Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[Roverthechimp]

1 hour ago, joey_big_nose said:

I quite like that he has bluntly said Taveres was dropped from the entire squad as he wasn't performing well enough in training and in games..

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25517874.blackburn-rovers-boss-reveals-reason-tavares-absence/

Was this in response to a question about Tavares or more general about the new signings? 
also who asked the question EJ/LET don’t have direct access anymore… 

[M_B]

On 05/10/2025 at 12:11, Dreams of 1995 said:

Feeling the same.

His football is so negative. I have a few friends who are Baggies and all of them say the same thing - negative and gets found out. I have found it hard viewing this season. He has the potential to take us down 

We could/should have had 5 or 6 on Saturday, hope we're that negative every game. 

Edited 2 hours ago by M_B

[47er]

16 minutes ago, M_B said:

We could/should have had 5 or 6 on Saturday, hope we're that negative every game. 

We create chances but we don't take them. Haven't got a Sammi to save us have we?

[M_B]

1 minute ago, 47er said:

We create chances but we don't take them. Haven't got a Sammi to save us have we?

Aye, not difficult to see where the problem was against Stoke,thought some of the build up play was really encouraging. 

[roversfan99]

32 minutes ago, M_B said:

We could/should have had 5 or 6 on Saturday, hope we're that negative every game. 

Thats a bit of an exaggeration. I suppose we could literally in that we had more than 5 or 6 chances. But how many were what you would consider to be big chances? Gudjohnsen and Kargbo aside, mainly half chances.

[M_B]

2 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Thats a bit of an exaggeration. I suppose we could literally in that we had more than 5 or 6 chances. But how many were what you would consider to be big chances? Gudjohnsen and Kargbo aside, mainly half chances.

I said could/should

First half Hedges and Cantwell both had good chances from the left side of the area, and Gudjonson cocked up.

Second half Kargbo could have had 3,Cantwell again shot weakly from a good position, and Ohashi had a great chance through the middle but didn't shoot and got tackled.

That's just the good chances from memory, there could be more. 

[roversfan99]

15 minutes ago, M_B said:

I said could/should

First half Hedges and Cantwell both had good chances from the left side of the area, and Gudjonson cocked up.

Second half Kargbo could have had 3,Cantwell again shot weakly from a good position, and Ohashi had a great chance through the middle but didn't shoot and got tackled.

That's just the good chances from memory, there could be more. 

Most of them chances were just half chances though. The Gudjohnsen one and the Kargbo ones I would say are the good chances that carried a reasonable expectation of a goal.

We created more than we usually do though but certainly our total absence of players that are naturals in front of goal has and will continue to cause us frustration.