Re: More Football Chat : Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:41 pm  

Great penalty Wayne

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:55 pm  

The White Pele

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:58 pm  

I've seen Man United play a handful of times this season and their performance hasn't been anything above mediocre on any occasion yet, as well as being unbeaten, they'll more than likely be 5 points clear after their game in hand.

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:15 pm  

Asim wrote:

I've seen Man United play a handful of times this season and their performance hasn't been anything above mediocre on any occasion yet, as well as being unbeaten, they'll more than likely be 5 points clear after their game in hand.

I've not seen one team play well. City, Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Spurs have had their moments. United have got results out of poor performances the others haven't.

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:40 pm  

RedTez wrote:

I've not seen one team play well. City, Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Spurs have had their moments. United have got results out of poor performances the others haven't.

I thought the quality tonight was really poor, I can't remember seeing a United/Arsenal game with so many misplaced passes and it is one of the few Premier League games I make a point of watching.

Even playing like this I can see United strolling to the title if Chelsea don't get their act together starting on Sunday.

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:58 pm  

Said a few weeks ago that it appears it will be Utd's title.

To win a league you need things to go your way. They are for Utd at the moment. Utd drop points, so do everyone else (Utd drew at Villa, Chelsea lost to Sunderland and were 2 clear instead of 5). When the others drop points, Utd win.

Re: More Football Chat : Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:12 pm  

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Bl ... 50769.html If this is true the next few months are going to be interesting

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Bl ... 50769.html If this is true the next few months are going to be interesting

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:07 am  

DAR130 wrote:

I've listened to a few pundits say how shocked they are since the news came out but they don't watch us for 90 minutes week in week out,the football he plays may get a team in mid table security but after a while you just want something more when you spend 30+ quid to watch the team.In over 20 years as a Rovers fan i've never been as bored as I have the last 2 years since he's been manager.It's been torture for me to watch us and can't have been much better for the fans of other teams watching us when we've been on tv.

I know the feeling, it's starting to get like that for us, not on the same scale but stale and predictable football does take it's toll after 9 years. You pay good money and get fook all back in return for it sometimes. I guess us, like you, haven't had much of a plan B, Moyes' only other tactic is to throw strikers on the pitch. Most people would be astounded to hear Moyes being criticised but watch us every week since August and people would see it different.

DAR130 wrote:

Rovers fans are not asking for us to play like Barcelona or Arsenal all the time but I'm sick of going into every game overloaded with defensive players hoping for a set piece goal to get us a win.What I would like the new manager to do when he starts is to play 2 up front at least at home games,move Jones back to his natural position of CB next to Samba and lets play the ball out from the back instead of using Robinsons big boot all the time to set up our attacks.

Again, very similar to us. We pack the midfield out so much there's no room to play the ball out and our midfielders are so static next to each other there's nowhere to go. I can't remember the last time we tried 2 up front, we're crying out for it but we won't get it and we'll just continue to get Saha upfront doing fook all for 60 minutes before going off and then doing it again the week after. One incident against Wigan where Beckford flicked a long ball back across the edge of the box, perfect for someone to run on too and out nearest support player was on the half way line.

DAR130 wrote:

In the end this could be a big mistake by the new owners if the new manager doesn't work out but sometimes you have to take a risk in the hope that better times are ahead.

It's always a risk but bar going down, which there's noway you will, the next manager can't really do much worse.

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:10 am  

DAR130 wrote:

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Blackburn-want-Diego-Maradona-to-replace-Sam-Allardyce-as-manager-yes-manager-article650769.html

If this is true the next few months are going to be interesting

Moronic if true. A crap manager who epitomizes everything that a manager shouldn't be, yet everything that the British public would love.

Re: More Football Chat : Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:55 am  

DAR130 wrote:

Why not,any style of football is better than the dross served up by Allardyce's teams in the last 2 years.There are a lot of managers out there that would love to take over a premiership team where the owners have stated they will give him money to spend in january.

I was under the impression that Rover's transfer budget for January was only £5m. If its signinficantly more than that then I'll admit I may be wrong. But I cant see Rovers current squad easily adapting to pretty football.