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[Neal]

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24589407.lewis-obrien-opens-failed-blackburn-rovers-move/

Guessing this lad didn't hit his previous highs at Boro that he did for Huddersfield. Regardless, I'd still love to see him here. If he can recapture that form he's unbelievable player at this level. 

Edited September 17, 2024 by Neal

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Neal said:

https://www.brfcs.com/forums/forum/4-blackburn-rovers-fans-messageboard/

 

Guessing this lad didn't hit his previous highs at Boro that he did for Huddersfield. Regardless, I'd still love to see him here. If he can recapture that form he's unbelievable player at this level. 

Who? That just links to the message board.

[Forever Blue]

1 minute ago, bluebruce said:

Who? That just links to the message board.

There’s an O’Brien story in the LT so I’m guessing it’s him.

[Neal]

13 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Who? That just links to the message board.

Fixed. Sorry

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, Neal said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24589407.lewis-obrien-opens-failed-blackburn-rovers-move/

Guessing this lad didn't hit his previous highs at Boro that he did for Huddersfield. Regardless, I'd still love to see him here. If he can recapture that form he's unbelievable player at this level. 

He seems to have vanished as a player. He was top class at Hudds.

Edited September 17, 2024 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Forever Blue]

6 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He seems to have vanished as a player. 

He’s in the MLS. So, yeah.

Edited September 17, 2024 by Forever Blue

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He seems to have vanished as a player. He was top class at Hudds.

Sounds like our bullshit hit him hard. Have we contributed to killing a career?

[Admiral Nelsen]

12 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Sounds like our bullshit hit him hard. Have we contributed to killing a career?

 

Rovers seriously let the lad down. But the whining from Forest (not the lad himself) didn't sit well with me at the time. As I understand it they signed him along with about 90 other players in the summer and didn't give him any game time whatsoever. And then it comes to the last day or so of the January window and only at the last moment would they let him go to another club. It then falls through and obviously that was amateur hour at our end, but the way Cooper was talking at the time you would have thought that Forest were bothered about his best interests and not just treating him as a commodity. 

[tomphil]

Seems he was really wanted to come here and get stuck in as well.

The streets will never forget this cock up.

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

Sounds like our bullshit hit him hard. Have we contributed to killing a career?

before we all get carried away with the eustace revolution,lets not forget what a complete bunch of a***sholes our  ceo and owners are,it was blindingly obvious venkys told the club to stop the deal,same with mcguire,anyone who thinks otherwise is at best naive

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

 

Rovers seriously let the lad down. But the whining from Forest (not the lad himself) didn't sit well with me at the time. As I understand it they signed him along with about 90 other players in the summer and didn't give him any game time whatsoever. And then it comes to the last day or so of the January window and only at the last moment would they let him go to another club. It then falls through and obviously that was amateur hour at our end, but the way Cooper was talking at the time you would have thought that Forest were bothered about his best interests and not just treating him as a commodity. 

Likewise, that's why I only said contributed to. Forest were pathetic during that saga. So were we, but at least we weren't hypocritical about it.

The player also bears some responsibility for seemingly going backwards, but I can understand the effect the psychological stress of the whole ordeal would have had. Players aren't immune to psychology and biology just because they're paid very well, as some people seem to think.

[philipl]

Amazing any player, agent or selling club have been willing to do business with the current Rovers set up.

Ok we have shuffled some of the pack but Venkys and Swag remain as the dealers.

[Paul Mani]

1 hour ago, philipl said:

Amazing any player, agent or selling club have been willing to do business with the current Rovers set up.

Ok we have shuffled some of the pack but Venkys and Swag remain as the dealers.

Swag has no power. Everything is decided by Suhail. 

[AllRoverAsia]

Quite how Forest can be blamed for the O'Brien debacle is beyond me.

We pulled that plug, no one else.

So they signed 99 players, that is not cover for our shameful behaviour.

[Mashed Potatoes]

13 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Likewise, that's why I only said contributed to. Forest were pathetic during that saga. So were we, but at least we weren't hypocritical about it.

The player also bears some responsibility for seemingly going backwards, but I can understand the effect the psychological stress of the whole ordeal would have had. Players aren't immune to psychology and biology just because they're paid very well, as some people seem to think.

I think O'Brien really should not have suffered from this "ordeal"; if he did he's too weak to make it to the top as a sportsman. Bobby Charlton really did go through an ordeal in the Munich air disaster and came back to establish himself as one of the all time great players.

[tomphil]

4 hours ago, Paul Mani said:

Swag has no power. Everything is decided by Suhail. 

He may have the final say but Swag does the talking and the dealing and the presenting of things to Suhail.

[ABBEY]

17 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Sounds like our bullshit hit him hard. Have we contributed to killing a career?

we ????

there's no we in venkys , that's down to them scum not us.

[Paul Mani]

5 hours ago, tomphil said:

He may have the final say but Swag does the talking and the dealing and the presenting of things to Suhail.

Swag is the monkey, Suhail is the Organ Grinder! 

[Exiled_Rover]

On 18/09/2024 at 04:52, AllRoverAsia said:

Quite how Forest can be blamed for the O'Brien debacle is beyond me.

We pulled that plug, no one else.

So they signed 99 players, that is not cover for our shameful behaviour.

They shouldn't have signed so many players in the summer, nor made him train in Nottingham on transfer deadline day morning.

They certainly contributed to it.

Edited September 19, 2024 by Exiled_Rover

[Admiral Nelsen]

9 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Quite how Forest can be blamed for the O'Brien debacle is beyond me.

We pulled that plug, no one else.

So they signed 99 players, that is not cover for our shameful behaviour.

 

Nobody's saying it is.

But when you sign a player, don't play him, don't even register him in your 25 man squad in January, and then only allow him to go to another club on the last day (or two?) of the window, then you probably shouldn't be taking the moral high ground about how the player has been mistreated by another club. 

Obviously that doesn't excuse our amateurism. 

[Forever Blue]

On 16/05/2024 at 09:51, Forever Blue said:

It’s a strange one really. The first 6 months of JDTs reign we got quite a few 1-0 wins at home because we’d nick a goal then sit deep. It was always odd to hear he didn’t have a Plan B when he could clearly set the team up to defend well. For the next 12 months he went to his Plan A which was open attacking football. We were 6th in Nov/Dec time then it fell apart due to injuries/JDT stubbornness/player unhappiness. 
 

Eustace has come in and reverted to JDTs Plan B. He’s good at setting up the defensive side but it’s clear he can’t hold a candle to JDT in regard to playing good football and playing through teams. He was also seen as a counterattacking manager at Brum so I doubt he’s going to come in and play expansive sexy football. But as Howard Kendall knew you build a successful team on a solid defence. If we can get a few attackers in with pace in the summer we could do ok next season. I  don’t think Eustace is as eusless as he’s being made out to be, but time will tell…

Yer about 6 months behind with your HK references @Herbie6590
😉

Edited December 10, 2024 by Forever Blue