v Stoke City (h) - 6/11/2024

[frosty]

9 hours ago, DaveyB said:

 (Cantwell is skilful and tidy in possession, but I haven’t seen any real creativity from him yet) 

Really, he played a couple of excellent through balls in the first half through the eye of a needle. Class act. And even though you associate creativity more with things like through balls, he also stuck that cross right on Gueye's head. 

[ageoftherover]

10 hours ago, booth said:

You've just given me a terrible flash forward of seeing Gueye getting ready for a penalty, big grin on his face, shambling around like he's on Soccer AM after a night on the pop.

"This, to save Blackburn Rovers from relegation."

[booth]

11 minutes ago, ageoftherover said:

"This, to save Blackburn Rovers from relegation."

Grim.

[Upside Down]

1 minute ago, booth said:

Grim.

We'll be down well before the last game of the season. 

[riverholmes]

9 hours ago, Groundhog said:

Cantwell is the only player who can loft the ball in behind and drop it on a dime for the onrushing forward, or play a 35 yard crossfield pass first time. Those are things that should be a given for a footballer, the default, we've been spoilt with them in the past. He's working with little around him. 

That’s Buckley’s game too but sadly doesn’t seem to have the mentality to apply it, for whatever reason. 

[RoversTilliDie]

13 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

Cantwell oozes class

Cantwell couldn't hit a barn door from 5 yards, his attempts on goal went over the stand roof. He's like the rest of our useless eustace strike force.

[RoversTilliDie]

13 hours ago, Tom said:

Think we’ve played pretty well, Cantwell the obvious standout but Ohashi looking lively as well 

What planet our you on,  there playing pretty well to be relegated at the moment.

[RoversTilliDie]

10 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

We'll be down well before the last game of the season. 

I agree, cant see were are next goals coming from. We had one or two golden chances last night, but instead of hitting the back of the net, we overpass and chances over with.

Edited 3 hours ago by RoversTilliDie

[Forever Blue]

6 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Cantwell couldn't hit a barn door from 5 yards, his attempts on goal went over the stand roof. He's like the rest of our useless eustace strike force.

Cantwell is the blonde one. 

[RoversTilliDie]

25 minutes ago, ageoftherover said:

"This, to save Blackburn Rovers from relegation."

And he puts it over the stand roof! Rovers are relegated. I can picture the scene.

 

[K-Hod]

21 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Cantwell couldn't hit a barn door from 5 yards, his attempts on goal went over the stand roof. He's like the rest of our useless eustace strike force.

https://www.specsavers.co.uk/

[Ghost7]

There's an old saying buy cheap buy twice... which Rovers are likely going to keep on experiencing.

Wahlstedt, Telalovic... Gueye... and Toth might be the same.

From what I can see Wahlstedt is 3rd choice for his team in Sweden, he doesn't make the match day squad and is behind Klaesson and Jasper Hansen.

You can argue the same for players like Hedges and Pickering. We still need a good winger and a better permanent left back.

 

[rigger]

13 hours ago, Torgeir said:

Really need to get AMD back fit and give him a run of games. We'll probably see the same starting eleven away at Cardiff first though, with Dolan out through suspension.

Who is AMD ?

[booth]

9 minutes ago, rigger said:

Who is AMD ?

Amario of Mass Destruction.

[rigger]

11 hours ago, tomphil said:

Have we ever won a game when kicking into the BBE first ?

It never seems to have the desired effect.

Plymouth, 5-2.

[Jimmy612]

Just moving away from matters on the pitch, what a travesty the atmosphere is at Ewood these days.  The last 12 years of constant decline has just completely sucked the life out of the fanbase, not just the obvious drop in attendances, but the complete lethargy and hopelessness that everyone feels.  The most excited the Blackburn end got was to fairly inexplicably boo Phillips and chant 'one greedy bastard'.  The state our club is in, I'd have fucked off too, and not bothered to sign the senior contract to which he had absolutely no obligation.

The less said about the Yuki song the better. How have we ended up with another variation of Hey Baby 🤮

Such a shame, and once again it lands squarely at the feet of the owners. They don't deserve the few thousand that do still bother to turn up.  

[neophox]

We need Sigurdsson in ... he can score goals. May be the best striker at the club at the moment.

[rigger]

13 hours ago, bazza said:

If you weren't there and didn't watch the game how can you criticise my comment. I watched it on TV and IMO Rovers actually played a hell of a lot better than they have done over the last 5 or 6 games. We swung the ball from wing to wing. We put loads of crosses in. We just didn't get the luck we deserved.

Their keeper had a world class display.  We've been crying out for crosses and a faster tempo to our game and, tonight, that's what we got.

As I said, good game and unlucky to lose.

When chances such as we had are missed, I don't class that as unlucky. I have never watched the Rovers lose a game, and thought that was a good game to watch. Everyone to their own. 

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

5 hours ago, DanielMB said:

Am I the only who gets a bit pissed when our coach uses “excellent” and “fantastic” after we just lost 2-0 at home to Stoke?

Could've called that before he went out for the presser, it's his style to ignore the obvious negatives and remain positive regardless, not the approach I'd take and highly frustrating to read but he's a long way from our biggest problem.. that's them Venky cunts 

[Forever Blue]

1 hour ago, Ghost7 said:

There's an old saying buy cheap buy twice... which Rovers are likely going to keep on experiencing.

Wahlstedt, Telalovic... Gueye... and Toth might be the same.

From what I can see Wahlstedt is 3rd choice for his team in Sweden, he doesn't make the match day squad and is behind Klaesson and Jasper Hansen.

You can argue the same for players like Hedges and Pickering. We still need a good winger and a better permanent left back.

 

Exactly. For the money wasted on Gueye, Ennis, Telalovic and Wahlsted they could have bought a good striker. 

[BlackburnEnd75]

2 hours ago, frosty said:

Really, he played a couple of excellent through balls in the first half through the eye of a needle. Class act. And even though you associate creativity more with things like through balls, he also stuck that cross right on Gueye's head. 

Agreed. Don't understand this criticism of cantwell, he created two great chances one for ohashi and one for gueye. The gueye one he couldn't have put it more on a plate for him. 

He's taking the ball, carrying it, giving it the wide players in good areas. Putting great through balls and crosses in. He's really not an issue. He won't be here that long, he's too good for this team.

[K-Hod]

23 minutes ago, Jimmy612 said:

Just moving away from matters on the pitch, what a travesty the atmosphere is at Ewood these days.  The last 12 years of constant decline has just completely sucked the life out of the fanbase, not just the obvious drop in attendances, but the complete lethargy and hopelessness that everyone feels.  The most excited the Blackburn end got was to fairly inexplicably boo Phillips and chant 'one greedy bastard'.  The state our club is in, I'd have fucked off too, and not bothered to sign the senior contract to which he had absolutely no obligation.

The less said about the Yuki song the better. How have we ended up with another variation of Hey Baby 🤮

Such a shame, and once again it lands squarely at the feet of the owners. They don't deserve the few thousand that do still bother to turn up.  

To be fair, I'm very curious as to when he's gonna score a goal.....

[davulsukur]

Considering we had 10 more shots (25) than Stoke (15),  we still only managed 1 more (8) on target than they did (7).

Wasteful.

[Blue blood]

28 minutes ago, neophox said:

We need Sigurdsson in ... he can score goals. May be the best striker at the club at the moment.

I'd forgotten he was on the books which says it all really. 

[Blue blood]

25 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Exactly. For the money wasted on Gueye, Ennis, Telalovic and Wahlsted they could have bought a good striker. 

I also thought that wage wise with our 2 aging centre backs this year. Surely one of better quality would have been more logical. I know you need 4 but having 3 decent (ha ha) is better than having 2 duds as cover.