Exiled_Rover
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Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Looked pretty standard fare to me - the Championship is a clogger's league. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
A goal and two assists for Leonard, right? Judging by how he carries himself (he was the only one seriously warming up at half time at the end of last season - rather than just kicking a ball about in a triangle) and the brief glimpses I've seen - I reckon he'll go on to make it. He seems to have excellent movement - he's there for a tap on in JRC's first goal, for example. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
He was the main man upfront last season too. Look I'd love Gallagher to turn his career around, but if he scores 20 this year then JDT and Reijnierse deserve a statue next to Jack Walker's. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I'd be curious to know where they're predicted to finish - I have serious questions about the quality of that league now. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
No, I just don't think we have a plethora of players in the squad / Academy that can play in the '3', so we adapt in these double headers. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Is this game available via stream? -
23/24 kit; is a new sponsor needed?
Exiled_Rover replied to alex l's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Poor sods. -
Yates to Swansea - rumoured to be £2.5m + Joseph. A very good deal for Blackpool in my opinion.
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That he's well over the hill?
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I care, it's information (biased or otherwise) to sift through until we can form our own judgement. Have to chuckle though that ol' Pilgrim isn't bothered about him leaving, despite stating a paragraph before that he basically carried them to promotion at the end of the season.
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One of my closest friends is a Plymouth fan. He's very touchy if you ever mention that they've basically just existed.
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Glad to see they've clipped when he had that little to-do with that scrote, McClean. Not a big player, but he stands up for himself - others in the squad could learn from him.
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Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The previous manager loved small attackers. Still does by the looks of it. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I think Szmodics is too much of a 'cheeky chappy' to be captain material. I think Hyam is too quiet to be captain too. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I call Hedges the nearly man. He's nearly a fantastic Championship player - hopefully he can kick on this season. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Pretty much - passing out from the back requires the CMs (and FBs) to show for the ball from the CBs to play a simple pass to them. As great as it was to watch Adarabioyo and Mulgrew act as a playmaker from CB, that's not actually the requirement in this system. It's no coincidence that the good run of performances post World Cup coincided with Buckley and A. Wharton forcing themselves into the team - both can receive the ball in tight spaces and play on the half turn (Garrett has shown some ability to do this, but obviously not enough for JDT). Morton hid too often (and then usually just gave the ball back to the CB anyway) and Travis was taken out of the firing line and told to line up next to Szmodics when we had possession after that PNE calamity. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Mowbray turned us into a club again after the disaster that preceded him. He stayed 2 years too long. -
The money is in white ball cricket. You have white ball specialists like Sneed who have turned down a red ball contract with Somerset (and has never played a first class match) cos it's peanuts compared to the money he can make in T20 comps around the world. That's just the way the game has gone - those gritty, technically sound batsmen are a thing of the past it seems.
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Your Expectations for this Season?
Exiled_Rover replied to SIMON GARNERS 194's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Undav would have easily scored 10 in half a season if we'd got him in January. You've just highlighted the problem there - our current strikers couldn't score in a brothel. -
Your Expectations for this Season?
Exiled_Rover replied to SIMON GARNERS 194's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Based on the fact: Niall Ennis has 30 senior career goals and 18 assists. Vale and Leonard (combined) have scored 3. Their fans were disappointed to see him leave ("oh he's tripled his wages!"). Sondre Tronstad was integral to a Vitesse team that qualified for Europe. He was in some Eredivisie teams of the year that season. He has played for his country and their fans were sad to see him leave. Arnór Sigurdsson has 31 senior goals, 17 assists and would be playing Champions League football for CSKA Moscow if Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine. He's an Icelandic international who has scored at the Bernabéu against Real Madrid. When was the last time we could say that about summer signings in their mid-20s? As I said, we still need 3-4 more - evidently so does the manager. Ideally I'd love a RB (backup), a ST (starter) and a RW (starter) and for S. Wharton to buck his ideas up. -
Pre season 23/24
Exiled_Rover replied to TheRovers1994's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
You can't tell me JRC is playing RB there. He has to play CM (or further forward) this season, he has the potential to grab games by the scruff of the neck. -
Your Expectations for this Season?
Exiled_Rover replied to SIMON GARNERS 194's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
My honest expectations are a Playoffs finish with us pushing for automatic promotion. I was very pleased with the progress we made last year under JDT - we could be talking about PL football this season if we'd got a semi-decent striker over the line in January, we were that close with the rag-tag squad our previous manager left behind. I've been pleasantly surprised by the early transfer business we've done so far - the three we've brought in significantly improve our squad. In order to meet my expectations, however, we need 3-4 more (2 of which have to be for the attack) starting quality players, which I suspect will require sales to fund. The squad has quite a bit of deadwood so I'm hopeful they can be shipped out for a fee. If we don't make those signings then we'll finish mid table as we simply won't score enough goals again. Hopefully Broughton finishes what he's started this summer. -
This ref is an absolute clown.
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Never a penalty in a million years. VAR is absolutely fucking awful.