[Archived] Sat 6Th Rhodes Vs Rovers

[Speedie Dived]

Out of interest what was Rhodes like?

[Mike E]

Well Lambert telling it like it was...

http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/blackburn-rovers-paul-lambert-middlesbrough-2941519.aspx

Nice to see 'should have won' in the context of demanding it from his players rather than making excuses.

[VinjayV4]

Nice to see 'should have won' in the context of demanding it from his players rather than making excuses.

Exactly. Not one for being "happy with a point" when it should have been 3. Still it would be exceptionally harsh not to focus almost entirely on the strong positives.

Out of interest what was Rhodes like?

Well he had a shot but think today proved (not that it was in any doubt) this club can and WILL move on without Rhodes. There's understandably been a lot of Rhodes talk in the past week but really he's an absolute irrelevance now. Apart from the money gained for him.

[MrT]

Rhodes only had 10 mins but he took up good positions, Hanley cleared a ball that had JRs number all over it.

Akpan was the worst player on the pitch.

Good to see Rovers players putting their foot in and grafting. Excellent point under the circumstances.

[Neal]

Anyone at the game that can tell us how Watt and Graham played? Graham sounded quiet.

[The Rover of Finland]

How did Lenihan do?

[aletheia]

Just a simple plea. Can we stop this simplistic stuff about Rhodes? You can’t base any judgement on his departure on one game. To say we played well (true) and got a draw (true) BECAUSE he has gone is daft. Equally, to say we would have won if he had played today is also not necessarily the case. What I mean is, you can’t use this game to justify your thinking about Rhodes one way or the other.

What is clear is that, aside from Rhodes, the simple injection of 3 better players (particularly a skilful midfielder) and some pace, things which we all knew were necessary, has resulted in a better team performance. It has also allowed us to move away from the dire dross of hoofball where we had poor Rhodes (or Brown or Marshall at times) chasing lost causes.

Survival in this league is the name of the game now. Rebuilding in the summer to follow.

[DE.]

Just a simple plea. Can we stop this simplistic stuff about Rhodes? You can’t base any judgement on his departure on one game. To say we played well (true) and got a draw (true) BECAUSE he has gone is daft. Equally, to say we would have won if he had played today is also not necessarily the case. What I mean is, you can’t use this game to justify your thinking about Rhodes one way or the other.

What is clear is that, aside from Rhodes, the simple injection of 3 better players (particularly a skilful midfielder) and some pace, things which we all knew were necessary, has resulted in a better team performance. It has also allowed us to move away from the dire dross of hoofball where we had poor Rhodes (or Brown or Marshall at times) chasing lost causes.

Survival in this league is the name of the game now. Rebuilding in the summer to follow.

Spot on there chief. We'll never know how Rhodes would have fared with the likes of Gomez and Watt to support him. Perhaps he would have been the difference between a 1-1 and a 2-1 today. Equally perhaps we would have lost with him in the team. Who knows. There's little point suggesting any of us would know the outcome.

All we can say is that the newer signings have improved our style of play over the past two games, and hopefully that will eventually translate into a league win at some point in the not too distant future.

[VinjayV4]

Just a simple plea. Can we stop this simplistic stuff about Rhodes? You can’t base any judgement on his departure on one game. To say we played well (true) and got a draw (true) BECAUSE he has gone is daft. Equally, to say we would have won if he had played today is also not necessarily the case. What I mean is, you can’t use this game to justify your thinking about Rhodes one way or the other.

What is clear is that, aside from Rhodes, the simple injection of 3 better players (particularly a skilful midfielder) and some pace, things which we all knew were necessary, has resulted in a better team performance. It has also allowed us to move away from the dire dross of hoofball where we had poor Rhodes (or Brown or Marshall at times) chasing lost causes.

Survival in this league is the name of the game now. Rebuilding in the summer to follow.

HEAR BLOODY HEAR!!!

If it wasn't for Shaw leaving all we would have heard about in past week is Rhodes. Starting next week we shouldn't really hear his name at all.

Team moved on, club moves on.

[Tom]

Alone in the box? No idea. *shrugs*

Thought I mentioned it was a good point, do I need to use a bigger font size?

Btw, congrats mate.

Just trying to temper Mercerman's brand new dawn BS.

Sorry being slightly mischievous I haven't seen anything of the game or followed it closely

Thank you for the well wishes

[Dean]

Anyone at the game that can tell us how Watt and Graham played? Graham sounded quiet.

I'm interested in that too. If someone fancies doing a review with player ratings, even better!

Great result. Horrible defending from Akpan, who is the team to do that sort of work. Not much Marshall could do I certainly that cross comes, harsh to attach any blame to him

[mustard]

0:50, 1:20. Akpan lets two crosses in for good chances, one costs us two points. Really don't get what some see in him.

[chaddyrovers]

The club and the team have moved on now without him.

Lambert is building a new team here. Lets focus on that now

[mustard]

Just a simple plea. Can we stop this simplistic stuff about Rhodes? You can’t base any judgement on his departure on one game. To say we played well (true) and got a draw (true) BECAUSE he has gone is daft. Equally, to say we would have won if he had played today is also not necessarily the case. What I mean is, you can’t use this game to justify your thinking about Rhodes one way or the other.

What is clear is that, aside from Rhodes, the simple injection of 3 better players (particularly a skilful midfielder) and some pace, things which we all knew were necessary, has resulted in a better team performance. It has also allowed us to move away from the dire dross of hoofball where we had poor Rhodes (or Brown or Marshall at times) chasing lost causes.

Survival in this league is the name of the game now. Rebuilding in the summer to follow.

Don't tell the gloaters revelling in Rhodes's exit this...

Bit in bold in particular is spot on.

[DE.]

0:50, 1:20. Akpan lets two crosses in for good chances, one costs us two points. Really don't get what some see in him.

He's good at some very basic things, but by and large quite a poor footballer made to look better by the abysmal mess that has been the rest of our midfield this season. We need much better if we're harbouring hopes of a playoff push next season.

[LDRover]

0:50, 1:20. Akpan lets two crosses in for good chances, one costs us two points. Really don't get what some see in him.

Best of a bad bunch. Quite comfortably too.

Hardly covered himself in glory with that attempt at defending though.

[Stuart]

What is clear is that, aside from Rhodes, the simple injection of 3 better players (particularly a skilful midfielder) and some pace, things which we all knew were necessary, has resulted in a better team performance. It has also allowed us to move away from the dire dross of hoofball where we had poor Rhodes (or Brown or Marshall at times) chasing lost causes.

Agreed. Listening to Lambert though, we should have been four up in the first half, so now that we have the players needed to get the ball forward quickly we just need somebody who can finish chances.

Forgive me for thinking that there is an irony there.

[den]

Agreed. Listening to Lambert though, we should have been four up in the first half, so now that we have the players needed to get the ball forward quickly we just need somebody who can finish chances.

Forgive me for thinking that there is an irony there.

Jesus.

Forgive me for thinking that last two games without "your man" have both been away from home, giving us two much improved performances and FOUR GOALS".

Let him go Stuart, we can now move forwards. Money in the bank as well.

[islander200]

Agreed. Listening to Lambert though, we should have been four up in the first half, so now that we have the players needed to get the ball forward quickly we just need somebody who can finish chances.

Forgive me for thinking that there is an irony there.

We scored 3 last weekend and one Today.4 goals in two matches without Rhodes.

[Stuart]

Jesus.

Forgive me for thinking that last two games without "your man" have both been away from home, giving us two much improved performances and FOUR GOALS".

Let him go Stuart, we can now move forwards. Money in the bank as well.

Den. With respect just because you have decided something doesn't mean that you get to direct discussion about it.

Instead of trying to shout down every post I make, stick me on ignore, there's a good chap.

'My man' never got a chance to play alongside our new players responsible for those much improved performances. Like I said, ironic then that our manager is concerned that we aren't finishing the chances we are now making.

[neophox]

We should had got Kike instead of Graham, think he and Gomez would had clicked.

[islander200]

Den. With respect just because you have decided something doesn't mean that you get to direct discussion about it.

Instead of trying to shout down every post I make, stick me on ignore, there's a good chap.

'My man' never got a chance to play alongside our new players responsible for those much improved performances. Like I said, ironic then that our manager is concerned that we aren't finishing the chances we are now making.

In two games without Rhodes we have scored four goals.Let's not forget boro had only conceded 14 goals before today.

[davulsukur]

Sounds like Gomez was a cut above the rest of the players on show. A player with the skill and ability we have needed in the middle of the park for a long time now.

Expected us to get beat today and it sounds like not only did we hold our own but had a good shout of actually winning the game.

[koi]

Going off the highlights Akpan looked lazy.

[danger19_80]

'My man' never got a chance to play alongside our new players responsible for those much improved performances. Like I said, ironic then that our manager is concerned that we aren't finishing the chances we are now making.

Point is we probably wouldn't have those new players in the team without selling Rhodes. A case of 'the chicken and the egg'?

Which way it goes eventually remains to be seen but what is clear is with Rhodes in the team we've hardly covered ourselves with glory this season but now with him gone, all of a sudden, we've put in our two best team performances.