Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

 I thought he was at home in any  football environment to be honest ! Not better thann Ronnie or Tugay though.

I saw Tugay but not Ronnie or Duggie for that matter !!

I am surprised more people , haven't selected Howard Kendall , what a suburb footballer !!

It could be an age thing !

Just now, CD_93 said:

                          Raya

 Nyambe   Magloire   Mulgrew   Bell

               Rodwell    Travis

        Reed         Dack        Rothwell

                     Armstrong

 

 

I'm scared.

Why??

4 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

I am beginning to doubt Raya, who I did think had the makings of a top keeper.

I think a major reason for this is our goalkeeper coach. Ben Benson is 28 years old and was promoted from academy coach. Now, academy players need to be taught things like footwork, starting position, hand shape, technique etc. Raya should be well beyond these basics and these should be second nature.

As an established first team keeper he needs coaching on playing to his strengths... he can’t deal with crosses very well, but then again, neither could Brad Friedel, so he stayed on his line rather than coming flapping. His distribution is poor, so why on earth does he attempt to launch counters with quick kicks that seem to invariably go to the opposition or out of touch. Raya needs an old head who has been there and done it... I’m not suggesting we are going to get a world class keeper coach... Bobby Mimms was a good un, and while we might not get anyone quite on his level I’m pretty sure we can get someone who has actually played at pro level. Anyone can knock a few balls into him in a pre-match warm up, he needs some wisdom imparting, not the stuff the FA give you in a folder when you take your coaching badges.

Brad Friedel had Samba , Nelsen and  Short  in front of him who could attack the bloody ball

....

Henning Berg and Graeme Le Saux the greatest fullbacks  I ever saw , oh Kevin Moran he is just class, Colin Colin you us your ass , proper defenders..

Remember Johnny Carey at Goodison ...' your taxi is waiting at the gate '

Oh for a Kevin Moran or Colin Hendry !! 

                                                             Freidel

                                     Newton   Hendry    Hunter   Le Saux

                                        Duff      Kendall   Tugay    Wagstaffe 

                                                 Shearer    Pickering

  All I have seen on Ewood  albeit 3 of them , only once or twice,,,

1 hour ago, CP Company Lad said:

Lampard is clueless. Somebody was waxing lyrical about him months ago on here being the next Chelsea manager and having tussles with Slippy G when he takes over at Liverpool .

A man with a penchant for slapping women eh ? Great bloke. Smug nobhead full of self importance. 

Slippy G , not doing much better in a 2 horse race !

I think  , the chances of Rovers getting into the Play Offs are none existent ..Unless the owners  go out and get the right manager in ...Kean ,Berg ,Appleton , Bowyer , Lambert , Coyle and Mowbray ... Worrying !

Bowyer had the best squad of players by a long long way ...

Just now, Ewood Ace said:

We will never know that as Bowyer never took us down.

He got sacked !!!!

28 minutes ago, blueboy3333 said:

….but still better than Mowbray.

Not in my book !!

23 minutes ago, DE. said:

If he was a very poor manager we would have been in relegation trouble. He was if anything distinctly average, not good enough to get us into the playoffs but not bad enough to take us into serious trouble. If you take his lack of experience into account and the lack of support he had above him I think it's really harsh to shit all over his tenure. His best wasn't ultimately good enough but it could have been a hell of a lot worse. One thing I have noticed is that Mowbray gets cut a lot more slack than GB.  

Mowbray got us promoted , if Bowyer was here last season we would treading water in the 3rd division...

Mowbray is not perfect but Bowyer should never have got more than end of season after Berg was sacked !!!

Just now, DE. said:

We rarely if ever come out fired up. I don't know why it always takes a half time team talk before our team wakes up. It's been the same since day one, Mowbray simply cannot prepare or motivate the team to be up for it from the first whistle. Our only hope is that the opposition are similarly blasé or overcautious and we cancel each other out (which leads to the all familiar 0-0 HT scoreline at Ewood). It's really weird that we only seem to be able to play properly for 45 minutes at a time. You can't even put that down to fitness as it's usually the second half where we're better, not the first.

That's a bit disingenuous. We finished 8th and 9th in Bowyer's first full seasons, we aren't going to get anywhere close to that under Mowbray this season. We're looking st 18th or 19th which is lower than Bowyer even when he was sacked (we were 16th at the time, with a significantly worse team than Mowbray currently has). 

Bowyer should have got play offs ....a very poor manager !!

55 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Watched on iFollow.  Two dog shit teams and a dog shit referee. Pleased to only be robbed of a fiver. 

Birmingham have always been dogshit except when Trevor Francis played ...

That's a long time ago !

Did much better today , than. I thought we would !!

But the same old problems , have not gone away .....

Looking at our defensive frailties , this game as defeat written all over it ....

Hope I am proved wrong !!!

1 hour ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

So we’re going to be playing Nyambe and Mulgrew at centre half in all likelihood at Big Club. All while Paul Downing is on loan at Doncaster. Madness.

It really is bad management..

1 hour ago, blondie said:

Perfect assessment, Mowbray had done perhaps more for the club off the pitch as on it.

Today's first half performance baffling, must have made at least 4 tactical changes, which seemed to confuse us more tham Boro.

Worryingly, the slump in form must be addressed , as a long drawn on out meander to the end of the season will have far=reaching consequences on retention and recruitment .

Premier League? more chance of League one as it is panning out.

January window was a necessity to add a little quality to the squad, however chasing targets who we could never afford, is amateurish at best.

Not if you know damn well , they won't sign !!!

It looks like good but in reality it was 'pie in the sky '...

16 minutes ago, Pedro said:

All this increasing Mowbray out sentiment worries me. We are a shambles on the pitch at the moment but my biggest fear is, we'd be far worse off rolling the dice. We are still owned by loons and undoubtedly, he is far from perfect but has our best interests at heart.

I was in agreement until today .... WE  appear to have the losing habit !

I dont think I have ever witnessed a Rovers manager make 3 subs at once in my life (granted the 3 subs rule has not been in long)

To me it proved the manager select the wrong tea m, again !!!

Now , I think he is ' losing the plot ' danger is when will our owners realize ? and who will be his replacement ??

The defence is a complete joke , it is non existent , call me old fashioned but defenders are there to stop the  opponents scoring ,,

Brannagan , Keeley , Fazackerley , Rathbone 

AS hard as nails all of them !!

I would be pleasantly surprised if we beat Middlesborough...

But I think Pulis whose teams like playing against Rovers , will have to much for us , expect an aerial bombardment from the off . 

Without Lenihan , it is going to very difficult !!!

Just now, 47er said:

 Our losing streak hasn't finished yet.

I must admit that thought crossed my mind earlier , today ...

Apart from Allardyces first game ,have we beaten a team managed by Pulis ???

5 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

It might have helped us to take those chances if our top two goal scorers had played. Instead the front 3 consisted of Armstrong 4 League goals, Conway 0 League goals and Brereton 0 league goals. Whereas on the bench we had Dack 11 League goals and Graham 10 League goals. Do you not think if one or both of those had been selected that we would have been far more likely to take one of those chances?  

Fair point !!

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

We are going for the draw then.

My thoughts too.....