55 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

The money men beat the money men. 

I am not so sure you could call the Liverpool subs money men.

As a football fan it gave me enormous pleasure to see very inexperienced players lifting that trophy. Very much down to an extraordinary manager. As someone said, not many managers love their players. Klopp loves his players. 

I may be wrong but I am getting the feeling that Eustace has a deeper bond with the players than JDT did. He seemed more aloof and was more concerned about his own career path. 

What I do know is that money can’t buy a thriving and positive culture in a football club or any organization.

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Pears and the centre backs don't pass around at the back but clear the lines and kick more cos we don't want to take much risk at the back and we set up more pragmatic now whilst playing some decent stuff. 

Set Plays are put into the box and yesterday we show we can score goals from them. 

We didn't do play hoofball as the poster said but we sometimes play balls down the sides of the centre back which turns their defenders and then pushes them back creating spaces for our attacking players. 

I was massive fan of JDT but to be honest, it had reach the end cos he didn't want to be here anymore, Its seems like the players lost confidence in him and maybe him in them. 

I do think he would have taken us to PL if he had been backed in the summer and I was disappointed he wasn't. 

I wish him well in the future. 

And Harvey Elliott lifts the Carabao cup.

The kids beat the money men. Building a team of youngsters that can win is a good strategy.

But you need a big Mac or Van Dijyk at the back to give confidence. 

Eustace has to get the best out of our youngsters by building the confidence again and getting the senior players hungry again. 

I think he can do it once we are out of the brown stuff. 

3 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Good point and clean sheet in the circumstances.

Only real positives were the defence, particularly McFadz, all looking good, and Pears very steady. And Buckley was miles better than anyone else on the pitch on either side when he came on.

Negatives were how rubbish every forward and midfield player was except Tronstad and Buckley. Really really really poor. We're not going to commit many players forward so if we want chances and goals its all about individual ability and there wasnt any really. Probably Szmodics worst ever game for us.

I am sure Buckley is delighted to be back under a new manager. A chance to prove himself. 

Lets get a couple more to relax the nerves. Old guys leaving the boot worries me. Don’t need 10 men on a day like this. 

Adam really has jumped from the frying pan into the fire. He is letting his  football do the talking but it must be hard adjusting to life down south with the spectre of his admirer about to get the chop. 

I guess it is handy to have first-hand  experience of a shit show. 

What a difference a day makes. Thank God we were not waiting weeks for a new manager. 

I am hopeful about the Eustace appointment. He knows where the bodies are buried in this league. I think he can get a tune out of our team and nice to have a big Mac with an appetite, in defence. 

So on to the Big Club with two managers desperate to stick one on their former employers who binned them. 

8 minutes ago, Sutton blue said:

I'm a Birmingham fan but please be gentle! Any new appointment is a gamble especially with the shit owners you have. Eustace was in a similar situation at our club and this seemed to work in his favour. He created a type of siege mentality us against the world amongst the players and the fans. The players would run through brick walls for him and we fans appreciated their hard work and attitude. And his reputation as a defensive minder manager is a bit unfair, because we played some decent football at times. What he is good at is getting a team well organised and first and foremost making them hard to score against. Get the defending right and build on that to start playing good football. We were gutted when he was sacked. In his previous season he had stabilised a team which had been a shambles and kept us up with games to spare, and this season, following some low budget summer signings we were in 6th place after 10 games. I really hope he does well with you (after Tuesday obviously) and I think you could have done far worse. I wish he was still our manager to be honest, especially as we have much better owners now.

Welcome to the Forum. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully he will deliver on your comments. We certainly need tightening our defence.  

The king is dead long live the king. 

JDT was angling for a clean exit with his brand intact. He has achieved that. 

Eustace managed to get the big club up the table before their visionary owners potted him for Rooney. 

All i want is a solid manager to get us playing gritty  championship football, stop us titting around at the back, and get us a few points on the board. 

Starting today. 

23 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

I'm sort of expecting a managerial out and in today plus a reinforcement of the "atmosphere" line by a senior player, the loanees did their task yesterday.

Wouldn’t it be revolutionary if the players came out smelling blood and won 4-0. Then all pull up their shirts at the end and underneath it says “This was for the fans. “

Own it lads. You are the badge on the park. 

12 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

venkys to veto jdt sacking and eustace to be paraded at press conference on the same day😁jdt to sneak into the media room and claims he`s staying,you know it`s rovers anything can happen!!!!!!!!!

Waggott was due to sign JDT exit terms but pushed shred instead?

1 hour ago, miqaayil said:

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/update-emerges-on-jon-dahl-tomassons-situation-at-blackburn-rovers-after-press-conference-absence/

 

Hmm right after a successful (ahem ahem) window 

I wonder wherher the disharmony is a result of our current league position. The beautiful football may have lost its allure upstairs as we wander into relegation land.

The infusion of a couple of experienced hard bastards will hopefully shore up the defence. It certainly won’t lend itself to playing out from the back. 

Maybe an end to the Scandinavian imports and back to a more direct approach?  It works for some of the Premier top teams. 

25 minutes ago, Andy said:

Agree with this.

It was far from a 10/10 window, but there are some obviously exaggerated reactions.

But you have to bear in mind that this community seems to have a disproportionate negative outlook as opposed to the wider fan base (rightly or wrongly).

The lad from Crewe does look a prospect and the American boy is intriguing as well.

As for the rest, well we certainly added experience and some numbers, so let’s see how it all pans out.

Nothing has changed my mind that we’ll be closer to the top 6 than the bottom 6 in May (10 points and a game in hand on 6th at the time of writing - even after a horror run of form).

The worry will be what happens in the summer, with owners/funding/etc, but we’ll have to cross that bridge when we get to it.

I agree with your agreement😀

At one stage I really thought that it would be Adam out and Big Mc in.  I really didn’t think we would get the American lad. 

Why I am excited about having  McGuire in is that I live in the States. The number of fans who will start following Blackburn and researching our heritage will be great. When I wear my Rovers shirt around people will recognize it. The standard is nowhere near Championship level. I watch Philadelphia Union, but there are some very good players knocking around. 

I think we have recruited players oven ready for the championship. We need that. We also kept Gallagher and he will want to prove  himself to us or anyone else watching. 

Apparently Orlando have announced his loan to us. 

Hope it is not a Mickey Mouse announcement

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/orlando-city-transfer-duncan-mcguire-to-blackburn-rovers

🐭

1 minute ago, yankfan said:

Is it too late to submit the O’Brian paperwork? 

Nah. we have until 11.04 Thursday for the Bush Telegraph to let us down again. 

25 minutes ago, philipl said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24084595.bolton-boss-provides-update-pursuit-blackburn-striker/

Bolton confirm they are chasing Ennis

 

Fat chance of that happening 😳

8 hours ago, RainInJuly said:

Completely outclassed us after our short spell of dominance. That second goes in who knows might have been a different game but I still think you’d have gone on to score 4. 
 

Nowhere near at the races today but as someone’s said the gulf is massive, very much a championship v league 2 side today, Szmodics is different gravy but I’m sure you’re well aware of that. Lot of work to do if we manage to go up. 
 

Nice to visit the ground, just a shame it wasn’t a weekend but hopefully we’ll be back in the not too distant future. Good luck for the rest of the season and welcoming 7k Geordies, hopefully they have better luck with the turnstiles than we did. 

Good luck for the rest of your season. Love your story and delighted Wrexham is on the up and up again.

Good for football and good for your community. We remember the joy of a visionary owner with money. Enloy every minute of it. 

Funny old game and Important win for us  

Wrexham’s second attempt goes in and we are in danger of becoming cup history and JDT under real pressure.

It all turned out rather nicely  

Important few days  I think Adam is gone but anyone thinking of joining us would relish a home tie in the so called “Shearer derby.”

I worry that our intrepid recruitment team given sudden riches will bottle it at the death.

They are just not used to this level of wheeling and dealing, not to mention having to do it before the owners bed time.

39 minutes ago, Neal said:

Have JRC back is massive. Lad so fecking strong, a reader for us. Qualities that we've lacked this season.

 

Personally think Moran is d*shit. I don't see what he offers at all. I'd like to see that right hand side come back that looks so good against Norwich away, with JRC and Brittain on that side overlapping each other and covering each other... Sit Moran out. 

 

Liked the brief look at Atcheson, big lad, good on the ball, looks like our next best thing from the academy. 

And some folks thought he was crap at one stage and he was about to be shipped out on loan. 

52 minutes ago, deanives said:

Has anyone mentioned about what sigurdsson actually brings to the team? He doesn't seem to bring anything that we actually need, like he did when he first came into the team

i saw him a few times totally unmarked and nobody passed to him. I agree with those who feel he is a better #10

Goodbye Ipswich interest in Gallagher. Same old model. Ask too much.  

https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2024/january/29/town-sign-striker-al-hamadi-from-AFC-Wimbledon/

13 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

Well, after Maidstone's heroics at Ipswich yesterday, the pressure certainly ramps up a fair bit on little old Rovers to perform against the mighty erm... Wrexham of League Two, who are only 31 places below us in the football pyramid. They are scoring well and not conceding (54 for, 37 against) in the league at least and only the most insular and blinkered footie fan would discount the momentum and positive feeling they've built from being picked up by Hollywood. With a (relatively) large and likely vocal support at Ewood, all concentrated behind the goals they are likely to sound more like the home club than Rovers are, so there is potentially a psychological advantage to them from the start.

What Rovers need is a steady hand, the confidence to weather any early nerves and to focus on doing the things we know how to do well. Then of course a big slice of the rub of the green, and someone (anyone!) to step up and deliver the goods in front of goal (theirs and ours!). I don't rule out the possibility of a reverse, a cup shock, a shameful defeat - it's football and on the day anything can happen. But it is just one game and we will move on whatever the result.

Fair play to the more sensible / level headed Wrexham fans who have posted on here in the last couple of weeks - remember how it felt when we had Uncle Jack at our backs? That feeling of magic happening, and an almost invincible air? Being a supporter of a club that is on the ascendancy after years of being in the doldrums is a bit like being in love for the first time - you can't quite believe your luck, and it makes you forget that life might still be a bit shitty for everyone else 😉 

So, it is going to be a challenge - their set piece plays and battering ram forwards might well hole us below the waterline. But we are Blackburn Rovers and we too can deliver a smile to our supporters' careworn faces - especially in Cup competitions like this.

I can't imagine it will be a walk in the (Ewood) park, but at least it won't be boring to watch (like Fulham v Newcastle last evening, which was as turgid an affair as has been on the telly for many a year).

C'mon you Blues! Into Round 5 let's cruise!

Excellent summary. From one old codger to another. 

1 minute ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Result at Ipswich shows exactly how difficult this game is going to be - Especially with their support.

Never a truer word.  Wrexham fans are hard core dedicated and the reality TV world will be praying for a Wrexham upset.

Not a night for pretty football as Ipswich found out. Maidstone had two chances and two goals. 

Even Liverpool and Man City were hoofing  the ball over the defence last night. 

30 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

Come on Rovers (i.e. FWaggot and Baldy enthusiastic guy) get a wiggle on and do some sodding deals. How hard can it be to pick up the phone, tell them what you want (for outgoings) what you'll pay (for incomings) and let them speak?

Get a move on. It is the end of January next week.

If someone (Ipswich for example) wants one of our players, write the number on a piece of paper, then read out what it says - whilst speaking to your counterpart at the Ipswich / Palace end upon the tellingtonphone. Then send them a WhatsApp pic of your genitals, followed by a dark message that there will be more of that sort of thing if they don't get their fingers out. Should move things on nicely.

For incoming players, it works like this. You ask your well connected scouting network to identify some options. You pick up the phone to their current club and tell them that if they don't sell said option(s) to us for a knock-down-knacker price in the next nano-second, their WhatsApp accounts will be receiving unphotoshopped and very graphic anatomical offerings in large volume and high digital fidelity, until they see sense and let us have their player for thruppence ha'penny.

Sorted.

Sorry for the lesson in how to do business like a football god. I'm just a bit bored with all this waiting around for something to happen 😞

I daren’t disagree in case i get a bulging inbox to coin a phrase. 😳

4 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Ex Burnley 

At this stage I would take ex San Quentin. 

kind of on topic. Harvey Elliott blossomed with us. He is a joy to watch. Especially tonight. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13002533/Ratings-Luis-Diaz-Liverpool-Harvey-Elliott-Fulham.html