34 minutes ago, Groundhog said:

I had to watch some of the game again on iPlayer over me cornflakes this morning, mainly to see if some of those referee decisions were actually real...

Ones that stood out:

Ayari winning the ball with a good strong tackle, free kick to Newcastle

Garrett, great tackle on the line near the dugout, wins the ball cleanly, free kick to Newcastle

Markanday gets bundled over from behind on the edge of their box, no free kick

Dolan has his shirt grabbed by both hands and held away from the ball in the centre circle as we're on the attack, no free kick

He books Moran immediately early on for a soft professional foul, next actual challenge by a Mag, nowhere near the ball, given nothing.

Special mention to Longstaff and Burn, thought they'd be players up for a scrap but lots of moaning and lying down, bit pathetic really. Longstaff got a really clean tackle and went down like a sack of shit, having a right whinge at the ref and directed some abuse toward the Riverside - get up man!

Another special mention to Danny Murphy for critiquing Sammie for not lifting the ball over their keeper, bloke has put in more effort than you ever did in your entire Rovers career, can barely run and you're telling him he should finish better. 

There was one in the first half where Buckley had his legs hooked, the ref must have been 2 yards away looking straight at it and awarded nothing. 

Some stuff really had me scratching my head. 

5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Then you'd be a knobhead too.

He's paid handsomely to be an impartial pundit. 

Grow up 

10 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Brilliant effort by Rovers, could easily have won in normal time

Shearer gone down in my estimation tonight - he should have been more neutral for this game

Give over. If I won a million trophies with Newcastle (lol) and they were then playing Rovers in a match there is still only one team I’m supporting. He’s a Newcastle fan, at the end of the day. 

19 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

Why have we let them have first kick AND their end?

Probably covered in other posts but 2 coin tosses. What a completely ridiculous rule. Football over complicating itself again 

5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Their GK has had a blinder, I don't fancy us against him in penalties. 

They must be thinking the same about Pears!!!

I’d be getting Pickering on now I think 

3 minutes ago, Nuttall is lost said:

Warton always thinks he is Virgil Van Dijk.

Played like him tonight to be fair 

Sigurdsson even broken sweat yet? Absolute luxury player and not a particularly good one at that

What on earth was the non-league level Liverpool lad doing then. They’ll be targeting him until the end if they have any sense 

The ref has been atrocious. Missed so much a yard in front of him. 
Buckley one in the first half was shocking 

Maybe John Buckley is a £10m prem player after all 😄

Just like to add they look worse than we used to passing it around the back. A few times their defence has had a free header and it’s gone straight to us.

They're really not that good at back at all, if we can keep it 0-0 and keep the pressure on then we’ll get more chances 

Telalovic winner from the bench? 😂

Moran and Buckley are playing brilliant. (Silly yellow card aside). Szmodics his usual self too. 

Well done John Eustace, well done to the 11 on the pitch, well done to the protestors and the Venkys Out chants. 
Let’s have another 45 minutes of that. 

Hopefully ends the same as that Championship fixture where we won 1-0 with 1 shot vs about 40 from Newcastle. 
Think it was Mulgrew

18 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

All hail the weakest midfield pairing ever to take the field in Rovers shirts.

Trying to think of some that might match it…

Etuhu and Murphy?

Lowe, Akpan and Bennett?

7 minutes ago, J*B said:

I used to produce all of the NFL coverage through DAZN in North America including the Super Bowl. Also did Boxing and Baseball, which I couldn’t for the life of me get into.

American Sports certainly gets the numbers, but in terms of atmosphere it’s completely different. It’s more aligned to an experience in the States, the atmosphere is generated through excitement and a social media culture of “I was there!” whereas sport in the UK - especially football - is very much based around tribalism and aggression. I do like the Tailgates, though. 

Yeah I love American Football and have been to multiple NFL and College games (albeit perhaps not the stereotypical 'atmosphere stadiums'). But the atmosphere is miles away from proper football, it's all forced and artificial i.e. blasting music and speaker systems for the crowd to get loud for a 3rd down so it's just people screaming for 30 seconds. Give me a Football away end every day of the week. Large Stadium =/ Good Atmosphere. 

I see lots of other Sports doing this now....watched some Rugby recently and they were blasting out tunes between scrum resets. Cricket have done it for a while but at least that's a long and different format.

3 hours ago, Gav said:

I've said on many occasions that the FA Cup tie last season away to Sheff Utd really stirred something inside of me and the wider fanbase, it proved this club still has the support and in big numbers if we can get the off field stuff right.

Sadly with Wharton being sold and JDT being forced out, in my eyes I feel like we are back to square one, we are always one bad decision away from disaster under these rats, but in this case 2!

I have no interest in tonight's game, I've given my tickets away, but as always I hope we win for the superb downtrodden supporters, they deserve better, much better.

VENKYS OUT - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

It was so almost a cracking day out, the sun was shining on snake pass, eccy road spoons was full of blue and white and despite the result (and the Morton rolling around after a poke in the eye) it was so enjoyable to be in an away end with 6k Rovers fans feeling like we were finally moving forwards. 
We'll get to the new Wembley one day, hopefully once Venkys are gone as it'll be bitter-sweet seeing them no doubt reappear for a big one. (and hopefully not the Papa Johns Trophy!!)

25 minutes ago, Gav said:

If you know, you know 😉

Hopefully the 2nd part of the post comes to fruition!!!

43 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Yes, he picked the team. He even came down from the stands in the second half. 

Yeah - when we were 3-1 up

Do we know he picked the team? Looked to me like Johnson was in charge. 

6 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Bloody hell.

I'm one of the JDT diehards, but even I can see that Eustace has come in and quickly picked up 6 points having been handed a squad massively out of form. 

I expected nothing from today, away against PNE or, quite frankly given our club history, away at Cardiff (we usually gift out of form teams a win). 

The football isn't pretty, but it's effective. We've nullified Cardiff, PNE and Norwich in back-to-back-to-back games. 

He's grinding out results. It's not aspirational football, but we're not there anymore - the Venkys have seen to that. 

Whilst I agree some-what, we’re not giving him Stoke are we? Appointed Friday, no training session and in the stand until about 3-0 or something. It’s 3 points from 4 games. And I think variance will catch up with the ‘we look more solid now’ mantra. 

Again, to reiterate, he could lose every game for the rest of the season and I’d still not blame him but blame the useless clowns stripping the club to pieces.  

5 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

the table after the qpr game(JDTs last game) and below is the table currently, we were 5 points off 22nd now we are 4 points from 22nd...

And with a game in hand 

3 points from 4 games now under the new manager. 
I’m told we’re allegedly ‘moving in the right direction, towards mid-table’ - despite simple maths telling us that’s nonsense. 

The next 3 games are huge. Can’t barely see us getting a point after them. 

6 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

rotherham scoring makes our GD the worst in the league now

We’re -13 and they’re -34?

1 hour ago, Bohinen1983 said:

There's been some ludicrous decision- selling Raya for what we did being just one!

Does anyone know what our net spend since Venkys is vs net incomings? Off the top of my head we've bombed out some decent players..

P.Jones: 20m
Samba: 10m
Hanley: 5m
Wharton: 18m
Raya: 3m
Armstrong: 15m (?)

The only transfers of note that jump out to me are Brereton and Gallagher..
 

Surely we've made more from selling then we've spent over the past decade?

 

Would love to see what the wage bill was and what is now too..

According to transfermarkt as it's probably the easiest way to look at it....note that it's in euros though

€141.5m recouped

€73.5m spent 

So they've netted €68m euro profit on transfer sales

for reference and some grim reading...

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/blackburn-rovers/alletransfers/verein/164