Doesn't seem to want to play him anywhere any more. Weird when you think how pivotal he was to our fortunes under JDT and TM in spells.

They spent a ton of money and have Scott Parker managing them, that's literally it. Parker is a no mark manager whose success is 100% down to outspending the league and scraping by.

Are we favourites to win? Maybe on league position, but we've been awful for a few games running and we've yet to win away from home. As a side note, at this point I'm just going to assume Pear is our no.1 until he chooses to retire.

Did the Suarez ban length take into account the fact he'd done it before in the Netherlands? Genuine question. 4 games would be a joke though, especially considering he got to play last night.

Tbf Pears has always looked like a world beater in every 1 in 10 games. The problem has always been the other 9.

No point looking at those two, they will probably end the season on close to double the amount of points we will have and in Burnley's case especially that should be the case considering the financial disparities.

We were lucky in the last 2 with the 10 men... Preston especially could have put 2 or 3 past us... I fully expect this to be the highest we'll be all season. This lot don't have the stones to deal with things when it gets tough.

Problem we're going to have now is we haven't really played anyone decent, if the last 3 performances are indicative of the rest of the season we're going to be more than thankful we have these points on the board already because this is shocking.

It's a worrying trend. Fine when we're still picking up points but in the longer term will not do us well. Hopefully we step it up in the second half.

Cov have lost 5 of the last 6 at home, when was the last time Rovers didn't gift an out of form team at least a point?

Not going to get carried away as there is a loooong way to go, but can't really argue with the results so far, especially considering what we were staring at in July. Performances are a bit more inconsistent but that's just a Championship thing as much as a Rovers thing. Midweek games about to start so let's see how we fare as the fixtures start to pile up. 3 more points, another home win, and another game unbeaten. COYB!

Cantwell looks hungry and if he can keep that up £600k is an unbelievable bit of business for us regardless of the wage cost. Exactly the kind of player we need to split open teams. Get in lads!

Excellent! Time to put them to the sword and secure the points.

Doesn't matter about "intent", a desperate challenge where the player can't control himself and endangers an opponent is a red in this day and age.

Another opportunity to take advantage of 10 men and we'll likely put negative pressure on them.

I'd rather he spent more time being concerned about our complete inability to create anything of note 11v11 or 10v11.

I fully expect both Preston and Burnley to finish above us this season. Even with 10 they looked far more threatening than us.

Mugges would imply we deserve anything from this game. Hopefully this is a one-off because if this becomes our regular level we'll be in a dogfight very quickly.

We'll lose this now. An atrocious performance and another completely bent ref.

It's like the baton of dreadful is being passed when people go off. Travis just dawdling on the ball there.

At this point it will be a shite performance regardless.

9/10 Preston attacks start with Dolan being unable to control the ball. How he is still on the pitch amazes me.

It does if we're the 10. Changes needed.

I don't think it's unrealistic to expect us to be able to do simple things like pass and control the ball. We've still been second best since the red fgs!

Second best against 11, somehow worse against 10 so far. Big 15 mins ahead for Eustace. We absolutely should be winning from this position.