Blackburn Rovers v Leeds Utd Match Thread

[1964white]

Are Blackburn one of the many crap sides in the championship this season

Rovers are not good, they did a job on us. which we have witnessed a few times previously.

[John in Louisiana]

I take that back, went to the pub instead.

Always the best decision.

[Onemanstanding]

Burnley taken the lead

[andrewjohnsmith]

I was thinking 1-0 blackburn on the way home from work. I got home, loaded in the stream on 75 mins and checked the odds.
1-0 was 1.5 and the 1-1 was 3.1 I gave it a miss.

Whatever happened to doing plan A better, because there is no plan B? Is overloading the attack part of plan A or DF's desperate attempt at salvaging a point? Bamford is not the answer, but the January transfer window is and the board needs to invest based on this result.

I thought Bamford was the best answer on the day. Piroe wasn't involved and Joseph hasn't delivered in front of goal yet.

[SG90]

Burnley taken the lead

Relying on other sides again then

[1964white]

We are in a battle for 2nd place imo Sheff Utd have some skill and the physicality to win this league.

Blunts got lucky last night. Not that impressed with them to be honest.

[SG90]

Blunts got lucky last night. Not that impressed with them to be honest.

Yet they win every week. Leicester weren't that great either tbh, but won all the time.

[andrewjohnsmith]

Rovers are not good, they did a job on us. which we witnessed a few times previously.

I wouldn't discredit Blackburn. Could be 6th with their game in hand. But we should be better with the quality we have. We need to be coming away from these games at least with a point.

Let's hope we don't meet Blackburn in the playoffs (cheeky comment)

[andrewjohnsmith]

Relying on other sides again then

Too early in the season to be scoreboard watching. Although I am scoreboard watching.

We need to be 2 ppg and not worry about everyone else

[John in Louisiana]

Burnley taken the lead

Scratch what I said about sitting second.

[whiteswan]

Relying on other sides again then

All teams do. Do you think that Sunderland, Burley and Blunts wanted us to win today. No, they, like us will have been relying on their biggest rivals not winning. Blunts had to rely on us losing today to stay top.

[SG90]

Too early in the season to be scoreboard watching. Although I am scoreboard watching.

We need to be 2 ppg and not worry about everyone else

Not for me. We'd need to be at least 10 points ahead of third before the run in, as otherwise we have no chance. Can't see that happening with the blunts and Burnley winning every week.

[SG90]

All teams do. Do you think that Sunderland, Burley and Blunts wanted us to win today. No, they, like us will have been relying on their biggest rivals not winning. Blunts had to rely on us losing today to stay top.

But we supposedly have the best squad and best manager in the league, yet need to rely on other sides to help us? If we did, the results elsewhere shouldn't matter to us.

[whiteswan]

I wouldn't discredit Blackburn. Could be 6th with their game in hand. But we should be better with the quality we have. We need to be coming away from these games at least with a point.

Let's hope we don't meet Blackburn in the playoffs (cheeky comment)

Playoffs a possibility - v Blackburn a possibility.

[Carrick Dave]

I thought Bamford was the best answer on the day. Piroe wasn't involved and Joseph hasn't delivered in front of goal yet.

How many times was he offside in a short cameo? I couldn't believe it.

[Irish Ian]

Not for me. We'd need to be at least 10 points ahead of third before the run in, as otherwise we have no chance. Can't see that happening with the blunts and Burnley winning every week.

Noone is winning every week it is the nature of sport sides can hit a rich vein of form.

Blunts have been on a good run since we beat them.
Burnley have also come good.

All that means is that they are slighly ahead of us.

And I see you expect that Leeds will run out of steam, but you cant be sure that we will

[andrewjohnsmith]

Noone is winning every week it is the nature of sport sides can hit a rich vein of form.

Blunts have been on a good run since we beat them.
Burnley have also come good.

All that means is that they are slighly ahead of us.

And I see you expect that Leeds will run out of steam, but you cant be sure that we will

The frustrating part is that we're better than SheffU and Burnley. Yet both (on current score line) are ahead of us. Sheff United 5 points ahead of us. We are a better team which is what makes our 1.9 ppg so frustrating.

[DDB220]

Should have been a red.

Tbf their player was probably not aware of Firpo coming in on the blind side. He was reaching for a miscontrolled ball. Firpo nipped and stole it. It wasn’t a a big physical challenge. Firpo did what a lot of modern players do leg clutched and made more of it than the foul deserved. The ref wasn’t mugged by Firpo’s reaction.

But you are right another ref may have given a red but I thought it was only a yellow.

[Irish Ian]

The frustrating part is that we're better than SheffU and Burnley. Yet both (on current score line) are ahead of us. Sheff United 5 points ahead of us. We are a better team which is what makes our 1.9 ppg so frustrating.

It is frustrating I agree. It always has been, teams always up their game playing us, especially at home, apart from their local derbies it is their biggest game of the season. It is as if we need to be twice as good as the oppo raise their game in front of their home fans.
That has and always will be tough.

And it is just 3 points behind SheffU? Or are you counting the two points they were deducted?

Now we have a week to recover before the next round of three games a week madness begins.
Our players really need a rest

[Carrick Dave]

The more I think about it, the fact that it was Blackburn today was a bit incidental, we've seen that picture show many times before in recent seasons.

Any team that scores and shuts up shop can beat us on regular occasions, we're consistent in a bad way.

The Groundhog-Day aspect is the most frustrating element for me, every team will lose the odd game, but when it happens I feel early on that there's only one possible outcome.

Aaarrrggghhhhh.