Why must he from that? What if Harry Dennison was 15 and slightly younger in days than Rory?

Great day for Rory Finneran, making his debut at 15 years. Apparently makes him our second youngest ever player according to one tweet, or the youngest according to some others...not sure which is true. Newcastle are apparently sniffing around him already. Hopefully the appearance today makes him feel more like staying, rather than merely drawing more attention to him, as we will get relatively bugger all for him until he has signed a pro deal I believe.

There's no such thing as downvoting on here.

You must have missed Leonard's incredibly good chance. Just like Leonard.

Watching the Cambridge second goal again and that really is some unacceptable schoolboy defending. Everybody ball-watching and leaving the goalscorer in acres of space. I'd be fuming if I managed an under 12s team and they did that.

'A good day for Blackburn Rovers at last' says the commentator at the end. Only if Szmodics hasn't picked up an injury.

Finneran to come on, great for him at 15

Great, Szmodics indicating he has to come off because, looks like, a groin strain. If only someone had seen it coming...

Would love to see it, but both central players on are subs already. Maybe if Ayari went further up and Szmodics off.

Yeh he needed that to restore his confidence after that utter howler. He didn't look that excited to score it tbh, probably knows it only cancels that out.

I hope a significant amount of the tickets sold were after the digital bollocks was dropped.

Wow Harry Leonard. Wow.

Tronstad on. Not sure why, Garrett playing well.

He's scored plenty of braces for us and never gone on to a third, so yeh, relatively!

Nah, you're thinking of the first game after the transfer window shuts and we can't do anything about it anymore.

Is that Sammie's first hat trick for us? I had a feeling he was going to get one today after the second. I like the look of Garrett, have for a while.

Or like the defence has been drinking port.

Only 2 changes to the starting lineup. Hyam for Hill, Garrett for Tronstad.

What's that meant to mean, 'but a full 11 as we've previously seen'?? I certainly didn't think we were about to name a starting 10 instead, the injuries aren't that severe yet...

Two goals a game...although some games, it does feel like we've conceded two games...

I meant he isn't likely to make it at Championship level in the next two years, which is what we would reasonably need, if he is only getting a Northern Prem move at 22. I didn't mean he is too old to play in our ressies. Hilton probably isn't going to make it here either, but at least he's been trusted to sit the bench while Pears is out.

At 22, he's a bit far along in his development to only be playing at that level and have any real chance of making it here. Makes it seem pointless that we contracted him to 2025 in March. Imagine Hilton will be the u21 keeper when Pears is back.

Two things wrong with this post. The most glaring is that we absolutely do develop our own young players. The last stats showed we gave the second most minutes to players we developed ourself, out of all the clubs in England. The second is that you can't expect that having a good academy means you'll have players of the requisite quality ready to step in for all positions at all times.

Well I fundamentally disagree with nearly all of what you've said so I'll just leave it there.

Confidence. It's confidence based on confidence.