v Hull City (h) - 31/1/26

[MarkBRFC]

1 minute ago, davulsukur said:

A draw isn't good enough at this stage either. 1 win in 14 is absolutely abysmal. We can't keep limping on with the odd draw. 

Fails to win and the club need to get him binned. Could already be too late by this point though.

Putting all there eggs in the basket for that Sheffield Wednesday game.

Win that and they will be banging on about it for ages.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

8 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Well that prediction certainly is mental.

It's what happens when you support Blackburn.

[RoversTilliDie]

It will be the usual at Ewood, our lightweight fairies, being bullied, and shoved off the ball far to easily.

[RoversTilliDie]

0-4 Hull city, Ismaels usual bullshit, it was a decent performance were getting there.

[funny-old-game]

3 hours ago, ruggles1995 said:

Miller McLoughLin Cashin
Alebiouso Tronstad Forshaw Morishita
                     Cantwell
            Baraji    Jorgensen

No goalkeeper? I'm off to the bookies with my house deeds

Edited Wednesday at 13:27 by funny-old-game

[London blue]

Honestly I'm more concerned by that front 3 than by the lack of keeper.

[LeftWinger]

Hull are almost 2/1 - which is a ridiculous price when you look at the current form of the teams.

They've won 8, drawn 1 and lost 1 of their last 10 (counting their penalty shoot out victory over us as a win).

They've won at Millwall, Middlesbrough, Southampton and Preston recently (admittedly drew at Sheffield Wednesday in the middle of all that).
 

[Tomphil2]

9.5k home fans will turn up and it'll feel like a big crowd.

Think Hull have shifted a lot of tickets which is a rarity for them at Ewood so the upper office will be happy and telling India look the boycotters have given up already.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

5 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

Putting all there eggs in the basket for that Sheffield Wednesday game.

Win that and they will be banging on about it for ages.

Standards gone through the Floor,expectations next to zero....Rovers 2026.

1-1

13,400 

Edited Wednesday at 15:11 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Tugayslongwalkoff]

It’s a must win now, even if we were playing Barca it would be must win - that’s the position we’ve got ourselves in. 
 

3-0 loss. 

[StHelensRover]

1 defeat in 10 competitive games for Hull, 1 win in 14 competitive games for Rovers, on paper it looks like they wil steam roll us.

I don't think we'll get stuffed, I think it will be a narrow, ugly win for Hull. 

As others have said though, it's got to the stage where every single home game is now a 'must win' and bar an unusual event like a sending off for Hull, I can't see us overpowering them in 90 mins.

[Plastics]

2-0 Rovers

[davulsukur]

Looks like we're moving back towards a 4-2-3-1 set up, which I think is the right idea. Back 3's rarely work out for the long term, unless you're a top, top team. As always, a shift back will benefit some players and not others.

-----------------Toth

Alebiosu---Miller---McLoughlin---Cashin

---------Tronstad---Forshaw

Jorgensen-----Cantwell-----Mori

--------------Gudjohnsen

[sharpysharps86]

22 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Looks like we're moving back towards a 4-2-3-1 set up, which I think is the right idea. Back 3's rarely work out for the long term, unless you're a top, top team. As always, a shift back will benefit some players and not others.

-----------------Toth

Alebiosu---Miller---McLoughlin---Cashin

---------Tronstad---Forshaw

Jorgensen-----Cantwell-----Mori

--------------Gudjohnsen

I think the system works better for everyone who's available except for Gudjohnsen, who I recall was quite isolated in that role before they switched to 2 up front.

[roversfan99]

I think our squad or at least numerous important players are more suited to a 352 personally although the squad isnt well built for either.

You look out wide, Morishita isnt as effective wide. Jorgensen doesnt look quick enough wide although early days. And we dont have any alternatives there. Our width comes from Alebiosu who is freed up as a wing back.

The centre backs arent good enough to not need a third player back there. Miller is fine right side of a back 3, within a pairing there are far bigger doubts. It also makes the Cashin signing stranger if we just plan to go to a back 4 with him at left back, out of position.

And up front, the plan is seemingly to have 4 forwards for 2 positions. As mentioned, Gudjohnsen (and even the below average Ohashi) seem to be more effective in a front 2.

[davulsukur]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

I think our squad or at least numerous important players are more suited to a 352 personally although the squad isnt well built for either.

You look out wide, Morishita isnt as effective wide. Jorgensen doesnt look quick enough wide although early days. And we dont have any alternatives there. Our width comes from Alebiosu who is freed up as a wing back.

The centre backs arent good enough to not need a third player back there. Miller is fine right side of a back 3, within a pairing there are far bigger doubts. It also makes the Cashin signing stranger if we just plan to go to a back 4 with him at left back, out of position.

And up front, the plan is seemingly to have 4 forwards for 2 positions. As mentioned, Gudjohnsen (and even the below average Ohashi) seem to be more effective in a front 2.

I don't disagree with any of that tbh.

A back 3 suits our centre backs better and it gets the best out of Alebiosu, Ohashi and Gudjohnsen.

We don't have a LWB at all now and we lack any decent centre midfielders (save for Sonny), who get pulled all over the shop. As we play 2 upfront and another pushed forward in behind it leaves huge spaces to be exploited by the opposition. The lack of pace throughout, leaves us incredibly susceptible to counter attacks, when the wing backs and one of the back 3 are pushed high up the pitch.

I'd much rather play Picks or Ribeiro at LB, as opposed to Cashin but he won't get dropped after the Watford game.

I don't think the squad is completely suited to either formation tbh but that's Venkys bargain bin summer window coming to the fore.

I also don't think Ismael is a good enough manager to get a back 3 system to work over the longer term.

Edited 9 hours ago by davulsukur

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, davulsukur said:

I don't disagree with any of that tbh.

A back 3 suits our centre backs better and it gets the best out of Alebiosu, Ohashi and Gudjohnsen.

We don't have a LWB at all now and we lack any decent centre midfielders (save for Sonny), who get pulled all over the shop. As we play 2 upfront and another pushed forward in behind it leaves huge spaces to be exploited by the opposition. The lack of pace throughout, leaves us incredibly susceptible to counter attacks, when the wing backs and one of the back 3 are pushed high up the pitch.

I'd much rather play Picks or Ribeiro at LB, as opposed to Cashin but he won't get dropped after the Watford game.

I don't think the squad is completely suited to either formation tbh but that's Venkys bargain bin summer window coming to the fore.

I also don't think Ismael is a good enough manager to get a back 3 system to work over the longer term.

It feels like this window is about getting players who can "do a job" in either formation. Ismael himself doesnt seem to know, in the end we will have plenty of square pegs in round holes as the season goes on im sure.

[sharpysharps86]

With Ismael saying Gudjohnsen will be on the bench, I imagine we will now line-up like this:

                             Toth

Alebiosu   Miller   McLoughlin   Cashin

               Tronstad    Forshaw

Jorgensen       Cantwell        Miroshita

                          Ohashi

I'd personally quite like to see Jorgensen down the middle with Ohashi dropping to the bench. Alebiosu pushed further up field, Miller at RB and O'Riordan at CB.

[MarkBRFC]

Full day of rain forecast tomorrow, heavy from 4pm.

Lovely.

[M_B]

6 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

It feels like this window is about getting players who can "do a job" in either formation. Ismael himself doesnt seem to know, in the end we will have plenty of square pegs in round holes as the season goes on im sure.

Depends which way you look at it, I don't really see why there's this fixation with players having to rigidly stay in one position,and the team having to play one formation. 

We'd never have scored the first goal at Leicester if Szmodics hadn't drifted out to the left.

It isn't bar football. 

 

[WacoRover]

13 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Full day of rain forecast tomorrow, heavy from 4pm.

Lovely.

Let me guess… we have a 1-0 lead, and the game is abandoned.

[M_B]

5 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

Let me guess… we have a 1-0 lead, and the game is abandoned.

It only rains when we're winning, rains when we're winning.....