Frustrating that today’s game was called off, but it isn’t the case that this was caused by just a bit of rain. There’s been snow and ice on the hills surrounding the area all week and the increased temperature today meant that all of that has thawed and flowed into the river and that, coupled with the heavy rain, has caused the issue. Ewood isn’t the only area that has suffered - I’m in Bacup and the whole town centre here is under water because of the same thing

I can’t help feeling that this is the end game that Sky are hoping for - generally piss teams and fans off as much as possible over 3 years and watch the opposition to repealing the 3pm blackout just fade away (and then whack a huge price tag onto the subscription for watching your club’s games from the comfort of your own home)

Pears is just an average Championship keeper. Pretty much every keeper in this league has the ability to have a blinder or a shocker on any given day. I imagine that, on the way out of the ground today, most Cardiff fans would happily have swapped Pears for their keeper (who had a shocker for Bakers goal) in much the same way we were raving about Stoke’s keeper on Wednesday. Unfortunately, after a very poor run of performances last season, he has become something of a scapegoat for many and even when he does ok they aren’t willing to give him any credit. I heard two guys on the way out of Ewood on Wednesday blaming him for not saving Stoke’s opener - then they saw it on the tv screen, admitted that it was a fantastic strike that Pears couldn’t have done anything about and then finished with ‘…he’s still shit though’ It seems from reading on here that Hedges falls into the same category - he played ok today, but is still singled out for criticism by some

A cautious manager produces a cautious team - how many times do we choose the simple, risk-free pass, even if it’s backwards or just lumped forward out of the danger area? We play virtually all of our football in front of the opposition, happy to go sideways and backwards over and over again, never willing to take a risk or play a pass that might open a defence up. Couple that with an absolute lack of creativity in the squad (Cantwell is skilful and tidy in possession, but I haven’t seen any real creativity from him yet) and you have to conclude that the only way we’re going to score this season is from opposition mistakes (a la Bristol City) or individual moments of magic (a la Burnley). Unfortunately both of those sources are fairly limited and I fear that we’re in for tough struggle to stay up this season - as others have pointed out we were in a similar position this time last year and we only just squeezed our way out of trouble, and we don’t Sammie to perform miracles this time around.

I could hear him shout ‘keepers’ from my seat in the JW so there’s definitely no way that Trav couldn’t hear him - that particular incident was down to Travis alone. (That’s not excusing all the other stuff though - the way he continually parries even routine shots in front of him gives me palpitations in the stands, god knows what it does for our defenders!!)

49% last night (although WBA had 52% apparently so the sums don’t quite add up), but only 30% on Saturday - and the effect of the two games was showing at the end last night imo

Surely everyone on here would happily take the results over the last two games over the rest of the season - a few 0-0 draws with a smattering of 1-0 wins and going unbeaten at home to the end of the season - we'd be delighted. However, based on the performances and level of entertainment provided, when it comes time to renew the season tickets for next season I certainly wouldn't be rushing to buy one. Yes results are the most important thing - but it doesn't hurt to give the fans something to get excited about every now and again too!!

The best manager I ever played for used to drum into us the importance of looking after the ball because "playing without the ball is much more demanding, both physically and mentally." We seem happy to just let the other team have the ball, sit deep and look to break on the transition - nothing wrong with that per se, but it will be taking a lot out of our players and I think that showed last night in the last 10 minutes when our players looked out on their feet and WBA had us under the cosh a bit. If last night's game had gone on for another 10 minutes I'm fairly certain that we would have ended up conceding - and when the games start to come thick and fast with midweek games every week I think it might end up costing us, unless the manager is willing to rotate the squad a bit more

I’ve just had a look on the online store and, even though I’m logged into my account and I am a ST holder, I can’t see an option to apply a discount - do you know where I can find it, or is there a code to enter or something? (I was thinking of treating myself to one of the retro training tops)

The minutes mention a discount in the club shop for ST holders. As a ST holder this has passed me by somehow - does anyone know what discount we get and how to access it?

I wonder if they would be willing then to take a 15% pay cut - surely less games should equal less wages, no. Plus, if the clubs were spending less on player wages then maybe they wouldn’t feel the need to go chasing those lucrative overseas friendlies quite as often I suspect deep down we all know the answer to that question though

Not quite the question, but Kevin Gallagher’s grandad was a forward for Celtic, Patsy Gallagher. I think his uncle was also a player up in Scotland too

I presume you’re talking about the Coventry game - in which case, surely Buckley would have given you more creativity than Hyam, Carter or McFadzean?? Or keep JRC on and put Ayari alongside him & Tronstadt 🤷‍♂️ Or surely having another striker on in Telalovic couldn’t have hurt for the last 5 or 10 minutes when you desperately need a goal (incidentally I still believe that had he had the same number of minutes as Gallagher this season he would have scored more goals)

I don’t disagree with you on JDT - by the time he left I was of the opinion that it was for the best for both parties (although I couldn’t have imagined thinking that back in November) However, I do disagree with you on Eustace. Yes, there was perhaps a need to be slightly more pragmatic, but it’s more than that - you can see it in our performances under him that it is ingrained in every fibre of his being - he is a do not lose first coach rather than a win at all costs one. That’s why we just knocked it about at the back when Millwall had 10 men behind the ball and settled for a point, it’s why we kept 3 central defenders on against 10 men Coventry, even after they had taken off their 2 strikers, it’s why our best performances have come against teams where we’re not expected to do well and we can set up to defend first and foremost… I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that necessarily (although it doesn’t fit my own footballing philosophy) but it’s better to be clear about what we’re expecting from him and the team next season. All this talk of ‘give him pre-season’ and ideas about him developing our attacking play are, I fear, building up hopes for something that just won’t happen - he’s not going to change his philosophy over night and so next season will be more of the same - defending deep, keeping it tight and maybe occasionally nicking something on a breakaway. That might well keep us in the league, but it certainly won’t take us up, and it definitely won’t be very entertaining to watch 🤷‍♂️

And that illustrates the difference between Eustace’s mindset and the fans’ (and JDT’s) - the primary aim is to not lose, if you happen to win that’s just a bonus. So, whereas for most of us his record is 3 wins in 18 (4 if you’re Chaddy) - which is poor whichever way you slice it - he views it as 5 defeats in 18 - which is reasonably respectable. Basically, we just need to prepare ourselves for a lot more draws and pretty turgid football next year - maybe that way we’ll be less frustrated as we know what to expect