34 minutes ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

Has JDT or anyone given an explanation as to why Szmodics wasn't in the squad today?

Genuine question. I've been away most of the day.

I was told just before Xmas that Szmodics was on the Ipswich radar, now this week  Gallagher is on it..

Travis is all ready there , something is happening ! 

Just now, RevidgeBlue said:

Who the hell is going to take Ennis on?

Clitheroe ?

44 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Always a danger of papering over the cracks.

Give JDT the Huddersfield game, we scrape a win and then what next?

My reading of the situation - JDT's relationship is fractured beyond repair with Waggott and most probably Broughton.  JDT's decision making now reeks of stubbornness  resentment and anger though couched in his affable way.

Think the relationship between JDT and players has also gone.  The fight on the field has gone.

This can only end one way.

IMO, our owners, Waggott and Broughton have made a real pig's ear of this and that is where the blame lies.

I don't think the players have ever been too happy with JDT !

2 hours ago, onlyoneDuff said:

Hyam and Brittain are not up for a relegation battle...seem I remember the Barnsley fans saying the same about Callum...absolutely no will to win the ball by either of them and Dom seemed to lose every aerial duel without making contact. I though Walton was the worst GK in the last 20 years but Leo needs to be shipped out...take the financial loss but get him off the books....only one who gets any credit is Garrett who ran all day long

Spot on Garrett was the only player ,worthy of wearing the shirt an excellent goal as well ..

Even managed to upset the Albion fans !

Leo is the worst goalkeeper that's played more than 5 or 6  games I have ever seen ..

Starting with Blacklaw and Barton many years ago ! 

I heard Kaminski was there today ,I shudder too think what he thought about it !

2 hours ago, BigBar said:

Anyone calling for the manager out be careful because soon the pro Tomasson crew will appear and absolve him of all blame. Normally happens after full time.

Injuries, owners, the weather, conspiracy, referees, whatever the case we are lucky to have him apparently. He is fat too naive even getting dealt a poor hand you really want more and a smarter approach. Shit owners and a limited/naive manager aren't mutually exclusive. You can have both.

Lucky to have him !!

Plenty of dissenting voices around me this afternoon...

A continuation of this playing out from the back tactics will relegated us....Defenders defend !

The goalkeeper is total liability and doesn't help .....

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

JDT got Rovers our best ever league finish in the league since our relegation

Kompany got Burnley promoted last season , so what ...He has too go !

Please please someone get hold of Neil Warnock, cos we are going down....

Simon Garner was a better goalie than Leo...

10 hours ago, tomphil said:

There have a lot of things refreshing about JDT he's brave, bold, positive without being deluded and not the least bit patronising.

He even apologies when it's shite although in a way that swerves his own accountability but it's at least halfway there, Yes there are frustrations to the way he works and still a lot of imo naivety though some would say stubbornness. We can actually see what he is trying to do even if we sometimes feel it isn't always the right way to go about it in certain games.

We've not been able to say that for a long time he isn't a preserve my job pick my mates and mates players kind of guy, he clearly doesn't want his feet under the table here being patted on the head.

He wants to actually do something but he couldn't have picked a worse set of ambitionless gravy train riding bosses to do it for.

Your last paragraph sums up the BRFC hierarchy perfectly....

When I look back over the last 12 years , it appears obvious too me that Bowyer completely wasted our best chance of promotion, the players were there but unfortunately the manager wasn't up to it..

Mowbray in the COVID season wasn't far behind.Think he would have been sacked if the fans had been able to watch that season...

1 hour ago, gazza1981 said:

When Moran gets his physical strength up . How far do you think he can go in the game?. His coach reckons he can be a superstar that he can go all the way to the top. Calls him the Irish Phil Foden . Is that a justifiable comparison?.

No

4 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Like I said you’ve struck gold, and good luck to you. Those ‘fans’ of those clubs will have no qualms in suddenly turning up to Wrexham games, couple that with your long standing supporters and lapsed/floating fans and there’s massive potential to grow your fanbase in a region like north Wales. 

We have no such luck with a dozen or so league clubs in a forty mile radius.
 

True too a point but there are a lot of Liverpool and Everton supporters in North Wales .....

49 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Yes on about him and although i'm concerned about the finance side of it i became more worried when i read the bits saying he's proven good at attacking but less so a defending.

In a lower league than us but apparently it's ok because he's termed a modern defender !

Bloody hell i remember  a young Colin Hendry being termed a modern defender because he was great at throwing himself face or genitals first at everything at both ends of the pitch.   Why have those real defenders just disappeared over the last decade i wonder.

The game is not what it was ! 

It is becoming or has become a none contact sport and that is not for the betterment of the game ....

Let's go back to 3 subs and get rid of VAR.

Cos very soon the top 6 will be able to field a team in each half , of very similar ability !!

2 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

From RoversChat on Twitter...stewards investigating at half time...

Stewards or Police ??

Good team selected, good performance after 1st 25 mins ...Through to next round job done !

11 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

Strong line up. Surely we win today

One would think so but we are a soft touch !

49 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

Can see those two being reunited.

Especially if Mowbray ends up at Preston ..

I think by the middle of May , we will be regretting this decision !

We appear to be a club , preparing for Division One next season !

If Hill is returning to Bournemouth and Travis is leaving for pastures new , I have no faith in our D of F to sign players who will improve us ..

Just now, Miller11 said:

Perhaps Travis isn’t happy here anymore. Maybe he thinks he should be picked ahead of Wharton/Tronstad and makes his feelings on it known?

That's very possible ....

The Travis saga seems odd , his he on pay as you play ???

Ryan Nelsen didn't play for that reason ...

8 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

View from our day out in the posh seats:

Broughton, Waggott and what looked like a deputation from India were only a few yards from our group. Oh to have been a fly on the wall to that conversation after the match

Also, Gordon Taylor was there, sitting on his own. Is he a regular at Ewood?

The Premier Suite was good and the staff excellent but like the rest of the ground it's looking a bit tired and in need of a revamp. The toilets need ripping out next week 

As for the game, Broughton has so much to answer for. Rotherham had a proper keeper in goal - great saves, catches crosses and bosses his 6-yard box.  Then we have that clown in goal for us.

Rovers could have been 3-0 ahead after 25 minutes but will be thankful for the draw after a poor second half. 

Unless some of the injured players come back soon or we make some decent signings this month we will be in a relegation scrap: I've no doubt about that. 

 

I have sat there a time or two ..Gordon Taylor has always been there ..

12 hours ago, booth said:

Exactly. Madame Desai said after Allardyce's sacking.

“We want good football and Blackburn to be fourth or fifth in the league or even better. The fans should trust us because this is in the best interests of the club.”

The lies started early !

6 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I gather not many - or they're not with O2. I can never get a signal in the Jack Walker. 

I am with EE, signal no problem in Jack Walker stand ....

20 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Whatever happens here it is always the Venky model implemented by gravy train riders and half interested grifters so it will NEVER work.

Remember all the talk of various models by Mowbray and of course the Brentford model being the one to follow.  Also remember plenty of us saying we never never follow that model under this ownership because what we actually do is opposite to that.

It's all window dressing thrown out to cover for the absolute fact we have owners who don't give a toss but are willing to keep the club going because it suits (or at least did) their company accounting system. Now though they want that reducing greatly so they can leave the club in a corner of the portfolio soaking up a manageable amount of profit less than 20 mill per year.

So the model is and always a lower wage lower cost virtually zero transfer budgets where any player income is mostly to help cover costs.

That's it in black and white, no building a strong squad on the cheap to add bits , player trade and go for promotion, no it's just a case of low cot survival as long as we can string it out.

Ultimately it'll end up as a league 1 project.

When League 1 project is achieved it will become League 2 project !

This is the worst Blackburn Rovers team since the last throws of Saxton's reign in 1986....

We went down with 52 points last time , let us hope it is not that high in 2024 .

1 hour ago, philipl said:

Given Swag set the objective as staying in the division and developing youngsters, JDT is fulfilling the mandate admirably with an 11 point gap plus goal difference seperating us from the relegation places.

There is no basis for dismissing him based on the CEO's targets.

😇⚽ - as close to a tin hat as I could find...

You are probably right , if ever we do occupy a relegation spot , we will not get out of it ....It is going to be a horrible few months until early May ...Let us all hope the 11 point cushion is enough !!!