RevidgeBlue

Bit like here you mean?

Two equalisers conceded in the 95th minute within three days, you really couldn't make it up. It's like I said after the Hull game, no matter how badly other teams play, or how many chances they give us, it doesnt matter, we'll somehow contrive to throw it away. I gave up bothering about this season after the January window. Clearly no-one at the Club is the slightest bit interested in promotion - it's a lot easier for the old blood pressure if you accept we're not going up. Next season is a completely different matter. Clean slate and all that. Assuming I'm correct in my belief that we will once again skillfully manage to avoid the play offs then in the summer heads SHOULD roll (not the manager's) but probably won't and on we will no doubt plod with the journey to nowhere.

Spot on, career journeyman, strange signing, not the sort of calibre required if we have serious aspirations of promotion. Then again isn't Mowbray's son head of recruitment at Aberdeen? Probably explains a lot.

Don't want him sacked but is it too harsh to say the jury is still out? Has cost us numerous points (and an FA Cup semi final place) by giving up in games and attempting to park the bus with 15-20 minutes to go imo and the spat with Wharton and ignoring him for the majority of the season will probably prove the difference between securing a play off spot and not.

Technically still in it but it's quite bizarre that we are after a run of no wins in how many? I'd still wager though that no matter how badly the other sides perform we'll react accordingly and do whatever it takes to finish just outside the playoffs. You could put your house on it. It's the mentality that's built up within and surrounding the Club. The narrative will then be about how unlucky we've been and what a great season we've had, when in reality ( for the second season running) a play off place should never have been in doubt

Yep, there's a massive conspiracy against us. Just us.

Is there a bigger set of bottlejobs in the Football League than this mob? Unfortunately you have to include the manager in that. Went all "Sheffield United" again and put us completely on the back foot with the substitutions.

Fuming. inexplicably no Wharton and although we didn't win last Monday after Gallagher was finally dropped we put in arguably our best display of the season. Now the useless twat is straight back in the side! It's almost like we are trying to sabotage our chances before a ball is kicked.

Don't think either him or Pears are the answer if we want to get/were to be/promoted. Obviously neither are as bad as the calamitous Walton who was one of the worst keepers I've ever seen when he was here.

Depends on the fee. Decent at the modern side of the game with his feet, pretty poor shot stopper.

I'd take a decent fee for him if anyone was buying.

Having a bad day?

Yep and it's the nature of the defeats as well.

I think we're forgetting how badly Kaminsky was playing before he was injured. He was throwing in a goal nearly every game.

Can't speak for the owners but I'm not convinced that anyone at the coal face down at Ewood, players or management, has the slightest interest in the Club getting promoted. It'd take them all out of their little comfort zones. Sitting in a good position in January we managed to screw up the transfer window in quite spectacular and completely unique fashion. By negligence or design? Whenever there's a crucial fixture which could be described as a season defining fixture, by and large, the players fail to turn up. You can forgive players having an off day but a lack of effort and application is inexcusable, particularly in such crucial circumstances. Yesterday could have been Bowyer and Yeovil all over again. I fully expect us to slip tamely out of play off contention without so much as a whimper then rally and look like they give a rat's arse when it's too late. The manager doesn't even sound like he has any interest in us getting promoted whenever he is interviewed either. "We're not even thinking about that" etc etc...... Please everyone, prove me wrong or at the very least don't go down without on hell of a fight as per the last two games.

We were second at the end of January last season as well. Come on.

Why sign him in the first place though? He's nothing about him.

Yep. I would like to see both Wharton brothers in as well. At least they give a shit.

Not sure why people continue to blindly defend Gallagher. You could surely dip into the Conference and come up with a better player.

Why do professional coaches pick players like Morton week in week out when literally everyone of us mere mortals who arent involved in the game in a professional capacity can see that Adam Wharton is an infinitely better option and how do players like Gallagher with zero talent manage to carve out an immensely lucrative career in the game without being sussed out in double quick time? It's always been a mystery to me over the years, like we're watching a different game. Ditto Jason Lowe etc.

Devil's advocate mode on: The owners APPEARED to be prepared to sanction a small fortune in wages to bring O Brien in in Jan - until someone at the Club sabotaged all incoming deadline day business. Either by negligence or intentionally by design

Nothing will ever change whilst we are still glibly talking about "projects" or "journeys" that may or may not come to fruition many years down the line. We need a mentality that results and performances are required NOW and if we don't see them it simply isn't acceptable. Players and management team alike. I'm not holding JDT solely responsible as imo he inherited a right load of shite and problems off Mowbray but it's not Mowbray's fault for example that we haven't signed another striker since he left

Seems that way.

Poor player/signing for me. Career journeyman, another clearly not good enough if you ever want to achieve anything.

Absolutely spot on. It's like Conte said about Spurs for me, they like playing under no pressure. When they're asked to obtain a result or set of results to achieve anything they won't/can't do it. Been the same since Hughes left for me with the exception that Allardyce was able to engineer enough results to keep us out of relegation trouble in the Prem.