Angry_Pirate

20 minutes in, one thought... Preston are dog shit. I await them scoring with their first attack.

Oh dear, Luton will have to go put all those spare balls back on their cones...

Was it "bring you kid to work day" at IFollow HQ? Even for their low standards, the camera work and direction is abysmal.

Now, he is playing well... But im sorry, Armstrong's greedy behaviour costs us more goals than he scores. Twice now he could have squared it for a "tap in".

I don't care that we didn't lose... we were just thoroughly embarrassed live on SKY SPORTS. Abysmal performance. Mowbray out.

Depressing watch. Mowbray out for so so so many reasons. They are all over us and somehow we go in at 0-0, yet their keeper is timewasting like a champ?‍♂️

Can't wait for a midfield 3 of Downing, Trybull and Evans "dictating" play at home to QPR on Saturday, with Holtby on the bench and Rothwell (presumably) still lying on the sofa. Every few months I forget that I've been calling for Mowbray Out for about 2 years... doesn't take long to re-emerge.

Wish Mowbray would go and self-isolate for 2 weeks.

Fucking hell Tony: "Joe Rothwell, he turned up today and his back was really sore. Whether he’s been isolating for those 10 days and has just been laying on a sofa, I’m not sure" Is this the sort of manager we want... not for me.

I'd give Bell his shirt back...

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It's a shame they don't do "Player Cam" anymore.... if they did, Evans would win World "Hide-and-seek" Champion every year without competition.

4-2-3-1 for the second half. Gallagher as the 1, some form of Armstrong, Brereton and Elliott as the 3, Evans and JRC as the 2.... left in the changing rooms. Douglas probay deserves to stay there too... that mistake is pathetic for the first. You don't see goals this bad in Sunday League. Miles off them.

Rankin Costello needs taken off.

Premier League team for half a dozen years, time wasting at home after 30 minutes in the first half... embarrassing.

If Tony is to persist with the new formation. I would like to go with: Kaminski Nyambe - Ayala - Lenihan - Douglas Trybull / Johnson Holtby Rothwell Elliott Armstrong Gallagher / Brereton I realise our strikers are crap, but Armstrong offers nothing too often as a CF and I feel a spell back on the left might be needed. We need a focal point. Add the quality of Douglas, we can't have him crossing to a penalty area of Armstrong and Dolan. We really missed Holtby and Rothwell as Buckley and especially Evans were trash. Dolan is probably ready for a 30 minute cameo role for a week or two as he has fizzled the past 2 games.

Heard it was a given that if we failed to make the playoffs this year, one or (likely) both of Mowbray and Waggo would be sacked/walk. So it makes sense he is going balls deep this season... and I love it. Blackburn Rovers have been playing scared for too long. Armstrong, Elliott, Dolan, Dack, Rothwell, Holtby, Brereton, Buckley, Douglas, Chapman, JRC and Nyambe is a team littered with flair that is built to attack, attack, attack. A world away from the Smallwood, Evans, Bennett, Downing and Samuel, "respect the opposition" tripe of years past. Bring it on.

Love a good pegging...

I actually wrote something about Bolasie a few weeks ago, but deleted it before posting as it sounded far too fetched. So whilst I believe it to be genuine, I believe this is our token deadline day "we bid (X-75%) and other team bid (X)" deal... a la Freeman, Reed etc.

Can see Hilton being released/leaving on a free tomorrow.

1st Team Thomas Kaminski Anynsley Pears Antonis Stergiakis U23 Andy Fisher Jordan Eastham Joe Hilton U18 Aidan Dowling Felix Goddard Think minimum two need to go. We don't need/can't use 8 goalkeepers ? Can't be either of the U18s and think they want Eastham close by, so Hilton (sold) and Fisher (loan/sold) should exit in the next 26 hours. Not exactly ITK price of ground breaking news here... but my source has been told to expect a "very busy" couple of days (today and tomorrow). ?

Downing and Pears would be a poor waste of resources. Downing, as mentioned, is about 15mph behind the pace our team is trying to play at, and a top ten earner... which can't happen when we need to renegotiate with so many. Downing in, basically relegates one of Holtby or Rothwell (or Brereton) to the bench OR means we skimp on Douglas/ANother LB. Thought he was good last season, but now that ship has sailed. Pears... why? We have signed our presumptive #1 and #2, plus we have Fisher, Hilton, Eastham AND two Academy keepers. That is already 8 Keepers for 3 shirts. ---- Douglas is on £30k a week (promotion wage rise) and the hold up is the fact Leeds think they can get 50%+ covered AND a loan fee, that is why Watford have cooled on him. We can't afford Downing AND Douglas.

Basically 3 days utill the window shuts and this thread (our business?) is dead on its arse. Haven't been on here for a week which says it all. For about 20 pages I thought we were signing Chris Houghton though, so that was exciting.

Colin Kazim-Richards was an underrated player for us. Think we made an error not getting him in after his loan. Think he gave us something we never really replaced back then - attitude wise.

On a side note that may be the worst montage music for a football highlights package I've ever heard... not withstanding it doesn't even kick in for 20 seconds. ?