1 hour ago, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

Without the points deduction Derby would be 8th in the league.

If you can't admit it when Mowbray deserves credit - regardless of whether he does last night or not - it really detracts from lots of constructive criticism on here. 

Never listen to sky commentators facts on the red button, they don’t have a clue, derby would be 16th not 8th!

1 minute ago, Mr. E said:

Well thank God for that.

I would not call this Jekyll and Hyde - it was a 15 minute blitzkrieg because, shock and wonder - putting on two clear cut attackers, even if not in best form, is a million times better than literally 0 clear cut attackers. After that we sat back, did nothing impressive, and Derby were simply not good enough to threaten.

TM looked the angriest I have ever seen him when we scored our two goals. He was angry that his 0 attackers system failed miserably, and literally within minutes two attackers turned the game around? Is he that petty? I hope not.

 

 

 

I’m not one for defending him at all, however Gallagher has been shite, we’ve all been saying it. However to replace him with Johnson was ludicrous, I think he’s just frustrated that they played so badly first half and the fact we missed late penalties against sheff Utd and Bristol and would have won both if they both went in, but lost both to stoppage time winners.

Dack get them all together every time there’s a stoppage, he’s a leader that lad, and I feel like we will score when he’s on the pitch, I doubted his impact, but a 50% him is making a difference.

Just now, RVRVRS said:

Off Khadra JRC and Pickering

on Buckley Dack and Giles

might get something out the game

Really? Who’s going to score?

8 minutes ago, LDRover said:

The formation was worked out by opposition managers months ago. Changing personnel in the same formation changes nothing for the opposition  it gives them nothing more to worry about.

This season looks done to me.

No a go at you, but then constant rubbish comments about teams “finding out how we play” are rubbish, every team knows how every other teams plays, it’s always been like that. We just have a crap manager and a weak squad, we all knew if bereton got injured we’d be knackered and it’s happened, we all knew we needed a striker in January and last summer, it didn’t happen. We all knew the old dack would be a miss, he has been. We all knew we should have got rid of rothwell in January when he sulked, we didn’t. We all knew Costello and Pickering were average full backs, they are. We all knew Johnson was pretty shite anywhere, he is, same with dolloper, Sam.

6 hours ago, arbitro said:

Mitrovic should have been cautioned for sure but he had the referee in his pocket and we didn't.

Mitrovic was just more clever, none of his ‘dives’ looked as blatant as, Dolans. He’s a very good player that fella, clever.

6 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Problem is if we do reach the play offs Tony's new deal will be sealed.   🤷‍♂️

Only rovers under them dick heads could find themselves in such a situation, you have to laugh, otherwise you’d cry.

34 minutes ago, alcd said:

He's not worth 3 million buttons. He cost Hertha about 4m euros and was obviously a total flop there so why on earth would be valued at 3m now? 

Send him straight back, typical no hoper, a glimpse of brilliance every now and again but apart from that complete woeful.

I’m not assed what anyone says, that was another crap performance. Created naff all, again, I don’t care if they have better players, we should be performing better, the terriers won there a few weeks back, and we are man for man better than them. This side won’t reach the play offs, too many of their ‘better players’ either, off from, injured or not interested because they’re off in the summer, and I’m sorry, it won’t be popular, but that’s down to the manager (Injuries apart, but begs the question why we get so many injuries). 
 

I’m just not sure what the gaffer send them out to do, as after Xmas they just seem like a bunch of school boys, who luckily (bar today) have some real men playing at the back.

16 minutes ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

Well at least we have an easier run in than Bournemouth.

Need to get away from that mindset, 2nd place is miles gone, Bournemouth have 5 games in hand! They only need win a couple of them and they are gone (at least out of rovers reach anyway).

He should be left to rot in the reserves rather than sold to a rival he’s a miserable bastard anyway, the guy has zero personality.

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

That won't do him any good. He needs to play against men. Loan him out - but either way he won't make it here imo.

Course he won’t, he’s the most unfit player I’ve ever seen, bad attitude, he’s shite.

11 minutes ago, Bohinen1983 said:

Just keep hold of him and have proper go at wininng promotion.  Simple as.  Don't let him leave.  This Danish lad from Brentford is supposed to be class by the way!

Why’s he not in the Brentford team then?
 

He’s 20 and only played 8 senior games, won’t be on Rothwells level mate, so will be a downgrade.

1 minute ago, only2garners said:

I think the point that matty was saying was that they missed their chance to grow their fanbase by not getting a bugger better stadium when they were in the Premiership.

Bugger? Was that the rear end of the stadium?

I get what Matt was saying, but it’s pretty irrelevant, they wouldn’t fill a much bigger stadium on a long term basis, and the other poster stating the catchment area, again, irrelevant mate. They will never attract massive crowds. 
 

okay they could build a bigger ground with say a capacity of 20k, and they’d fill it in the EPL, in big games, but bar that they won’t fill it and it would cost them millions upon millions, and I’m confident Bournemouth will become pretty irrelevant once again in the next few years. They’re a small club and always will be.

19 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Thought Bournemouth was a tiny place but apparently greater connurbation is about 500k. Not much local sporting competition either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_East_Dorset_conurbation

1 minute ago, only2garners said:

If they had a stadium like Ewood they could generate a huge income from a very prosperous community. What they will still lack though is the club being deep into the community like it is in Blackburn and many other towns across the north.

Their ground holds 11k, and they have plenty of empty seats every week in the championship. Build their ground bigger as much as they want, but in this league they won’t get more than 9.5k home supporters.

9 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Still £30 in the JWU, but yes generally cheaper than PNE/Hudds.

People do seem to struggle to realise that if ST sales drop in the summer, match day ticket sales just won’t take up the slack each week as only a finite number will buy for a standard fixture.

They should never have close the Darwen end to home fans. So what if there was only 800-1000 max at anytime. It generated atmosphere, and at times like now, people like that, the ones who like a song song and will be encouraged by some positivity for the first time in years (I’m not counting that joke of a season in league 1), they will come In some decent numbers, but now you look at ewood and it’s dead, no atmosphere at all, it’s simply boring. 

11 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

There will always be a load of empty seats as there are 20,000 to go at in home areas (no DEnd or BBE Upper) and we only have around 7,500 ST holders, and as you just won’t get 6/7000 plus buying match day tickets every week - we are a ST heavy fan culture at Rovers, the disaster that was the summer’s ST sales campaign comes home to roost, again.

Exactly, what do people not get about this! Well said, Matt.

8 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Some of the fans that stopped going in the summer of 2012 I wouldn’t have believed a year or two earlier, these weren’t ‘Premier League fans’, but proper, dyed in the wool types with decades of attendance.

They thought the club was taking the piss. A few came back with half STs and a ST in 2013, but plenty more will just have got out of the habit and are now long gone…

Spot on, I was one of them, never had a season ticket since, and go away more than home now. 

why? Because I was fuming for a couple of seasons, then I Just got out of the habit, and don’t really miss it. It would take something from above at the club, to show they really wanted fans back, for me to make that effort, to date it’s never happened.

I just don’t know what to think of this rovers team, lovely performance tonight, Pickering excellent as usual, such an upgrade on bell. Dolan marvellous as per usual, Brereton banging in a goal as per, and Rothwell majestic on the ball at times.

But then I think, if we hadn’t have fecked up against Luton and Coventry, we’d be 3rd and we also lost 7-0 the other week, and ayala is also getting on my nerves, limping off every other week.

However here we are, let’s stick at it, and please let us strengthen in January. 

2 minutes ago, Roverinbelfast said:

Have you seen our record without him

 

Yes, I think it’s a fair comment from, Garner, it’s strange to say the least, I don’t rate the lad at all. However the team does do better with him, I can’t quite work out why.

The system I suppose dictates that we only need one sitting midfielder, which I guess is why davenport has been dropped. However travis has been underpar for a long time now, I’d have dropped him and played davenport. Seemingly travis is one of Tony’s new soldiers, who has to play every week.

10 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

All of the red button games are available to watch on the Sky App. This is according to the listings on Sky's website.

They always are, if you have a sky subscription to sky sports.

3 minutes ago, Gav said:

Paul Lambert had the same, I felt at the time he was better than we could have hoped for (Under a transfer embargo due to FFP) with the the money the club was offering to pay prospective managers and the shit show they're coming into.

Lambert soon realised that the club was a mess, the owners refused to engage on contract renewals, the transfer budget was slashed to nothing when we came out of FFP, the project he presented in his interview wasn't achievable and he walked away.

Mowbray is just another symptom, Venkys are the disease. 

 

Forgot all about, Lambert, damn. Good shout though. 

7 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

Where I sit, in the JW Upper BBE side, for at least the past 4 games one of the three refreshment bars has been shut.

Last night, they'd run out of pies before half time at the main bar.

It's an absolute farce. They can't even get this right.

I was JW upper, Darwen end side, they nearly ran out of beer, there were no crisps or chocolate and they had minimal pies/hot dogs and at half time a relatively small queue, took them about 25 mins to get through seen as there was 1 person serving, the whole set up is a complete and utter shambles.

13 hours ago, Exiled in Toronto said:

Out of all the managers that have paraded through during this nightmare reign, the one I wish (in hindsight) had been given the time is Appleton, we might have hot somewhere under him.

Very good point, an acquaintance of mine works with his sister. When he got the job he was over the moon, and had a proper and I mean proper, project and vision for the club moving forward. He was proud to be rovers manager and was absolutely gutted when he got the chop. However he always wished the club well, shows the level of the man.