First thing to say is that was a massive 3 points gained against Swansea today.
The performance at times during the match was quite simple but very effective.
Swansea came into the game without an away win and without a goal in their past 3 games.
Rovers came into this game winning just 1, losing 5, scoring 6 goals and conceding 13.
With the only win that was back in September against a poor team at the time in Arsenal. (We needed 2 OG's and Arsenal to miss a hatful of chances late on.)
This game was either going to be a dour 1-1 game with Swansea owning the possession and Rovers scoring from a set piece, or has it turned out to be a high scoring game.
90 mins later we had won the game 4-2. Swansea were reduced to 10 men, with Allen receiving 2 yellow cards in very similar fashion as Dunn got his 2 yellows against Wigan.
Rochina limped off the field holding what looked like his hamstring, at this time very little mentioned. 1 thing i've noticed with Rochina he puts himself about but boy his tacking his awful, but at least he gives everything. I think Rochina has at times looked fantastic, 1 brilliant bit of skill today took the ball up around and over his man in 1 move.
This gave Simon a good run out and to be blunt he did everything I have seen him do for Montenegro and looked pretty decent. Probably ready to step in when Hoilett leaves in January.
David Dunn once again in my eyes proved once again why he should not be considered to start games for Rovers, slow, gave the ball away to much and conceded silly fouls in dangerous places. With Nzonzi out suspended in his 2nd game of 3, Dunn had a chance to prove he could come in and stake a place, but showed that this his time has come and long gone.
Robbo today was bak to his shot stopping best, with some point blank saves, great to see his reactions are still top notch, because the past few games he had started to look shaky. Only 1 downside is, what's happened to his kicks? A lot of kicks to Swansea players.
I love Givet, but as a Centre Half, he is definately not a Left Back. I think he gives Rovers spirit like a haggered warrior. Dann and Samba at times looked pretty assured, but we have to remember that this was a poor Swansea team that could pass the ball well around their own box but the further up the field they got the less of an idea they had. The Lita headed goal showed the reason why we need to be better in defence as he rose alone to head in their 1st goal even though there were 3 Rovers players in and around Lita.
At 3-1 we sat back and invited Swansea onto us and we gave them to much space, we stopped closing down and stopped marking their players. It was always going to happen, Swansea got their 2nd goal with nobody closing the ball down and just too many Rovers players stood watching instead of doing.
During the game the supporters gave full backing to the team with noisy renditions of RTID, Going down the Bolton Road etc, but the loudest chant of the game was reserved for the Rovers manager with what I could see at least 3/4's of the Blackburn End, The Darwen End and The Riverside with "Stand up if you want Kean out" this went on for about 2 minutes and was indeed very loud.
I will say this though as much as i'm not a fan of Kean's he brought the Yak off so he could soak up the applause of the fans, that was a nice touch. It's a shame that we need to score 4 goals to have any chance of any points at the moment, but while the Yak is on the field there's always a chance of a goal or 4.
After the final whistle protesters once again gathered in the Blackburn End to sing for Kean and Venky's to go. Some fans chanted "Mark Hughes's Blue and White Army"
Things of note from today for me was the overkill of Stewards drafted in from Bolton and a constant Police present. When Simon was brought down in the box, stewards and police rushed to line up in front of the Blackburn End, so much so that you could hardly see Yak scoring as the Stewards and Police tried blocking everyones view by standing up infront of everyone. I was told the extra security was brought in because they were fearing a pitch invasion.
On a brighter note how good was it to see a specila celebrity guest in David Gest wearing a Rovers shirt staying on til the end. No idea why he was there but always welcome at Rovers.
So finally, as in my title "What Happens Now?" we beat Swansea we move within a point of getting out of the bottom 3, other results depending of course. On the way home from Ewood I listened to Radio Lancashire to hear that it was embarrasing the Rovers supporters (A) Boo'd Kean when his face came on the big screen when Yak scored and (B) People protesting at the end of the game, when Rovers had won. Obviously this radio presenter hasn't watched Rovers much this season and therefore his opinions on whether it was embarrasing or not are not valid, these people need to see the whole picture and not just 90 minutes against a team that will struggle to survive in the Premiership. I say Swansea will struggle because they don't have hardened players that will dig in when the game turns into a battle. Also in the same radio interview, Kean mentioned it's about results not performances after 14 league games played glad he has found this out.
Kean remains in charge, he doesn't understand the fans who protest. How long has he got left at Rovers? If he goes who wants the job?
