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Bob Fleming... Good or Bad? Discuss.
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Good- lets see if Sparky gets his man!
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[Archived] Charlton Athletic 1 0 Rovers
philipl replied to den's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
The Guardian report. Another report in the much derided press which does not slam the Rovers' performance the way many on this mb have done. The telling line is where it says that there probably is little difference between 7th and 16th in the Premiership this season. I remain extremely concerned by Ferguson's failure last night (this was a game he should have bossed but his long and short passing looked all wrong and he seemed to wilt under Charlton pressing), resigned to the fact that we will have an unreliable defence until 1 January at the earliest and cannot see Dickov and Stead becoming an effective attacking unit. Yes we are one point away from a relegation slot and the next three games at least are going to be massive nail biters with defeat in any of them precipitating full on crisis reactions from the supporters. However, there are very encouraging signs from last night: Look at what Jansen did well - he looked physically stronger, lasted the 90 minutes as well as anyone and not one skill was consistently missing from his repertoire- and also remember he could be frustratingly eratic BEFORE his accident. This now encourages me to believe that the percentage of good play by Jansen will increase the more games he gets and that a Jansen/Stead partnership will emerge as one of the most potent strike forces in the Premiership. Competition for places from Bothroyd, Dickov and Gally will be intense but I think the goals will begin to flow again. Emerton also just needs to keep on lifting his confidence level. Not so much the touchline dragon neeeds slaying but what about the by-line bogeyman? Had Emerton driven for the by-line on four occaisions last night when the opportunity was there, I am sure he would have set up at least two golden chances. Emerton blossoming into a player opposition managers worry about will give Hughes the opportunity to blood MGP/de Pedro on the other side but they will remain a luxury item until Emerton and Jansen are fully restored to self-belief. Hopefully his dead ball and crosses delivery will suddenly click into gear as well- we have seen him deliver fantastic corners, its the problem of the ten duds before the one with menace that Hughes and his team need to sort out. Most importantly, Hughes seems to be a much smarter motivator than Souness. I was really impressed by the way Rovers put enormous pressure on Charlton for 15 minutes after conceding that goal and kept creating goal threats after Charlton had weathered that initiial storm. Lets also be grateful that Pompey, Saints, Baggies and Palace are in the Prem this season and that Norwich have played so well for so little reward. -
[Archived] Charlton Athletic 1 0 Rovers
philipl replied to den's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Neither tcj nor myself are in the happy clappy everything is rosey camp. -
[Archived] Charlton Athletic 1 0 Rovers
philipl replied to den's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
No mjs, you are over reacting and enjoying wallowing in negativity. Read my post about four pages back. Believe me, if we were "very very poor", the Evening Standard (which is produced even closeer to Charlton's ground than the LET is to Ewood) would have said so loud and clear. -
[Archived] Charlton Athletic 1 0 Rovers
philipl replied to den's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
I agree tcj that the negativity has beeen way over done by some of the posters on here. Also completely agree with your comments about individual players. This is the london evening standard's report. Hardly the same game as some of the more negative posters purport to have seen! -
Sorry cuidado, Charlton weere doing everything MGP is showing he struggles against at present. They press, close down and make the player on the ball think and move quickly. Based on the Man U and Pompey games, MGP would have been a passenger out there tonight.
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[Archived] Charlton Athletic 1 0 Rovers
philipl replied to den's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
I thought the Rovers made a decent fist of it tonight- a lot of clubs will lose at the Valley this season. Yes it was a sure penalty which was not given but so was Brad's foul on Fuller at Ewood last week- had both penalties been given,chances are we would be one point worse off and still waiting for our first league win. Unfortunately the two best chances fell to Flitty- 10 out of 10 for him getting there but the usual 0 out of 10 for composure and technique in front of goal. I was impressed with Bothroyd when he first came on, was relieved that Matty lasted the full 90 minutes and looked fit and fresh at the end and I felt he looked rusty rather than incapable. The two free headers at the end should have been much better directed but he was there to win them. Stead had some goood moments. Major concerns: Dickov and Stead do not work as a unit. Did Stead receive any useable passes from Dickov all evening? A few did go the other way. Its own up time, Matteo is a bad acquisition. Amo will always drop us in it two or three times a game whilst Lucas will position himself by the Southern Cross (not visible on any ground the Rovers are likely to play at) and Mickey Gray will get skinned at least once every game. In summary we have a seriously wonky defence which may or may not be improved by the return from injury of Todd and Short. Ferguson was poor. For a £7.5m midfielder, too many passes were woeful and he totally failed to impose himself on a Charlton midfield which was organised and pressed well but was short of the quality at least eight Prem clubs will show against us. Parting thought: Pompey, Saints, Baggiees and Palace are worse than us- phew!!! It is a relegation scrap now for the Rovers but one in which we hold a lot of the advantages. Norwich are rather unlucky not to have won yet- I am seriusly worried about our visit to Carrow Road which is probably going to be at the worst possible time for us to go there. -
[Archived] Charlton Athletic 1 0 Rovers
philipl replied to den's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Huge amount depending on Flitty performing well. On that basis, I am feeling pessimistic. If Flitty doesn't go AWOL, that is a side well capable of winning tonight. -
I have to say that I find this left back thread bizarre in the extreme. For right back, Bob Compton won at a canter but I doubt even the grand fathers of the vast majority of contributors to the MB would have seen him play at his peak. So what's this nonsense about a generational divide and having to havee seen the player to be able to vote for him? Yet at left back we are busilly voting for a player who will be resoundingly booed by three sides of the ground when he comes to Ewood with Southampton. Whilst Sauxy is a great player, he will certainly deserve those boos far more than Alan Shearer ever did. At the same time we are ignoring the claims of a true great of the English game who was Blackburn Rovers through and through and whose mortal remains are even at Ewood.
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[Archived] Charlton Athletic 1 0 Rovers
philipl replied to den's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
I have no idea what to forecast- both sides should be highly motivated to kick start their season. A big test for the two most lauded young British managers around at the moment. After this week-end's results, a win for the Rovers will give us a four points breathing space ahead of what is beginning to look like the relegtion scrap and more importantly put us within one more win of joining the mid table group currently bunched round 10 points. A loss will confirm us as being in deep trouble alongside Southampton (thank you Mr D'Urso) and the promoted trio- all three of which I fancy will start getting wins very soon (like Norwich against us?). What I desperately hope to see is the beginnings of a well-organised attractive Rovers team. In many ways that is at least as important as the result as I remain convinced that well-managed and well-coached, our squad is not worse than the majority of the Premiership competition. Incidentally, I was able to watch the City and Spurs games simultaniously live yesterday. City played some great football and were fun to watch- had Anelka not been poor Arsenal would have dropped a couple of points. Spurs were disorganised and poor against the Mancs. Whilst he was fouled, O'Shea certainly made sure of winning the penalty by diving and bringing the spud down on top of him- hint to the Rovers' players. Back to Monday night, a 2-2 draw. -
[Archived] England U21 V Wales U21
philipl replied to Linny8's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
The answer to whether anyone is going would be provided if Stead were to score against Charlton and recover his confidence. -
But he still said it needed sorting out. You could also read it as a subtext of: "OK I listened to all your wingeing and gave you a chance. You were fringe players when I arrived and you are still fringe players after what Bournemouth did to us. The only difference is you are going to be mentally and physically fit fringe players now."
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[Archived] Rovers For Sale?
philipl replied to Paul Mellelieu's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
"new manager Mark Hughes is fighting a battle for survival" "Walker bought Rovers the Premiership title in 1995" "Blackburn Rovers are up for sale" "John Cross is an idiot with no regard for journalistic ethics" One of the above four statements does not appear in the article and is the only one that is true. -
Driving past the gardens of Malta's psychiatric hospital yesterday, there was a chubby guy walking round in voluminous pale blue baggy shorts, Rab C Nebitt string vest, what looked like a white tea cosy on his head and holding a fully open burbery umbrella aloft (the weather was hazy sunshine). For a moment I thought it must have been BRFCC paying me a visit.
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This is timely! Eastern Eye have undertaken a survey looking at support for football amongst the Asian communities.
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I completely agree MCMC. Le Saux was very good but hardly the stuff of legends. Bill Eckersley is one of the all time greats of this or any English club and it will be a sad reflection on our message board if a player who disgraced the club so badly in Moscow gets voted into the list of all time greats ahead of Eckersley.
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Very disappointed by the result but not as bitterly disappointed as some of our players should be feeling this morning. No doubt in one-to-ones, Hughes has received many complaints about Souness' shut outs of certain individuals. Probably gave Sparky a conundrum- Should he play Saturday's side to keep a winning combination perhaps making one or two changes? But then, the much vaunted squad players would not get the first team run out Souness had been denying them and some heads would really drop. Bournemouth are only 19th in the third division so why not give them all a go and make them shut up or put up..... ? Sparky chose the latter option and they let themselves, Hughes and the Rovers down. No doubt some will not be seeing first team football again for a very long time. Only positive note is Sparky noting the relative lack of fitness in his players. I had long felt that there was somehing wrong with the Rovers in that regard. Hopefully over tthe coming months, this is something that will get sorted out.
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[Archived] All Time Premiership Table
philipl replied to Cheshireblue's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Where did you get that from Neekoy? It is very different from the lists I have sen previously. -
[Archived] Blackburn Rovers 1 Vs 0 Portsmouth
philipl replied to bob fleming's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Fuller's yellow card for diving has been rescinded by the ref so we were extremely fortunate as I guess he would have given the penalty based on the video replay. Very good to see that not one Rovers player was given a yellow card on Saturday. Hopefully that is a side of Souness' inheritance the new management team will sort out quickly and that the hot headedness has gone to Newcastle (Nicky Butt made a promising start in that respect, whilst the rest of the zoo at St James will no doubt sink to new levels). It was never nice to see that the Rovers were always in the bad boys league for number of fouls and cards during Souness' time with us although to be fair we always just managed to avoid being fined for it. By and large the Rovers have always been club which played clean football and a bad disciplinary record means just that- indiscipline and forget Souness' reputation for being a disciplinarian. -
Looks like Andy Cole will hve plenty of time for shopping with the wife. He is facing charges which will add up to an eight match ban. Plus Fulham face a £100K fine for not controlling their players.
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[Archived] Poll - Falling Attendances.
philipl replied to Tris's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
I hope that the low crowd is because: Souness Rovers were pretty unttractive to watch at home Souness played Rovers' teams which mystified everyone in the crowd and confused the plyers Deep down, the faith in the team had gone under Souness (lots of posts about it being a chore to turn up, not a pleasure) However, the second lowest Prem crowd since the neew Ewood was complete greeted our new popular Manager. This has the horrible feeling of the '60s all over again when the Rovers' home crowd simply melted away despite the Rovers having a more than decent top division side. Very pessimistic about this aspect of the Rovers' future. -
[Archived] Blackburn Rovers 1 Vs 0 Portsmouth
philipl replied to bob fleming's topic in Football Messageboard Archive
Ferguson and Jnsen both in the BBC's Prem team of the week. -
There is always at least one Prem casualty at this stage in the competition. Plenty of reasons to fear it could be us- Bournemouth are the side with that kid who set some sort of scoring record last season aren't they? Bournemouth are probably in a false lowly position in the third division and will be buoyed up by their win at Sheffield Wednesday- if they can win at Hillsborough, 'little' Ewood with a much smaller crowd will hold no fears. The Hughes coaching set up will have had too little time to school the Souness errors out of midfield and defense- you can be sure Bournemouth will be lively and will have chances. Hughes has got to use this fixture as a serious game so I expect the experimentation to be limited only to players who have a realistic chance of starting at Charlton next week. I would love to see Jansen and Stead paired from the start- I see that combination being the future for the Rovers this season and very exciting it will be too. They must be given every chance to build their confidence. By all means double substitue them with Bothroyd and Gally half way through the second half if they are tiring or the game requires/allows it. MGP has to be starting if his injury is OK- this is much more the level of opposition he is used to so its a chance to show what he can do. He either produces the goods on Wednesday or has to be rested at Charlton- going to The Valley with MGP as a passenger is a recipe for losing three points from a game we might otherwise get something from. Apart from Enckelman, Gresko and Nissa to be given starts, I expect the rest of the team will be pretty similar to Saturday's. As for the result, a 3-0 win would be great but have a horrible feeling it will be a long night and penalties.
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To take your argument seriously that Amo is useless beecause all the trophies won in the SPL are completely worthless and that MGP is a little gem because he did so well in the Tippeliege, I suppose one has to believe that the Tippeliege is vastly superior to the SPL. I know Scottish football is not particularly good but I think you are stretching it a bit far there.