11 hours ago, Nuttall is lost said:

Its Poitier

Bonnet de douche Rodney.

what a 24 carat plonker you really are!

I wonder if the Wharton brothers have been a little too excitable in training this week?

I think we are a work in progress.  Good enough to be competitive.

The important thing for me is to create as much space between us and 7th place as a crack at the play offs would be our biggest success for about 20 years. 

On 16/10/2022 at 09:54, Ossydave said:

Tony will get a clap from me. 

 

Yes, but will he get the clap from Sweaty Gussets?

39 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

His pressing and closing down of the opposition is one of the main reasons we signed him

Interesting! It was clear from watching yesterday that Szmodics had won tackle after tackle. At 2-1 up, away from home I felt that introducing him rather than Dack was the correct decision. He harrassed Boro and broke up their consistency. He can both score and assist and looks to have a bit of pace. I wouldn't go so far as to class him as a top end Championship player but he is useful in the Dolan impact sub role and I believe he will prove to be better and more effective than Hedges over time. 

Szmodics won more tackles in 15 minutes than Pickering did all game.

2 midfielders on a yellow but Wharton subbed.

Travis needs subbing before he gets sent off

1 hour ago, Oldgregg86 said:

I’d love be sat next to you at five nil 🤣🤣

Unless he is already down to his leotard

8 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

My Rovers team 

                 Kaminski

Brittain Hyam S.Wharton Pickering

            Travis Morton

Hedges    Szmodics    BBD

                  Hirst

 

Just posted my team Chaddy. We have 8 of the same players but a different formation. Travis, Szmodics and Hedges lose out to Adam Wharton, Dack and Gallagher in my team.

for me Dack is many times the player Szmodics is, and Gallagher offers more, all things considered than Hedges. 

Regarding Travis, I thought he was dreadful last night, slow in possession and something of a liability. Vastly overrated in my opinion.

            Kaminski

Brittain Hyam Wharton Pickering

      Dack Morton Wharton

Gallagher Hirst Brereton

Absolutely no chance of this but it's how I would line up. I think this team would find a way to win.

32 minutes ago, rigger said:

I don't see the advantage of the center-halves passing the ball square to the keeper in their own box, from dead ball situations. 

Agreed. Kaminski has the option to pick a long ball from a goal kick in a controlled environment where he can select which area to target, whilst under no pressure. Instead he plays it short, we panic and he gets a dangerous back pass, so then resorts to  punting  the now moving ball upfield, under pressure from a striker.

How can that be the preferred option, and why do we keep doing it?

5-1 half time. Free for season tickets,  fiver otherwise

12 hours ago, Aqualung said:

Kevin Arnott. 

How funny; I was just about to post his name. Think he came twice on loan, perhaps from Sunderland. I thought he was a great player. If memory serves he played in the big 3rd round cup tie in January '83 against Liverpool. That game recently popped up on YouTube and is well worth tracking down.

Buckley coming on 2nd half I think. Probably for Wharton 

3 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Do you remember Simon Barker ? He was great at that. He could always turn away from trouble instead of in to it.

I likened Wharton to Barker after his debut the other week. Very similar players. Wharton looks quicker than Simon, and lighter on his feet. Barker very often bossed midfield like all great players in that position.

Barker spent much of his last season at Rovers (the Archibald season) injured, hence a cut price £400k to QPR. He would have been better staying another season as we would have walked promotion (Palace season) with him playing instead of someone like Jon Millar.

If Wharton can score goals with the frequency of Barker (and I think he can) we will have some player on our hands.

Phil Starbuck

3 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

 

The only time I went on an organised run was to Bolton. I think I got on the bus near the shoe warehouse, Tommy Balls I think, but that might be just a rusty memory. We won 0-1, pretty sure Duggie scored.

 

My trusty 'Blackburn Rovers A Complete Record' by Mike Jackman, reports this as taking place on Monday 25th March 1967. A crowd of 21,740 saw Douglas score the only goal of the game.

Great to watch him yesterday. Simon Barker -esque.

2 minutes ago, Riverside under the drip said:

OK. Confession time. Today marks the first time I've walked early from a Rovers game since K**n.

I popped down Ewood to show willing and the family area was full with families and young girls. Brilliant. Get them hooked and you love to see it. New people too by the number of them with no clue about how to get to a seat or even no alcohol in the seats.

They seemed to be enjoying themselves and every save by our keeper or near-miss pass was applauded.

GOD THE STANDARD WAS EMBARRASSING!!!

I'm not talking about pace or stength or direct ability comparisons with the men. It was genuinely like primary school children swinging their foot at the ball and kicking it against someone else's shins a yard away or missing the ball entirely. Sheff Utd's many chances ended in a weak pass/shot to the centre of the goal which the goalkeeper bent down to pick up. Our goal came from their defender missing the ball when trying to head it. 45 minutes was enough. I couldn't stand another half of such garbage when in truth I didn't really care. Probably me in the wrong but this felt like a team in blue and white calling themselves Blackburn Rovers but, deep down, I knew they weren't.

I really wanted to enjoy myself and support them, I really did. Oh well, back to Ewood for the coach on Tuesday evening...

What was the attendance? Surely a bumper crowd with tickets priced from as little as £2. Particularly following the massive publicity and achievement of the national side this summer.

2 hours ago, JohnD said:

After the Swansea victory I wrote to a Leeds supporting friend that our tactics we're like Ali's rope a dope.

 

Let's hope in next weeks cup game Bradford don't become Leon Spinks

Pickering giving the ball away on his crosses time and time again. Unbelievably poor.

Go to a flat back 4 with Pickering or Edun off. Morton into midfield and Dack for Szmodics.  

Got to play higher up the pitch.

10 minutes ago, Colt Seavers said:

Dack to start today in my opinion.

Idiot!