It is now 23.15 a good while since I have come away from Ewood totally dejected. How the hell did we lose that game? Easy, Everton came, the saw and they stole it.
David Moyes and so many other footballing people go on about how good our record is at Ewood. How hard it is to come away with anything. How teams would settle for a point up here. All that has changed, after being beat with Wolves (a team who will be near the bottom at the end of the season) we now get beat with an Everton side who was terrible to say the least.
Can anyone remember Robbo having to make a save? It was good to see Samba back today although did anyone else see that there's an annoying habit that has come into his game, and that everytime he is going into a tackle he actually shoves people. I counted 4 times today he did that. Samba and Givet gave Everton nothing all day long. A defence that looked solid.
There's been a lot of talk about Kean's line up for the Everton game and nothing good was said. Dunn hits the post early doors after a good passage of play. After that we kinda backed off and let the game get sloppy.
We had on the bench Goodwillie, Formica and Rochina, while MGP, Dunn and Roberts were on the pitch. Both Dunn and MGP went off with hamstring injuries and although I don't wish any injury on any player, this should give a chance for Rochina and Formica to get starts under their belts. Roberts must hold his hands up and just acknowledge that today he was poor. The fans got on his back for the lack of effort he puts in. Funny part was when he got subbed he had the nerve to limp off pretending he was injured.
Ok it's 3 games played and 3 games lost, 2 of which were at home against poor teams, but now with the more creative players in the team we should at least keep creating chances and eventually will find the net.
Simon Vukcevic will add good quality down the flank, he is an exciting player, we still need a GOOD striker to support Goodwillie and I would definately say a right back. I don't think to much of our cover at right back should Salgado get injured. Anyone else see Salgado out jump the big wigged Everton player in our 6 yard box today? Fantastic looks like he's got his spring back.
On one really serious note, since when did Ewood allow the fecking horns into the ground? Bloody annoying to say the least, I was sat behind 3 of them today in the Blackburn End. Soon stopped blowing them when fans threatened to put them where the sun don't shine.
We have now dropped 6 points at home, points that I and many others would have had banked when the fixtures came out. Can we recover from this? Damn right we can, but i'm afraid it has to be without Kean and his sidekick Mr Jenson. No one can understand why Kean is still there, especially when there are reputable, experienced ones unemployed waiting for the phone call. The transfer deadline fast approaching, should we be lucky enough to get a new manager, he won't have time to dip into the market.
I don't think it's the players we need, but direction from a manager who knows what he's doing, knows how to set up a team and get the best out of them. Sorry but it is definately not Steve Kean, I have no confidence in his approach or his strange team selections, weird post match interviews and with an appoitmen of an experienced manager should show the rest of the footballing world that we now mean business.
I'd like to wish Brett Emerton all the best in Sydney, he has been a loyal servant to Rovers over the years.
Saturday, 27 August 2011
Saturday, 13 August 2011
Goodwillies Pipe Line: 1st game in the bag
Goodwillies Pipe Line: 1st game in the bag: "All the waiting, the anticipation is now over the 1st game has come and gone. No points in the bag. Ok we lost, played pretty poorly and n..."
1st game in the bag
All the waiting, the anticipation is now over the 1st game has come and gone. No points in the bag.
Ok we lost, played pretty poorly and no one really stood out, add to that the very disappointing refereeing performance by Mr 'close' Friend (of Wolverhampton)
No matter of the sound bytes coming out of Ewood saying Rovers will be a top ten side, this seems a long long way away. The once Fortress Ewood saw Rovers put in an abject perfomance allowing Wolves an easy victory. No disrespect to Wolves, but these are the teams we need to be getting full points off at home and a loss is in my opinion a bitter blow. We have the bookies stating Rovers are very low odds to be relegated, with Kean 1 of the favourites to be the 1st manager to get the axe.
Yes there were no Samba, Nelson or Givet today and Nzonzi played alongside Hanley in the middle. You could tell as soon as the squads were announced that we were going to struggle, especially at the back. At times Nzonzi looked comfortable on the ball, passed the ball well and won a few good headers. Although saying that at times his awareness of players around him was poor. Grant Hanley no doubt will be a good player in the future, but was poor today, not closing down Jarvis for the 1st goal proved costly.
Hoilett apart from last 20 minutes looked out of ideas, Dunn and Emerton in centre midfield has got to be 1 of the worse centre midfield pairings in the Premiership. Both booked in the 1st half because they were so far behind play and time after time giave free kicks away needlesly. David Dunn, again in my opinion is not fit enough to be a starter for Rovers, he looks like he's bigger than last season. Emerton, i'm sorry is not good enough, i've no idea what he adds to the team, he huffs and puffs and fails to blow anyone away.
Anyone surprised to see Morten starting today? I was. A lot of people don't like him, but to be honest how many headers did he win to flick on from Robbo's goalkicks for Roberts to stand still and watch the ball go past him? Yes he took a terrible free kick which he blasted way over the bar, but I wouln't have taken him off, that should have been Dunn.
Formica's goals will be very important for us this season, I say this because Roberts spent most of his time arguing with the referee, he is so frustrating to watch. Although he did set up the goal for Formica but I can't remember him doing anything else.
Goodwillie came on and showed his battling qualities and i'm looking forward to him starting very soon. Rochina looks like hes on the David Dunn diet. Roch added some nice touches but struggled to get into a game that passed him by.
We missed Nzonzi in the midfield as we failed to win anything all day. Petrovic who was introduced to Ewood at half time needs to hit the floor running, we need bite in midfield and hopefully he's the 1 to do it.
To sum it all up, our hopes are with the new signings, we need to score goals to stay up and Goodwillie has been bought not as a prospect but a player who can do the business now. He cost us 2.8m compare that to the Wolves strikers Fletcher and Doyle both costing around 6.5m each, just shows how far we are behind teams like Wolves in the striking department and Wolves are a bottom 5 team.
We need structure installed into the side, at times it was like watching schoolkids. We need 2-3 more signings. Where is this big striker? When did Givet become a key player for us? as discussed on the radio coming home. To be fair i'd be happy with loan signings coming in, as long as they are decent. Look at the bench today, ouch............ we are very thin on the ground. This should never have happened, we should have had a settled squad way before this game.
But enough said, i'm still excited for this season and 1 game doesn't send a team down. We need to play smarter and to our strengths. Roll on to the next game, THE START OF OUR SEASON.
Ok we lost, played pretty poorly and no one really stood out, add to that the very disappointing refereeing performance by Mr 'close' Friend (of Wolverhampton)
No matter of the sound bytes coming out of Ewood saying Rovers will be a top ten side, this seems a long long way away. The once Fortress Ewood saw Rovers put in an abject perfomance allowing Wolves an easy victory. No disrespect to Wolves, but these are the teams we need to be getting full points off at home and a loss is in my opinion a bitter blow. We have the bookies stating Rovers are very low odds to be relegated, with Kean 1 of the favourites to be the 1st manager to get the axe.
Yes there were no Samba, Nelson or Givet today and Nzonzi played alongside Hanley in the middle. You could tell as soon as the squads were announced that we were going to struggle, especially at the back. At times Nzonzi looked comfortable on the ball, passed the ball well and won a few good headers. Although saying that at times his awareness of players around him was poor. Grant Hanley no doubt will be a good player in the future, but was poor today, not closing down Jarvis for the 1st goal proved costly.
Hoilett apart from last 20 minutes looked out of ideas, Dunn and Emerton in centre midfield has got to be 1 of the worse centre midfield pairings in the Premiership. Both booked in the 1st half because they were so far behind play and time after time giave free kicks away needlesly. David Dunn, again in my opinion is not fit enough to be a starter for Rovers, he looks like he's bigger than last season. Emerton, i'm sorry is not good enough, i've no idea what he adds to the team, he huffs and puffs and fails to blow anyone away.
Anyone surprised to see Morten starting today? I was. A lot of people don't like him, but to be honest how many headers did he win to flick on from Robbo's goalkicks for Roberts to stand still and watch the ball go past him? Yes he took a terrible free kick which he blasted way over the bar, but I wouln't have taken him off, that should have been Dunn.
Formica's goals will be very important for us this season, I say this because Roberts spent most of his time arguing with the referee, he is so frustrating to watch. Although he did set up the goal for Formica but I can't remember him doing anything else.
Goodwillie came on and showed his battling qualities and i'm looking forward to him starting very soon. Rochina looks like hes on the David Dunn diet. Roch added some nice touches but struggled to get into a game that passed him by.
We missed Nzonzi in the midfield as we failed to win anything all day. Petrovic who was introduced to Ewood at half time needs to hit the floor running, we need bite in midfield and hopefully he's the 1 to do it.
To sum it all up, our hopes are with the new signings, we need to score goals to stay up and Goodwillie has been bought not as a prospect but a player who can do the business now. He cost us 2.8m compare that to the Wolves strikers Fletcher and Doyle both costing around 6.5m each, just shows how far we are behind teams like Wolves in the striking department and Wolves are a bottom 5 team.
We need structure installed into the side, at times it was like watching schoolkids. We need 2-3 more signings. Where is this big striker? When did Givet become a key player for us? as discussed on the radio coming home. To be fair i'd be happy with loan signings coming in, as long as they are decent. Look at the bench today, ouch............ we are very thin on the ground. This should never have happened, we should have had a settled squad way before this game.
But enough said, i'm still excited for this season and 1 game doesn't send a team down. We need to play smarter and to our strengths. Roll on to the next game, THE START OF OUR SEASON.
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Preseason almost finished
So as the title says pre season is almost done, we have signed so far 2 players. 1 we had no choice about in Anderson and we signed the fabulously named Mr Goodwillie.
What next in the strange transfer coming and goings? Without repeating the obvious we have still allowed more players to leave than players coming in. Good news is, well we hope it's good news just because we can no longer rely on "reliable" sources that we are bringing in more players. I think we have done the right thing with Goodwillie bringing in what Dundee Utd fans say he is a pure 100% tryer, he's quick, young and loads of potential, some boffins in Scotland rate him as the next big thing out of Scotland since the Deep fried Mars bar. Radosav Petrovic is almost a done deal as we wait for work permit clearance. We are still linked with a few more players before the start of the season also, hopefully a big named striker and I don't mean Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink.
The big problem with the late arrivals of the players coming in for me would be just how quick will they blend into the squad and just how fit will these players be. Wasn't it the words of Steve Kean the only reason why Benjani, RSC didn't work last season is because they didn't have a preseaon behind them and therefore not fit enough? Ok RSC was probably injured. I'm happy that he isn't coming back just because we need players who can give a real effort.
If by a massive miracle Samba stays and is commited to Rovers our starting 11 is a good 11. Robbo probably in top 3 keepers last season. Salgado probably his last season and at times was left standing but who doesn't love the guy? Samba and Nelson in the centre, Olsson at LB. Nzonz, Rochina, Hoilett, Formica, Petrovic and Goodwillie.
When Kean was installed as Rovers supremo last season I though he was brave at times to play attacking football just to show BFS that this team could keep it on the floor. But as the season went on this style of football went missing. I just hope Kean can get the guys passing and moving, we got the young legs so we shouldn't run out of steam. We still have the experience where it counts to nurdle the new young guys through what will be an exciting season.
The fans need to get behind the boys from all sides of Ewood. We need to be as 1 and cheer them on.
What next in the strange transfer coming and goings? Without repeating the obvious we have still allowed more players to leave than players coming in. Good news is, well we hope it's good news just because we can no longer rely on "reliable" sources that we are bringing in more players. I think we have done the right thing with Goodwillie bringing in what Dundee Utd fans say he is a pure 100% tryer, he's quick, young and loads of potential, some boffins in Scotland rate him as the next big thing out of Scotland since the Deep fried Mars bar. Radosav Petrovic is almost a done deal as we wait for work permit clearance. We are still linked with a few more players before the start of the season also, hopefully a big named striker and I don't mean Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink.
The big problem with the late arrivals of the players coming in for me would be just how quick will they blend into the squad and just how fit will these players be. Wasn't it the words of Steve Kean the only reason why Benjani, RSC didn't work last season is because they didn't have a preseaon behind them and therefore not fit enough? Ok RSC was probably injured. I'm happy that he isn't coming back just because we need players who can give a real effort.
If by a massive miracle Samba stays and is commited to Rovers our starting 11 is a good 11. Robbo probably in top 3 keepers last season. Salgado probably his last season and at times was left standing but who doesn't love the guy? Samba and Nelson in the centre, Olsson at LB. Nzonz, Rochina, Hoilett, Formica, Petrovic and Goodwillie.
When Kean was installed as Rovers supremo last season I though he was brave at times to play attacking football just to show BFS that this team could keep it on the floor. But as the season went on this style of football went missing. I just hope Kean can get the guys passing and moving, we got the young legs so we shouldn't run out of steam. We still have the experience where it counts to nurdle the new young guys through what will be an exciting season.
The fans need to get behind the boys from all sides of Ewood. We need to be as 1 and cheer them on.
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