v QPR (h) - 30/7/22

[Exiled in Toronto]

21 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

Possibly. Though when you still live in and around the area you are reminded more frequently of the clubs current reality.

You see the shabby, empty ground more frequently. The decline in numbers and atmosphere around Ewood on a match day is more evident. Many times over the last decade turning up on a Saturday starts to feel like a chore rather than a focal point of your week. 

There’s a glimmer at the moment, but the past 12 years have given us little to be optimistic, positive or joyous about.

On the other hand, going once every couple of years - which is my average - you’d expect to be more struck by the changes yet I find the match-going experience a lot more similar and familiar than virtually every other aspect of being in the town. As the video posted earlier by Arbitro showed: the ground still looks like a spaceship from the future landed in Ewood. The building has aged for sure, but then it is 30 years old and seems to suffer more from badly planned architecture than anything else eg the stained brickwork. I guess having spent my youth in crowds of 6,000, I’m still amazed how far away we have to park these days. Ewood might not look quite as good as when it was unveiled, but it has aged a lot better than The Manxman!

Anyway, new boss, new era, new tactics, feels as big a change as when Furphy arrived. 
3-1 (Field, Eccles, Arentoft)

Edited July 30, 2022 by Exiled in Toronto

[tomphil]

3 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Tends to be self employed tax fiddling plasterers and the like who frown upon cashless 😉 

Perish the thought some people still receive cash payments, must all be Tory capitalists then. Obviously a Labour Gocvt would never let this happen...

Disclaimer.  Never let politics an football overlap 🤐

[Miller11]

Albert Adomah always seems to have a good game when he plays against us, going back to his Bristol City days. Even though he’s about 34 now, but he can still cause us problems.

[arbitro]

When they went off sale yesterday QPR had sold 1185 tickets for today and they can still be bought at Ewood. It's plain stupid in my view to isolate them upstairs in the Darwen End as it's been reported. This was Mowbrays idea (as confirmed in a Fans Consultation Meeting) so now he is history there is no reason to keep doing it. They should be doing their best to increase the atmosphere and away supporters can contribute to this.

[Guest]

Just now, arbitro said:

When they went off sale yesterday QPR had sold 1185 tickets for today and they can still be bought at Ewood. It's plain stupid in my view to isolate them upstairs in the Darwen End as it's been reported. This was Mowbrays idea (as confirmed in a Fans Consultation Meeting) so now he is history there is no reason to keep doing it. They should be doing their best to increase the atmosphere and away supporters can contribute to this.

Absolutely - its bad enough all the empty seats, but deliberately diminishing the partisan atmosphere seems self defeating,

2.-1 Rovers today, Gallagher and BBD brace  11,973 a poor turnout but those who go get treated to a football experience the like of which hasn't been seen since 1994..

COYB!

[damo100]

6 minutes ago, Shirley Crabtree Wrestler said:

Absolutely - its bad enough all the empty seats, but deliberately diminishing the partisan atmosphere seems self defeating,

2.-1 Rovers today, Gallagher and BBD brace  11,973 a poor turnout but those who go get treated to a football experience the like of which hasn't been seen since 1994..

COYB!

Think more like 15k looking at current sales

[Exiled in Toronto]

12 minutes ago, arbitro said:

When they went off sale yesterday QPR had sold 1185 tickets for today and they can still be bought at Ewood. It's plain stupid in my view to isolate them upstairs in the Darwen End as it's been reported. This was Mowbrays idea (as confirmed in a Fans Consultation Meeting) so now he is history there is no reason to keep doing it. They should be doing their best to increase the atmosphere and away supporters can contribute to this.

An even better way of boosting the atmosphere IMO would be to close the concourse bars at 2.45 to get fans into their seats and able to start goading the away fans before the teams come out. Back in the day, games against Bolton effectively started at 11.30 when an endless convoy of pissed up Neanderthals clogged up the roads through Darwen and Tockholes. I seem to recall @Claytons Left Boot selflessly sacrificing his lunchtime meat and potato pie against a coach window to let the occupants know they weren’t welcome.

Edited July 30, 2022 by Exiled in Toronto

[simongarnerisgod]

plenty of reason to be optimistic

mowbray has gone

best crop of young players since the duff/dunn era

jdt seems intent on playing quick,attacking football

healthy transfer budget(apparently)

i think we`ll take qpr to the cleaners this aft,though admittedly there will be stiffer tasks ahead,trying to compete with the likes of west brom,watford,norwich will take some doing

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, damo100 said:

Think more like 15k looking at current sales

Nice one! That would be a good turnout, so I hope the lads can do the business on the pitch.

[Mike E]

56 minutes ago, TonyM said:

Excited for this one today - hoping to see a new, and hopefully effective, approach but prepared for it to take a few games for the boss to get things really moving.

 

(these boards tend to show that Rovers fans have always had an infinite capacity for pessimism, negativity and misery - probably a local trait -  but it eventually wears off when you live away from the area for a long time....)

My Dad has always said that the Blackburn mentality is that if it's not raining today, it will tomorrow.

[DE.]

No idea what to expect today in all honesty. As long as we play a sensible formation, with players in their correct positions, come out looking energetic, focused and motivated then that'll do. It may take a few games for us to hit our stride and that's fine as long as there are positive signs on the pitch that we're moving in the right direction.

[arbitro]

23 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto said:

An even better way of boosting the atmosphere IMO would be to close the concourse bars at 2.45 to get fans into their seats and able to start goading the away fans before the teams come out. Back in the day, games against Bolton effectively started at 11.30 when an endless convoy of pissed up Neanderthals clogged up the roads through Darwen and Tockholes. I seem to recall @Claytons Left Boot selflessly sacrificing his lunchtime meat and potato pie against a coach window to let the occupants know they weren’t welcome.

CLB wasted a pie in that lot? Whose pies were they?

😂😂

[markhayhurst]

Buckley to start 

 

[Sweaty Gussets]

9 minutes ago, markhayhurst said:

Buckley to start 

 

I'd be upset if he didn't. He's going to be some player

[Russ]

I just hope we're above Burnley at 5pm, and it stays that way until then end of season.

...and we beat them home and away obviously!!

[Gordon Gekko]

1 hour ago, Miller11 said:

Albert Adomah always seems to have a good game when he plays against us, going back to his Bristol City days. Even though he’s about 34 now, but he can still cause us problems.

Adomah on the right flank isn’t he? He’ll have Pickering on toast!

[Sweaty Gussets]

Sharpe:

"The expectation would be: Kaminski, Brittain, Ayala, Wharton, Pickering, Travis, Buckley, Hedges, Dolan, Gallagher, Brereton"

 

Sharpe predicting a back 4 and Dolan to get the nod over Vale and Markanday. 

[Upside Down]

30 minutes ago, markhayhurst said:

Buckley to start 

 

A deeper role. So no more of that false nine bullshit. Thank fuck for that.

[WacoRover]

2 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Sharpe:

"The expectation would be: Kaminski, Brittain, Ayala, Wharton, Pickering, Travis, Buckley, Hedges, Dolan, Gallagher, Brereton"

 

Sharpe predicting a back 4 and Dolan to get the nod over Vale and Markanday. 

Looks good, makes sense. Hopefully, points follow. 

How will we react to a manager who does things that makes sense? 

[simongarnerisgod]

abou to set off to the hallowed place we call ewood park,get into em f**k em up,get into em f**k em up😁

[davulsukur]

15mins until the team news is out for the first line up of the JDT era!

Let's hope the Tombola has been chucked in the skip.

[Tormund]

2 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

15mins until the team news is out for the first line up of the JDT era!

Let's hope the Tombola has been chucked in the skip.

Tomasson’s tombola has a ring to it though.

[davulsukur]

6 minutes ago, Tormund said:

Tomasson’s tombola has a ring to it though.

Don't go there!

[CD_93]

Good luck, everyone!

[ItsRoverZ]

Well I kinda hope we stick to his 4 3 2 1 formation,  I liked the look of us with it