Blackburn Rovers away match thread

[The Original OTIB]

Arse

[Slippin cider]

Bollocks!!

[City_USA]

Wtf 

[ProfitInMyPocket]

Serves us right for trying to play out like this constantly

[old_eastender]

FFS, gift from City and it's 1-0, stupid tippy tappy play at the back again.

[EstoniaTallinnRed]

What the hell is Max thinking of?

[Tre Bong]

Never going to get away with that!

[pillred]

Conway scores.

[Andy082005]

Get this bluffer gone #manningout 

[petehinton]

Hahahaha

[Graham76]

It was only a matter of time before that happened. We’re not good enough to play like that 

[BCFC Rich]

The stream keeps freezing up for me, missed it. What did max do?

[Dastardly and Muttley]

5 minutes ago, Red Exile said:

They look well prepared- frankly we don’t. 

Don’t worry, we’ve still got the half time team talk

[Hocca]

We are all over the place! What the hell is that?!

[Peter1450]

Does Max get an assist for that, shocking!

[DaveF]

We've been dreadful, deserve to be behind.

[Mihai]

Going for battle for relegation ? 

[Dastardly and Muttley]

Here we go again.

[IAmNick]

Blackburn goal: https://streamin.one/v/2191e003

[2015]

An absolute woeful start to the game. Worryingly similar to Derby away.

[petehinton]

Trying to pass it out when we’re outnumbered 4 to 1

[marcofisher]

A midfielder has been straight onto Williams to block that pass out from the back every time. Clear tactic from Blackburn from the start. It’s crazy that we haven’t identified it and we have paid the price now.

[AirlieBeachRed]

We aren't good enough to play it out from the back all of the time

[Spike]

So poor from Max, this desire to play out from the back all the time instead of just put it up the pitch when the pass isn't on is stupid. Blackburn have us figured out already and as per usual we seem to have no back up plan. It's going to be a very long game.

[frenchred]

2 weeks on the grass has done us good

[RedLionLad]

Really sloppy from O’Leary

[robin_unreliant]

Calamity Max

[CityCiderEd]

Fodder.......

[Dastardly and Muttley]

Just now, Hocca said:

We are all over the place! What the hell is that?!

Results of Manning having two weeks on the grass.

[Red Exile]

Blimey. We look absolutely awful! Weeks ‘on the grass’ and serving up this tosh. Long ball hit and hope is what it looks like. We’ve surely not signed Bird and Twine to play that. If there’s a pattern it’s lost on me. 

[Randy Marsh II]

Max O'Deary..... Amiright?!

[NDW4CITY]

Well good to see Manning’s made the most of the 2 weeks on the grass.

[Ian M]

[The Original OTIB]

On a positive note, maybe we are doing the inevitable shit half first.

[mozo]

1 minute ago, ProfitInMyPocket said:

Serves us right for trying to play out like this constantly

This was not an example of tika taka, you would have seen a pass to the keeper like that in the 80s. It was just a stupid stupid mistake.

[Red Billy]

Just now, BCFC Rich said:

The stream keeps freezing up for me, missed it. What did max do?

You really don’t want to know! Put it this way - he’ll get the assist!

[pillred]

2 minutes ago, headhunter said:

Really, two changes not a lot

No not just today I mean over the course of preseason.

[Chairman Mao]

Tactically we are all over the place 

[Spike]

Just now, AirlieBeachRed said:

We aren't good enough to play it out from the back all of the time

Exactly, it's this weird mentality some managers have where they see the best teams in the world trying to do it with some of the best sweeper keepers and best ball playing defenders and then they try to replicate it with players who just aren't anywhere near that level.

[mozo]

1 minute ago, petehinton said:

Trying to pass it out when we’re outnumbered 4 to 1

It was a simple pass to O'Leary and he had time and space. He just went mental.

[Red Billy]

1 minute ago, frenchred said:

2 weeks on the grass has done us good

When they say two weeks on the grass - I’m beginning to think they have had two weeks on the grass!

[RedLionLad]

1 minute ago, frenchred said:

2 weeks on the grass has done us good

Looks like we’ve been on more than ‘grass’

[The Original OTIB]

Just now, Chairman Mao said:

Tactically we are all over the place 

We use tactics?

[Garland-sweden]

You can only laugh, in schoolyard yes. We are not a spanish team. As someone said, it was only about time it will happen. 

[Dastardly and Muttley]

Hope JL and BT are watching.

[Red from afar]

I try and keep a balanced view of how we're playing, but this has been woeful. Lacking in any energy or quality, like a team that's never played together before.

Edited Saturday at 14:23 by Red from afar

[petehinton]

Been very, very poor. Deflating. 

[The turtle]

It may have been a poor poor error.

But it wasn't the first build up error, and it was 15 mins the making

It was a terrible error, but it was 15 mins in the making. The fault isn't his alone.

[Red Army 75]

We have been abysmal 

[DaveF]

We can't play out from the back like that with Williams in centre mid, it's really not his game. I don't blame him for it really, it's just poor tactics.

[The Coach]

Just now, Dastardly and Muttley said:

Hope JL and BT are watching.

[Dastardly and Muttley]

Just now, The turtle said:

It may have been a poor poor error.

But it wasn't the first build up error, and it was 15 mins the making

It was a terrible error, but it was 15 mins in the making. The fault isn't his alone.

There’s precisely one coaching team to blame.

[NDW4CITY]

We’ll done LM - really got a reaction from them. This has been a shambles so far.

[Slack Bladder]

Playing in our 3rd kit looking 3rd rate

Why aren't we in red?

[RedReg]

Get him gone

[Northamptonshire Red]

How do we look worse than two weeks ago?

[Topper 123]

Playing out from back HAS TO STOP let’s play football looking at their goal not ours 

[CityGill]

Really poor so far. Madness from Max. So sloppy throughout the team, Sykes has been totally anonymous. Would like to see Manning be brave because this clearly isn’t working.

Really worried about the quality of passing. Putting ourselves under pressure. Really don’t think Blackburn are playing well, we are just awful. Zero composure.

Edited Saturday at 14:26 by CityGill

[Spike]

We're missing Armstrong right now too, his finishing may need work but he puts the pressure on opposite teams' defenses and makes them make mistakes, Fally doesn't offer that and Twine seems to be doing most of that chasing atm. Blackburn looks far too comfortable with the ball at the back.

[Dastardly and Muttley]

Just now, Northamptonshire Red said:

How do we look worse than two weeks ago?

Manningball. He’s not a coach either, seemingly.

[CityCiderEd]

I'm trying to work out we we've been working on for 2 weeks.....beats me, passing, throw ins just as bad as usual. 

[Super]

Ffs Max wake up.

[Spike]

Conway scores, Luke Ayling assist >.<

[Rossi the Robin]

What worries me as well is we don’t ever seem to have Plan B 

[Odd socks]

Two weeks on the grass. More like two weeks on the weed

[DaveF]

Just now, Rossi the Robin said:

What worries me as well is we don’t ever seem to have Plan B 

A few subs at 60 minutes doesn't count as a plan B?

[Rocking Red Cyril]

Just now, Rossi the Robin said:

What worries me as well is we don’t ever seem to have Plan B 

When was the last city team with a plan B ?

[Barrs Court Red]

2 minutes ago, CityGill said:

Would like to see Manning be brave because this clearly isn’t working. 

Good luck with that, bravery is an emotion, and that’s not Mannings bag.

 

[Sleepy1968]

7 minutes ago, Chairman Mao said:

Tactically we are all over the place 

I think it's 'non'tactically' we're all over the place.

[CityGill]

Just now, Rocking Red Cyril said:

When was the last city team with a plan B ?

Flint upfront?