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TheRoversReturn

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  1. I don't buy the honourable or integrity BS either and he fully deserves calling out. End of the day though, he's contractually appointed to do a job and he's doing it. If the results he produces are not deemed to be good enough, then the employers need to get rid of him. His employers are obviously happy enough with the utter crap that he is delivering or they'd have sacked six weeks ago (or two years ago would have been better). Yesterday wasn't the final straw, that was ages ago under Mr. Honesty/Integrity/Saint Tony...
  2. This. I don't particularly blame Mowbray or his entourage for this...they were offered a lucrative contract and they're fulfilling it as we all would. The Venky's signed off on this contract and it's the Venky's who need to terminate it. If you follow every single problem the club has had since 2010 back to its source then it always, always goes back to one place; Venkateshwara House, Pune. Mowbary leaving (and it has to happen soon, this can't go on) won't be a cause for celebration for me. He's just a manager who has run his course. The problems will remain and they're all sat on their arses in India.
  3. Yep, he's waiting to be paid off. He can't believe he's still here himself. One win in 13 league games, FFS!!! One in 13!!!!
  4. You can tell it's bad as even the posters who come on here so as to attack the other (non-happy-clappy) posters and defend Mowbray can't be bothered anymore. Is there anyone at all with faith in Mowbray? How can he possibly still be running this once-hopeful season even more into the ground? Considering our potential this time, this has to be one of the most disappointing seasons in a long time. Even the Facebook/LET kids can't defend him anymore, surely? After this?!?!
  5. I keep staring at the screen while running "I paid for this shite. I paid for this shite. I paid for this shite" through my head on a rather strange time loop so that I can, somehow, try and get some value for my money. Hence, I also remember... - Getting caught offside numerous times due to the sheer incompetence of the player not bothering to look down the line and time their run (Gally a few times, but Ben beat him for "Most Brainless Offside" at one stage). - Our specialist right back, Ryan Nyambe, coming on at right back when our non-specialist right back, Joe Rankin-Costello, went off injured. - Our Tony being sat down for the full forty-five minutes, but at least he managed to hold his head in his hands a fair few times to prove to the cameras he hasn't fallen asleep this time. All this taking place while Ainsworth has been stood on the touchline, being a presence. The Wanderers bench has been noticeably vocal on numerous occasions, whereas there hasn't been a peep out of ours. So anyway, all told you've not been missing much... Oh FFS and now we're losing. Typical Tony Half time Pep Talk!
  6. Outplayed by a Wycombe Wanderers team that is basically a lower half League One side operating in the Championship. They had the most chances, the best chances, the most corners, the most passion by far. We are crap. I'd swap Ainsworth for Mowbray right now at half time without a second thought. Yet a Wycombe would never swap their gaffer for ours in a million years. Moment of the match? It's a toss up between Trybull heading over from two yards out, Holtby with one of the most pathetically unnecessary yellow cards you will ever see or any of Ben Brereton's "efforts" on goal. Mowbray Out.
  7. So many questions, so few answers that make any logical sense. - Why is Mowbray still here? - Is there anyone else on earth who thinks playing Gally on the wing is a good idea? - Why are the youngsters we are playing to help prepare them for next season OTHER TEAMS' youngsters and not our own? - Why are over half of the other starting XI out of contract at the end of the season? - Why are three of our starting XI on loan along with another sub when we have players who need game time (such as Wharton, Chapman) being sent out time and again? - Why will the Facebook warriors be out in support of Mowbray come win, lose or draw? - Why have Buckley and Dolan been dropped just as they were building up a head of steam? - Why have we gradually got worse, and not better, since the start of the season? - Why the heck do Venky's still own us? And, the question with no sensible answer... - Why the hell am I paying to which this upcoming 90 minutes of possession-based tedium?!?!?!? Prediction = 1-1
  8. You might not be able to polish a turd, but apparently you CAN autograph one!
  9. It really hurts the head just trying to work out the entire mess that has been the last ten years. It just doesn't make sense for them to lose money on something for year after year. Not ten years. People say they're awash with money, you don't remain that way by ignoring something that loses you tens of millions. For a decade. Whenever talk was of someone else buying Rovers, they've not been interested in selling. How does that work? We don't care at all about the club, not even to sell it? A theory that seems to hold no weight is their losing face by selling us. Barely anyone in India knows about Venky's owning Rovers and even fewer care. Indian football fans rarely even know, they follow Man U or Man City if anyone. The family themselves are not household names on the subcontinent. It's all so inexplicable. Whatever the hell it is that keeps Venky's owning Rovers, I'd love to know. We all would. One thing we can be sure of; Whatever it is that keeps Venky's refusing to sell our club, It certainly ain't about what happens on the pitch, now is it?
  10. "A performance for the memory bank?" What the...? I know we've been bad recenty but dear me, get a grip, man. Norwich had an off day but still had nearly all the best chances and hit the woodwork twice. Let's do keep in perspective the bigger picture. Twelve games = a tiny bit over a whole quarter of the season. This is what we have done over this past quarter of the season (and with the squad Tony has, this is truly, cataclysmically, embarrassingly SHITE) =
  11. I don't understand some of the responses about Norwich. They've just won their last nine matches. So they had an off day today, they were due one. Even so, they were ten minutes away from winning a tenth game, hit the woodwork twice and Kaminski pulled off some great saves. There is no indication that the championship is a poor league this season, it's just not got a few runaway teams (which seems to be confused with strength of the league as a whole, surely the more competitive a league = the better? Not a couple of teams way out in the lead?) and, in reality, this has made for an exciting season if your team is not managed by Tony Mowbray. Teams taking points off each other left, right and centre. This was the perfect season for a Rovers challenge. We've blown it spectacularly, like when Bowyer had Cairney, Gestede, Duffy, Hanley, Rhodes, Marshall, King, Conway and so on. Mowbray has blown our chance like Bowyer blew it (Bowyer being a better slightly manager than sacked-by-Celtic/Boro/Coventry City-as-not-good-enough-Mowbray, at least got us in the top ten) before then but then it was regression. We either sack Mowbray, and sack him soon, or we'll be in full-on relegation battle mode rather than just flirting with it sooner than later. We're at our fork-in-the-road moment.
  12. PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT: Lancashire Police have asked Blackburn Rovers supporters to please NOT congregate at Ewood Park to celebrate the solitary point won today but to instead maintain Covid-19 lockdown rules. There have been unconfirmed reports of fireworks, flares and chants of "Are you watching, Burn-er-lee?" near the Dog Inn. While it is true that this point feels like winning the premiership after recent results, the Police would like to remind success-starved fans that seven points out of thirty six is actually completely shit and would extrapolate to about 27 points over the entire league season. ----------------------------------------- Today just shows how much better we would doing with any half-decent manager. Well done, lads. Mowbray OUT. Almost any other manager IN.
  13. He's just been proven right. Normal service resumes. 1-0 Norwich.
  14. Are we the worst team in the entire bloody league at set pieces, or what? You want to stop a Rovers attack? Give us a free kick or a corner just outside your own box.
  15. Highlights from the first twenty minutes: - We've already had more shots on target than in the entire last game. True, they were both from about a mile away, but fair's fair. - Buckley really is up front while our 7 million striker is on the wing. Looks like his instructions from Tony were to "do an Armstrong" and try and score from outside the penalty area whenever he gets the chance. - At least Joe's in the middle and not on the left wing, however. - Rankin-Costello did a really bad dive to try and con the ref into giving a pen. He actually jerked around in mid-air to make it look like he was clipped while going at speed. Impressive...is that what they practice in training? - We've been playing well, with some nice touches, yet somehow still look far more like conceding than scoring. Norwich went closest when hitting the post.
  16. My point was not to disagree with you, but instead to say that "relegation form" doesn't cover the half of it. 11 points in 10 games in the championship is regular, normal relegation form. 5 points in 10 games over the course of a season is full-on-humilation-for-the-club form and relegation at the start of March. Our form is more Sheffield United 2021 and Derby County 2009 than the likes of Fulham or Rotherham this season. With many millions of pounds' of talent on the pitch each and every game, we're worse than Wycombe Wanderers who would have one of the lowest salary outlays in League One, never mind the Championship. We have been so mind-numbingly poor compared to what we should MINIMALLY expect recently that every single day with TM at the helm highlights just why we've been one of worst-run clubs around for ten years and counting. I'd get annoyed but after ten years all that's left is a form of meh-ness to it all. If we were a song, we'd be Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb. Hello Venky's, is there anybody in there?
  17. It's 23 points over the course of a season. Naming it "Relegation form" is bigging it up. We'd not even be close to being involved in a relegation scrap with that return. With ten games to go, Wycombe already have three more points than that. It's not even a bad run of form, we'd need a couple of wins quick sharp to even reach that ridiculously low bar!!! I'm sorry, but anyone wanting Mowbray to stay after that can't really be a Rovers fan. Yet they're all over the LET saying that they still think he's the man for Rovers. What in the living daylights are they doing as they've obviously not been following BRFC this season?!?!?!?!?
  18. You can only be offside if another member of your team touches it, you can't play yourself offside.
  19. So predictable. Even with 80 minutes to go. Ref had a shocker but we'd have needed a penalty to have any real chance of scoring.
  20. Well, the Dack injury really is the icing on the cake. What a terrible night to be a Rovers fan. Oh, and that's now five points from ten games.
  21. Very harsh on Mowbray there. We're looking safe at holding them to 0-1, why risk losing 0-2? We'll put it in the bag and move on, we gave it "a right good go".
  22. Not sure even God at centre back would have been enough to save that unholy mess of a first half... We'd have needed the entire holy trinity replacing our front three, perhaps with Jesus Saves in goal for the penalty.
  23. Away commentators much better analysts on our team than the home commentators. They're picking apart some of the ridiculous tactics, including pinging balls forward to little Tyrhys in the middle while 6'4" Gally is out wide on the touchline. Pretty damning stuff, it's obviously plain to see to all not swallowing the injuries/journey/possession/not a good-enough-squad bs that the likes of Kevin Nolan have swallowed lock, stock and barrel so as to play down expectations and take the pressure off our Tone.
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