Mattyblue

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It’s always been this way. Just how forums are.

I agree, who wouldn’t, but what I would say there seems to be less pissing about with it then there was in November to January time. The fella needs time. Lower table budget, average players. He’s doing fine for me.

*Sigh* Right, I’ll try again. Do I think we are playing Souness 2001 football? Or Dalglish 1992 football? Of course not. Do we have those players or budgets? Also, of course not. This place is unhappy because it isn’t ‘good football’, so ergo it would be happy if we were sitting 18th, but playing said ‘good football’? Like I said it isn’t ‘simple as that’ at all. (There you go, debating for adults.)

This is the issue, several teenagers with promise are thrown in, and of course after a few games they get a little overwhelmed, as you would expect jumping from youth football to two games a week in the Championship. As you say at a normal club, after an initial taste they would be then be loaned out, here we have to watch their struggles in our first team, often to the detriment of results in the short term. But, ah well, you know, we are a ‘development club’ after all…

My point is it’s not a case of ‘we are unhappy because we want good football, simple as that’. If we were playing ‘good football’ but sitting 18th, you think BRFCS would be full of the joys with JDT lauded for his ‘entertainment’ and football philosophy? If you say so, TS. This is professional sport, not the Harlem Globetrotters. Winning football is good football as that’s what has you collecting the 3 points, and that leads to more confidence through the squad, more fans, more money, promotions, better players and better managers. If there’s someone out there than can get us promoted with this budget and this standard of player whilst playing ‘good football’, then get him in. Otherwise, results, results, results, however they come, especially when the bloke has only had seven months, and in that time has has this middling to lower end budget club up around the top 6 throughout and winning a fair few cup ties.

What’s ‘good’ football? And if we were playing this ‘good’ football, but losing plenty and sitting in the bottom half, wouldn’t JDT be getting even more stick? So not so simple…

I’m sure United fans will be up in arms against Qatar, ‘human rights’, ‘petro-clubs’, ‘sportwashing’ etc, just like they were for the City and Newcastle owners…

What manager have we had in twenty odd years of BRFCS who hasn’t copped a load of grief on here? Just how forums are, so not sure why some on here seem surprised by it.

He’s a fair point. Many second choice keepers don’t even play U21 games these days, so obviously can go months on end without a single minute of match action… then get chucked in a very high profile position.

Certainly a strange atmosphere at Ewood after five years of Teflon Tony. On here? Exactly the same as it’s been for every manager (all forums are like this)

Possibly, or through his agent or he’s a pal with one of their players (who all get handed a load of complementaries) A lot of an away allocation for big games ends up in the hands of hangers on as freebies. Bugger the loyal away support!

More of a Burtons look, no?

Sounds exactly like what a lot of coaches would say…

… on a computer game.

He’s not tall… so ergo must be a shit goalkeeping coach, seems to be the crux of the matter on here.

Five years of going nowhere in particular with the last fella and you rarely heard a dissenting voice… the new fella? Who’s had us around the top 6 all season and winning a load of cup ties? Cops it most weeks after just five months. Strange old phenomenon was Teflon Tony…

I imagine tickets for that away end were like gold dust, how has a ‘big Rovers fan’ ended up with one?

Don’t tell a Czech they live in Eastern Europe!

‘Play offs? Of course we’ll go for it’. There you go, so maybe everyone shouldn’t get so worked up then when managers talk their usual platitudes pre match about ‘not looking at the table’, ‘hard to compete’ etc. The bloke is a winner, he knows we’ve a chance (but of course that shambolic window has narrowed said chance).

And you know that how?

Tries to be a clever bugger… but still mangles his sentence 😁

That the same genius marketing director that doesn’t think we need to market the club to kids as they don’t like watching football, so we should sell them NFTs instead?

Of course you were 😁

Doesn’t he?