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BlackburnEnd75

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  1. Yeah leave off Eustace. He's only had 7 winnable games. He'll turn it around once he's had a summer and the lower standard of teams in league 1 will really help.
  2. It was so obvious to me and those around me that he should come off at half time. Euseless
  3. I thought the crowd really got behind the team in the 1st half to try and get them going. They didn't respond and the crowd fell back into apathy. It's on the manager / players right to do their jobs.
  4. I've had a think about it, with the injuries we've got there's not an obvious answer here. Working on the assumption that Pears, tronstad and Hedges all remain unavailable and brittain will be fit. I'd go 4-4-1-1. Walhsted Brittain. Hyam. Wharton. Pickering Siggurdson. Ayari. Buckley. Gilsenan Szmodics Gally Even as I type it I shake my head. Obviously it looks very weak in midfield but the other options particularly out wide would be moran, markanday or dolan, of those perhaps dolan simply for work rate but like many other he's not exactly deserving of a start. I'd play gilsenan as a wild card option, there's no such thing as a perfect time to chuck someone in but he might step up and not quite feel the pressure of the more established players. Cm has to be ayari and Buckley simply because moran and garrett aren't up to it there.
  5. We created nothing today. And scored largely down to a horrendous unforced error from a Millwall defender (great finish though). I felt we tried to play passing football in the first half, just slowly and lacking the player rotations that made us a fairly good attacking force under JDT. With McFadzean receiving too much of the ball and no movement, naturally we didn't create a single chance. It didn't take long for us to start hoofing it to nobody. The return of the short corners was also most unwelcome and the ayari one at the end was mind numbingly dumb. Ultimately we are in the position we are due to how we have been run but criticism should be given out to eustace and the players on this occasion. The players are very clearly hiding in my eyes (szmodics as often is the case sticks his chest out) and Eustaces tactics are frankly poor consisting of let's get men behind the ball and hope we don't get beat. Looking very much a waggott appointment right now.
  6. Bar a statement about the McGuire nobody has come out and explained anything to the fans at large. It's a disgrace in my eyes. I also think it's counter productive as if they explained the issues then I think quite a lot would swallow the party line. I imagine there will be something that prevents GB from doing his scheduled march transfer review thingy.
  7. Yeah wouldn't blame the medical department. They will present the risks based on his injury history and his medical. Anything beyond that is not their decision to make.
  8. I'd be really surprised to see szmodics available on Saturday and if he is I'd be tempted to home back until the 2nd half. Sounds as though gally might be fit as too with tronstad. I'd maybe consider the big crewe lad if there is some wear in the cbs. 5 outfield players played 120 mins on Tuesday and with the fixture list as it is we've got to careful there. I'd go: Pears Hyam. Fadz. Wharton Brittain. Buckley tronstad Pickering Markanday Dolan. Gally Subs: wahlsted, o'riordan, Billy, duru or gilsenan, chrisene, garrett, moran, siggy, telalovic
  9. Pears Hyam. Wharton. Pickering Brittain moran Buckley GarrettChrisene Telalovic. Dolan Subs: wahlsted, Fadz, Billy the kid, Batty, duru, ayari, siggy, gilsenan, gally I'd give szmodics the night off, I'd only give gally the 2nd half and hope we aren't out of it by then.
  10. I'll be blaming the ownership tbh. We were 5 points clear when he left. The let's blame JDT for relegation is a bit of a stretch. Ultimately we don't know where we would be if he stayed, we were on a bad run but we had a buffer to the relegation zone. A manger with most of his key players fit and a slightly deeper squad should keep this team up.
  11. I think he's done okay I think but Its a small sample size especially as I don't really count the stoke win as 'his'. I think he's bennefitted from having more experienced players available to pick from and having our best keeper and striker available is a luxury that JDT didn't really have during the bad run. To his credit he seems to be using gally better than most have used him over his time here. We are more pragmatic, don't lose it in silly areas as much, are less liley to get countered on, offer a much greater threat from set pieces. We hang in games longer, appear more dogged, and actually look more solid the longer games go on. But I think to say he's 'fixed the defence' is imo complete rubbish. It's still an issue for us. I thought first hour yesterday norwich should've scored more than the 1 they did. Same with Birmingham away, we conceded a lot of chances. We aren't playing a high line and norwich got in behind quite a few times yesterday. Pears has been mostly very good in the last 4/5 games which is gaining us points as much as anything. We are giving the ball away way too much at present. At times it's aimless hoofing. Nothing wrong with direct long ball football but you've still got to have a purposes with these passes. It's frustrating, as much as JDTs side should've varied it slightly more then so should this side... if a channel ball isn't on move it around and open one up. It's painful to watch at times. Hopefully when JE gets time on the training ground with this group he can get this refined more. I'm still on the fence with JE.
  12. I'm not giving Eustace stoke. He wouldn't have been claiming that one if we were losing it. He didn't take a training session, I'm pretty sure he didn't pick the team. It's 2 draws and a defeat in 3. We look a bit more solid defensively but I feel we've sacrificed a lot to get that. He's got them scrapping though. If the players stay fit we will stay up. As for progress beyond that my hope is that its a case of a manager 'building from the back first'
  13. Buckley has come on and we can suddenly string more than 2 passes together.
  14. Would you target this one or Saturday for example. Newcastle is a bit more of a free hit.
  15. If pears, tronstad, szmodics or Gally goes down I jured and misses even half of the remaining games we are in big trouble as there roles or replacements are not replicable. Lot of games coming up in a short space of time too, in normal circumstances I'd be tempted to start the 3 outfielders mentioned on the bench. But if we did that it would be tantamount to accepting defeat now. With that in mind I'd rest Hedges and that's it.
  16. Good stuff for trying to turn the heat up on suhail. He's a shadow man who should be brought out into the open. Personally disagree on Waggott, I think he's shown complete disregard for the fans during this and for a large part of his time here. He has a special line to a few fans and that leaks out on here but other than that he doesn't say anything unless he has to. This is a big part of the disfunction at the club, nobody communicates anything. Waggott judging from those who have spoke to him seems to be quite a good talker in smaller circles but doesn't like and (imo) doesn't come across well in larger interviews. His nature is to withhold information. The fact he's not spoken properly following the turmoil of the last month speaks volumes. I think for all GB's faults (his transfer record doesnt look good right now) he's shown a willingness to communicate with fans and that has been appreciated by them. If Waggott communicated the strategy clearly I think he'd find a lot of people will go with him because as we've seen a lot of fans are happy to swallow the party line. The main cause is to remove the owners and waggott goes with them. But I really don't like or rate waggott at all and to quote kevin keegan I would 'love it' if he was removed from the club.
  17. I think with Travis being loaned out was made with a few assumptions in place: -Buckley had come back and they needed to free up the wage budget somehow - they assumed the Indian Court would allow a cash injection in mid Jan. -they were not planning to sell adam wharton this January but in the summer. -they weren't planning on losing JDT So they needed to ship someone out early in the window, Travis was clashing with jdt over playing time and didn't suit the current style of play. Then the money from India can't get through, they then have to sell Wharton to stay solvent. Jdt goes and they hire a manager who would likely want Travis and suits the 'new' style. Just sums up where we are as a club. The owners causing instability within the club. It's not joined up thinking it's people reacting to changing circumstances.
  18. For me that was the worst performance of the season. It was only the lack of Birmingham composure in front of goal that made the scoreline close. And to think telalovic should've got us a point at the death. We offered nothing going forward. The plan appeared to be to hit them quickly moving forward but we gave the ball away so much in transition that caused no threat and the players dropped deeper and deeper. Then when we tried to build a little with the ball we looked woeful like the last 18 months never happened, just panicky and very disjointed. Play like this regularly we will go down. Hopefully Eustace can get a coherent style into these lads quickly because yesterday was the opposite of a new manager bounce
  19. Pears O'riordan McFadzean. Wharton Brittain. Tronstad. Fleck. Hedges Dolan. Szmodics Horse All assuming JRC isn't fit, if he is then i would start him cm Subs: Wahltsted, Hyam, Batty, Buckley, Ayari, Garrett, Gilsenan, Markanday, Leonard.
  20. Szmodics is the top scorer in the league but he's a system player not a great player. We had a system thay suited him perfectly, now its been removed watch him slip down the charts. No wonder he's frustrated.
  21. Leonard is better than telalovic with more potential also. What's happened to him recently? He's worth a place on the bench ahead of telalovic and markanday at the very least.
  22. That's the concern for me. Neither have played in a long time and Hedges is coming back after a long hamstring injury. I'd be tempted to use hedges off the bench. Start the villa lad at wing back and bring scotty Wharton back in his favoured lcb role.
  23. There will be a reason why Coventry dropped him months ago but I didn't see it today. He had the exact qualities that we've been lacking. He's a proper organiser. That left hand side of the back 5 is pretty shaky defensively on paper but he was organising and talking the whole game. It stood out a mile as we haven't had that since ayala left in the summer. It looks like we will play with a back 5 and sit back more with a deeper line and look to play on the break a bit more which shouldn't expose him much.
  24. I was about to say this about Telalovic. Felt the squad looked deeper today, not as young with more championship experience. But Telalovic looked so far off it, lads never going to make it at this level, would rather see Leonard get 20 mins.
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