Just now, LDRover said:

Brum 1 down

Getting a bit desperate and started committing a few too many forward. Hit on break.

Birmingham been better second half with possession but looking bit toothless. 

Only positive I have is that I watched the last 10 mins of the first half of the Birmingham game, and Cardiff looked the better side.

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Trust us who have the benefit of instant replay - it was a dive. 

The ref is always giving it, but it's a dive. 

It's a penalty. Same as that Tronstadt foul at the start which you said was a soft free kick was absolutely blatant. Your blaming of referees in games we don't perform well in is becoming comical.

11 minutes ago, Roverthechimp said:

But current one is ok? 🤔

JDT was protecting his own reputation and future employment by shining a light on the incompetence of his employer. Almost saying “this isn’t my fault”

Now he has left, as much as I’d love him to continue, it’s not in his interests to be seen as vindictive against the club.  Ultimately he only did it for his own needs, but it just happened to align with the interest of the fans. And was quite funny.

40 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Everton deducted a further two points for another FFP breach.

The punishment was reduced from the requested 5 points and amongst the reasons for this was they’d already had a points deduction this reason.

Surely a second breach should bring a bigger punishment rather than a lesser one??

Of course, we still await Manchester City’s punishment…

 

I dont quite understand it fully, but had they failed FFP based on an individual year's P&L I would agree with you.

But as it's over a 3 year period, 2 of the years which are contributing to this recent 'fail' are also 2 of the years which made up the previous 'fail'. I think that is taken into account. Plus was part of the points deduction originally not for trying to cover it up or being uncooperative first time?

6 minutes ago, M_B said:

It's almost as if you want Eustace to be worse than Tomasson. 

If you think that you really, really haven’t read any of my posts on the Eustace thread then have you?

1 hour ago, Blue blood said:

Yep, ironically those adding in the Stoke game - which can charitably be called a debatable addition- are actually highlighting how naff Eustace has been. If you have to give him that one result to help make his stats good, it shows he hasn't done that well! In fact desperation to include it shows how underwhelming the rest of the time has been. 

Mind you it's all rather arbitrary  - no context, deciding where to start/end  the stats from. I'd have a bit more time for it if there was an honesty of its been a fairly crap start which has perked up of late.  

Your last line sums it up. His success or failure will not be judged by a comparison to JDT’s last 11 games. I don’t know why it keeps getting done.

23 minutes ago, M_B said:

It is👍

The goals against is obviously the most noticeable, but didn't realise we've actually scored 3 more a well. 

That’s because we scored 5 in a game where we were able to field Hedges, Dolan, Gally and Szmodics for the first time, and we also had JRC, Hyam and Pears playing which JDT didn’t have at the start of January.

If those 7 players had constantly been available during JDT’s last 11 games, does anyone really think we wouldn’t have better stats that what is posted there?

Plus it again desperately includes the Stoke game to prove, err, I’m not sure what. That Eustace’s run is better than JDT’s worst run across 19 months when we had a massive injury crisis?

4 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

If Jackson is crediting Eustace with the win v Stoke he's done a full U turn.

I wonder why?

It has nowt to do with Eustace

 Dipstick.

Cos Eustace himself said in an interview he saw that win as being his. Which you would say when you hadn’t won a game.

Ive no issue with Eustace provided he keeps us up, but it’s embarrassing the amount of people trying to credit him the Stoke game as some kind of justification of his reign.

Incidentally, at the start of January JDT was without 7 of the players that started at Sunderland and yesterday.

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

I agree that I think under JDT we would have gone down.

Yeah right. You were always insistent we wouldn’t go down. After the QPR defeat you said “we will not be in league one next year” and said it was “nonsense” to think we will.

You then said you were “gutted and angry” JDT was leaving. Strange view for someone you thought was taking us down.

4 hours ago, philipl said:

My recollection of the game at St Mary's is they didn't batter us despite the 4-0 scoreline, panenka penalty over the cross bar and sending off of Hill for rank stupidity.

You’re recollection is way off. It was Brittain that got sent off, and we got battered all game. The late goals just gave the scoreline a true reflection of the game. If I recall, I said it was the worst first half we had put in since Burnley away last season.

However never underestimate how shite Chelsea are at the moment !

In 20 years time when people are looking at old Rovers managers stats and comparing them, there’ll still be some people popping up trying to give JE the Stoke win despite the record books. 😀

I don’t get why we are trying to ‘compare’ Eustace first 10 games against JDT’s worst run of 10 games. Practically everyone agrees JDT had to go so saying Eustace has done slightly better than JDT’s worst spell is pointless. As the only aim this season is stopping up, that is the metric I am judging him by.

Providing we stay up, how good John Eustace will be for Blackburn Rovers will be judged next season.

I liked JDT and am annoyed that he wasn't supported by the club. Had he been, and kept the club moving forward, then the likes of Britain and Scott Wharton would have either toed the line or been upgraded upon. However he wasn't supported, his stubbornness grew and the players clearly became unhappy. The manager wanted out. Several players wanted him out and this was showing on the pitch, especially in his final game against QPR. He clearly had to leave after his feelings had been 'outed' to the press following a disastrous transfer window.

Eustace has come and and has 1 job - keep us up. JDT had shown what you could do with this squad of players when they were performing well and hadn't downed tools. Therefore with players coming back from injury I expected it should have been fairly easy with the fixtures to stay up. I know we needed to tighten up at the back, but the football we were playing went so sharply backwards with little goal threat it was alarming. Add in 0 wins and its no surprise fans were restless. The last few games had shown improvement and then once we went in front at Sunderland we were excellent.

My issue with Eustace has always been he should keep this squad up. Yet people were talking like if we go down it wasn't his fault. Like he needs to be a magician to turn this squad back to even half of the form we showed up until Christmas.  That's where I disagree. Relegation would be a huge failure by him. If he keeps us up by 1 point or by 10 points, that is irrelevant.

He will then have the summer to work with the players, see what transfer activity happens (yes I know) and next August I will set a criteria which personally I will judge his success or failure by next season. I'm not too interested in how media friendly he is. I'm not even that fussed on style of football as long as it wins games.

The only things he needs to be careful of is coming out with any "Owners are wonderful" , "It's not 1995 anymore" comments. His comments the other day about negativity shows he is missing the mark. Waggot would have been better having Eustace sit down with a few of the fan groups (with the CCTV off this time) so he can judge the issues the fans have rather sending in some token players a few weeks ago. 

2 minutes ago, rigger said:

The reply will be : You have got two hands haven't you ?

I've probably dropped about £20-worth of pie on the floor this season trying to do it without putting one down. 😃

12 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

I’ll add it to the gigantic list! 😅.

Ta.

edit - just noticed it's actually mentioned on the WATR minutes that have just gone up.

I also want some shelves in the JW Upper like they have in the Blackburn End so you can actually put your pint down somewhere other than on the floor when you eat your pie. But I'll wait till there's less pressing matters on that one. 🤣

On 30/03/2024 at 15:52, Mattyblue said:

That reminds me, wasn’t there supposed to be another fan takeover day before the end of the season? 

 

On 30/03/2024 at 15:53, Herbie6590 said:

It didn’t get unanimous support let’s put it like that 😆

FF minutes:- SW stated that the day had been a real success, at least until the last
few minutes of the game. The reduced prices meant that the club made
a little less than it would have done with normal pricing but that was
more than offset by the opportunity to get so many more faces into the
ground, including many who had not been for some years. Another day
was being planned later in the season or the start of next season,
possibly to coincide with the other commercial activities.

Can this be expanded on @Herbie6590 as I thought the Watford game, especially the fanzone before hand, went really well. Alternatively is it on the agenda for the next Fans Forum meeting @K-Hod ?

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

To be fair to Rovers they are certainly pulling out all the stops these days 

Like arranging for the Grand National to be moved to lunchtime so that Rovers fans can watch it before we play Leeds at 12:30pm. Some effort.

 

Comedy gold at Ewood nowadays with their announcements.

1 minute ago, philipl said:

That is extraordinary.

If games lasted 75 minutes we would still be chasing a play-off place.../

With a +16 swing in goal difference than we currently have 🤯

Why has that Hull defender done that 🙈🙈

I’d be fuming if i was a hull fan. Or Leicester and Ipswich.

They’ve got promoted, spent just £4.6 million and are proving that you can actually outperform the parachute payment clubs if you do it right. 

Hope they win it. Shows it can be done.

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Sammi was great today but Dolan was top class.That pass for Sammi’s first goal was DeBruynesq. 

I’ve give a rating of 9 to four players today - Sammi, Dolan, JRC and Hyam. That’s rare for me!