superniko

So many times we see these things and then in walks Blackburn Rovers....

Rovers favourites (6/4 vs 9/4 Sheffield United and 12/5 Draw)....what could possibly go wrong 🙃

Doesn’t look like it from the match days 😂

Dolan is closer to Messi than Kargbo is to Dolan - yet some were pleased because of “pAcE”

Do you think Kargbo had ever seen a football before we signed him? Struggling to remember a player as bad with a ball at his feet.

I’ll be amazed if we’re not rock bottom by the 150th anniversary game. Sheffield United (H), Southampton (H), Leicester (A) and Bristol City (A). Might be 1 point in that if we’re lucky

Who is coaching these lads to head the ball to the centre of the edge of the box? It’s pure basics, and we don’t have them

Schoolboy stuff on that free kick. 4 of them within 10yards of the taker just staring at him. So much space behind them all. Poor from Toth too

We are such a weird team, often look far far too good to be anywhere near trouble, but we cannot score and always have the odd howler in us meaning we struggle for results. A little rub of the green and we’d be a mid-table team this season - yet that feels so far away now

There's a really weird fanbase on socials - I think all clubs have it, but it has me pulling my hair out. I saw comments like... "Worst manager we had in the 15 years of Venkys" - erm...Hello Steve Kean and Owen Coyle "Made Eustace look good" - Subtle dig at Eustace too, as obviously it's never the common denominator (ownership/board) that are to blame At the end of the day, by all metrics, he got us closest to promotion and closest to a Cup trip to Wembley than any other manager since we were relegated, and that was all in the 1st season before the powers that be wanted to put a stop to it

100% - particularly for the Euros where there are so few real quality teams - when you’re getting down in the 20s the standard is pretty poor. Look at these belters back when it was set up better…

Yet we watch Rovers every week 😂 glutton for punishment

Yeah I agree...I feel it's more him calling out the logic of playing friendlies mid-week, approaching winter, in Wembley. Getting back from Wembley anywhere north after the match is almost impossible, by the time you get to Kings Cross it's 22:30 and there isn't an option to Manchester, and the Leeds option gets in at 2am. It's so London/South centric it's a bit of a disgrace. That has started to change a little in recent years, but nobody can argue the atmosphere is better when it's at Villa Park / Elland Road / St James etc. Atmosphere it's also very similar to 90% of domestic stuff, away fans are on the piss all day, big allocation of course they'll be loud. Home fans probably have come straight from work for a mid-week match, and want to get a flyer to get home.

re: Tuchel, it's frustrating, but he picked him last time and he withdrew with an injury. I suspect this time, it's a case of player/club asking not to pick him, so he can recover fully with a break. I'd be amazed if he didn't pick Wharton in the team, let alone the squad once we he's fully fit.

Wait until we play them in a few games time. Roll up, Roll up

Hmmm pushed a few straight back into the box today - just that Stoke don’t really have a striker with instinct Agree, that I think he’s a decent keeper though, and clearly better than Calamity

Can’t remember the Blackburn End was that empty for a home league match too. Very depressing time to be a Rovers fan

It’s genuinely a shit league. I know they were away from home, but if that Stoke team are top 6 quality then the rest must be absolute dross

We should be winning this. Stoke look god awful at the back too - this league is so open.

Good

You’re all welcome 😂

We can’t create any space, we look incredibly unfit, we look like we could concede at any time, and we look like we won’t score if we played for a week. Other than that it’s all rosey.

Any reason why Wharton can’t get a game after MOTM performance vs Watford?

lol what on earth was that free kick from Cantwell. Chip it to the corner flag

No they haven’t. We had the two clearest chances and have the higher xG (of which the Gudjohnson chance doesn’t even count for because the donkey couldn’t get a shot off). They’ve had all the possession and pass through us easily, but we’ve had the clear cut chances easily, usually from counter attack or Stoke mistakes