The Swans v The Riversiders

CroJack

CroJack

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1. Did you hear about the Blackburn Rovers Fan who wore two jackets when she painted the house? The instructions on the can said: “Put on two coats.”

2. An evil genie captured a Blackburn Rovers Fan and her two friends and banished them to the desert for a week. The genie allowed each person to bring one thing. The first friend brought a canteen so he wouldn't die of thirst. The second friend brought an umbrella to keep the sun off. The Blackburn Rovers Fan brought a car door, because if it got too hot she could just roll down the window!

3. Jokes aside, a decade ago when Big Sam was managing the Riversiders, the mighty Lancashire giants, with a funny name Blackburn Rovers, were masters of Route One who kept things simple on the football field Plan A: long ball forward and hope the tallest man wins the header; Plan B: long ball forward and hope harder.

4. The things have changed now. The Riversiders (or Roversiders?) are owned by Indian poultry giants Venky’s so you can asks yourself should we call the Riversiders wing-backs now chicken wing-backs? And should we call their style of football bwok or bwak?

5. Their style of football is best described as one website puts it "at best risky, at worst moronic". Or is it our style of football? :unsure:

Yeah, this lot is coming to town. Well, city.
 
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CroJack

CroJack

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Blacburn manager is Danish legend Jon Dahl Tomasson who used to play for Serie A club AC Milan. In 2020 and 2021 he managed Swedish club Malmo and won the league title in both season.​
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Under Tomasson Blackburn play 4-2-3-1, and their by far two most dangerous players are Diaz and Gallagher. Last season Diaz scored 21, and Gallagher 9 goals.​
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I watched highlights from their game against QPR. Nothing special. They scored a wonder goal from 30 yards and apart from that goal they didn't create much. A miserable 0.50 xGoals.​
 
ivoralljack

ivoralljack

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First home game against a decent team who were up there for most of last season. This will be a test of where we are but I expect us to come through it with a narrow victory. If it's a comfortable win all well and good but we need to win most of our home games to stay in contention for a top 6 place.
 
Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

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Winning our home games is to be a massive challenge. Well coached teams with no requirement to entertain away from home are going to park the bus, play rope-a-dope football knowing that we don’t cross for fear of losing possession, and look to hit us on the break. Since we cross and therefore threaten minimally our bark is much worse than our bite.

The carryover question from last season is can Martin coach more than passing. Is he tactically savvy enough and his players sufficiently schooled problem solvers to deal with these situations.
 
CroJack

CroJack

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Naughton in the middle of the back three, which means we are going to concede from a cross or set-piece again.

Manning instead of Sorinola as LWB, which is good.

Lati as RWB not good, although I like his physicality and fighting spirit.

Ntcham instead of Paterson will please @Yankee_Jack. I'm not so delighted to see our most creative player sitting on the bench.
 
Yankee_Jack

Yankee_Jack

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Martin is perhaps thawing from his pet picks.

sorinola’s replacement should come as no surprise.

Ntcham for Paterson is a surprise given history, but perhaps Martin sees something tactically that makes the difference. He didn’t call me.
 
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