Blackburn V. Wigan - Sat, Mar 22 [R]

[Jilleen]

KO at 1500 GMT -- has UK changed its clocks yet????

[Foxhill]

KO at 1500 GMT -- has UK changed its clocks yet????

Next weekend Jilleen, 2am, Sunday.

Nice day for the footy in Blackburn today, but very cold!

Getting tired of poor performances at home, time for a change methinks!

[JohnHolmesJr]

So that means 11:00 Eastern right ?

Ask the mathematically and geographically challenged.

[Foxhill]

So that means 11:00 Eastern right ?

Ask the mathematically and geographically challenged.


John, kick off today is at 15-00 GMT.....10am Eastern...ie NY time. 5 hours behind GMT. Time now is 14-05 GMT.

[JohnHolmesJr]

Thx you answered my question. The Eastern US changed clocks 2 weeks ago for some reason so it would be 11:00.

Foxhill you answered my question perfectly.

One of my computers has a virus and I am working on it while I set up my new one. But I do not have any of ths streaming software on the new one and think I will leave it a little pure for the moment..........

[JohnHolmesJr]

SO any thoughts on what will happen today. We have been in bad shape in the last two matches. We start very well then the back field losed concentration.

I thought we would win the last 2 FFC & Hammers but you all know what happened. This game should be a good beat down but lately defensive confidence is low, for me anyway.

I think we should be able to score, we need to get Roque involved more or use him as a decoy for others. MGP and Betns has played very well so no complaits there.

What are the odds we get to see the new guy play ?

[Foxhill]

SO any thoughts on what will happen today. We have been in bad shape in the last two matches. We start very well then the back field losed concentration.

I thought we would win the last 2 FFC & Hammers but you all know what happened. This game should be a good beat down but lately defensive confidence is low, for me anyway.

I think we should be able to score, we need to get Roque involved more or use him as a decoy for others. MGP and Betns has played very well so no complaits there.

What are the odds we get to see the new guy play ?

Sorry, I didn't know the US had changed clocks.

The new guy hasn't received International clearance yet, so he can't play.

Roberts is starting against his old club, we need to impose ourselves on them from the start, revenge would be very sweet!!

Anyway, I better get out the door now that my son is ready at last, I'll be shouting myself hoarse today!

[JohnHolmesJr]

It is Rover's Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JohnHolmesJr]

That is the way to start .

A nice Roque gol....

[JohnHolmesJr]

Yes, Roberts. He made this one back after having his other header blocked.

ROberts is on fire.

[Foxhill]

A very good team performance yesterday. Everyone made up for the loss of Samba, who is fast becoming a liability!

Bentley and Santa Cruz were superb, Dunny played well also.

Zurab and Ooijer at the back played well.

Roberts is doing well right now, much better than Benni!

[Latin Pride]

What's Santa Cruz's current goal tally for Blackburn? :confused:

[Foxhill]

What's Santa Cruz's current goal tally for Blackburn? :confused:

18 in total, 14 in the Premier League.

[JohnHolmesJr]

It is a shame we did not have this kind of showing in the previous 2 games. Roberts , Bents and Roque were incredible yesterday.

We even got to see the Turkish delight...... I suspect this is the end of a great history with the Team at 37 his PT has dimished. It has been a fun run w/ him though. Has it been 7 years ?

Rovers are in a good spot and I feel very good about the club 1 point away from 6th place.

[dring1]

A very good team performance yesterday. Everyone made up for the loss of Samba, who is fast becoming a liability!

Bentley and Santa Cruz were superb, Dunny played well also.

Zurab and Ooijer at the back played well.

Roberts is doing well right now, much better than Benni!

totally agree on samba he is a liability. Although having seen the highlights and thinking the same in the blackburn end was heskey went down far two easily, all samba did was put a hand on him and bang down he went. The sending off actually helped us as the players rolled their sleves up and thought we have been hard done by here, totally distroyed wigan even with 10 men and i actually enjoyed the match. Roque, bantley and roberts were in good form as were ooijer and zurab. I think we have found our partnership with roque and roberts. oh and if that was a penalty to wigan then we should have had one as well when roque was brought down clear on goal.

[Foxhill]

I agree about the Roque penalty!

This result with only ten men makes you wonder how they managed to beat us 5-3 earlier in the season!

I enjoyed the game also, even though it looked bad at 1-1 with ten men, I never felt uncomfortable, I thought we would win.

When they got the penalty, my son was really annoyed, he said he was tired of seeing stuff like that and that we would lose, I said to him, wait and see,we will score another two, guess what?
we did, I reminded him of that all the way home!

By the way Dring, did I just read comments from you on the SkyHD forum?

[USRoverDE]

Agree with the great performance.

Heskey may have gone down easily, but it was a pen and a red card in that case, Samba can have no complaints. I'm actually torn about the Santa Penalty. Its been given before of course, but the tackle actually looked good on some of the replay/clips I've seen, assuming tis the same incident we're talking about.

I think Samba's straight red may give us a chance to let him clear and focus his head and maybe get the back 4 even more tight than it has been, however, with Emo injured, we're looking a bit thin.

[BlackburnRover]

I think Heskey went down to easily too, but Samba knows they'll do that given the slightest contact. What annoyed me was we didn't get just as good a call when Santa went down. Oh well that's refs. He finally sent Palios off after he gave him plenty of opportunities to do so, couldn't believe how he kept playin when he was on a yellow.

Good game though, good to see the team put that effort in, really enjoyed it.

[dring1]

I agree about the Roque penalty!

This result with only ten men makes you wonder how they managed to beat us 5-3 earlier in the season!

I enjoyed the game also, even though it looked bad at 1-1 with ten men, I never felt uncomfortable, I thought we would win.

When they got the penalty, my son was really annoyed, he said he was tired of seeing stuff like that and that we would lose, I said to him, wait and see,we will score another two, guess what?
we did, I reminded him of that all the way home!

By the way Dring, did I just read comments from you on the SkyHD forum?

yeh that was me. Been having problems from the box crashing last week.