[Archived] Accrington Stanley 0 Blackburn Rovers 3

[Modi]

Oh crud. I'd forgotten douglas was still around.

[T4E]

Good news on Jeffers. If he can get circa 10 goals this season he'll prove himself a very very good signing indeed.

[tchocky]

3-0 Matty Derbyshire!!

[Tris]

Good news on Jeffers. If he can get circa 10 goals this season he'll prove himself a very very good signing indeed.

Stop being so bloody optimistic. Really - you've been on here long enough. You should know better.

[Florida Rover]

Now we are talking!That the kind of news we want more of tonight,tchocky. what of Glenn at this time,Modi?

[herbergeehh]

Good news on Derbyshire. If he can get circa 10 goals this season he'll prove himself as a very very good player for us indeed.

Edited July 19, 2006 by herbergeehh

[T4E]

I actually wrote 15 goals and downgraded it!

Fair comment though. Not that we need any other striker with Derbs on the books

[Florida Rover]

I'd like to ECHO those comments as well.

[tchocky]

Haha.

By the way, Tugay on for presumably Bentley some time recently. After the goal I guess.

[Modi]

superfast Glenn does it again... 3-0 Derbyshire

[Eddie]

Remember who we are playing guys. I mean, good to win and all, but it doesn't make our strikers 10 goals a season men.

[T4E]

Good point Eddie, I hadn't thought of it like that.

[USRoverME]

Of course not Eddie, 20 goals a piece is more like it!

(someone has to counter-act the prozac crowd around here!)

[tchocky]

Good point Eddie, I hadn't thought of it like that.

F/T

[Eddie]

20? I think even Brad could manage that this season.

Good point Eddie, I hadn't thought of it like that.

Well everyone seemed to be getting a little excited.

[Modi]

And so concludes the broadcast of glenn-o-vision.

Tune in next time to witness Shearer scoring his first goal, and Simon Garner being mistaken for Andy Cole.

[pick32]

well we won comfortably no more than we expect positives gallaghers performance and jeffers goal negative roberts injury

[RevidgeBlue]

Biggest plus point has to be Derbyshire featuring and scoring?

EDIT: Gallagher as well in view of ihb's opinion below?

Edited July 19, 2006 by RevidgeBlue

[ihateburnley]

Just got back.

Obviously you can't take too much from the first pre-season game, but I thought Gallagher looked excellent and bossed the midfield, Agathe played well when going forward (I wouldn't play him at the back though), Roberts and Jeffers got on the score sheet, and both Peter and Kuqi looked lively when coming on in the second half.

Agathe was quality for Jeffers' goal - I bet he took four players on. Good cross aswell. Sign him on because he impressed me more in a friendly against Stanley than Emerton has done in two years!

[Wolverine]

As I arrived at the ground, I felt tinge of irony listening to 'I Predict A Riot', what with the rumours of a Burnley invasion.

However, waiting for the riot with the Dingle's was much like waiting for Mido to sign a contract.

Standing up was quite a novelty for a while, but we are quite spoilt with all this sitting down lark. Seeing as the wife is pregnant, she just went ahead and sat down anyway.

It was good to see a bit of action for the rovers after all this time (have we really had a world cup since the end of the season?), with the following players impressing:

Gallagher - Looked like his loan spells have given him confidence and tenacity.

Roberts - Difficult for Accy to get him off the ball.

Brown - One to watch for the future I feel.

Khizanishvili - Looked a little faster than normal. Or maybe it was cos they don't put names on shirts in friendlies and the extra few kilo's of letter weren't weighing him down.

Jeffers - Not the shambles many would lead us to belive.

Derbyshire - showed composure, could be his chance this year...

Other points of fun were the compere who was probably well behind Glenn with info, heckling the stanley players (GET ON THAT POST SOMEONE...), wondering why all lids were confiscated off bottles ("It's so you don't throw them on the field", which is fine until some nob threw a stella bottle on), and the stanley fans cheering as though they scored if they got so much as a corner.

Funnily enough, none f them noticed the rather large rovers flag flying just behind them!

An interesting game, and while it isn't possible to draw too much from it as it is a friendly against lesser opposition, there are plenty of plus points. Hopefully Roberts' injury isnot too bad...

[Glenn]

I think next time we need a 14yr old to try this text commentary thing, my ancient digits can't text quick enough.

[modes98]

Any News on the injury to our main striker?

Glad both of them got off the mark, good to see gally having a stormer aswell!

[Scotty]

And so it begins again.

It was still very, very hot at kick-off and the pitch was hard, bumpy and sandy, so it was never going to be a classic. Both teams were only playing at half pace and there was hardly a meaningful tackle in the game (with one or two exceptions), so it's difficult to make judgements on players. In addition I thought Accrington were very poor and offered very little up front.

After saying that though Gallagher did impress in the first half. He started wide on the right but kept switching with Bentley in the centre and drove forward at every opportunity. It was his shot that was parried by the keeper for Roberts to finish. Roberts looked dangerous as well and it was a shame when he went off injured after about 35 minutes - hope it's not serious. However, there were no signs of Roberts and Jeffers developing a partnership during that time but it's obviously very early days.

Agathe played at right-back and looked good going forward, but he also looked very shaky defensively. He did brilliantly for the second goal though, beating at least two players before getting to the by-line and delivering a peach of a cross that Jeffers couldn't fail to convert. It was really the only outstanding moment that Jeffers had in the game (he was subbed shortly after his goal) but I guess he's that type of player, doesn't seem to do much but gets on the end of things and, hopefully, scores goals.

The other plus was Derbyshire, who scored one (a real poachers effort) and could have had a couple more. He still looks very small, but there's something about the lad - he's got a touch of class when he gets in front of goal. Our other debutant Brown had a solid second half in goal and made at least one decent save when called upon.

The only real negatives were Friedel's kicking, which was awful (although the pitch was bobbly), Robert's injury, Bentley and Pedersen's poor performance, and seeing that Kuqi's first touch hasn't improved over the summer. Also both Reid and Nelsen were missing, presumably injured.

All in all it was a decent workout against poor opposition. We controlled most of the game and deserved the win, but we never really got out of first gear. Nice that 3 of our strikers got goals though, can't hurt their confidence going into the bigger challenges ahead.

[Karembeu]

Yea!~! Is a good start for Blackburn. But what really caught my eye in the report. Is that Jason Robert only cost us 2 million? That is really a good catch! Hope that he can perform well for us!

[Cocker]

Just got back.

Agathe was quality for Jeffers' goal - I bet he took four players on. Good cross aswell. Sign him on because he impressed me more in a friendly against Stanley than Emerton has done in two years!

I remember watching Emerton in a pre-season freindly in Ireland and think yes we have a good player here. Then I watched him have a stromer in his first game against wolves and I thought - we have a great player here. Then it all changed.

Anyway, we have nothing to loose on Agathe cos he is free so I will give him time.