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I come here for the weather forecast. The football is incidental.

4th Manager in a decade about to sack the club?

Storm Bram planning to stage a pitch occupation protest against Venkys tomorrow night. In the unlikely event we get to the allotted 90+5 minutes goal for Oxford, this is a trickier opponent than their league position would suggest.

Also the factor of 48 games and counting to collect yellow cards in probably contributing to one or two additional suspensions. Wouldn't like to bet on yesterday being the last second half abandonment.

Call the Uber for 4.30...

We habitually lose to clubs at the bottom.

Both 90+xth equalisers came through poor defending in the left back position when holding a 1-0 lead albeit Wrexham leading to the corner from which they scored. Ribeiro is an accomplished left back, De Neve is on the pitch to run at and hopefully past opponents and a largely haphazard presence when in his own box.

Cost us 4 points this week bringing de Neve on instead of Ribeiro.

In the 4 minutes of injury time- The Ipswich long throw is taken from on the pitch with clear grass between touchline and back of the heel. Ref is stood 30 yards from where we are repeatedly shielding the ball in the corner and gives a goal kick when the ball clearly goes out off a ref sock after Cantwell clipped the ball onto the Ipswich shin. That was par for the entire game.

Again conceded from the hole De Neve left But The goal kick they eventually scored from was clearly another Rovers corner... Abysmal officiating all evening denied Rovers the comfortable win our superiority deserved.

We are playing Ipswich so the weather forecast is a month of rain in the next 24 hours...

So frustrating. Forshaw and Morishita were both excellent and the team played well overall.

Portsmouth and Sheffield United kicking off right now. We could be back in deep trouble before our game starts.

You don't fake Dolan's abilities. You coach him to produce his best consistently. Playing with and against much better players in La Liga is getting far more out of him than we did at Rovers. The experience might also be instilling the footballing brain that was all too often lacking at Ewood.

Random number generator needed to forecast which Rovers show up. We have beaten better than Wrexham and lost home to Norwich and Sheffield United. Don't have the same foreboding as I had pre-QPR and at least the fans will be solidly behind the lads and not as silent as Ewood.

Two Ismael clangers. Yet again the team has no first half energy or purpose. Hedges can play left wing back, De Neve can't.

Two utterly unpredictable clubs facing off. QPR mirrored our run of three wins with a run of three defeats having previously got to the fringes of the play-offs after recovering from starting their away campaign with a 7-1 tonking at Coventry. Expect anything from both sides. Impossible to predict this one except noting that if Ilias Chair is allowed to play well, QPR are a real handful.

Norwich v Oxford and Sheffield United v Portsmouth this midweek so a strong possibility of the cushion being 3 points and being mired in the relegation scrap if we continue our current home when QPR come to Ewood...

That's terrible. No pay on the gate?

Edwards has Wolves and Boro over a barrel. Probably presented his respective January recruitment lists to both and is awaiting answers.

Big job for VI facing a very physical side without the intended backbone of the squad. (Toth, Wharton, Carter, Tronstad, broken foot guy, Cantwell)

Puts Edwards in a strong position to dictate the January transfer window at Boro...

From 13 minutes- they see plans B, C and D from VI which completely bemused Cifuentes.

Bristol City supporter friend has texted me that they have a completely makeshift defense and midfield because of injuries and hoping we have no pace in our team.

Not a legendary player in the Souness mold but looking at his Wiki entry, not too shabby either- A centre-back, Ismaël played for Strasbourg, Crystal Palace, Lens, Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich and Hannover 96. As a player, he won the Coupe de France, the Coupe de la Ligue twice, the Bundesliga twice, as well as the DFB-Pokal on two occasions.