ADAm!!!

Delighted to be proven wrong.

Sam the Man...that's what happens when you play him in the middle, Tony!

6 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Often struggle to have a shot on target? Course we do 🤣 Either on the wind up or don't know what often means.

If you say so, mate...Hope I'm wrong but I think this will be a tight game. 

Birmingham are a decent team and we have to draw sometime. We often struggle to have a single shot on target, so...I think a goalless draw looks a good bet. 0-0. 

Szmodics makes it three!

Excellent goal from BBD. 2-0!

Diaz 1-0!

Penalty to Rovers!

20 hours ago, Atko's Engine said:

I am seeing on other recent threads an increased amount of criticism being leveled at him, which I believe is mostly unwarranted. Some have even written him off completely here.

Nearly all of them wrote off Brereton as well (check the thread). Tons of other examples. People just like to write off the young lads straight anyway, for some reason. 

10 hours ago, CambridgeRover said:

Players I feel are not up to standard. Kaminski (distribution is woeful) Pickering (too slow) Carter(league 1) Travis(league 1) Gallagher(League 1) Vale(League 1) Rankin Costello(League 1) Edun (League 1). Get rid of that dead wood and upgrade them and see where we are then.

Overreaction here. Kaminski, Tavis and Gallagher are some of the better players in a side that sits sixth in the Championship.

We have our issues but let's not lose our heads completely here. 

10 hours ago, glen9mullan said:

Can have no complaints today, tactically out mastered by Pearson and Bristol out played us in every department.

Scoreline flattered us.

I'm still quite concerned about us tactically. We were good mid-week, but today were put right in our place.

I agree. However, considering the turmoil this summer then it's clear we need to what happens in the long term. JDT needs some time. I'd be a liar though if I said that I'm not worried after recent performances. 

We're struggling right now, but Travis is our heart so his move to right back is not something i like to see, Markanday has been scoring so where the f--- is he? and Dack looks dangerous but JDT doesn't seem to rate him. No idea why he took him and Hedges off today, we were only one down. Happy Dolan did well, but I'd have replaced him with Wharton who's only 18, after all.

It's either glass half full or glass half empty. Let's wait and see, I guess...

9 hours ago, J*B said:

It’s the easy way out. Hit the number, outsource it, tick the box. No ingenuity at all. 

It's been the Blackburn Rovers way since 2010. Hard to blame the Venkys though, the local council have been doing it for decades via Capita too.

Whatever profits are made do not get recycled in the local community either, outsourcing is an easy way to provide services, but ultimately there's no upside to any of it. 

It's capitalism 2022 though, the modern British way. So, like it lump it basically. 

If we're going to randomly lump a midfielder in at right back then make it Buckley, not that I think much of him playing there...but at least we'd have Travis in midfield. We missed him there today.

Also nonplussed at subbing Dack so early and as to what Markanday has done to JDT to not even make the bench. 

We can't afford to give away goals like that when we can't create chances for toffee. Worrying start, to say the least.

Come on Rovers!

Bloody hell, Stoke are absolutely all over us. We're a bit of a shambles so far. 

Kaminski's kicking has grown progressively worse since joining us...

A team previously managed by O'Neill and about to be managed by Neil...against a team that can't create more than a chance or two each game.

Sounds like a goalless draw has to be a good bet!

On 25/08/2022 at 07:28, 47er said:

Thinking back about the best players to wear a Rovers shirt in my lifetime, I got it down to four---Douglas, England, Shearer and Tugay. You could probably add  Clayton to that list.

I tried to put them in order but an impossible task. A privilege to see any of them, let alone all 4 at this unfashionable old club of ours.

Friedel is up there with any of them, easy to forget about a goalkeeper but considering we got him on a free, surely he's the best transfer deal we've ever done?

Top of the league!!!!

2 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

As centre-halves?

The attacking subs make sense. Last thing we want to do with our makeshift defence is to sit back and invite pressure.

Gally!!!!!!!!

2-0!!!

Three points!

Rovers enjoying a good spell, two chances in quick succession. 

Just now, Sweaty Gussets said:

????? for those not watching

Mistake by Kaminski with his kicking. Gave it away and their player had a shot into the side netting. 

4 minutes ago, yankfan said:

Yes but that would have been a fairly soft sending off. Buckley needs to be smarter. 

I'm not sure it would have been that soft, tbh. 

End of the day, we got away with one. Hope John's learned his lesson and plays smart in the second half.