Exiled_Rover

We've been terrible since Khadra went off injured.

You think we're playing 4 at the back?!

Looks like the 3-5-2 with Dolan playing as a False 9. Buckley at RWB.

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Exactly. What was the attendance last night, 11k? Go listen to the roar when we scored - I haven't heard Ewood Park that loud for a long time. The people that still go to Ewood after a decade of the Venky's are the absolute hardcore. That first half was diabolical (we should have been 2-0 down). After scoring 3 goals in 2 and a half months of football, enough was enough.

I think you'll find that Johnson's fault. Horror pass to Travis in his own box.

Absolutely nobody here.

That's very harsh on both. Pickering is an ok Championship LB. He's being played out of position as a LWB, he's not athletic enough. Similarly JRC is a wide attacking player shoehorned in at RWB. Again he's not athletic (or defensively sound enough) to play there.

Baffling team that. Is he trying Rothwell as the False 9? Even tho he's made his mark and his season as a CM? Johnson is past it, it's like playing with 10 when he trots out there. To me Dolan nailed down the False 9 role with his MOtM performance recently. Play him there and give Hedges a bloody game as the IF on the right.

Wrong thread.

Who was the blonde keeper warming up with the subs who couldn't save any shots?

As they say, it's a game of opinions. The switch to 4 at the back allowed Bristol City to get a foot in the game. They hadn't had a sniff before that. We were creating chances with the 3-4-3, as we have all season. One of which was JRC being put clean through, but I digress... He remains a bad manager and he needs to leave.

I haven't seen it mentioned, but the switch to a back 4 was moronic. Bristol City hadn't had a sniff, yet we decided to shift Lenihan to RB (which he absolutely can't play - defensively or offensively) and suddenly we were all at sea at the back. The 3-4-3 we play with a False 9 is tailor made for Dack - why not just take off the misfiring Buckley and replace him with Dack? Instead he shuffled all of the deck chairs on the Titanic.

He was warming up infront of the Jack Walker stand in the second half, so I'd be surprised if he wasn't on the bench.

One of the XI players on the pitch at the time of that penalty has to score it to save your life. Are you honestly telling me you're turning to Gallagher, Khadra, Rothwell before Dack? Give over.

You must be sitting in a different part of the ground to me.

Another Mowbray masterclass.

It's more that we don't the players to take chances. Brereton was converting chances at an unsustainable rate and that was carrying us. Nobody else has stepped up in his absence (Chile and injury) - and I'd need my fingers and toes to count the number of absolute sitters we've missed since 2022 started.

One of the benefits of this patented Mowbray death spiral is that I've not had to listen to that god awful song much at Ewood. Every cloud and all that.

I love that CD.

You're a better judge of talent than I if you're able to write off a player after 10 minutes of game time in 2 months.

We missed 4 absolute sitters - much like the Swansea game, nothing played into the oppositions hands. We just couldn't finish for toffee.

We don't have any assets left, the Venkys have seen to that. It'll be a labour of love or oblivion for Rovers - both are preferable to the status quo.

He's a niggly player, but he doesn't try to break the opponent's leg like Saville tried to do. Piss poor refereeing - didn't even feign an attempt to get the ball.

I do wish they'd sell us to competent owners.