v Birmingham City (a) - 7/5/22

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Anyway...

Brum 5  Rovers 5

Our fans to be airlifted by the RAF as the Stands implode  around them...a fitting end to a collapse of a Season!

[tomphil]

Brum 1   Rovers  6

Mowbray signs off in spectacular fashion to get fans begging for another 3 years of it.

 

[chaddyrovers]

Hopefully Jack Vale will come on and score. He should be in the first team squad next season

[RoversTilliDie]

On 04/05/2022 at 08:46, Uddersfelt Blue said:

Rankin Costello will surely play

is Markanday still injured? 

Tony Mowbray reckons Markanday will get game time against Birmingham on Saturday.

[RoversTilliDie]

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

Brum 1   Rovers  6

Mowbray signs off in spectacular fashion to get fans begging for another 3 years of it.

 

After seeing all the predictions fall flat on there face on this page, my lips are sealed.

[RoversTilliDie]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

Hopefully Jack Vale will come on and score. He should be in the first team squad next season

Were seeing Markanday at some stage Saturday, lets hope Mowbray sees sense and plays Vale as well. These players are the future for Blackburn Rovers.

[rigger]

23 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Were seeing Markanday at some stage Saturday, lets hope Mowbray sees sense and plays Vale as well. These players are the future for Blackburn Rovers.

I see them more as the present, than the future.

[bigbrandjohn]

Big Club 2 Almost very big club 3

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Were seeing Markanday at some stage Saturday, lets hope Mowbray sees sense and plays Vale as well. These players are the future for Blackburn Rovers.

on the subject of markanday,hamstrings are extremely finicky,he`s better off left till next season,in true inane mowbray style,the poor lad will likely break down again,whats the point putting him in for a meaningless game,just as rushing edun back when he had`nt  played since january,the bloke  lost the plot months ago,thankfully he`ll never be seen in our club again

[arbitro]

For anybody driving down the M6 is closed on the exit and entrance slip roads at junction 10.

https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/west-midlands/m6-junction-10-improvement/

[WacoRover]

I’m generally a sunshine pumper. However…

As much as I would love a win, & want our players to show some pride & fight, I’m sensing a 1-1 result is about the most I can reasonably expect. one would think guys leaving would want to show their skills. Starting youngsters, Vale, Brown, etc, might get some hunger on the pitch. 

Will we see any signs of life from ol’ Tony in his Rovers finale? apart from the obligatory, hug the players, I’m not expecting that, either. Lifeless & tepid, I’m afraid.

Edited May 6, 2022 by WacoRover

[AllRoverAsia]

0 - 0 and a view of Things to Come

[RoversTilliDie]

11 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

on the subject of markanday,hamstrings are extremely finicky,he`s better off left till next season,in true inane mowbray style,the poor lad will likely break down again,whats the point putting him in for a meaningless game,just as rushing edun back when he had`nt  played since january,the bloke  lost the plot months ago,thankfully he`ll never be seen in our club again

I hear he's giving Brown his debut.

[RoversTilliDie]

12 hours ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Big Club 2 Almost very big club 3

To be a big club it helps to have a big crowd that are loyal.Unfortunately this is not the case at Ewood.I don't mean the 11,000 + that turn up through all the ups and downs.

[RoversTilliDie]

Birmingham 0 Rovers 3 Rovers might be up for this one after the disappointment of last Saturday.

[tomphil]

1 hour ago, RoversTilliDie said:

To be a big club it helps to have a big crowd that are loyal.Unfortunately this is not the case at Ewood.I don't mean the 11,000 + that turn up through all the ups and downs.

Time was 11k WAS a big crowd at Ewood.

Lets not forget there has always been limits top our fanbase it's beyond numb to compare our gates to places like Derby, Nottingham etc as many seem to do.

Also for a bit of balance Brum and Coventry even Hull and one or two others gates aren't good at all when you look at the size of the places. Pound for pound populations 2/3/4 times that of Blackburn.

[Mattyblue]

Big Club in a small town

(c) John Williams 

[WacoRover]

In other news, nice to see Wycombe win their finale. I have to admit, I’ve become something of an Ainsworth fan. 

[rigger]

19 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

In other news, nice to see Wycombe win their finale. I have to admit, I’ve become something of an Ainsworth fan. 

It was the first leg of a semi-final.

[arbitro]

Somewhat surprisingly to me Birmingham are reporting the game is sold out. The new capacity is 19000.

[MarkBRFC]

They are planning huge protests tomorrow i read, pitch invasions and all sorts.

[had.e.nuff]

Nice to see he is finishing just like the last 5 years building up the opposition ,and how good a squad they have.

[rigger]

51 minutes ago, had.e.nuff said:

Nice to see he is finishing just like the last 5 years building up the opposition ,and how good a squad they have.

I am put off going to the official Rovers site, because of the inane grinning idiot on the first page.

[riverholmes]

2 hours ago, rigger said:

I am put off going to the official Rovers site, because of the inane grinning idiot on the first page.

He's lost much credibility after that the astonishing decision to play Bradley Johnson as a forward. You might find some way to excuse Giles and Zeefuik as right wingers - maybe, at a stretch, Gallagher, but not that one and I'm sure the players can't take him as seriously after that. Incidentally, Giles has the joint top assist record of our players, alongside Rothwell, with 10 assists this season - albeit, the majority were for Cardiff, where he played on the left and also took corners.

Johnson as a false 9, perhaps, surpasses Souness' desperate choices of Dominic Matteo in left midfield and Dino Baggio as a No.10, during his final period at the club, when the team was in free-fall.

Putting that aside, it would be welcome to see Garrett and Vale rewarded for their U23s form (and played in their best positions) and I'd like to see Nyambe play, as he has been our best right back and deserves a good send-off, if he is to leave. Moreover, the stats that some have dug out here seem to show that we are much more likely to win if he's in the team.

Edited May 6, 2022 by riverholmes

[bigbrandjohn]

To provide a bit of context. 44.000 fans watched two teams a division below us fight for the right to join us. 
 

There are some big clubs in the Third Division. Perhaps we should be thankful for small mercies.