I don't care whether we win ugly, pretty, spawny, lucky, fatty, thinny, longy, shorty or by a fvcking light shade of pinky, as long as we win!
They are though, there was whole other hoodoo at work that day. The penalty king was nailed on to score.
I thought you'd get a tough game at Bolton (and I'd always fancy Burnley against you - they seem to be like Peterborough away for us) but I never imagined that you'd be 3 down in under 15 minutes .. but the difference for me is that you hit an unpredictable force of nature ... our poor run was to my mind self inflicted when we made 5 changes for the cup game against the Udders .. others seem to think that 'resting players' in the cup to concentrate on the league is a good idea - I don't and never will - I'm a firm believer in playing your best team in every game subject to injuries - that gives you true momentum ...
Strangely enough I agree ... just wish I put a tenner 'saver' on the knob - I'd been predicting it all week at work ...
Interesting how people create their own mythologies. The Peterborough game was BEFORE Huddersfield. If you don't include the Peterborough game, we've only lost one league match and got an acceptable away draw in this "poor run" (so far anyway).
As if we would let you down French. An excellent performance form the boys tonight apparently and Wood back to his scoring habits 9 in 9 for us now. Kane looks a good addition too, with Nugent getting time to recover and refresh.
The Peterborough game was AFTER the tie AT Huddersfield ....so no "created mythology" .... where we changed a winning team and lost our momentum IMHO ... not asking anyone to agree ... but played to a fair level myself and never 'got tired' when we were winning titles and cups and playing well ... and as a forward when you are scoring you just want to play ...and fitted that in with a proper job too..
Agreed Big positives: Wood gets the missed pen off his back and is back on the scoring run Kane gets his first and whilst it is early days we now perhaps have a viable 'strike partnership' Andy King notches and hopefully will now go on a run of goals from midfield All 3 goals from headers - the wide men (especially Marshall) now starting to put the ball on the money for players with an aerial theat .. Defence back on a clean sheet The nature of the victory - personally really pleased by the manner of the performance - our confidence should now be high for Ipswich Blackburn have a great squad on paper - I think we have all but ended any promotion aspirations for them - so hopefully, with that pressure off they will now start to play to their poptential and any of our rivals travelling to Ewood especially could find them a very tough nut to crack.
Well actually you only let me down by 50% as Swindon Town also let me down. A home banker against Bury if ever there was one ? Nevermind its only money afterall...... Can you give an honest assessment of DJ Campbell and what he did in your eyes for Blackburn Rovers please ?
But we won a game after that (Wolves) so it's not part of our winless run. If you're talking about performance levels, you could go right back to the Boro game in which we hardly played them off the park. Either way, I wouldn't start with either Hudderfield game.
.. but we only just scraped a win against Wolves (who had been dire up until then) in a rather indifferent performance and where Chris Wood was all but anonymous having previously only come on as a late 'emergency' sub at Huddersfield .. now you may think that both are mere coincidence but for me the changes to a winning team full of confidence were a self inflicted wound and brake on our momentum.... we all have our own views of football but I'm quite happy to have the debate before we finally agree that I was right all along ... as an aside, I'm also rather pissed off that the 5,000 travelling support at Huddersfield had to wait 70 odd minutes for the first team .. I do feel that football clubs sometimes treat the fans with little thought (being kind) or border-line contempt / disdain at times (being not so kind) ...
But as I said in my previous post, the indifferent performances started with the Boro match in which we looked a little tired and lethargic and only just about shaded it. You could argue Boro are a different proposition to Wolves but their recent form would prove otherwise. I think Pearson has played it perfectly. We were starting to run out of steam and he's now, over various matches, rested Knocky, Wood, Nugent (injured, but likely to have been rested anyway), James (again injured, but again may have been rested), Drinkwater and Marshall. The result is the resurgent performance we saw on Tues. I do feel for those 5,000 that went to Huddersfield, but those 5,000 will likely be among those calling for Pearson's head if we fail to get promotion. Sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture, which I'm delighted to say Pearson has been intelligent enough to do.
We are going to have to disagree on this one - which is absolutely fine by the way - but for me - 'Boro were performing well and a real danger when we played them - and the conditions were also 'extreme' - if Nigel had played it 'perfectly' we'd have got more points AND a potential money spinning home tie in the FA Cup against Wigan - but as I said, it's fine to disagree....
Yes, ideally, we'd have got more points and progressed in the cup but, you know what, the handful of reserves that came in should have had enough to beat the likes of Peterborough, Huddersfield and Charlton. They didn't and I think that's been as educational to Pearson as it has to us. Expect a clear out in the summer.
