If we can hold on here and go to bottom of the league in 7th place it’ll be a huge confidence boost!

Wharton’s pass taking all the comms by surprise, even Hyam. Superb finish by Sammie. New contract, same Sammie

A lot of talk about Birmingham should have had a sending off but I’d argue Travis has been more blatant in deserving 2 yellows. He got very lucky in the 2nd minute.

Cannot understand why we have Brittain playing left wing whilst Travis is playing right back.

Well done to everyone involved in targeting the correct match! I’ll be back in the UK for Christmas so will be there with a few others. Hopefully we’re in the top 6 by that point and it’ll be a real party atmosphere.

Not seen any of the match but always great to win in a scrappy match (which it sounds like), and do so comfortably in the end. Positive GD now, no reason we shouldn’t go into that Leeds match in the playoff positions with Birmingham and Sheffield Wednesday up next. PNE crumbling in stoppage time. 5th and 6th are well up for grabs!! COYB

Yep it's crazy. Imagine if you struggled for mid-week matches (luckily for fans there is only 1 home one in the new year), and / or had a holiday planned / went away to see family maybe at Easter. That's all it takes for it to no longer be worthwhile, considering there is no other benefit to holding the half season ticket (away tickets prio will be no issue) No derbys, no rivals, the highlight is probably an Easter home match vs Ipswich, and the half ST is still a similar price to a full ST at PNE / Bolton / Huddersfield

£209 for a half season ticket - what was the price of the FULL season ticket at Bolton, PNE, Huddersfield etc. again? The operation down there is so useless, what’s even the point of selling them. (obviously hands are almost tied because of what they charged fans at the start of season) £209 for 11 games, no derby matches ie PNE, not even Leeds / Leicester / Boro which would be the expected expensive tickets and better sides Thats £19 a ticket, you’d have to go to at least 9 of the 11 for it to actually pay for itself. Rotherham, Huddersfield, QPR, Stoke, Norwich, Millwall, Plymouth, Ipswich, Southampton, Wednesday, Coventry. Max 3 more Cat A games he could squeeze out of them (Ipswich, Wednesday, Cov)

Yeah - certainly missed Gallagher, Hedges, JRC etc. it shows when we’re relying on Markanday to come on and change games!

Unfortunately like so many games this season. There must be an underlying factor (disclaimer it’s because we’re soft as shite and have no leaders playing behind Szmodics)

Textbook Blackburn Rovers sadly. Soft as shite

Sigurdsson absolutely pathetic. Needs hooking

“Is it going to be one of those nights for Preston?” - from the commentator after PNE hit the post with their 1st shot 2nd half We've hit the bar twice and battered them you clown

Fans are sounding amazing! Go on lads and lasses!

Bloody class from Moran on the assist, just like Norwich. What was I on about earlier 😂

As big a load of nonsense as you’ll ever see. 20% chance still on the exchange with plenty there to stake

Then almost scores a screamer!

Moran’s 1st touch is horrendously bad. His 2nd touch is often a tackle.

Be amazed if we keep JDT for much longer. If Venkys gave him a budget we’d be a serious team.

Not too worried about the back 5 as PNE will hardly touch the ball. 3-0 Rovers.

JRC will no doubt be a big miss for the next few months, and hopefully Scottie Wharton does better than his cameo in this fixture last season! Wahlstedt Brittain - Hill - Wharton - Pickering Tronstad - Travis Wharton Moran Leonard Szmodics I'd be fairly happy with that allowing Wharton more freedom in midfield (I think we're better with 3 in there). Szmodics the only cert in the front 3. Dolan playing well in recent matches, and Sigurdsson should have the highest bar out of all so wouldn't mind if that varied a bit.

Ahh I didn't realise they were just covers (although I guess that makes sense given how quick it was rather than painting it). Have we not had fans up there since they were installed then? Like you say that gives them a good opportunity to do it properly (albeit Leeds will be back up there in 1 month anyway)

If PNE get the upper tier can we ask their fans to rip out some of our seats so we can reorder the RoVeRs lettering to be centralised and aligned, and not look like it was done by primary school kids?

*logs into booking.com*

If we do win here (big if IMO), then we’ll know 3 points vs PNE takes us into the top 6, even if it’s just for Friday night.