Stoppage time then saw Brad Potts pull a goal back and Preston make an unsuccessful appeal for a spot-kick after the midfielder was challenged by Gueye. The six-and-a-half thousand fans who are paying to be here, they expect better, we all expect better.
They should never. So we look at us. And then after that, obviously someone else has become the star of the show, not our players. Heckingbottom, who said he thought a member of his staff had been sent off at the end, confirmed Jordan Storey had come off in the first half due to an ankle issue. He also revealed that he had not brought on Milutin Osmajic, the forward who earlier in the season had served an eight-match ban for biting Blackburn defender Owen Beck, as the Montenegro international had been too unwell.
I thought it should have been out of sight first half, we played some fantastic football, really pleased to go in at half-time up. The way the lads battled and stuck together in that second half, I thought we really deserved the victory. Just prior to kick-off Blackburn announced their third signing of the transfer window in Sierra Leone forward Augustus Kargbo, who came on the pitch to be presented to the crowd having joined from Cesena on a two-and-a-half year deal.
By Phil Medlicott, PA.
