Blackburn Rovers Post Match Thoughts

You are correct.

The performance gives us hope for the future games, unless we slip back into Coventry/Watford mode. Crookes was knackered when he went thro, he usually gets away from players but decided to shoot before he got caught, it was a shot of a tired man, maybe should have looked up and played Ladapo?? in. When Smith went off that was the turning point for us to get pushed back as we couldn't get the ball and move forwards, when we did it just come straight back.
The goal came from an almighty ruck of players going for the same shi8te centre and the ball breaks for their player and bingo. Maybe the Ref should have blown when we defended the 1st cross and not let the 2nd phase happen, it was 7.38 on my screen when it went in.

In post match round up PW said he took Wiles off cos he had a cold and was on empty. Smith and Vass(who) were also tired and had to save something for Saturday, very strange comment when were defending like hell for a point. Apart from running about closing people down, i don't see why Vass should start again. He's why out of his depth in this league.

Bad ending but overall we did ok last night, we deserved something from the game.

As usual tactics, team selections and subs were questionable but to be fair what do we expect of our manager?

Four years ago he was just a fitness coach thrown into the deep end of management, he's going to make mistakes and he will hopefully learn from them.

Question is if his personal development is at the expense of relegation then will he survive?

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Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill

Bad ending but overall we did ok last night, we deserved something from the game.

As usual tactics, team selections and subs were questionable but to be fair what do we expect of our manager?

Four years ago he was just a fitness coach thrown into the deep end of management, he's going to make mistakes and he will hopefully learn from them.

Question is if his personal development is at the expense of relegation then will he survive?

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But all decisions are made between the 3 of them, he just has the deciding vote. But he is responsible for them being taken. If Hirst scores then the subs were brilliant but we now know what happened.

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Originally Posted by avondalemiller

The performance gives us hope for the future games, unless we slip back into Coventry/Watford mode. Crookes was knackered when he went thro, he usually gets away from players but decided to shoot before he got caught, it was a shot of a tired man, maybe should have looked up and played Ladapo?? in. When Smith went off that was the turning point for us to get pushed back as we couldn't get the ball and move forwards, when we did it just come straight back.
The goal came from an almighty ruck of players going for the same shi8te centre and the ball breaks for their player and bingo. Maybe the Ref should have blown when we defended the 1st cross and not let the 2nd phase happen, it was 7.38 on my screen when it went in.

In post match round up PW said he took Wiles off cos he had a cold and was on empty. Smith and Vass(who) were also tired and had to save something for Saturday, very strange comment when were defending like hell for a point. Apart from running about closing people down, i don't see why Vass should start again. He's why out of his depth in this league.

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Why do we need to save for Saturday though? understand Wiles but Ladapo could start on Saturday with Vassell on bench to rest til later in game if needed or is that a problem for Warney?

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Originally Posted by BigLadonOS

You can all say what you want to say to me but I am telling you that the reason we lost last night was yet again down to bad manament from Warny.

Why was it band managment? Because when you have the upper hand in a game and the team have a great shape and are keeping the other team out of our danger zone why would you change it? The answer is that you dont change it. 3 subs at once changed the dynamic of the team and it went down hill pretty quickly after those subs. Yes we had a chance or 2 after the subs but they also got more into the game and were able to keep the ball better and had a bit more time to find a pass. For 70 mins we had them where we wanted them and then hay presto Mr negative decided to go ........... errrrrr negative! We stopped pressing them and that boys and girls was our downfall. The other subs were also negative. Un frucking believable.

Unless the gaffer starts to wake up tacticaly and very quickly then there is no hope for us staying up this season.

How many of you remember when Forrest got religated? Everyone was saying "how have they lost that game?" It was because for 80 mins they were the better side by a country mile but for the last 10 mins they tried to keep what they had by stopping what they had done so well for 80 mins and try to see the game out for a draw and failed.

The players deserve better from the gaffer than to lose another game from his tactical errors.

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If you're going to slag someone off continuously, at least get their name right.
It's Warne with an E,not hard is it ?

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Originally Posted by BigLadonOS

There is no point trying to talk tactics if you dont know any.

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I'm always willing to learn, but you've copped out.

The substitution didn't directly lead to the foul. It looks to me that Crooks has a habit of giving away needless fouls, possibly because he hasn't got the speed of reaction to compete with better players.

Its took me nearly a day to post because I was so gutted after last night. No point everyone getting at each other because basically there's some element of truth in most of the comments. I am not a genius at tactics but can clearly put my finger on why we lost. We did not score enough goals. The performance was very good but its at the cutting edge that will also dictate results. Until we either a) take our chances, or b} buy a proven Championship striker we will come away feeling gutted more often than not.

I still think that Freddy will get us goals but Smith is in the team for his work rate. Not convinced at all by Vassell and Hirst is still learning. Only my opinion mind you, but promotion teams usually have the ability to win from losing positions and vice versa. The ominous truth is that the Millers have lost 14 points so far from winning positions and are 4 points worse off from 19 games than in 2018/19. Its not unredeemable and I still think this squad is stronger than that one, but we need to punish teams when we are on top.

I don't think it's a simple as saying we shouldn't have take this player off, kept another player on and why did we change it.

Players might be injured or tiring. They brought some fresh legs on and we had to counter that. Who's to say that their subs wouldn't have breezed past our lads anyway if they had been kept on and who had put in a monumental effort. They might, they might not.

Watching from a small TV screen won't show us what PW and his backroom staff are seeing and hearing from his players.

The biggest disappointment was not establishing a two goal lead rather than criticising the Manager yet again. Easy to do from an armchair when we don't know all the facts

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Originally Posted by Townerslovechild

If you're going to slag someone off continuously, at least get their name right.
It's Warne with an E,not hard is it ?

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Not slagging anyone off just speaking the truth as I see it.