[Archived] Hull City Preview

[Esulx]

Axe off, Tugay on and Blackburn are pushing on...

RSC just puts one over. "It's all Blackburn" says Mers

[Nelsta]

spurs 1 - 2 sunderland.cisse

[dopper69]

The Mac is on for Roberts

[Nelsta]

stoke 2 - 1 villa

[joey_big_nose]

I don't understand Roberts for McCarthy.....

Hmm. Hopefully we can pin them back and Benni can get in the penalty area.

[Rovers in America]

Damn Carragher ties it

[Esulx]

Pogatetz og

[Rovers in America]

Damn, Gerrard scores the winner with 10 seconds left

[Mr. E]

the question is why aren't we scoring the winner??

edit: FT. FFS.

[roverfanuk]

Not good enough from what i can tell...

Ince should have had Carlos on the bench.

At least Ince now knows that we desperately need a new RM...

[joey_big_nose]

A 1-1 draw.

Only listened to it so those who were at the game will have to comment more fully, but it sounded like once Dunn went off we ran out of ideas which is a bit predictable. Also harsh on Roberts to be substitiuted when he sounded like one of our best players.

Against clubs like this who come and defend in depth you need creative players to unlock them. Dunn and Cruz are our only genuine creative players (Reid, Pedersen, Mokoena, Roberts - who sounded excellent - and Emerton are all workers) and once Dunn went off we juat didn't have too many ideas. Tugay sits very deep and its hard for him to hit hollywood passes from there when Hull pack their half.

I wonder why Villaneuva was't on the bench? Sounds like he could have been useful in the second half. Injured? COul have got into their third and and buzzed around....

And a stupid goal to give away.

4 points from 2 games is decent though. Lets not forget that.

[Rovers in America]

Stoke beat Big Bad Brad 3-2.

[roverfanuk]

Just going to going to quickly add.

Would people have been happy if we drew against Everton and won against Hull. It is the same i suppose!

Oh and were 2nd apparently...

[tcj_jones]

Please can somebody shed some light on Dunn's injury? I feel he will be a massive loss and I'm really worried that it's a hamstring injury which means he could be out for a long time.

[tonyoz]

Hmmm..........bit of deja vu. Same old disappointing stuff at home. I was REALLY looking forward to this game too. We miss Bentley big time. However, Hull are no mugs. I think they will do OK this year. I think Robinson did well, no fault on the goal. Roque was very ordinary.

[joey_big_nose]

  tcj_jones said:

Please can somebody shed some light on Dunn's injury? I feel he will be a massive loss and I'm really worried that it's a hamstring injury which means he could be out for a long time.

Seconded. If Dunn is out we have problems if Villanueva is not read to step up to central midfield....

[DeadlyDirk]

  Mr. E said:

Here are the facts about Robinson:

His form deteriorated into horrendous at Spurs, and they dropped him out of their starting line up.

He made several massive mistakes for England and was to blame more than any other player for failing to qualify for Euro08.

I do not see how any of this warrants any positive feelings towards him.

Here are some facts

1. You are supposed to be a Blackburn fan

2. Paul Robinson now plays for Blackburn

Any normal supporter would at least give him a chance to see if he can reach his old form, he has done nothing while at the club to deserve all this negative criticism. What about players like RSC, Bentley, Samba, Bellamy among many others, we've helped to rejuvinate a lot of their careers, no reason why we can't do the same with Robinson.

The fact he is a Blackburn player should be enough reasons to have positive feelings about him!

As for today's goal, wait until you see it, Buffon, Casillas, none of them would have any chance with it, it looped over him and drifted into the corner hitting the post on the way in.

[Veevs]

Well at least quite a few of the other results went our way..

Stoke 3-2 Aston Villa

Tottenham 1-2 Sunderland

Well it does mean we are second in the league..

I just hope that the scouts where of watching a couple of spanish games though lol

[RoyRover]

Hopefully this result will show Ince that he needs to splash some cash on a creative midfielder. I would have taken 4 points from our first two games, but I thought that our win would have come from this game. I'm disappointed that we didn't win, as this would have been a great start to the season. I wouldn't be so disappointed if we had drawn last week and won today, instead of it being the other way around. More quality needs to be added to the team, if we are to do better this year. At the same time, it's good to see Spurs losing. Not the start that Bentley imagined at his new super club.

[Veevs]

Thought I would repeat this part.. We are second in the league lol

[tonyoz]

I was worried about Robbo after Everton..............but he was solid today. We lack creativity in midfield. We didn't look like opening them up I'm afraid. Ince now knows much more about his squad than he did.

[John]

Ince says he is not happy with the performace, but blames it on the players being tired, due to the international matches mid-week.

[JAL]

The ball spent more time in the air second half I thought Allardyce had sneaked into the dressing room at half time.

The second half was very poor and on this showing Blackburn Rovers CANNOT AFFORD TO SIGN ANDREWS AND FOWLER, Rovers need better players than these two thats the standard demanded.

[Plastic Head]

An abysmal performance characterised by a total lack of creativity from both sides and a long ball game from Rovers that Wimbledon in their pomp would have been proud of. Hull deserved their point at least after going behind to a goal that looked offside.

Positives: We have 1 more point now than this morning. Spurs lost. Negatives: We only have 1 more point now than this morning. Burnley drew.

What have we found out today.

1. Ooijer is not a right-back. Too easily drawn into the centre (eg the goal) and hopeless going forward.

2. Pedersen is ineffective at best and ideally needs replacing.

3. Reid cannot play on right-mid.

4. The Axe is shyte.

5. Dunn is injury prone

6. Our attacking is like pulling teeth.

THESE ARE ALL THINGS WE KNEW THIS TIME LAST SEASON.

Robbo. Did OK, his long kicks are a weapon but used too often. 7.5/10

Ooijer. Struggled all game. 4.5/10

Warnock. Brutally assaulted several times by the thug King who another ref would have had off the park before HT. Best bet to get a decent cross in. 7.5/10

Samba. Did OK but would like to have seen him forward more. 7/10

Nelsen. Had a difficult afternoon but coped well enough. 7/10

Reid. Totally anonymous in the first half on the right. Ineffective in the middle after HT. 4.5/10

Dunn. Best player on the pitch by miles. We lost our only creativity at HT. 8/10

Mokoena. Awful. 2/10

Pedersen. Completely ineffective in all aspects of the game. Hull nearly scored from his first 2 corners. 1/10

Roberts. Constant threat, fed only on scraps and deserved his goal. 8/10

Santa. Like Roberts without the strength. 7/10

Emerton. Legs moved fast, ball didn't. 5.5/10

Tugay. Even he couldn't brighten a dull game. 5/10

Benni. Pointless sub. 5/10

Champage moment: Samba getting the ball over the Jack Walker roof with a mighty clearance.

So, Simpson needs to be given a go at RB. We need creative midfielders desperately on left and right. We also need cover for Dunn.

Where was Chicken Pox man?

  tcj_jones said:

Please can somebody shed some light on Dunn's injury? I feel he will be a massive loss and I'm really worried that it's a hamstring injury which means he could be out for a long time.

He got a kick just above his achilles.

[spencey7]

EXTREMELY disappointing not to see Villanueva get a run (or even a place on the bench!) today - If ever a game was screaming out for a player of his ilk then it was this one.