Mattyblue

Price of Football on Twitter has been looking through Rovers’ accounts. We owe Venky’s a bizillon quid. Player wages down. Director pay up. How Animal Farm! We spent net £7.6 million on transfers this season.

In today’s LT, in the article crouching has posted.

‘Jack is naturally a midfielder, but is at the back for us, due to his height.’ Thought Rodwell was brought in to be a defender as that is how Mowbray now saw him, with presumably some defensive qualities? That quote sounds like he’s sill a midfielder chucked back there in an emergency because he’s tall. Some very odd comments emanating from the manager.

Where does Sharpe get his ideas from? ? https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17510989.the-contract-decisions-facing-rovers-this-summer/

We often have had bang average number 2s, but a clutch of top class number 1s made it less of an issue. Now we don’t even have the 1. Its pretty simple to me. 10 years ago, a promising young keeper like Raya would have been loaned out to the lower leagues, making these mistakes on someone else’s watch. However, we are now said lower league club, so we get to see these young lads warts and all. If the club wants to be more than just a second division also ran (at best), more experience is needed in all positions.

Yelldell

You would think so. Look at us.

Better than Dack, said so himself.

Hughes lasted five years at Stoke, 2013 to 2018. Three 9th placed finishes and then 13th. Went awry in his last season, but then many managers do have a shelf-life. Unfairly maligned in my opinion.

Figure of speech chadster

Always interesting when a really old thread is bumped to show just how many posters have long gone...

I bet it happens every break, they just got caught by a selfie doorstepper this time...

Yep, good chance we are back to the Coil season standard crowd of 10,000.

As I’ve said, these games will tell you nothing as they’ve very few ST holders, a club like Blackpool aren’t going to getting 10,000 folk buying tickets on the gate every week, feel good factor or not. Now if they don’t sell a substantial number of STs in the summer then the years away will have damaged their fanbase long term.

Thought Williams had been called up for Ireland?

Aye, the only one with any knowledge of English football out the loop for the issues that actually matter. Sounds fine and not at all telling of what’s gone on this past 8 years.

Banned again?

To be fair, there were plenty on here in January saying how fantastic Rodwell was , a 'Rolls-Royce of a centre half at this level' etc. The fact Ipswich and Hull were dreadful didn't seem to come into it. Alas, it seems Mowbray fell for it too...

This Waggott - Pasha - Owners dynamic seems very dysfunctional to me.

‘Experience and age improves players’. Yes, however for young players that often isn’t the case as they never kick on from their initial potential for a variety of reasons. Tomlinson a perfect example. That is why we cannot have another window like last summer where it is mainly just young players being brought in.

Always much lower actual crowds midweek, though the red button has exacerbated it. However, generally what did they actually expect crowds wise? We’ve now around 10,000 season ticket holders, which is at the higher end of sales since 2012, even though they are now considerably more expensive. Personally I think crowds have held up very well considering. We are a lower mid table side in the second division and we’ve suffered a near decade of stagnation, what are they seriously expecting? Nothing has improved on the pitch and in league position in those years, so why should crowds? Especially when there is little in the way of enticing offers, we are consistently months behind pretty much every club getting season tickets on sale and Ewood is a third rate experience that can’t even hold a candle to Accrington fecking Stanley! Frightening how out of touch they are.

Problem with Mowbray is, in my view, he does has an idealised system of playing in his head but either he doesn’t bring in the right players to fit the system or the ones that do fit he doesn’t trust them. So we just end up as a brittle, cautious mess with little discernible style of play. He likes ‘ball playing centre halves’, but instead of bringing in actual centre halves that can play a bit, he plays converted, weak and/or slow midfielders back there that have little defensive nous. Or he brings in the likes of Rothwell and a plethora of ‘number 10s’, but bottles their selection time and again, so back in goes the likes of Smallwood and Conway. Its obviously becoming a pattern with him, wherever he is.

We looked a decent attackibg threat yesterday, largely due to the interplay between Dack and Rothwell.

The Rothwell part was just unnecessary. All he needed to say: ‘Work in progress. Lots he needs to work on, but loads of talent’ etc etc. Just leave it there, the ‘little boy’ stuff, when you have a defence that doesn’t tackle or head a ball was below the belt for me.

Let’s hope it’s largely incentive/performance based.