v Wrexham (h) - 1/1/26, 12:30pm k/o

[rigger]

5 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Not going to happen unless they stop paying players or HMRC. If we can halve the home weekend attendance for Watford it would be a start.

Was there really 14,000 home supporters on today ?

[Tomphil2]

8 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

special mention to henrikson today,who managed to get through 90 minutes without actually going near the ball,that lad is so lacking in ability it`s cruel to see him out there

He really does look like a lad they've just plucked from non league but given he's been bunged a 4 year contract i'd assume his wages are non league standard.

That's why he's here.

[Hasta]

2 minutes ago, rigger said:

Was there really 14,000 home supporters on today ?

Nowhere near, I’d say about 8500.

what was the “official attendance”

Edited 2 hours ago by Hasta

[Upside Down]

Not a good day for PNE Rovers.

[Bbrovers2288]

I will stick up for miller amongst all the pitchforks out for him, he is limited but I like his commitment , far from the worst of the summer signings. Also thought baradji improved second half and only one looking to get us back in the game. 
I do feel sorry for him and Cantwell trying to work with so little talent up top. 
henriksson, said from early he will never work here, up there with the very worst I have saw pull on the jersey and there has been some utter dross over the years. Worse than that Swedish lad we had on loan in league 1. 

in glad Alebiosu has been recognised internationally but my god it’s really harming us when we need him the most. Got some really important games coming up, such as the one on Sunday and to not have him is a bit annoying. 
 

we need signings in very quickly but I have no faith in gestede.

when you were watching hyam control his back line and put in vital blocks while ours let a simply through ball over their heads for the first goal, do you get it yet gestede , like really do you get it yet? That shambles on the last day was suicide 

[chaddyrovers]

22 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Nowhere near, I’d say about 8500.

what was the “official attendance”

Busier today than Millwall game. 

[wilsdenrover]

Didn’t really know where to post this but here’s is as good as anywhere.

I’ve reached the point where I see the community we have on here as the only good thing about being a Rovers fan.

 

 

[Tomphil2]

33 minutes ago, rigger said:

Was there really 14,000 home supporters on today ?

Lots more than recently that's for sure it makes a difference when most ST holders actually turn up.

I'd say 11/12k in the home sections today.

Edited 2 hours ago by Tomphil2

[Hasta]

10 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Busier today than Millwall game. 

That’s because for the Millwall game there were about 7000 home fans. Concourse in JW was quiet today. Seats around me were still available. Blackburn End once again looked sparse. It didn’t feel ‘busy’ at all, albeit better than Millwall, Ipswich, Oxford.

Riverside looked a bit busier to be fair. Either way for our “big” holiday fixture it was poor. Then again it was £35 for a lunchtime, Sky kick off.

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8 minutes ago, Hasta said:

That’s because for the Millwall game there were about 7000 home fans. Concourse in JW was quiet today. Seats around me were still available. Blackburn End once again looked sparse. It didn’t feel ‘busy’ at all, albeit better than Millwall, Ipswich, Oxford.

Riverside looked a bit busier to be fair. Either way for our “big” holiday fixture it was poor. Then again it was £35 for a lunchtime, Sky kick off.

Yea was a few seats around us, usual ST folks not turned up, whether busy or otherwise was unusual for them. 

Just a quiet morgue like atmosphere ...

[OnionBalaji]

Also going to stick up for Miller here, albeit limited he was one player who at least gave it effort and looked like he wanted to be there today. Baradji I do like and think once he gets upto speed will be brilliant but will be sold rapidly and replaced with dross. 
 

 

[Penwortham Blue]

3 minutes ago, ... said:

Yea was a few seats around us, usual ST folks not turned up, whether busy or otherwise was unusual for them. 

Just a quiet morgue like atmosphere ...

Just the regular Ewood experience then, funereal atmosphere, a defeat and still no message or demands from the apathetic and downtrodden remnant of a once proud and passionate home support. In the 70’s and 80’s and during the Kean years, the Board and Manager would be left in no doubt that such shit is not acceptable to Blackburn Rovers fans.

[Commondore]

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

special mention to henrikson today,who managed to get through 90 minutes without actually going near the ball,that lad is so lacking in ability it`s cruel to see him out there

He won and laid off the ball in midfield that led to Baradji's shot against the crossbar. He was about as dreadful as the rest of our players, but at least he has the excuse of being played wildly out of position with a striker he doesn't complement one bit. I thought both Baradji and Cantwell did some criminally lazy backtracking today, and if Tronstad is not on hand to stop or at least slow down balls like the one that led to their 0-1 I don't know why he's playing. 

[Hasta]

Just watched the highlights. McLaughlin and Pears as bad as I thought for that first. Hedges awful as the first man when the cross comes in for the second.

[Gamst]

I really struggle to see peak Ferguson getting a tune out of today's match day squad. It is appallingly threadbare and lacking all over the park and on the bench there is nobody to bring on who can change the game. The players that are on the pitch look exhausted and downhearted. The team has been downgraded so rapidly and we have gone from the brink of the playoffs to the worst squad in my 30+ years supporting the club. Absolutely terrible mismanagement from the Ewood stooges and continued ownership who are seemingly unwilling to sell the club out of some form of punishment for being egged at Ewood over a decade ago. I can only assume they are laughing at how miserable we all are.

They will use the injuries as a convenient excuse, it's the lack of squad depth and quality that's really the underlying cause. They don't have the depth to rotate the squad and the excess physical loading that the remaining players have to go through leaves them at risk of injury. Most of the players they have signed on the cheap are duds and simply cannot step up to fill the gap. The old pros that were shipped out over the summer would have been ideal for the situation we find ourselves in. Other teams have injuries too but are able to put out a coherent team still on a Saturday. We have had injury crises before and we always still manage to have a competitive team but now we have exhausted players many of whom are well below the required standard. It's all a complete mess and I cannot see how this side picks up another point in the near future. 

[cesus]

I have spent the day pissed off, as most of my posts must show, but one final point of raw emptiness came when I saw Matty Litherland pull up, and thought that is going to hurt us. Matty Litherland is an academy centre back, filling in at right back at a multi million pound football club and he was our last option.

 

[MarkBRFC]

12 minutes ago, Gamst said:

I cannot see how this side picks up another point in the near future. 

I have seen this quite a few times pn here this season, only for us to win the next game with a performance out of nowhere.

Today was the worst I have seen from a rovers team for a long time, spectacularly bad.

I have a feeling we get something Sunday though, today's game against Cov will have taken a hell of a lot out of them.

Edited 1 hour ago by MarkBRFC

[Gamst]

Just now, cesus said:

I have spent the day pissed off, as most of my posts must show, but one final point of raw emptiness came when I saw Matty Litherland pull up, and thought that is going to hurt us. Matty Litherland is an academy centre back, filling in at right back at a multi million pound football club and he was our last option.

 

But interestingly our owners are billionaires and probably a lot wealthier than our opponents who outspend us 10 fold. 

[cesus]

3 minutes ago, Gamst said:

But interestingly our owners are billionaires and probably a lot wealthier than our opponents who outspend us 10 fold. 

I just cannot bring myself to play a comparison game with Wrexham or Derby etc, good luck to them. I just want our owners gone and to give us a fighting chance of some self respect.

[JCRovers]

Just seen a ten-minute highlight and deary me, we looked bleak just like the shirt worn for the day.

First goal: way too simple transition to just put a ball over the top and all of a sudden their striker is clear on goal. It's a 2v1 situation yet we can't handle it. McLoughlin's positioning is wrong as he doesn't stay on the inside of Smith before the pass is played. Pratt doesn't exactly come across as sprinting back fully either and fails to make a sliding challenge to block the attempt. Pears doesn't cover near post. All three have to take their fair share of blame for that one.

Second goal: don't understand how Hedges can miss a clear header and get it away from the danger zone? He then looks at the ball instead of picking up Rathbone in the box in the follow-up situation. Just poor timing and game intelligence on display.

Other notes: Cantwell looked extremly poor and lost many key challenges. Litherland is probably gone for a few weeks after pulling his hamstring, he could barely move after it happened. 

Can't believe we managed to keep three clean sheets before this one seeing how easily Wrexham carved us open with a simple long ball over the top. Bannan (of all people) was close for Wednesday from a similar chance a couple of days ago so I guess we've been somewhat fortunate until now.

To be honest, we looked absolute shot with tired legs and no ideas going forward. Injuries are also piling up to the point where Ismael might be forced to switch to a back four? We struggle to break teams down who sit in a low block and when they also employ quick transitions, we fare even worse. If Charlton do the same, we're in trouble.

[Parsonblue]

I thought today confirmed the opinion I had after Monday night - too many of our players are out on their feet.  The injuries have caught up with us and not allowed us to rotate and rest players.  Having said that, the first goal was a poor one to give away as  McLoughlin and Pears ought to have done better.

We badly need strengthening early in this window and certainly can't afford to lose Tronstad.  I still believe we have enough about us to avoid the drop but we need to get the injured players back sooner rather than later.

[BankEnd Rover]

2 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

axel,deneve and sidnei must surely have been agents on the phone offering them to us,in desperation for bodies we`ve agreed to take them,there clearly has`nt been any scouting going on,though i was hopeful for henrikson,of the three i thought he`d be ok,he had a decent record in sweden,it was clear from the off that deneve and sidnei were shite

To be fair to Henriksson, he was highly rated at his old club - Just don't think it's working out for him in English football. Also to remember that he is being played out of position, he does show small flashes but think the majority have already written him off so it's a long way back. I haven't shut the door completely on him yet.

[roversfan99]

What are the flashes? What attributes has he shown to suggest that there is something to work with?