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Yesterday we collected a point relegation sides don't get. We have played WBA, Brum, Ipswich and Stoke of the favoured sides and frankly been unlucky not to have got more points against them. But relegation sides don't get the luck especially against good sides. We have been dire in one half against Norwich and two halves against Charlton and suffered a worldie and suicide against Swansea. The real relegation test will be gaining or dropping points against the two Sheffields and Oxford. Performances against Hull and Watford suggest we will be ok but do a Charlton and we will be deservedly in the poo. I can see us playing brilliantly against Coventry, terribly against Sheffield United and losing both...

Not seen it except the 2 minutes highlights which suggest Toth made decent saves and directed the ball away from trouble. He would have saved the goal looking at how he had come out to block except for the looped deflection. Robbins seems to think Stoke were at serious risk of losing that game. They would have been nicely tucked in behind the top 3 had they held on. I was very impressed by Gudjonsson at Watford. Thought he was going to be on a level with Cantwell on that performance. Good to read Miller, de Neve and Kargbo played well while on the pitch. Kargbo could easily have fluffed his goal and kept his cool giving the Stoke defence and keeper no chance with his placement. Given the overwhelmingly negative sentiment on here and lack of mention of his name, I take it McLoughin must have been pretty decent... Pitch looked great despite having been submerged by the River Darwen and suffered a biblical storm in the previous 24 hours.

15 points deduction for Wednesday now expected. Effectively means we have two relegation places to avoid with Sheffield United having ownership and a summer transfer window which makes ours look benign and Oxford in danger of second seasonitis. Ismael Gestede and Pasha will have to work on it to get us relegated. Not a gimme by any means.

We could be 10 points clear at the top and we would still lose at home to Stoke.

Is an upgrade on Brittain.

Kargbo abysmal. Thanks to big club 100th minute equaliser we are outside the bottom 3 on goal difference over a club that doesn't pay its players. From the Rovers TV angle, both the 87th and 88th minute incidents were clear penalties we weren't given.

Expose? Which one???? They could run one a day for at least a week. Andy Cryer sent a welcome message of solidarity. Now there is a gentleman who went through a lot when covering the Rovers. I will repeat myself, the club statements offer no room for compromise. A very dangerous game for the club to be playing. Gestede may not know the extent of the skeletons littering Ewood since the start of 2010. Find it difficult to believe Pasha doesn't know at least 80% in which case this ban is both reckless and desperate.

Yes but if the River Darwen is running high after a Friday deluge, the drainage would still be waterlogged the day after....

Need to get points on the board. The Stoke game could be at risk of a water logged pitch.

Swansea have some very dangerous forwards. We will get a real hammering if we play like we did at the Valley.

Players gave Val a really special early 50th birthday present yesterday.

Catastrophically bad defeat. Charlton weren't good but we were terrible. Rovers were a bunch of cast offs playing like cast offs today. Management of the team looked just as woeful.

Dawn Dunn- a relative of David?

So the red card stands. What about the yellow cards for our players?

Usually when one side escalates like Rovers have done, they have an end goal and amicable resolution in mind. Something about this tells me the club doesn't have such a position planned and has opted for a brittle uncompromising stance. The tone of the statement gives the club no out and more importantly puts the LT in a position of having to fight it it is to retain editorial integrity and readership credibility In which case something breaks... The demand that away clubs deny the LT reporting rights also looks desperate and ineffectual. I hope Charlton tell Rovers this is not their fight and honour Elliot Jackson's press credentials.