This is the first article I have written on the Blackburn board, even though I have been reading this board all season and made a couple of comments along the way, but thought I would take the plunge and write an article!
As it seems doom and gloom for us Rover's fans at the moment, I thought maybe we could try and find a few positives from the season so far (OK they are few and far between, but let's see). We all know this season is not going the way we wanted it too, especially concerning our league position, the manager situation, the owner situation, player's contracts not being sorted, losing key players, losing great prospects, losing key members of the board, having no feedback from the owners or the board, the Anderson situation, the media annihilation of our fans (well there is a lot wrong at the club currently, which this is proving) but there has to be a few positives, right? Well here are the ones I can think of anyway.
1. Yakubu - He has been imense for us this season. The chant 'feed the Yak and he will score' could not be truer, as he has been banging them in this season! We have been looking for someone who can put the ball in the net for a few seasons now and we have eventually found one it seems! (Shame that this has come at the same time as Kean's brilliant defensive ideas, else we would most definetely be in a better position - sorry positives....)
2. Rochina - OK, he may not be the complete player but I think we have someone here who is still young and technically is good and with a lot of potential. He has scored some great goals and if we can keep hold of him, I think will be a very useful player for us in the future. I know he was signed last season, but he has played and shown his potential ability in this one.
3. We beat Manchester United and Arsenal - Well, clutching at straws a little now with the positives, (especially as we just got hammered 7-1 by the former) but I enjoyed these results and it was nice to see us dishing it out to the 'big boys' and getting a result.
4. We are still not down yet - Well this point may seem a stupid positive, but it is one none the less, we still do have a chance of escaping relegation, even if it does seem slim at times and fading week by week. There are a few other teams around us who are not doing well too, so hopefully we can be the best of a bad bunch and still get out of this! (Hate to say the best of a bad bunch involving Rover's, but that is our only hope it seems this season)
Well, not too many positives there, maybe you guys can think of some others, especially as some of mine are weak to say the least. Even with all the negatives, I still think we have a chance of escaping this season, just about.
Anyways, what do you guys think?
O, and COYB!!!!
Any positives from this season so far?
posted on 7/2/12
what I find depressing is that you have the likes of Norwich and Swansea sat comfortably in mid-table. Just goes to show what a half decent manager can do for you.
posted on 7/2/12
OOJW, thanks for the kind words on the article, much appreciated.
Can't believe I forgot about Jason Lowe though, that is one of the main positives from this season for sure, he has been brilliant for this his first full season in the starting team! I'll blame it on the fact I wrote this article late last night...
Agree with your other positives too, shame that all the positives that we come up with are so weak compared to the negatives.
Agree with everyone else that has commented also, think it will be hard for us to stay up and blueandwhitehalves, makes a good point, Yakubu and other teams being dreadful are the only things that I can see that will keep us up I fear, which is not a great position to be in, it could be enough, here's hoping. Well thats barring a miracle of course and Kean learns how to make the team defend as a unit, but that is wishful thinking.
posted on 7/2/12
Oh one more positive that everyone has forgotten, the beautiful football we've been playing since the evil overlord Allardyce was sacked.
posted on 7/2/12
SKL- can't comment- I must have been getting a pie and bovril when this beautiful football broke out- which game was it
I'll give you it is more exciting- who would think into the 90th minute we could give two goals away (when the ball should have been bouncing off the Jack Walker stand roof) and end up winning 4-3 in o/t.
If only we could score 4 every game.
posted on 7/2/12
O yes, Kean is a genius, we are going to be the new Barcelona with all the silky skills on display. So glad we don't have to rely on set-pieces any more like we did under the 'awful' BSA, we were down for automatic relagation to the Conference from the Premiership due to our awful style of football not being allowed under new rule changes. .
Perhaps it is more exciting, unfortunately we are more often than not on the wrong end of the result, which now more than ever is not what we need. We need wins.
(Positive, Positive, Positive...)
posted on 7/2/12
comment by Steve Kean's Lobotomist (U6398)
posted 5 hours, 5 minutes ago
Oh one more positive that everyone has forgotten, the beautiful football we've been playing since the evil overlord Allardyce was sacked.
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I don't know if you're being sarcy or not, so I'll answer as if you're not.
"Pretty" football only works if you are actually good at it, and can stop yourself conceding every game (see Barcelona/Swansea). If you are genuinely suggesting that relegation is a decent enough swap for pretty football you're insane (imo of course).
Personally I found Allardyce's brand of football wasn't as bad as everyone makes out - he knew what style to use in what games, and with him at the helm we sure wouldn't be in this predicament.
I apologise, however, if you WERE being sarcy
posted on 7/2/12
As much as people didn't like SA's style of football, I enjoyed the feeling before the match of thinking we could get something out of any game. No matter who were up against.
Sure it didn't always go to plan, but it went to plan a LOT more often than it does now. We played good football then, because we got a decent amount of positive results, no matter if the style of football by some was not deemed as good or 'pretty'.
posted on 7/2/12
Ok Can't help but wade in on the "anti-football" stuff, its simply a fallacy created and emphasised through the following:
People who complained were those we beat, they were frustrated, trying to play a certain way and we countered it.
People talk about how "well they played" or "how attractive" when they get beaten when looking for some shred of comfort.
Fashionable teams use "Long-ball" or "training ground work" or "mix it up" Less fashionable clubs play "hoofball" or "anti-football" they are all the same!
Teams that want clubs like Rovers to "play on the floor" are those with players around the 20million mark who have the skill to do so. We are lauded when we do soley because they beat us, they never say what beautiful football we play if we beat them!
Finally its this simple, If I (BRFC) was forced to fight someone like say Amir Khan (Man City) (can't think of why someone would force me to fight Him but was first name I thought of) I would use My strengths, I'm not going to out box the guy so would just kick him in balls and win!
posted on 7/2/12
MJRovers
So true. I would take SA back in a heartbeat. He understood the set-up at the club and how to get the best out of what we had. We did a lot better when he was in charge, and I enjoyed the results at the end of the day. Sure we didn't play like Barcelona, but I didn't expect us too. We won games and I loved every second of that. Like you say, the people who brought that argument up against us were always the teams we beat. We played to our strengths and it showed in the results, I was more than happy under SA, our 'unfashionable club' was upsetting the apple cart, and that made me very happy. Shame there seems to be such a reliance on playing a certain way nowadays, there isn't only one way to play football. No matter what the media and certain fans lead us to believe.
posted on 8/2/12
I thought my sarcasm was pretty clear.
I quite liked being able to absorb a bit of pressure and then get a goal out of nothing (/ set piece). Being able to win a game that you didn't dominate was quite a luxury.
Now we have to completely out play a team to have even the feintest chance of winning. Everytime the opposition puts us under any kind of pressure, we concede.