| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 08:28 - Aug 3 with 19383 views | NotLoyal |
Saturday August 7th 2021
Ewood Park
Kick Off 3pm
Match Officials
David Webb will be the referee for Swansea City's Championship opener against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. Webb will be assisted by Matthew Mcgrath and Geoffrey Liddle, while Ross Joyce is the fourth official.
Tickets are now on general sale. prices are as follows
Adults - £25* Seniors (aged 65 and over) £20* 18-23’s - £15* Juniors (aged 12-17) -£9* Under 12’s - £6*
Please note any under-12 tickets must be sold with an accompanying adult.
Last time
Blackburn Rovers 1 Swansea City 1
9th March 2021, behind closed doors
The time before that
Blackburn Rovers 2 Swansea City 2
29th February 2020
593 Jacks at the game
Blackburn facts,figures and triggers
Blackburn is such a small place that more than the amount of people that live there follow the club. That means a lot of Blackburn folk follow their local side, and clearly some of them twice. There is no other explanation. Holland’s pies is the towns biggest exporter, in a hundred years back, or less, they used to export cotton ( not Holland’s pies ) to the world, then one eyed Joe got annoyed and it all went south. Not literally, nothing goes south from Blackburn as we have seen with their away supports over the years at Swansea. It shouldn’t ever be said that Blackburn people are thick, other than all of them mostly are really intelligent. They came second in the UK’s most intelligent town in 2017. This was an incredible achievement for them as they were the only town to enter. Thick or what ?
Everyone born in Blackburn has no toenails.
Blackburn Lives Matter
Dark markets only. What’s the point in subscribing ?
Blackburn Rovers: Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Harry Pickering, Daniel Ayala, Joe Rothwell, Sam Gallagher, Tyrhys Dolan, John Buckley, Ben Brereton Diaz, Darragh Lenihan (captain), Lewis Travis.
Substitutes: Jacob Davenport, Danny Butterworth, Hayden Carter, Connor McBride, Jake Garrett, Tyler Magloire, Jordan Eastham.
Swansea City: Steven Benda; Ben Cabango, Ryan Bennett, Joel Latibeaudiere; Kyle Naughton, Korey Smith, Jamie Paterson, Matt Grimes (captain), Jake Bidwell; Jamal Lowe, Liam Cullen.
Substitutes: Nico Defreitas-Hansen, Lincoln Mcfayden, Brandon Cooper, Yan Dhanda, Ollie Cooper, Morgan Whittaker, Kyle Joseph.
More to follow
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:04 - Aug 7 with 1735 views | jasper_T |
Top passing from Bennett and Lati to start jfc |  | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:06 - Aug 7 with 1705 views | jackrmee |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 14:55 - Aug 7 by Brynmill_Jack |
Is there a stream on ifollow? |
Bein Sports 2 if you can acccess it |  |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:09 - Aug 7 with 1668 views | Thornburyswan |
Clearly going to be a tad up & down when teams press us whilst our players get more comfortable in passing/receiving the ball in tight areas. | | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:09 - Aug 7 with 1644 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:02 - Aug 7 by Badlands |
Scum fans booing their own players. |
They aren’t booing the players, they are booing the gesture, understandably so.
But it’s boring now, for many reasons. |  |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:11 - Aug 7 with 1622 views | cockneyswan |
It’s definitely more exciting, Blackburn had about 10 attempts at our goal already  |  | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:15 - Aug 7 with 1560 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Benda looks more comfortable passing under pressure than the majority of our outfield team. |  |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:16 - Aug 7 with 1565 views | KeithHaynes |
This exciting style of play makes me feel sick and happy. |  |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:17 - Aug 7 with 1537 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:16 - Aug 7 by KeithHaynes |
This exciting style of play makes me feel sick and happy. |
Bennett has normally kicked the ball to the opposition keeper half a dozen times by now. The difference after just 15 minutes is already obvious. | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:19 - Aug 7 with 1522 views | Badlands |
how are you watching?
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:19 - Aug 7 with 1504 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:17 - Aug 7 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Bennett has normally kicked the ball to the opposition keeper half a dozen times by now. The difference after just 15 minutes is already obvious. |
Instead we spread the passing to the opposition around the defensive unit, they all contributed. That first 10 mins was among one of the most concerning I can remember.
Much better since though. | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:20 - Aug 7 with 1512 views | KeithHaynes |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:19 - Aug 7 by Badlands |
how are you watching?
My connection went down after 12 minutes |
Bein Sports 2 here. | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:21 - Aug 7 with 1486 views | jasper_T |
That's not a foul on Smith, let alone a booking. | | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:22 - Aug 7 with 1471 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:19 - Aug 7 by Dr_Parnassus |
Instead we spread the passing to the opposition around the defensive unit, they all contributed. That first 10 mins was among one of the most concerning I can remember.
Much better since though. |
Yes I agree it was very worrying. I commented on how different our approach was, not the success.
This will take months to develop unfortunately. It's clear many are not comfortable being asked to look for a pass when under pressure. They've been drilled to kick it high and long for 24 months. | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:23 - Aug 7 with 1453 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 14:58 - Aug 7 by Algorfajack |
Can find 5 championship games on ifollow but not our game unfortunately |
It’s there now. Looking very decent. Should be one up |  |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:30 - Aug 7 with 1353 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:22 - Aug 7 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Yes I agree it was very worrying. I commented on how different our approach was, not the success.
This will take months to develop unfortunately. It's clear many are not comfortable being asked to look for a pass when under pressure. They've been drilled to kick it high and long for 24 months. |
Bit of a myth there. I think from memory we only made around 30 long balls per game, I’d have to check. But that’s not in the least bit a high number. Around 8%.
The issue was more the pace of our attacks last year, or indeed lack of. | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:34 - Aug 7 with 1316 views | KeithHaynes |
We still seem very indifferent up top, but I’m impatient. | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:38 - Aug 7 with 1241 views | jasper_T |
Playing out starting to create spaces. Desperate for another midfielder to show for the ball though. Smith's gone on holiday. | | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:39 - Aug 7 with 1214 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:34 - Aug 7 by KeithHaynes |
We still seem very indifferent up top, but I’m impatient. |
One down and very nearly two 😳 | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:40 - Aug 7 with 1190 views | Thornburyswan |
Ouch - Benda stuck on his line then but decent finish to be fair. | | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:40 - Aug 7 with 1165 views | KeithHaynes |
At the moment we seem too ponderous, slow and lacking any pace at all. | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:42 - Aug 7 with 1118 views | jasper_T |
Hook any of the back three, doesn't matter which. | | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:42 - Aug 7 with 1102 views | Dr_Parnassus |
This passing is atrocious.
You have to have the right technical players that can play this way, under pressure, to a man. That’s why it’s so difficult for the majority of teams to do successfully. I’m not convinced we have the personnel.
The one positive for me so far is Benda. Nice to have a brave and commanding keeper. | |
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| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:43 - Aug 7 with 1100 views | AnotherJohn |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:40 - Aug 7 by KeithHaynes |
At the moment we seem too ponderous, slow and lacking any pace at all. |
I wonder whether the present lineup has the ability to play out from the back. | | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:43 - Aug 7 with 1096 views | cockneyswan |
Keep playing this way it’s going to be carnage 🤬 | | | |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:44 - Aug 7 with 1072 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Matchday Thread : Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City 21/22 on 15:42 - Aug 7 by jasper_T |
Hook any of the back three, doesn't matter which. |
The youngster who played some of preseason looked a mile better than either Bennett or Latibeaudiere who are a dreadful partnership.
Lack of pace, but more concerning lack of positional sense to make up for it. Been the same all preseason. | | | |
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