Jump to content

BRFCS

BY THE FANS, FOR THE FANS
SINCE 1996
Proudly partnered with TheTerraceStore.com

dallydally

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1616

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by dallydally

    Remaining fixtures - Predictions

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

    Posted

    16 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

    I agree. It might sound strange to say, but that Sheff Utd defeat has set something off for me, and has left me feeling more confident about the remainder of the season. The nature of the loss, the fight on show, the club being talked about again, for the right reasons, and being in the thick of things at the business end of the season. It has brought the fire back.

    I also suspect that JDT and the lads are feeling similarly fired up and will be out to finish the season strongly.

    That defeat at Bramall Lane, as gutting as it was, was a world away from the abject surrender that we saw there in the League game back in August. Think back to how many of us felt after that game. By contrast, we had the Cup game in the bag at 2-1 up and looked comfortable, until the late subs swung it in their favour.

    Something has changed in recent weeks, where we have a new found determination about us and are playing with more purpose. Of course, we have to guard against getting too carried away, as the Stoke game shows, but this feels different to me. Different to any good run under Mowbray. There's a real chance here and a winner like JDT isn't likely to just let it slip away.

    It could be wishful thinking, but it feels like we're building up towards something special. Sky seem to be sensing that too with the number of our games they are choosing to show live.

    Whatever happens, it's good to see there is hope returning on the pitch and that the football community is looking at Rovers and thinking "eh up, what's going on over there". We've been asleep for 12 years. Come on, JDT, let's do this!

    It's the hope.................

    v Stoke City (a) - 10/3/23

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

    Posted

    21 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

    Last night was a shocker. We played like we’d been made to walk to Stoke. There was no athleticism on show anywhere on the pitch. I don’t think we won a 50/50 ball all night until the game was over. Collectively, and I include the manager in this, we were clueless. I said it last night but after 20 minutes you could see they were playing through us in midfield and there was a huge gap between Travis and Buckley at the front of the back four and Dolan, Szmodics and Thomas further up field. Stoke played in this gap all night.

    We should have taken one of those three off, probably Szmodics, and brought on Morton or Hedges to re-inforce the midfield. Instead of which it was more of the same until the game was well and truly lost. The inability of the team and manager to be able to retrieve the game from losing positions is deeply worrying. I was going to point out that both the really good recent wins, Leicester and Sheff U, came after we’d scored first but I didn’t want to appear negative. They also could have both been classed as no pressure “ free hits “ . Last night wasn’t and we folded under pressure.

    There doesn’t seem anyone on the pitch or on the bench that can gather the players together and sort out what’s going wrong in real time. As I say deeply concerning.

    Pears 5 Looked nervous after his misjudgement of the early cross ball. Obviously he was also rattled by having to play with the ball at his feet too much. Personally I don’t blame him for that. Outfield players in a better position were bottling it and giving him the ball to solve the problems.

    JRC 5 Not at the races, fluffed an early decent shooting chance. Got exposed in too many 2 v 1 situations.

    Carter 5 Looked rattled all night. He needs to cut out the habit of hanging out a foot and playing it straight to the opposition.

    Hyam 5 Another one who had a night to forget. Not his usual self at all.

    Pickering 4 Got caught playing too centrally for the goals. Ended up marking nobody. Hardly crossed the half way line until late on.

    Thomas 3 Not in the game at all. Left JRC to deal with two opponents most of the night.

    Buckley 4 The game passed him by. I don’t like him playing deep. He either plays further forward in the Szmodics role or he doesn’t play at all.

    Travis 5 Did his best but got lost in the chaos. Possibly our MOM.

    Dolan 3 Awful defensively. What he was doing for the second goal especially only he knows. He was shoulder to shoulder with the scorer. I did notice their guy bumped him just as the ball was on it’s way and got away with it.

    Szmodics 3 Looked a Peterborough level player last night. Exemplified by that good crossing opportunity he had that he put more or less straight into touch.

    Gallagher 4 I thought he worked hard but my oh my his touch is dreadful. His sense of anticipation is worse,  the ball has actually got to arrive before he realises it’s on it’s way. Nicely judged shoulder header at the end. Got lots of flicks ons but they don’t go anywhere.

    Brittain looked bright when he came, what a great cross for the BBD header. Hedges was ok and and Garrett made a slight difference in midfield, at least he’ll put a foot in. All three way came on way too late. The game was gone.

    All in all a really depressing performance play like that against Sheff U and the singles and we’ll get well and truly dicked.

    I don’t usually mention the ref,  but he was crap missed two clear pens. One in a melee of players but the other was a clear a handball as you’ll see all season. I’m sure he “ missed “ ours because he knew he’d fucked up on theirs. He was looking right at the play. Gave us nothing all night apart from missing the pen they should have had. Gally gets shoulder charged over - play on. BBD shoulder charges one of their players over - free kick in a dangerous spot. His eyes must have been painted on.

    Generous marks those!!!

    v Sunderland (a) - 26/12/22

    in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

    Can't believe we're still 3rd and have five of the bottom six over the next six game... Mental. 

    Thought defence was pretty good and JRC excellent. However midfield and forward balance all wrong. What worries me is that we just struggled to get hold of the ball. Morton, BBD, Dack, Gallagher were all really poor. Morton wasted the ball in good positions repeatedly while Dack, Gallagher and BBD struggled to get on the ball at all. Thought Hedges, and Buckley did okay. 

    We seem to be drifting back to the very top heavy 4231 we played at the start of the season with the front four all pushed up into the last third so the centre mids carry all the work in the middle third of the pitch. I just don't really get it personally. Very hard for us to establish control over a game.  

    I suspect we will probably change systems again. Half way through the season and we are still very unsure of what we are doing tactically. But if you told me we would be third on boxing day I would have taken it.

    Deluded!

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.