Red card for Wycombe... this might turn into a massacre now.

This is the Rovers that we want to see every week. Excellent performances all around. I'm trying to temper my excitement given it's only Wycombe, but we also had really good performances against Bournemouth and Newcastle, so it really feels like we've turned a leaf a bit and we could be for an exciting season. I just really like this current team and I don't think I've felt this way about a Rovers team since Hughes.

Bennett when he inevitably comes on in the second half.

DOLAN!!!!

That was so brilliant by Dolan and Johnson before him!!

Also find it strange that Nyambe has been dropped, hopefully Mowbray is asked about it after the game. Great to see Dolan get a 2nd start in a row... hoping to see a goal from him today. Brereton also needs to prove something today, preferably by scoring! Very attacking lineup today - with Travis & Evans out, it looks like we are in desperate need of another CM. I think a midfield 3 of Holtby, Johnson and Rothwell will be able to handle Wycombe, but against better teams that is nowhere near enough defensive cover.

I normally watch it on PC, but had to watch it on my phone via the app last week due to the subscription renewal issues. I'm seeing the same issue as you though - highlights are working fine, but full match replays are not working (the video thumbnail has a 'Register Now' button overlaid on it, and when you click it it just takes you to the Match Report). I expect the live match should be working tonight but keep us posted if you're still having issues.

Good deal for us. Good deal for Brentford. Poor deal for Arsenal.

Has to be Davenport’s time now. He Has a chance to stake a claim for the position while Evans and Travis are out. Definitely agree that with Evans/Travis being out we can’t solely rely on Johnson and Davenport and need to bring in another quality signing in CM. Desperately need to bring in a LB and CM now if we want to seriously challenge for top 6.

Have you checked your account on the Rovers website? I've had similar issues to the ones OnePhiLT described above, but also had a different issue with the Bournemouth game. My credit card details were set to expire, so I updated them through the website before the subscription renewal date. Surprise surprise - that seemed to have done nothing because they still tried to take payment from my expired card details. They didn't send me any notifications that the payment had failed, I only found out after checking the 'Payment History' in my account. I made several attempts to renew my season subscription via the website and despite saying that it was successful, the payment was not actually going through. After several attempts of purchasing both the season pass and a one-off match pass (the payments either failed or didn't appear in the payment history altogether), eventually the match pass payment went through and I was able to watch it via the iFollow app on my phone (it still wouldn't load on my PC). It's an absolute joke really - I've sent them an email about it but as per your experience, just received automated responses from them so far. I've since managed to renew my season subscription at least but will demand a refund for the match pass I had to buy for the Bournemouth game. I've been a subscriber for 3 seasons now so really annoyed at this. The problem is you don't really have any other options to watch the games overseas and to be fair, the stream and commentary is generally quite good when it works.

The disparity between us and Luton/Charlton etc last season is nowhere near the disparity between us and Bournemouth though. Either way, the performances and losses against Wigan, Luton, Millwall and Barnsley at the end of last season were completely unacceptable. We have to be finding a way to win those sort of matches this season.

Bournemouth’s squad value is 7-8x ours. Lerma cost them more than our whole squad is worth. Despite all that we dominated most of the game with 5 players from our Academy featuring. I don’t think anyone was happy to lose that game in the end. But surely you can take some heart from the performance against an opponent that was far superior on paper.

Dolan looks better than Bournemouth's whole team.

Click on the Settings icon on the video, and change the 'Audio' option. You can select between Home and Away commentary.

Last season when we had a settled back four of Bell, Tosin, Lenihan and Nyambe we only lost a single game against Fulham (1-0). Bell was much improved in that period and far superior to Williams who is an awful LB, which is why he’s himself asked to not be considered for that position anymore. Williams has shown himself to be a capable CB when he’s played there for us. Can you name a single game he was truly poor at CB for us? That’s not me saying that Bell and Williams are good enough for a promotion chasing club. But they are more than capable of doing a job to get results in this league. Wharton/Magloire/Carter look really promising but Magloire/Carter have already shown they have major mistakes in them at this level and Wharton is unproven.

No.

The players we have gone for (Ayala and Kipre) are on wages that are within our budget, so they are seen as reasonable targets. What can you do though if another club comes in and offers double or triple what you’re offering in terms of wages? The player will obviously choose the better deal and we are unwilling to up our offer due to the salary caps. I don’t think it’s really a mystery.

Our expected back four for our 1st game this season is going to be Bell, Williams, Lenihan and Nyambe. That got me wondering how many times that foursome has played together in the past 3 seasons. The games they played in (I’ve only included games where they played as a back four for the entirety of the match): 18/19 Season Derby (A) 0-0 D Stoke City (A) 2-3 W Norwich City (H) 0-1 L Bolton (H) 2-0 W 19/20 Season Cardiff (H) 0-0 D Birmingham (H) 1-1 D So only 1 loss in 6 games and 3 clean sheets as well. Not bad!

So you want us to get rid of Lenihan and Nyambe?

Is it actually confirmed how much Brereton cost in the end? Articles at the time stated "up to 7m", but our accounts show 5.2m was spent on transfers that season, which would have included Armstrong, Brereton, Rothwell, Davenport and Chapman.

Agree with you there... but it’s hard to predict the impact loan players may have on the season. I don’t think we signed Tosin, Walton and Cunningham on loan last season to float around mid table. Unfortunately Cunningham’s stint with the club got cut short and Walton proved to be a dud. Both players could have had the same impact on our season as Tosin did though, in which case we would likely have made the playoffs. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a short term loan deal if it helps you get out of this league, as its likely that we have to reassess the whole squad again once we’re in the PL anyway. The long term signings we’ve made in recent times have been smart. Gallagher, Brereton, Chapman, Davenport, Rothwell, Armstrong, Dack - they’ve all signed on modest wages and are still young and have potential to develop significantly. Together with the players coming through our academy, we have a really good group of players developing and learning together. If we do make it to the PL, all those players will be easy enough to loan out or sell on for reasonable fees if they can’t cut it at the top level. If we don’t make it to the PL, we’re at a lower risk level because we don’t have players sitting on crazy wages and we can just try again next season.

Most of the clubs buying players have either: a.) Sold players for big money last season or in the current window, or b.) Have been promoted to the Championship and need to make signings to compete, or c.) Have been relegated to the Championship and still have Sky money to spend

How did Chapman not score there?? Sums him up ...

Williams deserves a mention today... he has been stopping everything today. Really good performance from him.

Magloire is ridiculously fast. He's done really well today. We obviously still need another CB, but we have some good prospects coming through in Wharton, Carter and Magloire.