Roy's View From... View From Blackburn

[Roygbiv]

View From Blackburn — The View From

"That was an eye opener as we were dominated all over the pitch by a well organised Sheffield United. They were everything I think we should aspire to be. Big, strong, organised and a clear tactical plan to execute. To be truthful 2-0 flattered us and the fact I thought Pears was by far our

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[Gateford Blade]

First?

 

[Cappy]

Nice one, Royston

 

[Guesty]

Excellent stuff, very gracious and little of the "caught us on a bad day" nonsense you usually get.

 

[dc_blade]

We won’t get many more flattering sets of comments this season. Täk Roy.

 

[Speedracer]

Thanks Roy.

That second half was as good as anyone I have seen in this league so far, & good on the Blackburn fans for recognising it and saying it.

 

[FTPE]

Fans know how we got parachute payments right? We went up. Yes we blewnit when we were up there, but we earned those kind of fees. We didn't win a raffle.
Any team that gets promoted and come ls back down will get them, stop pissing and moaning.
As for our budget, this is the club that bought the Prem in the first place by the way.

 

[jt64]

That was the sort of read that naturally leads into a 1-0 defeat midweek

 

[1987]

Clearly a very knowledgeable and discerning fan base

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Annoys me when oppo fans talk about out parachute payments as though we didn’t earn them by getting promoted on a shoestring. A big chunk wasted on Brewster as well…

 

[Roygbiv]

Fans know how we got parachute payments right? We went up. Yes we blewnit when we were up there, but we earned those kind of fees. We didn't win a raffle.
Any team that gets promoted and come ls back down will get them, stop pissing and moaning.
As for our budget, this is the club that bought the Prem in the first place by the way.

There was a debate on their forum about this. Didn't include it as it wasn't really about us. Some saying it's impossible to match parachute payment teams. Others pointing to Ipswich and Luton as examples of how it can be done.

I do think they are a huge advantage in comparison to 10 years ago because Championship clubs lose so much money that nobody can usually match the finances of relegated clubs but it can be done. When was the last time the 3 parachute payment teams went straight back up? Us, Luton, Ipswich, Leeds Forest, Norwich and Brentford have all done it in recent season while clubs such as Coventry, Boro, Huddersfield, Sunderland and Barnsley have all gone close too

 

[Cappy]

There was a debate on their forum about this. Didn't include it as it wasn't really about us. Some saying it's impossible to match parachute payment teams. Others pointing to Ipswich and Luton as examples of how it can be done.

I do think they are a huge advantage in comparison to 10 years ago because Championship clubs lose so much money that nobody can usually match the finances of relegated clubs but it can be done. When was the last time the 3 parachute payment teams went straight back up? Us, Luton, Ipswich, Leeds Forest, Norwich and Brentford have all done it in recent season while clubs such as Coventry, Boro, Huddersfield, Sunderland and Barnsley have all gone close too

Parachute payments are absolutely critical, otherwise promoted teams just won't risk buying decent players for the prem. That's why it exists, to reduce the risk, so promoted teams give it a go. If there weren't these payments, the prem would gradually turn into a farmer's league. A necessary evil and far from a perfect solution. Just glad we're on our end of the shittness, where we get some cash

 

[Harry's Game]

All really good comments they couldn’t really say anything else after that performance

Only weird one was was that odd comment about us being good at the “dark arts” presumably these were learnt when the management team went to Hogwarts…

(Wilder definitely would have been in Slytherin and Alan Knill in Hufflepuff)

 

[Roygbiv]

Parachute payments are absolutely critical, otherwise promoted teams just won't risk buying decent players for the prem. That's why it exists, to reduce the risk, so promoted teams give it a go. If there weren't these payments, the prem would gradually turn into a farmer's league. A necessary evil and far from a perfect solution. Just glad we're on our end of the shittness, where we get some cash

Yeah the teams who haven't been in the Prem for a while understanbly don't fully realise the huge gap. Ipswich have spent over £100m and haven't won yet. Forest spent about 2 billion and only just stayed up two seasons running

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Keen Blade]

I sympathise with the non-parachute clubs , but I wouldn't want our players reading this because we can ill-afford complacency.
The financial pressure we are under to get promoted is huge and the 2-point deduction makes our job very difficult given that our play-off record means autos are a must.
An earlier post on another thread says we are in a mini-league of 4 with Mackems , Dirties & Clarets.
Whilst I don't quite agree (it's 6 not 4) the task is hard with our thin squad and we seem to have no money to spend in January even for loans.
What we have to do is continue putting in the hard work like we did today and ensuring that we take 3 points from inferior sides.
When you look at where Pompey & QPR are in the table , it's a shame we've dropped 4 points against them.
When you look at Coventry winning 3-0 at Boro , you have to wonder how we lost there.
It's tough to keep grinding out the wins but next May the 2 clubs who do that will prevail.
Today we played on the front foot and worked hard enough to make our talent count - it was a thoroughly praiseworthy performance.
We should never again this season approach matches in a fearful negative fashion as we did at Leeds & Boro.
Fortune favours the brave.

 

[Northernsoulblade]

Cheers Roy fair comments from the Rovers fans

 

[bakeblade]

View From Blackburn — The View From

"That was an eye opener as we were dominated all over the pitch by a well organised Sheffield United. They were everything I think we should aspire to be. Big, strong, organised and a clear tactical plan to execute. To be truthful 2-0 flattered us and the fact I thought Pears was by far our

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Brilliant, games like today and comments like those are why Roy invented 'View from' a great read.

 

[The Crab]

Cheers Roy

 

[Sheffsteel]

Yet again, opposition fans comment "they never got out of 2nd gear", it's a common theme.
Even us Blades says it too, we didn't need to get out of 2nd gear and still strolled to a comfortable win.

However I do wonder if we have a 3rd, 4th and 5th gear?
because we've never looked like steam rolling and totally playing a team off the park in any of our matches so far this season.

We always look defensively so solid and play in a more pragmatic cautious style racking up 3 points, with the attitude, a win is a win,
instead of going full pelt playing open attacking football racking up a 5 or 6 nil.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

I had to stop reading…It was making me blush. Even the slightly salty ones were complementary.

 

[bornablade]

Thanks Roy. Now I just want to see the same type of comments on 'Roy's View From...' next Sunday afternoon.

 

[originaltrueblade]

Wow what comments

Thanks Roy

 

[Auld Reekie Blade]

thought we were decent today. Agree with it all except that twat with the :
“Looking through the Sheffield utd squad this is far from one of the best squads in the championship”
But still good enough to put you to the sword with ease!

Cheers Roy!

 

[diode_blade]

Cheers Roy.
Very complimentary comments.
I see no salty pig comments, just as well because I did realise England were playing a T20 match at the sty.
Usual batting performance

 

[Houston_Blade]

Didn’t see the game, sounds like a good performance, well done Blades.

 

[Bladezz]

Roy’s making it up.

Too many compliments of our squad. After the Boro game we had the worse manager and squad ever assembled according to most on here.

 

[metty]

Cheers Roy

 

[SirNibletsO'Korne]

Thanks Roy. They really couldn't have said anything else other than the fact they got properly schooled, so fair play to them for admitting it.

 

[shorehamview]

Cheers Roy. I don’t recall them squealing about financial unfairness when Jack Walker bought them the league title, but I may be mistaken. And I’m not.