Appleton won't panic about Rovers' slump (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Give him time, i reckon he'll produce the goods.

good luck rovers, lets get some pride out there tomorrow n get a much needed win

HHHH wrote:
Give him time, i reckon he'll produce the goods.

How long do you think he should get, two - three seasons?

Oh dear...sounds like a plea for more time. Are knives being sharpened again?

Not sure why given we seem on track to get relegated again which seems to be what the Venky's enjoy.

I've been a Rovers fan since the 1970s but I feel the affinity weakening.

Sit down. No singing / atmosphere. Millionaire players tarting around with no real heart.

It's not just Rovers that are a shadow of their former glory. The whole game is.

9,000 for a FA quarter final? Apathy defined.

The thing is Michael, is that the club is owned by bloody idiots and no matter how hard you try the s**t they secrete will always seep onto the field of play....

Stone Island: wrote:

HHHH wrote:
Give him time, i reckon he'll produce the goods.

How long do you think he should get, two - three seasons?

At least next jan.

forever_rovers wrote:
Oh dear...sounds like a plea for more time. Are knives being sharpened again?

Not sure why given we seem on track to get relegated again which seems to be what the Venky's enjoy.

I've been a Rovers fan since the 1970s but I feel the affinity weakening.

Sit down. No singing / atmosphere. Millionaire players tarting around with no real heart.

It's not just Rovers that are a shadow of their former glory. The whole game is.

9,000 for a FA quarter final? Apathy defined.

That is so true. The game has been ripped from the hands of honest down to earth people and dropped in the lap of greedy, misguided businessmen. Football in the uk is fundamentally fooked. Will take years for it to return to its original place...if ever.

The job isn't bigger than I thought.....

No it's your own incompetence as a coach (strategically and tactically) that has led us to this position.

Every Championship manager has your cards marked.

You have left us totally exposed with your totally inept tactical decisions. Morten and David being totally exposed which we could all see but you after just five minutes of the Millwall game. You did nothing to change it even when Morten and David were shattered.

Billy Davis - Freedman - McCarthy Short term failure I don't think so !!!!!!

No - They are experienced managers who know what they are doing with the resources they have, and can you shut up about your experiences with Portsmouth they just make you out to be a bigger nonentity.

I have no confidence in your ability whatsoever and look forward to your team selection for tomorrow and your inevitable incapacity along with your sidekicks to make changes when and if they are needed.

We were tiring against Millwall and you still did not use all your substitutions. Hers one for you - It is a 14 man game these days.

HHHH wrote:

Stone Island: wrote:

HHHH wrote:
Give him time, i reckon he'll produce the goods.

How long do you think he should get, two - three seasons?

At least next jan.

Why?? What makes you think he's the man to do it???

What is it .... His background of getting teams promoted to the premier league?? NO

Perhaps his wonderful man management with his excellent tactics?? NO

Or maybe his connections in the game to bring in top quality players...errr NO

He has done nothing as a player or manager...so anyone who believes he can suddenly do it as Blackburn manager are deluded!!

I'm all for giving any manager a chance but he's way out of his depth on this one!!!!

dear blackburn rovers manager - your words make sense but the deeds and actions of your employers do not.

they have lost the goodwill of many thousands of decent and honest supporters by their deeds and actions.

they have condoned the actions of two senior members of their management team who did not deserve to be appointed into their roles and who then besmirched the reputation of the club by their actions.

we have a managing director and someone who was appointed as ' communications director' who do not give the impression to any supporter you care to ask that they are changing what is wrong with our club and demonstrating that they are putting back everything that was right about our club.

the only way you will begin to rebuild the relationship with supporters is for the club to be open and honest, to stop patronising intelligent people, to at least listen to what we believe is right for the club and to show through deeds and actions that they do genuinely care for the club and its reputation.

He seems up for it and wont take any sh*t from people. Lets face it, who in their right mind would be interested in managing our club at the moment? Certainly no-one with a decent reputation.

He needs time to bring his own players in. A change now would just heap more problems.

'Building relationships within the club' what a joke - the 'infighting' has had an even bigger effect on relationships outside the walls of Ewood/Brockhall - its made thousands of us turn our backs on this once proud club because of the 'pathetic regime' that has made 'abysmal' management decisions leading the Club to spiral down to its worst position in many a year - Appleton & Co you should be worrying/panicking because unless you pick some points up quickly the 1st Division will be our next port of call!!!!
Since Appleton's arrival performances on the field have got worse which is hard to comprehend considering the previous incumbent and his transfer dealings have been less than sound!
OUT WITH THE LOT OF THEM

I know (or perhaps they do) BRFC officials, Andy Cryer, and the Blackburn coahces etc probably don't read these posts however I would just like to mention a few observations.

1 - The match day announcer, music, environment pre match is dire. Same drab, non arousing music scene / match setting every game. Bolton pre match at least was upbeat, rousing the crowd etc. For goodness sake liven things up for the players and crowd and sack the guy who thought it was a good idea to slag the players off on the big screen as they were warming up and less than 10 minutes to kick off.

2 - On Wednesday it was an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE from 7.00pm onwards as the players were warming up they had the first leg of the Millwall game on with the commentary really loud which by and large was slagging the whole Rovers team off. So as the guys were warming up for the whole pre - match they had to listen to some innane commentator slagging their performance off. Must have been music to Kenny Jacket and Millwall players ears.

3 - It's back to Appleton and his cronies. - The Blackburn starting 11 warmed up along with the coaches totally OBLIVIOUS of the 6 reserves who were left on their own for the best part of twenty five minutes. The bulk of the time the 6 guys were out there, with some young fitness person to warm them up in total isolation to the starting 11. Talk about being made to feel totally sidelined and worthless. No togetherness whatsoever.

Appleton is clueless and is obviously a man who does not have a clue as to attention to detail.

Please please don't leave the rebuilding off our wonderful club to the current set up it is clearly not up to the job.

I suggest someone quickly makes a video up of all our fantastic wins and goals against Burnley and plays it as they are warming up tomorrow giving our guys positivity before running out to face them and begin to take a good hard look at our pre match preparation.

ivegillian wrote:
dear blackburn rovers manager - your words make sense but the deeds and actions of your employers do not.

they have lost the goodwill of many thousands of decent and honest supporters by their deeds and actions.

they have condoned the actions of two senior members of their management team who did not deserve to be appointed into their roles and who then besmirched the reputation of the club by their actions.

we have a managing director and someone who was appointed as ' communications director' who do not give the impression to any supporter you care to ask that they are changing what is wrong with our club and demonstrating that they are putting back everything that was right about our club.

the only way you will begin to rebuild the relationship with supporters is for the club to be open and honest, to stop patronising intelligent people, to at least listen to what we believe is right for the club and to show through deeds and actions that they do genuinely care for the club and its reputation.

Brilliant

MattNewcastle wrote:
I know (or perhaps they do) BRFC officials, Andy Cryer, and the Blackburn coahces etc probably don't read these posts however I would just like to mention a few observations.

1 - The match day announcer, music, environment pre match is dire. Same drab, non arousing music scene / match setting every game. Bolton pre match at least was upbeat, rousing the crowd etc. For goodness sake liven things up for the players and crowd and sack the guy who thought it was a good idea to slag the players off on the big screen as they were warming up and less than 10 minutes to kick off.

2 - On Wednesday it was an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE from 7.00pm onwards as the players were warming up they had the first leg of the Millwall game on with the commentary really loud which by and large was slagging the whole Rovers team off. So as the guys were warming up for the whole pre - match they had to listen to some innane commentator slagging their performance off. Must have been music to Kenny Jacket and Millwall players ears.

3 - It's back to Appleton and his cronies. - The Blackburn starting 11 warmed up along with the coaches totally OBLIVIOUS of the 6 reserves who were left on their own for the best part of twenty five minutes. The bulk of the time the 6 guys were out there, with some young fitness person to warm them up in total isolation to the starting 11. Talk about being made to feel totally sidelined and worthless. No togetherness whatsoever.

Appleton is clueless and is obviously a man who does not have a clue as to attention to detail.

Please please don't leave the rebuilding off our wonderful club to the current set up it is clearly not up to the job.

I suggest someone quickly makes a video up of all our fantastic wins and goals against Burnley and plays it as they are warming up tomorrow giving our guys positivity before running out to face them and begin to take a good hard look at our pre match preparation.

Why is it people think we are going to get a world class manager in who is going to recreate the successful environment the club had under jack and williams. It simply isnt going to happen.

Why should he panic? What does he care? He walked out on Blackpool after a matter of weeks, having won a PATHETIC 2 out of 12 games, doubling his money in the process. What does he care about Rovers? NOTHING. He's just another mercenary manager chasing the cash. Will he care if Rovers sack him? Will he hell as like. He'll get his compo then move on to the next unambitious club. Yes, by appointing Appleton, we proved ourselves to be unambitious. He had a win ratio of just 23%, when there were far better managers out there. Billy Davies to name just one. With a win ratio of around 40% would have been a far better choice.

Appleton was appointed by Shaw, to win a boardroom power struggle with Shabby Minge, not because he was the best manager for the job, but because he was his mate, and he doubled his salary. Jobs for the boys, and to hell with BRFC.

Venky's OUT! Agnew OUT! Shaw OUT!, and if we lose tomorrow, Appleton OUT!

HHHH wrote:

MattNewcastle wrote:
I know (or perhaps they do) BRFC officials, Andy Cryer, and the Blackburn coahces etc probably don't read these posts however I would just like to mention a few observations.

1 - The match day announcer, music, environment pre match is dire. Same drab, non arousing music scene / match setting every game. Bolton pre match at least was upbeat, rousing the crowd etc. For goodness sake liven things up for the players and crowd and sack the guy who thought it was a good idea to slag the players off on the big screen as they were warming up and less than 10 minutes to kick off.

2 - On Wednesday it was an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE from 7.00pm onwards as the players were warming up they had the first leg of the Millwall game on with the commentary really loud which by and large was slagging the whole Rovers team off. So as the guys were warming up for the whole pre - match they had to listen to some innane commentator slagging their performance off. Must have been music to Kenny Jacket and Millwall players ears.

3 - It's back to Appleton and his cronies. - The Blackburn starting 11 warmed up along with the coaches totally OBLIVIOUS of the 6 reserves who were left on their own for the best part of twenty five minutes. The bulk of the time the 6 guys were out there, with some young fitness person to warm them up in total isolation to the starting 11. Talk about being made to feel totally sidelined and worthless. No togetherness whatsoever.

Appleton is clueless and is obviously a man who does not have a clue as to attention to detail.

Please please don't leave the rebuilding off our wonderful club to the current set up it is clearly not up to the job.

I suggest someone quickly makes a video up of all our fantastic wins and goals against Burnley and plays it as they are warming up tomorrow giving our guys positivity before running out to face them and begin to take a good hard look at our pre match preparation.

Why is it people think we are going to get a world class manager in who is going to recreate the successful environment the club had under jack and williams. It simply isnt going to happen.

We don't expect a world class manager, we just one that know's what he's doing. Someone who's not out of his depth at our once proud club. I don't think that's asking too much, do you?

Appleton spouts utter sh*te.

His record speaks for itself; a win ratio of less than 25% overall!

Why should he be given time?.....

1. Because he knows Derek Shaw.
2. Because he played under Fergie.
3. Because he will let Agnew and Shaw do what the hell they want with BRFC.
4. Then he can make more money for himself.
5. Because he too is a complete kn*bhead.

Get out of our club you parasite.

Arte et Labore.

HHHH wrote:

MattNewcastle wrote:
I know (or perhaps they do) BRFC officials, Andy Cryer, and the Blackburn coahces etc probably don't read these posts however I would just like to mention a few observations.

1 - The match day announcer, music, environment pre match is dire. Same drab, non arousing music scene / match setting every game. Bolton pre match at least was upbeat, rousing the crowd etc. For goodness sake liven things up for the players and crowd and sack the guy who thought it was a good idea to slag the players off on the big screen as they were warming up and less than 10 minutes to kick off.

2 - On Wednesday it was an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE from 7.00pm onwards as the players were warming up they had the first leg of the Millwall game on with the commentary really loud which by and large was slagging the whole Rovers team off. So as the guys were warming up for the whole pre - match they had to listen to some innane commentator slagging their performance off. Must have been music to Kenny Jacket and Millwall players ears.

3 - It's back to Appleton and his cronies. - The Blackburn starting 11 warmed up along with the coaches totally OBLIVIOUS of the 6 reserves who were left on their own for the best part of twenty five minutes. The bulk of the time the 6 guys were out there, with some young fitness person to warm them up in total isolation to the starting 11. Talk about being made to feel totally sidelined and worthless. No togetherness whatsoever.

Appleton is clueless and is obviously a man who does not have a clue as to attention to detail.

Please please don't leave the rebuilding off our wonderful club to the current set up it is clearly not up to the job.

I suggest someone quickly makes a video up of all our fantastic wins and goals against Burnley and plays it as they are warming up tomorrow giving our guys positivity before running out to face them and begin to take a good hard look at our pre match preparation.

Why is it people think we are going to get a world class manager in who is going to recreate the successful environment the club had under jack and williams. It simply isnt going to happen.

Hi HHHH

I dont expect a world class manager

Are - Freedman McCarthy Davis world class - No of course not - however they are experienced managers that is all I was wanting after Kean however now far too late.

Our destiny for years to come has been set.

Forget any re building with our current best players, I am being REALISTIC.

6 of our current bets players will probably not be with us, certainly after two further transfer windows, they probably have get out clauses written into their contracts if their agents have any sense so what will we be building from?

We'll lose tomorrow. The players don't have the fight to win a derby. This will be another nail in our coffin on our "demise" to league one.
The form table does not lie, note: millwall are at the bottom with us!!
We are currently heading in one direction. The teams below us are in better form.

Stone Island: wrote:
Why should he panic? What does he care? He walked out on Blackpool after a matter of weeks, having won a PATHETIC 2 out of 12 games, doubling his money in the process. What does he care about Rovers? NOTHING. He's just another mercenary manager chasing the cash. Will he care if Rovers sack him? Will he hell as like. He'll get his compo then move on to the next unambitious club. Yes, by appointing Appleton, we proved ourselves to be unambitious. He had a win ratio of just 23%, when there were far better managers out there. Billy Davies to name just one. With a win ratio of around 40% would have been a far better choice.

Appleton was appointed by Shaw, to win a boardroom power struggle with Shabby Minge, not because he was the best manager for the job, but because he was his mate, and he doubled his salary. Jobs for the boys, and to hell with BRFC.

Venky's OUT! Agnew OUT! Shaw OUT!, and if we lose tomorrow, Appleton OUT!

Totally agree

Appleton won't panic?? I will!!!!!!

Appleton
Moor
Shaw
Agnew
Shebby
Venkys
The hole sherbang get out are club n rott

You are destroying it you empty heads!!!!!

Appleton
Moor
Shaw
Agnew
Shebby
Venkys
The hole sherbang get out are club n rott

You are destroying it you empty heads!!!!!

I went into a couple of games at Portsmouth with just one sub.....Appleton's words.

That's where you got the idea from then...

Has no one told you otherwise since!!!!

It's a 14 man game these days so use them to freshen things up especially when players are clearly tiring which we can all see but you.

Wellsy11 wrote:
Appleton won't panic?? I will!!!!!!

Interesting that Appleton has come out with this AFTER this afternoons results I presume.

When did he say this Andy I wonder as your article is timed at 7.00pm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/sport/0/football/21
810265

lancs1985 wrote:
Appleton
Moor
Shaw
Agnew
Shebby
Venkys
The hole sherbang get out are club n rott

You are destroying it you empty heads!!!!!

Hi lancs 1985

Are destroying it...... I think it has got past that.

HHHH wrote:
He seems up for it and wont take any sh*t from people. Lets face it, who in their right mind would be interested in managing our club at the moment? Certainly no-one with a decent reputation.

He needs time to bring his own players in. A change now would just heap more problems.

Certainly no one with a decent reputation.....


I was led to believe managers with decent reputations were queuing up to take the position and we gave it to an unproven non entity due to political in fighting.

Mr Appleton Rovers is lying bottom of the table in 19th place in Championship League i dont think many will turn up at Ewood Park tomorrow's Derby game.
The players are overpaid and overrated bunch of no hopers.
Rhodes overpaid and overated needs to watch Shearer's old dvds how this great legend played.
Dunn a sicknote and doesn't contribute any league games and only plays handful of games.
Scott Dann inconsistent plyer makes too many mistakes in defence needs to watch Colin Hendry old dvds how to defend.
Etuhu a rubbish buy not fit to wear Blackburn Rovers shirt
Pederson to old and out of form
Murphy retire and hang up your boots
Best didn't play this season but looks rubbish anyway.
Goodwillie rubbish buy doesn't know English Football
Kazim Richard a strong player with pace and eye for goals
Hanley,Henley.Olsson twins,Kean,Lowe,King our best future players
Why did Appleton loaned out Ruben Rochina our best player with skills to unlock any defence and eye for goals.
Sack Appleton,Shebby,Shaw
s,Hendry and Agnew with these clowns in charge the club is going backwards.

Dont panic Mr simpleton dont panic?its a little to late for that anyway, rovers fans after the last few years under venkys certainly wont start now, we started from the first month venkys took over the club.

If Appleton gets a job even closer to his home ...... he'll be off anyway. He has no loyalty.

Stalybridge Celtic would suit him just fine.

Arte et Labore

According to Mr Appleton, in order to succeed in the long term, you have to fail in the short term. On the other hand, if you succeed in the short term, you are more likely to fail in the long term.

I had been prepared to give Mr Appleton time, until he made this statement. How long, I wonder, must the failure continue before the success starts? And when did the period of failure begin for Blackburn Rovers? Did it begin when Mr Appleton was appointed? Did it begin when Mr Berg was appointed? Did it begin when Mr Kean was appointed? Did it begin when Venky's bought the club and put their faith in Mr Anderson? Given that the perod of failure has been over two years long, and that things are continuing to deteriorate, does that mean that the success will be even more impressive and thrilling when it does come? Is this the strategy that Venky's had in mind when they said that Rovers would be playing in the Champions League?

Simple way to solve our slump Michael.

Play the ball on the ground tactically. STOP with the long ball lobbed rubbish...

Sam could just about do it with his teams... You can't...

SIMPLE

No more than 18k on tomorrow

HHHH wrote:

MattNewcastle wrote:
I know (or perhaps they do) BRFC officials, Andy Cryer, and the Blackburn coahces etc probably don't read these posts however I would just like to mention a few observations.

1 - The match day announcer, music, environment pre match is dire. Same drab, non arousing music scene / match setting every game. Bolton pre match at least was upbeat, rousing the crowd etc. For goodness sake liven things up for the players and crowd and sack the guy who thought it was a good idea to slag the players off on the big screen as they were warming up and less than 10 minutes to kick off.

2 - On Wednesday it was an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE from 7.00pm onwards as the players were warming up they had the first leg of the Millwall game on with the commentary really loud which by and large was slagging the whole Rovers team off. So as the guys were warming up for the whole pre - match they had to listen to some innane commentator slagging their performance off. Must have been music to Kenny Jacket and Millwall players ears.

3 - It's back to Appleton and his cronies. - The Blackburn starting 11 warmed up along with the coaches totally OBLIVIOUS of the 6 reserves who were left on their own for the best part of twenty five minutes. The bulk of the time the 6 guys were out there, with some young fitness person to warm them up in total isolation to the starting 11. Talk about being made to feel totally sidelined and worthless. No togetherness whatsoever.

Appleton is clueless and is obviously a man who does not have a clue as to attention to detail.

Please please don't leave the rebuilding off our wonderful club to the current set up it is clearly not up to the job.

I suggest someone quickly makes a video up of all our fantastic wins and goals against Burnley and plays it as they are warming up tomorrow giving our guys positivity before running out to face them and begin to take a good hard look at our pre match preparation.

Why is it people think we are going to get a world class manager in who is going to recreate the successful environment the club had under jack and williams. It simply isnt going to happen.

You are right......Thanks to Venkys it isn't going to happen !!!

"We are amazed at the quality of managers who have applied for the post."
Remember them saying that?
I'd like them to publish a list of those amazing managers.
I'm not holding my breath. They couldn't tell the truth to save their lives
Also- why does Shaw look like a frghtened rabbit when he is interviewed?

is it a full moon tonight? something brought the nutters out....

Matt from Newcastle what are you on son, its certainly not Newcastle Brown Ale...

Three goals and three points my lads tomorrow should put a smile back on your faces...well most of them - as there is some on here like DD who have several faces..

French Rover wrote:
is it a full moon tonight? something brought the nutters out....

Matt from Newcastle what are you on son, its certainly not Newcastle Brown Ale...

Three goals and three points my lads tomorrow should put a smile back on your faces...well most of them - as there is some on here like DD who have several faces..

you and I seem to be the only ones who believe in Rovers, even Woody has turned his coat currently
Yes, 3 points outside relegation zone but only 3 points off Burnley. Win by 2 and we are above them, so why the long face.. it aint over till its over
Last laugh? Well, lets see tomorrow
I aint worried

French Rover wrote:
is it a full moon tonight? something brought the nutters out....

Matt from Newcastle what are you on son, its certainly not Newcastle Brown Ale...

Three goals and three points my lads tomorrow should put a smile back on your faces...well most of them - as there is some on here like DD who have several faces..

well said come on you blues

APPLETON OUT THIS GUYS ON DRUGS SHAMBOLIC USELESS IDIOT

Lets face it
We are now a club run from top to bottom by people who have never achieved anything in the game
Venkys - clueless
Shaw - never won owt
Agnew - never won owt
Appleton - never won owt
Contrast that to a few years ago when everyone in the Ewood hierarchy had experience of winning
Anyone surprised that we are dropping like the proverbial stone?

Poor
poor team
poor tactics
poor management
poor midfield yet again

MA.... the problem with....!!

'' A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they went extinct because they had larger eyes than our species.

As a result, more of their brain was devoted to seeing in the long, dark nights in Europe, at the expense of high-level processing. ''

Its quite obvious MA cant do it in the long run for BRFC....!

MA can def. see in the long dreary dark night's with his big bulging eyes which is obvious but can he see us through.....!!!!

but the vital question is can he process the info out there which is plain to see for all and come up with an action plan and see us through to the end of this season and beyond....!

I doubt it.....!!!

thats 7 defeats already and counting.
MA is a gonner if we lose against Burnley....!!

A new set of youngish, hard working, physically fit, skillfull Midfielders required at BRFC.

what do you think...?????

2 great servants will have to Retire.
Pederson is just too slow PLZ retire
Dunn played well tonight but def in his last season and well be lucky if he plays a couple of games.
sorry is just too fat...PLZ retire..!

Hanley is slow but tries his utmost to do a decent job.
but not good enough for long term.
His thinking is also slow and hes simply not good enough as a 1st team player but ok to have in BRFC squad.

Lowe is slow slow but tries his utmost
best & should be ok as a squad member and occasional sub but not 1st team material in my view.

Marcus olson is like a fairy lightweight
only need to blow on him and he falls

Murthy, Etuhu, Orr, Givet, Robinson
and any other causing BRFC issues should leave asap...PLZ
so we can buy players who will play for the BRFC badge....!
not just here for money....!!

Dann is not the ideal captain
Infact we have no captain at BRFC
hence we need to find a strong central defensive partner for Dann
who should be a capable central defender & could be a potential captain.
and
a midfield general or 2 who we need as leaders in the middle as thats our problem area and a capable ball winning captain in the centre should sort things out.....for sure...!!

what do you think...!!!!

Just remember that when all the knuckle dragging nob heads forced Kean`s resignation we were top of the Championship. We are now hovering precariously above the relegation zone and the club, the squad and the support is infinitely worse than under Kean. Appleton has dragged this club further down than anyone could have imagined and this is absolutely nothing to do with a long term rebuilding strategy. He has let quality players go, replaced them with dross and demotivated the squad to the extent that they would rather feign injury than play under him. No sensible person could possibly believe that we have 21 injured professionals and no sensible person could believe that those who have played in the last six games are either good enough or committed enough to succeed in this league. Appleton accepts no responsibility for his rank ineptitude and continues to lay the blame at the door of his predecessors, all of whom, attained a higher league position than him. He spouts empty rhetoric on a daily basis but offers absolutely nothing in the way of strategy, tactics and leadership to turn his disastrous tenure around. around. He is a loser, an abject failure and must be removed as quickly as possible, together with the chinless wonder, Shaw, who appointed him. I will be there tomorrow, cheering on a playing team that I don't believe in and a leadership team that I have no respect for but if Venkys don't act quickly to overhaul this train wreck, division one and oblivion is the only realistic prospect. WILLIAMS AND SOUNESS IN!

Wild Rover wrote:

French Rover wrote:
is it a full moon tonight? something brought the nutters out....

Matt from Newcastle what are you on son, its certainly not Newcastle Brown Ale...

Three goals and three points my lads tomorrow should put a smile back on your faces...well most of them - as there is some on here like DD who have several faces..

you and I seem to be the only ones who believe in Rovers, even Woody has turned his coat currently
Yes, 3 points outside relegation zone but only 3 points off Burnley. Win by 2 and we are above them, so why the long face.. it aint over till its over
Last laugh? Well, lets see tomorrow
I aint worried

You are both on the same planet but it isn't ours

Wild Rover wrote:

French Rover wrote:
is it a full moon tonight? something brought the nutters out....

Matt from Newcastle what are you on son, its certainly not Newcastle Brown Ale...

Three goals and three points my lads tomorrow should put a smile back on your faces...well most of them - as there is some on here like DD who have several faces..

you and I seem to be the only ones who believe in Rovers, even Woody has turned his coat currently
Yes, 3 points outside relegation zone but only 3 points off Burnley. Win by 2 and we are above them, so why the long face.. it aint over till its over
Last laugh? Well, lets see tomorrow
I aint worried

if we keep on doing what we're doing.....we're gonna keep on getting what we are getting.

it is not a case of woody being a turncoat - its about acknowledging what you see dished out in front of you - if you went to a boozer and the beer was off, sooner or later you would ignore the platitudes of the landlord about "dodgy barrels" and other nonsense excuses - sooner or later you would realise that despite the excuses - he really is a garbage landlord.

i really wanted appleton to succeed - but find myself increasingly shouting at him on radio lancs (or reading on here) - SH!T OR GET OFF THE POT.
he says all the right things (unlike kean who was even incapable of even that) - but he back his words up by actions.

and if you read this french rover - do you realise how increasingly delusional your posts are. maybe you should sit on the atlantic coast in your throne and tell the waves to get back......maybe you should tell a naked appleton that his new clothes look divine......increasi
ngly, i am thinking that the king is in the altogether, the altogether, the king is as naked as the king has ever been.

frenchie - i know you hurt - i know it is great to be optimistic - but i assume you vacated the premises cos you saw east lancs was on its arse - it used to be that the rovers was the only thing to be proud of in the town.......nowadays, we have even lost that.

the soul of the club is increasingly dying......if you dont believe me - look at our attendance on wednesday, if you don't believe me, speak to the residents of the town who just don't give a monkey's anymore.....i have been going to rovers since the early 70s but can never remember a time when virtually everybody felt so disenfranchised by the club.....all should take some responsibility from the walker trust to venkys, to kean, to arsenal stadium announcer, to shabby, to BRAG, to the waldorf and statler muppets (shaw and agnew) etc.

i really fear for the game later tomorrow and depserately hope we give the dingles a bl00dy nose.....if not we are increasingly isolated. my best mate follows rovers every game and is usually as optimsitic as i used to be....but tonight he texted me with a message saying "make no mistake - we are in a relegation battle" - not saying we will go down, but not since jim iley have we been as clueless in the current division.

Could end up being snowed off yet... Hope they've got their underground heaters on.

8,500 turn up to watch a game, where the winners go to Wembley, one step away from the Cup Final.

The mighty Clarets roll into town, and, its a full house!

Its REAL Cup Final time, for the horse botherers.

IN VENKYS WE TRUST

Thanks indeed to all rover fans including the booooboys to call for Stevie kean s Head.
Just to remind you foooools, at this Time we were Top of the League.

Angry From Accrington wrote:
Just remember that when all the knuckle dragging nob heads forced Kean`s resignation we were top of the Championship. We are now hovering precariously above the relegation zone and the club, the squad and the support is infinitely worse than under Kean. Appleton has dragged this club further down than anyone could have imagined and this is absolutely nothing to do with a long term rebuilding strategy. He has let quality players go, replaced them with dross and demotivated the squad to the extent that they would rather feign injury than play under him. No sensible person could possibly believe that we have 21 injured professionals and no sensible person could believe that those who have played in the last six games are either good enough or committed enough to succeed in this league. Appleton accepts no responsibility for his rank ineptitude and continues to lay the blame at the door of his predecessors, all of whom, attained a higher league position than him. He spouts empty rhetoric on a daily basis but offers absolutely nothing in the way of strategy, tactics and leadership to turn his disastrous tenure around. around. He is a loser, an abject failure and must be removed as quickly as possible, together with the chinless wonder, Shaw, who appointed him. I will be there tomorrow, cheering on a playing team that I don't believe in and a leadership team that I have no respect for but if Venkys don't act quickly to overhaul this train wreck, division one and oblivion is the only realistic prospect. WILLIAMS AND SOUNESS IN!

Steve Kean IN

Cortisone wrote:
Lets face it
We are now a club run from top to bottom by people who have never achieved anything in the game
Venkys - clueless
Shaw - never won owt
Agnew - never won owt
Appleton - never won owt
Contrast that to a few years ago when everyone in the Ewood hierarchy had experience of winning
Anyone surprised that we are dropping like the proverbial stone?

At least we are playing a team that has never won owt!

Tom F. wrote:
Thanks indeed to all rover fans including the booooboys to call for Stevie kean s Head.
Just to remind you foooools, at this Time we were Top of the League.

Yes Kean was the pits, I still prefer MA to that indispicable sleezeball. No thanks we don't want him back ever, in any position!

There are too many here so will have to generalise:

All those who want Appleton out cannot be reasoned with for they are truly the stupidest people around. Or they want us to be relegated, make your choice.

You want him to be honest? He is. You want rid of the dead weight? Murphy is out. The rest will have to be done over a transfer window. We're not going to attract a top manager so we get an upcomer who took over a poisoned chalice. It's going to take time.

As for his positive comments, what do you want? Constant berating of the team so there's no confidence left? The questioning of his own ability? That would help.

HHHH wrote:

Stone Island: wrote:

HHHH wrote:
Give him time, i reckon he'll produce the goods.

How long do you think he should get, two - three seasons?

At least next jan.

90 minutes

MattNewcastle wrote:
I know (or perhaps they do) BRFC officials, Andy Cryer, and the Blackburn coahces etc probably don't read these posts however I would just like to mention a few observations.

1 - The match day announcer, music, environment pre match is dire. Same drab, non arousing music scene / match setting every game. Bolton pre match at least was upbeat, rousing the crowd etc. For goodness sake liven things up for the players and crowd and sack the guy who thought it was a good idea to slag the players off on the big screen as they were warming up and less than 10 minutes to kick off.

2 - On Wednesday it was an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE from 7.00pm onwards as the players were warming up they had the first leg of the Millwall game on with the commentary really loud which by and large was slagging the whole Rovers team off. So as the guys were warming up for the whole pre - match they had to listen to some innane commentator slagging their performance off. Must have been music to Kenny Jacket and Millwall players ears.

3 - It's back to Appleton and his cronies. - The Blackburn starting 11 warmed up along with the coaches totally OBLIVIOUS of the 6 reserves who were left on their own for the best part of twenty five minutes. The bulk of the time the 6 guys were out there, with some young fitness person to warm them up in total isolation to the starting 11. Talk about being made to feel totally sidelined and worthless. No togetherness whatsoever.

Appleton is clueless and is obviously a man who does not have a clue as to attention to detail.

Please please don't leave the rebuilding off our wonderful club to the current set up it is clearly not up to the job.

I suggest someone quickly makes a video up of all our fantastic wins and goals against Burnley and plays it as they are warming up tomorrow giving our guys positivity before running out to face them and begin to take a good hard look at our pre match preparation.

oh for gods sake give it a rest

armchair-supporter! wrote:
There are too many here so will have to generalise:

All those who want Appleton out cannot be reasoned with for they are truly the stupidest people around. Or they want us to be relegated, make your choice.

You want him to be honest? He is. You want rid of the dead weight? Murphy is out. The rest will have to be done over a transfer window. We're not going to attract a top manager so we get an upcomer who took over a poisoned chalice. It's going to take time.

As for his positive comments, what do you want? Constant berating of the team so there's no confidence left? The questioning of his own ability? That would help.

Well armchair you talk a lot of sense. Unfortunately on here there are far to many idiots that I am sure are not real Rovers fans. Lets hope everyone gets down to Ewood today to support the lads and give Bonleh a good thrashing. 3-1 Rovers. Come on!!!!!!

armchair-supporter! wrote:
There are too many here so will have to generalise:

All those who want Appleton out cannot be reasoned with for they are truly the stupidest people around. Or they want us to be relegated, make your choice.

You want him to be honest? He is. You want rid of the dead weight? Murphy is out. The rest will have to be done over a transfer window. We're not going to attract a top manager so we get an upcomer who took over a poisoned chalice. It's going to take time.

As for his positive comments, what do you want? Constant berating of the team so there's no confidence left? The questioning of his own ability? That would help.

And that's why you're an armchair supporter

Its Venky's and the incompetent t*ts on the board that need to go, after all they were the start of our demise. Its has been all downhill since they took over. They sacked a manager who was doing reasonably well. They appointed a total a**ho;e in his place. They then let him take us down after beating relegation on the last day the season before. They appointed our so called global adviser along with Shaw, Agnew. They managed to alienate the existing board who had kept Rovers on an even keel for many a season. With no sign of Kean succeeding at anything other than bulls*tting everyone about his capabilities they let him continue bemoaning back luck and bad decisions by the officials. Excuses after excuses were made but never anything down to his total inability to manage the club and our players, the players were queuing up to leave, or refusing to play. Still nothing from Venky's. And to compound the problems we already had they eventually appointed Appleton. A manager with no pedigree, after the fans had screamed for someone with experience. They obviously have no regard for the fans or the club.
The problem we have now and as other people have already pointed out who else will buy BRFC. Unless we get another promise of financial backing soon i fear we have a long road ahead.

handyamBRFC wrote:
Poor
poor team
poor tactics
poor management
poor midfield yet again

MA.... the problem with....!!

'' A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they went extinct because they had larger eyes than our species.

As a result, more of their brain was devoted to seeing in the long, dark nights in Europe, at the expense of high-level processing. ''

Its quite obvious MA cant do it in the long run for BRFC....!

MA can def. see in the long dreary dark night's with his big bulging eyes which is obvious but can he see us through.....!!!!

but the vital question is can he process the info out there which is plain to see for all and come up with an action plan and see us through to the end of this season and beyond....!

I doubt it.....!!!

thats 7 defeats already and counting.
MA is a gonner if we lose against Burnley....!!

A new set of youngish, hard working, physically fit, skillfull Midfielders required at BRFC.

what do you think...?????

2 great servants will have to Retire.
Pederson is just too slow PLZ retire
Dunn played well tonight but def in his last season and well be lucky if he plays a couple of games.
sorry is just too fat...PLZ retire..!

Hanley is slow but tries his utmost to do a decent job.
but not good enough for long term.
His thinking is also slow and hes simply not good enough as a 1st team player but ok to have in BRFC squad.

Lowe is slow slow but tries his utmost
best & should be ok as a squad member and occasional sub but not 1st team material in my view.

Marcus olson is like a fairy lightweight
only need to blow on him and he falls

Murthy, Etuhu, Orr, Givet, Robinson
and any other causing BRFC issues should leave asap...PLZ
so we can buy players who will play for the BRFC badge....!
not just here for money....!!

Dann is not the ideal captain
Infact we have no captain at BRFC
hence we need to find a strong central defensive partner for Dann
who should be a capable central defender & could be a potential captain.
and
a midfield general or 2 who we need as leaders in the middle as thats our problem area and a capable ball winning captain in the centre should sort things out.....for sure...!!

what do you think...!!!!

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I think you should get something new to cut and paste, you are as tedious as your alter-ego Modan.

Completely agree with MA. Well said. Lets be patient and get behind the manager. Given time he will turn it round!

hasslem hasslem wrote:

Wild Rover wrote:

French Rover wrote:
is it a full moon tonight? something brought the nutters out....

Matt from Newcastle what are you on son, its certainly not Newcastle Brown Ale...

Three goals and three points my lads tomorrow should put a smile back on your faces...well most of them - as there is some on here like DD who have several faces..

you and I seem to be the only ones who believe in Rovers, even Woody has turned his coat currently
Yes, 3 points outside relegation zone but only 3 points off Burnley. Win by 2 and we are above them, so why the long face.. it aint over till its over
Last laugh? Well, lets see tomorrow
I aint worried

if we keep on doing what we're doing.....we're gonna keep on getting what we are getting.

it is not a case of woody being a turncoat - its about acknowledging what you see dished out in front of you - if you went to a boozer and the beer was off, sooner or later you would ignore the platitudes of the landlord about "dodgy barrels" and other nonsense excuses - sooner or later you would realise that despite the excuses - he really is a garbage landlord.

i really wanted appleton to succeed - but find myself increasingly shouting at him on radio lancs (or reading on here) - SH!T OR GET OFF THE POT.
he says all the right things (unlike kean who was even incapable of even that) - but he back his words up by actions.

and if you read this french rover - do you realise how increasingly delusional your posts are. maybe you should sit on the atlantic coast in your throne and tell the waves to get back......maybe you should tell a naked appleton that his new clothes look divine......increasi

ngly, i am thinking that the king is in the altogether, the altogether, the king is as naked as the king has ever been.

frenchie - i know you hurt - i know it is great to be optimistic - but i assume you vacated the premises cos you saw east lancs was on its arse - it used to be that the rovers was the only thing to be proud of in the town.......nowadays, we have even lost that.

the soul of the club is increasingly dying......if you dont believe me - look at our attendance on wednesday, if you don't believe me, speak to the residents of the town who just don't give a monkey's anymore.....i have been going to rovers since the early 70s but can never remember a time when virtually everybody felt so disenfranchised by the club.....all should take some responsibility from the walker trust to venkys, to kean, to arsenal stadium announcer, to shabby, to BRAG, to the waldorf and statler muppets (shaw and agnew) etc.

i really fear for the game later tomorrow and depserately hope we give the dingles a bl00dy nose.....if not we are increasingly isolated. my best mate follows rovers every game and is usually as optimsitic as i used to be....but tonight he texted me with a message saying "make no mistake - we are in a relegation battle" - not saying we will go down, but not since jim iley have we been as clueless in the current division.

Hi Hasslem, you asked me some questions which I would like to answer - you say you presume I `abandoned` East Lancs cos it was on its bum....well I didn`t abandon it really - I got made redundant at a Blackbrun company and luckily managed to stay in the same hi-tech industry by moving to another location (Scotland) and then onto other countries as I progressed in my career. But it hurt me badly to leave my close family and all my good and lifelong friends behind and of course to leave my Rovers!

You also say my posts are `increasingly delusional` - but surely you see half are in jest anyway - and I upped the ante recently to try and balance the constant out-pouring of doom and gloom on these pages. But of course I admit I do wear blue and white shades for all things Rovers and always will. My car here in France has Rovers stickers and a pennant and I am still proud to be a Rover. If that is delusional then ok...but I wont change.

It absolutely kills me and depresses me for days when Rovers lose a game, it always has always will. Been over fifty years a Rover and known better and yes worse times than this.

Nothing will change while the Venkys are here whoever the manager is. A good win today will restore some hope and pride and help us move away from the bottom end of the table and that is about all we can hope for right now. One day at a time should be the motto for now....

Don't be taken in by this no hoper, Appleton appears to have gone to the same football University as Steve Kean, no ideas no plan. Get rid of him before he causes more damage than Kean was allowed to do.

We were lucky to scrape a draw against a poor Burnley side..... You may not be panicking "but we are" time to go Appy.....

HHHH wrote:
Give him time, i reckon he'll produce the goods.

are you Derek Shaw ? will you still be saying that if appleton takes us down to league 1, ,,?

Sorry Michael Appleton but you jolly well SHOULD BE FEELING THE PRESSURE!