Saturday, Jan 30th- Luton at Ewood

[Fraserkirky]

15 minutes ago, den said:

It’s boring watching soccer Saturday when rovers are playing. Nothing happens.

Are we at the stage yet when Luton have realised we can’t score, so they might as well have a go?

Yep. They have bossed the game for the last 20mins.

 

Edited January 30, 2021 by Fraserkirky

[jim mk2]

Yet again 45 minutes of nothingness. 

[StevenSK]

Football without conviction or any purpose total crap

[G Somerset Rover]

No shots on target and no first half goals yet again. You want tips on betting Mercer - that’s the current safest bet in English football.

[Bbrovers2288]

Standard mowbray half

 

sigh 

[West Yorks Rover]

Just now, Ewood Ace said:

We scored 3 in the first half against Wycombe in the first home game of the season. Since then we have only mustered 3 home goals in the next 13 first halves at Ewood, the last one coming on December 2nd. But it's not surprising to anyone who watches us as we just seem to go through the paces, there is a real lack of any urgency to assert ourselves early on.

 

Mowbray's management summed up there.

[roversfan99]

Another terrible half. Armstrong not on form and we are solely reliant on him for a goal threat. When he links play or drifts wide no one else gets into the box and it isnt good enough, Brereton will never score goals with any regularity for that reason. Luton the better side.

Dacks exclusion from the starting line up bizarre and this box midfield nonsense seldom if ever works.

[Darrenbot]

No goals in the first half again,we should all bet the house on that  at the bookies next game.It makes you wonder what Mowbray says to them pre match,just go out and do nothing lads i have a ton on us not scoring.

[booth]

Luton are as bad as teams get at Ewood and still we're making it look like hard work. No doubt Lutons manager will be now telling them what a soft touch we are.

[joey_big_nose]

Not really sure what we should do. Luton look poor, pitch is worse, but the way we are playing has delivered quite a few chances.....

Reckon maybe straight swap of Brereton for Dolan and maybe Downing for Dack. And go 4231

                        Kaminski

Nymabe.   Lenihan.   Branthwaite.  Douglas

                     Travis.    Rothwell.           

               Elliott.     Dack.    Dolan.  

                          Armstrong 

? 

[The Mighty Chaffinch]

Very very frustrating. If Armstrong takes that early chance then it’s a different game...instead we’ve been subjected to another style over substance half where Sluga could have been doing a sudoku. There’s no energy to get into the box from midfield runners when we get into promising positions out wide. I’m hoping for a change in the second half but I can’t see it 

[Bigdoggsteel]

Just now, roversfan99 said:

Another terrible half. Armstrong not on form and we are solely reliant on him for a goal threat. When he links play or drifts wide no one else gets into the box and it isnt good enough, Brereton will never score goals with any regularity for that reason. Luton the better side.

Dacks exclusion from the starting line up bizarre and this box midfield nonsense seldom if ever works.

That's not true. The goals have been shared around, we are far from a one man team. Wouldn't want to be one now either, cos Armstrong is being very wasteful. I don't think we would be any worse off with SG central and Armstrong on the left. 

[Bigdoggsteel]

2 minutes ago, booth said:

Luton are as bad as teams get at Ewood and still we're making it look like hard work. No doubt Lutons manager will be now telling them what a soft touch we are.

No,no ,no. They aren't bad. That would be a very foooish mistake to make. We have played bad teams this year, they aren't one at all. 

[simongarnerisgod]

predictably predictable by us,we`re far to easy to defend against,just bang in two rows of four and all we can muster are square passes,ffs get in behind and get the defenders running backwards,anyone who`s played the game will know it`s their pet hate,nothing worse than having to run backwards trying to stop a bloody winger getting past you

[Exiled_Rover]

2 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Not really sure what we should do. Luton look poor, pitch is worse, but the way we are playing has delivered quite a few chances.....

Reckon maybe straight swap of Brereton for Dolan and maybe Downing for Dack. And go 4231

                        Kaminski

Nymabe.   Lenihan.   Branthwaite.  Douglas

                     Travis.    Rothwell.           

               Elliott.     Dack.    Dolan.  

                          Armstrong 

? 

What's Elliot one to deserve to stay on the pitch? Or Armstrong for that matter?

[Exiled_Rover]

2 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

That's not true. The goals have been shared around, we are far from a one man team. Wouldn't want to be one now either, cos Armstrong is being very wasteful. I don't think we would be any worse off with SG central and Armstrong on the left. 

Besides Armstrong demonstrating that he's a L1 wide player, sure. 

[booth]

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

Another terrible half. Armstrong not on form and we are solely reliant on him for a goal threat. When he links play or drifts wide no one else gets into the box and it isnt good enough, Brereton will never score goals with any regularity for that reason. Luton the better side.

Dacks exclusion from the starting line up bizarre and this box midfield nonsense seldom if ever works.

There was a moment when the ball went into the box and Brereton was behind two defenders instead of running to where the cross was going to come in. Out of three people he was last because he didn't even move for it. If he scored more we could ignore his failings but the guy can't pass, shoot or has any positional sense. He'll burst forward, do a one-two with someone then kick it to a ghost.

But they were all jobbers this half against a very poor Luton team who are full of mistakes themselves.

[SoldierMo]

If ever a team represents its manager its us

[BigBar]

Need a win with the results going for us. Massive second half. Let's grind it out. Hook Ben and Downing, Downing been ok but too slow and laboured.

[simongarnerisgod]

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

What's Elliot one to deserve to stay on the pitch? Or Armstrong for that matter?

one thing is cast iron guaranteed,he won`t take armstrong off and put gallagher in his place

[Miker]

I enjoyed that half.

[The Mighty Chaffinch]

Luton are well coached and know their jobs to a tee. They also look dangerous on the break. Much worse teams have rocked up at Ewood this year. We’ve got the better individuals but....

[Bigdoggsteel]

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Besides Armstrong demonstrating that he's a L1 wide player, sure. 

? 

[West Yorks Rover]

Nobbers 1-0 down at Weds, missed that one, late goal ?

[booth]

4 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

That's not true. The goals have been shared around, we are far from a one man team. Wouldn't want to be one now either, cos Armstrong is being very wasteful. I don't think we would be any worse off with SG central and Armstrong on the left. 

Thanks to the manager Armstrong has zero competition for a first team place and we have no sub worth bringing on.