
Danny O.Brien
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The last bit I agree with totally it's done his career the world of good moving when he did. So as much as I'd of loved him to stay around I can't say it hasn't worked out perfectly for him. Could we have got more? Yeah. But when you look at just in recent seasons the ash Phillips deal and even the Raya one. We never get a good fee. At the time I know it's only the end of January. The fee was reasonable for a player in a struggling championship side with just over a year's first time experience. The fact he's gone on to do so well after moving doesn't change that unfortunately.
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Yeah just so casual on the ball and the way he'd turn and get us up the field. I remember jdt not being 100% convinced at first maybe because of this but when you're that good it doesn't matter how well you train or hard you try.
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I'm a friend of his and Scott's cousin. And he told me years ago when Scott first started getting in the first team. He has a younger brother who's going to be class and plays in midfield. I bored my mates who I sit with at rovers going on about this little brother haha half joking half optimistic. And then when he played, I remember Blackpool away. Wow what a player so effortless and good to watch. Then Burnley at home and he absolutely bossed that midfield and was skipping out of challenges. I was gutted when he went in January but was glad it was to a team where he would get minutes and progress. How well he has made the step up is frightening and I only wish we would've had another season or two of him here. Like all of us I'll be following his career and hoping for the best. As much as I joked about him and Bellingham in midfield at the euros last summer it looks like it could potentially happen and that is amazing.
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I like Travis and think he would do much better in this Eustace side then he ever did under jdt. He wasn't exactly pulling up trees at Ipswich and now they've gone up surely they'll aim higher. If they put a decent bid in though it should be considered, as long as it's a big increase on those insults Millwall bid last summer.
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He was arguably the worst keeper I've seen at ewood last season. Alot of that however was down to him being expected to play out. Hes a solid keeper but would be a short term and expensive fix. As much as it pains me I'd rather use the money elsewhere and persevere with pears. As for Aaron Connolly at 24 there is certainly a chance of getting a return on any investment. Which as a free transfer you'd imagine the club would be all over. He will still have hopes of getting back to premier league and will hopefully see what Armstrong, Diaz and maybe szmodics have done here and given their career a huge boost. It will all depend on what options he has and what we can offer. But he would certainly be a player we should be looking at.
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2024/25 Season Tickets
Danny O.Brien replied to TheRevAshton's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The problem is there's always going to be a core of supporters who go irregardeless. Even when they went down to league one. Who will pay whatever price because they want to go to the football. Maybe not totally for the football itself but the day out and seeing people they've sat with/near for however long. Slashing the prices even if by quite a bit won't increase sales by that much. Certainly not enough to justify it. They'll sell more yeah but not enough. Plus if they do have more fans that means more staff/security/first aid staff. All of which will eat into that money. This club is ran (terribly) as a business first and for most. Unless there was a real uptake in attendances, maybe if we were flying and playing good football there might be a slight increase. And that's usually when they do the little offers, like a couple of seasons ago. Say 3 home games in a row for £50 or whatever they were doing. This is the club trying to capitalise on the team doing well. It always annoys me how when we do rarely see a bumper crowd the team never perform and the form falls off meaning the extra fans who maybe took up the offer don't bother returning. -
If we dont add and more importantly improve we will go down. And it will be ten times harder second time around. When you think we we're only up against run away winners Wigan and out of nowhere Shrewsbury. As bad as it sounds if dropping down the divisions is what it takes to get rid of the venkys, then i and I guess most fans would welcome it. Start from the bottom and work our way back up but being ran properly.
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I've said it all season, we are far better without the ball and catching teams on the break (usually better sides) than we are having the ball and building out from the back. Obviously having szmodics running on behind the opposition defence was a big part of that. We always looked fairly solid and at least ajrd to break down, most of the time since Eustace came in. It was the other end we struggled so many of those draws we could've nicked if we had decent options to chip in with szmodics.
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Sigurdsson had a good six weeks or so between injuries. Other than that was just as useless as the rest of the forwards, obviously excluding szmodics. We look to have sorted the defensive side out but need players to put the ball in the net to turn those draws into wins. I don't mind playing boring football under Eustace as long as we get results.
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Tyrese Campbell sounds very similar to the Ennis deal last summer. On paper that deal worked out as bad as he was here. Signed for free and sold for a tidy profit six months later. All be it Campbell has been playing at a higher level, he could be a calculated risk. Unfortunately I think he'll get other, more appealing options.
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That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Let's hope this McGuire can get a goal straight away and go on a run. We keep getting strikers who don't score haha. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
If all this is true i hope we go down maybe then a few of those yes men might lose their jobs and these useless fucking owners might lose a few quid. How much more can we as fans take? I'd sooner go bust and start again then carry on like this, just existing because they won't sell up and lose face. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
After the last few January deadline days I'm not going to get my hopes up. Saying that I'll be on here every chance at work tomorrow and praying for a couple of quality signings. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I'm not a massive fan of Dolan but I think he'd do well in that Luton side, they play very wide and direct and although not the quickest he is decent at picking the ball up and getting forward. Even if his end product is not brilliant (yet). I'd say cash in and get a decent return from a free transfer but again we are thin on numbers and he would need replacing. If we can get a similar fee to the kaminski transfer then I'd sell. We'd need someone who can come straight in and do a job. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Hopefully the Wharton move getting done means we can do some business. The absolute worst would've been for this to drag out and him go on deadline day leaving us scrambling. Hoping we have enough time to get a few deals done because our squad definitely needs quality additions. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
As much as I'd of loved Adam to stay for longer you can't blame the club or player for accepting the offer. He's only one bad injury or dip in form off never getting a chance at the premier league. If some of the money is used to bring in a couple of decent players, which lets be honest is urgently needed then I'll be happy (not holding my breath). It is a refreshing change from the miserly 2 million we got for ash Phillips. Or the ridiculous 3 million for Raya before him. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Can see the Gallagher transfer being this January's what if talking point come next summer. Last year it was the O'Brien deal, the year before it was the rothwell money and who we could've got in with that money. I have little faith any money from the sale of Gallagher would be reinvested. As much as it pains me to say I'd rather have him then some money we won't get to spend on a replacement. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I think Elliot was further along in his development than Moran is even though he was younger. Elliot is brilliant but I thought he'd have progressed more than he has at Liverpool. Moran is good no doubt and better than what we have. Maybe Elliot benefited from the lockdown situation and playing Infront of empty stadiums. Elliot was brilliant here and I was excited when we got Moran. Hopefully he can kick on and produce like he was starting to before the whole squad seem to have had a slump. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I like Moran he's just a little lightweight in an already lightweight team. I think he definitely has the ability to be a good player, just a shame for us he isn't at that level consisitanly yet. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
We have steadily been getting worse and replacing quality with kids or short term loans. Look at that squad that came up and maybe I'm looking through rose tinted glasses because of the promotion season. You had goals all over the pitch. Dack and Graham were excellent. Mulgrew chipping in with something like ten goals that first season back. We had a genuinely good squad and had goals all over the pitch. Since then we've been too dependent on first Armstrong, then brererton and now szmodics. We can't keep going like this and not expect it to catch up with us. If anybody else in this squad gets more than 7 goals this season I'll be seriously impressed. -
That *was* the January Window
Danny O.Brien replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
He's shite same as telalovic unfortunately. People talk like they're 18/19 and learning. They're both mid 20s and should be further on by now. Dress it up however you want, take away szmodics goals this season and I dread to think where we would be in the league. We have been overachieving pretty much since we came up from league one. The owners refuse to back the manager. Despite a promising start last season and early this.