***The Offishial match Day thread: Blackburn v BHA**

[Dick Head]

He he yes I meant chunk. Hope you are keeping well Mouldy, off to celebrate the win with TWO bottles of beer.




Edit......flippin predictive text.....CHINK CHINK CHINK

Racialist.

 

[Barry M]

Great result and definitely needed! Let's hope we can push on now! Although having just watched the highlights it looks as though we were a tad lucky for a change, It'll be nice when we really turn a side over and win comfortably!

 

[DJ NOBO]

I was there '84, '85?

I looked it up - 1983. My second game , standing on a stool at the front of the west by the tunnel

 

[KZNSeagull]

I'm not miserable. I'm entirely capable of being happy with a result, while still noting flaws in a performance that on another day could cost us.



I've heard "Rhodes shoots... misses" quite a few times (and the fact I listened to the radio rather than watched is why I didn't mention it in my initial post, but it seemed more fitting to add in to the follow up). Checking the stats it appears he had seven shots. I'm not suggesting they were all good opportunities, but Jordan Rhodes is a good striker. On his game you'd expect him to do better with seven shots.

As I mentioned earlier, the radio commentary was misleading. Other than 2 opportunities, they did not look like scoring. It was a solid performance today, particularly in defence.

 

[Marty___Mcfly]

http://www.skysports.com/share/10133187

Highlights

 

[lfc]

posted in another thread as well but heres my view on today
A semi independent review of todays performances from yours truly....bear in mind this is one of few games Ive seen you in this season so players may have had blips etc...

Stockdale - terrible and will cost you games. No command of his area. Made a couple of good saves to be fair to him but his allround game was poor. Seems harsh to criticise after a clean sheet but that was more through luck than a good performance in Stockdales case.
Bruno - average
Dunk - played well, had to deal with Brown for Blackburn knocking him about and being physical, and did it well.
Goldson - looked very shaky, poor on the ball.
Ridgewell - experienced and you know what you are getting with him. Decent player and did ok
Knockaert - little bit ineffective today but you can see glimpses that he'll be good.
Murphy - similar to Knockaert, did well in patches especially first half, could have done better with a few things but did ok.
Kayal and Stephens - both work hard but you need more from your central midfielders. A for effort C for ability, poor going forward/no creativity out of them
Zamora - your best player by a distance today, touch and hold up play is brilliant. Should have scored a couple more
Hemed - looks slow, wasnt impressed by him today.

As a team you worked hard, I thought Blackburn possibly deserved a point but sometimes footy doesnt work like that. Good win and deserved for workrate if not for quality.

 

[GT49er]

http://www.skysports.com/share/10133187

Highlights

Cheers.

Hell of a lot of empty seats there................................

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I'm not miserable. I'm entirely capable of being happy with a result, while still noting flaws in a performance that on another day could cost us.



I've heard "Rhodes shoots... misses" quite a few times (and the fact I listened to the radio rather than watched is why I didn't mention it in my initial post, but it seemed more fitting to add in to the follow up). Checking the stats it appears he had seven shots. I'm not suggesting they were all good opportunities, but Jordan Rhodes is a good striker. On his game you'd expect him to do better with seven shots.

If the BBC stats are right, Blackburn had 15 shots but only two on target.

 

[Bozza]

I've heard "Rhodes shoots... misses" quite a few times (and the fact I listened to the radio rather than watched is why I didn't mention it in my initial post, but it seemed more fitting to add in to the follow up). Checking the stats it appears he had seven shots. I'm not suggesting they were all good opportunities, but Jordan Rhodes is a good striker. On his game you'd expect him to do better with seven shots.

What a remarkable appraisal. And bizarre you are still sticking to it when you didn't see the game.

Rhodes had one good (not decent, but good) chance that I can recall and it took place after our earlier exchange, in the closing stages of the game.

We were the better team by a reasonable margin today. On another day Bobby has a hat-trick and we're all toasting the comfortable win we have all been waiting for.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Who the feck is Ifc

 

[Acker79]

If the BBC stats are right, Blackburn had 15 shots but only two on target.

Yes. I'm not saying we should have lost today. I don't know, I've not seen it. What I'm saying is that if someone said before the game "Jordan Rhodes will take 7 shots today" it wouldn't be unreasonable to think he would have score one of them. If Rhodes had been on his game, how many of those off target shots would have moved to the 'on target' column?

What a remarkable appraisal. And bizarre you are still sticking to it when you didn't see the game.

Rhodes had one good (not decent, but good) chance that I can recall and it took place after our earlier exchange, in the closing stages of the game.

We were the better team by a reasonable margin today. On another day Bobby has a hat-trick and we're all toasting the comfortable win we have all been waiting for.

I concede that 'getting hammered' overstates it. In retrospect something less dramatic ("could have been a different story") would have been more appropriate.

There are very few games that everyone who watched come out of with the same opinion. We often get posts on here quoting opposition managers asking what game they watched. Then our own fans will pop in with "well, he has a point, or did you forget about that thing, or that one", so it isn't just down to which team you support. Over previous seasons, I've been at games where Kaz gets on the ball, and it feels like just a regular part of the game, then come on here and read people talking about how exciting it is when he gets on the ball, how you just sense something is going to happen. Frequent debates on who was to blame for a goal, how good a chance a given shot was.

You saw a game where we were comfortable, could have rolled out 3-0 winners with Bobby taking the ball home, where only one of Rhodes' chances was a good one. Listening to the radio it sounded like the commentators saw a scrappy game that at points was end to end, involved Jordan Rhodes shooting a lot, and Blackburn ending the game with quite a few attacking players on the pitch.

In an effort to try to give some context to the two versions, I looked at stats and see 55% possession to Blackburn, 15 shots to our 8, only one fewer on target.

Given that, I don't think a cautious appraisal of this match is all that remarkable. But I didn't appraise the match as it was, because I didn't see it.

I commented (in an apparently poorly worded fashion) that throughout the season so far, based on attending all home games, I've often felt our success has been down to teams not performing against us as well as they have shown they can, wasting opportunities and so on as much as it is to our play. And that listening to a commentary that reported on a game with Blackburn having a lot of momentum, and their highly rated striker having almost as many shots on his own as our whole team did, seemed to fit that pattern. Suggesting that, on another day, one on which Rhodes had his shooting boots on, it could have gone the other way. Especially when you consider the run we were on, and how important momentum can be within a match.

Yes, on another day Zamora could have buried all three of his chances and walked away with the match ball. That doesn't contradict that on another day, Blackburn could have made their pressure and shots count.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yes. I'm not saying we should have lost today. I don't know, I've not seen it. What I'm saying is that if someone said before the game "Jordan Rhodes will take 7 shots today" it wouldn't be unreasonable to think he would have score one of them. If Rhodes had been on his game, how many of those off target shots would have moved to the 'on target' column?



I concede that 'getting hammered' overstates it. In retrospect something less dramatic ("could have been a different story") would have been more appropriate.

There are very few games that everyone who watched come out of with the same opinion. We often get posts on here quoting opposition managers asking what game they watched. Then our own fans will pop in with "well, he has a point, or did you forget about that thing, or that one", so it isn't just down to which team you support. Over previous seasons, I've been at games where Kaz gets on the ball, and it feels like just a regular part of the game, then come on here and read people talking about how exciting it is when he gets on the ball, how you just sense something is going to happen. Frequent debates on who was to blame for a goal, how good a chance a given shot was.

You saw a game where we were comfortable, could have rolled out 3-0 winners with Bobby taking the ball home, where only one of Rhodes' chances was a good one. Listening to the radio it sounded like the commentators saw a scrappy game that at points was end to end, involved Jordan Rhodes shooting a lot, and Blackburn ending the game with quite a few attacking players on the pitch.

In an effort to try to give some context to the two versions, I looked at stats and see 55% possession to Blackburn, 15 shots to our 8, only one fewer on target.

Given that, I don't think a cautious appraisal of this match is all that remarkable. But I didn't appraise the match as it was, because I didn't see it.

I commented (in an apparently poorly worded fashion) that throughout the season so far, based on attending all home games, I've often felt our success has been down to teams not performing against us as well as they have shown they can, wasting opportunities and so on as much as it is to our play. And that listening to a commentary that reported on a game with Blackburn having a lot of momentum, and their highly rated striker having almost as many shots on his own as our whole team did, seemed to fit that pattern. Suggesting that, on another day, one on which Rhodes had his shooting boots on, it could have gone the other way. Especially when you consider the run we were on, and how important momentum can be within a match.

Yes, on another day Zamora could have buried all three of his chances and walked away with the match ball. That doesn't contradict that on another day, Blackburn could have made their pressure and shots count.

I agree that everyone has a different opinion but I would never form an opinion based on a commentary by Cantor. He doesn't tell you where the ball is in relation to the pitch, and often I have no idea who has the ball at any one time.
I watched the game via a stream yesterday & agree that Rhodes was poor.

 

[atomised]

Cantors commentary is shocking. Not descriptive at all of whats going on

 

[Acker79]

And yet people rave about warren aspinall, and his opinions. He was also on the commentary team.