[Archived] Blackburn V Wba

[Guest benmaxwell]

Did we finish bottom of disciplinary league again?

Nope second to last ahead of Stoke before todays game. Not sure how our red will effect the scores, but Roberts red will hopefully be withdrawn by the FA.

1 Fulham P 37 - Y 40 - R 1 - Pts 43

2 Liverpool P 37 - Y 50 - R 0 - Pts 50

3 Everton P 37 - Y 49 - R 1 - Pts 52

4 Aston Villa P 37 - Y 52 - R 2 - Pts 58

5 Chelsea P 37 - Y 49 - R 3 - Pts 58

6 Boro P 37 - Y 53 - R 3 - Pts 62

7 Man City P 37 - Y 51 - R 4 - Pts 63

8 Bolton P 37 - Y 61 - R 1 - Pts 64

9 Arsenal P 37 - Y 58 - R 3 - Pts 67

10 WBA P 37 - Y 65 - R 1 - Pts 68

11 Spurs P 37 - Y 55 - R 5 - Pts 70

12 Sunderland P 37 - Y 69 - R 1 - Pts 72

13 Wigan P 37 - Y 61 - R 4 - Pts 73

14 Pompey P 37 - Y 58 - R 5 - Pts 73

15 Hull City P 37 - Y 68 - R 3 - Pts 77

16 Newcastle P 37 - Y 57 - R 7 - Pts 78

17 Man United P 37 - Y 63 - R 5 - Pts 78

18 West Ham P 37 - Y 68 - R 4 - Pts 80

19 Blackburn P 37 - Y 76 - R 3 - Pts 85

20 Stoke City P 37 - Y 74 - R 5 - Pts 89

Edit: My bad!

[ABBEY]

how can fulham be top and bottom

[Bobby G]

Emotional substitution when the King was subbed off. Great player. Great man. We wont have another close to his talent.

Nothing else mattered today.

[pg]

I hope people can post pictures of the stands today so we can all see pictures of the Tugay masks and flags etc.

[duffbear]

Poor Match but great day.

Did anyone stay in the ground on this messageboard after all the players walked round the pitch? because Tugay came back out and was signing autographs for everyone and I mean everyone that was still In the Blackburn Rovers end and Jack Walker. Got to have my picture with the great man as well.

Meet him again after the game outside the player entrance the time now was 7.45 and he was still signing. I asked him what are his plans next season and he said playing on the pitch!!!!, Please Sam say you have made a rare mistake and noticed in the last 3 games he still has something to offer even if it is a cameo role. I am sure he is joking to be honest unless the rumours about QPR wanting him are true.

Then just as he was leaving towards the car park he understanbaly didnt want to sign any more after doing so for nearly 2 hours some very short sighted person shouted after all we have done for you and Tugs replied back angirly that I have been signing for the last 2 hours!!!

Tugay you are and will always be a legend and you are a class act and you will be missed please come back and see us all again Ewood Park is your home and we are your extended family

Ps did anyone else nearly cry when the video tribute with nobody does it better started to play ?

And thank you Andre, Carlos and Aaron and good like with the rest of your careers

[OhmiBRFC]

I hope people can post pictures of the stands today so we can all see pictures of the Tugay masks and flags etc.

I would rather not see pictures of grown men in Tugay masks...

[The Prof.]

Fantastic day. I think yesterday showed the difference between Rover and a team like Newcastle. One club full of warmth and hospitality, one bitter, hyper critical and twisted.

After a horrendous season the club, the players and the supporters showed there is still time in this day and age to give a little for other people. Everyone enjoyed the day, there was more important goings on than the game.

The result didn't matter, the occasion was great and all the departing players must ruefully reflecting that they won't get that sort of warmth from a football crowd again.

Is it just me or has the crowd suddenly become the best thing about Ewood again - boisterous, funny, loud, cheeky, - and very big!

Oh and Robbo has looked world class these last few games and is catching the ball too! How wrong can you be!

Have a good one Tugs!

Now where's that personal trainer for David Dunn!

[Eddie]

Nonsense. The Newcastle fans were really good yesterday as they watched their side go down, which was totally unexpected before the season started and really shouldn't have happened. Let's not get too big about ourselves.

[The Prof.]

Nonsense. The Newcastle fans were really good yesterday as they watched their side go down, which was totally unexpected before the season started and really shouldn't have happened. Let's not get too big about ourselves.

So having a demo at the end is good? Chanting for the Chairman to go - who put £250 MILLION of his own money into the club - is good (Thats more than the Walkers did here)

Good job it wasn't a home game then! It's their fault they want down by hounding Allardyce out.

[Eddie]

No they didn't. You're talking of Allardyce there as they would talk about one of their managers, as some "messiah". They've made plenty of mistakes over the past 4/5 years, including not giving managers enough time, but they haven't been relegated because they sacked Allardyce.

[The Prof.]

No they didn't. You're talking of Allardyce there as they would talk about one of their managers, as some "messiah". They've made plenty of mistakes over the past 4/5 years, including not giving managers enough time, but they haven't been relegated because they sacked Allardyce.

So would they have gone down if they backed him and he was still there?

[Eddie]

Probably not, but equally I don't think they would have gone down had they stuck with Keegan or many of the other managers they have had. Having said that, a few of their problems there now are directly linked to Allardyce's poor work in the transfer market. His time there certainly did nothing to help to avoid this situation.

[imy9]

Probably not, but equally I don't think they would have gone down had they stuck with Keegan or many of the other managers they have had. Having said that, a few of their problems there now are directly linked to Allardyce's poor work in the transfer market. His time there certainly did nothing to help to avoid this situation.

Listen to players like James Milner and you will see that Sam was starting something at the club which if given time he would have turned it around:

"If Sam Allardyce had still been at Newcastle, they wouldn’t be in the position they are now,” said the winger, who was signed by Sir Bobby Robson and left for Aston Villa eight months after Allardyce’s departure. “Allardyce was planning for the long-term. The staff he brought in, he was looking at a bigger picture.

“The plan might have taken three, four, five years. There’s always going to be question marks about the way you play football, but first and foremost Allardyce’s job was to get stability. The organisational ideas he had worked at Bolton so why should he change from that? But he never told us to just hit it. We had the players to play and Allardyce wanted us to do that.”

Remember Xisco (£5.6 million) and Collocini (£10 million) were signed by Keegan, Sir Bobby bought Bramble, Viana and Carl Cort for £23 million!

[AggyBlue]

Nonsense.

Yesterday was more like a promotion party.

Everybody was filled with such optimism for the future, of the like I've not seen down Ewood for many a year.

I just hope the Trust allow Sam to spend some decent cash on a couple of class players to keep this new found optimism going. Next season could see us playing in front of 28K plus every home game.

[thenodrog]

I'd like to know why the ref got to manage the same two teams home and away. Mike Jones also sent off McCarthy at The Hawthorns for a handball again a dubious decision.

Those two decisions alone suggest a bias AND that he should not ref a Prem game until he improves. I'd bloody love to see him send Rooney off or Torres for the same but I suggest he is not the type to dare do that.

[Stuart]

I hope people can post pictures of the stands today so we can all see pictures of the Tugay masks and flags etc.

Check out the Tugay Memories thread.

[thenodrog]

Givet looked class again, Diouf looked painfully slow, Grella just looked painful, Samba was unlucky not to score and Robbo was again excellent.

He did but he still turned the full back evry time and delivered dangerous crosses in. My query is why Benny continually stands at the edge of the area instead of 'getting in' like most centre forwards do. Rem the Lpool goal 2 years go when he scored from MGP's cross after Toogs had completely flummoxed the 'world class' Gerrard? Nowadays he's not following in often enough. Warnock overlapped and played a peach of a ball across the 6 yd line and Benny was simply watching from distance. RSC would have eaten some of those crosses yesterday. I guess it prob is his fitness problem as his anticipation will be better than his stamina.

[philipl]

Yesterday was more like a promotion party.

Everybody was filled with such optimism for the future, of the like I've not seen down Ewood for many a year.

I just hope the Trust allow Sam to spend some decent cash on a couple of class players to keep this new found optimism going. Next season could see us playing in front of 28K plus every home game.

Completely agreed- the atmosphere was brilliant despite the game being frustrating. Once again there was little uneducated hoofing- there were intelligent long diagonals that cruelly showed up Diouf's loss of pace and MGP's slowness of thought these days, whilst Grella simply wasn't tuned in at all.

The noise when Tugay was subbed was as loud as I can remember the new Ewood being since VE day.

To give you an idea of what effect that has. I saw the ref make a motion to his card pocket after Toogs had gone round getting his hugs and handshakes before his gentle jog off the pitch- then he clearly thought better of it.

[thenodrog]

Have to agree Phil, he was totally anonymous.

I still hold the opinion that our midfield is more compact and denies space to the opposition when Grella is playing.

He's a Carsley unfortunately..... a useful workhorse that everybody likes to blame for everything. I bet SA values him though. On the radio before the match yesterday Sam said that he spoke with all the players individually when he came and that the defenders all complained about the lack of protection from midfield. He said his first task was to get the rest of the team to protect the back 4. It's a fact that from the time that he walked in we have been much tighter at the back.

Oh and Robbo has looked world class these last few games and is catching the ball too! How wrong can you be!

Biggest complement I can say is that that save was Freidelesque. Absolutely top drawer! Unfortunately it has got him into the England squad again.

[Bing]

I must have been watching a different game because I thought Grella had a very good game. He was neat in possession in tight areas, playing short one touch passes when under pressure. He also hit four or five brilliantly weighted passes over the top of their full-backs that fell perfectly in space for EHD and MGP to jog on to and pick up.

[thenodrog]

I must have been watching a different game because I thought Grella had a very good game. He was neat in possession in tight areas, playing short one touch passes when under pressure. He also hit four or five brilliantly weighted passes over the top of their full-backs that fell perfectly in space for EHD and MGP to jog on to and pick up.

You need to realise that Grella is destined to be our next scapegoat. The next player to be hounded out will be a 50:50 between him and MGP no matter how they both perform next season. Remember the Ewood 'faithful' always have to have one of those or they are not happy.

[JAL]

I must have been watching a different game because I thought Grella had a very good game. He was neat in possession in tight areas, playing short one touch passes when under pressure. He also hit four or five brilliantly weighted passes over the top of their full-backs that fell perfectly in space for EHD and MGP to jog on to and pick up.

Come on Bing if thats good well we are in trouble straight from the off next season with that kind of performance.

Short one touch passes were easy, peasy, I'd expect any pro to be able to do that, as for the longer passes how many were waisted and went nowhere near one of our players .

Second half West Brom were coming through our midfield for fun and Grellas little legs were chasing but not intercepting, he offered the protection of a chocolate fireguard for the defence and lets not forget this is a championship team we were playing.

If Grella is the standard for next season then have we really improved on this season ? As many poster on here would point out definitely not!

[thenodrog]

Come on Bing if thats good well we are in trouble straight from the off next season with that kind of performance.

Short one touch passes were easy, peasy, I'd expect any pro to be able to do that, as for the longer passes how many were waisted and went nowhere near one of our players .

Second half West Brom were coming through our midfield for fun and Grellas little legs were chasinmg but not intercepting, he offered the protection of a chocolate fireguard for the defence and lets not forget this is a championship team we were playing.

If Grella is the standard for next season then have we really improved on this season ? As many poster on here would point out definitely not!

OK Jal so care to comment how mant times even the Maestro gave the ball away during that 2nd half period?

[duffbear]

Notes from the game.

I like most on this board groaned when Andrews joined but yesterday did notice he has some quality a played 2 great 50 yard diagnoal balls which were great however he is no right back greening went past him too often yesterday. I think next season he will be a useful squad member and I never thought I would hear myself say that

Grella was ok he got a few groans as in a five minute period gave the ball away 3 times.

Robbo's save was world class and again I thought he would not be good enough for us and that along with his performance at Wigan was Friedelesque and he is even coming out and claiming crosses the confidence is fully back again now I believe.

Givet was quailty and is great with the sliding tackles and is great at marking tight and getting a tackle in before the ball reaches the attacker. Asked Sam after the game about signing him and he said we should be

Santa Cruz was there and seemed in good sprits and was signing autographs for the fans and dont believe he took part in the lap of honour at the end? I asked him about his injury and he said he should be back for pre-season.

Asked Dunn as well who was limping but not on cruthes and he also said he would be back for pre-season.

Reid will also be back for pre-season.

Derbyshire was also there and took part in the lap of honour.

Roberts sending off was a joke and the ref was the only one that so anything to appeals form wba player or players or fans he just threw his arm back to create space and belive caught the player in stomach, chest could have maybe been a case for a free kick or at a strech a booking but sending off is a joke.

Tugay - I asked him about one more season and he said no then later asked him what his plans for next season and he said playing on the pitch so maybe the rumours about QPR are true?

[thenodrog]

Whose were the kids in Red and white stripes who were walking around with Derbs? Was that a Sheff strip or an Olympiakos one?