Mattyblue

He missed two, both against Southampton... though he put the re-bound in on one of them.

Dan Clough.

‘I’m a performance based coach... but I know it’s a results business’ Well, it is everywhere else...

And Sharpe gets off the pot too, must be bad... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19211306.not-decision---mowbrays-verdict-rovers-run-form/ Mowbray added: “You can’t defend the results, and I won’t try and defend the results, other than I’ve watched the performances and if I thought ‘we can’t win a game’ then I would be telling you We don’t need telling!

Andy Bayes just asked TM if ‘he has reached the end?’ ‘He vehemently disagreed and certainty wouldn’t be waking’ Well obviously the ‘burden’ talk has now been put away as he enters self-preservation mode... but at least Bayes has finally approached the subject (some hard hitting journalism in these parts, ay).

I wouldn’t expect someone to walk out of their last decent gig with 14 months of lucrative salary to go. At a normal club it is taken out of their hands long before you get into the complete debacle we are currently witnessing.

Thought Venus looked very relaxed, almost serene, on the bench today. The demeanour of a bloke about to come into a sizeable nest egg, you might say...

How about David Du.. oh

Americanisms do my head in, the Missus is terrible for it. ‘Take out’ instead of ‘takeaway’. ’Can I get’ instead of ‘can I have’ ‘Shots’ instead of ‘jabs’ ’the oven/toaster/boiler is shot’ instead of ‘broke’ There’s loads of others I’ve forgot and since lockdown they seem to be ever more prevalent, Netflix effect?

Far be it from me to suggest what folk do in their free time, but do any/a combination of Rev/Den/CLB not fancy attending the next FF? No disrespect to anyone else attending, but I just can’t see the forensic picking apart this swindle needs taking place otherwise. I’m sure O2G can accommodate?

According to the Sunday Times, Kevin De Bruyne made 14 ‘ball recoveries’ yesterday.

Been generally terrible in his time here. However, I finally saw some glimpses earlier this season (his game, even at its best, seems to be to go on a run and look for a foul, but at least he was doing it fairly effectively), then he misses a month or so with injury and regresses straight back to the mean. A player so fragile, so easily knocked is going to struggle to ever make it at a decent level - though like all of them, I’d be interested to see them under a decent coaching set up.

As it’s Sharpe and the LT, he’s beating around the bush, but he has picked up on the apathy engulfing the club, the team and the fanbase... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19208423.apathy-anger-predictable-afternoon-rovers/

If the likes of JH (and Parson if I remember his post from a while ago) are thinking of knocking it on the head, then summer 2021 will be a repeat of 2012, only thing is there ain’t many of us left for another 50% to pack it in. But that is certainly the mood music I’m picking up, the drop off in interest has been enormous from what I’ve seen, the 18 months minimum out of Ewood will have seen many fans re-assessing their priorities in life and spending £400-500 to have the piss taken by that carpetbagger and his stooges won’t be one of them...

If passing it around in our own half, creating no chances and conceding sloppy goals every game is ‘high intensity’, then I’d hate to see us once our levels drop...

‘I’ve nothing else to say’. Aye, bet you don’t! He knows he’d have long been on his bike at a normal club, so he wouldn’t have to keep coming out with his claptrap and fans wouldn’t be still listening to it.

Well, technically, he isn’t (yet)...

Nah won’t happen, chadster assured me he won’t be taking a job outside the south...

Black and red halves was the biggest selling away shirt we’ve had in donkeys years. No surprise as it combines classic Rovers away colours with our trademark halves. So the ‘end users’ obviously understand the USP of Blackburn Rovers and what will actually shift large amounts of product more than ‘the club’ (who have approved a right load of crap in recent years) does.

Boothroyd doing his best TM buck passing impression. ‘U21’s is an impossible job’ ’Not about results’ ’I produce players for Gareth, like Phil Foden’ (must be news to Pep and the City academy, that).

He’ll have flown - Manchester - Dublin Dublin - Belgrade Belgrade - Dublin Dublin - Hungary Hungary - Dublin Dublin - Manchester ... in a little over a week and 0 minutes in three matches.

Ireland have made 8 changes for the friendly tonight, pretty much everyone in the ‘worst crop of players’ in bigdogg’s lifetime have started a game this week... apart from Lenihan. Which speaks volumes to the level Rovers are at these days too...

Ellgren

Reading in The Times today that Boothroyd is more worried about being liked than pushing the players. Obviously not an issue when they stroll through qualifiers, but they get repeatedly shown up in tournaments. I presume he’ll be on his bike by the weekend...

I’m talking about Paul Gallagher and Matt Derbyshire from the Our Lady & St John production line!