Leonard Venkhater

Just made a little alteration for ya!

Good points, well made. I accept your point about TM's misfortune with injuries. My view is that it is like a government, which neglected the social care system, leaving it anything but robust. Along comes Covid-19 and the crisis is far worse than it should have been with all the cracks exposed. Even in children's football, a calamity keeper and 3 non-scoring forwards would give you a mountain to climb and that is how Blackburn Rovers entered this important season. It is not just the disappointment of the last 3 games either, although the performances have certainly tried my patience. And I do at least try to make it a policy not to post immediately after a defeat! Since the high of our excellent away win at Bristol, it is something like 5 wins in 19 games. I haven't looked at the statistics, but I am pretty certain that we have put fewer crosses into the box than most other teams. No recognised winger, a pathological reliance on Gallagher to get down the line and Bennett, having to go back on his other foot are just a few of the reasons. Mostly our build-up is too slow and we seem to have too much pointless possession, going nowhere. Add to that, the team needs significant additions in too many key positions. Too many to give any credence to TM's professed long term building strategy. A club that seems to be going nowhere, standing still...before the resultant slide backwards. That's my worry...but I do so want to be proved wrong!

And it's not just the defeats, it's the abject, shitshow manner of them. I wonder if all is well in the dressing room. Maybe, our recruitment team mistakenly employed a headband hunter!

Notice a similar rumour around the Wigan debacle...

That you, Bala?

Pathetic capitulations, indeed. There have been far too many and I am just sick of them.

It seems such an obvious rule of thumb. "Don't wear a hairband/white/red/green boots, if you are shit"...

Yes. As soon as I saw him, I thought sleaze..Portfolio lol

Hahaha...Look what I found. And listen to the chant at the end! https://youtu.be/k_Voahxehek

plus "When I tell Walton to catch it, he throws it into the net.."

Don't then ?

Then get a five-point, positive adjustment a propos of Wigan!

What? You mean you haven't immediately ordered the film!

No! Me and my mate from Darwen met him in The Dirty Duck, when a few of the players came in. It was a quiet Tuesday night and our away game at Bolton had been called off. Kit Napier and Barry Endean even gave me a lift at the end of the night! I have to say O'Mara seemed slightly odd. We actually thought he was trying to take the p***, but not quite sure!. I remember 3 members of the aforementioned Queens JM Appreciation society came in later and they could not believe what they saw-JM in "deep" conversation with the likes of us. We never told them he was taking the p***!

Hahaha...As I am sure you know, it is not quite, as simple as that. I think you need to be able to engage, motivate and take people with you. A complete t**t would merely "lose the dressing room" like Hodgson and Souness( in the end). That is not to say ruthlessness is not required, otherwise you just try to please everybody, handing out unwise, long term contracts like confetti, just to keep the group together ...oh wait a minute...

Good point. And I remember grabbing hold of any positive contribution he made, hoping it was going to turn out well in the end! One Saturday night in The Queens/ Vulcan after a particularly dismal performance, we even started a club-"The John O'Mara Appreciation Society"...

Oh, so was I...hence, my embarrassment!

Pulis is from the same cesspit stable, as Kean and Coyle...Pulis spoke out for his mate, Keano, at the time like a good company man.

My view too. I feel embarrassed at the way so many of us embraced Lambert like he was the new Messiah. Lambert played us big time.

Rightly so. Petulant behaviour!

Absolutely. This is my sense as well. He took a similar tone several months ago about the time of the home fixture against Barnsley. I think he knows he is losing the fans now because there is so little belief in any method or pattern of play. After 3 years there are still too many no-shows with square pegs in round holes/polished turds( choose your own description!) Any notion of a long term, slow build project is hardly supported by the number of replacements that are required this summer and in so many key positions. Despite loyal fans' fervent hopes and willingness to herald any flashes of improvement in Brereton and Gallagher, they are both down there with O'Mara, Chris Brown and our whole back catalogue of shit strikers. If this were a normal club, we would agree It needs a catalyst and a new broom (Gordon Lee/Souness/Mackay)....but you know the rest....

Proven failures, indeed. I am trying to think of any success brought by Gallagher on the right, yet TM continues to repeat the selection. I agree we are "bound" to try. I actually gave up believing at Derby. Lockdown brought naive sense of hope and Wigan screamed unbelief..

This also begs the question re TM's skill in the market and how optimistic we can be around the significant additions required. I have been reading people's analyses of TM's transfer dealings and what percentage of successful buys should be considered a good return etc. Statistics are one thing, but my own actual spectator experience is that TM's dealings do contain too much in the way of disappointments/dross...Johnson, Gallagher, Brereton, Samuel, Rothwell, Bell, Hart, Gladwin and Chapman all fit into that category for me. It is a significant worry for the future.

Agreed. So much for TM's long term building strategy

It wasn't a putdown or anything. I meant it.....starting to test my patience indeed! I think he is shit...there...said it....