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rovers11

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  1. I thought Leeds looked better. Pereira is probably the best player to play at Ewood this season though. He's definitely a premier league player. Just a shame that he dived a couple of times to try and win a pen.
  2. Given that he's had a lot of stick this season, it's nice to say that he was excellent when he came on today. Pace, power and end product. Set up our goal and also set up the one on one for Davenport.
  3. So frustrating not to win it at the end but a draw was probably a fair result. The subs changed the game. There's had a negative influence on their performance whereas ours took us up a level. Who was that striker that came on? He was called Gallagher or something like that. He looked very good! Holtby was outstanding when he came on. Rothwell and Davenport also impressed. I like the look of Rankin-Costello. Good on the ball and athletic.
  4. The Owen Coyle team was lge 1 fodder. The team we had then was beyond useless.
  5. The resources we have are way below the resources teams above us have. Look at WBA, Fulham, Leeds, Notts Forest, Cardiff, Swansea. They all have bigger budgets and bigger wage bills than us. I wouldn't expect us to be above them. Brentford are the team everyone looks at because they've built slowly, and invested and re-invested very well. With the resources at his disposal, to go from lge 1 fodder to a good championship team in 3 years is very good progress. However that progress has to continue next season.
  6. I have voted stay. There have been a couple of times this season where I have called for him to go, but once you strip back the emotion and look at it objectively we have had a decent season. We are where we should be imo with the squad we have; we’re not quite good enough for top 6. Plus, we have improved on last season, and that’s despite being without our best player for a large chunk of the season. There’s no doubt he’s made mistakes throughout the season. He also made two big mistakes in the summer transfer window last summer - using most of our transfer budget on Gallagher and getting rid of David Raya. Next season is a biggie. I expect us to make a firm push for the top 6, rather than just flirting with it.
  7. Can’t wait to see the back of Walton. Absolutely useless. We lose the first goal yet again, just as we have in every game since the re-start.
  8. Wouldn’t these just be fans who already have season tickets and they’ve been auto-enrolled for next season? It may help cash flow in the short term but they will have to refund that money at some point. I certainly don’t see any fans being allowed in for the first half of the season.
  9. I think this will be a summer when football presses the re-set button and we see a correction in terms of wages and transfer fees. I don’t see anyone other than those with parachute payments spending any money this summer. Even those with parachute payments will have to cut their cloth accordingly as the likelihood is that no one will be making any money from season ticket sales next season. I do think we’ll see a sale of a key player to cover the losses from now season ticket money. I also don’t expect anything other than our transfer budget to cover wages for players, I can’t see a transfer fee being paid. There are some good free transfers coming onto the market and hopefully we can work some magic in the loan market. Id love to see Jordan Rhodes come back here on a free. Brewster would be amazing on loan, but don’t see us being in the running. Ben Gibson would be a good option at CB if he’s prepared to take a huge pay cut, and Cunningham would do nicely at LB.
  10. Huge gulf in class sadly. We get 1 point off the play off places and then we go on to lose three in a row, conceding 7 and scoring 1. Happens every time we get in touching distance.
  11. If we are to make a serious attempt at promotion next season then Gallagher, Johnson, Bennett, Rothwell, Holtby need to become back up players and not see so much game time. Tbh a lot of those are already back up players but have seen more game time than we’d like due to injuries. Holtby has disappointed me since signing, I was expecting a lot more quality from him.
  12. Game over. Season over. Both teams wide open at the back but they have way more quality to expose the gaps. I didn't think for a split second Gallagher would score when he went through one on one. His place in the starting 11 has to start being judged on his performances rather than his transfer fee. If he cost 100k, there's no way he'd be anywhere near the starting line up.
  13. Tbh I’m not sure. If it is, why extend his contract to the end of the season? Doesn’t make sense at all.
  14. It’s hard to criticise Bennett, he gives his all in every game and seems to genuinely care about the club. However, he is a very limited player and struggles badly at LB.
  15. I don’t really understand why Sam Hart was given an extension to the end of the season if he can’t even get in the squad when our other two LBs are injured.
  16. Let's hope so. He liked it here, we liked him, and Cardiff don't seem desperate to keep him so all the signs are positive.
  17. I think the tactic does work, we've done well this season with that tactic. Pretty much all teams play that way now. What we have got wrong is continuing to play Gallagher wide right when he's clearly not suited to that role. Mulgrew will likely move on loan again.
  18. I think it’s clear that we need a new goalkeeper and lb. They are the weak areas at the moment. I do think we’ll make an attempt to bring back Cunningham here next season as he looked very good before his injury. Thankfully Walton is not ours so we can consign him to the history books. We’ll need a couple of centre halves to come in; one to sadly replace Tosin, who is destined for a loan spell at the top level next season you would imagine, and one who can provide back up for first choice centre halves. Outs: Leutwiler, Mulgrew, Smallwood, Samuel, Hart, Chapman, (Walton), (Tosin) Keep: Graham, Downing Incoming: Two GK, Two centre halves, LB, wide striker
  19. Dominic Samuel was my man of the match. Absolutely outstanding, especially as he hasn’t started a game since August 2018. Walton and Bell most improved players since the turn of the year. The usual star players for us were very good again today. Downing may as well be given the player of the season award now. Buckley has his best game in a Rovers shirt and Brereton is starting to look like a footballer. Strangely, we seem to be getting stronger with each new injury!
  20. I don’t think we’ll get top 6 but what this season has shown is perhaps we have a better squad than we thought. The wheels haven’t come off despite long term injuries to key players. Dack and Lenihan would have been my two who are irreplaceable in the team - we are coping ok without Dack so far though.
  21. That has to be our easiest game of the season so far. Hull were absolutely dire, we didn’t get out of first gear and still won 3-0 and should have had more. Armstrong is looking like some player. Pace, good on the ball, technical ability, goals, and assistants. Nyambe is up there with him as most improved in the past three months. Breo and Samuel looked good when they came on. Really pleased to see Samuel score.
  22. What has Armstrong been having for breakfast the past 6 weeks? Looks like a totally different player.
  23. Huff and puff. No quality. Same old.
  24. No quality going forward and weak at the back. All too familiar,
  25. Another atrocious set of results over Christmas and another horror show at the back. Add that to no real quality going forward. Nowhere near good enough for the top 6, unfortunately.
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