12 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

absolutely the right thing to do,thats why it won`t happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!never known swag to do anything of use or for the good of the club,no reason to think it will change

It's has changed for various reasons already posted and in the public domain. 

They should have been on sale weeks ago

17 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

er,probably because he`ll earn a ****load of money😁

But no football played. Pickford will always be first choice

Playing regular first team football at his age is what he will want surely

7 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

Presumably that will be a no brainer for a number of other clubs as well ? Rumours on the Rotherham fans website of him going to Everton as the back up to Pickford.

Down to Rovers to beat them to the sign him. 

Why would he go to Everton as s back up to England number 1 Pickford? Pointless move for me. 

My first choice to sign as new number 1 keeper would be Viktor Johansson at Rotherham. Has a clause in his contract of £1m this summer and for me it is no brainer not to go and sign the player. 

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one thing that Elliott Jackson mentions in his weekly podcast Arte Le Labore, is he doesn't think Eustace rates his attacking options beyond the main 4 in Hedges, Dolan, Szmodics and Gallagher(Maybe Sigurdsson but with him being injured we don't know) and that why he changes formation when one of those isn't available. I think it was interesting point made and one that @arbitro has made also that our best performance apart from Leeds away and Stoke at home have been 4-2-3-1 formation like Ipswich and Southampton at home, Sunderland and Boro away. 

He has to go 4-2-3-1 formation on Saturday. 

Rovers have to lower the prices this coming season with the new TV deal coming which the EFL wanted more money from TV revenue. Games will be moved to a number of different kick offs from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Rovers should charged £199 for Riverside, £249 for BBE and lower JW, £280 for JW upper wing and £330 for JW upper centre

I think Rovers also need to look at match day prices policy where you need to make attractive for walk on fans to attend also. £10 for midweek games, £15 to £20 for weekend games 

I hope Rovers actually serious think about this cos some people won't be attend to every game due to work or family commitments was kick offs changing. 

On 23/04/2024 at 09:40, Exiled_Rover said:

We signed 3 CBs in January and JDT ran us out in a 4-2-3-1 against QPR....

agreed. I think 4-2-3-1 formation is our best formation with 5-2-3 formation being our second formation

49 minutes ago, arbitro said:

A really entertaining match tonight at Ewood as the under 21's came back from two goals to draw and for long periods in the second half looked like we were going to win. Sheron played three centre backs with in Whitehall, Gamble and Batty but it was the wing backs who really excelled. Cirino and Duru were great examples of how to play that position and the forward runs they consistently made were a real strong point for us tonight. I have said for a few months now that Duru has been excellent for six months and in my view he should at the very least be in the first team match day squad. 

Was Eustace there watching the game? 

49 minutes ago, arbitro said:

These games are free for season ticket holders and in the past I have just scanned my season card and gone in as I would for a first team match. Tonight everyone had to go to the ticket office, show your season card and get given a paper ticket. In light of the reasons for the farcical Digital Day and the EFL Environmental Award how does that make any sense. Another day in the crazy world of Blackburn Rovers.

100% agree

2 hours ago, scotchrover said:

On that last point- I sat in the JW stand for the game against Preston, early on in the season. We were slightly closer to the PNE fans, and they drowned out the home fans  I couldn’t hear the Blackburn End, where my season ticket is.

It needs looking at. We simply roll over for any club willing to fill the Darwen End, and let them turn it into a home game, because they’ve fans happy to pay £X. It’s nothing shorting embarrassing if truth be told.

Ewood should be a fortress and because of that, the Darwen End upstairs only should be the only part being used to house away fans. 

 

I understand your point but surely that is down to the home support to be more vocal but the club should be focusing on filling the home sections by having sensible and cheaper ST and match day prices policies. Have a singing area for fans like NO1 and NO5 area 

I wouldn't put the away fans in Darwen end upper tier. 

2 hours ago, JHRover said:

Playing at home with 7000+ away fans behind one goal filling 25% of the stadium isn't normal. That's the point. Nobody else does it. It's not just a run of the mill situation that players are used to dealing with every week.

So it's likely when we do it is going to have some sort of effect.

We've a young, weak and inexperienced group. Sheffield Wednesday are at the opposite end of that scale. I'd wager the younger ones would struggle more than the experienced ones in such circumstances.

Like I said previously, if Pears can't cope with having full stand of away fans being him then how did he cope against Leeds away or Newcastle at home in the cup. 

Young and inexperience group? really? 

Pears 25, Hyam 28, Wharton 26, Carter 24, Brittain 26, JRC 24 Tronstad 28, Pickering 25, Dolan 22, Szmodics 28 Gallagher 28

That is hardly a young or inexperience group is it. Younger player there is Dolan who has 161 apps for us. 

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Dismissing any thoughts of reinvesting as fantasy land stuff. We can get worse, simply because of the cuts. Telalovic, Ennis and Hirst have all been worse in the last 2 years. Thats the standard we are working with.

I have always said that Gallagher simply is not very good at anticipating chances. Thats the main reason why his goal tally is never going to be near the top of the league, he doesnt have that instinct and never will be. Offers other things but is simply not a natural goalscorer.

That being said, under Eustace he like every other attacker is hindered more than ever. There is absolutely no sign of an attacking game plan. He often spends much of the game wide and the tactic of centre backs whacking it aimlessly in the channels just has him running after the ball with the defender naturally ahead of him. He wins throw ins and the odd corner which is all he can really do in that situation but its just not going to lead to him doing anything constructive.

yet Ipswich wanted Gallagher in January and they already Hirst who proved his worth to them in the first half of the season. Hirst just didn't work out here sadly but he has been a big role in Ipswich success since joining them

6 hours ago, arbitro said:

He probably will but he wasn't signed to play for the under 21's. We signed three centre halves in January and between them they probably haven't reached double figures in first team appearances.

Yes we did, but JDT wanted more centre backs so he could go 3 at the back. 

I want to see more O'Riordan and I thought he would have been on the bench ahead of the Liverpool loanee. 

5 hours ago, Penwortham Blue said:

A friend of mine who is a big Newport County fan and very knowledgeable, sent me a text when we had signed O’Riordan saying he was a very good player. Obviously, we have barely seen him in a Blue and white shirt yet but he has certainly picked him as one for the future.

Just after he signed here, Gary Bowyer was on Radio Lancs singing O'Riordan praises and said we got a good player here. 

8 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

I guess the argument is less that the replacement would be ineffective, but more that he wouldn't have been replaced at all.

I don't know what happened to Harry Leonard, but he'd have got a couple in the last month I'd have thought. 

Leonard is injured 

2 hours ago, DuffsLeftPeg said:

It’s completely different and you know it.

We set up to defend against Leeds, rode our luck and came away with an excellent win. But to try and do the same against 2nd bottom of the league playing at home with 7k+ fans backing them is just ridiculous.

Compound that with our “senior” players and captain making repeated & basic mistakes yet still being an automatic pick in the first team, it’s football suicide.

Just excuses from yourself in my opinion. No different for me

2 hours ago, ABBEY said:

Bollix 

All posted on here, used the search function on the site to find it but you won't cos you know you wrong, so I will do it for you

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1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Its a completely different scenario Chaddy. You can't simply say that because we won an away game that there is no issue in giving away teams vast allocations at Ewood.

You go away to Arsenal, Liverpool, United in the Cup and play infront of 60-70,000 you expect your team to rise to the occasion.

It is completely different to hand over 1/4 of your stadium to the away team, who are in a must-win situation, and have them making all the noise. The Ewood atmosphere is poor at the best of times.

There's an age old concept in football of 'home advantage'. It is why teams since Victorian times have preferred playing on their own ground rather than going away. It is partly, though not wholly, because they prefer being surrounded by their own fans backing them whereas the away team is having to play with a small number of their fans.

Yesterday home advantage went out of the window from where I was sat. It was a decent atmosphere yes, but the Wednesday fans made a huge amount of noise and I am sure that the Pears calamity show in the second half was at least partly brought about by jitters from having their fans right behind him.

Control the controllables. We can't control what goes on at Leeds or Leicester, but we can control what goes on at Ewood and make sure in must not lose games we aren't giving the opposition any advantage whatsoever.

just excuses after excuses. There were 7k Sheff Wed fans. That it. How did they ever make it professional if they can't play in front one full stand of away fans. FFS 

2 hours ago, smiller14 said:

Quick question Chaddy - at 3-1 down, would you have sacrificed a defender for a more attacking player or were you happy with our attacking play and continued with 5 in defence? And if so, would you have waited until an injury in the 75th minute to make said change? 

as I said yesterday in the match thread, I felt Eustace was too slow with making his changes and his triple subs far too late. 

When we went behind at 2-1 I said to the person I go with I would have made a triple sub changed which would have been Chrisene, Buckley and Moran for Pickering, Tronstad and Wharton. and go 4-2-3-1 

2 hours ago, ABBEY said:

1-3 against a bottom 3 side and we rolled over and it don't rank with all time worst..really ?

going OTT yet again in typical Abbey style as per usual after a defeat. No one near rank all time worst. 

1 hour ago, ruggles1995 said:

The only player I think we can maybe chuck in at some stage that we just might get something out of would be Gilsenan, not saying hes the answer, but hes someone with something to prove, and has at least shown glimpses. Id for one shove that player in the starting 11 at home to cov. 

Gilsenan is injured so he won't be playing 

30 minutes ago, arbitro said:

And yet he is on the bench ahead of O'Riordan. In truth both have been signings which have offered nothing with one of them costing a reported £500k. Once again questions have to be asked about recruitment.

won't O'Riordan be playing tonight? 

1 hour ago, ABBEY said:

stop playing him wide and play him in ther middle , only last we scored off this .

He doesn't play wide, he plays part of front and each of the front 3 in changed positions 

1 hour ago, smiller14 said:

It felt negative given we had 1, maybe 2 shots on target. 5 at the back is much more suited to when we expect to surrender possession, but yesterday played perfectly into their hands. 

We had 3 shots on target yesterday. 

Which defender would you drop for another forward or midfielder? 

1 hour ago, ABBEY said:

NEXT SEASON?????? NEXT SEASON??? WORDS FAIL ME WHAT ABOUT ERM THIS SEASON... WHY DO YOU GET OFF ON WINDING FANS UP AFTER ONE THE WORST SHOWINGS OF OUR HISTORY

Its you winding yourself your self up Abbey, not me. 

Yesterday wasn't one of our worst showing of club history, Stop going OTT after a defeat. 

31 minutes ago, arbitro said:

It was absolutely a back five with the sole purpose of keeping a clean sheet. He has set up this way in most of his matches so far and it simply puts us in defensive mode. It worked really well at Leeds and was the main reason we won. It's horses for courses though and against the likes of Plymouth, Millwall and Sheffield Wednesday at home we should play a more attacking formation with an extra midfield player. In two really good performances at Middlesbrough and home to Southampton we played a four at the back and kept clean sheets. In my view it was because we had the numbers in midfield to stop them playing. 

It shows a real fear and lack of tactical acumen from Eustace. One of the criticisms of Tomasson was that he was one dimensional, had no plan B. Eustace is pretty much the same.

Who would you drop for extra midfielder or attacking player? 

1 hour ago, ABBEY said:

You don't need to, you defend every action he takes , like a pubescent teenage swifty.

It's embarrassing,  even I'm embarrassed that you ain't embarrassed for yourself.

Leeds we defended staunchly and got lucky but it worked. 

Yesterday was soft , hard arsed coward tactics. FFS

wrong again Abbey. 

I have said our season ticket prices and match day prices are wrong and should be lower and Rovers focus should be filling Ewood Park with home fans, said the food options within Ewood Park isn't good enough, slammed Waggott and the Club Secretary for the 3 failed transfer deadline signings. 

So your comment I defend the every action he takes is bollocks and wrong. 

1 hour ago, DuffsLeftPeg said:

You’re deluded beyond belief Chaddy lad if you think having 7k fans cheering you on making it like a home game or FA Cup tie plays no part in winning a game

Stop making excuses for our shambles of a club. It’s not optimism, it’s toxic positivity and it just pisses people off

So why did we win at Leeds in front of 37k fans? 

53 minutes ago, Groundhog said:

I just can't believe we didn't offer any incentive for the home fans for this game to counterbalance offering the whole Darwen End to one of our biggest relegation rivals - kids for a quid etc - just proof no one in charge at Ewood prioritises the support.

For all those saying "the crowd doesn't matter" - where you there at Ewood on Saturday? When you have L1 level players like ours who crack at the merest hint of pressure, at home, trying to force the issue in a game against a team fighting for their lives. They literally sucked the ball in to make it 3-1 FFS! 🤣 (sorry trying to see the light side, it's hard)

Didn't Rovers offer free kids tickets with adult ticket bought or ST holder? 

also didn't play on Sunday not Saturday? 

53 minutes ago, Groundhog said:

Comparing 7k away fans to 37k home fans at Leeds away isn't the same thing - it was a magnificent performance but it was a free hit, almost no pressure, no expectation and we grew into the game from a confidence point of view, a backs-against-the-wall performance when no one expects anything is a different kind of approach mentally and tactically compared to trying to force the impetus against a stubborn, determined opponent at home who are willing to scrap.

 

Leeds game wasn't it free hit either

7 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Difference being JDT had spells where he won a few. 

and plenty we lost aswell with him here. 

We seem to be better team when we have less possession. 

As my original point was we have decide what type of team we want to be next season and whether we become more of counter attacking team or possession based team or wing based team 

1 minute ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

And on a Waggott topic no less.

I haven't mentioned Waggott in posts or whether it was right to sell 7k fans to Sheffield Wednesday but commented that them having 7k fans at Ewood Park played zero part in our losing that game?

3 minutes ago, Hasta said:

That second half was a party atmosphere for their fans. They roared their team to a massive victory. Best fans at Ewood all season, including Leeds and the Geordies.

Woah, I heard it all now. 

3 minutes ago, Hasta said:

If Waggot doesn't open the whole tier for Coventry (which I'm not sure he will now) it will be a massive admission he fucked up by giving Wednesday the whole Darwen End.

as me and others said it played no part. Just people looking for excuses and if they can't play in front on 7k away fans then how did they play at Elland Road in front of 37k and win there then? 

3 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Still, he serves nice coffee and scones I've heard.

does he? tell me more please? where they Fruit scones or butter scones or cherry scones? was Jam and Clotted cream served with them?

14 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

Only chaddy can defend the fat greasy maggot.  Maggot turned it into weds cup final and they rose to a man , f me one of there players said it felt like a home game.  Didn't effect them ? Jhc did you not see pears turn to mush ffs

 

CHRIST CHADDY FANS ARE HURTING STOP WINDING US UP FOR YOUR KLEENEX BOX

I haven't mentioned Waggott once in my post Abbey. 

of course the Sheffield Wednesday player would say that, 

So if it affect them yesterday then how do you explaining winning at Leeds in front of 37k fans or Sunderland then if they aren't play in front of 7k sheff wed fans FFS? 

6 minutes ago, Hasta said:

So you are saying in the 5 games we have dominated the ball, we have gained only 2 points and have a -8 goal difference.

More damning stats against the manager.

It been problem all season tbh. Here are some examples for you

Under JDT we had over 50% possession in games and lost like QPR at home, WBA away, Hull away, Huddersfield away, Watford at home, Sheffield away, PNE at home

draw like Huddersfield at home, Rotherham at home, 

won at Stoke away with less 50%, Norwich away.

won at home to Bristol City, Birmingham at home with more than 50%

11 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

Erm totally negative set up at home against a bottom 3 team  .

2 goals down and left a striker on the bench and played tippy  tappy  , settling to keep it for some strange reason at 2 down instead of going for it .

Insisting on keeping gally on the wing . 

Playing a back 3 at home isn't negative is it

Gallagher doesn't play on the wing but part of front 3 and they interchange positions. 

7 minutes ago, Hasta said:

I wasn't actually arguing with you, but as you seem to be spoiling for a fight then no, they werent quiet for "most of the game."

Look at the times of the goals, look at the amount of time played and do the maths.

 

I stand by my point and ain't arguing with you cos its pointless. 

and the it was 54 minutes by the way. Majority of the game. After we scored the atmosphere was quiet for rest of the 1st half.