*The Unofficial "Official" Blackburn v The Mighty Boro Matchday Thread*

[dribble]

Thought the effort was lacking,especially first half.We just plodded about and we’re chasing shadows.

 

[thewanderer]

Wilder doesn't sound happy!

 

[tripleheader]

It was a pen. I didn't think it was at the time. You're right.

The ref didn't see it obviously, but the lino should have.

 

[S7DiscoDown]

69% possession away to a side who's now 2nd. That's despite not playing well. Also 2 big chances and a possible pen.

I think it just shows how far we've come. We've been waiting to see how we bounce back.

Wilder isn't happy. So doubt we will see a similar start on Saturday.

 

[Oooo]

what did he say?

 

[Diego]

I think Sporar wasn’t his usual self today in regards to grafting, I wonder if that is a message to him, I didn’t really see anyone else not giving their all. Thought Dijksteel was our best player on the night.

 

[InglebyUTB]

Tav and Connolly out, Payero and Balugon in

 

[Glover_elbow]

Blackburn are officially a proper bogey team for us. One game I always think ‘these ***** are a bogey team for us’ but wonder if I’m imagining it.
not now. It’s official. They are *****.

We are destined to get revenge in the playoffs. I thought Blackburn were aggressive but lacked quality in a game we should have won if we had the right attitude

 

[whinneybanksaint]

Tav and Connolly out, Payero and Balugon in

Sporar And Connelly need dropping.
Watmore a much better player. Balogun alongside him. Tav left wingback and Payero in alongside Crooks.
Howson to sweep behind them.
A massive kick up the backside and injection off aggression and desire into Diksteel, mcnair and Fry.

 

[Cress]

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[Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants]

Blackburns tactics 1st half was to stop any passing triangle from the centre backs and Howson developing. We looked lot. 2nd half we were ok, still missed chances we should be scoring. I'm not impressed with connolly to be honest. Big Ache would have offered more tonight.

 

[Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants]

I didn't quite understand how we ran up so many bookings. Ref seemed to lose control straight away.

 

[kuepper]

Lumley could have cost us more, your hearts in your mouth when he delays kicking it and he should have done better with the goal. I don't understand the adulation for Sporer at all, he's scored a pen and a couple of others for us but he just seems so lightweight. Connolly not impressed by either so far, his miss at the end was horrific. We need someone better at dead balls than Tav and Mcnair. Need to get Bolagun in the team from the start. Lucky we have Jones

 

[Priv]

Lumley could have cost us more, your hearts in your mouth when he delays kicking it and he should have done better with the goal. I don't understand the adulation for Sporer at all, he's scored a pen and a couple of others for us but he just seems so lightweight. Connolly not impressed by either so far, his miss at the end was horrific. We need someone better at dead balls than Tav and Mcnair. Need to get Bolagun in the team from the start. Lucky we have Jones

I’m not having that about Lumley, he was our best player in the first half. Quick off his line to prevent a couple of one on ones, dealt with some terrible back passes well, it not his fault if our players weren’t moving into space to give him options. Can’t blame him for the goal at all.

 

[Cardiffdaffs]

I didn't quite understand how we ran up so many bookings. Ref seemed to lose control straight away.

It wasn’t so much him losing control as imposing too strict an approach from the off. What he needed to do was have some communication about how he wanted the game to go with the players but we had none of that.

 

[Zoophonic]

It wasn’t so much him losing control as imposing too strict an approach from the off. What he needed to do was have some communication about how he wanted the game to go with the players but we had none of that.

Exactly. He was far too quick wih his cards and it put us on the back foot in that first half. It was 4 cards to nil by 35 mins.

 

[Soutra]

We have scored enough goals so far under Wilder to win plenty of matches. Tonight was certainly an off night in front of goal, it happens.

It happens far too often to Boro. That's why the goals for is so poor. Boro have failed to score in almost half the away games. Over a whole season that's going to be AT LEAST 22 points dropped, and since home teams generally score it's likely to be closer to 30 points.

The knock on effect from the lack of goals is the strain on the defence. Any error is probably going to cost points, like last night. If the strikers could score 2 or 3 or more goals then defensive lapses wouldn't be so critical. But chances are missed week in, week out, and it is always a grandstand finish (like Reading, Mansfield and Blackburn). No game is ever done by half time with Boro.

 

[Andy_W]

Lumley could have cost us more, your hearts in your mouth when he delays kicking it and he should have done better with the goal. I don't understand the adulation for Sporer at all, he's scored a pen and a couple of others for us but he just seems so lightweight. Connolly not impressed by either so far, his miss at the end was horrific. We need someone better at dead balls than Tav and Mcnair. Need to get Bolagun in the team from the start. Lucky we have Jones

Yeah that delayed kicking is an issue, not sure what he's actually waiting for, but we play it back to him far too often, we should be better than that, as our defenders can supposedly all "play".

Never understood playing it backwards if the keeper is going to launch it to two guys who are 65 yards upfield, not great in the air, against at least 2 defenders who are always great in the air.

Surely our defenders can play a short pass to retain possession, as the keeper hoiking it upfield is giving the ball away anyway.

Or just play diagonal balls into the channels, if they don't work, who cares, we were going to lose it anyway, and rather lose it trying to give it to our threats.

 

[Priv]

Yeah that delayed kicking is an issue, not sure what he's actually waiting for, but we play it back to him far too often, we should be better than that, as our defenders can supposedly all "play".

Never understood playing it backwards if the keeper is going to launch it to two guys who are 65 yards upfield, not great in the air, against at least 2 defenders who are always great in the air.

Surely our defenders can play a short pass to retain possession, as the keeper hoiking it upfield is giving the ball away anyway.

Or just play diagonal balls into the channels, if they don't work, who cares, we were going to lose it anyway, and rather lose it trying to give it to our threats.

Hes delaying as no body is running in to space, we have a lack of movement off the ball which is the main reason he gets so many pass backs to deal with, if more players made themselves available it wouldnt be anywhere near as much of an issue.

 

[Andy_W]

Hes delaying as no body is running in to space, we have a lack of movement off the ball which is the main reason he gets so many pass backs to deal with, if more players made themselves available it wouldnt be anywhere near as much of an issue.

There is no space 60-70 yards up the pitch, and he's not good enough to kick it accurately into that space anyway, hardly any keeper is.

We do compound the problem by giving it to him like, we shouldn't need to do that 75% of the time we do. The defenders should be able to boot it 30 yards to a player or even a channel with 10x more accuracy than Lumley, who has to kick it 60 yards. The longer kick gives the defenders a lot more time to get set up too, as does the time taken to get it back to him, the opposition know what's coming.

Not just blaming Lumley, not at all, it's more a tactical and defender/ midfielder problem against teams who press more.