Just a few points to add...
The Rovers should carry a govt health warning if we are to endure any more endings to a match like yesterday. "All's well that ends well" will not apply every week that's for sure. A great spectacle for a neutral but unfortunately very few in Ewood yesterday can claim to be neutrals.
Lets look at the team.
Defenders.... Brittain, Carter, Hyam, Pickering. OK enough but boy do they sometimes take ridiculous and unnecessary risks when attempting to play the ball out instead of hoofing it to go out of play towards the far corner flags! Not sure if it was Hyam or Pickering who played the ball across the edge of our area to a colleague standing in the 'D' towards the end of the match but if that's what coaching does recommends it's plumb crazy.
Defensive midfield... err Travis I suppose although for some reason JDT has him playing further up the pitch in a creative role. Now correct me if I am wrong but 'creative' and 'Travis' are not really words that belong in the same sentence.
Creative midfield... WhartonA, Hedges, Dolan, Szmodics and Gallagher.
Strikers.... None
It's plain to see why we appear a taj blunt edged at times, and also why we defend so ineptly. No way will the current philosophy see us in the top six never mind the top two come May. On the bench were the more defensively capable JRC, Garrett with two CH's in James Hill and Scott Wharton. so just 2-1 up and looking to play the match out and in response to an injury to the brittle Gally and the out of sorts Dolan on comes new boy and great white hope Telalovic (fair enough) and Moran. Now whilst this Brighton lad is a promising talent he's miles off in professionalism. Tricks flicks and showboating is for a team 4 up with 10 mins to play. I assume JDT will have reminded him of his duties in no uncertain manner after the match! Even worse Trav had to retire and be replaced by JRC on 76mins. With Adam Wharton needing to forget the press and media attention and to desperately improve the defensive side of his game (if he wants to ever play in the Prem) all of a sudden and as I mentioned in the boro thread the team turned into football's equivalent of the Keystone Cops. With a big strong and seemingly fast raiding CF in Telalovic (he looks like he needs to get up to speed with his teammates) one up top was enough and every midfield growler should surely have been chucked on by the 70th minute.
Next up for comment.... Goons in the crowd who look at their watches and bugger off on 85 minutes with the match well and truly in the balance. I could never understand these prats (rhymes with ?) but now with the increased over time they missed almost a quarter of an hour's play yesterday! Would they leave a cinema that long before the end? Would they be happy to have 3/4 of a pint served in a pub for the same cost as a pint? Would they open a packet of 20 fags and be quite happy to count just 16 in there? Imagine the howls of outrage if they settled down to watch Super Sunday on Sky and Sky cut off the last 16 mins of every match and replaced it with adverts? Weirdos the lot of em.
I'm impressed with the white seats in the DE Upper spelling out ROVERS. It looks really well on the telly.
Lewis O'Brian.... I've no idea why we even went for him in Jan as attacking mid isn't really our most pressing need. Maybe the signing of a real sniffer or fox in the box should surely have been our focus in January. As far as I thought, he looked OK in his forward midfield role but his shooting rather resembled Travis's.
