9 minutes ago, neophox said:

We won with a back four 🙂

We had 3 CBs (Pickering, McFadz, Carter), with Brittain and Chrisene at wing backs.
But we defended excellently today.
Pears made some good saves, whilst not forgetting the points his errors have cost us this season.

Had to be SS, didn't it?

If I'm being honest, I didn't feel relief today. Frustration at being in that position and almost an acceptance that we were going down once B'ham had scored.

I wish I could be optimistic about a refresh in the summer, but the last 12-13 years have shown that it's going to be the same old.

There is an air of inevitability about this...

6 minutes ago, tomphil said:

He wasn't sold for millions but for a couple of hundred grand Craig Conway has to be one of the best bargain bits of business this club has done under Vs.

He played in the Football Aid In The Community game tonight at Ewood and he was still really good.

Derbyshire got a hat trick and Paul Gallagher was a class above.

Genuinely think all 3 wouldn't be any worse than what we've currently got in the first team.

I've played a few matches at Ewood and every time, the walkout song has been Final Countdown.

Even in a charity match, with barely any fans and no atmosphere, it gave me goosebumps.

I don't mind RHCP if I'm honest, but Can't Stop isn't a good walk-out song.

I'd even prefer to go back in time and have Final Countdown than that ^

I have noticed an improvement though since Miller started becoming involved.
The Watford home game just before Xmas was a notable one - some crackers played. Heard lots of positive stuff around me, pre-game.

On 29/04/2024 at 10:50, K-Hod said:

They’re hardly getting away with anything, they can’t be forced to say anything they don’t want to.
Bar refusing to meet with them, what else would you have people do instead? It’s all well and good people giving it the big’uns on here, this doesn’t just go for you Revidge, but anyone else too. You can have my spot and represent the message board if you think you could do a better job, by all means, as I’ve stated previously. 
Easy to criticise from afar.

I do genuinely get (and appreciate) that.

But reading those minutes, blatant lies are being told.
The mildew is all over the stadium; it's impossible for Waggott to have missed it.

He's actioned the fans to take/send pictures into the club.

I find it honestly strange that nobody challenged this.

22 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Id be amazed if Fleck was on near £20k, he will have been paid up to leave Sheff Utd.

Either way, whatever we spent on a guy with a plate in his leg was a waste.

Seen £20k pw for Fleck from a number of sources - sure it'd been confirmed somewhere.
Absolute madness.

And for JRC, he's a better RB than Brittain for me (and I actually don't mind Brittain).
JRC looks lost in midfield under Eustace.

Good read, enjoyed that.

32 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

I cant believe that anyone genuinely looks back at loaning out our captain and thinks yep, that was a logical move.

Realistically he was captain in name only - he'd not been playing and Hyam had assumed the role.

But that aside, I agree it was a strange move from our point of view.
Made even stranger by bringing in Fleck on £20k per week.

I think a midfield 3 of Tronstad, Travis and Ayari would have been the strongest we could have lined up in the 2nd half of the season.

I genuinely think 18/1 is incredibly generous odds for us to go down.

Stuck a tenner on it, slightest crumb of comfort if it comes in.
If it doesn't, means we've stumbled to safety.

3 hours ago, had.e.nuff said:

could be a first on Saturday our club captain could be in a promotion party while his club is relegated.

I doubt he's played enough games to qualify for a medal, or to even feel part of the celebrations.

Seems to have sat on the bench for the entirety of the match every time I've checked in on their results.

The message should be of feeling frustrated and anger at even being in that situation, considering we were still challenging the top 6 in December.

Celebrating survival in the Championship.

Wow.

As for 'turning us around'.
This is a guy who has failed to win a single home match, despite playing against the dregs of the division.
He is teetering very close to Kean levels of blatant bullshit.

9 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Yes. As was getting into a position where he was completely demotivated to do the job and allowing a bad relationship with the players to start to fester.

The difference being , unlike many,  I can criticse JDT whilst also seperately criticising Eustace. It's not either / or.

The difference between the two though is that JDT's final 15 games (where he'd given up and wanted out) is at least comparable to JE's first 15.

Yes JDT has Wharton, but JE has had many players returning from injury.

Both should be criticised, absolutely. But I've seen nothing to suggest anything other than a struggle next season under JE.

4 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

I love how Tomasson has started to get some criticism now he is no longer our manager. Same happened with Mowbray and now Eustace can do no wrong.

I'm a big JDT fan, but I haven't seen anybody defend his record for the final 15 or so games.
He'd clearly given up and wanted out - and this came across loud and clear.

The fact that those final 15 games, as horrible as they were, equal's JE's new manager bounce (his first 15 games) is beyond worrying.

8 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Asking fans to ‘send him pictures’ of the shit tip that is Ewood - how about you or your staff get off your arses and have a look yourselves.

Found this astonishing.

I was stood near to the big screen outside the B'burn end for a bit before the game yesterday and every part of the stadium that I looked at had clear mildew/green shit smeared all over it.

Is The Fat One genuinely making out that he's walked past it on a daily basis and failed to see it?

Hard to see past a home win, even taking our unlikely win at Leeds into account.

Eustace's seemingly only tactic is 'hold on for life and hope for the best', which won't hold up for 90 minutes against the best team in the league.

We are relying on other teams to keep us in the division.

9 hours ago, Mercer said:

Stay up or go down, for me, Eustace has to go.

Simply don't think he's up to it.

Young and upcoming - no, the guy's in his mid forties with a track record of 3 years at Kidderminster, caretaker spell at QPR and a brief spell at Brum until it seems the owners concluded he wasn't the man to deliver their ambitions.  So, in my book, Eustace has achieved very little as a manager, is relatively inexperienced and has certainly not been 'in demand' and for that there would have to be reasons why.

I think his league record with Rovers is very, very poor and we go into our last game still with a real risk of relegation and hoping and praying results go our way in other games.  To average less than a point a game over the course of a season will get you relegated.  What a state of affairs.

• Eustace's record P15  W2  D8  L5  F13 (5 of which came in 1 game)  A18  P14
• Eustace's home record P7  W0  D5  L2  F4  A7  P5

At home, we have failed to score in 3 out of our 7 games (and 4 games out of 8 away) and his home record includes games against teams of the ilk of Owls, Plymouth, QPR and Millwall - just one win against any of those teams and we would now be safe.  Think his game management yesterday when a fatigued Coventry went down to 10 men for 40 minutes (including added time) was negative, unimaginative and potentially catastrophic with our failure to get a win.

IMO, he's a 'yes man' (unlike JDT) who causes no ripples in the boardroom, is weak and therefore a player's dream, is negative and also tactically inept.  I also find his interviews cringeworthy, IMO, full of cliches, platitudes and bullsh1t.

Sadly, no matter what league we are in next season, I think Eustace will remain in charge.  If we are fortunate enough to stay up then I think relegation will be nailed on with Eustace, if we go down, think we will be no better than mid table in League 1.

As one of the Apollo 13 astronauts said 'Houston, 'we have a problem'. 

 

Completely agree with this.

Several big red flags are waving with regards to Eustace and - irrespective of which division we're in next season - I can only see us finishing in the bottom few places under him.

Feels inevitable, to be perfectly honest.

We could have played another 45 minutes at the end, and we still wouldn't have scored.

Playing 5 at the back, with just Gallagher up front, against 10 men and with us doing all of the pushing.
When we had a literal striker on the bench.

Pears managed to kick the ball and didn't throw anything into his own net.

McFadzean had a good game.

Dolan did some good work, but then totally ruined it by adding several unnecessary stepovers, before losing the ball.

Moran was about to score at the death before Gallagher got a touch and took it away from him.

Eustace has shown nothing to suggest he's competent enough to manage Blackburn Rovers.
And despite it looking fairly unlikely next week, I can genuinely see us going down.

Yeah, that was the whole deal - both Zidane and Dugarry.
Want to say £5m, but it's been a while and I may be wrong.

Zidane was well up for the move, Dugarry not as much.

He'd been playing at a higher level than Jamie Vardy (with a similar scoring record), prior to him signing for Fleetwood.

Rough diamonds are out there.
Telalovic probably isn't one of them, but it's sometimes worth a punt.

Maybe just open your eyes when you go anywhere near to the stadium? (ref the below img)

And as for the comments about 'the owners can send funds whenever they like, there is no issue and everything is rosy'.
Does he think we are all stupid?

JDT and GB have publicly stated the impact caused by restrictions placed on Venky's sending funds overseas.

Has he just blatantly lied to fans?

To be fair to Telalovic, Farke gave him his Bundesliga debut not too long before we bought him.
And he clearly has a knack for scoring goals at a lower level.

He's not the non-league waste of space some would have you believe.

I can't believe he'd have done any worse than Gallagher over the last several games.

5 minutes ago, Lucimo said:

I'll be honest I can't remember what they did last year?? What was it?

When their GK blatantly handled the ball into our net in injury time, ultimately costing us a play off place.

The same reason why I was laughing my arse off when their extra time goal against Man U was wiped off.

Coventry can fuck right off.
And their fans are weird.

52 minutes ago, Brfc Harry said:

3% increase in ST prices across the board.

If this happened, it would show how out of touch the senior leadership team are with...well, reality.

Record low sales and we would be a laughing stock.