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Someone should have a quiet word and tell him he’ll never make up for the 90s in Blackburn. He’s no Jack Walker, and it wasn’t just the 90s. Could have been 10.

Collectively as an attacking department we are so poor, unimaginative and zero creativity. Cantwell's flicks and passes rarely create anything, Baradji is awful at passing the ball forward to create, Yuki/Morishita are hardworking but again, their shots are poor (that's if they even get a chance to shoot). Jorgensen is beginning to look like an unnecessary signing. Afolayan has something in him, like his first cameo. The new manager has to find a way to make these attacking players play. 27 goals so far is not enough. Last season, the 3 relegation teams scored between 45-51 goals. Personally our defence is 'acceptable' for a lower to mid-table team. But it's our attack that's failing us and will be one of the key reasons for our relegation.

Saw it earlier funnily enough

Can anyone post the interview where the owner talks about ‘Blackburn beating us 90’s’? 😂😂

How Lowe could we go...

The dingle owner has tonight slagged off the fans and the town is in meltdown. The charity shop windows have gone through and pendleside Hospice has been looted again. Every cloud……Watch this space for further updates.

What can a new manager really do with the players we have available? Wharton is out. De Neve, Tavares and Henriksson aren’t up to the required standard and shouldn’t play. O’Riordan has promise, but is not ready yet and shouldn’t play. Ohashi has gone completely off the rails and shouldn’t start. Cantwell while technically our best player is incredibly ineffective and shouldn’t start. Baradji is great in flashes but wildly inconsistent and shouldn’t start. Kargbo injured, when he eventually comes back to full fitness he shouldn’t start. Morishita isn’t bad but too lightweight and shouldn’t start. McLoughlin and TGH can do in a pinch but aren’t good enough as first choice regulars. Ribeiro and Pickering are both decent players but doesn’t fit the system and they can’t both play. That’s 14 players from our 25 not fit to start. 11 left, two of which are goalies (both of whom are decent to be fair). To get the numbers to add up we must change the system to allow our left backs back into the fold. That leaves us with exactly enough (10) of our best outfield players. The result is this: Toth/Pears Miller Carter Cashin Pickering/Ribeiro Alebiosu Tronstad Forshaw Olefyanu Jørgensen Gudjonsson I’m not convinced that team will score many, but at least it looks defensively solid.

Big Sam in his hey day wouldn't keep us up ! The squad is pitiful, physically very weak , most of the players playing at least one Division higher than skill set ! Some are 2 or 3 Divisions higher ! The problem is the owners, allowing total jokers to play real life football manager. Gestede, really needs to go , very quickly, like now ! This was so obviously going to happen, sell your best players and sign players not worthy of the shirt , only ends one way ! RELEGATION

A game of fine margins - but ultimately our toothless attack continues to hold us back. Personally I would drop Cantwell - at the end of the day what is the point of a creative player if he creates very little. Baradji (though I thought he had a poor game today) offers far more athletism in the number 10 role. Then bring in Gardner Hickman or Montgomery to play alongside Tronstad.

It wouldn't surprise me if we went into the Preston game with Johnsen as manager.

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”. Once over the entrance to Hell in Dante’s Inferno. Today perfect for the new manager's parking bay at Brockhall. Whoever it is he must be out of his tiny f'ing mind. So a perfect fit with the board.

Market removed again, probably just site maintenance

A big difference to Ipswich and Swansea was player availability. We couldn't muster a shot on target and we pretty much have everyone available. At least in those 2 games, we could think that we need to get players back to improve. Cashin and Tronstad are really standing out at the moment. Sadly neither will be here next season but you wouldn't know.

If Leicester genuinely want Rowett then he will go there. We need him now, it needs to be urgent. It wouldn't surprise me if we went to QPR again with Johnson as manager.

Steely Dan - Fire In The Hole

He loves QPR it was his nadir as a player and no doubt he threw himself into it and did the best he could but sorry i just don't think he's a Championship manager. However all we can hope for here now is organisation and fight to stay up but the football principles they are trying to instil from youth to first team would go out the window. Don't think the Technical Director or the Sporting Head of many heads would like that.

Our attacking play is painfully poor - no creativity, no cutting edge, and not enough quality to create chances. Along with individual errors defensively, it has all the hallmarks…. Really frustrating performances from Yuki, Morishita and Baradji (and others). I would be starting Gudjohnsen, given he’s scored some goals this season. Honestly not sure any new coach / manager can come in and keep us up with this squad. We look down and out.

Imagine the negativity on this board if he was considered

It didn’t work for him at QPR and there was some ridicule with his motivation method shown on social media. However, he did a great job at Wycombe and he would be in it because he is Rovers through and through, anyone else would either be insane or solely cash motivated.

Hindsight an all that but wonder if Keith Andrews was on the shortlist this time last year...

If us, Oxford and WBA replicate our results of the previous 15 games for the remaining 15 games we’d finish above Oxford by 2 points and below WBA by 1 point. I don’t see why their forms are more likely to improve than ours, or in other words, it’s not over yet because we aren’t the only very shit team in this division.

I think QPR fans felt the same before he turned up 🤨

Here's the ball hitting the post. The goalscorer is the guy behind Miller. He wasn’t running past him at the time. His reaction to the ball coming back out was far better than Miller. That's not luck.

You'd have to imagine that he'll be in with a shout this time, based on who we are realistically likely to attract. So many reasons to be pessimistic about that, but I cling on to the 'but he's a Rover and a Blackburn lad' bit with disproportionate amounts of blind hope...

Thought that for awhile has some team selections bit bizarre Did VI disobey his superiors with the side at Swansea ?