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TEAM NEWS: Appleton makes four changes for Bolton trip
7:19pm Tuesday 5th March 2013 in Football
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
MICHAEL Appleton has made four changes to the side who crashed to a humiliating home defeat to Peterborough at the weekend for tonight's trip to Bolton Wanderers.
Danny Murphy has not travelled with the squad, while David Bentley, Bradley Orr and Karim REkik have also lost their starting places.
Loanees Dave Jones and Cameron Stewart make their full debuts for the club, after impressing in second half cameos at the weekend, while striker Leon Best is named on the substitutes bench for the first time this season.
ROVERS: Kean, Henley, Dann, Hanley, Markus Olsson, Stewart, Jones, Lowe, Pedersen, Campbell, Rhodes
SUBS: Sandomierski, Orr, Givet, Best, Gomes, Rekik, Bentley
BOLTON: Andrew Lonergan, Sam Ricketts, Craig Dawson, Zat Knight, Marcos Alonso, Jay Spearing, Darren Pratley, CY Lee, David Ngog, Medo Kamara, Kevin Davies
SUBS: Jay Lynch, Dacid Wheater, Chris Eagles, Stuart Holden, Marvin Sordell, Craig Davies, Oulwasanmi Odelusi
Comments(31)
Wellsy11
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7:28pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Was worried they would both play after MA's comments today.
Wellsy11
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7:29pm Tue 5 Mar 13
owd nick
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7:30pm Tue 5 Mar 13
steve18gls
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7:39pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Wellsy11 wrote:Only one problem though, Orr is on the subs bench !!
No murphy in squad, no Orr in team - fine by me!!!
Was worried they would both play after MA's comments today.
MatthewCA
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7:39pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Good, All the best
steve18gls
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7:40pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder
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8:18pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Murphy not in squad and Orr on the bench as well. Personally I would have driven Orr to the beach to see his twin brother Eee. Then they could both walk up and down the prom eating carrots. Both well deserved decisions. Now we might have a chance of picking up the occasional points. Lets hope it starts tonight.
dallydally
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8:22pm Tue 5 Mar 13
baz58
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10:00pm Tue 5 Mar 13
77'sss
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10:01pm Tue 5 Mar 13
FFS. How many times
Bungle97
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10:05pm Tue 5 Mar 13
noddy57
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10:08pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Stone Island:
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10:10pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder wrote:Very witty that KGB. His twin brother Eee. Like it.
Looks like the only knackerless wonders round here are the season ticket surrender monkeys.
Murphy not in squad and Orr on the bench as well. Personally I would have driven Orr to the beach to see his twin brother Eee. Then they could both walk up and down the prom eating carrots. Both well deserved decisions. Now we might have a chance of picking up the occasional points. Lets hope it starts tonight.
Wild Rover
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10:16pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Better performance though and Best on for last 15
Hanley hit bar twice, so not all bad
But the s**t run continues..
Well done Appleton to stick to your guns over Murphy, didnt even travel
Nice to have a manager with guts for once..
stick to football
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10:17pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Three away league games in a row and no goals as well as Leeds at Ewood - begs the question where are we going. We dont seem able to create chances and that is a worry
Is the FA Cup a distraction because we are now only 7 points adrift of the bottom three and if they dont pick up points against Burnley & Blackpool at home - the fear might become a reality
one more season
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10:18pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Only when they're all gone and our club is starting out again from scratch will it ever change.
passingfootball
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10:20pm Tue 5 Mar 13
it was clear that a single goal was going to settle the game. instead of being proactive, appleton seemed to be scared to make real changes fearing that it may make rovers play worse, only to lose in the last sceond, typical,, he only brought on best, who is clearly not match fit and preferred over gomes the third highest scorer at rovers, appleton is yet to show that he is capable of making those telling tactical changes that would have got the goal to win them the game, campbell and rhodes partnership is clearly not working yet he persist with it, worrying thing is they have failed to score in 4 of the last 5 games, he was a bore draw specialist now he s just a losing specialist.
fanny.tickler.
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10:22pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Angry From Accrington
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10:27pm Tue 5 Mar 13
passingfootball
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10:40pm Tue 5 Mar 13
peely
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10:59pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Bungle97 wrote:Another bald one !
I think we have ourselves another 'unlucky' manager.
Fortyfourer
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11:03pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Leebo004
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11:12pm Tue 5 Mar 13
dg666
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11:23pm Tue 5 Mar 13
fanny.tickler. wrote:Beating the dingles? Dingles admitting they are inferior? Dingles admitting they are a smaller club? Dingles admitting they are sour? Dingles admitting they are forever in our shadow? Dingles admitting Ewood is the better ground? Dingles admitting Jack Walker is the best thing East Lancashire has ever produced? Dingles admitting their twang is p@@s funny? The Dingles admitting that 34 years of hurt can not be rectified by being above us in the league temporarily without even beating us is the above mentioned phase of history? Dingles admitting they always try the famous Suicide route when we have always been top dogs (not that that even bothers me but just waiting for the comments lol.) Dingles admitting that genuine Blackburn fans actually wanted you to stay up that day, through pure sorrow (we love an underdog) and finally and quite simply We are the most successful club in East Lancs. See you on the 17th guys, whatever the result, history will take some turning around.
hahaha oh dear, whatever next...
Oh by the way slag me for my spelling, or indeed anything else you can, however you can not remove 34 years of hurt.
I don't usully post anything like this but some of the banter is just ****, and I will openly admit that Burnley are my second club, as my late father followed both teams until the 70's and he then became a real rover, the reason? It rests with him xx
johnny rover
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11:55pm Tue 5 Mar 13
Extrapolating their points when in charge over the season to date (36 league matches) - had we stuck with Kean (W4, D2, L1) we would have had 72 points and been top of the league. Similarly Gary Bowyer (W2, D1, L0) 75 points and top. Eric Black (W2, D3, L1) 54 points and 7th, Hening Berg (W1, D3, L6) 22 points and bottom, Michael Appleton (W2, D3, L5) 32 points and bottom.
So - the manager the fans (and Shebby) forced out would could have had us top. Instead the two "permanent" managers appointed by the clueless ones would both have had us bottom.
Angry From Accrington
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12:11am Wed 6 Mar 13
dg666
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12:33am Wed 6 Mar 13
Angry From Accrington wrote:Living in the past players not good enough that you mentioned and you in my eyes not good enough!! Go and kiss Steve Keans **** and leave my club to those that believe!!
For his own sake and the sake of the club he should just admit that he is not op to the job and go NOW. Beg Rochina, Formica, Nunes and Vucevij to come back, persuade Gary Bowyer that he CAN manage and let's finish the season on a positive note. I will gladly start a fund to pay Appletons compensation with a sposored bike ride to Wembley.
Angry From Accrington
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8:11am Wed 6 Mar 13
dg666 wrote:What is left to believe in devil dog?
Angry From Accrington wrote:Living in the past players not good enough that you mentioned and you in my eyes not good enough!! Go and kiss Steve Keans **** and leave my club to those that believe!!
For his own sake and the sake of the club he should just admit that he is not op to the job and go NOW. Beg Rochina, Formica, Nunes and Vucevij to come back, persuade Gary Bowyer that he CAN manage and let's finish the season on a positive note. I will gladly start a fund to pay Appletons compensation with a sposored bike ride to Wembley.
French Rover
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10:36am Wed 6 Mar 13
johnny rover wrote:There are Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics Johnny Rover.
Well said Leebo004 and passingfootball. Just got back from Bolton and, though we fought hard and were unlucky to lose, both sides were poor. Stewart and DJ unimpressive. Much more preferable would be Rochina, Formica, Gomes, Nunes or Vukevich despite their deficiencies. Lets look at the managerial stats.
Extrapolating their points when in charge over the season to date (36 league matches) - had we stuck with Kean (W4, D2, L1) we would have had 72 points and been top of the league. Similarly Gary Bowyer (W2, D1, L0) 75 points and top. Eric Black (W2, D3, L1) 54 points and 7th, Hening Berg (W1, D3, L6) 22 points and bottom, Michael Appleton (W2, D3, L5) 32 points and bottom.
So - the manager the fans (and Shebby) forced out would could have had us top. Instead the two "permanent" managers appointed by the clueless ones would both have had us bottom.
Winston Churchill said that a lot of years ago now -but still the same applies today. Kean is the top manager (laugh out loud, fall off chair) in your fantasy scenario - but his games to win ratio (factual) is still worse than Appleton's.
If there were no other people left in the world apart from Kean and a blind, mute Martian, then Kean would still be the worst manager in the world.
We were unlucky to lose, the team shape was better the spirit and desire were there and they fought for each other and the club. Millwall and Europe here we come!
handyamBRFC
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3:28pm Wed 6 Mar 13
Do you think its easy to attract players to BRFC..???
In my opionion...
Clubs tend to want to keep their best players and if selling will place a massive transfer fee which is usually astronomical even for a **** player...!
clubs tend seldom to sell to other championship sides...! unless its for loads of money...5M - 8M...!
strong established managers with reputations are more likely to attract good players...!
MA can only hope to attract lessor attractive players to BRFC as hes got No chance with established players.!
It is clear, That MA connections are with WBA and portsmouth and not any good players to be had with either..!
One player who is good was the Peterborogh player who's gone to Hull.
thats the winger we should have gone for..! George boyd to feed our striker which is def lacking...!!!
instead we had no option but to have the player (leftovers) who's place hes taken at hull...!!
steve18gls says...
7:25pm Tue 5 Mar 13