11 straight defeats away from home to promoted L1 teams. Blackburn Rovers soft touches - life under Venkys 2024: Derby (A) - Lost 2-1 2024: Oxford (A) - Lost 1-0 2023: Plymouth (A) - Lost 3-0 2023: Ipswich (A) - Lost 4-3 2023: Sheffield Wed (A) - Lost 3-1 2022: Wigan (A) - Lost 1-0 2022: Rotherham (A) - Lost 4-0 - christ this was a low point 2022: Sunderland (A) - Lost 2-1 2021: Hull (A) - Lost 2-0 2021: Peterborough (A) - Lost 2-1 2021: Blackpool (A) - Lost 2-1

No complaints from me if it’s Travis, Tronstad, Kargbo, Ohashi, Dolan, Gueye as the midfield and attack.

2 from 5 teams now I think. Norwich likely to be 6 points adrift after this weekend

Of course it's not accurate Chaddy. Coventry spent £30m or so this last year - Do you think they've done that with £10m a year wage budget. It's complete mythical click bait. Likewise, do you think a team getting relegated from the prem only has 2 x our wage budget, or in Sheffield Utds case, just £4m more.

I posted in the playoff thread, but worth it's own post here. These are our most recent results in away matches to promoted L1 sides. We have LOST all of our last 10 matches and we have to go back to the 2020/21 season before we even got a single point from a promoted L1 side away from home. 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 we've scored only 4 goals excluding the Ipswich match. This is peak Blackburn Rovers in the Venky's era. Chalk up the 1-0 Derby win, release our seethe on here and move on to next season, if we can still stomach it. 2024: Oxford (A) - Lost 1-0 2023: Plymouth (A) - Lost 3-0 2023: Ipswich (A) - Lost 4-3 2023: Sheffield Wed (A) - Lost 3-1 2022: Wigan (A) - Lost 1-0 2022: Rotherham (A) - Lost 4-0 - christ this was a low point 2022: Sunderland (A) - Lost 2-1 2021: Hull (A) - Lost 2-0 2021: Peterborough (A) - Lost 2-1 2021: Blackpool (A) - Lost 2-1 2020: Coventry (A) - Won 4-0 (!) October 2020 2020: Wycombe (A) - Lost 1-0 2020: Rotherham (A) - Drew 1-1

Bristol City picking up an away win last night. Sadly, anybody who thinks we can outperform 3 of Coventry, West Brom, Bristol City and Boro hasn't watched Rovers perform February onwards for the last 10 years. We need to be picking up 3 points in these away games to relegation fodder - we just never ever do. How's about this going into Derby away - We have LOST all 10 of our last matches away to promoted L1 sides (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024/25 so far). Outside of Ipswich we've only scored 4 goals in those games! 2024 Oxford (A) - Lost 1-0 2023 Plymouth (A) - Lost 3-0 2023 Ipswich (A) - Lost 4-3 2023 Sheffield Wed (A) - Lost 3-1 2022 Wigan (A) - Lost 1-0 2022 Rotherham (A) - Lost 4-0 - christ this was a low point 2022 Sunderland (A) - Lost 2-1 2021 Hull (A) - Lost 2-0 2021 Peterborough (A) - Lost 2-1 2021 Blackpool (A) - Lost 2-1 2020 Coventry (A) - Won 4-0 (!) October 2020 2020 Wycombe (A) - Lost 1-0 2020 Rotherham (A) - Drew 1-1

Edit: replied to the wrong post sorry

Just the +38% YoY increase there. Looks like Waggott has jumped from £309k + £12k pension contribution to £433k + £159k pension contribution.

I’d go as far as saying if we win all 4 then we will be 99% in. We’d have a huge gap from 7th if we went on a 4 game win streak now. Theres slim to no chance we win all 4 though. Based on our price of 15/8 to beat Derby, then it’s about 50/1 we pick-up maximum points from those 4 games.

Not expecting anything from those away games. Bookies make bottom of the table Derby favourites against us - shows where we are really. Have to beat Cardiff at home and pick up at least one more win from the other 3

Be surprised if they are

We’re slowly sliding backwards. Struggle to see us finishing above Coventry, West Brom or Boro. Need to get back to winning ways against Derby

Ohashi for Cantwell going forward I hope. Always wanted to see more of him playing off Gueye earlier this season. Tronstad being back is huge, there is a gulf between him and Forshaw, and Travis looked instantly better once Sondre came on.

Never a 2nd yellow, but should have been off for the first. Cant remember as bad a referee performance as this, for both sides. Hopefully never see Dennis play for us again. Absolute waste of space and looks an awful ‘character’. Saw him throw his arms in the air more times than touches of the ball

Pears loves to just give the ball back to Norwich with an aimless lump

Why did we loan him for a handful of games on a ridiculous wage then? If you’re going to get a January loan, they have to be instantly match fit (not a dig at yourself sorry but the recruitment team)

I’d be fuming with this ref if I was a Norwich fan. Such a bad standard of officiating in this league

Dennis looks absolute pony. More of a luxury than Cantwell. Lots of moaning, shite touch and a horror challenge there.

Can’t believe I forgot about this classic @Exiled_Rover

He is going to the top as we all knew. Shame he came through in our Venkys era. For his sake I'm sort of glad he ended up at a club like Palace. Whilst it highlights how far we've fallen (the fact that Palace are buying our generation talent!), at least he's getting loads of game time at a stable club where it's not toxic and there's little pressure. And fair fucks to Palace too - they did their homework (easy homework), but picking up the likes of Wharton, Eze, Olise from the Championship whilst mugs like United spend a fortune in the dog and duck leagues of Europe. I hope Tuchel is watching (no more Angel Gomes taking his spot)

Yeah exactly, we threw plenty of those performances in under Eustace, JDT, Mowbray etc. It was just a classic Blackburn Rovers long away trip after a bit of optimism arrived (2 wins on the bounce and clear in 5th). See also, Coventry, Plymouth and Oxford away under Eustace. I'd take defeat to Swansea all day if it means a comfortable 3 points on Saturday.

Get Kargbo running flat out at Duffy

Yep, Lowe form takes us to 75 points and practically guarantees a spot. Our current season form would take us to 69 points which I think will be touch and go.

Amongst all the manager talk I think the size of this game has fallen under the radar. If Rovers win, we move 7 points clear of Norwich, close to knocking them out of the race with only 11 games to go. Let’s hope we get a combination of new manager bounce + long away trip for 12pm. Lose and I doubt we’ll make it back into the top 6

1.58ppg over this spread of games (rounded) 3 games = 5 points 5 games = 8 points 7 games = 11 points 10 games = 16 points 12 games = 19 points (which takes us to 70 total) I think that’s what you were asking but apologies if not