and iFollow. Far too easy to sit the living room and save the money for the odd trek to Ewood or big day out at Wigan and the like.