ADAm!!!

Delighted to be proven wrong. Sam the Man...that's what happens when you play him in the middle, Tony!

If you say so, mate...Hope I'm wrong but I think this will be a tight game.

Birmingham are a decent team and we have to draw sometime. We often struggle to have a single shot on target, so...I think a goalless draw looks a good bet. 0-0.

Szmodics makes it three!

Excellent goal from BBD. 2-0!

Diaz 1-0!

Penalty to Rovers!

Nearly all of them wrote off Brereton as well (check the thread). Tons of other examples. People just like to write off the young lads straight anyway, for some reason.

Overreaction here. Kaminski, Tavis and Gallagher are some of the better players in a side that sits sixth in the Championship. We have our issues but let's not lose our heads completely here.

I agree. However, considering the turmoil this summer then it's clear we need to what happens in the long term. JDT needs some time. I'd be a liar though if I said that I'm not worried after recent performances. We're struggling right now, but Travis is our heart so his move to right back is not something i like to see, Markanday has been scoring so where the f--- is he? and Dack looks dangerous but JDT doesn't seem to rate him. No idea why he took him and Hedges off today, we were only one down. Happy Dolan did well, but I'd have replaced him with Wharton who's only 18, after all. It's either glass half full or glass half empty. Let's wait and see, I guess...

It's been the Blackburn Rovers way since 2010. Hard to blame the Venkys though, the local council have been doing it for decades via Capita too. Whatever profits are made do not get recycled in the local community either, outsourcing is an easy way to provide services, but ultimately there's no upside to any of it. It's capitalism 2022 though, the modern British way. So, like it lump it basically.

If we're going to randomly lump a midfielder in at right back then make it Buckley, not that I think much of him playing there...but at least we'd have Travis in midfield. We missed him there today. Also nonplussed at subbing Dack so early and as to what Markanday has done to JDT to not even make the bench.

We can't afford to give away goals like that when we can't create chances for toffee. Worrying start, to say the least. Come on Rovers!

Bloody hell, Stoke are absolutely all over us. We're a bit of a shambles so far.

Kaminski's kicking has grown progressively worse since joining us...

A team previously managed by O'Neill and about to be managed by Neil...against a team that can't create more than a chance or two each game. Sounds like a goalless draw has to be a good bet!

Friedel is up there with any of them, easy to forget about a goalkeeper but considering we got him on a free, surely he's the best transfer deal we've ever done?

Top of the league!!!!

The attacking subs make sense. Last thing we want to do with our makeshift defence is to sit back and invite pressure.

Gally!!!!!!!! 2-0!!!

Three points!

Rovers enjoying a good spell, two chances in quick succession.

Mistake by Kaminski with his kicking. Gave it away and their player had a shot into the side netting.

I'm not sure it would have been that soft, tbh. End of the day, we got away with one. Hope John's learned his lesson and plays smart in the second half.