2 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

And yet we got 69 points in his last season, the same as JDT got the next.

And got knocked out of the cups to Morecambe at home and Wigan. It was great to have a manager in JDT who wanted to do well (and did) in the cups.

3 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Think people are confusing brfcs with real life again.

Not sure I’ve heard a single negative comment about him ‘IRL’. All this ‘folk are against him because they see him as a Swag, appointment, a yes man’ is pure brfcs stuff. He seems more popular with match goers than JDT ever was already.

 

Mental that though, innit? Bristol City aside I've appreciated what Eustace has done in the last few games or so. But JDT.....JDT was the one IMO, the chance to do something different after years of nothingness, the one who actually had genuine ambitions for Blackburn Rovers and who could quite easily have taken us there. And the club cocked it up.

8 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

More than happy to give Eustace time to work with the players in the pre-season.   That's the least he deserves.  I believe he inherited a complete shambles that was left by the previous head coach and that will take time to sort out.  Even if we went down, and I still believe we won't, I would stick with him.  

 

 

Did he really inherit a complete shambles? Makes it sound like what Bowyer took on twice in 12/13. Nothing like that. It had been an awful ten (only ten) games with a manager that had done a very good job but was starting to cast glances elsewhere (can’t blame him) and with some players that were disillusioned.

And if Eustace did in any way inherit a complete shambles it’s more the club overall, recruitment, and the wastes of space off the field, i.e coming in straight after it’s confirmed that a third Jan transfer in 12 months has been sabotaged, best player sold and nowt spent, Waggott, Pasha, Venky’s.

Before the last two games against Leeds and Ipswich, Sheff Weds had won four in a row (or five out of six, with the one game they didn't win being against Leicester). Am I missing something with them? One point off safety. I'd definitely have them more likely to survive than a few others.

16 hours ago, bigbrandjohn said:

“I left Blackburn because it was a difficult situation,” he said. “Of course, they cut the budget. I signed up for a project which changed, that was the reason.”

What a shocker that’s a first in football. Unheard of in the championship. 🤔

We will see how this cozy little number goes. 

There is an expression Winners never quit and quitters never win. 

 

He's a Dane managing Sweden. When Sweden announced the appointment there were loads of comments saying they can't believe they've appointed a Dane etc. Pressure will be on him. Hardly Mowbray's five years at Rovers levels of cosiness, is it?

I wondered the same when I saw a list of our highest attendances post-relegation. The Liverpool QF replay in 2015 and Oxford game in 2018 were both 'sold out' I'm quite sure, yet the attendances were about 28,400 for Liverpool and 27,600 for Oxford.

Newcastle have been knocked out of the FA Cup by League One teams in the previous two seasons - you just never know. Come on Rovers.

9 hours ago, davulsukur said:

And it's only the second goal from a set piece we've scored this season.

 

I can think of two from Scott Wharton alone in the space of about two weeks - Stoke away and Bristol City at home - off the top of my head. So Jackson's wrong there, not for the first time.

Granted there probably aren't too many others. But I'd be double checking everything if I were him before going to print. Otherwise it suddenly becomes the truth for people who only read the LT....."we never scored off set-pieces under JDT". 

6 minutes ago, harryhealless1928 said:

 

Whats happened with Harry Leonard?

'Out for a while' he said on Instagram.

26 minutes ago, DE. said:

https://90sfootballparty.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/home-too-soon-hodgson-at-blackburn/

Really good write up here of Roy's time with us. 

Great read. And the links to articles from the time are an excellent feature too. Those Sherwood quotes while Hodgson was still in charge, crikey.....

Always find it interesting to look back on managers we were linked with at different points. Joe Royle, Bruce Rioch and Bobby Robson once Sven had decided not to come. Harry Redknapp and Colin Hendry (!) after Roy left.

2 hours ago, arbitro said:

And yet his style and approach was fine when we went on cup runs and were a whisker away from the playoffs. In fact everything seemed good until we went on a horrible run from December onwards. Players look to shift the blame too often for me and that is what Brittain is doing here.

Spot on.

Something else I found interesting is that the only Rovers players to like JDT's Instagram post about leaving Rovers (in which he did thank the players) were Leonard, Gallagher and Szmodics. Though Szmodics is the only Rovers player that follows him (and the only player JDT follows) so most may not have seen it....still though.

11 minutes ago, oldjamfan1 said:

And something like 1 win in the last 11 last season (the last game) so roughly 10 in 40

We’ll go with 11 in 30 🙂

12 minutes ago, Neal said:

The reality though is 10 wins in 40. 

 

It's 10 wins in 29 this season alone!

4 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

canny Championship managers had him and Rovers worked out in the second half of last season

 

 

We lost 5 out of 21 league games from Jan onwards in the second half of last season. We were a better team in the second half of last season than the first half, playing much better football and losing a lot less, even if we didn't win as many.

5 minutes ago, danger19_80 said:

Gary Rowett come on down

Stinks of more like Alex Neil or Garry Monk I'd say. At best....

"What's JDT moaning about now?" screamed the know-nowts on social media on Friday, "he's been given everything he asked for".

Great shout lads 👏

18 (!) years ago today.

58 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

the players would like a "Wrexham " or " man city " documentary because they don't know what's going on in the club either 

Probably for the best.

4 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

It's quite plausible that Wharton's relatively poor form at the moment for will continue to the summer. 

 

I think I've seen you (sorry if not!) mention his poor form a few times now - and I'm just not seeing it. He's playing well, he's so much better than everybody else that he plays at least 'well' pretty much every game, in the sense that he does a few things that nobody else could. And if any scouts were at the Watford home game just before Christmas they'd have been banging the door down as soon as the final whistle went. He was streets ahead of everybody else on the pitch.

You know we're about to play a nothing lower league club when they can't stop banging on about attendances - always the sign of a club that's had nothing else to shout about over the years. Plenty of them even in the Championship too.

They've won four away games in the league all season. Comfortable Rovers win.

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