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.

Travis is excellent at what he does although he's capable of playing a bit more football probably but that isn't his job in this system. He just needs to cut back a bit on the silly needles fouls and handbags that prompts refs into blowing against the whole team all the time. This midfield is twice as competitive as any we've had in this league with the likes of tidier players like Evans and Holtby strolling around stealing wages.

I think outside the prem we probably have an ST ceiling capability of 10k without cheap initiatives then there'll always be 2 or 3 thousand walk ons. So the target is or has to be get back to ten thousand season ticket holders and get the walk ons walking on every game.

This is operation fill a quarter of the DE. Incidentally why was there a few dozen Forest fans scattered along the front of the lower tier the other night ?

Including you when you were slagging Waggot sorry Maggot off constantly.... 🙂

Read the post again.

£50 quid a ticket we won't get near selling out and get the usual panning for it. Lets just chase that second spot with all we've got.

Top potential but not ready for this Championship promotion gig yet.

Fantastic news. Now get him some proper back up because we are done for without him.

They don't use Gallagher as he could or should be used either which is puzzling. He came on the other night essentially as wide striker again. Hard to tell what was going on after a while because everybody is pilling forwards chasing the game but fact remains we don't get him and BBD into central positions attacking crosses. Same at Swansea so it was puzzling Mowbray saying we needed SG as there was good crosses flying across the box. Yet he'd have taken a wide player off to bring him on if available. It's these little things that make such a difference and our often missing from what actually happens on the pitch. Also we've improved on set pieces this season but my god don't get me started on free kicks. Might as well just kick them straight into touch and get ready for the goal kick, cut out the middle bit !

Yes i wouldn't knock their following if it wasn't for the willy waving of some of them they have very short selective memories. So a club getting 12 thousand home fans and taking 1k plus away is indeed pound for pound better supported than them.

Ewood has been so stale for so long that a bit of an old style blood and thunder atmosphere has people reaching new found levels of offence 🙄 I hated the result and the ref but i actually enjoyed it last night, i think last time some were that angry in the JW upper Kean was still flicking his tongue in the technical area.

Nothing worse than billy big balls clubs like that whose fanbase is as fickle as anyone else's. They are a bit like Boro the Forest lot it's not long ago they had sub 1k following up here for midweek. Down there their ground has often had 10k empty seats on show but because their gates are always bigger than ours it gives them a divine right to take the piss. Conveniently ignoring the difference in population and catchment area ie 300 plus thousand and virtually a whole county to draw from. Is under two thousand really so impressive by them all things considered ?

That guy is terrible and not just because it's easy to knock everything after a defeat. Constantly 'Get behind YOUR Blackburn Rovers' screeching at the top of his voice as if the crowd had been sat in silence. Last night it most definitely wasn't he sounds like he's addressing a primary school assembly.

Boos directed at the referee

100% this. When against 10 on Saturday he should have been moved forwards to have runs at them and try and get inside their ranks. Win free kicks etc instead we had wing backs and wide strikers getting crosses in to nobody and getting in each others way. Similarly when down to ten last night someone to run at them, hit them on the break and stretch them generally making up for the missing man. Rothwell was the man for that job but no we get the standard set of subs, sadly the first thing on TMs mind when it comes to this isn't tactical. It's just getting players on and involved where he can and hoping something drops.

Because he'll be easy to replace for a couple of hundred grand or the flimsy fragile kid from the U23s......

Our version of early bird would be getting them on sale in June.

Indeed it is it's fine lines even though things aren't dropping at the moment we are still a really tough side to play against. Had we got one early v Swansea as we should have done i genuinely think we could have taken them apart first half. We just need to dig out one good result from somewhere quickly to keep the wheels on.

One of NYambes main attributes compared to others is his sheer strength and iv'e seen nothing in Zeefuick to say he's better at anything. He's looked no better going forwards at all and certainly no better defensively although he's quick and competitive at least. Pretty obvious to me they had eyes on shunting Nyambe this window for a few quid and it hasn't happened. So now we have two guys almost identical and a manager who has to try and justify signing one of them. He ain't here to be left on the bench as back up that's for sure so he'll be in a different role again next match probably.