v Swansea City (h) - 30/9/25, k/o 19:45

[sharpysharps86]

Dreadful tea, dreadful head coach, dreadfully run club. Relegation awaits.

[M_B]

8 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Well you disagree with my post but I still by my post. 

Its was clear penalty not given, I thought it was penalty in real time and I've seen a replay and its a clear penalty, if you don't think it was, I just give up with you. The Ref was piss poor again at this level. 

No one has mentioned about fictious league table apart from yourself so maybe look at yourself here for coming up with this sort of BS. 

I blame Karbgo for the game, he gave the ball away and then didn't track back 

It's true, a lot happened after Gudjonson's mistake, but if he controls as he should do, the rest doesn't happen.

Probably our best chance led to a goal for Swansea.

 

[Tomphil2]

Kargbo needs firing off down the leagues for a 6 month loan in Jan to learn how to actually be a winger in England.

Everything we feared about importing cheap continentals into the rough and tumble of the Championship and the British weather is coming to fruition and it's not even November yet. Instead of developing they start going backwards rapidly because they've not experience of the struggle at a club like this and they've no bollocks for the scrap and neither have most of those around them.

This was all so predictable so why was it allowed to happen ?

Commission plain and simple, move them in, get them games, move them on. As proven by the last shower of shite Ennis, Leo. Tel etc they ALL got moved on quickly and they all got a small fee.

And the agents running this show ALL got their commission because the advantage of cheap wage foreign players is you'll always find them somewhere else back abroad and they'll be only too glad to go after a dire experience here.

This club is now an agency vehicle again existing to get guys Championship mins and move them on again it's the budget version of the Kean/Anderson scam.

Edited 4 hours ago by Tomphil2

[B16Rover]

I asked a Swan mate what he thought of the game 

[B16Rover]

Just now, B16Rover said:

I asked a Swan mate what he thought of the game 

In all seriousness though, a Swansea fan on Reddit has it sussed

Got away with one there. We were poor first half, much better after the subs and glad to see Sheehan has realised we have actual squad depth now. Quite funny to see Cantwell spend the final ten minutes incandescent and trying to get himself sent off after not getting that pen. Suppose it somewhat evens out some awful decisions at Millwall and Birmingham from our perspective, but very unfortunate for Blackburn. Will probably be a long season for them especially if decisions go against them like today and the Ipswich write-off. Fans also seemed very subdued, I know it's a tuesday night but the Venky's hoardings were the loudest thing in the stadium after Cantwell. He and Alebiosu looked a bit dangerous but no real threat from anyone else. And on the opposite end of the stick to us, it didn't seem like they had anyone half-decent to bring off the bench.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

1 minute ago, B16Rover said:

I asked a Swan mate what he thought of the game 

Is that in Welsh?

[rigger]

Again who the hell proof reads statements issued by the Rovers. In the one for the debacle on Tuesday, the first line reads that the game was played on Friday . Or have I just lost it ? 

[desrover]

2 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

I feel for Season Ticket Holders who were duped into paying good Money for this shyte.

I cannot speak for everyone but people who I know who go were not 'duped.'

After 15 years of this Venky's misrule and shambles it is quite clear the direction the club is going.

All supporters need to unite to publicise this and, hopefully, get things to start changing!

[Lancaster Rover]

I still don't think the Cantwell one was a penalty. I'm also sick to the back teeth of the lack of ownership of our problems and fans washing it away. Ref's don't score goals, neither do they concede them. They don't set the tactics, or the team up and they don't make transfers. 

Over the course of a season the worst teams are near the bottom, it's nothing to do with luck. It's to do with performing in a manner that results in an inability to gather points. We are where we are because we've been crap for the majority of the games we've played this season, the result against Hull and the performance against Ipswich have been the exception not the norm. This is nothing new, we were also crap for the vast majority of the season from November onward last year. I can't be arsed doing it but I bet if we put together a league table from December 2024 to now it would make for pretty grim reading. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Lancaster Rover

[johnradfordsubbuteo2]

2 hours ago, TheKitGuy said:

It's all a bit boring isn't it? The fans have no desire, the team has no desire (apart from maybe Cantwell and Tronstad who do look as though they play for the badge), the board certainly has no desire. It's verging on what's even the point in any of it?????

Tronstad s playing for his next badge.🥲

[Crimpshrine]

1 hour ago, B16Rover said:

In all seriousness though, a Swansea fan on Reddit has it sussed

 it didn't seem like they had anyone half-decent to bring off the bench.

How true.

2 or 3 injuries and we will have a squad that is barely league one standard. 

Imagine losing Cantwell and Alebiosu from the starting 11. Even if they avoid injury I bet we wouldn't turn down decent offers for either of them in January 

[had.e.nuff]

2 hours ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Dreadful tea, dreadful head coach, dreadfully run club. Relegation awaits.

im sorry but you cant blame your tea on them as well

[LeftWinger]

Not a great spectacle last night, but I don't think we are quite as bad as some would say on here.

I noticed a stat on Rovers underperforming on XG on the screens before the game by about 3 goals, so I put this together (bored at work, XG means nothing I know).

We've been comfortably outperforming the opposition on XG recently. Yes, XG doesn't win you points, but perhaps indicative that we aren't as awful as som would suggest 

 

[Jimmy612]

2 minutes ago, had.e.nuff said:

im sorry but you cant blame your tea on them as well

Depends if he went for the pie and pint in Jack's Kitchen before the game. 

[Jimmy612]

2 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

Not a great spectacle last night, but I don't think we are quite as bad as some would say on here.

I noticed a stat on Rovers underperforming on XG on the screens before the game by about 3 goals, so I put this together (bored at work, XG means nothing I know).

We've been comfortably outperforming the opposition on XG recently. Yes, XG doesn't win you points, but perhaps indicative that we aren't as awful as som would suggest 

 

Just had a look at XG on Flashscore for the Charlton drubbing.  They had Charlton at 1.47 and us on 0.55... 

[Lancaster Rover]

9 minutes ago, Jimmy612 said:

Just had a look at XG on Flashscore for the Charlton drubbing.  They had Charlton at 1.47 and us on 0.55... 

Same on FbRef

[MarkBRFC71]

Spine of the team sold off.  Circa 1500 Championship appearances worth of experience removed and not replaced.  Cheap players from foreign leagues, or bang average ones from the UK shipped in - all of whom are a downgrade on what we had before, have no idea of the demands of this league and/or simply aren't up to them.  Report of a toxic atmosphere at the club.  Childish/amateur spats with the local press because they won't toe the party line.  A manager that has never gone beyond a year at previous clubs, doesn't seem to have a plan or a clear way of playing, and was probably only appointed in the first place because he was cheap and desperate for a job - and we're asking him to polish a turd.

This is just a shell of Blackburn Rovers these days, and all of the above is only pointing to one thing - the big 'R'.

[LeftWinger]

28 minutes ago, Jimmy612 said:

Just had a look at XG on Flashscore for the Charlton drubbing.  They had Charlton at 1.47 and us on 0.55... 

Sorry, I transposed the numbers, you are quite correct 

[roversfan99]

I presumed that Miroshita had picked up an injury yesterday to go off yesterday. He hadnt really got involved again but you can at least give him the ball without it bouncing off him like basically every other player bar Cantwell.

Apaprently it was just a tactical decision to bring on Kargbo. A real masterstroke of a decision from our poor manager.

[Ferrit]

45 minutes ago, Crimpshrine said:

How true.

2 or 3 injuries and we will have a squad that is barely league one standard. 

Imagine losing Cantwell and Alebiosu from the starting 11. Even if they avoid injury I bet we wouldn't turn down decent offers for either of them in January 

With or without injuries, that starting 11 and squad in general is league one (at best). I'd argue some of the dross we put out there isn't even that level, Kargbo can't actually play football, he's fucking abysmal. 

Don't even get me started on the likes of Tavares. Incredible how that guys a professional footballer. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Ferrit

[Tomphil2]

47 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

Not a great spectacle last night, but I don't think we are quite as bad as some would say on here.

I noticed a stat on Rovers underperforming on XG on the screens before the game by about 3 goals, so I put this together (bored at work, XG means nothing I know).

We've been comfortably outperforming the opposition on XG recently. Yes, XG doesn't win you points, but perhaps indicative that we aren't as awful as som would suggest 

 

Thing is it's results that win you points and it all starts from defence as Eustace demonstrated and you can get away with low XG if you can defend the point or the goal you do get.

That's gone out of the window again because mainly we've lost the 3 best defenders and just tried to plug the holes with no investment.

We've been there before as well.

[47er]

1 hour ago, LeftWinger said:

Not a great spectacle last night, but I don't think we are quite as bad as some would say on here.

I noticed a stat on Rovers underperforming on XG on the screens before the game by about 3 goals, so I put this together (bored at work, XG means nothing I know).

We've been comfortably outperforming the opposition on XG recently. Yes, XG doesn't win you points, but perhaps indicative that we aren't as awful as som would suggest 

 

It's not stats which tell us what sort of team we are---it's the League Table. And right now it tells us we are in deep trouble.

[chaddyrovers]

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I never said it was or wasnt a penalty. Definitely looked a foul, not sure if it was in the box.

It was clear penalty all day long

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

But its this constant deflection of blame that I cant stomach. I dont come away from tonights game thinking about the referee, I come away with further concerns about how I see the season panning out with these players and this manager under this board and these dreadful owners. 

Im going to ask you a question and I expect that you will do your usual routine of going off on random tangents. Ismael stands today with a record at Rovers having won 6, drawn 3 and lost 11. This season, he has won 2 and lost 6. He isnt the most pressing issue at the club but ill focus on him just for a moment.

Its comments on the game not deflection of blame like the ref was again appalling and where they find these refs is baffling. 

second half we started the half with higher tempo, quick passing and movement we lacked all first half. 

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Are you happy for him to continue at the club?

Yes

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Do you have faith that he can turn things around?

Yes

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

And also, how do you reflect on the summer window and how our squad is shaping up,

Not making any knee-jerk reactions after 2 defeat like many others or people who had vendetta(not you) against certain players signings here. 

Some signings have hit the ground running and some haven't. I felt sorry for Gudjohnsen yesterday cos don't created enough chances for him or have enough players looking to get forward around him. We could have Shearer up front and he would struggle to score in this team. Yes Gudjohnsen should have done better then he did with that chance. 

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

under this manager where do you see us finishing?

above the relegation places 

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

On Kargbo, I remember last season after him making a couple of sub appearances, you deemed him a successful signing already and used him as an example of the merits of Gestede. How sadly wrong you was. Hes absolute dog shit.

Kargbo has some qualities I like but then others that frustrated you like hell.  

[47er]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

We could have Shearer up front and he would struggle to score in this team.

Well you've just summed it up nicely!

Why the optimism then?

[Lancaster Rover]

@chaddyrovers the reaction isn't after 2 defeats, it's after 5 defeats in 7 games in the league, with a terrifying amount at home. Including last season it's 10 losses, 6 wins and 3 draws.