Mattyblue

Saturday’s game called off for Bury (the 4th).

Looking bleak...

Just now, Parsonblue said:

Players change position all the time - one of the best teams, possibly the best team, I've ever seen in blue and white was made up of players who were switched from one position to another. 

Quality footballers can adapt and adapt quickly. However Elliott Bennett is a rank average wide midfielder playing at right back for the first time in his career, with the wholly expected problems as a result.

Of course TM is free to play whoever he wants wherever he wants, however we are also free to say his decision making is becoming increasingly pig-headed to the detriment of the team we all passionately want to do well.

No it isn’t a top 6 side. 

However, a lot of that is down the wrong priorities - £12 million on two young forwards when we have one of the worst defences being the main one, another going into a season with two out and out senior centre halves (one who’s injury prone and is out already, the other a young loanee).

Don’t go to West Bromwich itself for pubs, stay in Birmingham city centre and jump on the tram that stops right outside The Hawthorns 

Just now, DeeCee said:

Should have 10 thousand on at that price, absolute bargain

 

Do well to get 10,000 at Leyland!

Just now, oldjamfan1 said:

The best teams have eleven captains on the park. Go through the Rovers premier league champions - even the wingers would have been fine captains. Same with the promotion sides of 1992 and 2001

Indeed. That’s why we are a million miles from promotion. 

Yes we had quality players in 2001, but the side was full of captains or ‘men’ as TM would put it.

Friedel, Bjornebye, Short, Berg, Hignett, Flitcroft, Hughes. Even the young lads like Dunn and Johnson had some balls about them.

Compare it to where we are now.

He obviously ‘runs the dressing room’ and I suppose with another one of the shop stewards gone he’ll need to keep the others onside.

Captain is a non-job in football. Make him Club president for all its worth, however it should not in anyway keep him in the side if his performances do not merit it.

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

So has it being confirmed that Bennett will be captain going forward and not just because Lenihan was injured? 

Confirmed 

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17831629.rovers-confirm-new-captain-charlie-mulgrews-departure/

They’ll be paying £28 (Cat A), all games are priced up already. Any side expected to fetch c2000 and upwards will be A (or A+)

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/july/matchday-prices-2019-20/

£20 for West Brom.

Shame they’ll be paying £28 when they come here. This ‘reciprocal policy’ only seems to come into being when it is to rip off Leeds and Sheff Wed fans.

Chapman is playing for the U23s tonight, Christ knows when he’ll be with the first team again.

21 minutes ago, 1864roverite said:

No good whining about Raya being sold he asked to leave end of! 

That was one of Mowbray’s tales over the summer, Another was that he needed to be sold to buy Gallagher.

Who knows what really went on.

Just now, LDRover said:

For me, the manager gets a free pass from many despite spunking close to 14 million on 3 shite strikers. With recruitment that bad allied to a complete lack of tactical nous or style of play I cannot see how there is an argument for him to stay.

Because of relegation and subsequent promotion.

If we’d had stayed up in 2017, and plodded along in the Championship since he’d have been given plenty by now (if not already potted).

Do we play ‘good football’, chaddy?

The fact he openly lamented that not buying a big, ugly centre half cost him his job at Coventry, yet what we’ve just witnessed in the last window says he has alarming blind spots that could well cost him another.

Just now, Tugay-is-God said:

It's really not. 

That's just the inverse of the tired cliche that "playing badly and still winning" is what title winning sides do. 

Of course they do, we ground out a load of wins in our title winning season. You don’t get 90+ points just playing sparkling football.

No budget? We’ve spent £12 million on two young strikers, we’ve a Category A Academy.

Of course the club is big enough and it’s the way the Championship is going. Forest, Brentford, West Brom, QPR, Huddersfield, Stoke, Reading, Wigan have them at least from a quick google search.

Just now, AllRoverAsia said:

There will be no DoF at Ewood whilst Mowbray is the manager and I don't want him moved into that position.

Him and Waggott run the club between them so obviously not, this is the hypothetical post Mowbray set up.

A bloke called Bernie Horne is an avid collector. 

He goes all away and youth games. Possibly someone like @Parsonblue may know him fairly well?

£12 million on two raw lads is enormous money for this club. It doesn’t work out for Mowbray and those two decisions could seriously restrict his successor and our future progress.

In these times of FFP, a Director of Football has to be looked at going forward.

Up until the transfer windows came in a decade or so ago, you would have players  signing at any time up to April. Many would go straight into the side that weekend.

These days most players sign in the summer and you obviously have the luxury of weeks on the training ground with them. That’s all that’s changed, good players adapt quickly.

I don’t think there’s any talk of a boycott. On their forums it’s more about Churchilllian speeches about ‘now is the time your support counts’ and such like.

Always makes me laugh when folk let everybody know they drink French wine like it’s the height of sophistication