Jump to content

BRFCS

BY THE FANS, FOR THE FANS
SINCE 1996
Proudly partnered with TheTerraceStore.com

Leaderboard

Popular Content

Showing content with the highest reputation on 04/12/19 in Posts

  1. At the time of signing he was a 21 year old forward, with 40ish league one and championship goals under his belt, also played and scored at every level for England up to u21's. All opinions but I wouldn't say paying £1.75m with that record and further development potential in today's market is anywhere near over the top.
    9 points
  2. His comments in the LT trying to dig himself out of the Brereton signing sum it for me now it's utter garbled nonsense i'm afraid. Yes the lad might come good we hope he does but that isn't the issue and from that interview it's clear he's no real idea actually WHY he signed him other than he was a rated kid and he MIGHT come good in time and the owners are up for that sort of thing. No way in hell is that really a football decision it's just a potential money making investment and the guy still doesn't know whether he's a winger or a striker even though the lad himself and everyone else says he's a striker. No not good old tony i'll spend 7 million on a young striker then try and make him into a winger just to fit my team, i'll not even play him as a striker when I alter that team from the way it's set up to accommodate the first choice 9 & 10 !!!!!! Mans a confused mixed bag of contradictions what they hell is in those biscuits ?
    5 points
  3. If pointing out that choosing two superior central midfielders has led to us to our only two wins in our last twelve is negative rhetoric, then fair enough. I just think the above and other observations are people expressing frustration at the same mistakes happening time and again.
    4 points
  4. “I could have bought six or seven players for £1m each, whatever we paid for Ben, or we buy a talent that we think is going to be a massive asset for the football club down the line" @Biz - confirmation on the price.
    4 points
  5. Until Mowbray changes his approach we won't progress. His approach is not to lose, he doesn't set out to win. Two DM's that never venture forward and '2.5 attackers' = not much fun at Ewood. Travis and Reed play together and it's 5 goals at home and no reply. He may well play the same team as against Derby tomorrow, but he'll revert to type at some point. He's just a very dull manager who plays dull football. Setting your team up to stop counter attacks instead of setting your team up to win the game is very Mowbray. Hopefully at some point he'll stop being negative and start being positive. Then we can all be positive, not just the fans that feel positive about his negativity.
    4 points
  6. Usually they just pick there mates and who they enjoyed rooming with. I wouldn't take it to seriously. I agree about the forgotten club thing though it's like we are and always have been a stepping stone, a brief chapter in people's careers not worth bookmarking. It's sad really when you think of a premier league win, a league cup win, European football and promotions. It sticks in the throat abit especially when so few every go on to do anything better
    3 points
  7. In fairness for £1.75m Armstrong has been an OK signing. He still has a lot to improve on but there is some raw talent there, and he's contributed decently enough despite being played repeatedly out of position on the left wing. In fact I'd say during our January run of wins Armstrong was our most important player, with multiple goals/assists. Without that we might be looking at a relegation battle right now, so even though I've been critical of Armstrong in the past I wouldn't put him in the category of bad signing. For me our worst signings, Brereton aside, weren't who we brought in but who we offered new contracts. Those are going to become an albatross around our neck in the next couple of seasons.
    3 points
  8. The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
    3 points
  9. @Paul Mani - any answer yet? The same request has been made by others in more detail. Alternatively just admit you made it up.
    3 points
  10. That's because it'll be what whoever recommended this deal will have told the owners, a lot of speaking to them via the press is going on now again by the looks of it.
    2 points
  11. I looked at Reeds celebrating Rothwell midweek and again on the club highlights channel, looked ecstatic I didn’t know whether it was a look of this is what we can do, show the faith type or generally just happily playing his football here. If saints stay up I’m not sure he’d be in their plans and I’m positive a top team failing to go up like a Leeds, Villa, Stoke, Derby type must be keeping an eye out. For me he’s a standout midfield player wise at this level who’s been criminally underused centrally and shunted wide half the time. He reminds me of a box to box player someone who can get back tackle, someone to bring a ball forward. No wonder his best games come in a 3 man midfield centrally where he’s not running for his partner I.e smallwood. A bit like our own Steven Reid/Gary Flitcroft type without the rocket, Steve sidwell type. Him box to box and a true Mokoena axe type behind and Someone to complement him with a bit more flair maybe Travis with his passing is the way forward. That said said I’ve stuck him behind 3 flair players with Travis centrally to get some width and creativity up top to cater for Graham. We need that stamina in the middle and drive. We ain’t going to beat relegated PL teams by either hoofing to Graham or triangles taka but we can be a steely team in the sheff Utd mode.
    2 points
  12. who gives a shit ? The 10K will buy them in April or July. Until something changes at the club then that's it. Try getting shut of the Waggott Walk On Tax. Or getting shut of Waggott and his Tax. Or maybe even a Venky Apology.... I bet that isn't on your "fans" forum agenda.
    2 points
  13. True but Shearer and Sutton have always had good things to say about the club and their time at Ewood imo.Both players spoke up about how Venkys were running the club and showed genuine concern...they have my up most respect for that alone. You get the impression they really enjoyed their spells in the old Blue n White as much as we did as fans.
    2 points
  14. I don't care who signed him. If Tony puts his name to it in public then it's on his head as far as I'm concerned
    2 points
  15. Harry Nilsson - Without You
    2 points
  16. But we could have spent that 7m differently in the summer, never mind January. Think Mowbrays words will prove to be hollow ones when he no doubt signs a striker in the summer who will jump ahead of the goalless Brereton in the queue in a season we are allowed to judge him in.
    2 points
  17. He definitely does not have a poor touch, in fact ive seen him numerous times pluck a ball out of the air and stop it dead. Also, Alex Neil said after he came here that he had done so choosing us over Preston so thats not true either. I dont think hes offered enough and I think hed be better placed on the right rather than the left as he can use his pace to go on the outside. His decision making is a major downfall. God knows what Mowbray sees to seperate him and Rothwell defensively either.
    2 points
  18. Didn't Jason Lowe captain England U21's!? Enough said. For that money, we could have signed the likes of Pukki with plenty of change left over. Also, think Brum paid less than Armstrong's fee for Adams. Just feel for £1.75m we could have done much, much better.
    2 points
  19. Been linked with that job on and off for ages. Could be a spectacular success or horrible failure. He did quite well initially at both Spurs and Villa but then things unravelled. Helps when his mates Ferdinand and Ramsey are running things behind the scenes at QPR.
    2 points
  20. Get rid of the £3 pay on the day adds on to ticket prices...!!!!!!!!..
    2 points
  21. I think we'll be lucky if the club has even announced prices and selling periods by then, and yes I think actually getting them on sale is too much to ask. To me it is utter madness to not have them on sale by the day of the Swansea game at the absolute latest. No doubt we'll wait until that is out of the way and the season is over and then release them when many people won't be back at Ewood until August. I noticed on the Fans Forum minutes that Waggott said he expected prices to be announced later in April. That isn't the same as getting tickets on sale. For me there should be an early bird window which expires about now or late April, and then general sale is opened by the day of the Swansea game so that anyone attending that match has the opportunity to sign up whilst they are at Ewood, especially if that game is being treated as a cheap ticket day and there could well be people there who don't usually go.
    2 points
  22. In January we were within touching distance of the playoffs, if we’d spent the £6m on a few players at that point to help when injuries kicked in, then we could have still be contending at the top end. So blowing that money has had a big negative impact on this season.
    2 points
  23. Qatar twice made serious bids to buy Rovers, beginning offering Walker family long before they bought PSG and followed some years on- https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/blackburn-rovers-fc-up-for-sale/articleshow/31975419.cms https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/9365245.blackburn-rovers-owners-deny-qatari-visit-reports/ Most recent approach.
    2 points
  24. Armstrong has been a great signing. Decent fee, good amount of goals and hasn't ever shown a sign of discontent or off field trouble. He's a steady little player with good potential for resale. He is one of Tony's better signings
    2 points
  25. I'm a big believer in not changing a winning team (assuming the same XI are all available for selection), so I'd keep the same team tbh. Even if that team does contain Conway, who I don't think we should retain....
    2 points
  26. You've only got to listen to the opinions of various ex pro members of the football panels to realise they aren't the fountain of all football wisdom. That's why dozens of managers get fired every year, they get more things wrong than they get right.
    2 points
  27. I don’t want opposition managers to tell us that Mowbray and Venus are good coaches. I want our football and results to be the judge of that. It’s all well and good calling things “negative rhetoric” to try to shut down other’s opinions but it doesn’t mean jack out in the “real world” where we’ve had two wins and one draw in 12 matches and the manager publicly states that he prefers the midfield line up that played in the 9 defeats. Stick to discussing the issues and stop calling people negative just because you don’t like “the truth” to be dealt with in facts.
    2 points
  28. The comparisons are as football managers. Mowbray was brought in just over two years to keep us up (his words). He failed. If he had kept us up, our position today is only marginally better than it would have been then. Therefore, our club has barely progressed. Tactically and player trading wise, there is hardly any difference between the three. Mowbray's comments and excuses, IMO, are now very similar to the desperate days of Kean and C o y l e. I don't give a feck about Mowbray's 'nice guy' image, his values or his wife's lemon drizzle cake. The bottom line is Mowbray is handsomely paid to improve and progress the footballing side of the club. IMO, we are now regressing, our football, in the main, is dire, our recent results have been appalling and the thousands and thousands of empty seats are an embarrassment. In my book he has to go and quick as I think we are going nowhere other than downwards.
    2 points
  29. Shame he doesn't have the first touch. At 24 I don't think he's going to suddenly develop immaculate ball control which the Davies/Graham roll requires. He really is a league 1 at best player.
    1 point
  30. Rather we tried to add a bit of height to the team.
    1 point
  31. To be fair sparky has championed this lad all year, league one he might be but looks the same ex united cut like Rothwell
    1 point
  32. I think it was his signing and the buck stops with him. I imagine there was some kind of discussion around the club’s obvious new transfer policy re young, English players and he remembered that ‘amazing performance’ at Forest two years ago...
    1 point
  33. He was Mowbrays signing. How would he be "the owners signing"? That would mean they or someone else would have an idea about young English players. They don't. What I do find odd is that our business happened so late, so what I do suspect is there was only money released late. I could be wrong on that, but it would add up.
    1 point
  34. Just flicking through the channels. Spotted ‘Duff’s 1-11’ was on. He picks the best players he played with. Now I imagined a fair few Chelsea players would be in there, but the likes of Richard Dunne, Mark Schwarzer, that Dembele from Fulham and Bobby Zamora as sub?! Not even a mention of a single Rovers player, he rattled through the names of about 4 keepers without mentioning Brad. Remember he played in teams that had a promotion, a cup win and two top 6 PL finishes in his time. I often feel we are the forgotten club of many of our ex players.
    1 point
  35. Sounds to me more like TM doesn't really know the price. He basically just said 'it was 6 million, or 7 million, or, hell, whatever it was we paid'.
    1 point
  36. Are you going for a pint before tomorrows game, if you are we could discuss it then. I find a discussion is better over a pint than over a keyboard.
    1 point
  37. Not sure I'd say a great signing and I'd also say a return of 4 goals is rather disappointing, he's really only had one good month all season. There is undoubted ability with Armstrong (unlike Brereton) but next season is an important one for him he needs to bulk up over the summer and bring more end product to his game to show that he is a good Championship player rather than just a very good League 1 player.
    1 point
  38. 22/4/19....Karma can be a satisfying thing.
    1 point
  39. Sorry, I meant Whiteman and an opinion of him as a player ??
    1 point
  40. Then he's wrecked our season hasn't he? Should have put it on a horse!
    1 point
  41. One of those third choice English keepers that PL club’s sign to fill their ‘homegrown quota’
    1 point
  42. With Bennett as Bartender and Smallwood and Evans as waiters
    1 point
  43. Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
    1 point
  44. Even if it is true they contribute something going forward. Evans and Smallwood leave holes even when there sitting in position offering nothing going forward otherwise we wouldn't have the worst defence in the entire football league
    1 point
  45. First read through I saw this as a joke. Then I realised you are being serious. And I agree ☹️
    1 point
  46. Mowbray is a good manager in L1 with the biggest budget and a team containing players good enough for the Championship. He was bottom of L1 after ten games without a win at Coventry when he didn't have the biggest budget.
    1 point
  47. Bidwell is a cracker of a shout to be fair if it’s true he’s on a free
    1 point
  48. It's the language of a 35 Year old bloke, who wishes he was still 13 ?
    1 point
  49. Johnson’s rebuilding job with the U23s, replacing players and adapting to a higher division is actually better than Mowbray’s. Mowbray has had continuity of players and an embarrassment of riches in the attacking front that he hasn’t used. Ironic that Mowbray has caused many of Johnson’s selection problems for him but still hasn’t really blooded any youngsters beside Travis. Having Rankin-Costello and Chapman back will have helped more recently but he has to take credit for Buckley and Butterworth and Mols.
    1 point
  50. I don't know why consideration isn't given to bringing it back in house like it used to be. Burnley have a catering manager who oversees the whole match day operation and functions that are outside of Saturday and weekday games. Northcote have charged top dollar for what was average and bland fayre. I believe a professionally run operation could bring in vital revenue. I think there is an element of laziness about outsourcing.
    1 point
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.