Z Z Hill -The Chokin’ Kind

Just thinking about the other strikers besides Sammi - Exactly what have they contributed this season ?

Without that no team will ever thrive. Expecting Rovers to flourish under the Chicken Chokers is just silly.

I watched the FA Cup game this afternoon and Roy Keane in the after match comments on Man Utd said an interesting thing - “ this set of players are extremely difficult to like “. Just how I feel about the current Rovers team.

Experience won out in the penalties.

At a proper club if a player has repeat poor performances they’re out. At Rovers we can’t do that because we haven’t got the players to bring in to replace the weak links. Drop Pears - Who for ? Drop Brittain and Pickering to bring in whom ? Drop Gally to bring in Telly ? The bottom line is our squad is poor as piss.

Let’s hope so. That only works though if we put them under pressure. Just trying to cruise through will only end one way.

Definitely. No real team shape at all.

Yes, worst Utd team I’ve seen in a long while.

I agree regarding spirit but - 1st one shinned in a la Jason Roberts, 2nd a massive deflection. 3rd a pretty kind pen. We could have done with just one of those today.

It was ok at Leeds when we knew we be under a siege but today at home in a game we needed a result from ? Not really.

Got it in one. Score first and we’re ok. Go behind and it’s over.. once it went to 1-2 it was over. We have no self belief, desire, will to win. All the things you need to get back in a game.

He followed that up by saying “ so sign the best one you can afford “. Maybe we did ! Keep hold of Kaminski and we wouldn’t be in this mess.

That was just unlucky, the ball hit a divot and bounced up.

Brian Clough once said - “ Nobody can lose you a game quicker than your goalkeeper “ . He wasn’t far wrong.

3-0 up and cruising and we made a right meal of seeing that one out.

If things don’t change dramatically it’s hard to see how we can stay up next season.

In all seriousness I can’t name a team in this league I’d fancy us not to lose to at the moment. You need to score goals to get results and apart from Sammi nobody even looks like scoring.

When have we won a game that had everything riding on it under the Chicken Chokers ? Just name me one big game were we were under pressure for a result and we didn’t just lie down and die ? Just one. The club is rotten from top to bottom.

I can’t get excited about any of the Premier League teams. To me it’s like the reply Eisenhower reputedly got when he asked his leading scientific adviser how the Russians had managed to launch a satellite before the USA. “ The thing is Mr President - their Germans are better than our Germans “. There’s not much local allegiance going on. It’s not like when we had four Blackburn born lads in the front five of the team in the old first division back in the day.

I was reading an article in my paper by Jonathan Wilson today - “ When the authorities introduced the maximum wage for players in 1901, the aim was less to protect the profits of club owners ( although by time the maximum wage was abolished in 1961, that had certainly been the effect ), who were restricted in the dividends they could draw, than to prevent wealthier clubs offering higher salaries to lure the best players, upsetting the competitive balance that made the league viable. The two factors that have done most to destabilise existing league structures - the inflationary soaring of players wages and the ever growing gulf between rich and poor - were foreseen and addressed by the Victorians who established the football league “.

A draw would be a decent result but it’s essential we don’t try to play for one

The Everly Brothers - When Will I Be Loved

We’ve all seen those given.

He never looked like scoring with any of the chances he had tonight.