FA Cup 5th Round v Blackburn Rovers - 28/2/23, 19:30

[Wymsey]

Try and win the cup again, and Rodgers becomes a legend despite the poor league season?..

 

Blackburn have been pretty impressive, so shouldn't dismiss them.

 

[Lcfc-1992]

Hopefully a shot on target

[KingsX]

12 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Try and win the cup again, and Rodgers becomes a legend despite the poor league season?..

 

Blackburn have been pretty impressive, so shouldn't dismiss them.

 

Solidly in the playoff places, 3-match league winning streak, undefeated in nine.

 

We need to take this one seriously.

[SecretPro]

I don't even want to win the Cup if it means we have another 18 months of "he won the FA Cup again, he's brought untold riches to this club, it doesn’t matter if he deliberately gets us relegated to league 2 and takes a dump on the Vichai memorial he simply has to be our manager until the world finally ends" bollocks. 

[Fazzer 7]

47 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

I don't even want to win the Cup if it means we have another 18 months of "he won the FA Cup again, he's brought untold riches to this club, it doesn’t matter if he deliberately gets us relegated to league 2 and takes a dump on the Vichai memorial he simply has to be our manager until the world finally ends" bollocks. 

Don't worry, there's not a cat in hells chance of winning that again. Certainly not this year.

[Nalis]

48 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

I don't even want to win the Cup if it means we have another 18 months of "he won the FA Cup again, he's brought untold riches to this club, it doesn’t matter if he deliberately gets us relegated to league 2 and takes a dump on the Vichai memorial he simply has to be our manager until the world finally ends" bollocks. 

If we won the FA Cup again I honesty couldnt give a shit if BR claimed it was 100% down to him

[HybridFox]

49 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

I don't even want to win the Cup if it means we have another 18 months of "he won the FA Cup again, he's brought untold riches to this club, it doesn’t matter if he deliberately gets us relegated to league 2 and takes a dump on the Vichai memorial he simply has to be our manager until the world finally ends" bollocks. 

Bit of a weird comment. Yes we've been horrific but a trophy is a trophy at the end of the day. We'll take it however it comes 

[Koke]

49 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

I don't even want to win the Cup if it means we have another 18 months of "he won the FA Cup again, he's brought untold riches to this club, it doesn’t matter if he deliberately gets us relegated to league 2 and takes a dump on the Vichai memorial he simply has to be our manager until the world finally ends" bollocks. 

 

I'll take winning the cup even if I have to tolerate Rodgers for another 18 months.

[Koke]

Imagine Rodgers winning 2 FA Cups and he gets hounded out. The media would justifiably slaughter us, worse rhan they did after Ranieri 

[tom27111]

Can we play a 3-5-2 please?

 

Dominate the midfield and have 2 players making runs up top.

 

Kristiansen and Ricardo as wing backs, Amartey effectively stepping in front of the other 2 CB's, almost as a DM.

 

Slate me if you want, but unlike Brendan, I'd like to try other things.

[moore_94]

Iversen in goal

 

Couldn’t care less about the rest as long as I don’t have to see Ward

[Unabomber]

1 minute ago, tom27111 said:

Can we play a 3-5-2 please?

 

Dominate the midfield and have 2 players making runs up top.

 

Kristiansen and Ricardo as wing backs, Amartey effectively stepping in front of the other 2 CB's, almost as a DM.

 

Slate me if you want, but unlike Brendan, I'd like to try other things.

I wanted us to play 352 today, shame we didn’t 

[HybridFox]

I'm not really sure what the best approach is. Usually yes rotate and give some gametime/try something different. But our starting XI looks so out of sorts maybe we need to throw them all back in to try and get a positive result/some momentum back.

 

No point rotating then rotating back to sh** again

[Koke]

Southampton is a huge game. Rodgers will rotate heavily.

[Vazman]

Crickey I'm still grieving over our Home performance today, too early to analyse this 

[Koke]

 

[FoxinNotts]

Iversen

Ricardo Amartey Soyuncu Castagne

Ndidi 

KDH Mendy

Praet

Daka Kelechi

[tom27111]

1 minute ago, Koke said:

 

 

Might as well have played him today and had Ndidi following him with a sick bucket.

 

Wouldn't have been any worse than it was.

[Lcfc098]

As long as Danny ward doesn’t play this game and any game from here on in I’m not bothered what the rest of the team looks like

Edited 25 February 2023 by Lcfc098

[tom27111]

2 minutes ago, FoxinNotts said:

Iversen

Ricardo Amartey Soyuncu Castagne

Ndidi 

KDH Mendy

Praet

Daka Kelechi

 

Are you a Blackburn supporter?

[SystonFox]

Does this go to a replay? Or extra time and then pens?

 

0-1 Blackburn 

[South Shire Fox]

13 minutes ago, Koke said:

 

Save him for Southampton, no point risking players in this

[SecretPro]

32 minutes ago, Koke said:

 

I'll take winning the cup even if I have to tolerate Rodgers for another 18 months.

Obviously there's is a certain amount of Jest in my post but if I really consider it, I'm not sure I would to be honest...

 

We've won it recently and it was obviously a massive tick, at last. But the thought of another 2 years watching this abject horrorshow on and off the pitch with all that entails, mood wise, the slow demise of the club and atmosphere, the not even being able to get excited for the weekend etc. It all adds up, its been pretty torrid and I hoped we had turned a corner the other week but even just the though that that may have been a false dawn is enough to make me miserable again. I wouldn't even mind losing games if the football was at least exciting, but it's not, its terrible, the atmosphere is terrible. 

 

Would people really take another couple of years of that, plus relegation, the inevitable financial problems that come with it etc just for the sake of another FA Cup win so recently after the last? 

Edited 25 February 2023 by SecretPro

[Blueman1967]

Good chance to get to the quarter finals hopefully get the win, good opportunity here, even with squad rotation, then to Southhampton

[tom27111]

If we play like we did against Spurs, or the first half against Man Utd, we can win the whole competition  

 

Brendan probably got the boys watching videos and analysing what they did wrong 

 

I would quite happily slaughter my family for us to win it again though, especially if I had a ticket for the final!