When it comes to the referee, of the two sides, we have less to complain about than Norwich. Hyam should have gone in the first half and Dennis could easily have gone for his first yellow. The second yellow was soft but one way or another, I don’t think we could complain about being down to 10 by the end.

We looked average throughout and should have been down to 9. Norwich won’t make the play offs and we didn’t lay a glove on them. Hand us 15th place now and call the season off.

The more I’ve thought about this the more I feel that no one is coming out of this well, Eustace included. The club is being run into the ground and the lack of investment in the playing squad is criminal. However, Eustace should have known what he was walking into and forcing a move now isn’t a good look. I’d be delighted as a Derby fan that he’s coming but they should be mindful that Eustace now has form for jumping ship as soon as the sh*t hits the fan. Ultimately we will never know the full story and I’m firmly placing the overall blame on the owners but to a lesser degree, Eustace has also let us down.

He’s gone. Derby wouldn’t be making a formal approach without encouragement from Eustace’s side. Eustace also made no effort to shut down the rumours after that game. The only thing I’m glad about is that this makes it completely clear to the outside world we are a clown car of a football club.

Seen it all before. Ineffective. Tepid. Impotent. Barely laid a glove on them all game. Gueye did what he could but Hedges and Dolan just aren’t enough of a threat. Cantwell didn’t touch the ball. Sooner we drop out of the play offs the better. Rather it happen now than delude ourselves into thinking we’re anywhere close to good enough to stay in them.

Seen it all before. Ineffective. Tepid. Impotent. Barely laid a glove on them all game. Gueye did what he could but Hedges and Dolan just aren’t enough of a threat. Cantwell didn’t touch the ball. Sooner we drop out of the play offs the better. Rather it happen now than delude ourselves into thinking we’re anywhere close to good enough to stay in them.

Armstrong is undoubtedly a good signing for WBA although he tended to only score for us in games against weaker opposition and looked good in a strong Southampton side. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did ok at WBA but might not meet expectations.

Who is calling Rudy a messiah? Also, regardless of your feelings on the window, how are you bracketing him with Venky’s and Waggott?

Better than it looked like being 12 hours ago. But that shouldn’t be the yardstick. Overall, underwhelmed. We’re better off than we were at the start of the window but compared to those around us and considering the money we’ve banked in the last year, it still feels like a missed opportunity. Pleased with Dennis and the LB sounds like a good buy. Replace Danns for Woodrow and Cissokho for Kargbo and I’d have felt more positively.

Don’t know why people are concerned. I can’t wait for the third instalment of ‘deadline day fiasco’. They excelled themselves last year so excited to see what they might bring to the table this time round. No inside info but had a few thoughts: - Club unveil a striker only to later realise it’s an egg and cress sandwich with a smiley face drawn on. - Waggott personally attempts to submit the player registration forms off but ends up accidentally uploading several scanned photocopies of his arse to the club’s Twitter feed. - After being sent out to re-stock Steve’s pork pie mini-fridge, Rudy inexplicably sells Callum Brittain to a local newsagent. Venky’s are impressed by the level of incompetence. Suhail fears for his job. Genuinely looking forward to it. Got a day off work to binge read the online reaction afterwards.

Window closes on Monday 3rd Feb, not the 31st Jan. There’s still plenty of time to look busy and deliver nothing.

As a fan, I much prefer going to a game knowing there will be a result rather than have the possibility of the game being replayed. Look at the West Ham game in the league cup a couple of seasons ago. A great night. Yes some of the romance is lost but it’s a sporting competition first of all, not a charity. Who would have wanted a replay if we’d drawn with Boro?

I’d argue that over two legs, the bigger club has a greater advantage than in a single leg that goes to extra time. It’s easy to say now because Spurs ultimately won, but Tamworth were 30 mins from penalties. That’s a better shot than another 90 away from home. Certainly good arguments regarding the huge financial benefits for smaller clubs etc but don’t think scrapping replays significantly alters the odds of a big cupset.

Surprised people are seriously considering the Brereton rumour. He’s not coming. Better teams are linked and he won’t want to come back here. It’s just lazy journalism.

I would judge BBD immensely if he came back here. To wind down your contract to ensure you have an easy way out, only to return on loan two seasons later? No chance. Move on.

The Darwen End arrangements will need explaining but as Burnley now have the whole lower tier, there’s probably not a lot that can be done. The club will need to learn lessons and restrict away sales for these fixtures in future until the demand from home fans can be properly gauged. The potentially available sections in the JW and Riverside remaining closed off, makes no sense.

The club are too busy finding reasons for why they can’t do things instead of trying to find solutions. The fans are turning up. Open the bloody stadium.

A maintenance issue prevents the club opening up the final seats in the BBE upper? - what type of maintenance issue only impacts the side blocks of the upper tier? - why doesn’t the same problem affect the Darwen End? - hasn’t the Ewood Express been using those seats within the last year? What’s changed since then? It’s ridiculous that a game which is practically sold out over a week in advance, will still see several thousand empty seats. It’s bad enough that the Darwen End will be nearly half empty but for there to be spare seats in the home end is inexcusable.

Not every game captures the imagination?? This is the first game in seven years we’ve had to open the top tier of the BBE and shaping up to be the best home attendance we’ve had in the Championship since the early 2000s. To be fair I haven’t checked the exact points totals but from memory we were 2nd in the table under Mowbray going into February 2022 and a year later we were in a similar position to where we are now under JDT. At no point did we see gates like this. Its hardly a complaint, more just an observation that whilst it’s not surprising this game has sold well, I don’t think anyone could have expected it would do this well.

We’ve done better than this and not sold as many tickets. It’s been 7 years since we last needed to open the BBE upper.

That didn’t take much. So you expected us to sell the ground out because we drew with them earlier in the season, despite not coming close to shifting this many tickets for over 7 years? Maybe write it down next time. I don’t know what they’re playing at with the upper tier of the BBE and it’s a shame that a game with so much demand will still see 3-4k seats empty in the Darwen End, which is not a good look. Saying that, I dont think anyone expected the game to sell this well.

Did anyone on here foresee this demand a few weeks ago? Considering there’s nearly two weeks until the game, it’s crazy how quickly the game is selling out. No other match in recent memory has sold as well regardless of our league position or ticket price.

Big pressure on the Hull game to avoid going into the derby off the back of four defeats. Anything from the other two would be a bonus off the back of yesterday’s performance.

From afar, this might look like an unfortunate defeat but from watching it, I thought we were deservedly beaten. Showed little ambition and never exerted any sustained pressure. Millwall were unremarkable and lacked quality but at least tried to be positive. If you play like we did then you forfeit the right to complain if the opponents grab a late winner. Id classify that as only marginally better than the Coventry performance. Only because of the unfortunate circumstances with going down to 10.

Cantwell did nothing. Fortunate to not be replaced earlier.