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  1. And Sky Sports news was running the commercial for the film 'The Firm' in the ad breaks between reporting the violence at Upton Park.
  2. I for one would not advocate Hughes being dismissed. Football is a short term, fast paced, quick changing environment and not many stay fresh over the long course. For every Alex Ferguson there are 99 Brian Kidds who can wreck a club in a short period. Everthing should be open to analysis. I agree with what has been said. Hughes' biggest success has been position quid pro quo spending. He has worked miracles. I think most people agree he has shipped out lesser players and brought in not just better ones, but good one's for little (and probably smaller wages too). Critisism where it is due is fine and I think there are some points that Hughes needs to address. He has mishandled his squad this season. There is clearly now a huge crises of confidence, so many players underperforming. The pack has been shuffled too often. Even at PNE in preseason it was clear to see Hughes was unhapy with the midfield and had pencilled Bentley in to play at least three roles. Striker, wide right midfield banging in crosses, and a floating midfielder linking midfield and attack. Tinkering has also gone in in defence. We have not had a settled team despite Hughes having assembled our best squad in ages. Like the fans, you sense the players feel frustrated that out of form players are playing and those not playing, aren't getting a fair chance. Rather than play like a confident team, we are playing like a bunch of misfits who don't believe in themselves or each other. The work rate has dropped alarmingly, the crisp give and go's dried up, the movement almost obsolete. It is like a cancer. Hughes failed to nip it in the bud back in Autumn, and it now appears to have spread to everyone. Players are slapping in transfer requests, showing open desent at being subbed, storming off down the tunnel and players on TV are not giving Hughes/the club 100% commitment. Lack of confidence is so endemic at the moment Hughes doen't even have any options in reserves now. It is only my own observation, but I felt the away game in Larrisa against a poor side was hugely damaging. PLayers like Europe. Clubs may not but players do. Larrisa are poor. Hughes shuffled the pack again, playing a tactically naive formation. That was the game where doubts in players minds started for me. We then had four games that got away from us where we should have got the right result. Larrisa home, Portsmouth home, Fulham away where refeering decisions where bad and Aston Villa at home where we were magnificent for the 35minutes, until they scored against the run of play, and we eneded up losing 4-0. Hughes seems to be similar to most managers and reminds me of Souness. He must hear some of the constructive points by reasonable fans, see the poor performances. However he has huge self belief (and cloth ears as my gran would say!). He seems to want to accentuate the positives after every game, but you wonder if he is ignoring areas where improvements can be made. My worry is players pretty much think the same as (reasonable) fans when you speak to them in private and you can see this accumalation of events that creates the lack of confidence that exists. I think it's tin hats time. Hatches battened. Back to hard work and graft. Fancy dans out. Pack the problemaic midfield. Dunn one player who has played all season with as much passion as any other player should be one of the first names on the team sheet. The next bg decision is lack of leadership. I would rest Nelsen, clearly unfit from his previous injury and give Dunn the captaincy. A bit of local Blackburn pride, a willingness to bust a gut and lead by example is needed. Whilst not Ouijar's biggets fan, he needs to be given a run and told so, told to lead/capain as well. Emerton needs to move into midfield to play the Savage role. Running chasing. He is one of our fittest players. Peds needs to rested. Bentley is an automatic and whilst a critique of Tugs, I would like to see him in a four man passing midfield with Emo. We need to have a midfield where players believe once again they can pass to a team mate AND have a chance of getting it back. Set pieces have been poor. Again Dunn probably delivers the best set pieces/crosses/corners of the current crop. THe one player I would keep in is Benni. IN the end we have to start thinking about scrapping rather than playing.
  3. I think everyone knew Steve McClaren was a bad manager. Loads of money at Boro he managed to take the club backwards getting a deserved 4-0 thrashing by Seville in the UEFA Cup final having been outplayed in Quarters and Semi. This UEFA Cup ‘success’, the fact he is English and was an insider as asssitant, what poor qualifications for the job. The FA should resign. I have never been a Harry Redknapp fan and it’s hard to see me liking a bloke who always seems dodgy. However we go for coaches with a ‘safe pair of hands’ and achieve little. Redknapp is a people motivator and gets the best out of what he has. Keegan was appointed likewise and failed so there are huge question marks in a desperatley poor field of candidates. My choice, though they seem unlikely to want to accept if what has been said is correct, would be Mourinho and unfortnately our own Mark Hughes. Sparky would be the best man for the job and would lead Engalnd to success. I thik all Rovers fans know how good he is...
  4. Lampard is a decent player but I think he has performed poorly at International level and apart form goals he is a big minus against the better teams because he gives it away to often and thinks he has a 'free' role'. All this is to the detriment of the team as everyone has to be accomodated, either out of position or on the bench. Barry has done well, as well if not better than Gerrard, lets look to the future. McClaren is a poor manager with no vision.
  5. This Song - The Enemy. Half the kids who you grew up with, Were pushin prams by the time that they were just sixteen, If love is a drug then where is the cure, For the girl who used to talk to you about her dream. And all the boys with all their toys, Couldnt see the signs as we scortched out eyes with nicotine, And the grown ups said, listen to your head, But our hearts were crying out for heroes on TV screens. Now this song is about you, Now this song is about... Changes in your mind, Changes in your life, Changes in the times, And the reason you can't sleep at night, Changes in your mind, Changes in your life, Changes in the times, And the reason you gave up the fight. Half the kids that arnt pushing prams, Are pushing pills to boys and girls who are half their age And the pubs and clubs are full of drunks, They dont remember the day the were born or even their mum or the names. An old man sings a tune but hes drowned out by a fight next to a fruit machine. And all of this, our hearts, our nation, A total lack of civilization, Will it ever be the same? Now this song is about you, Now this song is about... Changes in your mind, Changes in our lives, Changes in the times, And the reason you we cant sleep at night, Changes in our mind, Changes in our lives, Changes in the times, And the reason we gave up the fight. Now this song....is about, is about, is about you, Now this song....is about, is about, is about you, Now this song....is about, is about, is about you, Now this song....is about, is about, is about you
  6. Does anyone know where TV coverage of these games could be found. Are there Rovers fans out there that collect old videos??
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