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Was just talking. Your point didn't really stretch me. I'm not bothered who the masses choose as their golden boy. I appreciate the sport at all levels.
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Joshua as the people's champion as long as gets past Whyte and they chivvy him along. Fury for the one you love to hate. Fury v Joshua is already big. There's mileage in Khan, but he needs to win a defining fight. Brook is top notch. Skillful and big at the weight. Selby? Warrington? Callum Smith? Can't see it being Degale. Quigg is also big at the weight. Crolla / Matthews / P Smith / Mcdonald brothers not for me. What about the gold medal kid Campbell? Good old Barry Hearn. Pumped it all up, but there's a lack of genuine quality.
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Froch admitted his head was scrambled for 6 rounds. I hated every minute of that fight. He took so many big right hands flush on his jaw. What a chin! I was gutted for him. Groves took 18 unanswered shots, some flush, was toppling forward drunkardly and was all over the place. You dont turn yout back in pro-boxing. Should have been given a count. Then Froch could have pasted him. Then had another go at Ward, Kessler perhaps or maybe even irritated Calzaghe enough. Instead Groves gets his re-match and you know the rest. Froch should have gone out against a great champion, instead of a great occasion.
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As a Froch fan I didn't like Groves either. Froch was physcologically damaged, fragile, very sloppy early doors and made the first fight much harder than it ever needed to be. Groves dined out and laughed all the way to the bank after putting Froch on his behind. Everyone forgot he had lost! The 2nd fight took a lot out of him. Embarrassing getting sparked like that.
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The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Whether it's a good away point or not, that 4 points from the 21 available. Minus 3 goal difference. 23rd position in the table. 15 points off the top after 7 games! 10 points behind Burnley. That's a pretty grim start indeed. Wonder what the squad expected and now make of it and who are they are blaming? Bet Jordan's chuffed. Wonder if Short is relaxed? Hanley as capitano happy how he's marshalling things? Anyone in management care? Worried for their jobs? No-one will be happy internally and the bitching will have begun. -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
Quite. Suprising decision. Pleased Taylor has got another go. Spunky little battler, good player of spin. -
At elite level you need an elite chin, elite engine and elite punching power. None of which applies to Groves. Was never going to beat a Mayweather favourite on points, especially after sitting on his ass in round one. Consigned to history now I hope. Disappointed in Cornish. 18 stone - 6 foot 7. Softy. Don't write Dillian Whyte off just yet. Has already beat Joshua knocking him down, and is undefeated with 13 knock outs. Genuine bad blood between the two. Can see it being a cracker.
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The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
There are simply no parallels with those times and today. I don't remember losing 20 million plus per year back then for example, with 8 million pound strikers, playing in a dilapidated cow shed, struggling to pay the milk bills. Strange isn't it how proud I was of a club with nothing back then. Compared to the feelings of disgust now with an amazing infrastructure, expensive players, billionaire owners. If this is the best the current management can produce you would think personal dignity would facilitate change. But thats just dreaming as these folk are more than happy to accrue huge riches while the club stagnates. -
The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Odd games here and there shouldn't matter. I'm more depressed our entire season is over before it even began. Hence being so irritated to be dumped out of the Cup as well. They've no right to take the heart and soul out of the club. Most clubs in this division can at least dream of hitting the play offs or a cup run with good luck and a following wind.And now all the talk is of relegation. If Bowyer keeps us up it be lauded as a success. And then we'll find out we lost another 20 million doing it. We can't even think of automatic promotion and now the play offs are also a pipe dream. Gav's right, sitting here watching this all unfold is excruciating. Perfect preperation prevents @#/? poor performance. -
The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
It' hard to disagree after the start we've made, but I still don't think we will go down. Some very poor teams in this division and it's a long old slog. I wondered pre-season how squad morale would be affected by the negative atmosphere ceeated by prominent players wishing to leave, or being sold. The lack of belief, structure and leadership, coupled with an embargo. It's ok earning a fortune but people live to their means and there still has to be a reason for what your doing. We've all had jobs we disliked and had zero passion or interest in. Anything less than 100% effort in pro-sport and your goosed. I thought bad results may be the catalyst for change, but presumed the local derbies to be key in that respect. It's all happening a tad quicker than we expected. Bowyer needs to go as he cannot organise us defensively. Nothing has changed since day one. I never understood and still don't. I would have started with a keeper and gone from there. Impossible to plan effectively or be overly confident when you know your likely to conceed against all you play. He should have made us uncompromising and hard to beat and focused on the defence, especially knowing a predator like Rhodes could always nick a goal to win. You can't conceed 60 plus a season and expect any success. I don't mind low scoring games as it's what I expect from two organised professional football clubs with very fine margins between them. The stupidity of our strategy pisses me off. -
The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
We've done very well indeed. Supposedly much bigger clubs have had years of failure. Enjoyed our cup exploits in the noughties very much. I started believing we'd get to the latter stages and often we did. When I started watching the thought of winning a cup was ridiculous, but fair shout to our club in that the only one we had a realistic chance in, we won, beating PL clubs along the way. (What a shame Hendry isn't a lasting hero after two spells and two trophies). -
The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Quite right. No point supporting the Rovers if you want to win trophies. They've been few and far apart all my life. Its not about that for us and many others. But I expect them to be up for it whoever and wherever we play. I loved the fact teams didn't like coming up north to play us under those managers. -
The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
They were so bitter about that result. They didn't think we could win that game. If Pedersen could head straight Chelsea would be the same. We've been lucky to see such quality at the Rovers. Newer fans can only dream of such times. -
The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
You know why I supported him. Who'd have thought five years on? What a farce from day one. -
The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Causing trouble about Allardyce again? It's fair to say you weren't his biggest fan. And Jbizzle is right. To this day you seemingly don't understand the long throws heaped physical and physcological pressure on opponents, created further opportunities from set plays, maintained field position, allowed us to box in the opposition, and perhaps most importantly with modern day brain dead footballers, was easy for them to understand and follow and implement. Everyone hated playing us. We need that back one day but it won't be under 1-0 down Gaz. Would you have fancied stopping Samba every time it went out for a throw? I bet the opposition centre halves cursed everytime it was kicked out. I bet opposition managers addressed it when preparing against us and even discussed it pre-match. Your bias against Allardyce always limited your ability when discussing his approach. -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
Very disappointed with England this last test. Even with winning momentum we showed how fragile we are. Credit to the bowlers, Cook and Root overall. -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
I hope Ali makes a ton. He's really growing on me as a player. -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
Totally agree Husky. Proven player in these conditions and a thorn in our side previously. I was glad when he was not selected! Lyth has gone cheaply again (no suprise there really) and so has an out of touch Ian Bell. Have to say I am a tad worried about out batting line up going forward. Pietersen should have come in at the start of this series and that would have taken some pressure off newer players to score as he took the limelight. Agree with ARA and said so after the 3rd test. Ali to move up the order. Cook and Root can stay, Ali up the order. Stokes can stay for his all round game. None of the others have done enough to warrant their continued place in the team and even though we have won the series I would have no hesitation in changing this batting line up around. Bell may survive with thousands of test runs behind him, but Lyth, Ballance, Buttler, Bairstow etc have mental or technical deficiences that won't disappear overnight. Lyth shot selection is terrible, Ballance is way too far back in his crease, Buttler plays away from his pad and Bairstow has a tendency to play across the line to anything fast and straight nipping back in. Ballance and Bairstow also struggled with the short ball. If I was an Aussie I would be very disappointed we have not retained the Ashes against a poor England batting line up, when only needing to draw to retain the series. As an England bowler I would be telling the batters to get their @#/? together. You wont always bowl the opposition out for less than 200 and simply have to score 400+ yourself to stay in and win test matches. Especially in the first innings. Compton may be worth looking at again as defensively he is good against quick bowling with decent technique. Hales scored 180+ yesterday and has also kept himself in the frame. -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
Im not having that. Which bowler lkikes being battered all over the park and which batter likes being dismissed cheaply? Especially with International careers on the line? Truth is the Aussies have applied themselves better than us when batting. Like we did compared to them in other tests. Our opening stats make very poor reading; 7, 17, 0, 12, 19, 11, 32 and 30. Ouch! -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
Fully agree. I think the shorter form of the game is reducing concentration spans and changing players techniques. Watching the Aussies give us slip fielding practice has been embarrassing. Lyth - Bairstow - Ballance - Stokes. Not sure any of those are good enough as batsmen. Bell has been ropey and very disappointing. Cook has struggled also after looking really good earlier this year. Root has done well at times but some very low scores have taken the gloss off his performances a tad. Poor batting from both sides. Rubbish at times. -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
His shot selection is diabolical for an opening bat. Check out our opening partnerships this series. Pathetic. Such a key position, have to say our selection has been badly flawed. If Haddin catches Root in that 2nd test we'd have probably lost this series. Australia have thrown it away with their batting in much the same way wd have tried to do. Should have been much, much closer. I was always taught to protect my castle and not give my wicket away cheaply. Too many players in this series have simply gifted their wickets for it to have been high quality. 3 day test matches tells it's own story. -
The Relegation Thread
onlyonejackwalker replied to roverandout's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Palace went up under Holloway and i doubt Millwall had a gargantuan squad and a 30 million overspend. He was always firefighting there. Would I employ Holloway and want to work with him? No chance, way too unpredictable to build something lasting. And a bit gormless for my liking. Meanwhile here, Bowyer has certainly underperformed with the support, facilities, cash, time and players at his disposal. Hardly suprising really with nothing on his CV to show otherwise. A million and one others could also have underperformed just as easily. I've supported change for donkeys now. We conceed for fun, almost as many as we score and it's unprofessional and totally unacceptable. We are still shy a decent right back and don't get me started on the way he has handled the keeper situation. I remain amazed at his reluctance to build from the back. My other concern this time round is unity, sense of purpose and belief within the dressing room. I simply cannot see how it has improved since last season. Once eroded it can be a very slippery slope ahead as a long season unfolds. Can only see the mood at Ewood worsening as well. I said pre-season there were worse teams than us knocking about. But every fixture I see looks daunting! Fancy being scared of Huddersfield! No disrespect to them. All and sundry score against us. Bad times. -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
Wasn't having a pop . Fully agree. Last time we went to of the world rankings we got tanked 3-0 by Pakistan. They are unbeaten in their adopted home in UAE. Fresh strategy required. The Aussies would try and hurt us physcologically. They finished a few careers beating us 5-0. We've already got rid of Clarke who still averages over 50 as captain. Rogers is retiring let's send him off with as little as possible. The Marsh lads are as good as done for as is Watson. Haddin as well. Need to get after that crap off spinner, Siddle or the other medium pacer as well. Keep the pressure on Neville and really target Smith with everything we've got. There's no room for sentiment and I hope we batter them again. Lyth has to go. I'd bank on four or five lads making at least 20 over 2 innings so it's worth the gamble for me. Tough job opening at International level. Need a good technique and half a brain with shot selection. If it's two foot outside off stump leave it alone!! -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
Both Ali and Root have bowled spin for England this series and taken wickets. That adds up to two. Call Root a net bowler if you like. Compared to Swan so is Ali. Still taken vital wickets and more importantly in this series both have scored runs when under pressure. The reason we have not picked a specialist spinner this series is they are not good enough. Beat Australia 4-1 and we go 2nd in the rankings. And our best ever home Ashes result. Has to be the target for me. If Haddon catches Root on zero in the first test we would have gone 2-0 down. Small margins at top level sport. -
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onlyonejackwalker replied to Blue n White Rover's topic in I Can't Believe It's Not Football
Swann could bowl on anything and was world class. I can't remember an Oval wicket ever being prepared specifically for spin. England have played two spinners all summer. Neither suitable in the traditional sense. Both have taken crucial wickets this series however.