Anyone got the team sheets?

Every indication Mowbray is over thinking this one and will confuse the hell out of our players. Expect a dire first half.

Well that was good fun. The City number 4 was the class act on the Park but other than that Rovers easily as good as City in every department. Eastwood well organised. Thought the two central defenders were excellent and liked the performance of our number 2. Number 4 a bit agricultural but effective and our 7 is quick. Agreed our first sub made a big difference. Their keeper rightly sent off for an awful challenge in the 96th minute.

Whatever the demerits of Raya, Walton was a much worse keeper in every respect. Not selling Raya would have meant not having the cash to buy Gallagher and that would have been a much better option too. We could probably have pushed the boat out to bring Reed back on loan before Fulham got to him and that would have been a massive positive. A seriously crap piece of business all round.

Social distancing

The Europa League tie between Riga and Tre Fiori (San Marino) was called off because of strong winds in the Latvian capital last night. They are currently playing it (ko 10.00 local time) and it is 0-0 at HT. I suppose there have been games kicking off so early before but I cannot think of any. Congratulations to Maltese Champions Floriana on their 1-0 win away to Linfield. The other three Maltese sides failed - Valletta at home to Bala Town of Wales in an earlier round- oh dear!

My hunch is there will be a significant reward for clubs that instil and train for a shoot on sight policy this season. The first two goals at Bournemouth suggest that. Interesting to see Roverseas' analysis that Rovers have had zero chances from inside the six yard box so far this season and 50% of chances have come from outside the 18 yard box. Early days so statistics are misleading but perhaps we are getting our shooting boots on and maybe a significant factor behind selecting Johnson.

I hear Danny Graham is buying a lovely cottage in the Langdales.

Crikey we are in trouble with injuries: Long term- Dack, Travis, Butterworth. This weekend- Magliore, Carter, Gallagher, Ayala, Evans Recovering- Johnson

Neil Warnock has coronavirus

Sod it, I am cancelling my monthly subscription.

Fitness and stamina levels can be tested in the gym. If he is there, he plays. If he is short by a small margin, start and replace If he is a bit further away, sub's bench Further away still, in the commentary box.

It is a given Ainsworth will win the dug out battle. The question is are his players close enough to Rovers in their abilities for Ainsworth's smarts to deliver the result? Last season, Charlton and Luton players were good enough to deliver their boss' plans at Ewood.

That is a pity. Emmanuel Monthe of Tranmere defending against Akinfenwa on a pudding of a pitch at Prenton Park was the highlight of my football watching last season. Akinfenwa scored a classic poachers headed goal as well- he lost his marker. Hard to believe anyone could miss him but the Tranmere defence did!

Akinfenwa- what a unit! Nearly 38 years old and 18 stones apparently. As mobile as a lump of concrete but he certainly knows how to time his shuffles to poach goals.

Oh no. At least we have a lot of midfield cover.

Chapman scored a fine individual goal against Fleetwood. Match report: A minute later, Buckley went to ground in the box following a positive burst forward by Chapman, but his penalty appeals were waved away. Rovers threatened again when Buckley’s ball across the face of goal was just out of Chapman’s reach, but the hosts opened the scoring against the run of play on 14 minutes when Paul Coutts’ corner was volleyed goalwards by Danny Andrew and Evans headed home from 10 yards out. It was almost 1-1 four minutes later, as Chapman played in Brereton, but Coleman made a smart save with his legs. Rovers had an even better opportunity to draw level a minute later, as Nyambe was tripped by Andrew in the area, but Brereton saw his spot-kick saved by Coleman. On 26 minutes, Rovers were deservedly back on level terms when Chapman drove at the Fleetwood defence, before picking out the bottom left corner from the edge of the area.

I have said it before but there is a high probability of going through the entire season without fans being allowed into grounds.

What happened to Travis?

Cannot see us winning this one. 1-2 to Wycombe.

Boro are not known for skimping on paying wages. The rest of their backline squad were judged to be better value for money than Ayala.

We were spoiled by Tosin last year and still we leaked badly at the back. Really hope he can form an excellent partnership with Lenihan.

Hope we are not all pinning too much hope on Ayala. The Boro players keeping him out of contention are nothing to write home about. I suspect Mulgrew, Williams and Evans will not be at Ewood by mid October based on Mowbray's moan about the suits. Is there any substance about the Greg Cunningham talk on here?