FAC Q/F v Sheffield United (a) - 19/3/23, 12pm K/O

[rhodie]

MNC-BUR 😂

[AllRoverAsia]

Personally I wish the American and Sovereign States would fuck off to the Super League and let the FA Cup be the glorious competition it once was with a different winner every year.

If it ends up as a Final of Shitty v Manure I will most probably not watch it.

Edited March 18, 2023 by AllRoverAsia

[davulsukur]

Dingles getting torn to shreds, pretty much the same fate we'd suffer if we ended up playing them.

[wilsdenrover]

8 minutes ago, Gav said:

Could be 10 this, dingle ****’s.

I hope the trains are cancelled and the motorway is closed, let them walk back to the land that time forgot.

They won’t need to walk - they can ride their sisters home 

[Andy]

2 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Dingles getting torn to shreds, pretty much the same fate we'd suffer if we ended up playing them.

Just said this to my missus now.

As (highly) amusing as it is to watch the Dingles getting smashed, we wouldn't fare much better if we get them in the next round.

Haaland is an animal though. Honestly think he's better than Shearer at 22, as absolutely world class as Shearer was for us.

Edited March 18, 2023 by Andy

[Sweaty Gussets]

We'd have too much for City. 

[booth]

16 minutes ago, Andy said:

Just said this to my missus now.

As (highly) amusing as it is to watch the Dingles getting smashed, we wouldn't fare much better if we get them in the next round.

Haaland is an animal though. Honestly think he's better than Shearer at 22, as absolutely world class as Shearer was for us.

Haaland has a more complete team around him.

Remember that 21 year old Shearer came into a team that had just been promoted then he got a terrible injury on boxing day that same season.

Edited March 18, 2023 by booth

[Leonard Venkhater]

20 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Dingles getting torn to shreds, pretty much the same fate we'd suffer if we ended up playing them.

I could have told you, Vincent...

[rigger]

3 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

I could have told you, Vincent...

This world was never meant .....

[Andy]

11 minutes ago, booth said:

Haaland has a more complete team around him.

Remember that 21 year old Shearer came into a team that had just been promoted then he got a terrible injury on boxing day that same season.

Fair point.

[den]

This might have been mentioned - but does anyone else remember Sheff Utd having two men sent off against us at Bramhall Lane a good number of years ago? I’m sure we won that day.

[R0verb0y]

13 hours ago, BRFC_Polky said:

Szmodics was on the 72+ podcast  this week and said that JDT has the lads training penalties every training session regardless if it’s a league or cup match. He said that they even practice with the all the players on the half way line and making the walk to the penalty spot.

 

Great to hear and you can see it's working with the West Ham penalty shoot out.

Can't - don't want to! ‐ imagine a second dose of Extra time, followed by 19 penalties, thank you very much!😏

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Getting Rovers priced at 4\1 for the win🤔

[R0verb0y]

1 hour ago, Proudtobeblue&white said:

Of course I don't like Burnley, but they are running away with the league, but 5-0 down, I'm not sure we should hope of promotion.

Well; the other way of looking at it is, perhaps, to think of - scuse my language - "doing a Dyche", by which I mean having a clear idea of what kind of football you want to play and buying footballers who can play that style.

Where I think he went wrong - "sympathetic" visitors to this site may, or may not agree😏 - is by not refreshing the squad over the years by adding, selectively, to his basic squad.

[only2garners]

There’s an interesting article in today’s Times on Tyler Morton. Sadly I imagine it’s behind their paywall.

[Sweaty Gussets]

Blackburn’s rejuvenated rejects target promotion and FA Cup progress | Blackburn Rovers | The Guardian

[joey_big_nose]

Glad Burnley got thrashed as its Burnley, but Man City annihilating teams with a bench worth 8x the entire opposition squad is incredibly incredibly dull. Really hope they don't win the cup. And Arsenal win the league. Just everything that is depressing about modern football.

[AllRoverAsia]

One of Sheffield United's main claim to any sort of fame is that they were the guilty party in the infamous Battle of Bramhall Lane in 2002 which became the only game ever abandoned in English top flight football due to a shortage of players.

A club steeped in a long history of thuggery.

[philipl]

Ahmedhodzic playing for them tomorrow will make Sheffield United a completely different proposition to the team we beat two weeks ago. He is the all round central defender then some.

It is reported that Sheffield United have failed to pay Malmo any monies due for his transfer (as well as the Brewster instalment).

But 13 minutes.. hey ho

[R0verb0y]

18 minutes ago, only2garners said:

There’s an interesting article in today’s Times on Tyler Morton. Sadly I imagine it’s behind their paywall.

Don't tell Rupert, @only2garners!!😏

 

FOOTBALL | TYLER MORTON INTERVIEW
Blackburn’s FA Cup push spurred by Liverpool loanee Tyler Morton who beat Man City 22-0
Tyler Morton is eyeing promotion and FA Cup glory after ‘perfect’ loan move to Ewood Park, writes Paul Joyce
Morton knew he needed to head out on loan to advance his prospects at Liverpool
Morton knew he needed to head out on loan to advance his prospects at Liverpool.

As Tyler Morton mulled over the next step in his burgeoning career, two conversations would shape his thinking. In the first, he did most of the talking. Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Jürgen Klopp and the Liverpool staff were sounding boards, but the midfielder had already decided last summer that for his own development he needed to branch out.

It led him to a meeting with Blackburn Rovers and, on this occasion, Morton did most of the listening. Alongside him sat his father, Scott, while in front of them Jon Dahl Tomasson, the new head coach, explained why a loan move to Ewood Park made sense.

“I came to speak to the manager face to face because that is what I like to do to get a real feel of the person,” Morton, 20, said. “He wanted me to bring my dad in and speak to him as well, which was brilliant, and that is what edged me to come to Blackburn.

“That was a big thing. My family is massive to me, my dad is massive in my career, and for him [Tomasson] to ask him to come in and tell him what he wants from me — it not only pushes me but my family.

Morton has made 39 appearances for Rovers already this season
“He said what he likes about my game and where I can improve. That’s what I like — honesty. I don’t like someone to tell me what I’m good at. I need someone to tell me where I can get better.

“He wanted me to work harder and he knows that I take criticism really well. That’s why he gives it to me.”

Some 39 appearances later and a relentless schedule continues at a pace. Wednesday’s 2-1 win over Reading bolstered Blackburn’s play-off aspirations, while tomorrow a place in the FA Cup semi-finals will be at stake against fellow Sky Bet Championship side Sheffield United.

That Morton’s father was at his hip at the start of a new adventure felt apt. He has been central to his son’s progress since helping run Greenleas JFC, a prodigious youth side where Morton played alongside Max Woltman, who is also at Liverpool, Lewis Warrington, on loan at Fleetwood Town from Everton, and Sean Wilson, a former Liverpool trainee now looking for a club.

At Under-7 level, they once dismantled Manchester City’s academy team 22-0 in a seven-a-side game. City’s scouts sought to sign up the whole squad, though Liverpool would succeed in bringing Morton into their fold. He joined at the age of seven and all the thousands of training sessions at the academy would bring a reward last season.

There were two starts in the Champions League — Porto at Anfield and AC Milan in the San Siro — a full Premier League debut at Tottenham Hotspur and nine appearances in total in which Morton’s calmness on the ball was married to the coolness of his decision-making. But that he still recognised his progression would be best served by a period away reflects well on the youngster, who is unfailingly polite, according to Blackburn staff, and helped to carry some of the equipment for the photography before this interview.
Morton has thrived as Blackburn push for promotion and are also still in the FA Cup
Morton has thrived as Blackburn push for promotion and are also still in the FA Cup.

“It is not Champions League but it is what I needed,” Morton said; he is following a path taken by Harvey Elliott, who also spent a season at Blackburn. “It is perfect. Coming here was, in my head, a step up: try and play every game and go outside academy football because I didn’t want to be in there for too long, even though I enjoyed it. I came here to be a professional footballer.”

In his absence at Anfield, he has noted the rise of Stefan Bajcetic, 18, whose season has ended prematurely because of injury, but did not feel a pang of jealousy. “I do get asked that question but I am my own player,” Morton, who signed a new deal in January, said. “Stefan is a top quality footballer and a really nice guy. I was absolutely buzzing for him watching him play. Stefan is my mate, team-mate, competition, all in one. I am not a thinker like: ‘Oh, it could have been me.’ I am thinking what I can change now to help me.”

The “100mph” whirr of the Championship has been an eye-opener, with his schedule simplified as a result. Train, play, recover, repeat. The physical and mental demands have been intense, but he has thrived — like Blackburn.

He admits to studying his team-mate Lewis Travis, a former Liverpool trainee, who is particularly adept at the ugly side of the game: landing on second balls, breaking play up, running himself to a standstill.
Tomasson encouraged Morton to make the move and it has paid dividends
Tomasson encouraged Morton to make the move and it has paid off.

“Developing physically has been massive because that was always a doubt for myself,” Morton said. “I wanted to put myself in a position where I had to show I could really do it. Big games, big strong physical sides who, sometimes, don’t want to play football.

“I have it in me to put in tackles, working for the team. I just need to add more and learn little bits from people who specialise in that.”

After the 2-1 fifth-round success over the Premier League’s Leicester City, Morton’s phone pinged with a congratulatory text message from Liverpool assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders which included a glowing appraisal of his display. Midfield reinforcements are being sought at Anfield, though that contact revealed how the home-grown talent remains in their thoughts.

Overall, the long-term dream of being a success with his boyhood club has not changed. It is simply that there are other goals to achieve in the meantime.

“I have too many games to think about what is happening in the summer,” Morton said. “I am a Liverpool fan. The way I play is a Liverpool style — hopefully you can see that in my game.

“But we have a massive ending to the season here. I want Blackburn to get promotion and I want Blackburn to win the FA Cup final. Step by step, I’ll see where it takes me.”

Sheffield United v Blackburn Rovers
FA Cup Quarter-Final
Kick-off 12pm

[AllRoverAsia]

1 hour ago, philipl said:

Ahmedhodzic playing for them tomorrow will make Sheffield United a completely different proposition to the team we beat two weeks ago. He is the all round central defender then some.

It is reported that Sheffield United have failed to pay Malmo any monies due for his transfer (as well as the Brewster instalment).

But 13 minutes.. hey ho

I thought the crooks had not paid on Brewster and used that money to pay the initial deposit on Anal since when they've paid no more on either player.

Meanwhile the regulators do fuck all about it.

Edited March 18, 2023 by AllRoverAsia

[Leonard Venkhater]

2 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

I thought the crooks had not paid on Brewster and used that money to pay the initial deposit since on Anal since when they've paid no more on either player.

Meanwhile the regulators do fuck all about it.

This is the problem. 

[wilsdenrover]

12 minutes ago, philipl said:

Ahmedhodzic playing for them tomorrow will make Sheffield United a completely different proposition to the team we beat two weeks ago. He is the all round central defender then some.

It is reported that Sheffield United have failed to pay Malmo any monies due for his transfer (as well as the Brewster instalment).

But 13 minutes.. hey ho

Possible penalties…

(b)  The League shall have the power to refer the matter to a Disciplinary Commission to impose such penalties upon the defaulting Club by way of reprimand, fine whether fixed or otherwise, embargo on registrations, deduction of points, suspension, recommend expulsion (subject to Regulation 94) or other penalty as they may think fit under the circumstances; and/or

[had.e.nuff]

4 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Possible penalties…

(b)  The League shall have the power to refer the matter to a Disciplinary Commission to impose such penalties upon the defaulting Club by way of reprimand, fine whether fixed or otherwise, embargo on registrations, deduction of points, suspension, recommend expulsion (subject to Regulation 94) or other penalty as they may think fit under the circumstances; and/or

and the efl will hope they are promoted to save them doing anything

[wilsdenrover]

1 minute ago, had.e.nuff said:

and the efl will hope they are promoted to save them doing anything

I imagine you’re correct