Holtby

Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

i don`t see any difference this season than last,we are far to easy to play against,negative in our approach and to soft mentally,as a squad we ar`nt fit enough either,after an hour last week the whole squad dropped a level and were blowing like steam trains

Simon Garner Is God. Amen.

Just now, J*B said:

Get him out.

@J*B Can you add Gareth Ainsworth please?

Mods, can you add Gareth Ainsworth please?

Just now, frosty said:

We fielded an absolute stinker of a team that night. Caddis, Elliott Ward, Gladwin, Whittingham and Feeney all started....Antonsson upfront on his own too who was about as strong as a paper bag. Surprised it was only 2!

Thing is, we have a better squad on paper but results are no better.

Just now, Stuart said:

I must have forgotten that! Proves how much Mowbray cares about the fans though.

Some fans never forgave him for that.

54 minutes ago, Stuart said:

I feel that Mowbray has turned us into this.

A small time mentality that he is bringing to the club that Jack did everything in his power to remove. Managing Boro and Celtic must have gone to his head.

We are a town club but we are not a small-town, small-time one.

Players never “ready” to play, the club “only just a year out of League One”, “building slowly”. He is a dinosaur of old school football with its “grand old” clubs like Newcastle and Arsenal. Imagine if he ever took us up? We’d be mullered every week - and that’s just by the mighty Watfords and Brightons. I daren’t even contemplate a derby with that lot!

Didn't we play that lot in the League Cup soon after relegation. Mowbray lost a lot of credibility by picking a weak side and throwing the game.

3 hours ago, JeffRover said:

Gareth Ainsworth would be a good shout for many reasons in my opinion:

- Relatively Young, hungry and desperate to succeed

- Has 380 games in management at unfashionable clubs, with a win rate of above 40%

- Has a promotion on his CV

- Is currently flying high in League One, not many places below us in the pyramid after spending no money and gets the most possible out of his resources

- A Blackburn lad and Rovers fan. He would be willing to come here.

Brentford took Dean Smith from Walsall so I don't know why this couldn't work also.

@J*B Can you add Gareth Ainsworth.

@J*B can we get "None of the above" added to the poll?

1 hour ago, Mattyblue said:

As I said in another thread. Coyle got dogs abuse on Boxing Day at Barnsley. 

However, this being the Venky world he limped on until February.
 

The Cauldron Of Hate.

Dean Smith at Villa is a lifelong Villa fan. He started at Walsall then moved to Brentford before taking over at Villa. He has just celebrated 12 months at Villa, taking them from mid-table Championship to mid-table Premier League. That's the way to do it.

There is still a slope at Ewood from the Darwen End to the Blackburn End.

1 hour ago, 47er said:

Any 1-0 up against Ipswich!

Question----why is their pitch better than our's. Looks a picture.

Andy Holt spent £300,000 on the new pitch this summer, levelling it and raising floodlights.

1 hour ago, The Axe said:

I made no comment on Bell's ability but pointed out that a number of men who know far more about football than I do rated him sufficiently for him not to be classed as a useless player.

Academic. We've got a good squad with a manager who doesn't know where to play them.

Just now, Dreams of 1995 said:

Can you remember a time our defence hasn't come under scrutiny?

There is no appetite for defensive signings. Liverpool have shown that when you put together a good defence the rest of the team falls into place. Attackers aren't under pressure to score 3 every game, although with a very good defence they do tend to be more likely to do so anyway.

If the promotion of Mark Venus, or whatever it is, then I only hope he presses the need for defensive reinforcements. 

1980 -1995.

1 hour ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

The Alan Spratley incident at Ewood and the Jim Brown one a few years later. 

Rovers fans, chanting Kingsley Read's Blue and White Army on the London underground in the 70's.

Paul Agnew saying on Radio Lancs that  " the emergence of Jason Lowe" was the reason for Salgado losing his place....

"Such a great club, ruined by dark business."

57 minutes ago, AAK said:

What a load of crap, doesn't he post crap on here as well? Was it him who was offended by the word 'Pal' if so, this doesn't surprise me.

He's banned for copying posts onto Twitter and wearing a trilby.

Back to the thread title. Whatever the style is supposed to be, Rovers play it consistently badly.

In two and half years, Mowbray has never battered a side. Think about that.

This stat keeps coming back to me:

Rhodes and Gestede scored more goals than Shearer and Sutton in a single season. Both are doing nothing now.

Tone will have been here 3 years in February. In that time his team have never comprehensively beaten any other team. Even Bowyer managed that against Stoke in the Cup.

Just now, OldEwoodBlue said:

If only we still had a Tony Parkes to step in and sort it out.

 

He's not far away.

8 hours ago, 47er said:

What about the Cup games? Took his chances there I thought but back to the bench when the League games came round again.

Ran Swansea, then a PL Club, ragged. Never saw Rhodes do that.

Stoke City.

On 02/10/2019 at 16:09, MCMC1875 said:

I'd like to see Holtby alongside Travis. This seems to be the most popular choice on here. 442 please:

Walton

Nyambe - Lenihan - Williams - Cunninham

Rothwell - Travis - Holtby - Downing

Dack - Armstrong

Come on Tone.