[Archived] Brighton At Home

[G Somerset Rover]

Their goal was a catalogue of balls ups. He's the last player that should be castrated after that but Lenihan's woeful header put us on the backfoot for then Hanley and Kilgallon to both race for the same ball and deflect it into harms way. Of course when it broke free their winger had a free shot on goal, which resulted in an unmarked Zamora poking in the rebound. Tired of saying it, but schoolboy stuff again, with more than one chance to clear our lines.

[47er]

I nominate Abbey, I think he's got it in him to put the fear of God into the players!

Abbey would put the fear of God in God!

[ABBEY]

Not really sure what to say after that.

A rather telling moment in the game... Both Brighton and Rovers were making a sub, the board goes up with #25 off and #21 on. Akpan (#21) runs halfway across the pitch only to realise it was Brighton's sub with Zamora (#25) going off. Seemed like he was dying to get off the pitch and from his and the performances of many others, it seemed they didn't want to be there...

exactly as i saw it too...we chatted about that. It looked to me like he couldnt wait to get off as well.

[Tom]

That dastardly Hope Akpan not wanting to waste time! In fairness he moved faster than some of his colleagues did all game

As an aside I heard Ben Marshalls first child was born at lunchtime surprised he played

[ABBEY]

i dont think it was about wasting time pal, noone out there today gave a crap we lost.

[Lhrover]

been stuck at work, gutted about the result. How did Jackson do?

[T J Hooker]

Bad! Now at home looking at the man in the mirror the game was definitely not a thriller......

[matt83]

These players need to come and shadow any one of the fans who work 40+ hours per week and see what sort of effort we have to put in during that time which enables us to pay to watch them "entertain" us.

All of them will be earning in a week what most fans annual salary is and barring that in mind more than a few of them need to ask themselves if their efforts are really worthy of being paid at all let alone the 10s of thousand they get per week. Other than the totally talentless brown who put himself about a bit I saw no passion or effort from anyone else.

I keep thinking of that old chant you're not fit to wear the shirt. Well I'm struggling to think of one single player in the whole squad who is currently worthy. Would be happy to see the back of any/all of them.

[yankfan]

I agree that we need a massive rebuild in summer but anyone expecting a push for promotion next year needs a reality check. It is a harder task year on year.

Lambert needs significant investment for at least two and possibly three summer's to get anywhere near. I don't expect the Venkys to fund that, and my own expectations of the future of this club are exactly the same as they were in my first season as a supporter ('77/'78), namely mid table mediocrity and hopefully a good cup run watching a team of has beens and also rans.

We are exactly where we were back then and our next promotion is more likely to be from League One than the Championship.

But financially it has to be next year since the club loses its premier league parachute payments after the 16/17 season.

[OJRovers]

Anyone got a link to Lambert's comments after the match?

[Stuart]

Anyone got a link to Lambert's comments after the match?

Here you go:

https://audioboom.com/boos/4070027-i-wouldn-t-put-up-with-that-either-onerovers-manager-paul-lambert-shares-fans-frustration?utm_campaign=detailpage&utm_content=retweet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Basically ends up saying the majority of the players aren't mentally strong enough to play up to his required standards.

Being discussed in the Lambert thread.

[tomphil]

But financially it has to be next year since the club loses its premier league parachute payments after the 16/17 season.

The parachute money is already over unless there has been a change in the distribution.

[grizfoot]

The only thing that was pleasant to watch today was the flurry of wintery showers that continued throughout the game. There was little in the way of entertainment or good quality football to be found on the pitch. Coming into this game I wasn't expecting a classic, and when Brighton took the lead early on after a wayward headed clearance from Kilgallon I had the feeling that it could turn into a long, fruitless afternoon for us. The game went by all too predictably with Rovers huffing and puffing again going forward. Maybe some credit is due to Brighton who I thought defended well and looked more like a team in the play-off spots rather than a team that had lost five on the bounce. In truth they should have gone two-nil up but Zamora fired a one-on-one chance straight at Steele.

There was some improvement from Rovers in the second half but overall another worryingly abject display, the closest we came was a Marshall free-kick that hit the crossbar other than that it was a story of half chances from distance. A name I honestly never expected to glisten up on the big screen under Man of the Match was Chris Brown. But he fully deserved the award, he showed plenty of endeavour and commitment maybe it was the heavy going that suited.

They are still advertising half-season tickets with the "Premier League" pledge if I was buying one now I'd be more inclined to ask whether they come with a League One pledge on current form. Make no doubts about it, continue playing like this and we are in for a relegation battle. The attacking, high-tempo football promised by Lambert as yet to arrive. True he is yet to bring in his own players and to shape the squad to how he sees fit. But it's worrying that the same group of players is putting in worse levels of performance under Lambert than they ever did under Bowyer. A sign of a good manager is that they get the best out of whatever players they do happen to have, but for whatever reason performances seem to be getting worse by the game. More worrying for me is that our jewel in the crown, Jordan Rhodes, looks out of sorts. Not helped by the fact that we aren't really playing to his strengths, today we largely resorted to continuous hoofball action. Second half especially, we began to look completely out of ideas. Towards the end we had Brown and Hanley upfront, Rhodes mysteriously tucked into midfield, ball after ball thumped high into the air. Presumably hoping that an errant snowflake or two would drop into the eye of a Brighton defender and force a mistake. No such thing happened of course and I couldn't help think that I'd spent my afternoon unduly trapped in a snow globe of mediocrity.

[roverredrose]

Tin hat ready.its poisonous down Ewood Park at minute and I think the players don't like the fans. There is no interaction whatsoever, we're on their backs for slightest thing, there is no encouragement whatsoever,no atmosphere whatsoever, and it's not a nice place to ply your trade. When a player scores they don't even look at the supporters in most cases. We've lost the players, regardless of any chuffing manager. Just my opinion. Reasons upon reasons and debates and explanations and theories can be explored into why things don't or are not working but this is the underlying problem I think. There's no support, just cardboard cutouts that groan and boo. The players look as depressed as this messageboard reads. When was last time players were smiling on pitch and enjoying playing? Probably when the supporters are smiling and screaming support.

Blame venkys, kean,berg,Appleton, bowyer, Lambert. That cloud has never dispersed since venkys turned up.

[booth]

I wish I could ply my trade at Blackburn Rovers. The place where you can turn up, collect your large wage packet, get looked after and do a @#/? poor job.

[sambo]

Tin hat ready.its poisonous down Ewood Park at minute and I think the players don't like the fans. There is no interaction whatsoever, we're on their backs for slightest thing, there is no encouragement whatsoever,no atmosphere whatsoever, and it's not a nice place to ply your trade. When a player scores they don't even look at the supporters in most cases. We've lost the players, regardless of any chuffing manager. Just my opinion. Reasons upon reasons and debates and explanations and theories can be explored into why things don't or are not working but this is the underlying problem I think. There's no support, just cardboard cutouts that groan and boo. The players look as depressed as this messageboard reads. When was last time players were smiling on pitch and enjoying playing? Probably when the supporters are smiling and screaming support.

Blame venkys, kean,berg,Appleton, bowyer, Lambert. That cloud has never dispersed since venkys turned up.

We never score enough to know if they celebrate with the fans or not!

There didn't seem to be any such problem when they applauded the fans quite passionately and for a decent amount of time.

Supporters losing the players seems an odd excuse for me, but I don't get to Ewood enough to know for sure.

[sambo]

Tin hat ready.its poisonous down Ewood Park at minute and I think the players don't like the fans. There is no interaction whatsoever, we're on their backs for slightest thing, there is no encouragement whatsoever,no atmosphere whatsoever, and it's not a nice place to ply your trade. When a player scores they don't even look at the supporters in most cases. We've lost the players, regardless of any chuffing manager. Just my opinion. Reasons upon reasons and debates and explanations and theories can be explored into why things don't or are not working but this is the underlying problem I think. There's no support, just cardboard cutouts that groan and boo. The players look as depressed as this messageboard reads. When was last time players were smiling on pitch and enjoying playing? Probably when the supporters are smiling and screaming support.

Blame venkys, kean,berg,Appleton, bowyer, Lambert. That cloud has never dispersed since venkys turned up.

We never score enough to know if they celebrate with the fans or not!

There didn't seem to be any such problem when they applauded the fans quite passionately and for a decent amount of time.

Supporters losing the players seems an odd excuse for me, but I don't get to Ewood enough to know for sure.

[ABBEY]

Tin hat ready.its poisonous down Ewood Park at minute and I think the players don't like the fans. There is no interaction whatsoever, we're on their backs for slightest thing, there is no encouragement whatsoever,no atmosphere whatsoever, and it's not a nice place to ply your trade. When a player scores they don't even look at the supporters in most cases. We've lost the players, regardless of any chuffing manager. Just my opinion. Reasons upon reasons and debates and explanations and theories can be explored into why things don't or are not working but this is the underlying problem I think. There's no support, just cardboard cutouts that groan and boo. The players look as depressed as this messageboard reads. When was last time players were smiling on pitch and enjoying playing? Probably when the supporters are smiling and screaming support.

Blame venkys, kean,berg,Appleton, bowyer, Lambert. That cloud has never dispersed since venkys turned up.

blame the fans ..steve knob would be proud of you

[RevidgeBlue]

Tin hat ready.its poisonous down Ewood Park at minute and I think the players don't like the fans. There is no interaction whatsoever, we're on their backs for slightest thing, there is no encouragement whatsoever,no atmosphere whatsoever, and it's not a nice place to ply your trade. When a player scores they don't even look at the supporters in most cases. We've lost the players, regardless of any chuffing manager. Just my opinion. Reasons upon reasons and debates and explanations and theories can be explored into why things don't or are not working but this is the underlying problem I think. There's no support, just cardboard cutouts that groan and boo. The players look as depressed as this messageboard reads. When was last time players were smiling on pitch and enjoying playing? Probably when the supporters are smiling and screaming support.

Blame venkys, kean,berg,Appleton, bowyer, Lambert. That cloud has never dispersed since venkys turned up.

I can't agree with that at all,I thought the crowd were incredibly tolerant of the garbage that was being served up yesterday, watching on with resigned silence with only a few half hearted boos when the team went off at half time and at the end.

At a lot of places the team would have been hung drawn and quartered by the crowd for playing like that.

[EWOODACE1]

Conway has been poor for some time now, probably since he signed his new contract. Amazing coincidence that. I can't remember the last telling cross (either open play or dead ball) he put in, the last time he went past his man or the last decent tackle he made. I can remember lots of mis controlled balls, hitting the front man and losing the ball. In fairness he does put a shift in but should that merit a place?

He has always been less effective down the left though. 90% of his assists are from the right but bowyer and lambert persist with him on the left

Not really sure what to say after that.

A rather telling moment in the game... Both Brighton and Rovers were making a sub, the board goes up with #25 off and #21 on. Akpan (#21) runs halfway across the pitch only to realise it was Brighton's sub with Zamora (#25) going off. Seemed like he was dying to get off the pitch and from his and the performances of many others, it seemed they didn't want to be there...

Are you kidding. Akpan is one of only three players who tried their best yesterday. He isn't a very good player but at least he was attempting to do something. Ok he saw his number come up and thought it was him but I highly doubt he couldn't wait to get off.

Tin hat ready.its poisonous down Ewood Park at minute and I think the players don't like the fans. There is no interaction whatsoever, we're on their backs for slightest thing, there is no encouragement whatsoever,no atmosphere whatsoever, and it's not a nice place to ply your trade. When a player scores they don't even look at the supporters in most cases. We've lost the players, regardless of any chuffing manager. Just my opinion. Reasons upon reasons and debates and explanations and theories can be explored into why things don't or are not working but this is the underlying problem I think. There's no support, just cardboard cutouts that groan and boo. The players look as depressed as this messageboard reads. When was last time players were smiling on pitch and enjoying playing? Probably when the supporters are smiling and screaming support.

Blame venkys, kean,berg,Appleton, bowyer, Lambert. That cloud has never dispersed since venkys turned up.

What a load of rubbish.

[matt83]

Tin hat ready.its poisonous down Ewood Park at minute and I think the players don't like the fans. There is no interaction whatsoever, we're on their backs for slightest thing, there is no encouragement whatsoever,no atmosphere whatsoever, and it's not a nice place to ply your trade. When a player scores they don't even look at the supporters in most cases. We've lost the players, regardless of any chuffing manager. Just my opinion. Reasons upon reasons and debates and explanations and theories can be explored into why things don't or are not working but this is the underlying problem I think. There's no support, just cardboard cutouts that groan and boo. The players look as depressed as this messageboard reads. When was last time players were smiling on pitch and enjoying playing? Probably when the supporters are smiling and screaming support.

Blame venkys, kean,berg,Appleton, bowyer, Lambert. That cloud has never dispersed since venkys turned up.

I wouldn't say poisonous in fact I think they're getting off easy with the apathy that has set in. My mate said to me they deserve booing for this display but he couldn't be bothered so just left and I think that summed up a lot of folk.

Not one bit of sympathy for any of the players. Rovers fans aren't an enigma it's simple regardless of ability if you the basics even averagely, try hard show a bit of fight you'll be supported regardless. If you come across as a bunch of over paid cry babies not trying then as a player expect pelters.

Things I'm seeing regularly that don't go down well with me are misplacing passes 3 or 4 yards away then just letting it go without attempting to win the ball back. Or half of them seem to be hiding behind opposition players. I'd wager not one of them could care less about the result they trap up to "work" and as long as the money is in their account it's all rosy.

[Speedie Dived]

I'm not being petty but a footballer is flipping paid to do the basics and put effort in...it's what there on the pitch for

And he did that. Brown is Another one our fans have got wrong.

[arbitro]

And he did that. Brown is Another one our fans have got wrong.

I looked at Brown with a few minutes to go and he was pretty much covered in mud and out on his feet. He had scrapped and fought for every ball, kicked and been kicked and elbowed a few. I wish that some of our bigger, more talented players had done the same.

[jw_]

And he did that. Brown is Another one our fans have got wrong.

After watching that game I would take a team of Browns in a shot, what he lacks in skills and finesse he makes up for in sheer effort which is what most of the others seriously lack.

[Lancaster Rover]

I find the Akpan hate on here baffling at times. It seems to be a recurring theme with whoever happens to be our holding midfielder. Akpan is by no means a great player but I think he's been one of Rovers more consistent players this season who has done the job he is tasked with adequately, he's certainly not disgraced himself and has scored a couple of important goals. One thing he has shown is willingness to work which is more than can be said for many of our so called 'better' players.