superniko

Ah yeah, sorry I meant in the traditional sense. Probably odds on it gets moved to some ridiculous time (see Cardiff travelling to Sheffield on a Thursday night!) - I'm sure the audience abroad were on the edge of their seat for that clash though.

Can’t see it being a TV game. Not a ‘big 6 club’ and not that ‘underdog story’. Pretty boring draw IMO, but glad to be at home

You realise he was playing against City, Liverpool, Arsenal not Plymouth, Oxford, PNE? Absolute bonkers statement 6 goals in 14 for Sheffield United in the Premier League, the worst team in the whole league. Lightyears ahead of Hedges and co

He did sign some rubbish, but also brought in Tronstad and Szmodics so all is forgiven in my eyes

One fan said it with 20+ likes on said comment and a plethora of other happy comments that he is leaving. I won’t judge it on fans comments (see the likes of Bell leaving us etc.). But we currently only have 1 first team CM player and this hardly screams ‘hard working recruitment team’ - they’ve called around and picked the cheapest and easiest they can find - and to me that tells me that he will have to do for Portsmouth, Oxford, Coventry fixtures

😂 putting it like that, it really was an all-timer from Swag wasn’t it.

It’s bizarre as this was the shite that Mowbray was slated for (buying everyone from Boro) yet now it’s deemed good as it’s the ‘managers signing’

Any reason why he has only played 2 games all season in League 1?

Matthew Bentham wouldn’t have a Venky, Waggot or Pasha within a mile of his ownership and club. It’s a complete joke that the clowns at our place even think they could replicate the work that savvy and passionate owners like Bentham and Bloom have.

When was the last time your mind decided we had a positive window? And now that will answer why it’s the ‘usual hysteria’ on here because it was a fucking generation ago

Unfortunately the same thing happened with JDT, start the season pretty well, build up hope in the fan base, pushing into the top 6.....Then Venkys and Waggot do everything they possibly can to screw us over in January and we're left with a depleted squad, which after a few injuries means we're relying on Garrett, Markanday and Vale (who started the majority of games during the Jan 2023 window)! The depth of the squad is horrific, Pickering, Travis, Ohashi, Carter, Wharton are injured and we're scrambling away trying to pick an 11 that can be remotely competitive.

Adam Forshaw screams Accrington Stanley. We are meant to be chasing Championship promotion - just not in Venkys / Waggot world.

Toth Brittain - McFaz - Hyam - Beck JRC - Buckley ACD - Weimann - Hedges Leonard Couple of changes for me given the vast amount of winnable league games in January and the clear lack of interest for Venkys to fund our squad. Batth and Tronstad both to be rested, Leonard to get 90 minutes in him. No other options for full back really.

Is that you Tony? edit: beaten to it by a minute!

Morton is an upgrade on Buckley (and Baker). If there are any legs to it then it needs to be done asap given our current lack of depth in CM I'm still not fully over him rolling around after the eye poke at Sheffield United though. Also doesn't address our biggest need of 'sticking the ball in the net'

Suspect we see JRC start centre midfield rather than Buckley. I’d be amazed if the overlords can be arsed to bring someone in. They don’t care about the January window as we know

I’m not a fan of those attendance or atmosphere obsessed people but I thought they were really really quiet considering they had a 4k allocation in their Derby. Bit of noise from 1 song after the goal but nothing outside of that (albeit I was in the BBE) Vile if they’re still chanting that one but some pretty shit stuff from our end to Barnes too

Bumped into two separate Rovers groups at Manchester airport. Love to see it, when it’s so often United, Liverpool and these days City dominated (especially on our Irish flights). Eases the pain on the 2 hour flight delay! And upcoming snow blizzard to face

Excellent, a few extra days to cock it up then. Takeaway on speed dial 😄

Just noticed we play on the 31st evening vs PNE. Wasn’t it the last day of the window we had a night match when we fucked up the January window a year or so ago. Everyone in charge went for a jolly up in the away ground directors box - must have been the year before they all ordered a curry and cocked it up.

5 of our next 6 are against 14th or lower. Should make or break our season - just unfortunately it usually breaks in Jan/Feb

If they go up, it’ll be at Wembley. They’re not pipping Leeds or Sheff Utd to the top 2. Burnley are well organised with a very good £10m centre back and a lower-prem centre midfield pairing but offer very little upfront (not too dissimilar to ourselves) Sadly agree we’ll be watching from mid-table though.

Makes you sick to your stomach. The football club is on its arse from ownership to board level to commercial operation. Good to see the fan base still there though - hopefully we can outlive all of that.

Cantwell pass to Gueye, so wasteful and that’s just 1 example, we’d be pulling our hair out if Buckley chucked in some of these performances Missed Travis big time. Cullen should have been in the book in that first half, Ref on the whole shaded on the side of poor, but we needed Trav in the middle of the park Relying on Weimann, Leonard, Hedges, Buckley off the bench. January is massive and Venkys are going to fuck us over again (how can anyone defend them still) I’d be sending the reserve team out for Boro in the cup. A load of that team need a bit of a break 4 mins added time was a joke then he adds on only 15 seconds despite a full minute of time wasting in added time. No consistency from refs (shock) comparing it NYD Shitshow for drink in the BBE: ‘express bar’ had one member of staff taking payment and pouring cans into cups. Waggott and Yasir couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery - never have as worse experience in concourses as I do at Ewood.

Pears Brittain - Batth - Hyam - Beck Tronstad - Baker/JRC ACD - Cantwell - Dolan Gueye