Mattyblue

‘More rubbish from you. I often put my hand up on here and admit when I’ve got it wrong’.

TalkSport exists in a parallel football universe to me, honestly never heard of ‘Alex Crook’.

* Note to self, quote the above in June 2024*

Sorry not selling your players when well primed for promotion is not ‘ambition’. Neither was signing a teenager with zero professional minutes, a loanee with zero minutes in English football, a lad from Scotland and another (badly utilised, granted) loanee. In a normal season when in our standard mid table? Fine. In a summer window? Fine. But when sitting in pole position and just three months from transforming the club entirely? It stunk of a lack of ambition and summed up this nonsensical decade perfectly.

Course you have 😉

Giles could’ve, possibly should’ve worked. But on the whole it was not a window of a club with actual aspirations of promotion - unforgivable considering just how strong our position was at that stage, a position we may never see again.

Notts County.

No way a 1000+ ST holders/1875 will be buying Bristol City tickets at nearly £30 just after Christmas. It’ll get to open sale next week no problem.

Not knocking him, he wasn’t enough, him, plus some experienced heads is what was needed…

Giles was a young/inexperienced loanee (as was Zeefuik), still wasn’t enough for a team on the verge of the PL, even if he had been as successful as he’d been elsewhere. Those were not signings for a club serious about promotion.

You need quality to get you over the line. Like ‘92 with Cowans, ‘01 with Hughes, Friedel and Berkovic. Likes of Zeefuik and Giles when sitting 2nd and on the verge of something truly transformative for Blackburn Rovers, really?

I see, I thought you actually thought this place was representative… perish the thought! But not sure any other set of fans would be desperate to beat us just because roverboy95 or whoever on an obscure message board was slagging off some manager they are vaguely aware of…

Of course they are. You can’t be expecting to get a real picture of where the support is off a dozen reactionary posters on a message board… or from any messsge board.

*apart from The Sopranos

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23226894.blackburn-rovers-must-see-january-transfer-window-chance-strike/ ‘The January transfer window. A chance to reset and refresh, to signal intentions for the remainder of the season, to plug gaps or deficiencies within the squad, to act early in anticipation of what may happen in the summer, to gain valuable cover for squad showing signs of creaking.’ Can’t argue with that Rich, shame the club didn’t feel that way when in an even better position last season…

Very testy thread this for a side 3rd in the table 😁. Imagine if we were down the bottom…

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They’ve lost 2 in 26, some stretch to see a side that is obviously the best in the league suddenly lose 7 in 20. See Sympathetic Claret had picked up some of Longers’ “we are ever so ‘umble” routine…

The Sage of Brfcs sure knows how to pick ‘em 🤦‍♂️

This fella won’t be protected at all costs, he’s getting more grumbles at Ewood in a few months than Mr Teflon got in five years (though it’s still mild, as you would expect). TM was a one off on that score, JDT will be treated like every other manager by the fans if the results are crap.

1) You mustn’t spend much time at Ewood/in the local area as a handful of posters on this obscure place in no way represents the general thoughts re JDT. 2) You mustn’t spend much time on other forms as they are *all* like this.

A lot of it is psychological. If we’d have drawn a few of those bad defeats, and some of the wins too - so still on pretty much the same points we are on now, I bet the general feeling around the club would be much better. Unlike the charge up the table last November/December, we’ve not put any kind of run together since August, so never really feeling like we are getting some momentum behind us. Every win feeling like it’s followed by a stinking defeat, especially the two shockers to local rivals bookending a mid season break. It’s certainly true that draws don’t really do a lot for your league position, but a nice unbeaten run does a lot of the mood!

But, but don’t they know he just needs a run of games!?

Hyam is already in the side, so obviously not back up, Carter is injured. Ayala is far too important to the side, with the leadership he offers in an inexperienced group to risk an injury in a 3rd round cup tie.

We’ve got an out of form S Wharton and a 17 year old as centre half back up, so yeah cotton wool for Ayala please, JDT.