Our fixtures look interesting. We get the return Leeds and Burnley fixtures out the way straight away. Then go on a long run of ‘winnable’ fixtures (if there is such a thing in the Championship) until April when we meet Boro, Wednesday, Sunderland, Watford and Sheffield United - all in the battle for Top 6 with us. Hopefully we don’t run out of steam late on like we have in years past!

Real shame Pickering is out for so long as Beck is our best answer for left sided winger. Could do with addressing that in January (we won’t)

Point a fair result. I expected 4 from Millwall, Sunderland, Hull, Leeds - so hopefully we pick up 3 at home on Sunday. Leonard probably deserves more time over this busy period. I think he could make a decent step up this season in this team. Great piece of keeping from Pears at the end. There will be lots of ups and downs this season- we need to keep winning the games we expect to, and picking up points elsewhere when we can - Sunderland will be in the top 4 when all is over in May.

The crazy thing is the majority of that bench were in the starting 11 over years gone by - such was the shiteness of the squad for so long (cheers Venkys). Brittain, Buckley, Dolan, Hedges would have all been starters over prior years, Weimann and Baker new signings and Beck a Liverpool loanee. We’ve actually been quite lucky on the injury front prior to the two picked up today.

I don’t know why we don’t do it more ourselves, especially with Gueye now. Whoever coaches out throw-ins needs sacking…same looped 7 yarder up the line every time leading to max-two touches before we’ve given the ball back to Millwall. Either play it short to feet or stick it in the mixer to our big striker who won pretty much every long ball that went his way

Disappointing to see the winning run come to an end, but it had to happen eventually, and all-in-all it’s just 1 point dropped, far less frustrating than conceding late when leading by a goal. Today was textbook championship, Millwall beat Leeds and Burnley at home. Glad to have 2 home games over the Christmas period - hopefully we can get something on Boxing Day to take the pressure off the Hull (our most likely W) match

Ref was fine mate - Rovers weren’t

Rinse and repeat Exiled Rover comment every time Rovers don’t win - kinda got used to not seeing it for a while

Not many softer lads than Cantwell have stepped foot on a football pitch. Surprised he’s got 60 minutes away at Millwall.

Some blinkers in this chat re: the ref who has had a fairly steady game in my opinion. The Cozier-Duberry one might have looked soft at first but it was studs on the lower shin/ankle. VAR in the prem and it’s worse than just a free kick to Millwall (view may change when I see this penalty shout again)

Ditto, everything said scrappy low scoring game but did nothing about it 😄

Sunderland, Boro and Watford all losing (yes we are on playoff watch already)

6 goals in Rovers last 5 games and 7 in Millwalls last 5. Always going to be a scrappy one. I’d be surprised if this isn’t 0-0 or 1-0 either way. 1st goal is massive (as always) In Millwalls last 13 games, no team has scored more than 2 in a game (either Millwall or their opponent). Under 2.5 goal backers rejoice

Two pacey wingers - what we’ve cried out for for 10+ years

It’s going to be a tough match on a fairly poor pitch. But I don’t think they’re up to too much. We need to be up for the battle though!

I have a few in the Upper and they all have a row and seat assigned. Would be very strange (ridiculous even) if some tickets had seats assigned and some were labelled unreserved - it will cause absolute carnage

Szmodics versus Derby…He was our 2nd top scorer across all comps for a few months (might still be!)

So looking like 24,500 or so currently sold. Great stuff - need to get the rest of the upper tier open now - only back 3 rows left in those blocks

Yeah looks like only a bit or none of N08 went on sale at the start, as I thought - 1.5k wouldn’t be enough if 3.5 blocks were opened. Anyway, the other half of it is open now Weirdly the end block has gone off sale now. That would have made sense from the start - leave the two small corner blocks off sale until the end if needed

Oh wow I didn't realise that - I assumed either half or none of it and that 7 was the popular block. Great news. This might give Waggot ideas to close the Riverside long term and re-open the BBE Upper 😂

Was half of N08 open for sale too? And now sold out? i.e exactly half the BBE Upper

2 main blocks will be gone before Christmas and the club should look at getting the next one on sale IMO. Clearly people would rather sit there than behind a pillar or in the pissing rain of the Riverside (cans of Fosters aside). With ~4.5k gone to 'segregation' / offering Burnley a limited amount, the most we can hope for is 27k. My guess is we'll have around 1k empty in the Upper and 1k empty in the Riverside giving us a 25k attendance (21k of which are home fans). Warms the cockles after the last 10 years.

25k+ in 2010 and 2011 too - when Williams ran the “take back Ewood” campaign at £199(?) STs

Imagine it's just so if we sell 1k they're not sprawled across the whole stand. If we sell 1.5k they will open the rest of it. I've no issues with that.

That did make me laugh - christ if we're only dishing out cans up there surely we can do better than Fosters & Strongbow (answer is that they'll have the biggest mark-up)