1 hour ago, Gav said:

You’ll struggle to find a more 1980’s player picture than this, any guesses who it is?

 

 

I know but only because I cheated 😄😄

7 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

I wondered whether he was clarifying what he could have done…seemed to say “next time…” or similar 🤔

What made the ref assume there would be a next time? 🧐🤨

Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me)

4 minutes ago, tomphil said:

I hope Broughton is making a list of head coaches capable of dragging us back at the first attempt and making maybe his one and only worthwhile contribution since turning up here the over rated lickspittle.

Because no way is this fella doing it not a chance there is very little comparison to be had with Mowbrays attempts to stay up, yes he was too conservative himself but there were enough green shoots to offer some hope.

If we do drop though he really should be 3rd out of the door behind Waggot and Eustace.

I’d personally go for the defenestration option.

12 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

Has Gallagher even had one attempt at goal since coming back from injury? I can’t remember one.

I’ve no idea about that but this season as a whole he’s had 22 shots (12 on target) at an average of 1 every 66 minutes.

2 minutes ago, Mr Cool said:

I agree on Hyam, but who would you replace Pears with?

I wonder if Mark Clattenberg’s opinion on how Forest have been officiated this season would be different if it wasn’t them who were paying him for it 🧐🤔🤨

12 hours ago, Hasta said:

Just watched the 3 Forest penalties. The two fouls definitely are, and possibly the hand ball is as well.

The problem is referees are too shit scared to give penalties now incase it’s over-ruled, so they just leave it to VAR. And in this case VAR is hiding behind the ‘not clear and obvious’ rule despite them being fairly clear.

I’d love to take a forward make those challenges on a defender leading to a goal and the ref/VAR play on.

For me the two challenges are fouls but I don’t think the Forest player’s exaggerated fall for the first helped their cause.

With the handball I’d day it falls into the ‘seen them given’ category but for me it’s one that should never be given.

3 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Between them, how many points have Pears and the Swedish lad cost us this season? It must be 10-15 points thrown away through stupid, unforced errors that no professional goalkeeper should make.  

A half decent keeper and a half decent centre forward and we’d probably be flirting with the play offs.

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

I dont see how you can start using grey areas like "clear daylight" when trying to get objective offside/onside decisions correct. 

You wouldnt say similar if it was nearly over the line. It was the last minute of an FA cup semi final so the decision had to be correct and it was. You cant review it and go well he is offside but only just so lets give it.

It is unfortunate as we all wanted United to lose but there is no grievance to be had.

Other sports allow for close calls to stay with the on field decision and I’m not convinced as to why football should be any different.

Just to add one more stat…

In the last 10 league matches, the Sunderland victory was the only one where somebody other than Sammie scored for us.

48 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Just thinking about the other strikers besides Sammi - Exactly what have they contributed this season ?

Our ‘number 9s’ (Gallagher, Telalovic, and Leonard) have scored 6 league goals between them.

Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill 

AC/DC - Back In Black 

15 minutes ago, JHRover said:

We're at home. we need a result and a drastic improvement after today, they're just coming to terms with a heartbreaking and exhausting 130+ minutes at Wembley and also have a tough game against Hull on Wednesday, just over 48 hours before they come to Ewood.

They've lost 3 of their last 4 in the league.

They're 9 points off the top 6 with 12 points to play for so lose on Wednesday and their league season is over.

If this manager and squad had anything about them they'd be relishing this one to prove people wrong after today.

Sadly we don't operate like that and we will relinquish any advantage we may have. Waggott will be hoping they buy loads of tickets so we can give up home advantage again.

Looking on their website we’ve given them an initial allocation of 4,339.

16 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

                              Telaovic

JRC            Carter              Koumetio    Pickering

                 Tronstad          Ayari

Markanday            Moran               Dolan

                            Szmodics

Interesting choice of ‘keeper.

Can’t be any worse than the other two.

37 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Top 10?

What on earth brings you to that conclusion?

A manager with just 2 wins in 15 games, a really poor squad with horrifically weak mentality, selling our only goalscorer and no investment in the summer and you think we will get better???

In fairness he didn’t say which league we’d be finishing top ten in…

1 hour ago, K-Hod said:

It’s still apparently on JDT if we go down though, guys….

If we stay up it will be because of the start we made under JDT and not the finish we’ve had under JE.

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

That couldn't have gone better for us - Coventry losing a heartbreaker on penalties. 

Lovely stuff. Hope they're done for the season now. 

Just a pity both teams couldn’t lose.

52 minutes ago, rigger said:

I hope Cov lose today in a penalty shoot-out, then Hull give them a tonking mid-week. They will have nothing to play for next saturday.

part one complete…

2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Yes, worst Utd team I’ve seen in a long while.

They’re not a team they’re eleven individuals.

If VAR is going to look at offside it should require clear daylight between the attacker and the defender.

Those sorts of incidents are not clear and obvious errors by the linesman.

The cup semi final going to extra time might help us.

Of course not giving shitty goals away would help as well.

35 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

I'm not sure if the clown noticed but we had a 'magnificent' chance today. Also given where we were when he became manager I'm not sure I'd be using the word magnificent when talking about scrapping to stay in the league. That rather says it all about his standards and ambitions.

I’d like to shove his book of cliches right up his…

1 hour ago, Waggy76 said:

Unfortunately it is only delaying the inevitable for 12 months..

That’s how I see it too.