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Harvey Elliott- let's enjoy this season together
Mattyblue replied to philipl's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
He actually played a few PL and cup games for Fulham two seasons ago as a 15 year old. -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I’m talking generally, not particularly to you islander. But actually more towards the daft stuff I keep reading that makes out Rovers fans (and bizarrely Lancastrians specifically) are worse than anybody else. It’s dead simple, come to any club for big money and be really poor for two years, you’ll get at least grumbling and a few dickheads being abusive and totally out of order. The difference is Rovers fans generally have been really supportive and it hasn’t *on the whole* got any stronger than grumbling, I’ve been surprised just how much we’ve been behind him, as it shows how the fanbase has mellowed in recent years and BB would have copped much worse at many other clubs. -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The average crowds were 25,000. So at that time it was anything but ‘poor support’ from a town like Blackburn. The Venky destruction since has nothing to do with the point I was making. Though crowds of 13,000 or so in recent years is fine considering the wrecking ball of the Kean era (we would not have lost so many ‘PL fans’ without that debacle, we didn’t in 1999-2001) and a decade of mediocrity, we’ve largely been in the bottom half of the Championship (and a year in the third division) for the last 5 years. -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Always been a strand of our support like this. In the PL days you always used to hear ‘shit are Rovers fans’, ‘gates are poor’. Even though we were the best supported club in the country by population, a town with challenging demographics of 100,000 with average crowds of 25,000. ‘Poor?’ It was fantastic support. But what chance do you have trying to negate Dingle nonsense like ‘not a football town, Blackburn’ when your own fans constantly belittle themselves. -
Rovers vs Reading at Virtual Ewood
Mattyblue replied to Lancs Rover's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Like how Mogga has a keeper version of ‘he’s got his boots on and is on the grass’ -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Again, of course there are a minority of dickheads. Especially away when folk have been on the piss all day. I’ve heard all kind of bollocks shouted out over the years. Social media is a modern example of it. But, on the whole, BB has been well supported by the fanbase as he went through a really tough couple of years... amazed this is even a debate and people can’t separate a small number of idiots from a entire fanbase. -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
So I take it after two years of really poor performances after a £7 million deal, he wouldn’t be receiving anything as vicious as ‘tuts’ and ‘sighs’ like the bear pits of Lancashire anywhere else? -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
That’s football fans, there will always be a minority of dickheads, I’ll tell you now he would not have got the level of goodwill he’s had here after being so poor for two years at a lot of other clubs - I’m proud of our support on that score. -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
That’s a small minority of fans at Ewood and you know it. Don’t understand this urge to paint Rovers fans as impatient and abusive, Ewood this hostile environment, when we’ve been anything but as a collective this past decade, especially considering the shit we’ve been put through... -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Who would rather that? Name names. Nothing more annoying on here when folk come out with stuff like that, equivalent to the perennial ‘some posters on here WANT us to lose’ -
Rovers vs Reading at Virtual Ewood
Mattyblue replied to Lancs Rover's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
What’s for tea? -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
That’s exactly where are Brian, it is that adaptability that will be key when playing sides away from home of higher quality who can hit us hard on the counter and home games when teams sit in. So not sure why it has led to posters being tagged as ‘not understanding the game’ for merely pointing that out. But I will put Cardiff and Forest to one side, as we just didn’t have the quality of players, on the pitch or bench a month ago. We will get a much better feel to where the season may head over the next week - top of the table Reading, a decent side away in Swansea and then Warnock’s Boro at Ewood who you imagine will be tough to breakdown... -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Being into cricket, you realise just how many terms end up in everyday speech. ’I need this done by close of play’ ’On a sticky wicket’ ’Hit for 6’ ’flat batted it’ ’had a good innings’ British equivalent to all the baseball terms you hear in American discourse -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Cricket term. Some batsmen can score 100s for fun when the pitch (Track) is flat and easy paced, bowlers struggle to move the ball and the batter can just hit through the line of the ball and whack it around. On a tougher pitch, where the ball is deviating about, the same batsman can struggle - I.e a ‘flat track bully’. The best batsmen can thrive under any conditions. Ergo, can Rovers thrive against top end opponents, not just struggling ones. -
I think what we are seeing with both manager and players is that time can be the greatest asset. Most clubs in the Championship don’t have the patience (or finances) to wait around for two years + for the required improvement. They need promotion. We have a set up in which the manager is seemingly under little pressure from his Chief Exec or owners. Maybe this very odd set up is actually working out to our benefit. Though the crux of it all will be FFP...
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Rovers vs Reading at Virtual Ewood
Mattyblue replied to Lancs Rover's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Midweek on the red button? It wouldn’t have mattered that we’d been handing out a few beatings. Presuming we’d sold the usual number of STs, It would be 10/11,000 (real crowd about 7,000). A reasonably priced 3pm against decent opposition would get a decent walk on crowd - alas Waggott likes to bang those at Cat A/A+, so snuffing out any support building momentum. (I like this virtual attendance scenario game). -
Main difference now is that he is not close to being a starter when everyone is available, not sure that’s ever been the case in his loooonnnggg stint here. On ability alone it would be bonkers to give him a new deal (never mind his ‘injury’ record), as he’ll be looking for one last big 3 year deal at his age.
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You’d think we won’t be seeing much of Evans now (what’s new!) and him and his sizeable wages will be off at the end of the season...
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Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Watford could have put 5 past us! They picked us off at will on the counter - that isn’t ‘obliterating’ a team. Amazes me that you constantly try and flex your expert credentials, but lack the basic knowledge that football isn’t just about what you do going forward with the ball. That will be the challenge this season when we go up against the better sides. Though the fact higher quality players are now being integrated into the team in holding/defensive areas will hopefully begin to negate it. -
Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
159 games, 83 goals... in a League ‘far beyond his level’. I mean, honestly. -
I was just going to say the same bazza. 12 months plus out, got to say I didn’t expect it to be quite that long. Who knows what kind of player we’ll now have...
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Coventry v ROVERS
Mattyblue replied to Hoochie Bloochie Mama's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I personally think Williams has a better all round game at centre half then Lenihan. I like Darragh, always plenty of commitment, but he seems to be getting worse with the ball, if anything. -
And top level Gaelic Football for Dublin (won two All-Ireland Championships before he signed for Man Utd), which obviously set him up for a career of putting his body on the line.
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Considering the way the club is still run off the pitch, the improvement on it shouldn’t be sniffed at - and wouldn’t be if club’s were looking for a manager.
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Dreams is correct. Apart from newly promoted Ainsworth at Wycombe, Mowbray is the longest serving manager in the league. Venky’s were seen as trigger happy loons by the wider game in 2017 (though not necessarily true as Bowyer got a very fair crack of the whip, these owners are prone to long periods of inertia), so for Mowbray to last so long and seemingly improve the club year on year means he will not be short of offers when he does finally leave.