Wahlstedt was cheap and he shows it. Another costly mistake to add to all the others. We’ve had some poor keepers on recent years and he’s another to add to the list. How many points have Pears and this guy thrown away between them?

Just because he’s free doesn’t mean we should sign him. I’m not convinced by this player at all and today was another case in point.

Classic Rovers. Bigger crowd, much excitement, early goal, then blow it. Seen it so many times before. The season is rapidly going downhill.

That’s an odd lineup. Lots of square pegs in round holes. Why is Hill on the bench? I’d be surprised if we get anything out of this but who knows. Time for Ennis to step and show what he can do

Make that 1960s. Plenty of red and white scarves heading off from Blackburn bus/rail station red to Manchester on a Saturday

Fantastic effort and well done to all involved to get a bumper crowd in today. Let’s hope the team don’t let them down. Any sort of win will do Talking of support from outside BwD in premier league days we had a substantial support on the Fylde I know a few people from that area who were regulars at Ewood. We also had slot of fans coming in from the Furness/Lakes area. I don’t know whether that’s still the case.

At the risk of sounding like a Luddite I normally buy tickets for away matches by ringing up and having them sent out by post. Is that option now discontinued?

Lots of parallels with the rail industry RMT union leader Mick Lynch and disability and passenger groups led a successful campaign against the rail ticket office closures, forcing the government to tell the train operators to withdraw their proposals Ministers are preparing to allow private train companies in England to make greater profits if they succeed in boosting passenger numbers . In other words, give Maggott an incentive to get more bums on seats at Ewood and it might make him think and work a bit harder and boost his £300k salary

As above

Mike Graham is on this thread - he replied to a post of mine denying there would be staff cuts

Taking the "reduce the club’s carbon footprint and help tackle climate change" to its logical conclusion then Ewood Park should be closed to all supporters because cars and buses and trains carrying fans to matches are polluting the planet. Perhaps that is the long term plan. Shut Ewood and sell the stadium and land off, play matches at Brockhall (or Pleasington) and televise games into homes on pay per view. The club saves millions and management rake it in Brian Clough predicted years ago that football would in the end be played behind closed doors because television would kill off live support. He was wrong about that but maybe the corporate types are having another go via a different route.

Keep saying it but this is similar to the government's railway ticket office closure plan (since abandoned after protests). They don't mind losing customers (passengers) if they can make more money out of the existing ones by cutting costs. This is so wrong on so many levels and another own goal by the club.

"Eco-friendly initiatives" = cost-cutting measures Let's call it right

How to lose longstanding and loyal fans without trying - refuse to let them in Many folk who hate "digital" - not just older people - won't bother going. This is plain stupidity on the part of the club Network Rail have had to backtrack on their ticket office closure plan after strong protests, including from trade unions. Do Rovers fans care enough?

Easy. Cost cutting. This is the Rovers equivalent of Network Rail trying to shut ticket offices. If it's successful (which Maggott is bound to claim) he'll try it again

You have to laugh at being accused of making “bi-polar” reactions by someone who then describes the performance as “shite” 😁 Southampton away was always going to be difficult even with a full strength squad to pick from and the surprising thing was the number of folk who on our current form and state thought we were going to win down there. Some really ought to take their blue and white tinted specs off. More important now is how we bounce back from this - or otherwise. The players have to cut out the individual errors and the manager has to get them competitive and in the right frame of mind from the first whistle, which we clearly weren’t yesterday

That's a right old drubbing and seems to fair reflection of the game. I really don't understand why so many folk thought we had a chance today and why they also thought Martin is a poor manager There's too many mistakes in this Rovers team, silly individual errors that lead to soft goals. I still think this is Tomasson's last season. He's done as much as he can with the thin resources he's been given to work with

Correct, 4-0 is more realistic

Beats me why so many on here were predicting a Rovers win - this was inevitable

Better with Travis on the right, don't you think?

Division One defending and National League goalkeeping. Not good enough On past form, that's that for today folks

Brittain should be right back and Hill centre half with AN Other (good player) in Brittain's place farther forward

It means he's a defender playing out of position because of lack of alternatives and when he's presented with a chance his natural instinct is not to shoot

The point is, they're square pegs in round holes. It doesn't work

Fielding a full back in Brittain on the wing and Sigurdsson up front sums up this threadbare squad and patch-up-and-mend team. . You have to feel sorry for the manager