v PNE (a) - 25/4/22

[WacoRover]

5 hours ago, Ossydave said:

I think I'll decide after the results on Saturday if I'll go or not. If the teams around us all win I'll not bother. It's not like it'll be difficult to get a ticket as we're faced with out lowest following for some time given a culmination of reasons.

The tombola needs a massive spin regardless. If it's a nothing game which I expect, play some of the players who'll actually be here next season. Vale, Dack and Hedges should get a run out.

 

I agree on all three (if fit), and particularly, Vale. Play the academy lads. I could take their mistakes, a lot easier than watching Johnson, et. al.

[RoversTilliDie]

23 hours ago, Miller11 said:

We might be far enough removed from the playoffs for Mowbray to actually change it up for this one. He’ll also be looking for a scapegoat or two, so I wouldn’t be too surprised to see some changes.

I think there’s a chance he moves to a back 4, and a slimmer one the forwards come back inside.

One of our most successful formations this season has been 4-3-3 yet Mowbray sticks with the 3-4-1-2 formation.

[Upside Down]

Preston to win 3-1

Any guesses at what team that dick head will put out? Pickering in goal maybe?

[arbitro]

I have only just noticed this is a 7.30 kick off not the usual 7.45. Personally it suits me and I think lots of others will welcome it but once again Sky are pulling the strings.

[oldjamfan1]

I feel old looking at that match programme in the original post as I played against both Marshall Burke and Alec Bruce. I fear we will get properly dicked on Monday, I can see it being 4 or 5 nil to be honest.

[davulsukur]

Expectations were at an all time low but Mowbray managed 2 defeats over Easter to somehow lower them further.

Fully expecting a disjointed performance and loss. 

I couldn't decide if he will dangle the carrot of hope in this game or the next one but thinking about it, I suspect we won't pick up another point this season. With the amount of players leaving or going back to their clubs, the majority will be in full self protection mode. 

If Mowbray is also off, he has no motivation to do anything other than sit there with his arms folded. 

Countdown is on. 3 to go.

[tomphil]

The players were running through brick walls for him and the club and each other even in the early days of the bad run beginning. Since that Derby first half (yes that again) there was a noticeable foot off the gas. Second half the real Rpvers turned up for the last time this season.

Why ?

We could handle a slide away when it's clear we are trying both tactically and physically but blindingly obvious that hasn't been the case recently. That's why people are angry and why this is now being treated like a dead rubber.

If he is doing one then i'd feel better with one of the players in charge for this last 3 starting here. At least someone who can fire them up and salvage a bit of pride.

[SuperBrfc]

3 hours ago, tomphil said:

The players were running through brick walls for him and the club and each other even in the early days of the bad run beginning. Since that Derby first half (yes that again) there was a noticeable foot off the gas. Second half the real Rpvers turned up for the last time this season.

Why ?

We could handle a slide away when it's clear we are trying both tactically and physically but blindingly obvious that hasn't been the case recently. That's why people are angry and why this is now being treated like a dead rubber.

That's exactly it. We've completely veered away from what brought us success during that run and I don't get why that is.

Our pressing game has gone, we're standing off the opposition. Stoke were playing it around with ease in the last game. Our defence looks incredibly shaky and we're conceding some comical goals. We looked solid and resolute for two months post Fulham. What has changed so drastically?

It feels like whatever happened at half time in the Derby game has done lasting damage. Would it be surprising if Mowbray has decided to double down and become even more stubborn as a result of the players apparently telling him what's what?  Maybe that's why the last 'real' performance we saw was that second half against Derby.

As for the Preston game, I'm not looking forward to it. This is their cup final, they are always fired up for this and they will be battling from minute one. We won't be, I feel. It's live on Sky and I think it's going to be the final nail in any play off 'hopes'.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

The Lillywhite gobshytes have their say....you'd think Preston was f'kin Barcelona!🤣

https://www.pne-online.net

Edited April 21, 2022 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Moptop1]

Just annoying arent they?

[K-Hod]

8 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

The Lillywhite gobshytes have their say....

https://www.pne-online.net

@tomphil You’ve got a fan….

[simongarnerisgod]

north end fans are extremley bitter,though having spent 60 years being totally nondescript and having had to endure bolton,burnley and rovers enjoying spells in the top flight,it`s not surprising😂,i think they hate the world

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

A Preston fan with a Braincell makes a valid point..

''This is one of the biggest fuck ups of the ages by Mowbray, a real monumental calamity. A side that wasn’t conceding with Van Hecke and Wharton solid as a rock and scoring freely with Brereton hitting 20 early doors and then boom! It all just grinds at a halt.''

[tomphil]

7 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

@tomphil You’ve got a fan….

I've been famous on there before 🤣

They've managed to spin it onto away followings in impressive fashion even for them. 'With what's at stake' , like yeah probably 6 points out of it by then.

I remember watching them on a Sat evening live game away at Burnley in the Championship, there was about 800 there.  

[RoversTilliDie]

On 20/04/2022 at 09:28, TimmyJimmy said:

The most painful job in the world is to be a Rovers supporter. Nailed on loss. Nailed on embarrassment.

Still, I flatter myself that I'm always there to do my bit so I'll stump up again.

We lose, I descend into a deep depression- again. I go home and kick the cat - again. I don't speak to the wife for days - again. I hate everything and everyone- again.

I'm a nice guy and don't like being like that but that's the job of the Rovers supporter.

I'll be there - again, looking forward to it - not.

A miserable 2 nil win for PNE.

Can't be that nice taking it out on an animal, rovers should be taking it out on the opposition.

[RoversTilliDie]

No doubt Mowbray will stick with the 3-4-1-2 formation, the one the opposition did their homework on a long time ago, the one that has seen us plummet down the table, One of our most successful formations this season has been 4-3-3 - won3 drawn2 lost1.

[booth]

Nobenders, is it like 80+ years since they won anything at all of any note? What a deluded bunch they are.

I forgot they even existed until the last few years, apart from that time we battered them 6-0 in the league cup.

 

[RoversTilliDie]

Just what preston need all these insults, they will be pissed off enough after the Fulham result.If I were Mowbray I would go 4-3-3 and forget the useless 3-4-1-2  formation preston will be expecting. The formation that makes rovers look like a toothless non attacking div 1 team.

[Wegerleswiggle]

[Dan]

1 hour ago, Wegerleswiggle said:

Hmmm, I like, but Leniham at RB… Would Wharton at LB and Ryambe at RB be better? Either way we are still putting square pegs in round holes to get around the problem of which of the 3 to drop. 
 

Wouldn’t it be a nice dream to be in a time where we’d just play 442 and everyone know what they doing? 

[Fraserkirky]

2 hours ago, Wegerleswiggle said:

Hedges for Dolan

[tomphil]

Does anyone actually know what Hedges real position is ?   The one he allegedly got some compliments from at Aberdeen.

Where are the posters who told us they'd seen him and we were pinching their best player ?

Because it's clear those who signed him and manage him haven't got a damn clue why they did.

[Mattyblue]

12 hours ago, tomphil said:

I've been famous on there before 🤣

They've managed to spin it onto away followings in impressive fashion even for them. 'With what's at stake' , like yeah probably 6 points out of it by then.

I remember watching them on a Sat evening live game away at Burnley in the Championship, there was about 800 there.  

Amazing how they just come out with the exact same stuff on their ‘Plastics’ thread twice a season, just the mere mention of ‘Blackburn Rovers’ is a Pavlovian trigger for them.

And the stuff about the town of Blackburn makes me laugh, like all Rovers fans are living in bed sits up Bank Top and not spread across east Lancs (and shock horror, PR postcodes! 😱)

[TimmyJimmy]

13 hours ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Can't be that nice taking it out on an animal, rovers should be taking it out on the opposition.

Metaphorical dear chap, metaphorical. I don't have a cat and love all animals 😀 

[RoversTilliDie]

7 hours ago, Dan said:

Hmmm, I like, but Leniham at RB… Would Wharton at LB and Ryambe at RB be better? Either way we are still putting square pegs in round holes to get around the problem of which of the 3 to drop. 
 

Wouldn’t it be a nice dream to be in a time where we’d just play 442 and everyone know what they doing? 

It certainly would the old 4-4-2 formation we would actually have strikers up front.