philipl

We could be 10 points clear at the top and we would still lose at home to Stoke.

Is an upgrade on Brittain.

Kargbo abysmal. Thanks to big club 100th minute equaliser we are outside the bottom 3 on goal difference over a club that doesn't pay its players. From the Rovers TV angle, both the 87th and 88th minute incidents were clear penalties we weren't given.

Expose? Which one???? They could run one a day for at least a week. Andy Cryer sent a welcome message of solidarity. Now there is a gentleman who went through a lot when covering the Rovers. I will repeat myself, the club statements offer no room for compromise. A very dangerous game for the club to be playing. Gestede may not know the extent of the skeletons littering Ewood since the start of 2010. Find it difficult to believe Pasha doesn't know at least 80% in which case this ban is both reckless and desperate.

Yes but if the River Darwen is running high after a Friday deluge, the drainage would still be waterlogged the day after....

Need to get points on the board. The Stoke game could be at risk of a water logged pitch.

Swansea have some very dangerous forwards. We will get a real hammering if we play like we did at the Valley.

Players gave Val a really special early 50th birthday present yesterday.

Catastrophically bad defeat. Charlton weren't good but we were terrible. Rovers were a bunch of cast offs playing like cast offs today. Management of the team looked just as woeful.

Dawn Dunn- a relative of David?

So the red card stands. What about the yellow cards for our players?

Usually when one side escalates like Rovers have done, they have an end goal and amicable resolution in mind. Something about this tells me the club doesn't have such a position planned and has opted for a brittle uncompromising stance. The tone of the statement gives the club no out and more importantly puts the LT in a position of having to fight it it is to retain editorial integrity and readership credibility In which case something breaks... The demand that away clubs deny the LT reporting rights also looks desperate and ineffectual. I hope Charlton tell Rovers this is not their fight and honour Elliot Jackson's press credentials.

And most fans thought the LT were treating the club exceptionally gently.

As things stand, the Premier League looks to be a lot more even this season outside Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, City and perhaps Spurs which seems to be producing less attractive football than in previous seasons. My gut feel is clubs are taking more of a safety first approach making games a lot more sterile. The Championship on the other hand seems wildly unpredictable so far.

Don't be daft. The pitch was utterly unplayable. The ball stopping and not bouncing was a recipe for serious injury to players on both sides whether from stretching for an unexpected deviation in ball trajectory or players being unable to stop in an attempted tackle or intervention and accidentally wiping out an opponent.

If we lose this, it would need Southampton and Derby to pick up unlikely looking points with Oxford and Watford having winnable home games and we would be in the bottom 3 on Saturday evening... I can remember a dire 3-0 defeat at the Valley when Rovers produced one of the worst performances I have ever seen when a win would have kept us in with a sniff of promotion some 40 years ago. In a cheery mood this morning!

Pears and two other subs?

Rovers letting in 3 after the 90th minute in our last two home games before Ipswich rather undermines our case to be given the points.

Hull 3 Southampton 1 and Bristol City 1 Oxford 3- both very well deserved results show what a treacherous league this is this season.

Charlton a well organised outfit. We ought to have too much for them but it will be a right scrap. Kaminski has made a good start with them, JRC less so.

Don't know if relevant to yesterday but I believe Pasha relented and we did get the woven pitch installed.

Caddy, you are away with the fairies on this one. That pitch became totally unplayable beyond the 75th minute

Reaching the point in my recovery at which I can tolerate watching some Championship football. Just a bit.. None of the relegated trio look impressive- all seem to have recruited badly but nobody else as badly as Sheffield United have done. 🤑 None of the promoted trio should struggle. Charlton look the best balanced and are good enough for JRC to be absent. Wrexham and Birmingham look good enough to beat anyone but not (yet) gelled into the sort of outfits that grind out promotion winning results week in, week out. Coventry should have won at Leicester and they alongside Bristol City, Preston and Swansea have impressed me the most as carrying a forward line that can really cut through the opposition. Stoke look to be able to ride their luck (except at QPR) while Boro are efficient and competent rather than frightening - a team full of Callum Brittains if that makes any sense! Wide open this year. Interesting to hear what others think now we are 6 (5 for us) games into the season.

Under 18s won 8-3 at Liverpool

Was there that night. The penalty against us was as diabolical as any I have seen. As for the pitch, the drainage now is better than it was in those days but that was our undoing yesterday. After the 75th minute the drains and under soil structure flooded by the rising water table- It was why forking it was pointless and actually counter-productive. I bet the surface looks immaculate when Swansea and Stoke come to Ewood.