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Cashin seems a decent enough signing on paper, bit odd all the negative comments from brum fans considering his pretty limited game time. Only played 90 mins twice and one of those out of position at left back. Agree on comments centre half wasn't top priority but we definitely needed one in at some point in the window and no harm giving him a run out at weekend, should be relatively match fit.

Can we play Harvey Higgins as well as Joseph? He was being bigged up not long ago with top teams sniffing round. Big lad so should physically be up to it 🤔

Playing 5/3 at the back isn't quite so bad when you have Alebiosu, the minute he departed it was never gonna work, now Hedges is goosed its completely pointless with the availability issues. We're still trying to play down the flanks thinking we have 2 premium wing backs going to create things,it's absolute insanity.

Charlton were utterly dreadful, they struggles to string 3 passes together, yet we scraped a draw against them 😳 The standard throughout was lower end league 1 standard and wouldn't be surprised if we both end up there. The options off the bench were so so dire today. Plus points? The obvious 2 goals for Baradji and Tom played pretty well too. Hells bells I dread to see the team we field in the cup next week.

Their away form is 19th worst in the league, that's why. Bookies use AI and look at trend too, they haven't won in 8 away from home, we've won 3 of the last 4 at home H2H against them. They've failed to score in 3 of the last 4 against us. Collectively things like that make us favourites. That being said, no disrespect to Charlton but being evens at home to beat them is a real indication how far we've fallen, there was a time we'd be like 2/5 😵

Monday will be one of the most depressing days in a long while for many, I’ve worked a fair bit in between Xmas and NY though so I’m sound on that count. Rovers have the potential to tip folk over the edge tomorrow, in 2 minds wether to watch. I’m pretty positive in life though so will take the standpoint it can’t get any worse than the last game (insert Mick McCarthy GIF). 2 nil home win, somehow.

The injuries we keep picking up are 100% linked to fatiguing in the players, they’re being pushed too much especially in a busy festive period. When your muscles aren’t recovering properly you’re prone to injury a lot more. Whilst you can sympathise with VI to an extent due to him having a bunch of duds to pick from, he is clueless at managing game time and his substitutions are often questionable, particularly the timing of them.

It's not that long ago we should have beat them, couple of key differences though...we had Gudjohnsen, Alebiosu and Morishita in the team that day. Worth noting their away form isn't great though, last away win way back in September. If I was a betting man, which I am, I'd be backing the draw. They've drawn 5 of their last 6 away from home. We've drawn 2 of the last 3 at home, 5 out the last 7 home and away. 2 out the past 3 H2H also draws. Just hope it's not another 0-0 draw though, a goal would be nice. I think we'll get one too, Hedges is due a goal. 1-1. Another draw isn't really much use in the grand scheme of things mind. On a rather negative note I remember us drawing too many the last time we went down to league one, 4 in a row in one spell. It's all a bit too familiar folks.....erm on that note - Happy New Year fellow blues.

If he's attracting all this constant interest from the likes of Arsenal he's surely worth some game time

Badly worded perhaps, we 'spent' approaching 10m as opposed to £0

Easily one of the worst games off football I've watched in years. Positives - well its another clean sheet I guess? After that, I'm struggling. Henriksson I was quite excited to see when we signed him but he's abysmal. Ohashi I'm starting to think has a drink problem or something he's that clueless sometimes, although looks decent on occasion. They were marginally worse than us, but that's understandable when they didn't spend a penny in summer whereas we actively recruited/spent. Granted the 3 most expensive ones weren't playing tonight (alarming Tavares is one of them, Henriksson is 4th too). Also, wtf are we doing with Tyion? Is he injured? It's hard to believe he isn't better than Henriksson of not?

They'll contain customer (fan) information. It will however be an extremely simple process, most probably a simple txt file that's imported. It could, and usually would be automated though and shouldn't require any manual efforts at all really. I suspect our IT department, like most aspects of the club is not fit for purpose, probably a couple of inexperienced/under qualified members of staff.

Imagine a fair few have fucked it off anyway now and made alternate plans. I'm working so wouldn't be going anyway, if I was free I WOULD have been tempted though after an enjoyable day out at Boro.

I've been meandering towards what I suppose is a 'natural boycott' for a while now. My home attendance gets less each season (haven't been once this season). I may go to the Wrexham game in fairness to catch up with a few lads. The latest call to protest hasn't altered my perspective at all really, but I dare say it will nudge a few others to my way of thinking. To put things in context, I was a ST holder for over 20 years (I'm a 44 year old bastard now), I still had one for a number of season under the Venky rats. Within that time I came to hate home games, it started as a chore, particularly night games, but came to a point where I was questioning why the fuck I was doing it. Life also progressed, the kids grew up, work got busier (sometimes work 7 days straight), priorities changed. Previously I've missed weddings, birthdays and other things to attend, ive nearly lost a job queing for Celtic away tickets and doing a sickie on the day of the game after being declined AL, now? Not a bloody chance. I've missed watching 1 game all season (last week), I was near Penrith miles from civilisation though, my hand was forced! I'm going on Boxing Day as it's tradition and looking forward to it if I'm honest. Had it been at home it would have been a reluctant trudge to the ground. Would my perspective change if our owners changed? 100% yes. I don't demand glory, I ain't a glory hunter, I've stood on a crumbling Blackburn End step, I've watched on the Riverside hill with my dad when times were hard. All i want is owners that care and a fan base pulling collectively in 1 direction. I would buy a season ticket no questions asked, even if I inevitably missed half the games through other commitments. Until then, I continue as is I guess. Will still fit a few more away games in this season, in the new year I won't attend Ewood again I don't think, barring a big cup tie against them twats up the road......

I've been to Boro loads of times and we're unbeaten within that time, a number of occasions we've been in dreadful form leading up to the game too. We just have a very odd knack of coming away with at least a point there! I'm going to this one as well, can't miss a boxing day game no matter how apathetic I currently feel towards the club. Despite the record there this will be bloody tough, I think they've only lost to the league leaders at home thus season? We'll just have to hope the footballing gods are kind to us and we nick a 1-0 win, you'd definitely take a 1-1 though.