v Wrexham (a) - 29/11/25, 15:00 k/o

[chaddyrovers]

7 minutes ago, 47er said:

Once again I marvel at the lengths you go to to support your club--rain or shine.If we were playing Torquay on a Tuesday night you and a few others would be there!

But don't you ever feel taken for granted? Or anger at what Pasha and Co are doing to this once great Club?

 

called support your club through the good and bad times 🔵⚪

Edited 3 hours ago by chaddyrovers

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11 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Its just the usual dumbing down of expectation coming to the fore,its what we have become.Snatching a draw from the Jaws of victory provides no solice for me personally in our precarious position.

Can we beat Ipswich or will it be Jekyll and Hyde time again with our oddball side?

Actually a really good way of describing us. Jekyll and Hyde lol 

I wish we were more Rambo than the current Titanic....

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3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

He isn't - at the end of the day we're 18th, three points above the relegation zone and failed to win a match we should have won comfortably.

If you're pleased with that, I really don't know what to say.

He is right. They played well that's pretty much all his post was about not sure what's wrong with praising the players. 

[arbitro]

7 hours ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

I read Arbitro’s posts avidly, we played in the same primary school team, but there are two separate issues: was it a foul? Probably not. Did Hedges need to make any contact at all? Definitely not: it was a foot from the touchline and six feet from the corner flag, there were two defenders right there and another not far away, zero risk in that situation.

There is an expectation John that the linesman will operate to reflect how the game is being refereed and the referee (who I thought was decent) allowed a lot of physicality which is how the vast majority of fans, players and managers want to see the game managed.

The free kick awarded against Hedges was so soft and completely out of kilter with how the match was being refereed. I saw a comment that the Wrexham player involved told someone from Rovers that it wasn't a foul.

Significantly Hedges (who strikes me as a decent, honest guy) was still complaining as the players were going down the tunnel several minutes after the game had finished.

Oh, and this is the same linesman who flagged Dolan offside at that lots ground last season when he was clearly onside. He is well known in the refereeing world for being erratic.

[MarkBRFC]

45 minutes ago, 47er said:

Once again I marvel at the lengths you go to to support your club--rain or shine.If we were playing Torquay on a Tuesday night you and a few others would be there!

But don't you ever feel taken for granted? Or anger at what Pasha and Co are doing to this once great Club?

 

There is a good portion of fans who don't care about any of that.

Aslong as there is a side who are playing in blue and white at Ewood to watch every week they are happy.

[47er]

11 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Aslong as there is a side who are playing in blue and white at Ewood to watch every week they are happy.

But surely this charade can't go on indefinitely and then we won't be playing at Ewood in blue and white?

Then they'll lose what they hold most dear.

 

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[chaddyrovers]

7 minutes ago, 47er said:

But surely this charade can't go on indefinitely and then we won't be playing at Ewood in blue and white?

 

So what's your answer and what are going to do? 

[chaddyrovers]

@arbitroand @Parsonbluecan I asked what Wrexham's ground is like facilities or food menu options? 

[BankEnd Rover]

 Can't argue at the free kick given in all honesty, Lino was always going to give it, hedges shouldn't have lunged in.

That Ohashi chance second half will haunt him for a while, why he didn't put his foot through it or just place it in the corner I'll never know. 
I would have took a point before hand but the manner of the goal and other teams around us winning, it feels like a defeat.

 

[arbitro]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

@arbitroand @Parsonbluecan I asked what Wrexham's ground is like facilities or food menu options? 

Truthfully the club has grown quickly from a football point of view but the infrastructure is still lower league. 

There aren't enough turnstiles, the 'concourse' was so small it was dangerously overcrowded. The toilets were ridiculously small too.

Hundreds of Rovers fans couldn't actually get in as there was a problem scanning barcodes on android phones. We were waiting outside for around 15 minutes for paper tickets to be printed and brought around the ground so we could get in. Eventually the problem was sorted but outside the ground fans were getting frustrated. 

This was the view from my seat. I am going to write to Wrexham asking why we weren't advised of the restricted view.

[chaddyrovers]

2 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Truthfully the club has grown quickly from a football point of view but the infrastructure is still lower league. 

There aren't enough turnstiles, the 'concourse' was so small it was dangerously overcrowded. The toilets were ridiculously small too.

Hundreds of Rovers fans couldn't actually get in as there was a problem scanning barcodes on android phones. We were waiting outside for around 15 minutes for paper tickets to be printed and brought around the ground so we could get in. Eventually the problem was sorted but outside the ground fans were getting frustrated. 

This was the view from my seat. I am going to write to Wrexham asking why we weren't advised of the restricted view.

Thanks for reply. 

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

A good point in isolation and reflecting without the immediate anger of conceding in the 95th minute 

For balance you have to give it to Rudy et al on Andri, he's a real poacher and I believe his goals will keep us in the league

However, having players like De Neve & Gueye to bring on is a reflection on the lack of interest and investment by our wretched owners, they are both appalling footballers 

 

[Cherry Blue]

3 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Truthfully the club has grown quickly from a football point of view but the infrastructure is still lower league. 

There aren't enough turnstiles, the 'concourse' was so small it was dangerously overcrowded. The toilets were ridiculously small too.

Hundreds of Rovers fans couldn't actually get in as there was a problem scanning barcodes on android phones. We were waiting outside for around 15 minutes for paper tickets to be printed and brought around the ground so we could get in. Eventually the problem was sorted but outside the ground fans were getting frustrated. 

This was the view from my seat. I am going to write to Wrexham asking why we weren't advised of the restricted view.

That's poor both from Wrexham and football authority. 

[Parsonblue]

8 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

You're easily pleased Parson Im afraid to say.

I got an afternoon of enjoyment watching my team play well.  What's not to be pleased with that?  

[MarkBRFC]

45 minutes ago, 47er said:

But surely this charade can't go on indefinitely and then we won't be playing at Ewood in blue and white?

Then they'll lose what they hold most dear.

 

Thats when they will realise unfortunately.

[arbitro]

1 minute ago, Cherry Blue said:

That's poor both from Wrexham and football authority. 

On the plus side Wrexham do a park and ride about a mile from the ground. It's free to park and £1 return. Quite a few Rovers fans had done the same research as me and used it.

A wider point for me is that more clubs should be encouraged to adopt a park and ride with local councils.

[alcd]

14 hours ago, Mercer said:

Will be more like the fateful 'Charge of the Light Brigade' at Balaklava!

A game we failed to win simply through not taking our chances and abysmal game management.

IMO, Ismael should take the blame - he manages the game, makes the tactical changes and instructs those players coming on as substitutes.  

Think it's crystal clear De Neve has very, very limited football intelligence and introducing him when you need to close a game down is akin to pouring petrol on to smouldering embers.

As for Hedges, a diabolical challenge given all his experience.

Think Ismael, again, failed miserably with his game management - a very poor head coach.

Can anyone articulate we are a serious football club and merely not a p1ss take?  The Cantwell saga stinks to high heaven in my eyes whilst the continuing non use of Pickering and Ribeiro  is I think unbelievably mystifying and somewhat sinister.

God help us both on Tuesday, when Ipswich roll into town, and for the rest of the season.  I think we are in deep trouble and heading for the drop. 

I can't identify 3 other teams that are likely to finish below us apart from Sheff Wed of course. Sheff Utd definitely on the rise and probably also Norwich and Swansea under new management. That just leaves Oxford who regularly take points and will likely win at Ewood in a couple of weeks time. That just leaves Pompey to make up the doomed threesome. 

[DE.]

You can argue whether Hedges' contact was enough to cause the player to go over or a foul to be given. The bigger question for me is why did he give the ref/lino a decision to make in the first place? He could have just come around the Wrexham player and shielded the ball from going into the area. Or took a tackling position from a more sideways position. He had time. He didn't need to go into the back of the bloke. 

As one of the most experienced players in the squad he should have made a better decision. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

6 hours ago, DackDackGoose said:

I think it's a weak as hell free kick, particularly for any ref to give in the last minute... however we didn't defend it when we should have. Simple as that. Second ball too easy.

Yeah, I agree. The ref awarded a free kick, he didn’t award a goal. The ball is there to be defended. Having said that Moore is a handful in the air. Knowing that we should have had a player around the penalty spot for that eventually. We all got drawn into the scrum and they didn’t.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, ... said:

He is right. They played well that's pretty much all his post was about not sure what's wrong with praising the players. 

I didn’t see the game just the highlights. We were picking up a relative from the USA at Manchester airport. I texted my son who had watched the game later. I value his opinion. He always calls it like it is, he takes his blue and white glasses off at KO time. This is his text -

“ I thought we played well. Sat back a bit much at the end, inviting them on. The free kick that led to the goal was bollocks “.

Edited 52 minutes ago by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Old Codger]

13 hours ago, Elrovers said:

Yep. It’s just the manner we conceded. I guess it’s part and parcel of the championship. 

It begs the question, "Why couldn't it have been Rovers laying siege to the Wrexham goal at the death, and snatching a second goal (or at least creating more chances?" - that, dear friends is 100% game management, an art that seems to be missing from the Coaching 101 manual apparently thumbed by Ismael and his bumbling technical team.

The management should wear clown pants.

 

Edited 50 minutes ago by Old Codger

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

3 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

It begs the question, "Why couldn't it have been Rovers laying siege to the Wrexham goal at the death, and snatching a second goal (or at least creating more chances?" - that, dear friends is 100% game management, an art that seems to be missing from the Coaching 101 manual apparently thumbed by Ismael and his bumbling technical team.

The management should wear clown pants.

 

The coaching staff can only do so much. Once the players cross over the white line there’s not much you can do. Do you think Big Sam had coached Matt Derbyshire to pass the ball back into midfield instead of taking it into the corner flag in the famous game against City ? Tired players sometimes make bad decisions. Hedges doesn’t always play 90 minutes for a reason

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13 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I didn’t see the game just the highlights. We were picking up a relative from the USA at Manchester airport. I texted my son who had watched the game later. I value his opinion. He always calls it like it is, he takes his blue and white glasses off at KO time. This is his text -

“ I thought we played well. Sat back a bit much at the end, inviting them on. The free kick that led to the goal was bollocks “.

Sat back but looked comfortable in doing so but for the free kick. It was a strange moment and a feeling of "they're gonna score now" and there we have it. 

Was it a free kick...  one that probably not been given had it been mid game but as it was the end , controversial decisions are made and that was one. Personally I thought the wrexham lad got out muscled, on another angle Hedges perhaps should of laid off a little given the stage of the game. 

[Mattyblue]

@Parsonblue What’s your view on the owners and those running Blackburn Rovers? 

[wilsdenrover]

2 hours ago, ... said:

Actually a really good way of describing us. Jekyll and Hyde lol 

I wish we were more Rambo than the current Titanic....

In the end the good guy ‘won’ by killing them both…