Blackburn Rovers 3 West Ham Utd 2 (10/12/05)

[irons scally]

pardew post match interview :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/sport_ ... 6x9_nb.asx

[issi]

Exactly my feelings, I said I would have been happy with 2 points from these three tough away games. We've acheived 3 already, and still have a game to go.

Stop complaining, we lost to an established Premiership Team who I think are in a false position, theres no shame in that.

At the end of the day, we're 4 points behind Arsenal...

Its no that bad, we went away to a good team and scored 2 goals and could have had more. Who wouldnt have taken where we are now before the Preston game kicked off. there is always someone worse off................who'd be a mackam today.

[wolf359]

It's just fashionable to slag off Dailly.

Did you go to the game : I'll tell you why it is fashonable to slag him off because he is total and utter sh*te and does not deserve to clean Antons boots let alone play next to him.

He was awful from the second he came on and did nothing positive at all.

[York Ham(mer)]

Before the Brimingham game, I would have been happy with three points from three awkward away games. We've got three points and a game still to go. Look on the bright side.

[noble art]

Before the Brimingham game, I would have been happy with three points from three awkward away games. We've got three points and a game still to go. Look on the bright side.

spot on,if we can nick a point at everton as well,i would be over the mmmooooooooooooooonn

[Lost Hammer]

We're game of the day on SS1 atm fwiw.

[Amsterhammer]

He was awful from the second he came on and did nothing positive at all.

From my humble view in front of a big f*** plasma screen, I'd say that was a little harsh.

Admittedly, his personal mistake led directly to their second, and he was the main, but not only 'culprit' for their third - Konch and Anton were hardly blameless.

I can just imagine the stick Dailly, Repka (and Pards) would be taking if he had moved Tom into the middle and Dailly to rb. What else could he do in the circumstances?

[Marky]

From my humble view in front of a big f*ck plasma screen, I'd say that was a little harsh.

Admittedly, his personal mistake led directly to their second, and he was the main, but not only 'culprit' for their third - Konch and Anton were hardly blameless.

I can just imagine the stick Dailly, Repka (and Pards) would be taking if he had moved Tom into the middle and Dailly to rb. What else could he do in the circumstances?[/quote]

Picked Collins on the bench?

[finhammer]

The first half was poor from both teams. The 2nd half was entertaining to watch. It was nice to see Zamora do well, with a good goal and a pass. What really pissed me off watching the game, was Blackburns style of play - I mean the cheating and unneccessary diving. Harewood had a right go with a Blacburn player near their goal, when that player dived and acted like he was really injured. From the replay they showed that marlon didn't even touch him, even the commentators said that it was stupid and unsportsmanlike behaviour and he shoould have earned a yellow card from that. We didn't lose because of that, though.

What costed us the game, were the poor defensive displays on their last two goals. But fair enough, Dailly and Anton haven't played together at the center back this season, so it was understandable from that viewpoint.

[I Prefer Pepsi]

Having seen Dailly's pisspoor defending in the flesh I feel justified on commenting on just one other thing...........

Yes he was piss poor..... I knew as soon as he came on he'd f*** up somewhere along the line.

But has anyone forgotten Marlon's one on one when it was 2-2 ????
The most pathetic miss I think I've seen in a long ****ing time.... absolutely tragic.

If he'd put it away we would all be banging on about another 3 points. I'm sure of it.

I blame Harewood as much as I do Dailly. ****ing donkeys the pair of 'em.
Still a good day out though..... looking forward to Everton.

[steve857]

just got back from the game, i don't think we deserved to lose at all, riley is one of, if not the worst referee in this country, the penalty award was a joke from where i was standing, and he seemed to book our players for everything but let their players off for the same thing.

thought bobby was good today as was marlon, although he should have finished that chance just after we levelled the score, mullins played well aswell i thought, pity about the defensive cock-ups that let the game slip away, but hey ho heres to everton, and to all the lads and lasses on coach 4, cheers for making a long trip home so very f* cking funny... :lol: :lol:

[James P]

I blame Harewood as much as I do Dailly. f*cking donkeys the pair of 'em.

Just the one goal and the one excellent assist from Marlon today weren't it? At a tough away game where we normally do nothing?

Marlon Harewood does a lot of good stuff for West Ham and all people ever want to do is focus on the negative.

Shame really.

[RoverDave]

Some of you may remember me from the start of the season... i offered pretty fair views towards my club then and i will try to do the same now!

Firstly i will get it out the system - revenge is sweet

Ok to the match ... I think a draw would have been a fair result to be honest... your boys didnt really create a lot of clear chances - i seem to remember us hitting the bar twice, one cleared off the line in the first half and one just wide in the first half at least - the same old story of us not putting the chances away!

Once again like the opening day, we started brightly and were the better team i felt in the first 30 minutes.... What is wrong with Gabbidon? looked pretty serious from where i was..... Then we went into half time 15 minutes early and every pass we made was awful and we didnt close down, deservedly West Ham took the lead - needless to say us Blackburn fans felt robbed at that point!

After half time again we started brightly... i havent seen the handball yet, it took me 5 hours to get home due to traffic, but they say they even themselves out over the year, and anybody who saw the Andy Todd handball last week will feel we were justified in getting one going our way!

Our second goal, i missed as i was just texting my brother saying "1-1"... but from the replays it looks as though Dickov got in behind the defender to slot it home nicely....

A defensive shambles led to your second goal, we always seem to have injuries when we play you, Nelsen out with hamstring, Bellamy hamstring AGAIN, and Todd suspended so we had our makeshift defence, and it showed!

It could and should have been 3-2 to West Ham then with the Harewood chance. The less said the better? Then Kuqi's goal, he is a big bloke and used his strength well to get the 3rd goal.

You may feel hard done by, but at the end of the day Rovers had more chances, and took more, we have been on the recieving ends of defeats the past 2 weeks where we have created more and had more chances, so its nice to turn it our way for once!

This is what i wrote on the Rovers forums... i hope you think its a fair comment....

I just got in, some considerate chap decided to flip his lorry over on the M5 and kill himself. Rolling Eyes I was sat sleeping in the car for 3 hours! Laughing

I thought we were reasonably lucky to be honest today, however i still thought we were the better team overall... We started well, played the ball about well and created some good chances - free kick, dickov miss etc. Does anyone know whats wrong with Gabbidon? Looked pretty serious....

Then we did our usual "lets go to half time 5 minutes early" routine and conceded the goal. In a spell where we looked like a schoolboy team passing the ball around.... we looked dodgy at the back the whole time, but luckily the threat we posed up front seemed to cancel that out.... Laughing

I am unsure about the handball... havent seen it so cant really complain, but we had a harsh one last week so its only fair! The second goal was nicely worked by Dickov!

Enter more shambolic defending and Harewood makes it 2-2.... It could have been 3-2 to West Ham but for a great save by Friedel... who then recieved a face full of Savage... not sure what that was about!

Kuqi was excellent today i felt, he controlled the ball well and his goal was a great one for Rovers....

Today was a must win game in my opinion and we won it... whilst our defence was shocking, we won the game and so cant have to many complaints. Wink

I say it was a must win game for us, as had we lost we would have been right down the lower end of the table again...

From a neutral point of view i imagine it was a good game to watch, i enjoyed the second half - very end to end! But it wasnt a tale of 2 halves, more a tale of 2 half defences.... they were both shocking today! :lol:

Maybe you would have got something more out the game if Harewood learnt to kick a bubble instead of just blowing them.

[dodger]

FINALLY back now from the game...
By no means a knee-jerk reaction but today we were pretty poor. That said Blackburn robbed us today and Mike Riley is the worst ref i've seen so far this season. Our central midfield needs sorting as both Mullins and Noble were very bad today, and our defence looked shabby. Positives are that up front Zamora and Harewood look a deadly combination. Oddly i think we played better in the second half....

Ratings:
Carroll-6 A couple of reasonable saves, could do little about the goals but never looked remotely in command.
Konchesky-6 One of his poorest performances for us. That said wasn't terrible.
Ferdinand-6.5 Our best defender on the day, but that ain't saying much
Gabbidon-6 Got injured, am glad to hear it's not too serious..
Repka-6 Looked dodgy but was very unlucky to have penalty given against him
Etherington-6 Lazy and pointless first half, better second half. Still needs to improve
Noble-5 Not up to it today. Not even his usual effort...
Mullins-4 Dreadful. Terrible passing, no tackles and an embarassment of a captain
Benayoun-7 Silent first half, deadly in the second.
Harewood-7 Is ridiculous the number of fans who slag him off. He was dangerous again today and i've yet to see a defence deal with his pace and power. That said was lazy again at times
Zamora-9 Fantastic. Easily our best player. Biggest work ethic on the team and some great skill and hold up play. Took his goal excellently. Should get a run in the team

SUBS
Dailly-4 Crap and cost us two goals. Bring back Ward/Collins
Bellion-7 Looked skilful and pacy when on.
Aliadiere-6 Don't remember him touching the ball

Overall i'm dissapointed but not dispondent. This is the one of the three away games we could actually afford to lose. We need a point from the midweek game at Goodison though...
COME ON YOU IRONSSSS!!!!!

[RoverDave]

Just a quick comment about those ratings... i think you should have higher expectations of Benayoun, Harewood and Zamora.... they each had one shot on target in the match (2 of which were goals) and when they are in the team to have shots/score goals/make chances.... maybe you should be expecting more of them for an average rating of just under 8?

[londonrebel]

just got back from the game, i don't think we deserved to lose at all, riley is one of, if not the worst referee in this country, the penalty award was a joke from where i was standing, and he seemed to book our players for everything but let their players off for the same thing.

thought bobby was good today as was marlon, although he should have finished that chance just after we levelled the score, mullins played well aswell i thought, pity about the defensive cock-ups that let the game slip away, but hey ho heres to everton, and to all the lads and lasses on coach 4, cheers for making a long trip home so very f* cking funny... :lol: :lol:

Great laugh going up and coming back on coach 4 havent laughed so much in ages, indeed all the lads and lasses take a bow .....1st class, still getting my nostrals used to clean air, someone is a veryill man thats for sure

[dodger]

Just a quick comment about those ratings... i think you should have higher expectations of Benayoun, Harewood and Zamora.... they each had one shot on target in the match (2 of which were goals) and when they are in the team to have shots/score goals/make chances.... maybe you should be expecting more of them for an average rating of just under 8?

Well today was along with the play-offs at the end of last season the best i've ever seen Bobby Zamora play, so i could ask no more of him. Yes both Harewood and Benayoun can play better (Both missed sitters) but i'm satisfied with their performances, so i think a 7 for both of them is fine. It is not in these three players where we went wrong today.
FWIW of your players i thought the movement of Dickov was very good and Bentley, Emerton and Pedersen looked lively. Savage was poor i thought despite hitting the bar twice and at times your defence looked nearly as suspect as ours. Obviously you'll be fine though, never saw Blackburn as relegation contenders and i'm sure you'll finish mid-table, probably just above/below us.

[steve857]

Great laugh going up and coming back on coach 4 havent laughed so much in ages, indeed all the lads and lasses take a bow .....1st class, still getting my nostrals used to clean air, someone is a veryill man thats for sure

too right, whoever was doing those needs to be looked at and sharpish, i couldn't even go to sleep to try and forget the smell, cos you had the 4 geezers taking pictures with their phones of everyone sleeping, especially the one the geezer got of that bird at the back dribbling in her sleep, pure quality... :lol:

[RoverDave]

Well today was along with the play-offs at the end of last season the best i've ever seen Bobby Zamora play, so i could ask no more of him. Yes both Harewood and Benayoun can play better (Both missed sitters) but i'm satisfied with their performances, so i think a 7 for both of them is fine. It is not in these three players where we went wrong today.
FWIW of your players i thought the movement of Dickov was very good and Bentley, Emerton and Pedersen looked lively. Savage was poor i thought despite hitting the bar twice and at times your defence looked nearly as suspect as ours. Obviously you'll be fine though, never saw Blackburn as relegation contenders and i'm sure you'll finish mid-table, probably just above/below us.

I agree, yesterday Dickov was excellent i thought, after the opening day he certainly let his boots do the talking in the right way... Bentley and Emerton looked pretty lively yesterday but once again Pedersen was poor, maybe he knows other clubs are interested in him so he is biding his time... we know what he is capable of yet he never performs at that level! Savage was better than normal, he put himself about as always and held our midfield together as Tugay was poor yesterday, he covered back and forward and i thought had a pretty good game. Our defence was a shambles, but then we have never played that back 4 before.... Reid is a central midfielder, Neill is a right back, so without Todd, Nelsen we played Neill at centre back, Reid right back....i felt Neill was probably the best player on the pitch yesterday, he played better than Khizanishvili the acomplished CB, and was excellent out of position.

[I Prefer Pepsi]

Just the one goal and the one excellent assist from Marlon today weren't it? At a tough away game where we normally do nothing?

Marlon Harewood does a lot of good stuff for West Ham and all people ever want to do is focus on the negative.

Shame really.

I don't wanna slag the guy off coz I actually like him, and recognize the positive things he gave yesterday, I want him to do well.... but ultimately what he did yesterday counted for f*** all didn't it? Zero points. He needs to be better than that.