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.

HENning Berg

Gary Crowyer

Tony Barks

Bark Hughes

Paul LAMBert

Cat Derbyshire

Robbie Growler

Pascal Chimp-onda

8 minutes ago, roverblue said:

Too many drawn in by JdT’s media skills and ignorant of his failure to get the best out of the players we have.

I'd say it's more that as recently as a month ago (the Bristol City home win made it 7 wins in 11) there couldn't have been any argument that he was getting excellent results and therefore the most out of an underfunded, injury hit squad with enormous question marks about key positions at both ends of the pitch. 

Given the amount of games we've had since and how bad we've been in almost all of them, yeah, things can change quickly and he needs to fix it - but results across the whole of his tenure were very good until a month ago, nothing to do with his media skills.

1 hour ago, Waggy76 said:

 

In my opinion he should have gone within 30 mins after the game at Turf Moor ..

Bizarre that - it was a nightmare of a day and a dreadful performance but if we’d have won we’d have been top halfway through the season. That’s how good results had been.

Adam Wharton does at least a few things every match which show he's destined for bigger things. Against Watford he was several levels above every other player on the pitch. Class act. Even if Moran's best position is number 10 rather than out wide, you'd still expect to see more from him if he does have such ability.

57 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

The new model is to loan players out to get their wages off the books and bring in premier league clubs players on loan where their clubs pay the players wage but we guarantee appearances.

This 100%.

1 hour ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

http://www.redpassion.co.uk/forums/wrexham/123519-fa-cup-draw-live-blackburn-v-wrexham.html

 

"Hopefully a really big club in the 5th round". You've just been in non league for 15 years. 

11 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Thankfully JDT takes these games seriously.

 

Aye. If the previous incumbent was still here you'd be advised to stick your money on Wrexham - that's if we'd have somehow got past Cambridge.

14 hours ago, islander200 said:

Agreed , it like people have forgotten he led us to our best finish in the table since relegation last season and for parts of this season sat in the top 10 and not far away from the playoffs at all.Even though we finished 7th in the championship last season his tactics will never work in this league apparently 

 

Yeah, there were some bizarre posts on here during the first half yesterday. Really surprised by it all after just one very poor month.

Well done to Rovers (Sam Smodz in particular, goals aside he put in one hell of a shift) yesterday.

1 hour ago, matt83 said:

Rovers have the feel of a club getting relegated to me. 

Agree. This season has a strong whiff of 2015/16 about it - probably a lower midtable finish, but clear the direction you're going in after finishing just outside the play offs/comfortable top half the previous two seasons (13/14 and 14/15, then 21/22 and last season now). Cost cutting clear for all to see too.

All it'll take is the squad to continue to get weaker and a total dolloper who'll work under any conditions to replace JDT then we'll be on for a repeat of 16/17 next season.

12 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

Good decision to let Trav go. He needs games and is not very good imo. 

Surely means we have someone lined up pretty quickly.

Why does he need games? He's an experienced 26 year old midfielder who's been a constant in our team up until recently. If he's not being picked at the moment, fine, that can happen across a long season and did around this time last year, but we should be looking after ourselves and keep him around. He'd probably have been back in the team soon.

Of course that's what a normal club would do. Likelihood here is we're absolutely on our arse and can save a few grand a week.

Travis is going to Ipswich on loan according to Jackson. What a mess.

46 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Right where’s that readytogo forum 🍿 

Numerous threads on protests already and the 'Black Cats Bar' thread is already on 40 pages. Essential reading!

2 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

JDT isn't as popular has Mowbray was with the Ewood crowd 

Which is bloody barmy.

2 hours ago, arbitro said:

Undoubtedly in my view this is the most testing time of Tomasson's reign so he too had to react in the right way and perhaps change his footballing emphasis and try to frustrate Hull by defending properly and playing more on the counter.

Now and after Rotherham away just less than 12 months ago - 0-4 hammering, and we’d been playing poorly and hardly creating much for a couple of months prior. The Burnley and Preston results were still fresh in everyone’s minds too and I bet the match thread after Rotherham, despite still being in a good league position, read pretty similar to the Huddersfield one.

However just a few weeks later we were outplaying a Premier League team on their own patch, deservedly beating a side that went on to automatic promotion, and stringing consecutive wins together, playing a lot better in the process.

So all hope is not lost but I agree with your plan for Hull, a 1-0 smash and grab à la Watford away would be just what the doctor ordered. We’ve got to be much harder to both play and score against.

56 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I would make 4 changes for this game. 

            Wahlstedt

Hill Carter Hyam Pickering

   Travis Tronstad Garrett 

      Szmodics Sigurdsson 

               Telalovic 

 

Where’s our best footballer?

Playing terrible overall but Wahlstedt honest to god......

3 hours ago, longsiders1882 said:

So todays win doesn’t represent a huge turnaround but at least we won’t set a new record low points total - though we could still equal it.

 

You think there's a chance you'll get zero points in the next 20 games? Come on Longers....

19 minutes ago, rigger said:

Where you entertained at last nights game, I know I wasn't ? If it wasn't in my blood, and the product doesn't improve, I doubt if I would bother with future games.

It wasn't our best performance of the season but, in between two tough games, I was just desperate for us to get any kind of win last night regardless of performance (I was a big fan of Big Sam, as you can imagine - when attendances were very high, it's worth noting). 

We've unfortunately been in this league for over a decade now and the football JDT has us playing is the easiest on the eye. In fact the 15/20 mins or so at the start of the second half against Birmingham was the best football - one touch passing, quick movement etc - we've played for a long time. But a Championship squad isn't going to play well every game.

Yeah, amazed at the clamour for Telalovic you see at times on here and social media. Can only think those people weren't at the Cardiff cup game when the game, despite being a really good attacking performance from us, passed him by and went on around him. 

And even if JDT, on the off chance, does think there's something there then it'll take a long time working with him to get him up to speed with his demands and what he wants, having come from such a low level.

Was probably always going to happen whenever they hit a bad run - they were strongly linked with Farioli, now at Nice, back in the summer. But I think there was a bit of a fan backlash about Mowbray potentially leaving. The owners must be pretty ambitious though, clear in the type of coach they want and fans should be encouraged they identified Farioli (2nd with Nice, only lost once and conceded five goals all season).

1 hour ago, rigger said:

Why ? We will lose Hill, Morton and probably Adam Wharton. 

I don't think Morton's done anything for us this season to be fair.

(Though I do agree that, in this league, you can never say we should be this or that next season - doesn't work like that)

13 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

I won’t hear any slagging off of the Blackburn Enders. The encyclopaedic knowledge contained in there of every footballer that has even driven past Burnley on the M65 in order to have a good boo and a rousing chorus related to sibling shagging is phenomenal 👏 

The moment Lukas Jutkiewicz takes the first steps of his touchline warm up this Wednesday night....

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Wouldnt want to chose Dolan up front and Szmodics is very lucky to start but little alternative. 

Tough to please you 🙂

0:45 and 0:56 here too. Absolutely phenomenal keeper.