1 minute ago, Forever Blue said:

We’re beating them on all attacking stats🤷‍♂️

They haven’t had a shot either! Nowt to beat!

Same old. No danger going forward. Cantwell ineffective and doesn’t look up for it. How many corners is that where the opposition goal was never in danger?

Dolan, who i love to hate, has been the stand out player so far. Baker disappointing…his forward passes (all but one) have been poor.

Terrible watch so far. Gueye offering little, he panics every time he has a shooting opportunity. Cantwell unable to influence the game. Duberry has been the main man with some great drives into the box. The defence has been good except when Hull decided to pressurize our “passing out from the back” tactics. Defenders have put Pears under pressure and he was struggling to get the ball away! He had to make a great save to redeem himself after one poor pass out!

It’s  hard to see where a goal is coming from!

2 minutes ago, Tom said:

From the angle behind the goal Batth climbs but it’s Gueye that heads it across assisted by being held down by Batth funnily enough - whatever works 

Love it!

2 minutes ago, Tom said:

Accidental assist machine Gueye with another it seems, did Batth head it onto him?

Batth was determined….in a similar way to Gueye……when he scored his famous headed goal!

36 minutes ago, Blackpool_Rover said:

A poor footballer? Go and have a lie down.

Let’s agree to disagree. When did Hedges go off? I’m no fan of his but he was protecting Beck effectively in the first half. Beck was exposed several times in the 2nd half…..where was Hedges? I don’t think he was taken off until after their second……so what happened?

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Did you see his work which led up to the first goal?

I did. The ball bobbled around off his knees and he was lucky to retain the ball…..his last touch was excellent I admit.

5 minutes ago, booth said:

We dropped 2 points there. Take our chances and it’s 3-0 up at half time.

Sunderland fans will probably feel the same about the second half.

Which player used Gueye as a stepladder for the assist? I think we’ve found a use for Big Mak.

Batth I think. It was a massive effort….Gueye wasn’t getting there!

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

The correct choice imo.

Sorry Rev. He missed a sitter, skied another chance and, when we were in good positions, his pass was too hard or too short. He tries hard but he is a poor footballer.

Dolan MoM? Pathetic!

On 11/12/2024 at 20:19, den said:

Gueye’s still a crap footballer but he does make people smile. Can’t help but like him.

Anyone else remember crap strikers that did that? I can’t.

Errrrr! Shefki Kuqi…….sort of!

Agreed. He went for that cross and not even a defender’s head in the way was stopping him. 

7 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

That’s probably why he got 42 caps for England. 

Batty was great for us. He tackled like a combined harvester but he also was always there to pass to when situations got tight. Class act.

Attack impotent. Dolan should never start, Ohashi busy but struggles to impact the play. Hedges contributes very little, Cantwell raises expectations when he gets the ball but has made a few sloppy passes today. Travis quiet. Brittain off his game today. 
Fortunately the defence/midfield have been solid. 0-0 a fair score.

Get him off!

Pears was very good today. It was a well-deserved win…..in truth, I wasn’t really expecting much! Cantwell is classy but spoiled a few promising attacks today by poor decision making.

Travis, who I criticize regularly, has been good for a while now. This version of Travis is just what we need……good passes and not the relentless momentum killing backpasses of old.

Not so sure about Batth, slow and indecisive and Hedges does nothing. We wouldn’t have seen that performance if Dolan was around either!

Weimann in the right place at the right time…..twice! Nice to see a forward doing his job! Gueye looked poor again. Ohashi was better today too but no end product. Silly penalty JRC. Wasn’t it good to see Baker pop the ball in like that? Mid-fielders having a go…..who’d a thought?

OH! And we played it out from the back more effectively than usual.

The players I didn’t mention by name did fine too.

4 hours ago, cesus said:

I think we are currently reaping the rewards of actually having a bench this season.

In the 5 sub game, the opponents can sink you with the ability to freshen up with quality. 

I think that absolutely killed us last season.

One of Eustace’s priorities seems to be keeping everyone involved via his use of subs. As well as adding fresh quality and variety at the appropriate time, more players are getting the chance to impress. I like it.

29 minutes ago, M_B said:

Excellent recruitment. 

Yes, I wonder who’s responsible…..Gestede? It’s transformed the team and given us all something to dream about. 
Let’s hope that Cantwell can do that every week, a bit of guile has been sorely missed.
I went down to Brunton Park to watch him last Tuesday….he was ok but it was basically Carlisle’s youth team! Duberry was sharp though.

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Good to see somebody having a pop from distance into a crowded goalmouth. How many times have you seen a deflected goal on the end of it.

Absolutely…..the reluctance to shoot drives me crazy! The effort from Cantwell caused mayhem too.

4 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

And that really brave header at Norwich.

That was my favourite. 

Long-time Rovers fans will recognise this as nothing new! A failure to deliver when the chips are down and expectations are high (usually after a heart-stirring prior performance.) I had to turn this off when it got to extra time though….it was so soul destroying.
Hyam, Wharton and Pears contributed to set up the first farcical goal. Sammie made a bad error for the second (a bit like BBD had a tendency to do). And the third! I’ve always cringed when defenders pass back directly towards goal……hey - everybody mis-kicks sometimes ….but this was a classic, we’ll be talking about it for decades! It looked like Pears was pausing to collect his mis-kick on the bounce but he had sliced it so well, the ball was spinning like a top and completely fooled him. 

Gallagher is awful. I know he has “good” games where his gallumping presence unsettles mediocre defenders but this can never make up for his lack of ball control or his inability to get into goal scoring positions. When we are moving forward with menacing momentum….pass to Sam to kill it immediately. 
 

And Dolan! Poor decision making, being too fancy…did you see him pirouette the ball into touch?

There were others I could vent about……….I’ve just seen the BRFCS ratings and no one rated well . What a shambles!

12 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Should be happy leaving but other results really dampened my mood…I must be the only one who is very worried?
 

 Sheff wed, Hudds and Plymouth all winning means their tails will be up!

 

It’s true but they are the only teams in the bottom 15 to win today. It’s crazy down there!

Oh! And only 4 of these bottom 15 have gained more points than us over the last 6 games! We moved up to 16th today.

13 hours ago, tomphil said:

Lineker is and always has been a knob this is a man who went an entire career and didn't get booked, probably because he never made a tackle.

If Mike Tyson was the Baddest Man on the Planet saint Gary was/is the biggest wetwipe.

Anyway from watching it back he managed to refrain from his usual sneering towards Rovers in order to respect big Al who was happily going on about his time here until the tax dodger swiftly changed the subject to Newcastle.

We had our 5 mins in other words.

Courtesy of LT:

Lineker added: "They deserve credit do Blackburn. It was an inspirational performance at times against higher opposition.

"Blackburn and John Eustace deserve a lot of credit. They did their team proud."

6 minutes ago, 47er said:

Our new Kevin Moran!

Now, that would be good!

A great cup-tie. We’ve had a few of them in the last couple of seasons but, sadly, we’ve not continued the form into the league. Let’s hope this time it’s different. Every player was a credit to the shirt. I remember Markanday playing a blinder in one of those ties but he’s never repeated it until tonight.

It was only last season that we scored 10 penalties (IIRC) on the trot v West Ham. A lot of defenders took penalties then. Unless the planned takers were all subbed off, I think Hyam would have been identified as one of them pre-match.

Wigan was a long time ago; I think Pears has paid his penance and deserves praise for recent performances. He was brilliant tonight……give him a break.

There was a fair bit of squad rotation during the game and the performance didn’t falter…amazing. Let’s hope that Eustace has found a way to make the team tick. I am nervous that this is just a one-off though. Nevertheless I’m looking forward to the weekend!

Well done to the fans, it sounded brilliant. I wish I could have been there!