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Difficult to build up from the back with tanner at cb. Cant ping a pass like zac. When he's on the right he sometimes gets forward overlapping Ross. But Ross hasn't got up and down much from rcb today.

Few of our players need to show for the ball more and play with a hit more urgency 

They look sharp. We look a bit stilted. Few poor touches from Williams 

Few players slipping over. Ref giving out cards like confetti 

Good hudd following in fine voice 

Looks like back 3, sykes rwb. Knight and twine behind TC

Well well well.

Can't remember who it was on wed who posted about there not being much between most if not all teams in the champ. Coming down to tactical set up/form/desire/who woke up on the right side of the bed. They're being proved right with this top 3 choking the way they are.

Funny old game. Blackburn fans must be scratching their heads.

3 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

Referee is Rebecca Welch, who was the first female ref to take charge of a Premier League game in December 2023. She became a football referee in 2010, but continued to work in her NHS post until 2019, before turning her attention to officiating on a full-time basis.

40% off the yellow kit being advertised last night. Wonder how many of them they ever sold? Can't say I remember seeing many.

Hope for everyone's sake the club just play it safe this year - no "nods to tradition", no "homages to the past", no "celebrations" of this or that. Call me a cynic. 

Just a good quality red shirt please. Too much to ask?

Probably end up with something from the Zak Vyner range.

10 minutes ago, Lydered said:

It was Toby that made the statement not Leroy, the reason it stood out to me was because he said "Vyner is 26, or maybe 27". And I just thought it sounded amateur.

I don't know if it's just me, but Toby Osborne is absolutely terrible as a commentator, really don't know how he's got that gig, it almost distracts from the game. Chris Honor is even worse when he's on.

Really refreshing having Leroy on tonight and actually talking about the game as it was happening, instead of Toby's predictable input of "I'm sure we'll see a sub soon, Mehmeti and Harry Cornick are on the bench"

Football commentary obviously isn't as easy as we think!

I haven't watched on Robins TV for a little while - but one relatively simple thing that would elevate the commentary significantly would be just to talk less! It's not radio, we can see what's happening. These guys should sit down and listen to Martin Tyler, Clive Tyldesley etc. I'm not sure the robins tv guy quite understands what the role of the commentator is. Maybe Jonathan Pearce could give him some pointers.

Came across Jonathan Pearce's euro 96 capital gold fm commentary the other day for England v Holland. If you think Robins TV is a little bit partisan, doesn't compare to this. Think English version of that Icelandic commentator a few years ago.

Excellent. Now let's turn our full attention to finishing 11th.

Listening to the football cliches podcast recently - apparently some now refer to a clean sheet as a "Cleano". Let's hope our social media team don't catch on.

Good signs from our defence tonight - as you say a young back line, without Rob Dickie who has been one of our best players. Considering we're without Naismith and Atkinson (I'd forgotten all about him until somebody mentioned him earlier) it's all the more impressive to go on a run without conceding (yes...Vardy should have scored...but he didn't!)

1 minute ago, Harvey86 said:

Weird he couldn’t make it, seeing as he works there

Maybe the flyers were in action? Can't be in two places at once

Proper pundit isn't he (Rosenior, for those of you who aren't on first name terms!) - was a regular on the football league show I recall? Always seems like a good bloke.

Presume he still holds the record for the quickest managerial sacking - appointed at Torquay 10 minutes before the club was taken over and the new owners relieved him of his duties. Incredible to think really - did he get a pay out?

Felt sorry that the ref made them play an extra 6 minutes at the end. Audible, incredulous shouts of '6?!' in the home end at 5-0 up told its own story 

It might be a PR win for the club to just come out and say - we got this one wrong. He can't play football. We've been Ali Dia'd. 

Fantastic. Very enjoyable. Different team to the last time i made a home game. It was petering out at 2-0 which wouldn't have been bad - but the second half threatened to be excruciatingly boring until he changed the front 3 and we were right at them again.

So credit where it is due, subs had a massive effect.

Hope Blackburn refund their fans after their effort. But we really made them pay. Well done all. Let's follow it up on Saturday.

Positive goal difference here we come 

2 pens. Unbelievable 

Excellent anis. Well done

Is that mebude getting ready? My eyesight isn't what it was 

Like a pre season game now

Believe last time we were 2 up at HT was manning's first home game against boro. It was 2-2 within about 5 mins of the restart. Though we did go on to win...

2 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

When we are poor then we are shit. When we are good then the opposition is shit! 

'Twas ever thus, and ever thus shall be.

They've made a few chances for us but we have played a few good balls in behind too. Pleased with the first half. Should be 3 if not 4

They are very poor

A number of times sykes or twine have picked up a second ball cleared by a centre back in lots of space. Don't know where their centre midfielders are 

Important to keep our concentration now. 4 clean sheets in a row would be good.lets not gift them a goal