[Archived] Keith Andrews - Rovers Newest Signing

[T4E]

I'd love it, yeah just love it, if he got a brace.

He'd be an instant hero.

It would certainly help his standing with the fans, but it wont excuse poor performances forever.

Just ask Gamst.

[tcj_jones]

It would certainly help his standing with the fans, but it wont excuse poor performances forever.

Just ask Gamst.

But Gamst is still at the club, however many years on...

Oh giant novelty-sized balls.

[test]

But Gamst is still at the club, however many years on...

Oh giant novelty-sized balls.

Andrews will miss the ROI game tonight as Trap doesn't want him picking up a yellow and being unavailable for the Play offs...........What do they see that I don't?

[Plastic Head]

Well where can I start.

Today he was embarrassed by the only midfield worse than ours.

It started when he should have been "holding" as N'zonzi went forward for a set piece but as usual found himself in no mans land on the edsge of the box. After realising his error he arrived back in defence just in time to see the ball hit our net.

He was beaten for skill by non other than Bikey on more than one occasion and N'zonzi was left to struggle alone for the entire first half. Kept getting into poor positions on the field time and again and I was mightliy relieved we were 3-4 up at HT.

That was the good bit.

His second half performance was the most abject display I have witnessed in 38 years of Rovers football. He covers ground alright, but is never where he needs to be. Constantly in no mans land, marking nobody, and the occasional completed passes in the first half dried up. Any other player at the club would be a better option.

Can't head, can't tackle, can't pass, is brainless on the pitch and if he points at a man he should be marking while he's standing still again I will personally have to run on the pitch and t**t him.

This oaf is in real danger of taking us to a league we may never get back up from.

Mr Allardyce explain yourself. And if you mention stats such as miles covered you are a gobsshyte. Pick Paula Radcliffe if you want that.

[Tom]

I know right what was he thinking playing that superb ball for the third goal?

[DE.]

Well where can I start.

Today he was embarrassed by the only midfield worse than ours.

It started when he should have been "holding" as N'zonzi went forward for a set piece but as usual found himself in no mans land on the edsge of the box. After realising his error he arrived back in defence just in time to see the ball hit our net.

He was beaten for skill by non other than Bikey on more than one occasion and N'zonzi was left to struggle alone for the entire first half. Kept getting into poor positions on the field time and again and I was mightliy relieved we were 3-4 up at HT.

That was the good bit.

His second half performance was the most abject display I have witnessed in 38 years of Rovers football. He covers ground alright, but is never where he needs to be. Constantly in no mans land, marking nobody, and the occasional completed passes in the first half dried up. Any other player at the club would be a better option.

Can't head, can't tackle, can't pass, is brainless on the pitch and if he points at a man he should be marking while he's standing still again I will personally have to run on the pitch and t**t him.

This oaf is in real danger of taking us to a league we may never get back up from.

Mr Allardyce explain yourself. And if you mention stats such as miles covered you are a gobsshyte. Pick Paula Radcliffe if you want that.

right.

calm down mate, have a drink. we just beat Burnley and you're fuming over Andrews performance? I didn't even notice he was playing 2nd half (probably for the best), whilst in the first he made some fantastic passes and was often closing down Burnley players and causing them to make mistakes. He should've come off around the 60 minute mark for Emerton... but he was no where near as bad as you want him to be (today, anyway).

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Fair play for the ball to Pedersen however... Emerton, Reid, Salgado, Cone may have been able to do that and contribute more.

Was in the BBE and everyone around me was shaking their head at his lack of quality.

Anyway for now.......Dingles, Dingles what's the score?

[Hasta]

Get off his back.

He was OK today.

Jesus we could have that Bikey in our midfield giving the ball away.

Andrews will never be great but stop permanently looking for faults in him.

[Hullrover]

Or Mokoena.

[grizfoot]

Get off his back.

He was OK today.

Jesus we could have that Bikey in our midfield giving the ball away.

Andrews will never be great but stop permanently looking for faults in him.

Precisely Andrews looked half-decent when you compare him to Bikey who must have passed straight to a Rovers players on three seperate occassions. He did a lot of running and pressing today exactly what you need in Derby games and he did do a perfectly timed tackle after making up a lot of ground I recall, we all know Andrews isn't a world beater but he didn't play too badly today in truth.

[joey_big_nose]

He needs to be dropped. While an okay game for him today, on balance he was stll probably only our second worst performer (Diouf probably gets top prize...). That is the issue, consistently he is one of our three worst players in each match. He does not have a game in eight now which could be described as good. They have ranged from the appalling to the mediocre.

He does a job, and I have no problem with jug ears being in the team if others are injured or suspended, but Emerton was available and should have started today. Defensively we would have been much stronger, and offensively far more direct. It does seem Allardyce now prefers Grella to Andrews, so maybe if the "man of glass" is fit (hmmm) Andrews won't play against Chelsea. But if he isn't the other Aussie has to.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Yet again people are having an undeserved dig at Andrews. He works hard, gives 100% and actually had a decent game considering he was playing in league 1 not so long ago. Of course he isn't a top premier league star, however it annoys me when he gets slated at every opportunity. He's a Blackburn play for goodness sake, we should be supporting him and not slagging him off. We've had so many players over the years who don't give a monkeys about Blackburn yet we've given them non-stop support only for them to shove it back in our faces. For once we've got a player who wants to prove himself and since joining the club has managed to firmly establish himself into the first team and his international team. Fair play to him. He might not be a £10m super star but he's a sort of player which we base our football club motto on.

[Kelbo]

Plastic Head, on 18 October 2009 - 18:58 PM, said:

Well where can I start.

Today he was embarrassed by the only midfield worse than ours.

It started when he should have been "holding" as N'zonzi went forward for a set piece but as usual found himself in no mans land on the edsge of the box. After realising his error he arrived back in defence just in time to see the ball hit our net.

He was beaten for skill by non other than Bikey on more than one occasion and N'zonzi was left to struggle alone for the entire first half. Kept getting into poor positions on the field time and again and I was mightliy relieved we were 3-4 up at HT.

That was the good bit.

His second half performance was the most abject display I have witnessed in 38 years of Rovers football. He covers ground alright, but is never where he needs to be. Constantly in no mans land, marking nobody, and the occasional completed passes in the first half dried up. Any other player at the club would be a better option.

Can't head, can't tackle, can't pass, is brainless on the pitch and if he points at a man he should be marking while he's standing still again I will personally have to run on the pitch and t**t him.

This oaf is in real danger of taking us to a league we may never get back up from.

Mr Allardyce explain yourself. And if you mention stats such as miles covered you are a gobsshyte. Pick Paula Radcliffe if you want that.'

What agreat assessment of his game, everything correct and yes the bloody pointing, if he knows someone needs marking why the hell doesnt HE mark them!!!

[booth]

He wasn't fantastic today, some people seem to have rose tinted specs on. That said I think most people were more fixated on Diouf's no show (now he WAS really awful today). The real gripe I have with Andrews selection is that he'll now probably start against Man Utd & Chelsea. And against superior opposition it's like playing with ten men. Okay he put in the pass to Chimbonda, credit to him for that but let's not forget that he also provided the header upwards (?!) which in turn led to their consolation goal. Because of which now, to add a fly to the ointment, the Dingle's are saying that they could have won it

3-1 was flattering to them today, never mind 3-2

Let's put things into perspective, against inferior opposition, Andrews is okay at best.

But hey WE BEAT BURNLEY!!!!!

[bubblerrovers]

I'm sad to read this, after today people still go out of there way to slate Andrews. He did ok and got a very important bloke in that could have gone in. Seriously give the guy a break, just for one day, WE BEAT BURNLEY!

[Stonesrick]

I have never been one to criticise Rovers players in the past and have always tried to look at the positives in every Rovers player that wears the blue & white halves. I keep saying to myself that KA must have some attributes because top managers see something in him and continue to pick him week in/week out.

However, I watched him very carefully today and I tried to work out what exactly he brings to the table and apart from running around aimlessly and pointing at players and losing his position, I have realised that what he brings to the team is very very little. Yes he keeps fit and no doubt the prozone stats will show that he covers more miles than... Alan Willey? But I bet you anything that Tugay didn't figure highly in the Prozone stats, smoked 30 woodbines a day and probably would fail most of Big Sam's modern physical fitness tests. However, one thing he had in abundance was a football brain and that compensates massively for any other weaknesses.

After today, I think Sam will reflect on his contribution this season, or lack of it and with other more competent players returning from injury/suspension, our Keith will slip out of the picture.

He is totally out of his depth against the better teams but you would hope that against such inferior opposition today that he would at least have looked half decent. Apart from a couple of passes here and there, a good block from a shot late on he contributed very little.

I do think he tries hard, stays fit and does his very best but unless we can find better quality than this, then we are in great danger in the next couple of years of losing our status in the Premier League.

For a moment today, I was even starting to think that 'the Axe' was a better option than KA!?!

As I have said, I do not like to criticise our players and today's result was terrific but I think there are times where we have to be honest and face the facts.

[Miker]

The posts on here just prove the bias people have towards Andrews. I criticised him two weeks ago for being asbolutely poor and non-existent against Arsenal, but he was quite involved for us against Burnley, especially in the first half. The second half is another story and once again when the entire team is making errors, people on here use Andrews as the scapegoat. Go look back at the game and see how many times Dunn lost the ball, or Emerton, or Diouf. Andrews was pretty invisible in the second half I'll agree, but he was making some quality passes and working extremely hard. For those that are saying they are studying his game in detail need to get over Andrews. I know you might have the hots for him, but he's not going to suddenly be interested in you if you keep staring at him.

Andrews is NOT going to get us relegated, he was NOT at fault for the first goal (that was N'zonzi's fault) and he is NOT going to be replaced by Emerton in the centre. I'm sorry, but that's just a realistic view of Andrews, not a view from fantasy land.

[TimmyJimmy]

Andrews is a strange player to comment on. He doesn't slot into any particular role very well. He is moderately skilled for this level of football, he's fit, willing and can cover a number of different positions, but that's the issue, Keith provides cover but doesn't actually own any particular slot. Against Arsenal he was bad, but then who wasn't? For me we should recognise his weaknesses but let's not crucify him at every turn. He is what he is and clearly if better alternatives had shown in training then he would not be playing so presumably he's best of the rest.

Yesterday I thought he did really well, sorry but that's my opinion. He covered ground, closed down and made crucial tackles. His distribution was good. The arm waving and pointing looks weak but he's probably trying to help Nzonzi who's a young kid with bags and bags of potential but still needs to learn the positional side of the game.

Like every other player he has his level and in his case that's lower Premier league quality, say positions 14 to 17. That's good squad quality. It's not his fault that there is no one better to play his position.

The more he plays the better he is getting (very small incremental improvements I agree) but getting better. When/if we buy big and get a name midfielder then Keith will provide cover and will do a job, right now he seems to be giving 100% every match.

To read some on here with their counsels of perfection I just think you need to find a new topic or a new outlook on life. He makes the best of what he's got and for me that's 'adequate' and we can't ask for anything more until we replace him with a money signing. He's certainly worth the pittance we paid for him.

He's always going to be tested against 'proper' midfielders but that's to be expected - he didn't cost mega quids. It's like diss'ing a Fiat 500 because it's not a Lambo. It still made car of the year.

Credit where it's due and that's right now, you did well yesterday Keith. He was one of the 11 that whacked Bumley so respect dude.

[47er]

The posts on here just prove the bias people have towards Andrews. I criticised him two weeks ago for being asbolutely poor and non-existent against Arsenal, but he was quite involved for us against Burnley, especially in the first half. The second half is another story and once again when the entire team is making errors, people on here use Andrews as the scapegoat. Go look back at the game and see how many times Dunn lost the ball, or Emerton, or Diouf. Andrews was pretty invisible in the second half I'll agree, but he was making some quality passes and working extremely hard. For those that are saying they are studying his game in detail need to get over Andrews. I know you might have the hots for him, but he's not going to suddenly be interested in you if you keep staring at him.

Andrews is NOT going to get us relegated, he was NOT at fault for the first goal (that was N'zonzi's fault) and he is NOT going to be replaced by Emerton in the centre. I'm sorry, but that's just a realistic view of Andrews, not a view from fantasy land.

I can't believe the bias some people have towards Doeuf but it doesn't bother you.Lets accept we wiill always have differences of opinion on here . My opinion on Andrews has not changed. he can't tackle and he gives the ball away so many times when we are going forward. That would be punished by a better team than Burnley. He is not Premier League standard and we should be playing Grella/Emerton ahead of him.

[Jan]

Sorry. Plastic Head was 100% right. Andrews has no place on a Premier League football pitch. And as for the pointing...............

I especially enjoyed when he was trying to tell Dunn what to do and Dunn just pushed him away disdainfully. Or when someone had the ball on the Jack Walker side of the pitch and Andrews was standing 6 feet away calling for the ball. The person on the ball simply ignored him- much like the team did with Pedersen the previous season. (Pedersen did ok yesterday, though)

[alexanders]

Yesterday I thought he did really well, sorry but that's my opinion. He covered ground, closed down and made crucial tackles. His distribution was good. The arm waving and pointing looks weak but he's probably trying to help Nzonzi who's a young kid with bags and bags of potential but still needs to learn the positional side of the game.

Really really agree with you. I gave Andrews a lot of stick after last match against Arsenal, but credit where its due. Yesterday he was Pirlo and Gattuso in one. Superb tackling and breaking up opposition play, and some really nice long passing!

[G Somerset Rover]

Really really agree with you. I gave Andrews a lot of stick after last match against Arsenal, but credit where its due. Yesterday he was Pirlo and Gattuso in one. Superb tackling and breaking up opposition play, and some really nice long passing!

He did do okay yesterday, but I just nearly choked on my porridge there. Andrews and Pirlo/Gattuso do not belong in the same sentance. He isn't fit to clean their boots.

[LeChuck]

He had a good game yesterday, I'm not sure how anyone could say otherwise.

The only poor bit to his game was short-range passing, he seems to get very careless when playing short balls. The best example of this was when we broke forward and he had an opportunity to play a simple sideways pass to Pedersen to put him through on goal, he over-hit it and sent Peds out wide, forcing him to cross instead.

Long-range passing and tackling was very good yesterday though, and he made some good blocks in our penalty area. He's still not the long term answer to that position but he was good enough yesterday.

[tcj_jones]

Andrews was actually pretty good yesterday, especially first half. However, like the rest of the team, he wasn't as good in the second. Unfortunately though, good performances are something of a rarity for Keith.

[joey_big_nose]

Really really agree with you. I gave Andrews a lot of stick after last match against Arsenal, but credit where its due. Yesterday he was Pirlo and Gattuso in one. Superb tackling and breaking up opposition play, and some really nice long passing!

Mate, have you been at the mushrooms ?! What tackles did he win? And apart from the wide ball out to Pedersent for Chimbonda's goal what good passes did he manage? He got a couple of blocks but that was it...