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[coffeymagic]

Didn't see the whole game but from the highlights last night I thought Blackburn were unluck to lose at Sunderland.

One perfectly good strike chalked off and two late goal conceeded gave them the same old outcome but a couple of things I noticed were...

A. They are dire. Quite simply one of the worst teams I've ever seen in my life. From kids playing on the park to the Champions League this lot are rubbish.

b. Despite that they've got 11 players willing to throw themselves in front of everything. Going forward's one thing but when they're on the back foot (for 90 mins pretty much) they had every player sprinting to get behind the ball making it very hard for Sunderland to get through.

C. Not that Sunderland are any great shakes.

D. The goals they conceeded were both pretty much unstopable. One a blaster and the other a curling free-kick. Nothing like a Keystone Cops runaround or the goalie letting it through his legs.

E. We are dOoooOOOooOoOoOoooomed.

[BWFC_Insane]

Yep, Kean has a terrible injury list like us, lost some key players.

But he at least gets 100% effort and application from the players, and they are well organised even if they are a bit rubbish. I think we've got better players but our manager can't get any of that out of them!

[dasher]

Blackburn at least seemed organised and had desire at the minute we are struggling to acheive that never mind any quality.

[newboy]

As do Wigan they've shown desire and team spirit and faith in their manager our lot look like a collection of strangers.

[ChrisC]

As do Wigan they've shown desire and team spirit and faith in their manager our lot look like a collection of strangers.

Yep but we managed to beat them at there place and hopefully in the crunch games like Blackburn coming up we can do the same

[Lord Kangana]

They're dead and buried since August, get one win and suddenly we should aspire to their methods?

Give your brain a scrub, its a bit clogged up.

[coffeymagic]

They're dead and buried since August, get one win and suddenly we should aspire to their methods?

Give your brain a scrub, its a bit clogged up.

I know that. I said they're rubbish but just from watching last night's game at least it looked like they had some fight about 'em.

Jus' sayin'

[Wandering Willy]

But he at least gets 100% effort and application from the players, and they are well organised even if they are a bit rubbish. I think we've got better players but our manager can't get any of that out of them!

The current poll on BRFCS suggests not. Some 728 (98.18%) want Kean out now.

Once again you are talking out of your arse in an attempt to further your ABC agenda.

[BWFC_Insane]

But he at least gets 100% effort and application from the players, and they are well organised even if they are a bit rubbish. I think we've got better players but our manager can't get any of that out of them!

The current poll on BRFCS suggests not. Some 728 (98.18%) want Kean out now.

Once again you are talking out of your arse in an attempt to further your ABC agenda.

Watch them against Sunderland. Bodies on the line.

Of course Blackburn fans want him out, who wouldnt with their record this season?

But the salient point is that he is getting more fight from their players than we are seeing from ours.

[Lord Kangana]

And getting pretty much the same results as us.

Results. Thats what we're after. Not a change fro the sake of it.

[BWFC_Insane]

And getting pretty much the same results as us.

Results. Thats what we're after. Not a change fro the sake of it.

I'm not avocating Kean for manager. If we were seeing the same application they were getting then I expect we'd have a few more points.

If I felt we were getting the best and fullest out of the players on the pitch then I'd not have a problem, even if we were bottom. But we are not. That's the frustration. Blackburn may well be, they just perhaps don't have the quality.

Yakubu up on his own.....hmmm....

[Lord Kangana]

Point. As in singular.

Its hardly a panacea.

[Wandering Willy]

I'm not avocating Kean for manager.

Oh really?

Kean or Hughes yes please.

I think you've lost track of who you are advocating.

[BWFC_Insane]

I'm not avocating Kean for manager.

Oh really?

Kean or Hughes yes please.

I think you've lost track of who you are advocating.

Nice try, except you've quoted the wrong poster, it was choppers who actually said that.

Oh dear. Epic fail.

[Wandering Willy]

My apologies - I thought it was you.

[BWFC_Insane]

My apologies - I thought it was you.

And he was referring to Roy Keane at the time, I think....

I don't want either Kean or Keane for the record.

[Wandering Willy]

Good.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

And getting pretty much the same results as us. Results. Thats what we're after. Not a change fro the sake of it.

I'm not avocating Kean for manager. If we were seeing the same application they were getting then I expect we'd have a few more points

Point. As in singular. Its hardly a panacea.

Tempting as it is to avoid wading into the middle when you two squabble, I think the bold is the important part BWFCi's trying to convey. Considering the unallayed hatred from the stands, Blackburn have been trying their hardest. It's tempting to say that if our players had that application we'd have no trouble at all, but of course that's as hypothetical as saying Ivan Klasnic would be a hell of a player if he had Anelka's pace.

Blackburn are playing with an appreciable level of professional pride, but they're playing an entrenched 4-5-1 with Yakubu horribly isolated chasing endless long balls hammered anywhere into the opposition half. Asking for a theoretical combination of the two clubs like some football version of The Fly might create a beautiful butterfly of utterly determined all-out attack but it might also get ugly football that fails.

[One Hump Or Two?]

I see Kean as the Dingles' Megson. I'm not saying his results aren't dire, mind, but fan attitudes were as I recall pretty negative from the get-go. Blackburn were chugging along quite nicely under BSA, who gets sacked for no apparent reason. Then the owners, having raised expectations about their intentions, appoint a managerial nonentity instead. As soon as the going got tough, fan goodwill towards Kean was always going to disappear faster than the first pint on Saturday night.

Right now a Blackburn-type performance against Sunderland, with a lot of grit undermined by bad luck and last minute nerves, would represent an improvement on where we are at.

[Tombwfc]

IIRC, Blackburn have chucked away 12 points from winning positions, including shipping quite a few late goals. So there's at least cause for them to say they have the potential to do better.

We rarely look competitive in our games.