Angry_Pirate

Go easy on the lad. Must not have fully recovered from his horrific eye injury.

That performance was lifted straight out of an earlier part of the season. What an abhorration from the past 10 games. The highlight at 2-0 was watching 4 Rovers players moan about time wasting, get gifted the ball, and then proceed to pass it backwards to Pears in 5 passes.

Has there ever been a more incompetent referee/4th official combination in all of world football history?

Oh bollocks I'd forgotten about buying those! Can't wait 🤣

We're permitted 5 substitutions, the real challange is deciding which 6 of them deserve to stay ON the pitch.

The refereeing in this league is utter garbage. How can that not be a yellow card for that rat Pearson.

That's crap from Gallagher there. Go across the defender and its a goal or a red card. Good start besides that poor part. Buckley started like it could be his 10/10 performance of the season.

STOP. MISSING. SITTERS!

Superb for 95% of that half! Well done for all involved in the game plan. Imagine if that wasn't our "good half" and we can keep this up. Go out and play the second half like it's 0-0 again and we'll win this! Go out to defend for 45mins, and it would be a mistake.

Right on que. Making wrong decisions in the final third 25 times a game is really getting old. Could and should be 3 goals already.

Shoot, for fuck sake.

2 goals scored from 2 chances where (the goalscorer) should be scoring. That's uncommon and damn useful given we've been 2nd best all half. Good teams do that... However there is no chance we win this game if that ends up being our "good half". Having to watch with the painful QPR commentary, wow are they OTT. Always seems to the (totally legal) Rovers feed that never works half the time.

Bonus: I was going to add that the the last time Rovers scored a Championship equaliser, the other team scored in the 100th minute. Figured I'd wait till FT to share that part and avoid a jinx.

First time Rovers have scored a Championship equaliser since April 2nd 2022.

Losing with bare minutes remaining = 11 men defending every set piece and corner. Nonsense.

Suicide FIFA style defending every week. The obvious decision is to clear it, 30 yards, yet our players are constantly trying the (Y/🔺️) through ball on the edge of our own area.

Good so far. Imagine what this team could do if they weren't so rank bad on the transition. I've lost count of the number of times (per game) I'm perplexed and annoyed at the lack of directness on a counter. Be it underhit or incorrect passing (like Dolan multiple times today already) or just going safe, sideways or backwards.

Here's what I got: ◇ Waggott apparently spoke for 10 minutes (with Silvester sat at a table looking like a naughty school boy). No Broughton, JDT, playing staff there. ◇ Said he decided to go to Birmingham at half 5 as the deal was basically done. Which in hindsight was a mistake. ◇ Said ultimately the blame will land on his door as the Chief Exec but now is not the time for blame. ◇ The Rochdale transfer isn't being appealed and will get done now but not for this season. ◇At some point in the evening there was a "moot point" issue, which cost them "27 minutes" - this is the reason for the missed deadline and the cause of the extenuating circumstances - he didn't expand. ◇ Dave Beresford (who I think is in charge of Ewood Park) queried that with the likely fan backlash coming on Monday night, asked if another statement would be put out before the game - to which another (unknown) member of staff vehemently stated that "Greg" has already done the statement and that it had been greeted with a fantastic positively recieved reation on socal media... 😵‍💫 ◇ That was in, "yada yada yada, 1Rovers, Stick together" - Could have been an email

Being told there was an emergency (10 minute notice) to ALL (literally all) staff based at Ewood about an hour ago.

GB: "The process this year was no different to how the club has always done it for the last 10 years. We followed that process absolutely to the letter, ultimately its been shown that the process hasn't been good enough." No shit. Been polishing the same turd for over a decade. You're supposed to be here to make a fucking difference/improvement, not just follow in the footsteps and rely on the methods of previous useless idiots. Broughton Out. Ps. This website is borderline unusable on a Samsung Mobile.

Someone with the nous to do it should set up a GoFundMe page to cover the cost of the banner(s) for Monday. "V*nkys Out, Maggott Out, SLYvester Out, Pasha Out!" (Couldn't think of one for Pasha!)

Can someone remind of the infamous "Broken Fax Machine" incident from the years past... I remember it in general, but I don't recall the specific details of who/what was involved.

Another huge problem I've not seen anywhere: £10m IF promoted means Rovers would still have had to agree personal terms with O'Brien on that same hypothesis... that he would be £10m player signing a Premier League contract in the summer. Rovers haven't negotiated a PL transfer for 11 years. Do you trust anyone (Waggott or Broughton) at our place to negotiate something as complex and expensive like that in a few hours. You can't have this type of loan without the permanent transfered wage being agreed ahead of time. Otherwise what if Rovers just played the "I know we promised £10m, but we've tried, but Lewis just won't accept £10kpw, soz!" in the summer. That'll have been the hold up, absolutely. Amateur hour.

As I posted yesterday, just wait for someone at Rovers blaming the FA Cup Replay and the game going to ET as a reason/excuse for running out of time. (If the deadline has passed without a DD signing) The club absolutely knew what they were doing with the FA Cup scheduling.

Anyone got a Rich Sharpe update?