Rhodes wants Rovers to be 'brave' in attack (From This Is Lancashire)

looking at our next 10 games they are all winable with maybe draws at Nottingham Forest away and Birmingham at home 30 points is the max and 26 points min should be our target nothing less will do

A lot of weight on his young shoulders seeing as the defence and some of the midfield aren't going to contribute anything useful.

They should give Gomes and Rhodes time off from training so they can spend more time coaching the defence and midfield how to play football and in particular pass to a guy wearing blue and white halves.

We are at home and our beloved manager decides to play one striker alone up front with a team that contains no pace in midfield only Ollsson was quick enough to get forward down the wing.I cannot understand what Pederson does as he rarely scores and cannot run does not possess any speed and seems to make so any errors by miss passing the ball or just booting it forward into no mans land when he panics.I do think Shebby was spot on with his assessment and would love to hear what his thoughts are on how the team are performing irrespective of being top of the league by one point.I do think things will hot up big style if we start losing and slip down the table a bit because the few fans that attend seem to expect us to stay at the top which I know we wont unless he brings some good defenders in.

We’re top of the league and We build a HERO called Jordan Rhodes.

Blackburn match on live SKY today, my team should win with more goals. Best wishes.

bburnrover wrote:
They should give Gomes and Rhodes time off from training so they can spend more time coaching the defence and midfield how to play football and in particular pass to a guy wearing blue and white halves. We are at home and our beloved manager decides to play one striker alone up front with a team that contains no pace in midfield only Ollsson was quick enough to get forward down the wing.I cannot understand what Pederson does as he rarely scores and cannot run does not possess any speed and seems to make so any errors by miss passing the ball or just booting it forward into no mans land when he panics.I do think Shebby was spot on with his assessment and would love to hear what his thoughts are on how the team are performing irrespective of being top of the league by one point.I do think things will hot up big style if we start losing and slip down the table a bit because the few fans that attend seem to expect us to stay at the top which I know we wont unless he brings some good defenders in.

I agree Pederson gives the ball away too many times and is slow as well. Shebby was right. Nunes looked sharp when he came on for Pederson, may be giving him a few games.

Does anyone remember the 1987/88 season when we went 20-odd games unbeaten? It was the season when we got hammered by Chelsea in the play-offs, when we had a squad including Terry Gennoe, Colin Hendry, Chris Price, Simon Garner, Scott Sellars, Simon Barker, Steve Archibald and Ossy Ardiles playing for us. Some fantastic players and I think Scott Sellars was the most expensive signing of the lot at a mere £30,000.

Remember it well we played Chelsea at Ewood 15 May 1988 got hammered like you say.

lost the unbeaten record 2-1 at Stoke.
God, that paddock at the old Victoria Ground was jammed

hawaii 5-0 wrote:
lost the unbeaten record 2-1 at Stoke.
God, that paddock at the old Victoria Ground was jammed

Steve Bould played for Stoke that day - not long before he went to Arsenal.

Why not be even braver and all tell SK to resign asap and watch the fans file back into Ewood.

I remember being in the Nuttall St enclosure and there were la lot of Chelsea fans in the stand behind us throwing monopoly money down at us and singing 'loads and loadsamoney' aping the Harry Enfield character...the barstewards!

We cannot bring the past back and we need to accept the present reality.
We BRFC have assembled a good championship side....yes.....!
I think we are okay for the championship and should be going up hopefully.
But I Know we'll need better players for the Premiership NEXT YEAR.
Dunn is finished as a player and Pederson is getting slower by day.
We will need good quality YOUNG players as football is a fast game and no place for pensioners.
Orr is not good enough for Premiership and a replacement needed.
We will need a quality central defender to replace Dann as he is not good enough....!!!!
We need another fast central midfielder alongside Etuhu as Murphy is old and not sure if he can perform at premiership next year.
We will also need another top quality striker alongside Rhodes for next year in premiership.
What do you think...? Do let me know your views..?? Thanks
YES.....We are going up for sure...thanks

Handyman, You should apply for SK Job. sound's like you could do a better job.

Handyman, You should apply for SK Job. sound's like you could do a better job.

ewood1952 wrote:
Handyman, You should apply for SK Job. sound's like you could do a better job.

Anybody could do a better job than sk!

ewood1952 wrote:
Handyman, You should apply for SK Job. sound's like you could do a better job.

Anybody could do a better job than sk!

I think we may end up in the play offs this year as watching Cardiff there side looks really well organised and with Bellamy firing on all cylinders will probably win the league. The other sides to be wary off are Hull ,Huddersfield Brighton and Blackpool so with Kean in charge we cannot expect to maintain our luck for ever and will get our come uppance shortly.The fact is when Dalglish was manager we played excellent passing football from back to front and had a good defence and even that blew up as we started dropping points at the vital time and has everyone knows went up in 6th place via the play offs.

Most of these posts are nonsense regardless of how poor we may be playing we are winning or at worst not losing when the likes of man united chelsea arsenal win without playing well people say 'well thats the sign of a good team'
i dont support kean and never will but i put that aside each game and support the players top of the league another home game tomorrow night with a good chance of victory lets try and be positive i for one will take another 2-1 5-3 lucky victory whatever it may be....the championship is all about momentum and runs if we can keep this going we will have a chance reading some of these posts it would seem alot of fans want us to lose thinking kean will be sacked? not a chance! if it happens think of the unrest it will cause in the team players like gomes rhodes etuhu murphy best etc have all said kean was a massive influence in signing for rovers...my theory is bare it out with him get promoted then he will be fired rovers til i die

MRS DESAI: Oh my God! Do you mean to say that Huddersfield sacked their manager after all those undefeated games just for only being second in the table? That would never happen in MY Blackburn Rovers!
ONION BHAJI: yes you opinionated, over bearing, interfering, old bag. It's one of those things you have to learn about football.
MRS DESAI: Do you mean like when I learned that it is not the team with the LEAST points that wins the league?
(telephone rings)
ONION BHAJI: It's Shabby on the phone making his daily call to ask what to do and if he can fire Kean.
MRS DESAI: Certainly not! Mr Kean's a footballing genius. He told me so himself.

French Rover wrote:
I remember being in the Nuttall St enclosure and there were la lot of Chelsea fans in the stand behind us throwing monopoly money down at us and singing 'loads and loadsamoney' aping the Harry Enfield character...the barstewards!

How the tables have turned.

handyamBRFC wrote:
We cannot bring the past back and we need to accept the present reality.
We BRFC have assembled a good championship side....yes.....!
I think we are okay for the championship and should be going up hopefully.
But I Know we'll need better players for the Premiership NEXT YEAR.
Dunn is finished as a player and Pederson is getting slower by day.
We will need good quality YOUNG players as football is a fast game and no place for pensioners.
Orr is not good enough for Premiership and a replacement needed.
We will need a quality central defender to replace Dann as he is not good enough....!!!!
We need another fast central midfielder alongside Etuhu as Murphy is old and not sure if he can perform at premiership next year.
We will also need another top quality striker alongside Rhodes for next year in premiership.
What do you think...? Do let me know your views..?? Thanks
YES.....We are going up for sure...thanks

You are in dream world, and you should wake up pal, if that defence takes us in the top 6 and a play off spot you should be happy, it is a utter shambles Bradley who? Says it all.

Tatts wrote:
Does anyone remember the 1987/88 season when we went 20-odd games unbeaten? It was the season when we got hammered by Chelsea in the play-offs, when we had a squad including Terry Gennoe, Colin Hendry, Chris Price, Simon Garner, Scott Sellars, Simon Barker, Steve Archibald and Ossy Ardiles playing for us. Some fantastic players and I think Scott Sellars was the most expensive signing of the lot at a mere £30,000.

I remember, think we got done 4-1 at The Bridge, Scott Sellars our scorer & think we lost 2-0 at Ewood, anyone know better ??

MxMave wrote:

French Rover wrote:
I remember being in the Nuttall St enclosure and there were la lot of Chelsea fans in the stand behind us throwing monopoly money down at us and singing 'loads and loadsamoney' aping the Harry Enfield character...the barstewards!

How the tables have turned.

Yes I was there too, along with sitting on the terraces at crystal palace
When we blew it, after winning the home leg comfortably , but then again
Money was not the be all and end all, as it is now,
The deal that's sky offering now and parachute payments, has ruined the game, it's crazy that you get relegated and you come back up through the final play off at wembley, and it's equivalent cash wise , of finishing in the top seven of the premiership

bburnrover wrote:
I think we may end up in the play offs this year as watching Cardiff there side looks really well organised and with Bellamy firing on all cylinders will probably win the league. The other sides to be wary off are Hull ,Huddersfield Brighton and Blackpool so with Kean in charge we cannot expect to maintain our luck for ever and will get our come uppance shortly.The fact is when Dalglish was manager we played excellent passing football from back to front and had a good defence and even that blew up as we started dropping points at the vital time and has everyone knows went up in 6th place via the play offs.

Cardiff probably do look okay at the moment but it's early days.An injury to Bellamy or Whittingham and they will come unstuck and probably end up in play offs.Same with a number of clubs who have started well.
We have got a decent,and maybe more importantly,large squad.It will come down to how Kean manages them,and maybe there will lie the problem.
We were awful for large parts of the game on Tuesday.Kean's infactuation with Pederson is baffling.He's like one of those American Football special team players who you would only whell on for a corner or free kick.Other than that he's useless.I honestly cannot recall a player passing to the opposition as much as he did on Tuesday night,and I'm including at local league level.And to be fair he did most of last season too.

silverstan wrote:

Tatts wrote:
Does anyone remember the 1987/88 season when we went 20-odd games unbeaten? It was the season when we got hammered by Chelsea in the play-offs, when we had a squad including Terry Gennoe, Colin Hendry, Chris Price, Simon Garner, Scott Sellars, Simon Barker, Steve Archibald and Ossy Ardiles playing for us. Some fantastic players and I think Scott Sellars was the most expensive signing of the lot at a mere £30,000.

I remember, think we got done 4-1 at The Bridge, Scott Sellars our scorer & think we lost 2-0 at Ewood, anyone know better ??

Yes, you're right. It was back in the days of when the third bottom team of div 1 took part in the play offs against the 3rd, 4th and 5th teams of div 2. I think Boro went on to win the play off final and went up along with Millwall (champs) and Aston Villa.

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Do you sell managers?

if we can get kean out we have a chance. without him it might be possible to get automatic. with him possibly play offs. get rid now,get momentum, up the gate and were there. support the boycott more now than ever. less than 10,000 tomorrow. kean sacked 8k back

Tatts wrote:

silverstan wrote:

Tatts wrote:
Does anyone remember the 1987/88 season when we went 20-odd games unbeaten? It was the season when we got hammered by Chelsea in the play-offs, when we had a squad including Terry Gennoe, Colin Hendry, Chris Price, Simon Garner, Scott Sellars, Simon Barker, Steve Archibald and Ossy Ardiles playing for us. Some fantastic players and I think Scott Sellars was the most expensive signing of the lot at a mere £30,000.

I remember, think we got done 4-1 at The Bridge, Scott Sellars our scorer & think we lost 2-0 at Ewood, anyone know better ??

Yes, you're right. It was back in the days of when the third bottom team of div 1 took part in the play offs against the 3rd, 4th and 5th teams of div 2. I think Boro went on to win the play off final and went up along with Millwall (champs) and Aston Villa.

Cheers Tatts, brought back fond but sad memories, wasn't long before the Premiership came a calling though !! Soon be back in the promised land & without the clown prince Kean and his sad entourage hopefully .............

Being a Welsh Rover I must say that I don't believe we'll have any trouble turning Cardiff over, Bristol beat them at ashton gate and convincingly. They added a bit of quality with noone but we should walk it this year and do a Newcastle come on you Rovers

tootsio11 wrote:
Most of these posts are nonsense regardless of how poor we may be playing we are winning or at worst not losing when the likes of man united chelsea arsenal win without playing well people say 'well thats the sign of a good team'
i dont support kean and never will but i put that aside each game and support the players top of the league another home game tomorrow night with a good chance of victory lets try and be positive i for one will take another 2-1 5-3 lucky victory whatever it may be....the championship is all about momentum and runs if we can keep this going we will have a chance reading some of these posts it would seem alot of fans want us to lose thinking kean will be sacked? not a chance! if it happens think of the unrest it will cause in the team players like gomes rhodes etuhu murphy best etc have all said kean was a massive influence in signing for rovers...my theory is bare it out with him get promoted then he will be fired rovers til i die

I think the small fact called money brought the players to Blackburn

Your post is the ridiculous one.

As for not supporting Kean the fact you grace him with your presence means you do.

I hope your pleased with yourself supporting such a despicable regime which has brought such shame on our wonderful club.

handyamBRFC wrote:
We cannot bring the past back and we need to accept the present reality. We BRFC have assembled a good championship side....yes.....! I think we are okay for the championship and should be going up hopefully. But I Know we'll need better players for the Premiership NEXT YEAR. Dunn is finished as a player and Pederson is getting slower by day. We will need good quality YOUNG players as football is a fast game and no place for pensioners. Orr is not good enough for Premiership and a replacement needed. We will need a quality central defender to replace Dann as he is not good enough....!!!! We need another fast central midfielder alongside Etuhu as Murphy is old and not sure if he can perform at premiership next year. We will also need another top quality striker alongside Rhodes for next year in premiership. What do you think...? Do let me know your views..?? Thanks YES.....We are going up for sure...thanks

There's a few decent players in Portugal; surprised you missed them, Shebby.

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Do you sell managers?

He would probably be a $hite Chinese or Indian (or Scottish) counterfeit.

"Quality is our dignity, service is our lift" - WTF does that mean?

Speak f@cking English man.

Matt Newcastle wrote:

tootsio11 wrote: Most of these posts are nonsense regardless of how poor we may be playing we are winning or at worst not losing when the likes of man united chelsea arsenal win without playing well people say 'well thats the sign of a good team' i dont support kean and never will but i put that aside each game and support the players top of the league another home game tomorrow night with a good chance of victory lets try and be positive i for one will take another 2-1 5-3 lucky victory whatever it may be....the championship is all about momentum and runs if we can keep this going we will have a chance reading some of these posts it would seem alot of fans want us to lose thinking kean will be sacked? not a chance! if it happens think of the unrest it will cause in the team players like gomes rhodes etuhu murphy best etc have all said kean was a massive influence in signing for rovers...my theory is bare it out with him get promoted then he will be fired rovers til i die

I think the small fact called money brought the players to Blackburn Your post is the ridiculous one. As for not supporting Kean the fact you grace him with your presence means you do. I hope your pleased with yourself supporting such a despicable regime which has brought such shame on our wonderful club.

"my theory is bare it out with him get promoted then he will be fired"

What a bizarre theory.

bburnrover wrote:
I think we may end up in the play offs this year as watching Cardiff there side looks really well organised and with Bellamy firing on all cylinders will probably win the league. The other sides to be wary off are Hull ,Huddersfield Brighton and Blackpool so with Kean in charge we cannot expect to maintain our luck for ever and will get our come uppance shortly.The fact is when Dalglish was manager we played excellent passing football from back to front and had a good defence and even that blew up as we started dropping points at the vital time and has everyone knows went up in 6th place via the play offs.

if i was to pick 1 blackpool have more chance then cardiff to win the league as for bellamy i like him but u saying he is firing on all for 4 cylinders where u get that from he's only played 2 games which 1 of them was a sub as for that free kick he scored he hasnt really done much colin kazim has done more then him and he's injured

bburnrover wrote:
I think we may end up in the play offs this year as watching Cardiff there side looks really well organised and with Bellamy firing on all cylinders will probably win the league. The other sides to be wary off are Hull ,Huddersfield Brighton and Blackpool so with Kean in charge we cannot expect to maintain our luck for ever and will get our come uppance shortly.The fact is when Dalglish was manager we played excellent passing football from back to front and had a good defence and even that blew up as we started dropping points at the vital time and has everyone knows went up in 6th place via the play offs.

they have let in 6 and scored 10 so there not as good as u think there doing id be surprised if cardiff win the league look what they said about leciester they was 1 of the odd's on fav's to win the league look where they are right now

"Steve Kean’s side have not been defeated in six league games this season. It is the club’s longest unbeaten run at the start of a campaign since they won the Premier League in 1994/95, when they went seven games without a loss"


Which league did we win? Which league are we six undefeated in?

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Are you "MatthewCA" in disguise?Your English makes about as much sense!!!

Tatts wrote:
Does anyone remember the 1987/88 season when we went 20-odd games unbeaten? It was the season when we got hammered by Chelsea in the play-offs, when we had a squad including Terry Gennoe, Colin Hendry, Chris Price, Simon Garner, Scott Sellars, Simon Barker, Steve Archibald and Ossy Ardiles playing for us. Some fantastic players and I think Scott Sellars was the most expensive signing of the lot at a mere £30,000.

I remember sitting on the hill behind the riverside watching that one

tootsio11 wrote:
Most of these posts are nonsense regardless of how poor we may be playing we are winning or at worst not losing when the likes of man united chelsea arsenal win without playing well people say 'well thats the sign of a good team'
i dont support kean and never will but i put that aside each game and support the players top of the league another home game tomorrow night with a good chance of victory lets try and be positive i for one will take another 2-1 5-3 lucky victory whatever it may be....the championship is all about momentum and runs if we can keep this going we will have a chance reading some of these posts it would seem alot of fans want us to lose thinking kean will be sacked? not a chance! if it happens think of the unrest it will cause in the team players like gomes rhodes etuhu murphy best etc have all said kean was a massive influence in signing for rovers...my theory is bare it out with him get promoted then he will be fired rovers til i die

"Most of these posts are nonsense..."

Oh, the irony! You're right, when one of the big teams win without playing well people say it's a sign of a good team. However, the reason people say this is because those teams have consistently shown how well they can play, hence why they're regarded as a big team. We've played awful in every game and Kean and his coaching staff haven't shown any indication that they've learned a single lesson. We've literally got our strikers to thank for our league position.

I don't agree with those that want the team to lose but I disagree that Kean won't be sacked when we do start losing games. The owners failed to do the right thing in the summer but I'm sure that they're concerned by the number of empty seats at Ewood Park. Unfortunately, for the fans, it would raise too many questions should they sack him while we're still undefeated in the league. I honestly believe that they're waiting for him to slip up a few times before removing him.

As for discontent in the dressing room, poppycock! A lot of players cite the manager as a contributing factor when they join a new club. However, as long as they're playing and/or getting paid they won't lose too much sleep should Kean be sacked. Also, I don't recall Rhodes mentioning Kean having anything to do with his decision to join Rovers.

Finally... "my theory is bare it out with him get promoted then he will be fired."

He will be fired if we get promoted? Do you write all of your own jokes?