Sums it up perfectly for me

Pickering, Brittain, Leonard all started plenty under the last manager, then Weismann, Gueye, Toth, Baker all new signings under the new manager - that’s 7 of today’s bench. We’re nowhere near as stretched as we have been in the past relying on Markanday and Garrett to start and looking at Telalovic on the bench as the game changer. If we do actually get a few injuries it’s only going to get worse.

Might be a few players who can actually play wide and cross a ball to the big man in the middle. He isn’t getting that from Dolan, Weismann or Hedges (left footed on right wing)

11 goals in about 250 Rovers appearances between them. I’d say it’s unlikely 😂

Mentally weak club / team under Venkys. Long for the days of Hughes’ ‘bully boys’

Regression to the mean well and truly underway at Rovers. Dreadful football - keeper hasn’t even made a save

Yep I agree completely with that - but he is the one consistently picking Hedges. Say it every match thread but we need fast, wide wingers rather than plodding along with Hedges, Dolan, Weimann out there - proper athletes make a difference in this division - we have barely any in our squad.

He’s picking the team - it’s a stronger bench than we had under the last few managers (Telalovic, Ennis, Markanday, Garrett anyone?) Half of this bench had to start under the last manager and the other half are new signings under JE. I agree with the general message though, Hedges and Dolan are slowing it down, but not sure we’ve been in good positions - we’ve barely been in their box or made their keeper work

Probably why we didn’t get him ☹️

Eustace-ball has barely created a sniff in the last 5 matches so we can probably turn this one off now. 2 touches in their box so far

Yep there is absolutely no creativity behind the striker (if we continue to play 1 up there). Travis and Tronstad can do a job and keep us solid in front of the back 4 but we need more in the 3 in front of them. (IMO Cantwell central and 2 fast wide players either side running off the striker - which we don’t have)

As much as I think we’ve played pretty poorly over the last few matches, I have to say I think today was much better and the best we’ve looked away from home for a while. Unfortunate to lose. Still fairly toothless upfront but looked like we could pass the ball a bit at times at least for a change. Cantwell just looks like another Buckley (cracking game every 10 see Newcastle in the cup). Bit of a luxury and needs more of a free central role for me. Shows glimpses of quality which we’d get more off centrally than wide left IMO Travis’ best game for a while, though he looked good. Hyam should have scored and that’s pretty much cost us the game. Not sure what Weimann offers us. Still a lot of questions on who the best 3/4 ‘attacking’ options are, but we need more creativity behind them too

That was a tough watch. Absolute dire mid-week ‘entertainment’. I’ve never seen a team so bad at taking a throw-in. No idea what they do in a weeks training.

Not sure where to post this but I guess the clown of a CEO is the one we should be laughing at….. Looks like Rovers are posting a social media reveal just for the fact we’ve finally restocked some of our kit….at the end of October.

I’d imagine that Travis and Hyam are un-droppable for a yes man manager like Eustace. These are two prime examples of where we need(ed) an overhaul of our squad. They’re both weak minded and have years of constant championship failure, or at best plodding along mid-table. They’re assigned as the leaders in our squad, but I couldn’t envisage anything less likely to drag us into promotion contention.

Alexa, sum up Blackburn Rovers’ last 15 years

Yep agree, his cameo there was certainly the only positive

Cozier-Duberry the biggest (only?) positive of this match by a country mile. Has to be starting matches for us going forward

What on earth was that free kick from Hyam. Has he ever seen a football before

100% 💪

Looked a lot better in their half with attackers who can actually play football

FECKING COME ONNNNNN

An all time stinker from Travis this. Had the gall to throw his hands up to Ohashi for not controlling that hospital chip to him.

His last touch summed it up, ball up the channel he flicked it on to the centre of the pitch and Dolan was about 40 yards away on the right. If we’re going to play Gueye then we need another player playing off him, or at least two wide wingers swinging in crosses. So frustrating.

It’s usually his 2nd touch