Look at the bigger picture, Imy. It's not about 0-0 for me. The wheels are going to fall off big time. The performances are shit, we scab a win here and there. This is not sustainable over the course of the season.

Apart from giving a more cheery interview, JDT is no upgrade on Mowbray.

Naive football under a naive manager.

They are launching ball after ball into our box. It's only a matter of time.

It isn't true, no, it just feels that way. Based on MarkBRFC's post from a few days ago, our last 90th minute winner was in December 2020 against Rotherham, the one before that was in November 2019 against Sheffield Wednesday. That is poor, as we seem to have conceded plenty of late goals over the past few years.

The last time Rovers scored a 90th minute winner was back in January 2008, when Jason Roberts scored late on at the Reebok Stadium.

The renovation obsessed Pinocchio. He wishes Rovers were in for him 😁. Nah, it's true, he did turn us down. November 1998, that must have been around the time we signed Blake. We signed Ward a month later. He could have saved us a lot of bother had he agreed to join us. I read him say he wanted to go somewhere where he could win trophies. FA Cup Final 2000 - Chelsea 1-0 Villa. League Cup Final 2002 - Rovers 2-1 Spurs. Oh well, Dion. Oh well 💪.

We need to win this tomorrow not just to build on Saturday's result, but to get over this mental block we seem to have against the more physical teams. Win one of these types of games and it leaves everybody feeling more confident. No doubt Wigan are going to try every kind of shithouse, dirty tactic they can think of and we need to be able to overcome that. So far, almost every opponent of this type has had a comfortable afternoon/evening against us. We have been bullied in such games, the midfield has gone missing and we've struggled to put three passes together. It's the repetition of the same type of performance and manner of defeats which has caused frustration on here, from what I can see. That needs to change, hopefully starting tomorrow. It has a big game feel about it, a big test, a test we need to pass sooner rather than later. Three points tomorrow could be a turning point for us, to help us push on.

The Homes Under The Hammer Presenter, Dion Dublin, is good friends with the producers of Football Focus and Match of the Day. As a result of this friendship, he is often invited on to both shows to have a go at punditry. This is despite him having never kicked a ball in his life before.

Ah, so that's why Vinjay stopped posting on here.

0-0 at home to Yeovil in April 2014 takes some beating for me. A must win game as we were hovering close to the top 6. I think a win would have had us in there with a couple of games to go. Instead, we put in a shocker and dropped vital points. It was my first game back at Ewood after two years and to see that against Yeovil really hit home the damage that had been done to the club. I remember looking around Ewood that day, the place was lifeless, the performance was lifeless, nothing was how it was before. You could feel and see the damage. I went home gutted and fuming, not due to the result necessarily, but because of what the bastards had reduced the club to. That feeling has never left me, as they have continued to lower the standards year upon year, whilst giving us some guff about how they want promotion. They can get stuffed. That might work on some of the fans, but some of us see straight through that PR bullshit. Another game to add to the thread, United at home in 2011 when they spent the last 15 minutes passing to themselves in their own half and we just let them do it! I get that the point was important for us too, but I'd have preferred us to have a go at them to prevent them celebrating a title win at Ewood.

I suspect we will be hearing "look at Farke's first season at Norwich" a lot on here this season in order to excuse poor results or to defend the manager. It's something (i.e Farke being given time) that the DoF himself has referred to in interviews done prior to joining Rovers. He talked about Norwich sticking with the plan and not rushing to move away from it even when Farke struggled in his first season. It's highly likely that the Farke angle has been put to the owners along with the need for time. This is why I believe JDT won't be going anywhere no matter how bad it gets. Let's hope things work out, as I don't want another Mowbray situation, where he has to go but the owners do nothing about it.

Agreed. It's not as though we have many goalscoring options to choose from, meaning Dack can be left out. On the other hand though, I think we have enough about us to beat Rotherham tomorrow without him, but that isn't me saying it's fine if he isn't there. It might be ok for this one game, but why risk it? There's nobody else I would want the ball falling to on the edge of the box. I would like to see Travis and Adam Wharton as the two, with Dack ahead of them in the attacking role. It's just the way that tweet reads which makes it seem like Dack won't be involved at all tomorrow. Let's see.

That does sound like we won't be seeing Dack with the first team tomorrow, which would be disappointing. I suspect that is what JDT has been doing with Markanday too. Getting him as many minutes as he can with the reserves in preparation for first team football later on.

Top post. If after all that research, analysis, scouting etc, that Chaddy suggests they have done, the best Broughton can come up with is Szmodics, Hirst, Mola and a kid on loan in midfield, then that isn't a good sign. Start as you mean to go on. I'm not sure why that isn't a concern for some, especially considering the little impact these signings have had so far. If only 3 out of your 6 signings are of any use (Morton is debatable), can it be said that the DoF has delivered? Broughton's eye for a player is already questionable, but if it is true that JDT was the one pushing for Hirst, then that raises big question marks about him too in that regard. On tomorrow's game, Adam Wharton and Dack have got to start. We need creativity in the central areas. I think we'll win 2-0, with the tougher test coming on Tuesday at Wigan.

Now that is a real manager. It's great to hear how happy he was when managing Rovers. Brad and a couple of others have also said similar, about being happiest when playing for Rovers. The thing they all mention is how well the club was ran and the support from people upstairs, such as John Williams, being a key factor. I absolutely loved the Souness days. Some of the football we played back then was superb. We could mix it with anybody on our day and had the big clubs on edge about coming to Ewood. When you think about the players we had...Duff, Dunn, Tugay, Jansen, Cole, Friedel, warriors like Flitcroft, Short, Neill, Berg. It was a golden time. Yeah, things went south towards the end and he left at the right time, but there are a lot more good memories than bad from Souness' time here. It's a proud feeling to know that two of the best strikers the Premier League has seen in Shearer and Andy Cole both played for Rovers and both played key roles in Rovers winning trophies. Fantastic stuff. Souness was the man who bought Cole here. He also bought Brad and Tugay to the club, that's some serious quality in that trio and I thank him for that. Souey, what you did for our Rovers won't ever be forgotten. Top man 👏.

"Time is not your friend in football. You have to be winning games today. It's about today in football". That was Graeme Souness on talkSPORT a few days ago. He's not wrong either. That's the standard that we used to have and enjoy. We didn't win every game, of course, but the mentality and intent was there. This shite about "adding player value" is meaninglessness twaddle in comparison, IMO. JDT being happy with this project is a concern to me as it suggests he isn't the winner that I thought he was. As a player, yes, but as Rovers manager? I'm not seeing it. Only at this Football Club and under these owners do managers get a ticket to do as they please with seemingly no pressure or expectation on their shoulders. I don't understand why there shouldn't be pressure on JDT, it's a results business at the end of the day. If things nosedive in the next couple of months, he needs potting, sharpish. We've already wasted 10 years, we can't be wasting 3 more if the signs aren't there of us progressing. We're likely to have another Mowbray situation on our hands, IMO, where the only way he is going is if he walks of his own accord.

The other 4 are: athletic performance, the medical side, analysis and the Academy. In his first interview back in June he said his remit is to ensure that 6 parts are running smoothly. Two of those were part of this window I.e first team and recruitment.

For a number of years, Big Sam's transfer strategy consisted of loading up Championship Manager and entering the surnames 'Faye' and 'Meite' into the search. He then signed them at will in real life, based on how impressive their in game stats looked.

Fiorentina decided to call it a day as a Football Club and padlocked the gates the morning after Batistuta left the club.

It's a results business, Chaddy. Watford are chasing promotion and if they feel Edwards isn't going to deliver that, he has to go, while there's enough time for somebody better to come in. Projects and journeys are fanciful notions. Especially at Rovers where a number of incomings are loans every season. Watford fans have been unhappy with Edwards and have been wanting him out for a while. Yeah, the Watford owners can be trigger happy sometimes, but they know what they want and they don't mess about. I'll have some of that, over this lot that we have, who don't know their arse from their elbow about football. I hope it works out for JDT, but if it goes pear shaped we are going to be stuck with him. He won't be going anywhere even if we are towards the bottom end, as Broughton has mentioned Norwich sticking with Farke and his methods when they struggled in his first season.

Every foreign manager that comes to work in England has the same go to move, in order to show they mean business. Banning ketchup.

Was a frustrating player. He looked good on his day, I thought, but didn't show it often enough. Scored a few belters though, from what I remember. Including a ridiculous free kick at Ewood in 2004. Must have been 35, or even 40 yards out, close to the Riverside touchline. Swerved all over the show. Another Newcastle related one for the thread: Newcastle finished in the top 4 every season under Sir Bobby Robson.

Nolberto Solano was a one club man, who spent his entire career at Newcastle. Also, Laurent Robert had to score a 30 yard screamer every week, or else he wouldn't get paid that week. It worked a treat.

Every defender playing in Serie A in the 90s was a world class defender.