It feels like the hierarchy at Norwich are happy just to bank the Premier League money, go down and repeat the process again. They never make a fist of staying up and spend as little as they can on cheap gambles. Last time they came into the Premier League with a better squad. Buendia, Cantwell and Pukki were on fire and raring to go. This time, there's no momentum, Buendia's gone, I don't know where Cantwell is (injured/out of form?) and Pukki's gone off the boil. Hanley's being exposed most weeks at the back, he isn't up to it at this level. Their starting 11 looks really poor. It will be interesting to see if they can make it past Derby's record lowest points total.

The Cardiff commentators were equally stunned at full time. They said something along the lines of "Blackburn aren't Fulham or West Brom, but they have beaten us comfortably". Brilliant 😁.

Yeah, that's the one. Bohinen found it difficult to see the ball. I think that was also the kit we had when the fight broke out between Batty and Le Saux on the pitch in Moscow.

What a leap and knock down from Gally. This is a real statement from us.

Wow! That is an unbelievable first half.

What a finish from Diaz!! This is going a lot better than I expected. Brilliant stuff.

Ah yeah, I forgot about Peter Ndlovu. He scored at Ewood in a game where Shearer got a hat-trick, the season after we won the title. I used to collect the Merlin sticker albums back then too so would become aware of some players through that. I remember Huckerby always being a danger due to his pace. There was a season where we lost 5-0 at their place, with me getting more and more wound up with every refresh of the Ceefax page 😁.

He was just slightly before my football viewing time. I wasn't old enough to remember the first two seasons of the Prem, so he didn't come to mind.

I'm pleased to see Coventry doing well. Whenever Coventry are mentioned I think back to the days of Huckerby, Whelan, Dublin, Chippo and Hadji. They've had it bad for so long, it would be great to see them make it back to the Premier League. It's no surprise that they've kicked on after getting rid of the chumps that were holding them back. A move that desperately needs to be made at our place.

I can't say I fancy our chances tomorrow. I fear this is exactly the type of game to highlight the weaknesses in our side. A very physical visiting side that loves to hurl long throws and sling crosses in to the big striker, Moore, who is very good at this level. Two big lads at the back in Flint and Morrison, good defenders, who also have an eye for goal and who will cause us problems from set pieces. Personally, I don't see Brereton or Gallagher laying a glove on either of them. A win would be massive for us, even this early on in the season. I hope this post is proven to be nonsense come 5pm tomorrow, but I worry it's likely to be a case of men against boys as they bully our midfield and see out an ugly but comfortable 2-0 win.

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Another good episode. I'm enjoying this series. How did 'The Entertainers' not win the league that season? They were brilliant to watch back then and to be 12 points clear and not see it through must still hurt. I particularly looked forward to our games against them and there were quite a few around that time, including the cup games. Fenton scoring twice to ruin their title bid 😁. Gillespie was a quality winger on his day. He was direct and would look to go past defenders and beat them on the outside. He had some good games in a Rovers shirt, but looking at his career overall, he should have done so much more with his talent. Next episode, Arsene Wenger's introduction to English football. His debut game was at Ewood. I was sat right next to the Arsenal fans in the Darwen End Upper that day. Can still hear the "Ian Wright Wright Wright" chants. It's sad to see the state of Rovers, Arsenal and Newcastle today. This series brings back great memories though.

Disappointed with Poveda so far. Expected more from him. Listening to it on the radio and all I'm hearing is 'Poveda overruns the ball'. Need to get Khadra on for him.

That's the 11 I was hoping to see. Good to see Poveda back, plus we have two lively attacking options to bring off the bench later on. Let's get after these today, they have hardly pulled up any trees so far this season. COYB.

Pulis is still available, worryingly!

I haven't bothered with the group stages for a few years, but I'm taking a keen interest this time. Brilliant to see Young Boys get a 95th minute winner against that lot. I'll take that as revenge for the Alan Smith goal at Ewood when Saha punched the ball into his path. Liverpool v Milan lived up to its billing. After a blistering start, Liverpool were somehow trailing at half time. Good fightback in the second half though. City getting a hatful isn't a surprise these days, but them conceding three at home last night was. Interesting to see how both defences get on in the tougher games. PSG up next for City. Elsewhere, two goals from Jason Roberts' strike partner (what might have been) for Bayern to down Barca and four goals from Sebastian Haller for Ajax as they beat Sporting Lisbon 5-1! The same Haller who was anonymous at West Ham. I saw a result in the Europa League last night that made me smile. Spartak Moscow 0-1 Legia Warsaw. If ever there was a perfect Europa League group for Rovers...😁.

Smallwood was a breath of fresh air when he first arrived and that was mainly because we had become so used to abject performances from Lowe. He was everything that Lowe wasn't and played a key role in our promotion from L1. However, moving up a level, it became clear that Smallwood wasn't good enough for where we wanted to be (which we have never got near). I'd say Williamson and Lowe were worse than Smallwood. Akpan and Smallwood, it's a toss of a coin for me. I can't believe some of the players we have seen at our club in recent times. They would never have got near the place if we weren't in such a mess. Mokoena was like Makelele in comparison to those mentioned above. I miss 'the axe'.

The subs have changed the game for us! Get in Diaz. That is a belting goal.

Khadra has already had a positive impact. We've livened up now.

The reason why I think he knows about this forum is, that there have been a few comments made by him in interviews over the last year or so that have felt like he was responding to comments posted on here. He also said in one interview that he doesn't do social media, but he is made aware of comments on it.

I thought the "does it matter what Joe Bloggs says on social media? Who cares?" comment was quite telling. There was no need for it as the discussion was on refereeing decisions. Further on we have the comments that you mentioned and him saying how he would then sit at home and criticise every decision they make. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think he's been made aware of this forum.

Really enjoyed that. A fantastic episode. They've never liked the fact we went and won it, so not surprised they tried to go with the money angle. Those really were two diabolical refereeing decisions in our games against that lot that season. Never a penalty, let alone a red for Berg and there was no foul from Shearer for the goal at Old Trafford. On another note, the game needs more mavericks like Cantona. I miss the days of the characters and the flair players like Ginola, Ruel Fox, Bergkamp, Zola and so on. It's all too rigid these days.

The one player that should not be offered a new deal, imo. He has been a liability in our defence for years. Yet due to the crap way in which we are run, we have never looked to bring in an upgrade. I've said it before on here and I stand by it. As long as Lenihan remains a mainstay in our defence we will continue to concede soft goals. He's rash, he doesn't instill confidence back there and isn't a proper centre back at the end of the day. We've been making do with him for years, as we have had so many other problem areas in our squad. Just look at all of the points we have thrown away from winning positions over the last few years. The shoddy defending, the leads lost, the amount of times we've said we need to sort the defence out, we need a proper centre back etc. There's been one constant feature among our backline throughout all of that, who rarely gets mentioned. It's not all down to Mulgrew, Williams, the young lads etc. Tosin came in and played well, but our defence was still crap overall. Harwood-Bellis was impressive during his time here, yet the defence was still crap overall. Ayala has come in and played well, yet we still can't keep clean sheets and still have a tendency to capitulate. It's time we addressed the issue. We won't though, because there is no appetite at the club to really kick on. Instead, we find ourselves in a crap situation whereby he has become one of our main defenders and we have to offer him a new deal to stop him leaving on a free. Replace Lenihan with a Cooper, Flint, Bauer or a Harwood-Bellis and we would see a big improvement, imo.

Brereton hits the post! There's no way we aren't going to see a red card the way this game is going.

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