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Everyone at Rovers, except one person, refers to the club as “we”. That other person refers to VH Group as “we”.

Absolutely not true. Waggott has been broaching the subject of bringing it back under club ownership, but that will depend on 2 things. 1. The EFL compliance people allowing it 2. Venky’s doing the right thing

We won’t come up against a worse side defensively all season than Plymouth. We wouldn’t have had to be anywhere near our best to score 4 today. Unfortunately of the starting 11 only Pears and Pickering should be able to look themselves in the mirror (although Carter got ruined at full back he looked a lot better in his actual position). Every other player who started gets a 3/10 at best. Should probably have been 5 changes at half time.

I’ve seen it’s cropped up again lately on a few threads. There is obviously quite a bit of resistance to digital tickets, and getting all the discussion in one place seems sensible. I’m not sure how aware everyone is of the following… https://www.premierleague.com/news/4071456 But the Premier League are fast moving towards digital only tickets, and you’d expect the EFL to want to follow.

It’s a fair assumption. While Macron have made some very nice looking bespoke designs for our kits the quality of all their stuff is always questionable.

Agreed on all of those except Hyam. I thought he looked dreadful when anyone ran at him. Beaten in the air too often and when he did win his headers several went 6 feet in the air and 6 inches forward.

Carter defended excellently throughout. He was snuffing out danger early and had his opposing winger completely in his pocket. After their subs Heckingbottom quickly realised Holmes was getting no joy and switched him over to their right, and he caused Beck issues. He went about his business quietly and effectively, and used the ball better than anyone else. I want to see him moved centrally again as soon as possible though, he’s by far our most athletic defender and is streets ahead of Hyam. I think him and Batth could be a good partnership. No slight on Pears who was very good overall, some good saves (although not spectacular), but I’d agree with some of the comments around his distribution being questionable.

Both he and Duru were out for the warm up but didn’t make the bench. He’s just quite a way down the pecking order I presume.

Couple of PNE fans I’ve spoken to where impressed with Travis

Carter for me

Completely incompetent without VAR backing him up. It happens every time.

I think PNE did really well when they went down to 10 to be honest. They kept stretching us despite being a man down and were a lot more attack minded than I expected. Thought Hyam was poor today and Beck had a very mixed game. Pears and Carter were good. Thought Hedges made some really bad decisions and needed to get his head up. I don’t know why we don’t sit crosses up in the box when Gueye is on, really need to work on that as he will score headers for fun. Need to see some replays on some of the incidents, but the ref was obviously going to send one of ours off. Slightly disappointing we didn’t take all three points, but by no means a bad result.

Pears Carter Batth Hyam Beck Travis Tronstad Dolan Ohashi Hedges Gueye I fancy us to absolutely hammer them.

Another really good day! looked like it was going to be a frustrating day for Yuki, but it turned into a really memorable one. That second goal in particular was awesome. If he gets chances he will score. Mentions for Carter and Beck, again, who were both brilliant, but I thought Dolan was MOTM today. The Bristol defence will have nightmares about him for the next couple of weeks, never game them a seconds peace. Some really intelligent play too - Yuki should’ve done better after a great ball in the first half, and he was great for the 2nd goal.

Nearly 2 weeks on the training pitch before this one. Plenty of time for Eustace to have a good look at his new players and for those with fitness issues to get more up to speed. I trust Eustace to pick the right team more so than either of our last two managers. Won’t be any strange experiments a la Mowbray or nonsensical droppings like JDT did on occasion.

I’ve spoken to a few dingles today thinking we might be able to have a good conversation about yesterday's game. I’m embarrassed at how naive I was being. A few of their takes… Scott Parker was helpfully telling Eustace he needed to calm his players down as they were all getting carried away with the occasion, and Eustace squared up to him. Gueye, Travis, Carter, Hedges, Beck and Brittain(!!!), are all filthy and should all have been sent off. They completely dominated us, they peppered our goal, we created nothing. ”What disallowed goal?” - they have expunged Dolan’s disallowed winner from their collective conscience. One who did acknowledge it reckoned everyone had stopped and Trafford would’ve saved it if he’d still being playing. On the Burnley channels it’s not even on the replay. Weimann’s goal was a fluke and was all down to Trafford being too far off his line. Their other keeper would’ve saved it. We couldn’t live with Koleosho, who definitely loves Burnley and is really happy to be there. Rovers fans were the quietest fans that have been to Turf Moor in years. They couldn’t hear us at all. Our play was extremely dangerous, their players were getting thrown around and repeatedly punched off the ball. Our game plan was to injure them. Its a miracle we escaped with a point, and it’s mostly because their poor depleted squad is so decimated by injuries and they had to blood so many players who had only trained for an hour or so. I should’ve realised that the slightest shred of honesty and/or humility would be too much for them. Even the best of them is completely bitter about the heights we hit under Jack. They (in)breed it into their children - teenagers singing with glee about his death. Their insular nature makes them very weird too. “We won the league at Ewood - that’s something you can only dream of”. So obsessed with the second division, as if it’s a bigger achievement than winning THE league at Anfield. Funny how much they complain about Waggott only giving them 2,000 tickets, yet every one of them you speaks to claims to have been there, even those who haven’t set foot on Turf Moor in a decade. It’s like this horse in joke they go on about… a weird desperate attempt to try and counter the inbred jibes that hasn’t permeated as far as Padiham. I can’t wait for January 4th!

Dolan sometimes criticised very harshly by Rovers fans. He is frustrating at times but it was only an incompetent and completely incorrect decision that prevented him becoming a hero for the ages yesterday.

Disagree on this one Chaddy. We had Gillett for the Newcastle cup game last year and he was absolute dog shit. Missed loads of decisions including a hand ball that was straight out of the NBA. Just another incompetent poseur who can’t do the basics of his job because he’s become lazy and reliant on VAR.

Came through City’s academy, so some nerd will have manipulated some “numbers” somewhere and given him an arbitrary base value of £15 million that all the other data led recruiters will adhere too. Honestly I think he’s a really bad keeper. Weak as piss, error prone, frequent lapses in concentration, positional suspect, and cocky as hell. I wouldn’t be in any rush to swap him with Pears.

Did you notice Benson stropping off “injured” in the dying stages? I’d be livid if one of ours had done that. Stories of unhappy and striking players usually have some basis in truth. I’m glad they kept hold of Trafford though, really bad keeper. I think anyone who took the piss out of Eustace for all his togetherness talk last year will regret doing so pretty soon. It’s helped us look the side most deserving of three points today.

It shouldn’t exist purely for gestures. They’d have been down to 7 players and no manager after about 14 minutes if he’d booked one of theirs for verbally demanding bookings.

Off topic but those “pushover” newly promoted sides Derby and Oxford both got good results today. We’ve had a cracking start to the season and significantly strengthened our side in the last couple of days. No reason it can’t continue.

They are the worst of the lot. Can’t function without VAR.

Oasis tickets and a point against the Dingles has made me very happy! The officiating was a disgrace, and we win that with 11 men or a competent ref. Didn’t look to be anything wrong with Dolan’s goal from the away end. That rule for imaginary card waving seems optional, though this prick had a right spring in his step once he realised he could get his red out. It discriminates against foreign player cos Burnley players were constantly verbally persuading him to continue his mission to book our entire team, not to mention their rat of a manager who looks like a smelly, noncey secondary school teacher. Gueye speaks little to no English, and it would’ve been immaterial if the ref had booked their man like he should’ve. He gave one foul throw all game despite the dingle taking the exact same throw every time, we only got that one cos of Buckley’s appealing. I was worried when we went a goal down. Brittain, Hyam and Pears were the three players I was most worried about and all could’ve done better, but I was impressed with all three of them overall. No criticism for any of the lads in blue and white today. Big praise for Owen Beck with a real debut to remember, also really enjoyed McFadzean down the touch line… he put in some serious yards encouraging those on the pitch. Massive credit to Eustace though. Surely he’s gone a hell of a long way to proving any of his lingering doubters wrong.

I was thinking the same. He will have to set off very soon if he is.