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jim mk2

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  1. Wigan not won at home this season according to TV We know what's coming
  2. I wouldn't start with Szmodics and I don't know why the awful Hirst merits a start either. The best footballer in the club, Brittain, is on the bench again. If it works and we win that's fine. But it's odd
  3. Condescending. Probably written by a southerner I wouldn't cross the road to watch a Champions League match but a would for a Championship match - especially a Lancy derby We have to break the WL cycle sometime and we haven't won at Wigan in donkey's years - so against the odds and my glass half empty nature let's go for a Rovers win Wigan 1 Rovers 2
  4. England 2 West Germany 3, World Cup quarter-final 1970 Probably the most shattering defeat in my lifetime. England were 2-0 up and cruising, then Alf Ramsey took Bobby Charlton off and it all changed. England were a better team than they were in 1966, including the great Sir Keith, and it went horribly wrong. Horrendous to watch and it still hurts now
  5. 5-0 defeat at home to Manchester United in 1964-65. Charlton scored three, Law was brilliant. It was awful, it really upset me and as a youngster I couldn't handle it.
  6. Bit unfair on Dyche. He won 2 promotions from the Championship and kept Burnley in the Premier League for 5 seasons including a 7th place finish Would I have him at Ewood? You bet
  7. If we're honest we were lucky yesterday. The scoreline hides the true story which is that Rotherham should have scored at least 2 goals in the first 15 minutes or so. They carved us up easily with one chance again being caused by silly, sloppy passing at the back, and it was only good fortune that enabled us to survive. Good win in the end with 2 smart goals but it could easily have gone the other way
  8. I see our latest "journey" now has an official title...... Proper Plan Project, or PPP for short Another acronym to wrestle with. You just have to hope JDT and MB know what they're doing. If they fail perhaps we ought to look for a new CEO to replace SW. He seems to be the common denominator in all this BS
  9. Szmodics might be better as a sub to come on in the last 30 minutes when teams tire and gaps start to appear. Certainly when he starts games he shows little appetite for the midfield battle as teams get stuck in at each other. Alot of money to pay for an "impact sub"
  10. Dack has been and never will be a "hard working box to box midfielder". That's not his game. His an old fashioned inside forward who works with the main strikers - a "No 10" in modern parlance. It looks like he's finished at Rovers though which is a shame because we don't have another player like him.
  11. League Cup quarter-final away to Cardiff in 2011 under Kean. Players look disinterested from the kickoff and we lost easily. Kean admitted afterwards he'd thrown the match to "concentrate on the league". We were 2 games from Wembley. I spent over £250 tickets on tickets, travel and food and I might as well have chucked the money down the drain. Two very disillusioned kids as well. An email to the club to complain about the manager's comments and the lack of effort went unanswered. I swore never again.....
  12. Good bounce-back win after the no-show at Cardiff. This WL sequence is bizarre - can't remember anything like it. Time to break the mould at Wigan on Tuesday
  13. You'd think that even taking into account the naivety of youth the goings-on at Ewood over the past 10 years or so would make fans more cautious about statements coming out of the club that are entirely for consumption of gullible people. Tomasson is like all the other manager's we've had - telling fans what they want to hear. FFS take this Twitter rubbish with a pinch of salt because let's call it what most of it really is..... which is PR bullshit
  14. Watford have been in the Premier League for 6 of the past 8 seasons, which suggests they're doing something right Most Rovers fans would snap their hand off for that kind of "instability"
  15. There's not many midfield players at Championship level who have the skill to receive the ball out of defence with their back to goal and turn into space and launch an attack. Rothwell could do it and might have thrived under Tomasson but he's gone; Buckley could do it but is way off form at the moment. The fact is we just don't have players with the ability to do what Tomasson wants - and the result is we often lose the ball in our own half and are under pressure of our own making We have 3 hulking big forwards to choose from and we should be launching long balls towards them and looking to play in our opponent's half instead of ours. It's old fashioned but you have to be pragmatic with the players you've got.
  16. Good choice, Pickering had a fine game - barely put a foot wrong. Ayala was a liability at the back and caused us so many problems hanging on to the ball too long or passing to the opposition - it's ridiculous anyone could vote for him as MotM
  17. Buckley can do it when he's on form and in the mood. His game has regressed though over the past 12 months
  18. Oh lordy, it's the long term "project" plan - always jam tomorrow, except the jam never arrives. Meanwhile they rake in the cash while fans get disillusioned at another Mowbray-style "journey" and slowly drift away Tomasson obviously wants to play a certain way but he's got to be more pragmatic and learn quickly that the Championship isn't European football - it's a long, relentless battle and a passing game with sub-standard players just isn't going to work. Even Mowbray saw the light eventually and Tomasson needs to wake up
  19. Yes, there is a player there. On the evidence so far, a not very good one
  20. I know an arrogant, failing manager when I see one. Tomasson has to change tack - the way we're playing at the moment isn't working and is as bad as anything Mowbray served up
  21. Ayala was the problem last night - he thinks he's Franz Beckenbauer. I'd drop him and play 2 no-nonsense centre halves - Hyam and Wharton - with Brittain and Pickering (who had a good game at Cardiff) as full backs. Instruct them and Kaminski (ban him from ever throwing the ball out) to get the ball downfield quicker. Keep it simple and let's start playing in the opposition's half instead of ours.
  22. It's the other way round now. Opposition managers realise if they press us high up the pitch we'll crumble and let in goals. It's happening regularly now.
  23. Yes, and I always won. As a striker you always want to add to your goal tally and taking a penalty is the perfect opportunity. As a young player I'd bow to the older players in the team but by the time you're mid 20s you want to take the responsibility. That's why the likes of Gallagher, Dack, etc should be taking penalties and I don't understand why they aren't putting their hands up
  24. You won't believe how much Blackburn paid for Szmodics
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