1 hour ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

Leutweiler played just 6 league games when Raya was at the club - almost all of them shortly after Raya had had his head kicked in. The idea TM preferred him to Raya is complete nonsense.

The idea we had such a shite keeper not even good enough for real back up however isn't.

Probably Evans on just to try and stifle it a bit more and not concede another.

Always still in it just the one behind and losing 4-2 puts a bad slant on it 

Typical stuff we've seen time and again from him.

34 minutes ago, Tugay-is-God said:

Surprised that anyone is still persisting with their claims that Raya isn't very good.

You better ask Tony.

8 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

If he persists like this for 3 more years we will waste a generation of decent youth and end up in an Ipswich/Mick McCarthy situation where we plummet because he's squandered the money we do have on players who are already at their ceiling.

That was me in 'positive' mode.

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

He's bloody talking about bringing "one or two to help the group" again though I.e. squadfillers as opposed to a couple of stand out performers in the defence.

He'll never change. Either no-one will come in or a couple of peripheral signings will come in who aren't what we need.

 

If he stays here another 3 years he'll go down in history as the clubs best ever midtable manager.

Very early days but he looked competent on that performance and it's nice to see a keeper rollocking those in front of him. We've not had a remotely vocal keeper since Robinson years ago. Hope he keeps it up and stands up to any cherubs who might not like it.

8 minutes ago, RovingRover said:

Yes we had positives. But how is he not concerned about the continuation of dreadful performances in our defence?

Boss: So many positives to take

Old school  stubborness and an unwillingness to upset his behind the scenes pecking order. 

Midfield, in fact the whole side back off far too much up the park which really doesn't help the defending.  To be fair they looked as ropey as we often do at the back but as you'd expect they are more dangerous coming forwards.

Only real downer was the result and of course the predictability of the usual suspects.

Just now, Norbert Rassragr said:

____. 3-2. How is Kaminski looking? As bad as Walton or just facing unstoppable shots?

He's looked decent couldn't do anything about the goals. Defending lax as usual for first 2 

Ah bollocks sucker punch by them. Good goal.

Good old stretch ??‍♂️?️

This season's talisman for sure and no more than we deserve so far.

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

So Mowbray's taking off our most effective wide man in JRC and continuing with his failed experiment of trying to turn Rothwell into a wide player. Fucking moron. 

Oh with all the young players now needing games adding to the usual rotation etc. It's sure to be a season of real fun and games on that score.

Very lightweight looking at that bench, no game changers or point savers but aside from when Arma starts on there its been that way since promotion. Another thing that's held us back a bit, oh well it is what it is.

A point or 3 would give us all a great boost going into it.

COYB !

Does nobody with half a mind think the money left from January hasn't been used up in the lockdown ?

Didn't Waggot even say we've about a million in the pot that will go towards helping tide us over ?

Even if not how many budget surplus in normal life gets carried over to the next one in my experience it usually just gets absorbed.

If you are paying several good players 15 - 25k pwk, some average on c10k pwk and have quite a few good young players on less than 10k making up your annual football wage bill does that automatically mean you should be worse than other clubs who may be paying a load of bang average players 10 grand per week but have a bigger overal wage bill because their squad is bigger ????

No of course not the wage bill thing outside of the huge payers and those on real peanuts can be misleading. You don't base all your aspirations on that clubs jumble up the natural pecking order all the time. Seems it's replacing FFP now as the go to excuse for going nowhere.

I'll repeat for the umpteenth time how many clubs outside huge turnover clubs in this division could afford to pay Graham, Mulgrew, Evans, Dack, Holtby, Johnson. Or recruit Tosin and Downing ?  The wages we pay half the team isn't a natural reflection of it being 16th in the league.

Ditherers with no real plan.

Don't worry when we are in the mid stages of these 7 or 8 games without a win runs it's remarkable how these with only rose tinted glasses alter their views.

We go with what we have !

The team with that defense have got us results before in games so they can again it's just not well equipped enough for the long haul.

Hesitancy and dithering with not strengthening has cost us before, badly once and frustratingly at other times. We have a very frustrating manager though so it's just a reflection of his methods.

Still i wouldn't bet against him landing a promising loan or two he's been good at that a few times. Lets just hope the myriad of box tickers back him before the window shuts.

17 minutes ago, Bohinen 22 said:

It is absolutely ridiculous that we haven’t strengthened the defence over the summer. We are starting with 3 of the 4 who we got relegated with and 3 that started the first league one game. How is Mowbray, a centre half himself,  not able to make one decent defensive signing? It’s laughable. And his excuses and bullsh!t he spouts in interviews is boring. And Bayes is worse than useless with his questions. No hard questioning, he’s just a sycophant. Doesn’t want to lose his access.

They aren't reporters just commentators with the aim of just keeping everything middle of the road instead of asking real questions and questioning the answers.

Basically just fill your airtime and columns as quickly and easily as possible.

43 minutes ago, Darwen Rover 007 said:

I think he's decent going forward but atrocious defensively 

He's a league 1 wide attacker imo. Maybe even a decent wing back at that level. Defensively one on one and position wise at this level he's very poor.

Not really the improved a jot but then again too much in and out of the team.

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Put the goals at the side of the pitch and we've cracked it then.

I learnt a long while ago that I could pass the ball a lot quicker could run with it.

Under someone like Allardyce he'd use it to get him winning free kicks in the final 3rd as often as possible. Trying to use anything and everything to gain that extra inch on the opposition and win games.  Take what a player is good at and flog it to death, fit it into a team and leave the weaknesses for the training ground and extra work with the coaches.

Matchday is all about getting points. 

How long since Blackburn Rovers bought a good defender ?

It's beyond ridiculous.

Was it Ternant who said Burnley fans want to buy champagne with beer money ?

Sometimes looks like our lot in charge would rather drink supermarkets own branded piss even when they've enough change to buy some decent branded bottled lager. All whilst waiting for the home brew to be ready but having no real idea if it's lager or bitter !

8 minutes ago, arbitro said:

That's the way of the world. Adam Armstrong was on his way to Preston as they had agreed a deal with Newcastle when we went in for him. In Ridsdales words 'we blew them out of the water' financially.

I don't remember too much criticism of Armstrong on here for taking a better financial deal and usurping Preston.

It's football.

Interesting one that as the LT at the time ran with us not being able to match his Toon wedge of c20k but offering a 4 yr contract on c15k. Sounds about right and enforces even more what bullshit Mowbray was spouting about Bauer as you are not telling me they suddenly found that kind of money for a 4 year deal when they couldn't compete for AA.

Tripped himself up badly there which is why i find some of this windows guff a bit far fetched. To me it resembles Bowyers last summer when the taps had gone off and FFP had us very limited to where we could shop.

Why don't they just speak the bloody truth fans might be a bit more accepting then.