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From what I remember Rovers have a good record generally against the north-east teams, particularly away from home (no doubt some statto will correct me) so hopefully this will be the case against Boro. Another point wouldn't be bad and probably the best we can hope for until the likes of Tronstad and Rankin-Costello come back. Eustace will also have had a full week to work with the players so he has no excuses this time on getting his ideas across and putting his playing philosophy into practice. I'm on a good run with predictions having got 4 in a row spot on so I'll go for a 1-1 draw

Szmdics is a late developer and has got better with age but he's now at a stage when his age will be a problem for top clubs and they will not be willing to part with decent (from our point of view) money. I can't see him leaving for more than £5 million and even that might be wishful thinking

To be fair to old Tony, we did have some top loanees in his time. Elliott, Tosin and Harwood-Bellis were top class players. Branthwaite didn't shine but is now highly regarded as a future England player It has to be said the current lot are a poor bunch.

We signed another crock around that time - Martin Britt from West Ham for £25,000 a lot of money then. His cruciate had gone IIRC

Absolutely marvellous But far too long for the Netflix generation Can you do a T20 version?

That's 4 in a row absolutely spot on. Time to take this betting lark seriously

Wouldn’t it be best to post this after/if we’ve won?

Neil Warnock is available again after stepping down at short notice at Aberdeen. It's never too late

Powder puff midfield.

As in, heads Gallagher is useless, tails he's overpaid and useless? Come on

One of the all-time greatest games at Ewood in living memory Never understood how we managed to keep Sir Roger all those years.

Pretty good effort for such a long journey. In the good old days they'd have come by special train, with windows on the way up but no windows on the way back

Bazball works for flat track bullies but gets found out against the better teams and players who stick to the time-honoured Test match virtues of crease occupation and solid defence. But for one extraordinary innings from Pope this would have been a 5-0 whitewash. Reading the papers it seems Stokes is leading this attack at all costs mantra as much as McCullum. With an away Ashes series on the horizon it's time for a rethink because it won't work down there either.

Why do folk think that relegation might lead to some sort of awakening in India - that it might lead to them acting on some way, or even selling the club? There's no guarantee that relegation - and another relegation to L2 - might be a catalyst for anything. In all likelihood, they will carry on running the same way, with minimal interest, minimum funding and certainly no engagement with supporters. BRFC has been placed in the Venky's bottom drawer - to be looked at perhaps once a year and the returned into the same dusty file for another 12 months or so. They don't care, because their arrogance does not allow them to admit they have made a huge mistake in buying the club in the first place.

McCullum and Stokes need to rethink strategy - the gung-ho Bazball approach has been exposed.

Must win = must not lose for me. A point from every game and we will probably survive In view of our difficulties scoring and conceding soft goals I'd take another 1-1

Most relevant sentence from that article "The CEO, who has also come under fire from supporters, also revealed the club have no longstanding or overdue debts. In fact, the club are hopeful of ending the year in profit, based on current forecasts" So, in other words, the prospect of relegation and fans sick with worry don't matter - Waggott will be trousering his bonus on top of his £300,000 plus salary.

India 104-0 in 20. This could get embarrassing

Another horrendous surrender. "England Collapse" should be the England cricket team's official title

Keep taking those pills, matey. They dull the Rovers pain

37 year old (?) who's been playing alot of games recently and they're probably catching up with him

That's it for me. They don't seem to care The West Brom away game in the last days of JDT's reign was a case in point. The whole lot of them spent 90 minutes jogging around going through the motions Yet put them in front of TV cameras and Premier League opposition and they pull their tripe out As I said last night, they're cheating the club and the fans

Tomasson has been negotiating his exit (and talking to Sweden) since before Christmas according to reports I reckon Rovers had Eustace had lined up from then - hence his swift appointment after JDT left Rather than a panic choice he appears to be a planned appointment....... via Coventry

Total contrast to last Tuesday when every player gave their all for 120 minutes This lot are capable of putting in the effort when they want to but they clearly couldn’t be arsed tonight They’re cheating

He’s had time to make his mark now and I see nothing that justifies his appointment It’s also becoming obvious why Birmingham got rid of him