This Hull side can play a bit so should be a footballing contest. Rosenior will set them up with a game plan to beat us. Will be a good and different sort of challenge after Rotherham. I expect the starting eleven to be more like the team that finished at Rotherham than the one that started.

Saint Maximin is the only sub 30 year old off to collect his pension as far as I can recollect.

Not his fault but zero reflex reaction.

Remember two play off places last season were taken by Boro and Coventry who were both in relegation slots in October. All that can be said conclusively is two games have been played so far. But the current Southampton defence is still leaky...

Armstrong has scored one which glanced his head without him knowing and two penalties. If Martin doesn't use whatever is given him from transfer fees to buy a completely new defence, Southampton are going to struggle.

Hope your health is stabilised now and you are enjoying life. It will be a weird experience for you to have Rovers visiting Harrogate!

Liked the way Szmodics had enough presence of mind to run back to half way after both his goals. Any celebration would surely have a second yellow. JDT instilling excellent discipline.

Sheffield Wednesday in charitable mode at Hull yesterday but Hull are a very neat footballing side and don't let Tufan shoot!

Two games, opposition benches three yellows and one straight red. We know JDT is brilliant at press conferences- looks like he is brilliant at touch line banter as well! What is Danish for sledging?

This is somewhat over the top. We were very dominant, won a penalty and missed it and then gifted both Rotherham goals with mistakes I doubt either Szmodics or JRC will repeat (hopefully). Three takes Dolan twice in front of an open goal neither had the athleticism nor presence of mind to put an awkward ball on the target. For a striker like JDT, that is far more likely to cost Dolan his place than his general poor decision making. I wouldn't write him off but he hasn't caused JDT any sleepless nights about what to do now Ennis is fit and when Sigurddson is fit. We haven't really seen those two and there are four more bodies in the Swag bag so jury is out on this transfer window which has 18 days left. Wharton put in three brilliant tackles I didn't think he had in him quite apart from the assist for Szmodics first. Ten men or not, last season no way would we have rescued a point from that game. For once our use of the ball stretched and exhausted the ten men which was great to.see too. And boy we will be livid if one of our's gets a red like that Rotherham lad did.

Should have been given the penalty to take

He missed a horror of a penalty for Chile

Crazy crazy game- exhausted here after watching that. Szmodics madness bad and good. At least we have shown we can come back from 2 down. 22 shots is a huge number but so few on target- come on guys the net is big enough! On paper two points dropped but definitely one gained from where we were after 50 minutes.

Szmodics has just had as bad a half as I can ever remember a Rovers player ever having. Leonard should have taken the penalty. Over to JDT to be brutal at half time.

Adam thrown into the rough and tumble of Rotherham away. I like JDT's thinking here- just hope he doesn't get injured and really has learnt enough about looking after himself..

Rovers Police saying at least 1700 Rovers fans travelling.

BBC minute by minute got the teams mixed up in the penalty shootout! I suppose they are all women...

Nsango scored in a mid-week behind closed doors full u21 game against Accy Stanley on Wednesday, Biniek is a winger and got our consolation at Chelsea tonight. Nsango was played by Poland as a number 10 in the recent UEFA u19s in Malta.

None of the Walsall starters are in the u-21s at Chelsea.

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/match/chelsea-u21-vs-blackburn-rovers-u21-english-premier-league-2-2023-08-11?tab=match-day

Under 21s away at Chelsea this evening in the first game of the new fangled season. Chelsea likely to have an extremely strong line-up.

That's terrible USAblue- horrible experience for you and the family but glad you are all safe and well. Hope everything gets sorted well with the paperwork and insurance and Rovers can put a smile on your face on Saturday.

Plenty of reasons why the Dingles can win tonight But going for Dingles 0 City 6

Those defeats came when we played like drains. Wigan also played terribly making it all the more frustrating but Reading played out of their skins that night against us. The challenge for JDT ball this season is for off days not to cost us a pasting this season but at worse a draw. Let's take "Fortress Ewood" on the road with us.

Listening to the Rotherham guy on Rovers Chat, it seems that they haven't gelled their 8 signings yet plus plenty of injury disruption. So fingers crossed we are playing them at the right time and maintain our concentration and discipline.