Let's not pretend the grounds with the biggest crowds are the easiest places to play. It might not work because Wednesday are shit but 7,000 fans should spur them on and Waggott couldn't care less. It's a bonus we didn't need to give them.

Because Waggott spread his legs and encouraged every Sheffield Wednesday fan to come to Blackburn by extending the allocation until their was no more room in the stand. Consequence is more of them want in for their special day, as always.

3 hours ago, Ossydave said:

I don't get the people bemoaning them getting a 7k allocation. Yes Waggott is a cock regardless but a full Darwen end hasn't done too much harm this season, Newcastle arguably our best home performance? A full Elland Road didn't seem to give them much of an edge at weekend either. Just seems like another reason to moan.

I disagree, sell out away ends are expected against "the big boys" and in theory is should give them an added advantage, most of the time they don't need it... and the fixture isn't crucial. Sheffield need it. It helped Preston and Lowe confirmed that. It can make a team talk very easy when there's 7,000 fans in the away end. A sensible CEO would avoid it in this type of fixture on the off chance it inspired the opponent to a win.

22 minutes ago, islander200 said:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/27303565/blackburn-rovers-john-ruddy-transfer-birmingham/#Echobox=1713033602 

Nixon linking us with Ruddy

As GK coach I presume?  😂

I'll never understand what's negative about making realistic predictions based on the ability of two teams. Leicester should have comfortably beaten QPR, Millwall and Plymouth, they are leaps and bounds ahead of us and them. They are shock results and the chances of a Leicester win in each was much more likely, as it will be against us. If I were to put my money on us or Leeds, I'd go with Leeds. That's not negativity it's just an educated football prediction. Same applies to the Leicester fixture.

15 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Plymouth win, huge for them. 

More pressure on us, and our lot don't like pressure.

Our lot just don't like turning up for football games 😂

Where do you go from a 5-0 defeat to Bristol in such a crucial period/ fixture.

Bottle jobs. Relegation and a big shake up of the club is needed. We'll have to go right back to the bones as a club to make any kind of long term progress - and under new owners. 

Plenty of decent people will lose jobs but that is what happens in football under bad ownership.

Waggott is doing a great job of making life more difficult too, selling huge allocations to away teams in 6 pointers. Keep it up Steve! 👍

1 hour ago, Tom said:

Sheffield Wednesday sold out their 7000 tickets for our game, Waggott probably working on plans to shift everyone out of the Jack Walker and open it up to them as well 

It's absolutely crazy and totally counter productive - not a care in the world for results on the field. That man is a cretin. 

49 minutes ago, aletheia said:

And it will become the narrative over the summer if we do go down. All JDTs fault but we can rebuild, new manager, we're all in it together yada yada

A happy clappers dream! 

Agree, it's Rovers and Huddersfield. We've ran out of "kind" games.

How many times will Venky's get away with sabotaging this club? The story this time could well be "Blackburn Rovers relegated in 2024 because of the Indian Government". Incredible.

4 minutes ago, Parsonblue said:

I must admit that I was sat at Ashton Gate last night totally bemused by the performance.  It came out of the blue as the previous three or four performances had been totally the opposite of what we saw last night.  At the end of the day human error is something you can't legislate for and the goals were a result of players making basic mistakes.  You could see the confidence drain from the players as the mistakes were made.  I don't believe any of the present squad go onto the pitch to intentionally have a bad game but they are human and not robots, so mistakes will happen and results like this will happen.  However, the game has gone and the only thing that matters is the next four fixtures.  Eustace is right when he says that all that matters is responding to defeat in the right way.  We don't have a big enough squad to make wholesale changes so he has to work with what he has.  

I still believe that these players and this manager are more than good enough to keep us up.  Obviously, the game against Wednesday is going to be key to survival  but we are good enough to beat them if we play as we can.  

We just lost one of our few remaining winnable fixtures, against a team with nothing to play for 5-0 and have the hardest run in of all teams. We didn't turn up to a match that would have seen us safe. Staying up is very optimistic.

1 hour ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Actually disagree , there is a whole load of shyte in the league this year, just we are right down there in terms of quality 

With a little bit of quality, a well organised hard working team and a manager that knows how to set up their team you can fly in this league, look at Ipswich. It’s not a league that you have to spend millions to survive in

Ipswich have spent 4 or 5 times what we spent on transfer fees and probably double what we could offer wage wise + god knows what on loan fees. The teams that are buying freebies and spending pennies are out of their depth. We are one of them IMO.

We wouldn't have been able to afford the majority of loans or free transfers they have done. Sarmiento, Moore, Williams, Tuanzebe, Hutchinson... we couldn't touch any of them.

Even if we wanted to we weren't able to afford George Hirst at £2m and have been bringing on players like Markanday and Telalovic all season. Leonard and Garrett have also played plenty and should both be on loan in League One.

Pickering is one of the worst fullbacks in the division. He makes everyone look quick and we had half the season without a suitable backup. He is League One and probably one of the first names on the team sheet.

Neither GK would start for Rotherham or any other Championship side. That says a lot.

On top of that... 71 goals against.

We are well out of our depth this year personnel wise other than Szmodics. He's the only reason we aren't already down with Rotherham and is carrying one of the most useless Rovers teams I've ever seen.

 Thought the same for months. Heart isn't in it. Like Ben White but without the ability.

I can't believe we're having to pay to watch Dolan, Gallagher, Markanday, Hyam, Pears, Pickering, Buckley, McFadzean. That is one unbelievably bad team. Add the likes of Wahlstedt, Garrett, Telalovic, Moran and Sigurdsson, we are totally out of our depth in the Championship this year. It's a league that's moved on from freebies and spending pennies.

Nail in the coffin tonight for me. It wasn't just the errors John, they looked inexcusably flat and slow from the moment the whistle went. Rovers invited the errors and looked beaten from minute 1. Bristol were way more up for it and I've no idea why that would be given the circumstances. That team is going down and they all know it, I even think the manager knows it. You can only put it down to ability after tonight, they just don't have enough of it.

There are at least 6 regular starters who should never play for us again after this season.

I'm going to list them: 

Dominic Hyam

Harry Pickering

Tyrhys Dolan

Aynsley Pears

Sam Gallagher

Arnor Sigurdsson

I'd absolutely take a relegation to make that happen.

Agree, giving an away team a boost in these matches is bonkers. 3k limit and make the most of having too big a ground by sticking them in the upper tier.

Karlan Grant, Josh Sargent, Joe Rothwell (30 appearances), Adam Armstrong, Ellis Simms, Che Adams etc have all had their moments in the Premier League and find themselves playing Championship football. It will take more than 5 appearances and 4 goals for me to say he's made it there but the early signs are better for him. I'd still be surprised if he becomes a regular starter for any Premier League side above the bottom 3.

I still don't think he's good enough to do it regularly in the prem but I'm not surprised he can get a goal or two for the league's bottom club. I'm not sure where it will go from there. Glad it's working out but would he get a game anywhere else?

How do we get rid of this man?

41 minutes ago, Hasta said:

If you watch the sky coverage it shows that replay during the main the game from 38.40 onwards. I can't post the video on here (on which Don Goodman actually changes his mind about whether he's offside when he sees it), but can only post the stills in sequence.

If you still think this clearly in the keepers line of vision then fine, but I disagree.

edit - I'm just going to crop and repost these to make them bigger.

 

 

 

 

 

Even the keeper didn’t think he was, I think that’s all that’s needed. The majority of the time at this level it isn’t given.

Kaminski deserved his opportunity. Failure to bring in an experience Championship keeper was a fatal error. 

The poor recruitment is due to desperately trying to juggle next to no funds around, again you need look no further than the owners.

Experience comes with higher wages and we cut it (along with player funds) so went abroad, lower wages higher risk. You reap what you sow.

Venky's are parasites. The staff have largely been working with their hands tied.

This guy doesn't have enough about him for me. It will be a long old season with him in charge next year and a few less ticket sales.