Adam Wharton

[London blue]

Filly signed up to the tinpot, cringe club.

As someone else said, my love of football goes beyond watching Rovers, and that Wharton will almost certainly be playing at the very top will only enhance my enjoyment of watching it.

Sorry.

[Dreams of 1995]

2 hours ago, Displaced Rover said:

Sorry I didn’t realise I’m only allowed to view certain topics…

The collective head loss from you all on here about Wharton is tragic. If you saw other clubs doing this you’d think it’s incredibly tin pot (and you’d be correct)

How is it tin pot to be celebrating a local lad whose career trajectory is looking like he will go down as one of the great English players?

There have been other players who have left us that are doing equally well. David Raya for example. There isn’t the same interest because he isn’t a Blackburner, he doesn’t still come down and watch the Rovers

I suppose if you don’t like it, you don’t have to read the thread at all. Nothing tragic about keeping an eye on one of our own 

[bluebruce]

3 hours ago, Displaced Rover said:

Sorry I didn’t realise I’m only allowed to view certain topics…

The collective head loss from you all on here about Wharton is tragic. If you saw other clubs doing this you’d think it’s incredibly tin pot (and you’d be correct)

You're allowed to view them, obviously. I'm just pointing out it's weird and pointless to do so if you're not interested, just to come and bitch about people who are. 

[bluebruce]

4 hours ago, Eddie said:

 

There are few examples that are more indicative of just how far this club has fallen.

That's the strangest thing that's been said in here yet. There are absolutely loads.

The dwindling fanbase. The fact we can protest extensively but know that nothing will likely be done. The fact managers don't get sacked here due to fan pressure like they would everywhere else. The embarrassingly long stay in this league. The total lack of ambition from the club. The lack of communication from our own owners. The fans at each others throats, with one half infected with some kind of weird Stockholm syndrome about our blatantly poisonous owners. The inability to get anybody to renew their contract for more than a snickers as a pay rise. The decaying state of Ewood. The charlatans we've let have a big say in running us. The fact Waggott is still here.

Just off the top of my head. The fact some fans are still following the exploits of a local lad and fan who we built is really neither here nor there.

[bluebruce]

Actually some more...the O'Brien debacle. The Maguire debacle. The Brierley debacle. The every January transfer window debacle, even when poised for promotion. I can't imagine them not being well ahead in anybody's list no matter how they feel about this.

[Upside Down]

6 hours ago, bluebruce said:

He has the potential to become a world class player. He was hardly going to slum it at this ambitionless circus in the Championship for too long and waste his career. He didn't force the club to sell him, in fact the rumours were that the club basically forced him to leave, saying they needed the money to keep running.

Doesn't that last part justify my argument here?

[Leonard Venkhater]

21 hours ago, bluebruce said:

I mean, I wasn't there, it was maybe 3 years before I got into football. But from what I infer from the moaning I see, a lot of people are holding a grudge against them for more than 30 years because a referee handled the game poorly and cost us promotion. Which doesn't sound like good reasoning. I'm sure someone can tell me what I'm missing about it.

 

The context was a club that had failed to make the final step in 1981 on goal difference and one that had faded away from promotion positions to 5th more than once afterwards, including  the previous season's huge ,final stage collapse from automatic promotion position with Archibald, Ardiles et al.

This was an awful, awful weekend. The weekend of Tiananmen Square massacre too.

Rovers arrived with a 3-1 advantage from the first leg with the frustration of Howard Gayle's missed penalty.

The Rovers fans were crammed in a tiny corner. It felt much more restricted than my previous visits to Selhurst. The Palace crowd were already wound up and their stadium managers were clever at placing speakers to blast out the way contingent, so we could hardly hear ourselves speak in the 20 minutes before kick off. 

The team bloody froze. Nothing went right from the first kick of the ball....and yet, we still could have done it. We only needed to score once.

Courtney allowed Wright and Bright to get away with fouling over physicality from the start...Think of it, as a cross between Old Trafford and Escape to Victory!

Then, the penalty that never was -in the 2nd half at 0-0. None of us knew why it had been given. Even Ian Wright agreed, albeit 25 years later. From memory, the Palace attack was actually finished and the ball was moving out of our area at the time.

Finally, the last few minutes were a joke when Courtney allowed play to continue while hundreds of Palace fans, spilled onto the side of the pitch along the touchline..

The final whistle and the Dave Clark fcking Five...

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Leonard Venkhater

[Upside Down]

7 hours ago, Eddie said:

Honestly, our club is bigger than this.

If I were supporting some National League club, then I would love to follow the rise of an academy player. But what a f*cking tiny club mindset. 

Agree with this 100%.

It's small time and tinpot. Embarrassing really.

I don't give two fucks about Crystal Palace, they're a complete non entity.

I can understand a very minor interest in how Wharton is getting on but this whole thread is just completely embarrassing.

We are Blackburn Rovers. Former Premier League champions and the tenth most successful club in England.

Wharton should have stayed and forced the club to run out of money to bring on administration, that would have been a great thing for him to do.

He ain't a Rovers player anymore so I couldn't give a toss.

What are you all going to do if he scores against us? Start cheering, waving your Palace or whatever other shit club he's playing for, scarves over your heads?

As I said before, a real Rovers fan wouldn't have allowed themselves to be shoved out the door like that.

And one more thing, a tea cake doesn't have fucking currants in it!

Edited 1 hour ago by Upside Down

[Mattyblue]

There seems to be just as much overreaction from those saying it’s an overreaction. 

This thread has largely been bemoaning the disgraceful behaviour of the regime (so like most threads on here) over the sale. There has then been a sprinkling of posts discussing him as a player. I’m really struggling to see what’s ‘tinpot’ about it.