chris
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thats always an excuse, i think Stead used that "i only need a run of 32 games in the team then i will start scoring more then Shearer did"
Bentley looks poor to me, but its very hard to judge a player at that age, he still looks small and weak.
he would be better off in the "the old div1" and building some confidence rather then back in the deep end at Blackburn.
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3-0 flattered us slightly, if anyone had suggested at half time that that would have been the score they'd have been carted off to a padded cell.
It was poor fare until the first goal. After that we improved considerably and everything revolved around Bellamy once he came on. Like Cole when he first joined he looked a level above the rest tonight.
Never seen Tugay go in for as many tackles before. Thought he was excellent whilst Savage seemed to be taking a bit of a breather.
Playing not particularly well, winning 3-0. I can feel another trip to Cardiff coming on.
Finally an apology to thenodrog, I suggested at the weekend that Dickov and Kuqi weren't Premiership standard. I was wrong. On last night's evidence they're not even Championship standard. Although Dickov, despite being awful, managed to get on the end of the unmissable chance laid on for him by Bellamy. Guess you'd settle for that every week.
does make you wonder what we could achieve if we had a decent partner for Bellamy, not sure how or where we could find one but thats got to be a consideration for next season
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I'd have Dunn back tomorrow. Obviously he's been injured recently, but i'm sure he'll make a contribution to Brum's season. I think it was a terrible mistake selling Dunny, he loved the club and if it wasn't for Souness, he'd probably still be here now.
Not sure who's coming through the Academy at the moment, I think Sergio Peter may be the next to be given a chance.
but he's always juried, can't really call it a mistake, sure players like Reid, Emerton and Dickov have not set the world on fire but at least they are available and there is three from the sale of one
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Bruce, like many before him, is finding that the transition to the 'next stage' is rather more difficult than he imagined. A number of managers of less fahionable clubs have succeeded in making their teams well organised and hard to beat and so survived for a few seasons in the prem. Then, with some Sky cash in their pocket, they try to make the step up to challenge for Europe. Ipswich did well and then bought Finidi George and an Italian keeper - disaster. Bradford bought Collymore and Carbone and disappeared pronto. Leeds bought everybody going and it worked for a while. Everton invested heavily on the back of last season's success and Moyes is a canny bloke but 4 points from 10 games is not great. Even Curbishley found that investing in Rommedahl and Murphy last season didn't pay dividends although he seems to have sorted it out this. Middlesbrough have had limited success but a couple of UEFA cup outings is not a great return on the millions that Gibson has forked out. It costs too much to get these players in and they destroy the dressing room. Signing someone like Walter Pandiani (or Ciccio Grabbi for that matter) is so high risk as to be irresponsible. Seems to me you need to wait for your acadamy to produce a couple of gems simultaneously and build from there. Meanwhile, scrap and make do as per Big Sam.
good point, maybe its the fact chances like you said, like Blackburn when we hit 6th in th league we made 3-4 chances and that didn't work, similar Hodgson made many changes.
so Blackburn seem to have the same problems other clubs have had, maybe its because there is a fine line between winning and losing these days.
some managers think money equals spending, which i guess is not always the case, but often what fans want.
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well at least tems like Chalton, Bolton particularly, maybe Wigan and West ham prove its not all about money, just ask Boro, Everton who just seem to waste s**t loads lately.
Football becoming more about being a good manager then having a giant cheque book, bar three or four teams
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Tugay's fairly creative but to me he has nothing on Pedersen, who creates a lot more, i think there are allot better players then Tugay out there, but on his day which was sometimes rare, he was brilliant at passing, retaining and switching play.
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noticed along with Blackburn a lot of team are going back to 4-4-2, i think 4-5-1's period is over and its not working as effectively, Everton being the latest club and its actually working for them.
so fight fire with fire and attack Chelsea and think it could be close
2-2 Bellamy and Pedersen
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Well, that is definetly one of our biggest problems.
And our squad is old, I think.
Today, we had (all ages by the end of this season):
Friedel ( 35 years old )
Neill ( 28)
Zurab (24)
Nelsen (28)
Gray (31)
Tugay (35)
Savage (31)
MGP (24)
Bentley (21)
Kuqi(29)
Dickov (33)
can someone tell me how can I find when the contract of each player ends?
We have 4 more players over 30 (Matteo, Amoruso, Flitcroft and Todd).
Quite an old team.
I really hope we can get Zurab in the end of the season.
the average age of the defenders you list is about 27-28 that more then perfect, defenders are normally at their peak until 33 yrs old
tugays always been slow, and bently and Pedersen are very young, plus we have Reid, Emerton, Thompson all in mid 20's to come in
Kuqi is 28 or 29, thats should be his peak, Dickov has never been a great player and when he was 27 yrs old was playing in the div 2 anyway, he probably better now then before, is good to have around the place if not a regular.
Then Jansen probably 27 and Bellamy is 26, should be best years ahead in theory
so its not too bad
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bit harsh, Bellemy was probably depressed about being injuried, i doubt he was going to be jumping for joy, i know if i was inured "again" i would probably be gutted
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i'm so glad we didn't sign Dailly, Blake, Davies, Corrbett, Peacock, in the 98/99 season
we would have surely gone down if we had signed them and Hodgson would have never become England manager.
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we need a left back he is not prem class .yes matteo should not be in the first 11
though Gray did ok for pace, i mean he's a 31 year old left back, and got down the wings well. Always liked Gray thought he was a victim of the Amoruso era.
playing with players like Todd and Nelsen will aid any left back.
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have to feel a bit for the stirkers, Hughes is not giving them much chance up front alone.
i wonder how many goals have been scored by strikers the whole of this year for Blackburn, i would bet i could count them on both hands, maybe one hand
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hav not posted of two months, so Bellamy, good signing, still need more upfront, really glad our star striker is no longer paul dickov, thankgod
PS No disrespect Paul, you did a good job to the best of your ability last season.
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oh I like the new set up
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i agree with Claire!
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silly request maybe, but I'd like it if once you go over 2000 posts you have something else to achieve other then Champs league, what about 5000 euro champs and 10000 World Cup or something
and also i liked knowing when people joined on the old board, it use to be on the left hand side when someone posted
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Well. Maybe that'll teach our very stupid fans NOT to bait the opposition. No sooner had they given absolute S*IT to Robbie Blake (because he once played for Burnley for god's sake- who cares?) than he scored. The look on his face as he walked slowly past our fans to celebrate said it all.
Then just to make doubly sure- the same morons started singing "If Heskey plays for England so can I". Guess what happens again.
Rules for fans:
1. Don't bait the opposition with "easy, easy" at 1-0. We'll live to regret it.
2. Don't bait individual opposition players- they won't like it and we'll live to regret it.
3. Don't gloat that WE'VE got a player (who's not even in the stadium) who used to play for them. Especially when the wound is raw. That stirs them to shout their team on (or in the case of 1 moron- to try to jump over to try to attack us!!!) We'll live to regret it.
what a load of rubbish
As Homer Simpson would say, "you're living a land of make-believe."
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well hitting the post is still a miss, we don't see Henry hitting the post and then moaning about luck, he still manages 20-25 goals.
Maybe Stead will get it right next season, but he's been very good at missing this season, infact some of his chances its been harder to hit the post then score.
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well its doesn't need any work, the last thing we need it a bigger ground, not too many clubs in the PL would say that
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I felt that Stead played especially well when Cole was with him, they just seemed to click. If only that could happen with Dickov.
not the biggest fan of Dickov, although still think he's done well this season, but in this formation it feels like the forward now does the donkey work for the team, and that any striker unless they are hugely talented like Rooney or Henry, then any player is going to struggle to get more then 10 in a season.
So i can't see Dickov or Stead socring too many this season now in the last remaining games, unless we change formation (or get penalties), and there is little chance of that happening because we are doing very well.
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interesting rating in the NOTW today.
Todd- Never put a foot wrong- Rating 6
Redknapp- had a disappointing game- Rating 6
how do they work that out
hasn't exactly impressed to date...I actually think Emerton,as frustrating as he can be, has more to offer.
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normally takes Duff about 2 month to recover from breaking a finger nail if i remember correctly, so won't be on form.
Really don't want Robben to hit any form though