Rovers started the 2022/23 Championship season 4-4.
After finishing 2-3 in the last five games of last season, Rovers are without a draw in 13 league games.
They and Reading are two championship teams without a draw in their first eight matches.
Arsenal and Manchester United in the Premier League, Plymouth Argyle and Peterborough United in League One and Barrow and Mansfield in League Two are yet to draw.
But all six teams have played fewer league games than Rovers and Royals, who gave Jon Dahl-Tomason his first league debut last month.
Thomason won their first three league games, including a Carabao Cup victory over Hartlepool United, before tasting their first defeat.
The last loss to Bristol City meant that the longest consecutive championship match since 2006/07 was 13 without a draw.
Between December 2006 and April 2007, Rovers played 19 games (W9 L10) without a draw.
The sequence began with a 2-0 victory over Fulham at Ewood Park and ended with a 1-1 draw against the same opponents at Craven Cottage in April 2007.
There was a draw in between, but not in the league.
For example, Rovers were in the UEFA Cup at the time, but in February 2007 they drew 0-0 in the first leg against Bayer Leverkusen at Ewood Park and lost the first leg 3-2. After that, I withdrew from the competition.
Five days earlier, they had won the replay 1-0 at Ewood after a 0-0 FA Cup draw with Arsenal.
Having reached the semi-finals of that competition, Rovers drew 1-1 after 90 minutes with Chelsea, but lost 2-1 after extra time.
Other notable sequences since the 2006/07 season included ten games (W5 L5) from September to November 2009, with Rovers drawing one league game in 18 games in the 2010/11 season. I was.
Rovers were relegated from the Premier League after going 3-8 in their last 11 games in the 2011/12 season, but ended that sequence with a draw in the first game of the following championship season.
Between February and April 2016 they played 12 games (W5 L7) without a draw, but from December 2017 to April 2018 they played one of their 23 games. We got a draw.
When it comes to matching and winning, Rovers’ current eight matches have started the season without a draw and have to go all the way back to 1990/91.
There Rovers played 9 games without a draw, going 3 wins and 6 losses, before their first draw at Oldham Athletic.
There were two draws in the first 13 games of the 2017/18 season, but only one in the first 13 games of the 2009/10 season, with three consecutive 0-0 draws. .
In the 1995/96 season, Rovers had only two draws in their opening 14 league games.
Rovers’ draw numbers have been particularly consistent in a 46-game season.
They have drawn 12 out of 46 games in the last four seasons of the Championship, the same number in the 2017/18 Ligue 1 promotional campaign.
Seven of Tony Mowbray’s first 15 games in charge ended in a draw, and the 2016/17 season saw them relegated to League One by one goal, bringing the total to 15.
Meanwhile, Rovers’ opponents Watford on Tuesday night drew all four of their away games this season. They are the only team in the EFL where he has a record of 100% draws in trips this season.
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