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  1. I agree with the point you're making but I'm going to play devils advocate anyway. Dunny has an upper limit as to how far forward he'll get - for example he'll never be lurking at the back post for a tap in, which considering the position he is supposed to be playing is probably fair enough. On the other hand Dunny will drop far back to get the ball and help out the midfield, as far as our final defensive third on some occasions. Benni however will likely be on hand for that tap in, but be much less likely to track back. Circa 75% of the time they would be occupying very similar territory, but the other 25% they will be going in completely opposite directions. Thus making Benni playing closer to 4-4-2 than when Dunny is on. In theory.
    3 points
  2. There you go again eddie..... I had directed that question at meangreenmachine. Why do you feel the need to interrupt? Tell you what ...... If I want to know how many players are in a football team, where the centre circle is or even where the corner flags are positioned I promise I'll ask you....... is that OK?
    3 points
  3. Did this dreaded 4-4-1-1 not bring three home wins this season? All of this yelling on the back of three murderous away games...it's unreal.
    3 points
  4. 4-4-1-1 is like 4-4-2, except a midfielder or striker, sitting behind the other striker. What LeChuck is getting at, is that if we play an attacking game, then we can be more of a threat to the opposition. However, with Sam adopting these defensive long ball tactics its stifling the formation. Our midfield and defence are constantly under pressure, because the ball gets knocked up field and comes back in a flash. If we adopt a more attack minded approach, we basically running with 5 midfielders linking up with the striker. With the attacking 4-4-1-1 tactic, we still have the effect of a 4-4-2 formation.
    1 point
  5. To be fair to Ray he is a very good lower league manager...and I don't mean that as an insult.
    1 point
  6. Are you comparing Allardyce with Ramsay? You don't half talk some crap. Fact is we look best when playing 4-4-2. We did under Souness. We did under Hughes. We did under Ince. We still have plenty of players left from those regimes. We looked best last year doing it when Allardyce first came in. Even at Old Trafford we looked better once we had two up front. We don't have the players necessary to play 4-5-1, the main reason being that we don't have pace. We can't properly support a loan striker because our players can't get forward fast enough. In the games when our team is actually better it does work because we are able to retain possession and have sustained attacks, but this would be true in a 4-4-2 as well. As of yet there has been little evidence that the extra midfielder adds to our defensive strength. This formation clearly isn't working, that is why we are in the relegation zone. It leads to one of our best players (Benni) being on the bench, our big summer signing (McCarthy) being on the bench and also seems to require that our least talented central midfielder (Andrews) plays in every game.
    1 point
  7. Sometimes I think it would have been better to stick with Ince and have let him take us down. We'd have found our rightful place in English football, crowds would have halved, we'd have had to decide whether to have another pint int th'avvy or go to the match at about 3.05, but at least we'd be well rid of the moaners and the johnny cum lately's and the Mancs would be saddled with them. btw.....Quote "Or sam is maybe trying to fit players into his 'system' not find a system for his players?" Can you rem Alf Ramseys team winning the World Cup? I can and it hasn't happened since cos over the past 40 years our national managers have been weak and influenced more by FA politics than the intention of the exercise, the press pick their team of press darlings almost exclusively from the big 4 for them and they end up playing media favourites out of position and rendering them and the team ineffective.
    1 point
  8. It's not me that is suggesting it is black and white. It's all the others who think we can cherry pick players contracts.
    1 point
  9. Agree 100%.Cant believe he will sell McCarthy before Roberts! Burnley,yes,f'kin Burnley,are being linked with a move.
    1 point
  10. I'd have been screaming 'get off the f***ing pitch' myself.
    1 point
  11. 1 point
  12. Yeah, that's pretty much the last straw for me. "at the moment he can't get it here"....I wonder why that is, Sam? Maybe because you insist on playing 1 striker upfront, and often a useless one at that with Roberts? Or maybe because you persistently have us playing virtually with 10 men because of the inclusion of Andrews week in and week out? I mean, I'd understand if Kalinic was already approaching 10 premiership goals and if Di Santo or Roberts were not far behind to say that Benni McCarthy "can't get football at Rovers", but given our position and the statistics this is quite absurd.
    1 point
  13. Sam does have a way with words. "At his age I'd understand if he wants to play first-team football and at the moment he can't get it here. " http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/8340599.stm Hardly Mr Motivator. Any aspirations we had of being a quality football team is going down the tubes. Sparky had us playing good football in the end but nobody with any aspiration of passing the ball along the ground is going to want to come to us in January.
    1 point
  14. Ask any outsider, our team/squad is very average these days, and we have been losing our best/better players at an intense rate - Benni is a quality player still and can score goals - getting rid in January is very risky. Even with a big financial outlay, seemingly, Sam still struggled to bring in a striker who could make an impact.
    1 point
  15. We have to try and get rid of Roberts before Benni, right now I'd see Eliington as a better option, Lita would have been better as well. Roberts seems like a decent bloke but he's had far too many chances and should never be starting games for us.
    1 point
  16. Dunn, always a game away from injury Di Santo, leaving Benni, being ousted That leaves Kalinic and Hoilett to learn their trade from er, Roberts I'd say we need a couple of strikers if we ask Benni to go. One experienced PL one and probably another 6 month loan - preferably Di Santo.
    1 point
  17. Not happy. Don't want Benni to go (although I realise he is on high wages) and don't want Heskey (good news that he is unlikely to be coming - there is a God). Fed up
    1 point
  18. And if Dunn gets injured - far-fetched I know - what would you do then? We would have to play 4-4-2 and Benni is first choice for that formation, in my book anyway. Will any replacement for Benni be more 'ready' than have been Kalinic and Salgado? Any Jan signing has to step straight in. In the last 2 seasons we will have lost Bentley, Tugay, RSC and Benni, i.e. 95% of the skill from the team that finished 7th. Depressing.
    1 point
  19. Scorers in all competitions Dunn - 5 McCarthy, Pedersen - 2 Nzonzi, Salgado, Di Santo, Givet, Roberts, Reid, Kalinic, Diouf, Samba, Chimbonda, Holiett - 1 A bit worrying that our strikers have only scored 5 between them and 2 of thoose are from Benni's who's not played regularly.
    1 point
  20. of course you cant carry players ...ooops andrews. you could play dunn behind the front two very easily it would bee like an extra man if no andrews.BENNI IS OUT AND OUT GOALSCORER...OK ALL THE HERBETS SAYING THIS AND THAT ABOUT HIM ...COULD YOU PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME HOW MANY GOALS OUR SUPER DUPER POTENT GOALMACHINESQUE STRIKERS HAVE SCORED ALL SEASON BETWEEN THEM ,BEAR IN MIND ITS NOW NOVEMBER.
    1 point
  21. CANT UNDERSTAND THE NEG REP ON THIS?benni is quality .end of .roberts is like a prenant hippo,santo going back to chelsea.bring on lardarse kev. heskey is a posh roberts...
    1 point
  22. Not happy at all with this. STILL one of the best strikers at the club and now he wants out....what the hell did we all expect with Allardyce having seemingly frozen him out of the side? Why am I starting to get the feeling many blues are getting a tad restless with you Sam?....a player of his calibre should be part of your plans FFS! Never mind,we've still got 'Roberto' when Di Santo and McCarthy leave,we appear to be going backwards.
    1 point
  23. Ah right lets pick out 3 performances (2 of which were against dire just promoted sides) and brush off the rest of the games we have played? Please explain how 4-4-1-1 can be positive? At all Please tell me who this target man is who fits into this role? Please tell me why we are in the relegation places with one of the worst away records in the country and also one of the most shocking goal differences in the league. Yes clearly 4-5-1/4-4-1-1 is working a treat.
    0 points
  24. Even when it was 1-0 to the Scousers they still were not going to qualify. They had to beat Lyon by more than Lyon beat them at Anfield (3-1) to be in with a realistic chance in the last two games. Their remote chance now comprises beating Fiorentina 3-0 or 4-1 etc and a prayer mat for other results. They were out before tonight and are still out.
    0 points
  25. I'd rather keep Benni, sell Roberts, bring in Ellington and a class centre midfielder
    0 points
  26. That's pushing it, don't you think?
    0 points
  27. Of course it's one sided, it's a British team against a foreign team. Why would it be neutral? Cracking goal from Babel.
    0 points
  28. Typical Merseyside, living in the past with a chip on its shoulder. Scousers Against The World is their motto; no wonder Liverpool has been in decline for years and its population leaving in droves.
    -1 points
  29. Ha ha ha...read it all now. What year is blackburn the capital of culture, and what else are you famous for? Just bitter lad...oooohhh, taste that lemon. Spot the Murdoch Employee. I wouldn't even wipe my bum with the Sun. If things had moved on and Murdoch still didn't have his fingers in numerous media pies internationally then perhaps it would be time for closure. But that ain't the case. Would never have Sky in the house, don't buy the Sun or the Times, and hats off to Dennis Potter for calling his tumour "Rupert"!
    -1 points
  30. Me neither. I think that this attitude of "get over it" is misguided and somewhat callous. The Scoucers lost 95 friends, relatives, and family all down to crap policing and stewarding at a football match. To then add insult to injury, The Sun then accused them of pissing on bodies, pick-pocketing the dead, and beating up coppers who were trying to resusitate the dying. Just imagine that on 23rd February 2002 something had gone horribly wrong and The Sun had accused you, me, Abbey, Bryan, Paul, Steve B, Laughatthedingles, Tugay, Modes,Ossey(....the list goes on) of robbing our fellow Rovers' supporters who were dead. I don't think any of us would be able to "get over it." I don't think The Sun would sell a single copy in Blackburn any more. I admire Mottman and Skem lad and the rest of them for keeping the torch burning and wish them the best of luck in whatever they do.
    -1 points
  31. I've already said it. Yes. BTW Skem Lad, thanks for the refresher. I needed that. No doubt it may be new to some. It needs reading by all.
    -1 points
  32. Perhaps they'll let it go once they receive justice? I wouldn't like to be the one who tells them face-to-face: "Come on chaps, it's been fifteen years. I know you've been messed about by the courts, and perhaps no-one's actually said 'sorry', but don't you think it's getting a bit boring now?" As for these daft "there were greater miscarriages during the war" arguments, the mind boggles. Is that the new yardstick for deciding whether to prosecute now? "Drink driver killed a whole family, no carpet bombing involved, OK sarge, I'll let him go". Banonkers!
    -1 points
  33. Good for you sir. Laziness and ignorance is not an egscuse for paw speling. How can you tel I gru up reding the Grauniad ?
    -1 points
  34. I don't really agree with that. He hasn't looked that good, easily pushed off the ball, drops too deep. As a lone striker he is awful. Under Allardyce and the lHughes last season he has looked poor the vast majortiy of the time. However I do agree he has something to offer with another more mobile player alongisde to give him room - we have three more of those than we did last year (Di Santo, Kalinic and Hoilett). Personally I would be tempted to play 442 against Pompey if Dunn isn't looking too hot in training (seemed very lacklustre against Utd). Let Benni play, see what he can do. He did look good on Sat (although still massively overweight!). If Dunni s playing well Benni will have to sit on the bench. Can't drop him, and not convinced we can play him central in a 442 midfield.
    -1 points
  35. Quality wasnt he. A nice Volley & a 25 yard free-kick. He would be awesome in the prem. Exactly what Arsenal need to purchase!!
    -1 points
  36. For me Benni and Roberts should both be out of the door. When Benni plays everyone moans anyway....clearly we have had his best few years and he costs too much. Cannot believe we missed James Beattie last Christmas....how many has he scored this year? Much more a BFS player. The team needs incremental improvement...only 20% this year unfortunately, followed by 10% in January 2010 then another 20% in the summer. We have to be patient - it would just be useful to know what kind of beast this BFS Bolton Mk 2 is going to turn into. Our hopes rest on Dunny staying fit,keeping Samba, Kalinic coming thru, and NZonzi and Robbo continuing to improve(plus Givet finding a slot).That's the half of the team in place...then the 50% improvement over 2 windows.
    -1 points
  37. He picks the young and on-loan Di Santo ahead of him. Think that says a lot. And the 'get in the f***ing box' scream at Roberts during the Chelsea game sticks in my memory too. Meriem is due back in a couple of weeks. I take it they will look at him and see if he can solve a problem. If not it will be a case of looking elsewhere. The Di Santo thing will be clearer soon. A lot depends on Chelsea getting their signing ban lifted and buying one or two players in that position. Much as he is a real talent, do you think Chelsea would fancy their chances in the Premier League and Champions League if they had to use him for the seven or eight games when Drogba will be missing. It's too much of an ask. Hopefully common sense prevails and he stays at Rovers to add to his education and experience. The kid is an asset for Rovers right now, but really would not make an impact at Chelsea this season.
    -1 points
  38. Beattie always looks really up for it though, he always looks likely to score. To answer mhead's question-------Beattie wanted to come here, the manager wanted to buy him but there was no money available.Simple as that.
    -1 points
  39. Taking the bit in bold I agree with you BUT I don't think Benni is the answer in our current formation, I think that's what I said, if not it's what I meant!
    -1 points
  40. Apparently we want 3.5 mill for Benni, somehow I can't see that happening. I get this awful feeling that with the manager not rating Roberts, he's selling Benni to fund a new bid for Davies.
    -1 points
  41. I think Sam is looking at the current squad and planning to be without Benni, possibly losing Di Santo and with little faith in Roberts - not to mention Kalinic's teething problems. Two new strikers is the pragmatic wish for January. If Di Santo stayed that would mean only one more needed. For all of the sentiment towards Benni it should be recalled that he wasn't fit enough when it counted last season and could not be relied on. The predecessor left him out too. If he gets little game time and is moved on he only has himself to blame.
    -2 points
  42. Exactement. Poor professional with a poor attitude who does not look after his body properly. Au revoir et bon chance Benni.
    -2 points
  43. Can i also add BFS spent ALL summer looking for a striker, totally overlooked every other position and how weak we were all over the pitch (bar right back, he loves us wasting what little wage budget we have on right backs). And now it gets to Jan and the only striker at the club Sam is quite keen on is Di Santo, who is a loanee and back down south come january. And now because he only wants to play his negative anti football crap we play with one striker so dunn can play off him and carry the whole team. 3.5million for a striker who has consistantly scored goals in this league.... about as much of a farce as Julie playing week in week out and Sam thinking he can be the next United manager... Beggers belief it really is... Im sure half the people who post on here could be doing a better job at this moment in time.
    -2 points
  44. C'mon SG (and others) use the old grey matter. Benny has intimated that he wants to go and to the best of my knowledge Jason Roberts hasn't! How the hell can we sell Roberts (or anyone else for that matter) if he decides to stay and see out his contract? This isn't 'Premiership manager' you know. Amazing how people come on here and scream about a lack of loyalty of our players when they choose to transfer out. Ex players get Judas Neill / One greedy barsteward / etc etc yet as soon as someone like Roberts / Ped / has a drop in form we have to rip up his contract and bundle him out of the door asap. ffs! Well done that man........ An island of common sense in a sea of idiocy.
    -2 points
  45. When they were winning 1-0 they had a very good chance of qualifying. Now their chances are slim, but they could still do it.
    -2 points
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