You are kidding,aren't you?

restricted view becomes super restricted view. Like the seated version of boltons old normid end

What an amazing view for those at the back of the 4 central sections !!

Good signing. Sadly won't offset the hindrance of the manager

We've already tried manager who liked the word magnificent. He always tried to give it a right good go in interviews

SEM Rovers

Vinjay has just had a cardiac

Just looking at the Championship league table throws up some very interesting statistics.

Rovers have conceded just 27 goals in the league this season. Only 3 teams in the whole division have conceded less goals than Rovers, those being automatic promotion chasers Burnley (26), Middlesbrough (16) and Hull (19). Derby County and Forest have conceded 27 also.

Even the teams chasing the play-offs known for their defensive resilience have conceded significantly more than we have, Ipswich on 39 for example.

Beyond this we have 'only' lost 10 games this season, which is a low figure for a side in our position. Birmingham and Ipswich, just outside the play-offs, have lost 9, whilst Rotherham, third bottom, have lost 9 more games than we have.

In comparison to the sides down at the wrong end of the table with us, the bottom 3 sides have all conceded basically double the amount of goals we have this season, Bolton (52), Charlton (56) and Rotherham (55).

Its quite clear that at the back we are a very strong side and there is little/no work that needs to be done on that front to very quickly climb the league.

At the other end of the pitch the story is very different. Rovers have scored just 28 goals all season, with only Charlton (26), Bristol City (27) and MK Dons (25) scoring less goals than us. Alarmingly Fulham have scored 47 yet sit below us, whilst all the top 6 sides have scored 20+ more goals than us over the 30 games this season.

I would like to think moving forward, as long as we survive this season, that the major surgery will be concentrated on our attacking abilities and not on our defence, which has been consistent all season.

Low goals scored. Lots of draws. I'd say that's a sign of a team going nowhere...............oh hang on!!!!!!

As in he was released by a professional club and then spent a decade playing amateur football?

Warning! Warning! Hyperbole alert! Warning!

I thought Cole was very disappointing in a Rovers shirt bar 'that' one goal. Used to make Raheem Sterling look like a positive individual on the field.

I am sure Rhodes will score goals and improve with better players at Boro. Sadly improvement was never going to happen here given the assorted talentless miscreants he was playing with.

The time to spend the Rhodes transfer money elsewhere was the day we bought him. Many ships have sailef since

Be careful what you wish for Oldjam

And "as if" Lambert will see much of the £9m. This is venkys Blackburn Rovers we are talking about. Incompetent and lies rule

Do you remember what happened the last time we lost a striker who scored a disproportionate amount of goals? We were relegated within 4 seasons

Selling Rhodes is a bit like trying to sail to Arran after selling the ferry

And how many players did 'he' sign again to get us this dog$h1t?

FFP, the transfer window running into the season causing disruption, the lack of Hawkeye (or whatever it's called), bad referees and assistants, general bad luck and probably now just waiting for the bad weather to kick in. If there isn't an excuse he will just make one up.

Don't forget the midweek fixtures meaning the little darlings couldn't possibly train on the other 5 days of the week. Remove brain, replace with pork pie and you still realise it's the same for all the other 23 clubs.

Yes he did use that as an excuse. Fkin shameful

From the old locked topic. Abbey brought it to everyones attention at the time

https://audioboom.com/boos/3143562-audio-blackburn-onerovers-3-ipswich-2-gary-bowyer

At 4mins 30 talking after the Ipswich game about next season

"We've just said there, erm, it really has to be us that are in the dressing room celebrating getting through to the playoffs, if not better"

So we have to be in the bottom 3 AND adrift?

It's like trying to move your house once the cliff erosion has bitten the first brick.

Gary Rowett is doing pretty fine considering he admitted he can't even compete with embargoed clubs on wages, ergo he is shopping in an even muddier puddle than us.

Bowyer is 1 or 2 players down on the team that finished 7th, has added a plethora of players he wanted, still maintains they are triffic, yet has managed them into 22nd place. There are no excuses.

The manager says the quality is there!!!

Today Bayes and Pearce commented on how Hanley and Duffy are good centrebacks in this league. But how many goals are they going gift the opposition (not just this season) before they realise they can't be. Or they can't play together, if we must persist with either millstone?

That's approx 12th place and equates to 60 points over a season. Whereas so far this season the average equates to 28 points over a 46 game season

Damn that Roman Abramovich. Football had just come to s decision to cut it's cloth regarding wages and transfers and along he comes and ramps up the destruction of the game a notch or 98

How I'd love him back. He could play all 23 of Bowyers keepers upfront as long as he kicked ass

Is this different to winding Chaddy up?

It's called banter, innit!

Blueboy is the only thing worth reading that doesn't boil your blood

Never has the retention of the likes of Williamson, Brown and Chris Taylor looked more like folly and the inexplicable signing of the ultimate footballing Ethelred The Unready, Petshi, assumes even more bonkers proportions each passing week he is not even featured at Under-21 Level.

A complete waste of a space, I feel.

The Welcome Inn in Walton Le Dale also had a £500k refit in May by Thwaites and became The Hunters. A few weeks after opening it was give 1 out of 5 by the food standards agency. Thwaites must have been livid

Unbelievable how far our club has fallen in 5 short years.

From a comfortable mid Prem club to a club in the bottom 3 of the Championship led by, IMV, a charmless and incompetent manager with some fans salivating over the signings of the likes of Barrow and Lawrence who last Friday, sat on the bench, deemed not good enough to start.

It's even beyond fiction.

And still the trees are blocked by woods for some