If anyone was that assed about the weather in Norwich, I’m sure they could find history or some photographic evidence on the internet, it shouldn’t be that difficult. Our pitch has been absolutely awful on a few occasions over the last few years, this isn’t a one off.

Liverpool beaten 3-1 at Brentford. Shame that…

How could we know? Markanday has barely played for the first team and Gallagher has scored for the first team before…

Watford at home.

I rate Potter as a manager, but I think that is turning out to be a poor career move for him so far. They look toothless up front and susceptible to pressure at the back.

JDT has been in football long enough to know that you are judged on the here and now, as things happen. Otherwise, message boards, highlights shows and social media pages would be completely pointless. I’m buzzing that we are third and certainly don’t want the manager sacked, but I really don’t like his dampening down of expectation that has happened and JDT harking back to the project when things go pear shaped. We must be the only club in the world that wants to get promoted in our own time, rather than ASAP. It’s not that deep, some people just have different opinions. You’ve got to remember too, message boards can be very reactive and emotional, particularly immediately after poor defeats.

It’s fair enough to not think we are in the promotion shake up, but why not just say ‘we aren’t expected to go up, but we will do our best to make it happen’. Instead of some nonsense about respecting the project. What about respecting the fans and wanting to win football matches. If the aim isn’t to win as many football matches and instead to add value to players and to continue a project- what’s the point? As I said the other day, I support Rovers, not the balance sheet.

I suspect it’s been a culmination of being sick of us being shite under Venky’s and our own manager talking our promotion chances down in the press. Imagine reading that as a player…

Funnily enough, I think Armstrong would do well here at the minute. He tends to shoot a lot and as a team, we don’t at present.

Thing is, we have a lot of possession, but very little penetration in the final third. Previously very effective players like BBD and Dack are firing blanks. We’ve no creativity in the middle of the park and players like Adam Wharton come in, play really well, then are never seen again. It’s just not good at all at the minute. Yes, I know we are third, but can anyone really see a good sustained run coming on? We’ve been missing in action since the Burnley match, with the exception of the Norwich game.

Performances, not learning from mistakes that cost us goals and points, persisting with shite players that have shown nothing- take your pick.

If this was at 3pm, I’d probably go, but a 12pm kick off New Year’s Day isn’t going to happen for me. It won’t matter if I don’t turn up anyhow, as the players haven’t bothered for ages.

Gaslighting isn’t tolerated, nobody is gaslighting anyone from what I can see. I have to say though, if anyone thinks Hirst has any strengths, I’d love to know what they are, as they’ve been completely missing in action so far. The lad has offered absolutely nothing to justify his signing. He’s been abysmal. I hope he improves for the club’s sake, I really do, but he’s shown me nothing so far to suggest he will.

I think this is the crux of it, whether we as fans want to admit it or not, anyone with two working eyes knows Burnley have a far better squad than us. What we don’t need, is Burnley fans coming on here, being cocky and rubbing our noses in it. We are happy to have Burnley fans on here, as long as you respect the house you’re in. Don’t think any Rovers fans would have gone on a Burnley forum at our height and rubbed our noses in it and lasted long. You’re lucky we are a patient bunch on here.

This bit right here, can’t be insulting posters, never mind en masse! (It’s against the rules). Also, any queries about hidden posts in future, need to be in ask admin, or sent via private message to a moderator.

Still had PTSD from losing in the 90th minute at Sunderland, having set off at 7am Boxing Day to get there tbh. (That and my mate I usually sit with wasn’t there tonight).

I’m almost a bit ashamed to admit this, but as soon as we went 2-1 down, having gone down to ten men, I walked out and back to my car. I didn’t want to waste any more time in the cold watching the inevitable unfold. I walked out early in the PNE game too. Before this season, I’d always stayed until the end. They’ve finally managed to find a way to break me I think….

Have a day off lad, Christ. That sort of thing happens all the time and I’ve never seen anyone sent off for it before.

Do you not rate him? You never said.

Anyone want to update us on what that red card was for? Couldn’t see anything worthy of a red from here…

‘Keep it tight for the first 35 seconds after half time lads’.

Apart from two chances he created?

Bit of a strange half, this. Thought they were well on top until we scored, then that really deflated them until pretty much when they hit the bar. We have definitely been a lot better than Boxing Day though thankfully. I’d expect a big improvement from them second half though, they won’t be that poor again.

Why wouldn’t he say something like ‘we’re ahead of where I thought we’d be, but I’m happy with that and of course I’d love us to get promoted this season’. The negative attitude of him writing us off can’t be good to hear as a player….

I’ll tell you why. JDT said himself ‘we aren’t in the promotion picture this season’ the other day. Almost like us being third is an inconvenience. Is the project more important than our league position? Is adding value to players more important than winning matches? I support Blackburn Rovers football club, not our balance sheet… If promotion isn’t the aim, when we are sitting in third, I start to question what the point of us being a professional football club is, I’ll be honest.