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Championship season 2019-20
RevidgeBlue replied to arbitro's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Not at all, those players are all under contract to Derby. Keogh has rendered himself completely useless to his employers by his own stupidity and by virtue of his age will have little or no value to them by the time he recovers. By an accident of fate and birth the other two weren't injured and are younger therefore Derby had the option to continue using them in the short term and/or sell them at a later date if anyone is daft enough to take them. Maybe slightly unfortunate for Keogh but that's just the way it is. In fact the more I think about it the more it is making me mad. How he has the gall to turn down a reduced contract offer when he should have been sacked is beyond me. I suppose Derby will be lumbered with the medical bills for his rehabilitation as well. If he takes it to a Tribunal I hope it gets laughed out of court. Edit: misread it slightly, didn't realise he'd now been sacked. The point still stands though, he could have accepted a reduced wage when he shouldn't by rights be entitled to anything. You can argue the moral pros and cons of whether all three should have been sacked but the other 2 can still play and he can't so his situation is completely different from the other two. -
Championship season 2019-20
RevidgeBlue replied to arbitro's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Don't disagree about the other two, but let's not forget, the Club are absolutely not at fault here, the players are. The Club didn't tell them all to get paralytic then climb into a car so why should the Club also lose out on the possibility of recovering some money back on the other two idiots at a later date? They should have the option between cutting them loose entirely to set a good example, or using them on the pitch in the short term to avoid getting into a relegation battle, or selling them at a later date to recoup some of their investment on them. -
Championship season 2019-20
RevidgeBlue replied to arbitro's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Must be me being old fashioned but I don't have any sympathy for Keogh whatsover. He's obviously been out on the lash with the others and got in a state he shouldn't as a professional sportsman, then got in a car with the other two knowing full well they were rat arsed. To me if you get in a car with someone who's drunk then that's entirely your prerogative, but don't complain if it all ends badly. To me, all three are extremely fortunate they weren't sacked immediately and I really don't know how in the circumstances Keogh can complain about being offered a reduced deal other than the fact the others were dealt with more leniently. Why should the Club have to stump up full wages whilst he recuperates when he's done what he's done? Typically of today's victim mentality. Always someone else's fault. -
2) but with the right manager which Mowbray most clearly is not. Doesn't give the youngsters, a proper chance, hangs them out to dry in public, and his big money forays into the transfer market have proved disastrous.
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Yes, but if the debts keep mounting there might come a point in the future whereby the owners run out of liquid assets to secure the debt against or they decide enough is enough.
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Championship season 2019-20
RevidgeBlue replied to arbitro's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
He always used to go round hugging his team mates just before kick off so I don't think his popularity with the rest of his team mates can be called into question. Either way, despite the fact Raya's isn't quite the finished article yet, he's infinitely superior to Walton. We've swapped a keeper that makes a few howlers but more than compensates for it by making numerous saves he's no right to make for a keeper who makes numerous mistakes is completely immobile and doesn't pull off any saves you wouldn't expect him to make. -
Surely if nothing else you acknowledge that the debt continuing to rise is a problem? If not, at what point should we start to panic? £200 m, £300m, half a billion?
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I don't usually comment on price but there is no excuse whatsoever for charging £40 in the Blackburn End (excluding the match day surcharge) for a run of the Mill Championship fixture. £30 would probably be too much. The fact Wednesday may or may not have charged something similar is completely irrelevant. A reciprocal pricing agreement should be a gentleman's agreement that if another Club do your fans a favour by reducing prices you will do the honourable thing and follow suit. It doesn't mean that if you get overcharged at their place you're obliged to follow suit and rip everyone off including your own fans in the return fixture! Two wrongs don't make a right and if everyone were to adopt the same "yah boo" mentality then you just end up with a never ending spiral of price increases. Before you know it prices will be £50 or £55 etc. Waggot' seems to be a one trick pony whose only thought is to risk permanently alienating our own fan base by chasing a quick and easy pay day when certain away fixtures with reasonable away followings come along. Depending on the elasticity of supply and demand I wouldn't even have thought that charging more to the away fans would prove significantly more profitable than charging more fans slightly less. Certainly not just over a month before Christmas. Its lazy and unimaginative. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of pounds a year he's earning for that genius piece of strategy. He should be earning his money by coming up with imaginative and innovative ideas to try and fill Ewood with home fans on a long term basis. Not drive people away. The football on the pitch and the problems with the manager are bad enough already without this crowning kick in the knackers.
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The obvious answer to that inane question from Waggott should have been Obviously yes because we've been terrible for 12 months and one good half doesn't change that."
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If only. We couldn't be so lucky like that twice though could we?
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Absolute rubbish. The pressure such as it is is amongst the fan base is coming because Mowbray is doing a crap job, has performed extremely badly for the last twelve months and has recruited disastrously in the last 3 transfer windows. It's nothing whatsoever to do with the fact he might have said we were aiming for top ten or top six or whatever. In any event, aiming to try and make the top six is a relatively modest target and should be every Club's aspiration. It's not like we're saying we expect one of the top two spots or saying we need 100 points or something which would be somewhat unrealistic. If however the reports above are correct and the owners and those behind the scenes are burying their head in the sand and trying to pretend nothing is wrong then more fool them and I hope the Club don't act all surprised when we are relegated and try and blame it on injuries or circumstances beyond our control when we were already short on quality in certain areas and compounded it by letting further players in those positions out on loan and sold our first choice keeper without an adequate replacement when we were under absolutely no pressure to do so.
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Excellent summary save that I think it is extremely optimistic to assume TM can actually keep us bottom half championship. Not that that would be acceptable in any event.
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Should feel gutted after throwing away a 2 goal lead but instead the feeling is just one of resignation, you feel with this lot that had we been 3 up at half time they'd somehow have found a way to lose 4-3. Preston upped the tempo and went far more direct and we simply couldn't handle it, we've no leaders on the pitch despite the nonsense about Bennett being Mr. Blackburn Rovers etc. Walton is an absolute joke and needs shipping back from whence he came asap. Should bring Leutwiler in temporarily and get someone else in in January. Elsewhere, despite the fact we conceded 3 I thought Bell especially and Tosin had decent games. Two things I didn't like off the pitch. Bell who I thought had a very good game was the only player at the end who braved the walk to the far end of the pitch to acknowledge the fans and was roundly booed for it which I thought was completely out of order.The other thing was various scores destroying seats at the back of the stand after the whistle. If you can't stand losing, don't go. If it brings Mowbray nearer to the exit door I'll take the defeat. Mowbray out.
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Appalling interview from Mowbray. If you didn't know better you'd think he was deliberately angling for a pay off there.
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I think we need to forget any notion that he might walk, thereby forgoing any compensation. No-one does that these days unless they've already been guilty of some sort of gross misconduct entitling their employers to terminate their contracts forthwith. If we're to get rid of him, Waggot or the owners are going to have to sack him. The former seems highly unlikely so imo the owners are going to have to give Waggot an edict from above and while they're at it I'd be telling him and Venus to pack their bags as well.
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Re: Johnson, or any other rookie manager for that matter, they are never going to land a job at a decent level when things are going swimmingly well, their only realistic chance is to go in somewhere where the wheels have fallen off and establish their credentials by doing a good job in difficult circumstances.
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Difficult to disagree.
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So apart from the fact the defence and attack aren't good enough "we're not far off" ? Wouldn't like to see us if we were!
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"Avoiding relegation" isn't acceptable and a reason for keeping him though is it? What have you seen on the pitch and what are your reasons that make you think we can turn the season round?
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I'm tired of repeating myself on this, but the only surprise to me is that anyone is actually surprised at how crap we are. We've been absolutely abysmal for twelve months or so since (funnily enough) Preston away at a similar stage last year. To me it was blindingly obvious that that TM needed potting in February or March so it's no surprise whatsoever that we've been simply been served up with more of the same old s***e this season and that things appear to be deteriorating rapidly. Im sure there are other things to criticise him for but just off the top of my head: Since promotion, 3 abysmal transfer windows. Spending 7m on a young striker then never giving him a chance in his natural position. Bringing in Chapman on loan and rarely playing him, then bringing him in permanently and never giving him a chance at all. Stifling other players with any flair such as Rothwell, Palmer, Holtby. Seemingly trying to turn Travis into Lowe/Evans Mark 3. Wasting a further 5m on a guy who we'd already seen was (at the very best) a 5-10 goal a season journeyman. Shocking treatment of Nyambe whereas Bennett is a liability virtually every week yet seems unstoppable and somehow seems to have to be show horned into the side one way or another every week. Contracts handed out like sweeties almost as a reward for past service to players who should clearly have been moved on. Neglecting to strengthen at centre half then exacerbating the situation by loaning out Magloire and Wharton and Mulgrew without direct replacements when we were already desperately short of quality and numbers at centre back. Other than a dearth of centre halves we don't even have a first choice keeper to call our own as we replaced a slightly erratic but hugely talented young keeper with a big useless lump on loan who makes a sideboard look agile. Team never plays for 90 mins and rarely turns up in the first half. Needs to be replaced immediately for me, but then again I thought that in February. Can only see the situation deteriorating further the longer he stays in charge. Would anyone trust him to spend any more money were it to be made available?
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Huddersfield - Saturday Lunch for Sky
RevidgeBlue replied to Uddersfelt Blue's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
We'll never get anywhere with Bennett in the side, this is a very tight League and to have any hope of succeeding you need every single player pulling their finger out and producing something worthwhile. You can't afford any passengers or players that are way below the standard required. He's the new Jason Lowe, one of the worst players you've ever seen in a Rovers shirt but seemingly mysteriously unstoppable in the manager's eyes. Mind you, I think it's obvious we'll never get anywhere with Mowbray in charge either. The comment from a poster above about him liking mid table mediocrity to keep the gravy train going resonated very strongly with me. -
Huddersfield - Saturday Lunch for Sky
RevidgeBlue replied to Uddersfelt Blue's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The keeper is absolutely useless for me. That's two home games where he's cost us the points recently, he also went down in Installments for the Forest equaliser and with Raya in nets that's two saves that are meat and drink for him and two games we win imo. Really hope we don't sign Walton permanently. Other than that with Dack and Holtby on the pitch I saw signs of hope and promise for the first time under Mowbray, our play was far more fluid and creative than normal. That was ruined by the substitutions which were progressively worse. Thought Nyambe was outstanding and showed us what we've been missing at RB. Conversely Bennett is an absolute liability wherever he plays and we're always going to struggle if he is selected to start. -
Rovers new style of play and how we play it
RevidgeBlue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Rubbish. Has never been given a chance.