superniko

1) What a joke that coin toss rule is. 2 separate tosses so Newcastle got their end and chose to take 1st. Surely the loser of the toss should get the other choice. 2) Ref was diabolical, is that seriously the best we have in this country, he was that bad I wouldn’t be surprised if his coin had same image on both sides. 3) Hats of to the manager and the players. Great performance all across the pitch and not a negative to be said about any of them. Too many players to shout out in all honesty, you were all excellent. Well done Eustace, hopefully we can freshen up and do a job and stay in the league. I’d be hopeful if it’s 20th (or whatever number it is) time lucky and you actually get some backing from Venkys. I won’t hold my breath though. 4) Hopefully a prospective buyer watched on somewhere and saw a historic football club, historic colours, famous stadium bouncing, great entertainment and 100% commitment. But hopefully said buyer isn’t rich with blood money like those cretins.

They must be thinking the same about Pears!!!

I’d be getting Pickering on now I think

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

Trying to think of some that might match it… Etuhu and Murphy? Lowe, Akpan and Bennett?

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.

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!!)

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

Yeah - when we were 3-1 up Do we know he picked the team? Looked to me like Johnson was in charge.

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.

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.

We’re -13 and they’re -34?

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

I guess they're good when the original sale is well under the true price, because it is based on profit. Prime example being Raya (or Adam Armstrong for Newcastle). We sold Raya for less than his value, so much so that we'll get more from the sell on % than the original fee. Selling Wharton for £22m, we're not going to get much given it's 15% of the profit Palace make.

You sound like the players in their Waggott meeting - is that you Dom Hyam complaining about negativity? What you wrote was factually incorrect. I corrected you and your reply is 'wHaT aBOuT sOmE POsiTIviTy?' I'll be positive when there is something to be positive about. It wasn't a tricky game, they'd won 1 in 7 and not scored at home in 3. Basically have the same form over 10, 15, 20 games as we do. We had 2 shots in the whole match (one was Hyam from 50 yards), the worse of the two teams again, got away with a 0-0 draw, play like that all season and we're finishing rock bottom as variance events itself out and that match finishes in defeat more than it does victory.

Eh? 1 week ago there was a 7 point gap (now worse at 6) AND we had a game in hand, so not sure how you’ve spun a positive there. We’ve move up 1 place in the league, thanks to Plymouth, but that paragraph is borderline delusional. Even if you mean 2 weeks ago, prior to Stoke, we’ve only increased the gap by 1 point, in the meantime all whilst playing 2 teams below us, and 1 practically level with us.

It’s an extremely simplistic view you’re taking though, not looked at teams played, players available or anything, and taking a specific sample size. Fair enough, if people think this is the start of some sort of revitalised ‘hard to beat’ Blackburn Rovers they can. To me we’ve looked shite, but thankfully played Stoke and Cardiff who have similar form to our poor run under JDT. We lost in xG in 3 of the 4 (this helps with small sample sizes) and showed our usual weak under belly versus PNE, and Eustace wasn’t even picking the team or managing in our win. It’s absolutely not on Eustace though (yet), I’m not saying it is as it’s far too early for that. But if you play that type of football you absolutely have to get results, if not then it’s rock bottom, so let’s hope we do miraculously start grinding out some points. Personally, I’m not holding my breath