Will be great to get him fit. Still only 19/20 and was probably seen as the main signing in the summer until Armstrong. Seemed to have made a huge impression at Burton last season in the Championship.

Both especially the way Hull play.

I will add Garner's five v Derby and Garner away against the great Ipswich side in the early '80s which we lost 4-3. The then England central defence of Osman and Beatie couldn't cope with him. Scott Sellars put in some stunning performances but a game against Leeds comes to mind. Duncan McKenzie v West Ham in 1979 Tony Parkes put in some shifts for Rovers too. Remember him dominating Palace in a 3-1 win Christmas 1977. Trying to remember a cup game against first division opposition in which Noel Brotherston was unplayable against.

We have 40 points from 28 games and I will be disappointed and surprised if we don't keep this rate of points accumulation going which points to 66 points. Given we have played twice against three of the top four already, we have got cuter about conceding after the 70th minute and we have a couple of youngsters emerge like million pound signings since Christmas, 70 points is probably par now. Whether we can push that on to 76 points+ to get into the play-offs is probably too much to ask so I am sticking with prediction of finishing 7th.

At least we don't have an away end which looks like this stadium in Malta.

We had this when we were in the Premier League. We even had a coach travelling from Gloucester to every game.

Fig leaves all round...

This thread is missing a certain something without Chaddy

Not around yesterday and not seen any video so relying on written reports. Job done and upwards we go! Great to see the strength in depth in the squad at Championship level in our first season. Reaching the point where players obviously good enough to play in most Championship teams are not even going to come on as sub. And there are more gems coming through from the youth set up if what I am reading on here is correct. I will be controversial and say we don't NEED any signing to come in this window. It is all about snaffling players who could transition to the Prem if there are any around Rodwell-esque. If Edwards is available on loan, I'd bring him in from Ipswich. As for Ipswich, I'd be worrying about League 2 in 20/21. Clubs which drop like a stone tend not to hang around in the division below. They either find they enjoy beating poorer clubs and bounce or they carry on the habit of losing. Everything I read about Ipswich suggests they won't have the quality gap in League 1 Wigan Rotherham and ourselves enjoyed.

Hull City are on fire at the moment playing the best football in the league. Will be an enormous test for us that one. Need to get the three points on the board against Ipswich.

Will probably be magic roundabout everywhere 28th to 31st. Having said that, volume of transfer activity is down globally for the past two windows.

The feed was completely stop start. Had plenty of still views of the shirt!

The BT feed was the worst signal I have ever experienced from an English game. This was watching in a bar with multiple legitimate channels and every one was rubbish. Finally seen the Joselu goal on a clean screen. The only excuse for the linesman was he was so far offside during the build up to the shot he was out of his peripheral vision. Seriously, Joselu made next to no effort to get himself onside and his stare- not glance- back at the linesman said guilty. Such a shame Graham and Brereton missed such fabulous chances but you put those away or Premier League sides punish you. Crowd looked and sounded good on TV and Rovers did themselves no harm after the wobbly opening. First goal was good fortune but if you don't smack it, you don't get lucky. Rovers don't shoot from distance enough for my tastes. If you are willing to take a pop, defenders need to come out more to block creating holes behind them.

Excellent preview. Ipswich will not make it easy for us but it is essential for us to win to keep momentum and fans' belief going. Rovers need to press them from the first whistle. Ipswich league record to date is: P 27 W 3 D 9 L 15 F 22 A 46 GD -24 Pts 18 Add in their Cup results- Knocked out by Exeter and Stanley and they have been defeated in 17 out of 29 competitive games this season. Of course 2 of those 22 goals scored in 27 games were against us... Even so, no excuse at all for us to be set up defensively because they let in goals for fun at the back. We righted two dropped points earlier in the season against Millwall last Saturday so surely we should/must also put Ipswich to the sword. Let's score early and often...

Enjoyable game. Premier League class won through but we could have nicked it. When you look at our injured and ill list we were 7 or 8 players down. Disagree there is nothing to play for- only 6 points off 6th means there is plenty to play for. Should be a fun last 19 games.

Well that was quick. Too busy celebrating the 432-202 result.

Rodwell, Downing, Dack all ill.

Not on iFollow tonight

Benitez talking down Newcastle- https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46790119 Beware!

Yes you are right. Only the Premier League don't have fixtures scheduled for 4th round weekend now.

Pathetic Rovers turn out at £10 a ticket.

Is there anything in Blackburn besides Rovers these days?

Feeling really excited about this game (and Hull in ten days' time). Chance to measure ourselves again. Just wish there were going to be a monster crowd.

We will have to improve against bottom end teams. We have only beaten one each of the teams away at the 7 worst home records and home to the teams with the 8 worst away record.

I didn't know Pep had said the same thing. I am sure he also agrees with me that rain is wet- statements of the bleeding obvious. What players are currently available for sale or loan? Remember if they are no better than what we have, there is no point getting them so we are looking for Championship promotion winners. Only 16 other clubs (and one or two Prem clubs) looking for the same rare beasts.