5 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

So what insultingly low fee are we selling Sammy for then?

In all honesty I wouldn't begrudge him a move to the Prem - as much as I'd love to see him stay with us. 

2.5 million.

"They met our valuation"

57 minutes ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

And there will be fans still supporting the owners as we battle for a play off place in League 2 in a few seasons time. That's what annoys me, the absolute subservience and delusion that we should not aspire for better than a load of poo. There's some 1984 double think going on in some parts.

 

You'd need a brain to think. These fucking lemmings haven't got a Braincell between them.

GET IN!!!!!

FUCK OFF BIG CLUB!!!!

1 minute ago, Penwortham Blue said:

And the chief culprit is poorly today !

There'll be nothing wrong with him. He's just a fucking coward.

Whatever happens today I am not going to change my opinion. This guy is shit. He doesn't know what he's doing.

4 minutes ago, booth said:

We're pretty much playing with 10.

He's just got absolutely no instinct or ability to read what is going on.

As a striker Gallagher is fucking useless.

Other than Szmodics we really do have absolutely nothing up front.

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

That should be on Waggots ST brochure  'Ewood's the road to nowhere, come on inside'

More like burning down the house

36 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Yes the academy is our one success story. How long for is in the lap of the gods.

The academy has gone backwards from where it was before this virus infected us.

2 hours ago, Paul Mani said:

This is no more Eustace’s fault than it is Ten Hag’s fault at United. Both clubs are rotten.

Rovers are in a process of ‘managed decline’. The budget gets cut every year, and it shows…in the stadium, around the ground and on the pitch. I saw a table this week showing that only Rotherham had a smaller wage budget than us this season.

Eustace has a good name within football. He’s well regarded by some of the old pros I know and you will struggle to find a fan of Birmingham or Kidderminster who have a bad word to say about him.

I’m not advocating him and the jury is still out for me but, Blackburn Rovers make it hard for any manager on the planet to succeed. Look at the January window for example. We had won one game since November and they loan out the club captain, sell the most prestigious talent we’ve had in recent history and then buy no one and ‘forget’ to press send on the American Striker we wanted to sign. Add this to last Summers clusterfuck, the O’brien fuck up the January before then and the Rothwell for Dembele and Jed Wallace the January before that, and you’d be forgiven for thinking someone at the club actually wants us to go down. They haven’t made it easy for any manager…that’s for sure.

Im relaxed-ish about today. Because honestly, the curve we’re on means even if we survive, it’s only a matter of time before we go down.

Hope change is around the corner. 

Yep 100% nobody will ever succeed with venkys.

As we saw last January, if we are on track to get promoted they will deliberately sabotage it in any way they can.

For me though, even under those circumstances, useless has been absolutely shit. He hasn't even attempted to win a game yet. He's had half a season and as we saw in the first half of the season, we can beat teams and we did.

Playing for draws against the likes of Plymouth and Millwall is totally unacceptable.

Once again I expected very very little from Rovers and they still failed to deliver.

Until the club is rid of venkys we will just continue our decent down the leagues into oblivion. I'm not in any way nervous or even bothered about the game today. If we don't get relegated this year then we'll go down next. Venkys have once again deliberately made that happen.

23 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Just waiting for the inevitable 'we can't compete with Bolton' with reference to them getting double our gates next season. 

Mark my words it will be the very same people who used Bolton as an example of where we'd be without Venky's involvement.

Absolutely. They have the mental capacity of a dog turd that's been run over by a six wheeler.

13 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

On the flip side in his 16 games we have score just 14 goals and 5 of them came in one game. We have scored more than one goal in just two games. We have also failed to score in 7 games.

Not to mention a dreadful points return of 14 points fr9m 15 league games and a failure to win a single home game.

It's absolutely shocking how bad it is.

At least with JDT you had the feeling that if we got a goal early on in the game we could go on to win.

With useless we haven't even attempted to score. There is no plan of attack and absolutely no intention of winning the game.

This year sums venkys up to a tee. The manager wants out as the club have done a u turn on their initial lies that brought him to the club. They refuse to let him leave and force him to stay in place then completely undermine him at every opportunity. He finally is let go after publicly calling them out and is replaced with a total novice that doesn't even make any attempt to get us out of the relegation battle. If anything he's dragged us deeper into it.

They have done as much as they can this year to deliberately relegate the club. Only by the grace of there being shitter teams below us will we survive. Next year we will be relegated. Deliberately. Again.

The only people we have to thank for survival this year are Sammie Szmodics and Jon Dahl Tomasson.

4 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

More and more teams are passing us by and with Venky's we're going to struggle to stay in the Championship even medium term. Eventually, there will be too many teams with owners that care for us to compete and before you know it Waggott will be telling us how we "can't compete" in the transfer market against Wrexham and the like.

So next year then.

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

same here,terrible game incidentally,barnsley are terrible and bolton just content to sit and foul them,they`ll need 11 new players if they are going to compete in the championship

At least they know they'll get an easy six points from us.

31 minutes ago, M_B said:

In Eustace's 16 games we've had 5 clean sheets, in the previous 28 we had 4.

We've also had 6 games where we've let 1 in, so in 11 of his 16 games in charge, we've let 1 or less in. 

And that is with an "awful" squad, 

He's obviously come in and been a risk averse manager, it obviously won't do from the beginning of a season,but to get a tune defensively out of this lot, under these circumstances , I think shows some tactical know how. 

Oh well, I hope you enjoy the League One campaign then.

With useless in charge it's a nailed on certainty that we'll be there sooner or later.

14 points from 15 games. Dog shit.

7 hours ago, M_B said:

5 defeats in 17 isn't at all bad though,considering the car crash he took over. 

Complete fucking bollocks. 

The team was 7 points from the bottom three. 

We should have been looking to push on and sneak into the playoffs. Instead all we've done is go backwards. 

If you're trying to argue his record is anything other than complete dog shit then you need to give the psychedelic drugs a break for a while. 

The guy is a walking disaster and is on par with Coyle. 

I'd cut him some slack for the squad being absolutely awful but he hasn't even tried to win a game yet. 

Tightened things up at the back you say? We got smashed by Sheffield Wednesday and Bristol City. The games against the likes of Plymouth, Millwall and Big Club were all points dropped. I would expect a points return of at least 12 from those five games. 

The guy is as thick as two short planks, he's tactically inept and has a loser mentality.  At any normal club he'd have been binned off by now for being so shit. Instead he'll be here for another two years as he fulfills the owners desires and drags us down to new depths.

Useless. 

6 minutes ago, Andy said:

I don't mind RHCP if I'm honest, but Can't Stop isn't a good walk-out song.

I'd even prefer to go back in time and have Final Countdown than that ^

I have noticed an improvement though since Miller started becoming involved.
The Watford home game just before Xmas was a notable one - some crackers played. Heard lots of positive stuff around me, pre-game.

Final countdown will always be the walkout song for me. So so many great memories from that era.

1 hour ago, Miller11 said:

I’ve provided a playlist for every game since about January. Previously the club were using a very small pool of songs. In the early part of the season you’d often hear most of the same songs I provided for the fans takeover games being played on repeat. At one game they got someone external in as a one off to do the PA and he turned up with his decks and played World of Our Own by Westlife at the final whistle, after another crap result, which loads of people felt strongly enough about to email in complaints.

Every home game there is almost an hour and a half of music to play before kick off. Most of it is played to a very small audience, but I’ve tried to stick to the general rule of thumb of never picking the same song twice (with one or two exceptions), and every game songs are played that are by local bands or supporters who are in the crowd.

They won’t change the actual walk out music from that rubbish Red Hot Chilli Peppers rubbish, this was apparently picked by the players - I complain about this on a weekly basis, but I’m hoping that will be different next season. My biggest bugbear is that if my timings are slightly under they fill the gap with Thunderstruck by AC/DC which is about as generic and unimaginative a song as is possible to play - it’s Clitheroe’s (and almost every other non-league teams) walk out song for gods sake.

Off the top of my head the following have all been played in the 15 minutes before kick off over the last few months…

Oasis, Stone Roses, Metallica, Motörhead, New Order, Joy Division, Judas Priest, Faithless, Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx, Green Day, Status Quo, Hard-Fi, Charlatans, Kasabian, Led Zeppelin, Reverend and the Makers, Talking Heads, Bowie, Buzzcocks, Prodigy, The Clash, The Who, Shed Seven, Chemical Brothers, Thin Lizzy, James, K-Klass, Kiss, Dario G, Depeche Mode…

As mentioned above, Hardcore Uproar was played against Newcastle, and in fact has been played every single time I’ve compiled a playlist this season. It’s THE Blackburn acid house tune and was basically born in Ewood Mill. The feedback on this has been really positive and it was trending on Twitter when it got played in the FA cup game.

Another myth that still persists is that the version of Wild Rover by Morning Call still gets played. Well, at the start of the season this was accidentally deleted by someone at Rovers so they don’t even have a copy of it. I sit in the Riverside with the singer who has provided me with it, so if it does make a comeback you can blame/thank me.

As for 2Unlimited as the walk out music, I’m not dying on that hill. During the build up on occasion, no bother.

I always liked the Morning Call version.

Tony is a top lad.

Get rid of the Red Hot Chili Pepper they are absolutely gash.

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

So he wasn't involved in picking the team and tactics with Johnson? He wasn't on the touchline second give our instructions to the players? Making subs second half? Gave post match interview with RoversTV? 

Big fucking deal. Three wins in HALF a season.

Less than a point a game.

Only one way to describe that. Shit.

2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

The sources you see online usually just regurgitate wages from football manager, and it will be based on his Sheff United wage. He may have been on that there, but he wont have just continued on that same wage here.

You never know, this is Blackburn Rovers and there's an agents commission involved.

1 hour ago, BRFC4EVA said:

"The guy has worked miracles, he's got the players playing better. Under jdt we were dead and buried, we would've been relegated by now. Well done to the current manager"

This was written on a Rovers Facebook page regarding Eustace comments about potentially staying up.

Words escape me.

This person obviously has the IQ of a stillborn goat.

45 minutes ago, Andy said:

I do genuinely get (and appreciate) that.

But reading those minutes, blatant lies are being told.
The mildew is all over the stadium; it's impossible for Waggott to have missed it.

He's actioned the fans to take/send pictures into the club.

I find it honestly strange that nobody challenged this.

Spam his inbox with thousands of pictures.

Here is all the decay that you have allowed to fester you fat lazy cunt.

5 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Fair point, i think what I'm getting at is they should be playing something that the normal working class lads and their dads can enjoy, something that actually represents the town in some way without it being some dopey clichéd peter kay esque singalong. 

 

So some early 2000s bounce then. Complete with all the MCs and everything.

Turn Ewood into Monroe's 2.0