Robin
Senior Member
No posting Otto, go for tacos and the goals will comeWell OK, tacos it is then!
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Sunday April 21st 2024
Kick off 12.30 pm
Ewood Park
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Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
2-2 FT
At half time i didnt think we'd be catching up a point on the top 2.
Shame it wasnt 3 but could have been a lot worse
At half time i didnt think we'd be catching up a point on the top 2.
Shame it wasnt 3 but could have been a lot worse
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ABBEY
Guest
Absolutely stupid set up and thankfully changes made at half time . Travis on at half time my man of the match . Another game changer was there Duracell ,Pringle, getting yellow he went in his shell when this happened. Two more woeful bits of defending for their goal and Raya has more of a septic toe for kicking than john butcher .
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ABBEY
Guest
Also special praise to nayambe who was isolated for 90 mins
One plus from this game was the form of Travis. He's was all over the park and is showing signs of making a player. Nyambe for the second home game was easily knocked off the ball for their first goal and was actually bullied off the ball again in the second half. This shouldn't be happening to a lad built like he is. Why were we so crap in the first half and so much better in the second when we went for the jugular? There's a lesson to be learned there!
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
What a relief ! I was sort of losing it in the first half hence my posts about powder puff defending . I’m so frustrated that TM hasn’t sorted out the central defence . Both their goals were too easy .
Rovers look very lightweight in comparison to some of the teams in this division and today was a good example . I’m afraid Mulgrew & Downing ( who only looks like he weighs about 11 stone wet through ) were bullied by their two big lads up front . I’m pretty sure their manager had worked out how brittle our central defence was and could exploit it by playing the simple long ball in the air or down the channels . Having said that Oldham also played some nice stuff on the floor and deserved their 2-0 lead .
Credit to TM , his reorganisation at half time worked and with a little luck Rovers could have snatched all 3 points. Impressed with Travis & I thought Bennett was good 2nd half .
We’ve caught up a point so not a bad day , but the defence should not be caught out like that again . Please see to it Tony or we might blow that automatic promotion place
Their support was impressive , must have been over 2,000
Rovers look very lightweight in comparison to some of the teams in this division and today was a good example . I’m afraid Mulgrew & Downing ( who only looks like he weighs about 11 stone wet through ) were bullied by their two big lads up front . I’m pretty sure their manager had worked out how brittle our central defence was and could exploit it by playing the simple long ball in the air or down the channels . Having said that Oldham also played some nice stuff on the floor and deserved their 2-0 lead .
Credit to TM , his reorganisation at half time worked and with a little luck Rovers could have snatched all 3 points. Impressed with Travis & I thought Bennett was good 2nd half .
We’ve caught up a point so not a bad day , but the defence should not be caught out like that again . Please see to it Tony or we might blow that automatic promotion place
Their support was impressive , must have been over 2,000
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Barmitzvah Boy
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What planet is TM on?
In his post-match comment he starts by saying it was 2 points lost, then ends by saying it was a point gained
TM - it was 2 points lost. The first half was pathetic.
In his post-match comment he starts by saying it was 2 points lost, then ends by saying it was a point gained
TM - it was 2 points lost. The first half was pathetic.
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ABBEY
Guest
ht ..point would be great after how bad it was
ft...2 points dropped. we battered them and they had 10 men at the end and were out on their feet.
ft...2 points dropped. we battered them and they had 10 men at the end and were out on their feet.
Wilpshire Blue
Senior Member
Before kick off I expected all the top three to win their matches and strangely, I would probably have felt better walking out of Ewood if we’d battered Oldham and the other 2 had won their games.
Trying to overcome my disappointment with yesterday’s performance and keep focused on the bigger picture
Trying to overcome my disappointment with yesterday’s performance and keep focused on the bigger picture
Just seen the highlights. It looked like a weak attempt by Nyambe to stop the first goal from where I was sitting but watching the highlights it was disgraceful, twice. He needs a rest but Caddis is not the answer. Is Travis able to play at right back or maybe Lenihan or Williams? Nyambe continues to be targeted every match.
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
Just had a quick read of some comments on the Oldham forum . A guy who seems to do a review similar to the ones Drog does for us ( obviously not quite in the same class ) said this about Rovers
“ Blackburn - Mowbray comes across as a decent bloke but I don't think he gets the best out of the quality of players he has”
I think we saw the worst & the best of Mowbray’s Rovers yesterday . If he can sort the defence out we’ll go up automatically , if not, I think we’ll end up in the play offs
) said this about Rovers“ Blackburn - Mowbray comes across as a decent bloke but I don't think he gets the best out of the quality of players he has”
I think we saw the worst & the best of Mowbray’s Rovers yesterday . If he can sort the defence out we’ll go up automatically , if not, I think we’ll end up in the play offs
So.... approaching Ewood we made a swift detour away from Kidder Street to Tweed St in order to avoid a throng of policemen on horses with their batons out and policemen on foot similarly tooled up attempting to contain a number of rowdy Manc hooligans seemingly intent on causing a bit of what used to be referred to 30-40 years back as 'aggro'. By complete irony throughout the match those same supporters were treating us all to their version of 'Love will tear us apart' by Manc band Joy Division from roughly the same period! (Abbey ... Al at this point you can enjoy some proper music....
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Needless to say when the match began 'love' was hardly in evidence from the Oldham players themselves who resembled football's version of Nazi stormtroopers. Doesn't help when a good number of the current Rover's team look like they'd need ID to buy a packet of fags! Jack Payne made his post match appearance in the Premier suite after the match to receive his watch from a 16 year old lad who actually dwarfed him! Didn't help that Jack's tracksuit appeared 2 sizes too big! Must have been a medium when Lg Boys would easily have sufficed.
I must say given that their number was roughly half their average home attendance that the support for their away mob was brilliantly coordinated and must have contributed much to Oldham's powerful first half display which ended with them deservedly 2-0 up. A casual observer could at that time have been forgiven for believing that Oldham were the team fighting for promotion and the Rovers the side threatened by the relegation trapdoor.
First up with Mulgrew up for a rovers corner Nyambe was given the task of marking Mazon with Downing alongside covering. Nyambe completely screwed up by being far too easily muscled off the ball and committing the defenders cardinal sin by letting the ball bounce, he recovered quickly enough to get goal side only for both him and Downing only to be bamboozled by Mazon again. Although Mazon undeniably did well he should never have had a sniff of the target against our two men. Worse still a fairly tame shot squirmed under Raya and hit the back of the net. Amateurish. Second goal when Mazon again strode forward after Bennett had weakly given the ball away in the Oldham half to shoot across goal and under Mulgrew's outstretched boot and Raya's glove. Again Raya made contact with the ball and again he let the ball pass by and into the net
So two down and almost out if the truth is known as the rovers had offered virtually the square root of sweet FA at the other end, The only bright spot was some spirited resistance from the midfield pair and Richie Smallwood in particular. Weird that Mowbray took Smallwood off at HT but it worked so what do I know? I did see enough yesterday to know that neither Payne nor Bell can play on the wings. They were truly awful in that first half along with Dack and Graham although to be fair the supply to them from both midfield and the wings was woeful. HT and the player's left the field to a chorus of boos.
After the interval with Bennett on the wing and Armstrong and Travis thrown into the fray to replace Smallwood and Downing Payne virtually ran the show in midfield. His second half performance being good enough to see him named MoM. They say muscular types struggle with stamina and so it proved as Oldham visibly tired the longer the game went on and as Oldham's raids became less dangerous and fewer in number allowing the rovers to gain territorial advantage and start to find space in Oldhams half of the pitch. Mulgrew drawing a respectable full length save from Placide with one free kick used it as a sighter to flight another into the far corner of Oldhams net! 63 minutes and game on! 2-1 and with Rovers lifted by the challenge Payne sent Dack clear who reached the by line before looking up and picking out the advancing Armstrong to thump the ball in. 71 minutes and game on proper! A few more minutes later Oldham were down to 10 men after Moimbe collected his second booking of the day for flooring Bennett. Unfortunately rovers couldn't find another despite playing against 10 men for almost 20 minutes much of which was taken up by Oldham's blatant time wasting. Fair play for refree Drysdale to add on 8 minutes of extra time but time wasting and spoiling tactics do always disrupt play for any team trying to chase the game.
In conclusion we appear to have the players necessary to dominate this League but Mowbray needs to find a formula which will allow them to do so. No clean sheet in the last 12 matches tells it's own story! Every match it seems currently we are giving ourselves an uphill battle. No teams that leak goa;ls as we are doing will ever be successful. As I've already said the two selected to play wing was a failed experiment and perhaps central midfield is a quandary. Bennett and Smallwood work well together but where does that leave Payne, Dack and Armstrong? Obvious here that I have written off Whittingham and Evans but there is still Antonsson, Conway until the return of Harry Whizz-bang as recognised wide men.
Up top I am confident that our best pair are Graham and I believe Dack although yesterday both were poor by previous standards . We don't have another Graham but Armstrong looks ready, willing and able to replace Dack should Mowbray decide his recent drop in form requires some R&R.
Raya.. 4 Poor. Kicking still bad. Still a weakness with long hanging crosses and yesterday his usually sharp reflexes let him down. He needed to have saved at least one of Oldhams goals.
Nyambe... 4 Off day. Oldham quite frankly bullied him. Nazon and the huge powerhouse Craig Davies proved too much and he reverted to his early season form. Rumours are that we are currently looking at loaning an Arsenal right back.
Downing.. 5 Poor and as Nyambe too easily bullied and intimidated by Oldhams strike force.
Mulgrew ..6 Best defender and scored a cracker but even he will feel that he struggled defensively at times.
Williams..5 Reverted to left back but I doubt he'll hold his place once Mowbray sorts out his formation.
Smallwood..7 Unlike many of his teammates he was prepared to go in where it hurts and give as good as he gets. Little creativity with this lad so was sacrificed at HT.
Bennett... 6 Usual energetic display of graft and was all over the pitch but blotted his copybook by giving the ball away when under no pressure which led directly to Oldham's 2nd goal.
Payne... 4 / 8 Marks here for both halves.
Bell 4 Awful match as he struggled with the wingman role Mowbray asked him to play. Second half I noticed his head was down and I was surprised he wasn't replaced by Conway when Oldham went down to 10, he would surely have provided better service to the strikers in that final search for a winner.
Graham... 5 Graham is a finisher and that's that. Shorn of service he becomes anonymous.
Dack.... 6 Currently not the Bradley Dack of a month ago. His usual good touch seems to have deserted him and he loses possession far to often. Made the goal with a great run and pull back for Armstrongs goal.
Subs
Armstrong... 7 I like this player. Superb finish for the equaliser and this lad looks to 'enjoy' playing football. Happy 21st birthday Adam! Rather surprised the Ewood crowd didn't give a quick rendition of '21 today' when he scored but there you go.
Travis.... 6 I don't share the enthusiasm of others here as yet for this lad, but he came on and gave an energetic performance albeit lacking in urgency and general 'nous'.
Mowbray...5 As I said he has the necessary tools of the trade at his disposal but he really needs to know how to utilise them to get the most out of them.
Referee Drysdale. .. 8. You rarely notice good refs is the old saying. Hardly put a foot wrong although instead of adding 8 minutes extra time he'd have been better ignoring some of the more obvious play acting or replacing them with a yellow card and also left the con men who faked injury on the sidelines for a couple of minutes rather than the usual 10 seconds or so. Whether he's allowed to do so I've no idea but it would have put a stop to the timewasting a lot quicker.
(Abbey ... Al at this point you can enjoy some proper music.... Needless to say when the match began 'love' was hardly in evidence from the Oldham players themselves who resembled football's version of Nazi stormtroopers. Doesn't help when a good number of the current Rover's team look like they'd need ID to buy a packet of fags! Jack Payne made his post match appearance in the Premier suite after the match to receive his watch from a 16 year old lad who actually dwarfed him! Didn't help that Jack's tracksuit appeared 2 sizes too big! Must have been a medium when Lg Boys would easily have sufficed.
I must say given that their number was roughly half their average home attendance that the support for their away mob was brilliantly coordinated and must have contributed much to Oldham's powerful first half display which ended with them deservedly 2-0 up. A casual observer could at that time have been forgiven for believing that Oldham were the team fighting for promotion and the Rovers the side threatened by the relegation trapdoor.
First up with Mulgrew up for a rovers corner Nyambe was given the task of marking Mazon with Downing alongside covering. Nyambe completely screwed up by being far too easily muscled off the ball and committing the defenders cardinal sin by letting the ball bounce, he recovered quickly enough to get goal side only for both him and Downing only to be bamboozled by Mazon again. Although Mazon undeniably did well he should never have had a sniff of the target against our two men. Worse still a fairly tame shot squirmed under Raya and hit the back of the net. Amateurish. Second goal when Mazon again strode forward after Bennett had weakly given the ball away in the Oldham half to shoot across goal and under Mulgrew's outstretched boot and Raya's glove. Again Raya made contact with the ball and again he let the ball pass by and into the net
So two down and almost out if the truth is known as the rovers had offered virtually the square root of sweet FA at the other end, The only bright spot was some spirited resistance from the midfield pair and Richie Smallwood in particular. Weird that Mowbray took Smallwood off at HT but it worked so what do I know? I did see enough yesterday to know that neither Payne nor Bell can play on the wings. They were truly awful in that first half along with Dack and Graham although to be fair the supply to them from both midfield and the wings was woeful. HT and the player's left the field to a chorus of boos.
After the interval with Bennett on the wing and Armstrong and Travis thrown into the fray to replace Smallwood and Downing Payne virtually ran the show in midfield. His second half performance being good enough to see him named MoM. They say muscular types struggle with stamina and so it proved as Oldham visibly tired the longer the game went on and as Oldham's raids became less dangerous and fewer in number allowing the rovers to gain territorial advantage and start to find space in Oldhams half of the pitch. Mulgrew drawing a respectable full length save from Placide with one free kick used it as a sighter to flight another into the far corner of Oldhams net! 63 minutes and game on! 2-1 and with Rovers lifted by the challenge Payne sent Dack clear who reached the by line before looking up and picking out the advancing Armstrong to thump the ball in. 71 minutes and game on proper! A few more minutes later Oldham were down to 10 men after Moimbe collected his second booking of the day for flooring Bennett. Unfortunately rovers couldn't find another despite playing against 10 men for almost 20 minutes much of which was taken up by Oldham's blatant time wasting. Fair play for refree Drysdale to add on 8 minutes of extra time but time wasting and spoiling tactics do always disrupt play for any team trying to chase the game.
In conclusion we appear to have the players necessary to dominate this League but Mowbray needs to find a formula which will allow them to do so. No clean sheet in the last 12 matches tells it's own story! Every match it seems currently we are giving ourselves an uphill battle. No teams that leak goa;ls as we are doing will ever be successful. As I've already said the two selected to play wing was a failed experiment and perhaps central midfield is a quandary. Bennett and Smallwood work well together but where does that leave Payne, Dack and Armstrong? Obvious here that I have written off Whittingham and Evans but there is still Antonsson, Conway until the return of Harry Whizz-bang as recognised wide men.
Up top I am confident that our best pair are Graham and I believe Dack although yesterday both were poor by previous standards . We don't have another Graham but Armstrong looks ready, willing and able to replace Dack should Mowbray decide his recent drop in form requires some R&R.
Raya.. 4 Poor. Kicking still bad. Still a weakness with long hanging crosses and yesterday his usually sharp reflexes let him down. He needed to have saved at least one of Oldhams goals.
Nyambe... 4 Off day. Oldham quite frankly bullied him. Nazon and the huge powerhouse Craig Davies proved too much and he reverted to his early season form. Rumours are that we are currently looking at loaning an Arsenal right back.
Downing.. 5 Poor and as Nyambe too easily bullied and intimidated by Oldhams strike force.
Mulgrew ..6 Best defender and scored a cracker but even he will feel that he struggled defensively at times.
Williams..5 Reverted to left back but I doubt he'll hold his place once Mowbray sorts out his formation.
Smallwood..7 Unlike many of his teammates he was prepared to go in where it hurts and give as good as he gets. Little creativity with this lad so was sacrificed at HT.
Bennett... 6 Usual energetic display of graft and was all over the pitch but blotted his copybook by giving the ball away when under no pressure which led directly to Oldham's 2nd goal.
Payne... 4 / 8 Marks here for both halves.
Bell 4 Awful match as he struggled with the wingman role Mowbray asked him to play. Second half I noticed his head was down and I was surprised he wasn't replaced by Conway when Oldham went down to 10, he would surely have provided better service to the strikers in that final search for a winner.
Graham... 5 Graham is a finisher and that's that. Shorn of service he becomes anonymous.
Dack.... 6 Currently not the Bradley Dack of a month ago. His usual good touch seems to have deserted him and he loses possession far to often. Made the goal with a great run and pull back for Armstrongs goal.
Subs
Armstrong... 7 I like this player. Superb finish for the equaliser and this lad looks to 'enjoy' playing football. Happy 21st birthday Adam! Rather surprised the Ewood crowd didn't give a quick rendition of '21 today' when he scored but there you go.
Travis.... 6 I don't share the enthusiasm of others here as yet for this lad, but he came on and gave an energetic performance albeit lacking in urgency and general 'nous'.
Mowbray...5 As I said he has the necessary tools of the trade at his disposal but he really needs to know how to utilise them to get the most out of them.
Referee Drysdale. .. 8. You rarely notice good refs is the old saying. Hardly put a foot wrong although instead of adding 8 minutes extra time he'd have been better ignoring some of the more obvious play acting or replacing them with a yellow card and also left the con men who faked injury on the sidelines for a couple of minutes rather than the usual 10 seconds or so. Whether he's allowed to do so I've no idea but it would have put a stop to the timewasting a lot quicker.
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ABBEY
Guest
That's fake music or politely put shite and al can't see how any blame can be put on nayambe ..any full back would struggle in any league when he was left all alone all game .
I enjoyed the music as opposed to the bang wallop crap stuff that you call music and Nyambe is far too weak and easily knocked off the ball for a big lad. That has cost us goals in the last two home matches. We can't carry on like that. Mulgrew and Raya combined to cock up for the second. Come back Lenihan. Mulgrew at least made up for his error with a well taken free kick.
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
Excellent review Gordon .So.... approaching Ewood we made a swift detour away from Kidder Street to Tweed St in order to avoid a throng of policemen on horses with their batons out and policemen on foot similarly tooled up attempting to contain a number of rowdy Manc hooligans seemingly intent on causing a bit of what used to be referred to 30-40 years back as 'aggro'. By complete irony throughout the match those same supporters were treating us all to their version of 'Love will tear us apart' by Manc band Joy Division from roughly the same period!)
Needless to say when the match began 'love' was hardly in evidence from the Oldham players themselves who resembled football's version of Nazi stormtroopers. Doesn't help when a good number of the current Rover's team look like they'd need ID to buy a packet of fags! Jack Payne made his post match appearance in the Premier suite after the match to receive his watch from a 16 year old lad who actually dwarfed him! Didn't help that Jack's tracksuit appeared 2 sizes too big! Must have been a medium when Lg Boys would easily have sufficed.
I must say given that their number was roughly half their average home attendance that the support for their away mob was brilliantly coordinated and must have contributed much to Oldham's powerful first half display which ended with them deservedly 2-0 up. A casual observer could at that time have been forgiven for believing that Oldham were the team fighting for promotion and the Rovers the side threatened by the relegation trapdoor.
First up with Mulgrew up for a rovers corner Nyambe was given the task of marking Mazon with Downing alongside covering. Nyambe completely screwed up by being far too easily muscled off the ball and committing the defenders cardinal sin by letting the ball bounce, he recovered quickly enough to get goal side only for both him and Downing only to be bamboozled by Mazon again. Although Mazon undeniably did well he should never have had a sniff of the target against our two men. Worse still a fairly tame shot squirmed under Raya and hit the back of the net. Amateurish. Second goal when Mazon again strode forward after Bennett had weakly given the ball away in the Oldham half to shoot across goal and under Mulgrew's outstretched boot and Raya's glove. Again Raya made contact with the ball and again he let the ball pass by and into the net
So two down and almost out if the truth is known as the rovers had offered virtually the square root of sweet FA at the other end, The only bright spot was some spirited resistance from the midfield pair and Richie Smallwood in particular. Weird that Mowbray took Smallwood off at HT but it worked so what do I know? I did see enough yesterday to know that neither Payne nor Bell can play on the wings. They were truly awful in that first half along with Dack and Graham although to be fair the supply to them from both midfield and the wings was woeful. HT and the player's left the field to a chorus of boos.
After the interval with Bennett on the wing and Armstrong and Travis thrown into the fray to replace Smallwood and Downing Payne virtually ran the show in midfield. His second half performance being good enough to see him named MoM. They say muscular types struggle with stamina and so it proved as Oldham visibly tired the longer the game went on and as Oldham's raids became less dangerous and fewer in number allowing the rovers to gain territorial advantage and start to find space in Oldhams half of the pitch. Mulgrew drawing a respectable full length save from Placide with one free kick used it as a sighter to flight another into the far corner of Oldhams net! 63 minutes and game on! 2-1 and with Rovers lifted by the challenge Payne sent Dack clear who reached the by line before looking up and picking out the advancing Armstrong to thump the ball in. 71 minutes and game on proper! A few more minutes later Oldham were down to 10 men after Moimbe collected his second booking of the day for flooring Bennett. Unfortunately rovers couldn't find another despite playing against 10 men for almost 20 minutes much of which was taken up by Oldham's blatant time wasting. Fair play for refree Drysdale to add on 8 minutes of extra time but time wasting and spoiling tactics do always disrupt play for any team trying to chase the game.
In conclusion we appear to have the players necessary to dominate this League but Mowbray needs to find a formula which will allow them to do so. No clean sheet in the last 12 matches tells it's own story! Every match it seems currently we are giving ourselves an uphill battle. No teams that leak goa;ls as we are doing will ever be successful. As I've already said the two selected to play wing was a failed experiment and perhaps central midfield is a quandary. Bennett and Smallwood work well together but where does that leave Payne, Dack and Armstrong? Obvious here that I have written off Whittingham and Evans but there is still Antonsson, Conway until the return of Harry Whizz-bang as recognised wide men.
Up top I am confident that our best pair are Graham and I believe Dack although yesterday both were poor by previous standards . We don't have another Graham but Armstrong looks ready, willing and able to replace Dack should Mowbray decide his recent drop in form requires some R&R.
Raya.. 4 Poor. Kicking still bad. Still a weakness with long hanging crosses and yesterday his usually sharp reflexes let him down. He needed to have saved at least one of Oldhams goals.
Nyambe... 4 Off day. Oldham quite frankly bullied him. Nazon and the huge powerhouse Craig Davies proved too much and he reverted to his early season form. Rumours are that we are currently looking at loaning an Arsenal right back.
Downing.. 5 Poor and as Nyambe too easily bullied and intimidated by Oldhams strike force.
Mulgrew ..6 Best defender and scored a cracker but even he will feel that he struggled defensively at times.
Williams..5 Reverted to left back but I doubt he'll hold his place once Mowbray sorts out his formation.
Smallwood..7 Unlike many of his teammates he was prepared to go in where it hurts and give as good as he gets. Little creativity with this lad so was sacrificed at HT.
Bennett... 6 Usual energetic display of graft and was all over the pitch but blotted his copybook by giving the ball away when under no pressure which led directly to Oldham's 2nd goal.
Payne... 4 / 8 Marks here for both halves.
Bell 4 Awful match as he struggled with the wingman role Mowbray asked him to play. Second half I noticed his head was down and I was surprised he wasn't replaced by Conway when Oldham went down to 10, he would surely have provided better service to the strikers in that final search for a winner.
Graham... 5 Graham is a finisher and that's that. Shorn of service he becomes anonymous.
Dack.... 6 Currently not the Bradley Dack of a month ago. His usual good touch seems to have deserted him and he loses possession far to often. Made the goal with a great run and pull back for Armstrongs goal.
Subs
Armstrong... 7 I like this player. Superb finish for the equaliser and this lad looks to 'enjoy' playing football. Happy 21st birthday Adam! Rather surprised the Ewood crowd didn't give a quick rendition of '21 today' when he scored but there you go.
Travis.... 6 I don't share the enthusiasm of others here as yet for this lad, but he came on and gave an energetic performance albeit lacking in urgency and general 'nous'.
Mowbray...5 As I said he has the necessary tools of the trade at his disposal but he really needs to know how to utilise them to get the most out of them.
Referee Drysdale. .. 8. You rarely notice good refs is the old saying. Hardly put a foot wrong although instead of adding 8 minutes extra time he'd have been better ignoring some of the more obvious play acting or replacing them with a yellow card and also left the con men who faked injury on the sidelines for a couple of minutes rather than the usual 10 seconds or so. Whether he's allowed to do so I've no idea but it would have put a stop to the timewasting a lot quicker.
Just read that Lenihan says he’s ready to return to first team action . Hopefully he’ll give the defence a physicality that’s been missing all season , if selected . Never been Downing’s biggest fan . Perhaps he needs to spend sometime in the gym and work on his strength .
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Thanks.... As for Downing, he'd only be a stop gap CH if Lenihan hadn't got this long term injury. In fairness he's stepped up to the plate pretty well but he goes from being average to poor when Mulgrew is not playing and he is expected to be the 'main man'. Even worse his distribution is absolutely woeful and especially so for a professional footballer.
steve w
Senior Member
Good review Gord but I agree with Abbey - Nyambe was left so isolated, especially first half. He wasn't as good as he has been previously for sure but Payne just seemed to be doing "his own thing" first half and left Ryan with his usual problem of not knowing whether to stick or twist, there were a couple of occasions where he looked like he wanted to run at them but didn't because he realised if he lost the ball it would leave the team hopelessly exposed
Paynes first half performance was atrocious as was Bells 90 min performance.
So for me....Nyambe 6 - Payne 2/6 and Bell 3
Paynes first half performance was atrocious as was Bells 90 min performance.
So for me....Nyambe 6 - Payne 2/6 and Bell 3