RoverAbroad
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16 hours ago, glen9mullan said:
We need to beat Boro next week or sadly the tide will turn against TM. Given what he's done for the club, it would be harsh if he went through a couple of months of bad results and had the crowd singing for his head. Hopefully he turns it around or if not is removed quickly with a thank you.
He's already been through months of bad results. It's now 17 points from 19 games.
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Just now, Cherry Blue said:
To be fair, that's a better starting lineup than last week. I'd have preferred Lenihan over Williams and Nyambe in for Bennett, but with their injuries then it's about what we'd expect.
I can only presume there's an issue with Cunningham as well which is why he didn't even travel.
I'll be unhappy if Ben B doesn't get any game time at all this week.
Now Tony, please keep Rothwell in the side from now on, do NOT bench him again.
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No Nyambe and no Lenihan?
No points.
Dear me, what defenders do we have left?
Great idea to send Magloire and Wharton out on loan when we are so short of defenders.
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Huge blow. Lenihan is now perhaps our most important player. We have cover in other areas of the team, but not in defence.
We will have to go with a three man backline?!? Bell-Tosin-Nyambe? Not sure we have a choice.
This is presuming Williams isn't fit enough to start.
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Just now, SoldierMo said:
Rovers advertising vacancy for european talent scout ???
At the END of the transfer window?!?
You really couldn't make it up.
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39 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:
I prefer the all-powerful manager. Running a football club by committee with DoFs may be the modern way and might work for some clubs but you only have to look 10 miles down the road to Burnley to see how a top-class manager can transform even the most unpromising clubs. I would have trusted a top football man like Sam Allardyce to have to run Ewood from top to bottom, like Ferguson at Old Trafford.
You can have a great "system" in place with scouting and coaching teams but unless you get the right manager, you're not going to get anywhere.
Getting in the right manager, such as Dyche, is the first step.
The second step is to put the systems in place so that, when Dyche leaves, it isn't 100% dependent on the next managerial appointment.
Southampton are the perfect proponents of this (Swansea as well, before they went sack happy). Nigel Adkins brought them up two leagues and they sacked him. They went from strength to strength while chopping and changing managers. Admittedly, they've had some dodgy times in the last few seasons but...this was League One Southampton in 2011.
So, start with the right manager is the way to go. Bt then, you need to carry it on when they leave. Our most relevant example would be Souness onwards under John Williams. Incredibly successful until the Venky's swanned in and sacked Big Sam. We've never recovered, and yet we had the system down perfectly until then when the Walker family sold us down the river to these charlatans .
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1 hour ago, Harry The Bass said:
Aren’t we less than 2 years into a complete rebuild of the recruitment department? Surely will take years to get working properly?
No idea what you are talking about here. It's getting a few scouts in to look for some players, not building the Great Wall of China.
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Just now, RoversClitheroe said:
- just seen @Kamy100 tweet out that the Venkys have injective £9m odd. Could this mean a transfer incoming?
Probably a midfielder...
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For now, that much is true. However, it's been 17 points from 18 games. If it goes on much longer, I'm not sure how much worse a replacement can be. It's already relegation form over almost half a season.
By the end of September, we'll either be in a relegation scrap or very happily surprised.
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4 hours ago, Miker said:
Bennett was our weak link at the end of last season and I think he was again today. I don't think Nyambe is the answer though. Nyambe, like Bell, have good atheleticism, can run at defenders, but they lack that final ball and more often than not make the wrong decision. Nyambe is younger, so I have more hope that he will develop, but Bell probably won't. For me, they are useful squad players, but they are not good enough to be starters in a promotion-chasing side.
I know it's not a popular opinion, but I do see good qualities in Bell. While it's true that by 25 we should be seeing coming into his own as a defender, his development has been retarded at Rovers by being in a mess of a defence and he looks to have no confidence whatsoever. He has pace and a good touch. He makes the wrong decisions time and again, but then that's where we need someone to be speaking to him, getting his chin back up and offering support. Therefore, I'd still like to see him having a run in a back four without Mulgrew and Bennett but instead with some guiding influence. It might be a small chance, but it's more of a chance than Bennett and Mulgrew have of ever improving as defenders. Neither of them are really defenders, Bennett's a midfielder and I don't care where Mulgrew has played in the past, whatever he is he is not a CB any longer.
I doubt we're getting any more defenders in. Why leave it so late to bring Tosin in, never mind anyone else, if it was really a priority this summer?
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How many of the signings we've been making are actually Mowbray's choices? His words don't match his actions. Under the Venky's, signings have rarely made sense. Are managers told to play certain players regardless? Our lineups under Venky's have often made little sense.
As much as we're questioning Mowbray, this has been a decade of madness. That's why the thought of "Mowbray Out" is so terrifying. Before him, they appointed Kean, Berg, Appleton, Bowyer and Coyle as their five permanent managers before Mowbray. What a bloody list, eh? Heaven knows which crappy manager they would replace him with.
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Just now, AAK said:
Seen a few whispers that we are trying to get Henri Lansbury on loan. We still do lack creativity.
We have Rothwell, Dack, Downing, Armstrong, Chapman, Gallagher (for the last 25 mins on Saturday!), Bennett, Armstrong, Buckley, Travis, Johnson, Smallwood and Evans for our midfielders. Nyambe and Bell could play there. Perhaps Mulgrew should be in midfield now as well, as he's no longer a defender. I've probably forgot some, too.
As we can field a whole starting XI of midfielders (or almost midfielders) as well as having a couple on the bench, then I'd suggest that anything other than a defender is a complete waste of time and resources.
Nothing against Lansbury, but I really hope those whispers aren't true.
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Albert Einstein said: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
If Tony Mowbray says on Saturday, "Elliot, you're right back today and Charlie, make sure you keep it tight it at the back. Joe, get ready to come for the last 20 minutes" then we know that we're in trouble this season and that he needs to brush up on his Einstein quotes!
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5 hours ago, Mercer said:
So by virtue of your logic, you want me to post every match that I think Rovers will lose badly so everyone on the forum will look at a Rovers' win and Rovers will indeed deliver!?!?
Well, it's worth a try.
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What would it look like if Mowbray lost the dressing room?
Spineless defeats at home to relegation favourites?
Lack of shithousery on display?
Heads going down after falling behind and never looking like scoring a late goal?
Relegation form over 20 games?
It's not the fans that Mowbray needs to win over. It's his players.
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6 hours ago, Sparks Rover said:
Can you imagine Dack and Danny sat together on the bench and not slagging mowbray off.......mowbray has to be careful here. He could lose the dressing room very quickly.
In that last six months we've averaged less than a point a game.
The dressing room has been lost already and for some time. It's if Mowbray can get it back (an quickly) that is the issue.
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Just now, DE. said:
If people think TM did a good job last season then I can understand them thinking that wanting Mowbray out is nonsense.
He did a good job in the first half of the season. He did a bad job in the second half of the season. Overall, a decent job all round as we stayed up relatively comfortably in the end.
However, harking back to results in 2018 isn't much use when we've been struggling for most of 2019 and he is making the same selection mistakes again and again. That's the concern.
it's too early in the season to call for his head, but certainly after, say, ten games we should be in a position to see if he is progressing or is carrying on regressing (which we have been doing for six months now).
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11 minutes ago, Pedro said:
They foolishly sacked him once already but if they genuinely want promotion, Big Sam's the man.
He's in the running for any lower half Prem club that sack their manager. He's out of our league now and, even if he wasn't, he'd not go within a mile of the Venky's again.
He said of the sack at Ewood that it was all just "weird" I remember. He seemed more nonplussed and bewildered than angry. Sacked, with his contract paid up in full, while retaining a good reputation.
We'd be shopping in the bargain bin this time, just like all the other times under these jokers. All our managerial appointments have been of those not in a job (Coyle, Mowbrary), at a smaller club (Berg, Appleton) or promoted from within (Kean, Bowyer). They've not made a move for a manager that would cost them much compensation once in a decade, so it would be unlikely to happen this time. Heck, they couldn't even keep Paul Lambert when he had no other club to go to!
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Just now, Harry The Bass said:
I’d hope TM makes his decision based on what he and his staff see, not his perception of what the fans want.
Seeing as we've managed less than a point a league game over the past half a year or so, perhaps he could do with signing up for a BRFCS account!!!
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1 hour ago, Harry The Bass said:
If this Nyambe argument was as black and white as many perceive - I’m sure TM, Johnson et al would’ve started him.
I’ve seen nobody mention that Nyambe might be a better defender, but he ain’t going to improve us going forward as an advanced full back - he’s simply not good enough technically. Especially considering this is a team now trying to keep the ball!
To be honest, it doesn't even really matter. Mowbray is making a rod for his own back as Nyambe won't be worse than Bennett. Even if he doesn't work at RB then it won't cost us anything as Bennett isn't working, but at least the fans will see that he has noticed the situation and is TRYING to rectify it.
As it stands, it looks like he either doesn't know there is a problem or doesn't want to try to find a solution. Or both.
He must know how much the fans want to see Rothwell starting. So then, he doesn't start him. Whenever Ben shows promise, he's on the bench.
If you keep making decisions which the fans are going to be annoyed about, you at least get some of them right once in a blue moon. It hasn't happened for a while though and that's what's bringing extra pressure on Mowbray.
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2 hours ago, Ossydave said:
Charlton are such a shithouse team, it was like watching 11 Lee Bowyers playing. No wonder they celebrated like they'd won the world cup, they know they got very lucky indeed.
Fair play to them. It's what we SHOULD be doing instead of being walkovers.
Case in point - Downing had the chance to pull down the Charlton lad in the run-up to the first goal and take a yellow card for the team. He didn't do it, they scored. In the second half, someone (Dack? Travis? Can't remember) was threatening a breakaway. The Charlton player pulled him down, received a yellow card on behalf of his side and the team regrouped.
We need a bit more shithousery in blue-and-white shirts, that's for sure.
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36 minutes ago, Harry The Bass said:
Each to their own, my opinion in a nutshell;
If you think it’s time to sack TM, you know nothing about football, you’ve learnt nothing from the last ten years, and you generally don’t know the difference between aspiration and expectation.
Not many are saying TM should be sacked one game into the season, and as you always get a few then it's hardly a surprise. However, do you...
Deny that Nyambe should be in at right back instead of Bennett?
Deny that Mowbray selecting a back four that he himself said wasn't up to the job last season was a mistake?
Deny that Rothwell should have started?
Deny that his substitutions, resulting in Gallagher on the left wing and putting on Buckley when chasing the game instead of our £7 million forward who'd showed promise in preseason was a mistake?
Mowbray had the chance to show that he'd learned from last season. He completely ballsed it up.
One swallow doesn't make a summer and one bad result doesn't make a campaign to get the manager out. However, our worst performer wasn't Bennett or Mulgrew today. It was Mowbray.
Since the start of February we have collected 17 points from 18 league games. Less than a point a game is, of course, relegation form.
After that debacle, it might not be Mowbray Out, but it most certainly is Mowbray Must Start Doing Better for anyone but those who "know nothing about football".
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On 26/02/2019 at 14:35, Mattyblue said:
Saw this yesterday. I thought ‘great, it’ll show pics from in there back int day’
No, just a photo of the outside with ‘remember Jumpin Jaks?’
That's an article wrapped up and posted in two minutes. Impressive stuff.
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On 25/02/2019 at 02:56, Tom said:
Does anyone follow the Lancashire telegraph on Facebook?
Its the absolute pits now, ‘stories’ this week or two have included a few articles that are literally just posts that someone has made on Facebook, for example a Blackburn nightlife group posted a picture of bar life saying who remembers this bar, the telegraph then had an article saying a Facebook post said who remembers bar life!
Also we’ve had posts reposting pictures from rate my plate and now we are literally just randomly repeating stories from years ago
Literally a story saying ‘remember when parking was bad at Asda 15 years ago’
We’ve also had a look back at Diana Vickers career
Rock bottom
To be fair, those are so bad that they're hilarious.
Who doesn't wish to remember the great Asda carpark scandal of 2004? Or when Marks & Sparks closed down about ten minutes go?
Cringiest moments in Rovers history?
in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
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Yep. That was when we all realised that we were, ultimately and forever, a small town club. Nothing wrong with that, but it was still a let down after the previous six years. What a dividing line, though.
This was when not just BRFCS died, but when Blackburn died. Since then, we've had Panorama episodes on Shad and on us being the most racially divided town in the country.
It's an arbitrary date. but it works. Blackburn's been dying a slow death ever since.