Exiled_Rover Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, DE. said: I love how we signed Giles to sling crosses in to Dolan & Buckley as well as the useless donkey that is Sam Gallagher. Brilliant idea there Tony. The best bit was at the end where Travis fired in a deep cross to Dolan, who was flanked by two 6'+ Millwall players. Comical. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SuperBrfc Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 A crap result. We dominated for large parts, didn't give Millwall a sniff, but are so awfully blunt upfront. Only one man to blame for that. If we had a manager who actually wants promotion, we would have got a striker in January. Mowbray, Waggott and Co are happy with a mid table plod. Promotion to the Premier League is not their game, nor has it ever been. The January window should tell you everything! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backroom Tom Posted March 8, 2022 Backroom Share Posted March 8, 2022 93 minutes in, 0-0 we win a corner, Lenihan, Wharton and Van Hecke motioning furiously not to take it short; so we go short and it comes to nothing. 94 minutes Dolan wins a corner from nothing, one last chance, set piece specialist Ronnie Pickering curls it out of play Pitiful 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CambridgeRover Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, BigBar said: I'm as pissed off as the rest of us but we really have been battered with injuries. I get it's part of it but weve had the core ripped out. No BBD, Khadra, Dack, Poveda, Nyambe, Zeefuick or Ayala. It's alot of attacking options currently not on the pitch. Out of the players there, only three are attacking and one was injured before the season began. The only reason we dont have strikers now is Mowbray turned down the opportunity to bring one in. Don't try to bail him out with injuries, this lays at Mowbray's feet and no one elses. Edited March 8, 2022 by CambridgeRover 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankfan Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Just now, CambridgeRover said: The system is shit, it makes no sense. False 9, wide strikers, wing backs. Pile of crap We play with one striker (if you can call him that) out wide 6 defenders and 3 center kids…and we wonder why we can’t score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled_Rover Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Just now, Gav said: He tried to sign Maja in January, no funds….. Probably because he spent £5m on Gallagher... and then doubled down by giving him a new contract. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booth Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 minute ago, BigBar said: I'm as pissed off as the rest of us but we really have been battered with injuries. I get it's part of it but weve had the core ripped out. No BBD, Khadra, Dack, Poveda, Nyambe, Zeefuick or Ayala. It's alot of attacking options currently not on the pitch. Even with those, there's only two of them who has ever scored goals out of the lot of them. And for one reason or another we knew in advance we couldn't rely on either of them in a promotion push. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesus Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 We've got far bigger problems than Buckley but put Dack in his place for some of those sitters he has had this season and I reckon we are 6-10 points better off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
den Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Highest league position for years, a little ambition in January would have gone some way to boosting that - and the club did nothing. Here we are. Don’t blame the lads out there, they’re absolutely running their socks off. Blame the management. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oozy Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 I know it's never so black and white, but we'd be down to 9th if the teams below us win their games in hand. That, I'm afraid, is our ceiling under Tony. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Pretty disgusted at that tonight. That starting XI was never going to score a goal. And he watched it for 75 mins before deciding it wasn’t working. Then brought vale on for Gallagher, and actually played him in the middle… and I don’t know who’s told John Buckley he’s good enough to walk around the pitch like he did tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davulsukur Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 5 minutes ago, booth said: No need to listen to TM's post match interview. It was all explained on 4th Feb. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19898505.tony-mowbray-explains-blackburn-rovers-didnt-sign-striker/ Literally admitting he has no plan B or even any intention of creating one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey_big_nose Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Totally dominant performance. Even generated a string of good chances. But never confident we could score. And we didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CambridgeRover Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, Gav said: He tried to sign Maja in January, no funds….. Obafemi in August, no funds….. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19898505.tony-mowbray-explains-blackburn-rovers-didnt-sign-striker/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booth Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 2 minutes ago, Gav said: He tried to sign Maja in January, no funds….. We couldn't sign a loanee, even though we signed several other players? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled_Rover Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, OldEwoodBlue said: Commentators making it out like we were unlucky. The game I watched was lots of possession with almost nothing up front. Stats confirm 3 shots on target. Don't shoot = Don't score 8 games. No goals from open play. Teams queuing up behind us now. Probably finish in 12th. No point even getting upset. Only 10 more games and the numbskull has gone. This time next week only 8 games. THAT WAS VERY POOR. AGAIN. We were unlucky in the sense that we missed absolute sitters. JRC, Lenihan and Gallagher all fired wide with chances a professional footballer at any level should be burying. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Just now, Exiled_Rover said: Probably because he spent £5m on Gallagher... and then doubled down by giving him a new contract. That was 2019, the world has moved on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davulsukur Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, Tom said: 93 minutes in, 0-0 we win a corner, Lenihan, Wharton and Van Hecke motioning furiously not to take it short; so we go short and it comes to nothing. 94 minutes Dolan wins a corner from nothing, one last chance, set piece specialist Ronnie Pickering curls it out of play Pitiful When was the last time we actually posed a threat from set pieces? Under Allardyce at a guess? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBar Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 minute ago, CambridgeRover said: Out of the players there, only three are attacking and one was injured before the season began. The only reason we dont have strikers now is Mowbray turned down the opportunity to bring one in. Don't try to bail him out with injuries, this lies at Mowbray's feet and no one elses. What are you on about bail him out? I think he picked the wrong team tonight and lacked imagination when it wasnt working. Also there are 4 attacking players there so looks like you have the agenda. Also Nyambe/Zeefuick get forward way point. Alot more affective than JRC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim mk2 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, TheRoversReturn said: Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy. Which I think sums up our farcical attempts to score!! If the teams below us win their game in hand, we'll be in eighth... Well spotted. It's a comedy and a tragedy at the same time Anyone could write the script with Mowbray's Rovers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Somerset Rover Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 11 minutes ago, DE. said: I love how we signed Giles to sling crosses in to Dolan & Buckley as well as the useless donkey that is Sam Gallagher. Brilliant idea there Tony. Such a pointless signing if you don’t have a Kieffer Moore up front. Whoever’s fault it is that we didn’t land a true striker in January - and it looks as though it’s Mowbray - should face a public flogging. No exaggeration to say it’s very likely going to cost us a premier league place. Edited March 8, 2022 by Gavlar Somerset Rover! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southside Rover Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 I predict a piss poor March to follow the year so far. We will then put a good run together for the rest of the season and miss out by a point or on goal difference. We will all remember nights like tonight because there have been so many and it will be clear where it was lost. I've long hoped and even believed Gallagher would deliver when his moment came up top but he is actually getting worse with age rather than better. Giles on the right again is just madness and we are back to the same old baffling decisions that have seen us fail before. Still don't understand the Hedges signing, would rather have seen that money spent on contracts for those that deserve it which may have given them a lift to drive on. We've gone from an attacking threat with no defence to a solid unit with no goals in the space of a year. We struggled last year when Armstrong was out, sheer luck that Diaz reincarnated himself over the summer to give us goals and what have we learnt...zero as now we are left with no goals at all and look like it will never happen 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booth Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 2 minutes ago, Gav said: That was 2019, the world has moved on. If that was true he wouldn't have got a new contract. There's no way he'd be still a Rovers player if his fee wasn't £5m. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Yorks Rover Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 ANY manager can make a mistake when signing players but to give Gallagher a new contract after he has proved to be a flop (and a very expensive one at that) deserves to be sacked. However I fully expect that manager to get a new, improved contract soon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderation Lead K-Hod Posted March 8, 2022 Moderation Lead Share Posted March 8, 2022 Nice to keep a clean sheet I suppose, but our lack of goals continues to be a huge concern. Absolutely baffles me that we don’t try anything different. Even playing wingers out wide and Gallagher in the middle. Revolutionary, I know. Tony seems to love breaking it when it doesn’t need to be fixed, but not fixing it when it is clearly broken…. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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