Rosado handed first Blackburn Rovers start (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Rosado handed first Blackburn Rovers start
2:28pm Wednesday 26th December 2012 in Football
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
PORTUGUESE midfielder Diogo Rosado will make his first Blackburn Rovers start in this afternoon's Championship match at Middlesbrough.
Rosado is one of three changes made to the side who lost at Blackpool last time out, as Henning Berg looks for just his second win as Rovers boss.
Rosado replaces Simon Vukcevic, while Danny Murphy returns to the side in place of Dickson Etuhu in the centre of midfield.
Grant Hanley resumes his partnership with Scott Dann in the heart of the defence, with Gael Givet back on the substitutes bench.
Goalkeeper Paul Robinson is not included on the bench, with the club saying he is suffering from a back injury.
ROVERS: Kean, Henley, Hanley, Dann, Martin Olsson, Diogo Rosado, Murphy, Lowe, King, Kazim-Richards, Rhodes
SUBS: Seb Usai, Givet, Dunn, Pedersen, Etuhu, Rochina, Vukcevic
MIDDLESBROUGH: Jason Steele, Justin Hoyte, Andre Bikey, George Friend, Grant Leadbitter, Marvin Emnes, Emmanuel Ledesma, Josh McEachran, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Scott McDonald, Jonathan Woodgate
SUBS: Jayson Leutwiler, Kevin Thomson, Nicky Bailey, Rhys Williams, Andy Halliday, Ishmael Miller, Richard Smallwood
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Comments (44)
2:31pm Wed 26 Dec 12
1bnc says...
2:32pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Dan11 says...
2:33pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Dan11 says...
2:50pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Angry From Accrington says...
If Robinson has a bad back its because Berg has stuck a knife in it!
BERG OUT!!!!!!!!!!! tonight!
2:50pm Wed 26 Dec 12
JPainter90 says...
2:51pm Wed 26 Dec 12
JPainter90 says...
2:57pm Wed 26 Dec 12
madrover says...
3:01pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Captain Dreckley says...
3:05pm Wed 26 Dec 12
stick to football says...
Based on his judgement so far would you trust him to spend wisely in the transfer window?
Obviously Dunn is only used on the subs bench - does it come down to appearance money?
My season ticket whilst on the dace of it looked cheap is now looking like a poor investment I am more despondent now than at the start of the season
3:11pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Will P says...
However, definitely not a promotion team.
3:17pm Wed 26 Dec 12
wilpshireover says...
BBC have Shabby Singh as a co-presenter for the game, talk about lack of tact and judgement. The incluson of this man is an afront to most Rovers fans. I have just turned the radio off in disgust because just the sound of voice gives me the creeps.
4:06pm Wed 26 Dec 12
BeardwoodB says...
#Tool
4:07pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Angry From Accrington says...
4:31pm Wed 26 Dec 12
77'sss says...
Have the dignity berg and resign or shebby have the balls and get rid of him
4:31pm Wed 26 Dec 12
merlinrabbit says...
4:37pm Wed 26 Dec 12
wilpshireover says...
Venkys there for the long haul? Well I am a season ticket holder who will not be renewing it next season if they are still there.
4:42pm Wed 26 Dec 12
passingfootball says...
4:47pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Angry From Accrington says...
BERG OUT TONIGHT!
4:47pm Wed 26 Dec 12
passingfootball says...
4:48pm Wed 26 Dec 12
LittleRonnieHildersley says...
4:51pm Wed 26 Dec 12
dangerous dave says...
OUT WITH BERG AND THE LOT OF THEM
4:51pm Wed 26 Dec 12
A Rover 45 years and over says...
4:53pm Wed 26 Dec 12
stefjam says...
4:55pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Big Rover says...
And listening to Shebby on Radio Lancs has done nothing for my blood pressure!
What a clueless ****er!!
4:56pm Wed 26 Dec 12
passingfootball says...
4:57pm Wed 26 Dec 12
drunken donut says...
4:58pm Wed 26 Dec 12
LittleRonnieHildersley says...
4:59pm Wed 26 Dec 12
silverstan says...
4:59pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Rayzerisaloser says...
4:59pm Wed 26 Dec 12
stick to football says...
Saturday Barnsley - the trap door is looming - promotion is out of the question
Singh needs to do the honest thing and RESIGN now - he has brought nothing to the club other than making it 10 times worse than it was at the end of last season. Berg has to examine his own conscience and do the honest thing too - Relegation is not just a possibility it is looking an increasing possibility - Look at the from table Shebby - you promised DECISIVE ACTION - take it now and tell Venkys sorry you have lost your money so get out quick you are not wantedm at EWOOD
5:01pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Angry From Accrington says...
5:02pm Wed 26 Dec 12
PersianRover says...
5:04pm Wed 26 Dec 12
unclejacklegend says...
5:05pm Wed 26 Dec 12
passingfootball says...
5:11pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Angry From Accrington says...
5:18pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Captain Dreckley says...
5:47pm Wed 26 Dec 12
unclejacklegend says...
5:54pm Wed 26 Dec 12
OnePostThenTheOther says...
Because of the self-interested actions of Venkys, Kean, SEM, Kentaro and the fairy-tale telling agent my club is in a terminal decline from which it will probably never recover. Whilst our rise in the early nineties was meteoric and crowned by the ulimate domestic achievement, my expectation is that Venkys will drag us far lower than Jack Walker ever had us flying high. The last two seasons have been about descent and a fall from grace: rather than chasing promotion, by the end of January after a purge of saleable assets and no real replacements we will be beginning our "fight" against relegation to League One.
6:06pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Angry From Accrington says...
........Berg is obviously a much more accomplished and successful manager than Kean. Yours, deludedly.
6:36pm Wed 26 Dec 12
unclejacklegend says...
Realistically I didn't want either of them to be out manager.
6:52pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Angry From Accrington says...
...neither are.
7:33pm Wed 26 Dec 12
unclejacklegend says...
8:32pm Wed 26 Dec 12
M.DANNY says...
We need a striker,midfielder and a defender now.
Berg please go now leave our sinking ship you have caused more damage than Kean.
Venky spend big or sell up and go back where you came from Poona India.
Indians are very tight with their money and how did you buy a football club in UK that need more money than titanic.
5:56am Thu 27 Dec 12
kiwipom73 says...
It seems the blind misleading the blind and with the damage already done by Conman Kean PLUS the obvious lack of experience and knowledge in the Boardroom/Owner department, Berg as little chance of success.
Playing squad reflects very poor judgement over he last two years...and with many individuals focused on "ME" and not the club, things are not going to get better.
Miracles come along only very seldomly....
Bottom line is, would you expect success if an Amercian bought Lancashire CC.....same with Indian business people playing around with a professional Football team....McCarthy and others saw the joke it now is.
It is going to be a "winter of discontent" I feel...with no sign of a turnaround until the Ownership saga ends !!!!