Mattyblue

Still, bet Brentford wish they could be at the top end of the Championship instead…

Forget about Norwich, have a look at other pitches up here. Ours is a mess and has been for years. A chronic lack of investment in infrastructure over a decade will do that.

What a daft appointment Toure was for a club in the midst of a relegation battle.

All about the social media ‘impressions’ and ‘reach’. The fella in charge of the ‘socials’ will probably get a bonus if it goes viral.

Not necessarily the volume of games, as from yesterday onwards it’s one game a week until mid Feb, but more do you want to risk an injury to a key man when we have a pretty thin squad already?

Of course he has. And 99.9% of fans would agree with you. Which is why you shouldn’t get hot under the collar about the totally unrepresentative views of about a dozen people on a message board.

Mad opinions on a football message board baffle you? Not been visiting them long, I take it?

Still banging on about ‘down south’. 🤦‍♂️ JR and his missus are both northerners who have always lived up north apart from a brief spell at Oxford. So why would they be desperate to go to a generic ‘down south’, as guess what Oxford and Bournemouth are a bit of a distance away from each other! He went for a PL move and a huge wage increase. If anybody ‘oop north’ had have offered him more he’d probably have gone there.

Thought you said they were going to win the league?

In the wider fanbase obviously not, but this place oscillates wildly result to result. It will be the same daft posts from a dozen or so next time we lose a game.

Ewood the only ground to have a busy Christmas schedule?

Not anymore.

This you? (Feb 2022)

Very loud boos near me when he took Dack off (correct decision in my view as the game was passing him by with 10 men, but boo they still did)

About right for Rovers fans? Not sure about that, when was the last time we chanted for a managers head? Coyle, and before that Kean? Very patient bunch here and I can’t imagine many other set of fans have only gone after one manager in a decade. As a disclaimer, I don’t think they will actually chant ‘JDT out’ any time soon, just that he won’t get the free pass TM had…

Not sure about that, the Blackburn End was very close to turning the other night (closer than TM ever was in 5 years). Say we go a couple of goals down tomorrow…

Brittain, looks a decent player, but surely can’t be deemed a successful signing if he misses the majority of games.

He’s a 24 year old striker who has never scored a goal at this level in 40 (FORTY) attempts. But if YouTube shows him in the third division ‘running the channels’ or whatever he’s supposed to be doing against Accy or whoever, then bugger the goal tally, sign him up!

What?!?! So they can get even further away from us on and off the pitch?! No, nay, never.

My dad is a good example. He’s always been on the ‘pessimistic’ side of fandom when it came to players and managers…. until TM got us out of L1. He then literally would not have a word said against him until the day he left, indeed he’d get very spiky if you did try to offer even mild criticism. A most strange phenomenon…

Players were booed off, but TM himself avoided anything aimed at him apart from an odd ‘sort it out’ chant.

My only bit of ITK-ege here for you. Cov initially rejected our bid for Hyam, until they rang us up desperately trying to flog him before the close of the window as they needed cash quick - which obviously helped us getting him for a steal. It’s a club with no ground of their own and always on the edge of one crisis or another. So if Wolves want him, they’ll get him.

The L1 factor. Pretty much every manager here has had far more grumbles than TM, even top class ones like Souness. But as soon as we had that relegation the fanbase seemed to lose its collective nerve and start thinking in a small time manner befitting a third division outfit (though it was only a brief visit) he was seen as the best we could possibly have in situ and ‘who else yer gonna get’, ‘look at Bury’ etc etc. TM created himself a lovely little spot here, but now he’s gone the crowd has reverted to type (like at every other club), if it’s shit, they’ll let the manager know.

Christ knows, certainly not full back after that Forest showing, looked like they’d brought someone in from a different sport…

Mola and Hirst can’t be sent back. So we’ll have to manoeuvre with those two deadweights in the squad (let’s hope we only a paying a small proportion of their wages).