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No shit aimed at him. I'm next to the padded seats - in December they put up a load of netting from row 13/14 up leaving a small section below which is full on a match day. You can't get near him. He heard everything being chanted tho and looked slumped in his seat.

ignore looks like I've been had 😕

I was looking at this earlier. Don't forget the new defender's contract expires too. Assuming those players go. We'd have: GK Pears, Wahlstedt Def Brittain, Pickering, Hyam, Wharton, Carter, O'Riordan Mid Tronstad, JRC, Buckley, Garrett FW Szmodics, Hedges, Sigurdsson, Markanday, Leonard, Telalovic If we don't get relegated this time it looks odds on for next season.

Whilst a loan to buy looks to be the sensible option - see George Hirst - that must impact other potential deals given the maximum loans in a matchday squad. They're not going to bring in the Palace winger and Newcastle midfielder for example to go with all the others... I can't see that we've been linked with any other cash buys aside the 2 foreigners. The time is ticking...

Re Lawrence Shankland...

Buckley returned to light training 2 weeks ago. I expect he'll be back in February? In terms of numbers I'd say we have enough to get through to the end of the season - Tronstad, Garrett, JRC, Ayari, Buckley. Chrisene can also play there. Questions over the quality but there are other areas of the pitch to look at before midfield for me.

If only it was that simple... It's been discussed to death on here but the ticket office closes at 5pm so you'll need to buy one online... 😕

Gilsenan reminds me of Harry Chapman. A lot of hype from the fans and at a young age. There looks to be something there when on the pitch but for whatever reason, chances have been minimal. I wouldn't be surprised to see him end up at the same level and not fulfilling the potential. Lets hope not.

Admin. My only fear if/when that comes is will we lose the academy? It's still the one glimmer of hope that's left. Though I suppose it would be fitting that as Venkys lose control of the club they also f... us out of that too. One last hurrah.

Give over. He went out on 2 separate occasions - I've not noticed any other players do that this season or any of the other subs yesterday. They do a warm down after full time. They forgot they made a sub in the first half. It's a shit show from top to bottom.

I think it sums up the circus when Harry Leonard went out to warm up twice after we'd made 5 subs. Everyone's heads have gone - management and players - it needs a change.

Most of those were his second touch.

I don't expect we'll see any ins or outs until after this court case - spend money and there'll be an argument of why do you need to send this much if you have money for transfers. Sell players and bring money in = why do you need to send this much when you've just recouped £x.

If only we'd recently signed some left back cover 🤔

Re Hayden Carter - When he was being treated they heavily strapped his ankle and foot to restrict movement - to me it looked like he'd rolled it. He was struggling for a while before signalling to the bench and going down. I think if we'd had options on the bench he'd have come off.

Hope to be proved wrong but I can't see Carter being fit for this and the Rovers comms on Saturday thought S Wharton would need to sit out 7 days if concussed. Whalstedt Travis Hill Pickering Brittain Tronstad Wharton Moran Szmodics Dolan Leonard Through form and injuries the team picks itself for me.

Approximate starting appearances in the Championship for the team last night - tells it's own story, especially the bench. 7 - Wahlstedt 56 - S Wharton 7 - Hill 170 - Travis 27 - Brittain (+37 for Barnsley) 43 - Szmodics (+40 for Peterborough/Bristol) 7 - Moran 7 - Sigurdsson 23 - A Wharton 7 - Tronstad 63 - Dolan 0 - Hilton 0 - Atcheson 0 - Gamble 0 - Batty 4 - Garrett 6 - Leonard 5 - Markanday 0 - Ennis 0 - Telalovic

The arseholes have put netting over the padded seats upto row 13 and have 2 external security grippers at the bottom. Presumably to protect Waggott from getting any stick. He'll be in there GB has just come out. Edit. Or not. Looks like he's bottled it which says it all.

The ticket system will feed into the website rather than the other way around - they're able to sell tickets over the phone and in person but with the online channel down it will put more pressure on the ticket office. The next amateur-hour move has been made - emails have gone out with pre-match info but full of broken images because they're linking to the rovers.co.uk hosting 😕

The website's not working because there are no records telling the domain where to route traffic (the A record and MX records are missing). If it was a problem with the DNS provider (the company that controls those records) they could simply update the nameservers on the domain to somebody else and reinstate them. It does take a while to propagate but no longer than an hour or two. It's straightforward to remove then re-add records. You'd think 'surely not' but it is an easy way to stop/slow down sales to fit the narrative of closing the Blackburn End whilst blaming technical issues. I expect there'll be people here who have more insight but that's my take.

If anyone does wish to give him a bit of stick he usually sits on the BBE side of the closed centre seats - around row 10. You'll be able to walk along the row of padded corporate seats and be a few feet away from the incompetent arse hole 👍

Thoughts from walking the dog but I think most have been covered: 1) Time is well overdue on starting with the new GK - 11 goals conceded in 4 games 2) Adam Wharton's value is dwindling playing how we are. We forget his age - he still needs managing and taking out. Unfortunately the ideal replacement is at Sheffield Weds 3) How does Dolan continue to get minutes? Please can we try someone else there - Gilsenan, JRC, Batty, anyone.. 4) They can't continue with this brand of football / shape. Reminds me of the period before Christmas (I think) when we got dicked against Burnley & North End. We then went with 3 in the middle and looked a lot better - time to shore up. 5) As much as I like JDT, the blame is starting to land on him. He's the best manager the club has had in years but we're trying to play a style that doesn't suit the players available. Is this to prove a point? I don't think it's sabotage but what is it? Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? 6) Linked to 5 - why didn't we go into the game with the same set up and mindset as the Watford game? We don't have the players to come in to the same positions to change how things are going and for me there's going to need to be a tactical change if we're to pick up points from Leicester and Coventry. oh one more, need a positve... 7) Bradley Who? Really impressed with how Sammie Szmodics has stepped up this season. Despite the history and sentiment he is showing it was the right decision to not renew BD's expensive contract in the summer

Jesus 😕