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Miller11

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  1. I thought Phillips was excellent, he just had very little to do. He has great awareness and rather than just sticking his head on headed clearances he was finding a team mate. I enjoyed his little burst forward towards the end. Looked like he had got a bit bored and decided to get a bit more involved.
  2. What an enjoyable evening! The difference between Tomasson and Mowbray is stark but simple. We now get forward, commit men into the box, and try to score goals. Every player was good tonight. Tough to highlight individuals really, but Edun was the pick of the bunch for me, thought he was superb. Special mention for Adam Wharton too. What a player he looks.
  3. This. In one of those games where he was acceptable I remember he pulled off one save which got a lot of plaudits, but he really only had to make it because his positioning was absolutely woeful in the first place. Unbelievably there were a good few people claiming he’d done enough to keep his place when Kaminski got back fit. Thankfully Mowbray didn’t agree.
  4. Very true. And I still maintain the wheels fell off last season as soon as Mowbray started tinkering with a winning formula having given himself a few more options in the January window.
  5. I think he was one that really stood out in the friendlies. Thought he might have edged ahead of Pickering, must certainly be providing some competition.
  6. He did make some poor decisions and display bad judgement a few years back, but he certainly seems to have matured since then. He’s struggled for fitness this preseason, but we are only two games in. I’m sure he will be involved sooner rather than later.
  7. You should be extremely thankful that football clubs aren’t just a business like any other. If they were Rovers would have ceased trading long before now having lost nearly a quarter of a billion quid in little over a decade.
  8. Russell Martin can’t have head a very good view of the game with his head so firmly planted up his own arse. Claiming his teams approach is so pure and honourable it pisses other teams off, hinting at jealousy. Someone ought to let him know they got beat 3-0!! While his arrogant delusions are funny to a point, his attitude is problematic in other ways. This might sound dramatic, but it’s attitudes like his that are ruining football. He literally says he doesn’t care about winning, he’s more bothered about development and some half baked philosophy. He will be a coach educators dream! UEFA want a nice uniform approach. Lots of pointless passing, no tackling, ball on the floor, wait for the opposition to make an error. Of course this means that 99% of the time, the best, most expensively assembled teams win the most games and go into European competitions to all play each other. I’m so glad we got rid of a manager who bought into this nonsense and appear to have appointed one who still remembers what the entire point of it all is!
  9. I’ve completely changed my mind on Brereton, I don’t want us to sell him at all and I don’t care if we lose him on a free next summer, I’d rather take the gamble. I don’t think Venky’s would care that much either, and for once their stubbornness might work to our advantage.
  10. Looking forward to watching the highlights. It was radio for me today. Like the idea of playing with purpose and actually trying to score when we get forward rather than the confused ideas of the last couple of seasons. Travis appears to be getting rapidly unMowbrayed. He always looked like he could play box to box but learning from Smallwood looked to have turned him into a budget Robbie Savage. JDT seems to think more of him and it’s paying dividends. Few quid on Szmodics first scorer at 8/1 was a nice bonus too! A proper managerial appointment working early wonders!!
  11. Don’t know about scapegoating Pickering (who was lucky not to be subbed at half time against QPR), but this sounds like some serious revisionism regarding Nyambe!
  12. Been away from this thread for a while… some crazy stuff about Buckley! Last season he went from “boy to man” and is now an absolutely integral part of the team. He will run plenty of games this season and will improve exponentially with age and experience. The two outstanding ball playing midfielders I’ve seen at Rovers are Tugay and Cowans, but by the time we had both of them they were towards the back end of their careers. They relied on their brains a lot more than their legs and as such their superb passing ranges were more pronounced. I’m not making premature comparisons here, but it’s been a really common complaint for fans for YEARS that we’ve lacked a decent ball player in the midfield. “Not since Tugay” still gets trotted out. I’m cynical about a lot of things Rovers, but bringing through a midfielder like Buckley certainly isn’t one of them. And we’ve got Adam Wharton coming through too, who by all accounts is a similar type of player. I’ve actually seen more personally of Harlock than Wharton, and he excites me too.
  13. Kaminski Brittain Ayala Wharton Edun Travis Buckley Hedges Dolan Brereton Gallagher
  14. Solid if unspectacular (apart from the goal) start. I was worried early doors because the ref looked like he was ready to give Buckley a second yellow, but seemed to recognise he’d already been booked and let him off. I thought QPR played some nice stuff, we did at times too in fairness, but both teams lacked a cutting edge. Pickering is a worry. He was bad today in possession, which is probably his biggest strength. Need things to click a bit more up top, plenty of graft but not a lot of quality. Dolan made a real positive difference.
  15. Albert Adomah always seems to have a good game when he plays against us, going back to his Bristol City days. Even though he’s about 34 now, but he can still cause us problems.
  16. Possibly. Though when you still live in and around the area you are reminded more frequently of the clubs current reality. You see the shabby, empty ground more frequently. The decline in numbers and atmosphere around Ewood on a match day is more evident. Many times over the last decade turning up on a Saturday starts to feel like a chore rather than a focal point of your week. There’s a glimmer at the moment, but the past 12 years have given us little to be optimistic, positive or joyous about.
  17. There’s a good number of those people who could be enticed back though. The club need to do something to try and win them back, but it’s not an easy task, and would require significant effort over a number of years… therefore they can’t be bothered.
  18. If Burnley get a goalscorer to replace that clogger Barnes they could be a real force this year. Fingers crossed they don’t.
  19. 44 is Costelloe. 19 years old, making his debut. Though I think he made the bench a couple of times last year when they were short on numbers.
  20. If the Szmodics talk turns out to be true it makes me think that @Paul Mani was right a couple of weeks back when he mentioned JDT feeling Dack wasn’t up to the pressing game he wanted to implement (if I remember correctly). It seems strange to be forking out big money, for a player who it’s an either/or with Dack.
  21. Frightening comments from Waggott. If we’ve exceeded the financial figure he had hoped for, despite seeing a higher percentage of young adult tickets (less than half the price of a standard ST) than expected, just how low was the forecasted number in the first place?!?! Unacceptably low, obviously. Despite being annoyed by the the frequent attempts at guilt tripping us, and the pleading poverty when it suits, I’m getting beyond giving a toss about the financial implications of the clubs approach to season ticket holders. I’m much more concerned about the continued erosion of the supporter base that they don’t seem remotely bothered about addressing. In fact they seem hell bent on accelerating our charge towards crowds of 7,000.
  22. I think I’d go with this pretty much, except I’d go with Dolan over Hedges.
  23. I can’t make any predictions here. Don’t know what to expect at all. It’s quite exciting. Hopes: - We don’t play like a Mowbray team. I’d like a bit of intensity and purpose. - Edun instead of Pickering. - Vale gets some game time and continues his good pre-season form. - Dack’s still got it. Fears: - The back 4 or 5 defensively. We haven’t replaced Lenihan or Van Hecke and both had great seasons. Brittain seems like he will offer more attacking threat than Nyambe, but he’d have to going some to come near to Ryan defensively. - opening day injuries and/or suspensions. We’ve got both in us, and they could prove very problematic at present.
  24. Agree Chaddy. I also expect Phillips will get quite a few minutes this season, particularly if he doesn’t sign the deal on offer. We will play him to bump up his price.
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