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Is there any realistic chance of some backpedalling on the prices? Seeing Preston do a ticket for under £300 must hit home to the powers that be and make them realise they are vastly overpricing things. If they did a riverside ticket back at £299 like pre-covid id buy it right now regardless of the footballing issues to address over the summer
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Complete lack of imagination on the pricing and a ridiculous deadline to avoid a £30 'fine'. The price in the Riverside rose by £100 this season and the facilities are worse than ever... Staffing is atrocious - you either miss 15mins of the first or second half in order to actually get served by the one 16yr old manning the kiosk. There hasn't even been any beer available for the last 2 home games only dark fruits cider. This is despite constant price rises for the pies/beer/chips. The toilets are falling to pieces and the hand dryers are some of the worse I have ever used. The entire stand needs a wash and paint with weeds growing out the various cracks in the paving. On the football front there is no chance of me renewing until the manager situation is resolved and some indication of investment over the summer in the squad given the expiring contracts. Not paying £400 to watch some washed up loans and freebies fight relegation would rather just pay as I go in the case.
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v Stoke City (h) - 18/4/22
roverblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Lots of grumbling in the riverside about Mowbray today, first time I have heard any all season. It was fairly mild though in terms of formation and selection rather than sacking him etc -
v Stoke City (h) - 18/4/22
roverblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Today summed up the need for a change of management. Another game that needed a raft of changes to make us look remotely competitive after a botched formation and line up for probably the 10th game running. Only player with any credit was Gallagher the rest should be ashamed at the effort put in. I have seen more intensity from sloths on the Green Planet show. -
v Coventry City (a) - 2/4/22
roverblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Feels like a loss tomorrow based on form but you never know after a break to re-group. Lets just hope we start finding some goals from somwhere, maybe Brereton coming back will change our luck/form. Its the hope that kills you 🤪 -
From a squad perspective we are in a much better position now than when he took over. A combination of youth development and good signings have been one of the best parts of the Mowbray era. I don't lay the blame for the upcoming out of contract players at his door, I am sure he wants to keep all of them but the exec/owners won't or can't pay the going rate for them. I think given our commercial income it's a fairly sensible approach in terms of our long term existence. League position I think given the investment in the club he has done ok. The promotion season was one of my favourites as a rovers fan going to new grounds and seeing us win most weeks with some great atmospheres. My biggest gripe with Mowbray is his lack of flexibility on the pitch which has been shown with the disastrous runs each season where we lose 10 in a row or something similar. He is so stubborn to just persist with the same formation, players and style until it just sorts itself out eventually. Its rank bad management and is the main thing that holds rovers back from getting higher up the league or maintaining our position this season. In summary I think he has done a good job 7/10 but I am ready to say our goodbyes and let someone else have a go.
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v Derby County (h) - 15/3/22
roverblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
0-0, another toothless performance whilst keeping it tight at the back. -
v Bristol City (h) - 12/3/22
roverblue replied to roversfan99's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Total garbage. Feel like a stuck record but been same since Huddersfield at new year. No way we stay in the playoffs as Mowbray won’t mix it up and change the team -
Class performance, dominated from start to finish. For me Dolan set the standard early doors with his work rate and skill and it raised everyones game including the crowds.Shame we cant put the ball in the net as could have been 4-5 with all those 1 vs 1 we managed to carve out. Some really committed performances from players like Zeefuik and Gallagher as well with some power tackles that just sent QPR back into their shells. I don't think they wanted it in the end and just resorted to hurriedly passing it around the back four and arguing amongst themselves. Overall great to see a coherent performance again after a couple of months of lacklustre huff and puff performances. Rothwell and Buckley can bide their time for me as that 11 deserves to start the next game. Hope Nyambe is ok looked a bad one.
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v Sheffield Utd (a) - 23/2/22 - Match Preview
roverblue replied to Herbie6590's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Was too miffed to post last night, it was a familiar story since Huddersfield though. We huffed and puffed looking fairly solid at the back, but attack wise we are totally clueless. Nobody in the box Nobody making runs into the box Nobody making the most of corners/freekicks in the box Nobody controlling or holding the ball up in the last third bringing others into play Its just the general lack of attacking play and movement that worries me, at the moment it feels like we could go the whole of the rest of the season without scoring. The whole gameplan is basically to not concede and then hopefully somehow the ball just gets itself into the oppositions goal by a bit of magic. Still a chance to stay in those playoff spots but Mowbray has to change the system or players to get in there. I cant see what Rothwell, Khadra, Gallagher or Buckley have done in the last few matches to keep their places, swap them out for some new ideas. -
v Millwall (h) - Saturday 19th February
roverblue replied to darrenrover's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Drove down, parked the car then just as I got out my phone beeped with the news. Listened to Waggot on the way home and he was miffed basically said the referee didn’t want to play it -
v WBA (a) - Valentine’s Day 💙🤍
roverblue replied to rigger's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Great point in the end, good 2nd half performance and probably could have nicked a 1 nil win with a bit more luck. Nyambe looked great as the right sided defender, if we convince him to stay then maybe thats the better position for him long term when Van Hecke goes back or Lenihan leaves. Brereton looked sharper than he has in a while too, hope the injury isn't serious. Follow that up with a win on Saturday and it brings a bit of hope back after recent results! -
v WBA (a) - Valentine’s Day 💙🤍
roverblue replied to rigger's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
I would defo be swapping out Khedra for Dolan to start in the next game, his pressing and dribbling were one of the few positives to come out of last night when he came on. -
I was thinking the same, the Huddersfield game at home for me was the start of the dip. During and since that we have lost our attacking edge or other teams have worked out how to stop us. The saving grace from previous years is our much improved defence so rather than losing 6-7 games in a row we have nicked a few points here and there on the back of it. The manager needs something freshening up in the tactics or personnel to try and get back to a higher level of performance.
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v Nottingham Forest (h) - 9/2/22
roverblue replied to dallydally's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
The poor run continues, not sure if it’s due to a drop in our own performances or other teams just working us out. Probably a bit of both! Time for Buckley to have a rest looked really off it last few games. Same with Brereton and Khadra just but nobody to really come in for them. Think we will ultimately slide into mid table which is where the squad belongs. There is still some slim hope if we can string a couple of wins together but needs a massive turnaround in form we haven’t looked like scoring since the Huddersfield game at Xmas. -
v Swansea City (a) - 5/2/22
roverblue replied to darrenrover's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
big game on Wednesday night now, always back us at home to get the win but they really need to put on a performance as its been poor for a while now (albeit scraped a few 1-0 wins). Hopefully have our best 11 out bar Pickering for Giles and see a result to go with it -
v Swansea City (a) - 5/2/22
roverblue replied to darrenrover's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Garbage performance never look like scoring here and comedy defending for their goal. Swansea are dreadful as well a top 2 team would be 0-4 up here -
January Transfer Deadline Day 2022
roverblue replied to Tom's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Starting to have the same feeling as most deadline days for us, lots of talk but then nothing materialises! Hope we dont regret it later in the season, really would have liked a decent striker to come in to give Ben some competition like we should have done in the summer. -
v Middlesbrough (h) - 24/1/22
roverblue replied to chaddyrovers's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Fantastic battling result, rovers on top first half then boro the second. The turnaround in our defence is incredible this season, they make it so hard for the opposition to create any chances with this formation. The only way Boro were going to score last night was from one of their 500 free kicks into the box they seemed to have! Looked a lot more solid with Nyambe and Travis back in the team, feels like we have gone off the boil in an attacking sense these last few games but still managing to get the odd goal. As per usual most of the chances come from Buckley who was moved back to his forward role and was outstanding, how we missed that against Hull. One negative for me was the performance of Butterworth, he has clearly got the talent but he just seems so lazy last night and failed to chase down balls or press the opposition. It almost reduced us to 10 men for the period he was on he was that ineffective, inviting more and more pressure. Something that can be coached into him thankfully but as bare minimum you need to put the yards in. Defintately could do with some signings this week with all the injuries, maybe Dack will be back on the bench next time we are Ewood given his run out last night. -
v Hull City (a) - 19/1/22
roverblue replied to Aqualung's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Really poor half, no need to tinker with the formation and setup but Tony couldn’t resist. Needs reverting back and subs on asap to turn this around -
I know Mowbray is getting a lot of credit for the season since the Fulham debacle but it stretches back further than that in my view. The team have been good all season bar that blip and a few struggles when key men got injured. The same will happen again if we lose Lenihan/Nyambe/Travis for any period of time as we just dont have the squad depth to cover for their losses. I would love to see Mowbray be given some cash in Jan to strengthen the depth around right back and striker in particular. Even if we just swapped Clarkson and Poveda for loans covering in those areas it would give us a chance of staying up and around the playoffs. For whatever reason its just clicked this season, feels like the league 1 vibe again in the ground and you can see the players work rate and togetherness plays a massive part in it. In particular the three at the back that he has put in place makes it really difficult for the opposition to create chances we just snuffed Brum out completely yesterday it was like swatting an annoying midge out the way.
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Awful conditions but a great battling win, one bit of quality from Kehdra and Diaz was the difference. Ref might as well have worn a PNE shirt absolute disgrace of a performance. Great to see some grit and fight from the lads, special mention for Bradley Johnson who basically came on to smash a few heads together 😂 Atmosphere class once the ref riled us all up really enjoyable day out and long may it continue.
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Credit to Mowbray today the changes all paid off in spectacular style. Poveda especially looked fantastic where had that performance been hiding. Felt like a proper counter attacking wing play formation today and worked brilliantly. Also got the crowd behind them and probably the best atmosphere so far this season. Much better mood going into the break
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I find it hard to say it but I honestly don't want to go on Saturday after last night. The performance was bad enough but the lack of apology or noises that anyone in the club is bothered hurt just as much. As a fan I just feel taken advantage of, the whole match day experience is crap these days. No atmosphere, no passion, the facilities are a joke in the riverside with broken toilets and no staff at the kiosks. All for £100 more than I paid for my last season ticket. If I could get a refund on my ticket at this point I would probably take it and just watch the odd game on the TV.
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v Fulham (h) - 3/11/2021
roverblue replied to CambridgeRover's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Walked out at 3 nil, even before the red it was a shameful effort from most of them. The club can’t moan about lack of fans on the ground when I drag my ass out after a day of work and no tea to witness that shite. Pathetic