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  • @Blues_Focus
    @Blues_Focus  7 місяців тому +1

    What did you make to today's game and do you worry for the rest of the season? Let us know. Thanks for watching. Keep Right On 💙

    • @nathanrogers7887
      @nathanrogers7887 7 місяців тому

      Was so annoyed at the substitutions why we are going attacking like that when we are 0-0 away like we gotta defend that point more than push for the 3

  • @neilturtell
    @neilturtell 7 місяців тому +4

    Millwall here - it was a dreadful game, we had the first half, you had the 2nd - we thought the ref had a mare too. No likes them. Too many fluffed shots from both sides. Ruddy looked unbeatable until we didn't just float one in at him and curled it away and bingo. In all seriousness we both should stay up. The only thing that might save the plummeting Plymouth is current goal difference which will get worse IMO. Good atmosphere from both sets of fans. Onwards.

  • @peterfalk7084
    @peterfalk7084 7 місяців тому +5

    It will be ok Tommy. The fans will get behind the home games. I said this would happen when Tony got poorly, the momentum was lost, a bit like when JE was fired. As soon as I heard he was stepping out, I knew immediately. The club has gone quiet too, it's odd, a really strange undercurrent.

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому +1

      Yeah I think I remember you mentioning that in the comments of one of the videos and I agree with that. I just can’t see us winning any games at the moment. We don’t look consistent enough. Got to find some points else we’re in serious danger of going down. Dread to think what that Open House will be like if we’re still in this position come April

    • @slightlyconfused876
      @slightlyconfused876 7 місяців тому +1

      Fans don't score goals, fans don't defend corners. Sadly neither do our players.

  • @dazo69
    @dazo69 7 місяців тому +6

    I've been saying for a few weeks now - we haven't got a Harlee Dean, a Pedersen, a Kieftenbeld - a team or players that are up for a relegation scrap!

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      Well some might disagree with you on Dean and Pedersen 😅 but I get what you’re saying. Battlers who’ll get us undeserved wins and keep us up. We haven’t got them and that’s why I worry

    • @frazernorman5093
      @frazernorman5093 7 місяців тому

      Kieftenbeld? He was absolutely shit when he played for us. Anyway, cheers for the 3 points. Milllllll

    • @robertlangan3475
      @robertlangan3475 7 місяців тому

      You're right. This team has no leaders apart from maybe Pritchard but he's still feeling his feet

  • @hej97
    @hej97 7 місяців тому +2

    It feels like nothing's going in our way atm, stuck in a rot since Mowbray's absence. We need to take our chances and get as many wins / points asap.
    We got 6 home games and 4 away games, which make it favourable for us. Games against QPR, Huddersfield and Rotherham are big matches we need to take points. KRO

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому +1

      Spot on. Totally agree with you there mate

  • @foggy1-234
    @foggy1-234 7 місяців тому +2

    Very good summary Tommy, and i agree this could the season blues is hit by the perfect storm, teams around us have found form, and therefore we cant rely on others around us dropping points

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому +1

      Exactly. It’s been the tale for too many years now. Got to score, got to win, got to stay up. KRO

  • @franknightingale6116
    @franknightingale6116 7 місяців тому +1

    Possession is the key .We need more .Can't rely on breakaways.
    While we have the ball the opposition can't hurt us.

  • @Ss91279
    @Ss91279 7 місяців тому +3

    The issue we have now is that mark venus is not a manager he’s an assistant and for good reason, the fact that we’ve pretty much Mowbray for the reminder of the season is devastating, everything is setting up just perfectly for relegation. For me there’s only one man to blame for this and that’s Garry Cooke.

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      I agree Venus isn’t manager material to replace Mowbray. We’ve been poor without him. Not sure if I’d pin it all on Cook but he certainly took it upon himself to get in Rooney. Disastrous decision. But still the players haven’t shown enough to prove Rooney was all at fault.

  • @andrewroberts299
    @andrewroberts299 7 місяців тому

    Wall fan here. Footballing wise it wasn’t a great game from either side, and I think from where we both are in the league, you could see the nervousness in both sets of players not wanting to go completely gung-ho for fear of making a mistake and letting the other side in with a chance to score! We had the better first half, and had our players had a touch more composure on the ball, we might have gone in at half time, at least 1 or 2 goals up!
    2nd half was most definitely yours, but I can’t remember you having a shot on target in that 45 minutes, which kept us in the game, as we weren’t pulling up any trees either. Honestly thought that the game was gonna end in a 0-0 draw, then up pops Tango with a glancing header into the bottom corner that beats Ruddy. The ref had a shocker and the standard of refereeing in the Championship has been poor for a couple of seasons now, so you may have got a penalty with another ref but Wall fans have lost count of the number of times this season that our Jake Cooper has been pulled down, tripped, you name it, in the opposition’s box and not got one penalty from it. Yes, he’s 6’7 and I guess Refs just think that when he goes down it’s because his size goes against him, but honestly, some of the penalty decisions against him should have stood, and I reckon we’d be comfortably mid table by now!
    A draw would have been a fair result, but it’s a long time since we’ve won a game with almost the last kick (header) of the game, and we now have a 5 point cushion between us and Huddersfield in 22nd place, which is good as we face Leeds away next Sunday, and we’ll still have a 2 point lead on Huddersfield if we lose and they have already beaten Rotherham away the day before.
    Really hope Brum stay up. Like us, you’re a proper club with proper fans and with Rotherham pretty much already relegated, I’d like to see Stoke and QPR gone with them (two teams I absolutely hate!) Hopefully we’ll both be playing each other in the Championship next season. Great podcast and best wishes for the rest of the season.

  • @thomasBCFC250
    @thomasBCFC250 7 місяців тому +5

    We can't go down to league 1 it's an absolute dog fight in that league and we'd be every teams cup final. Just look at Charlton. And with the atmosphere of depression around Blues for the last decade it'll re really hard to even get top 6

    • @jamesstevens2444
      @jamesstevens2444 7 місяців тому

      Charlton haven't got a pot to piss in. We have.

    • @richl7910
      @richl7910 7 місяців тому

      We won’t go down .. keep the faith

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      Yep. 100% it’s an incredibly tough league. That’s why we’ve got to stay up. And who even wants to get relegated too? I’ll ask them that if we need to win on the last day against Norwich and see what they truly feel. It’s a stupid position to take and it’ll hurt so much if we do go down

  • @peterfalk7084
    @peterfalk7084 7 місяців тому +2

    Oddly, we have a Tuesday and a Friday game, and I can't recall us doing well when we've played close together so that's a worry. We then have Watford and we never beat them. Then it's teams like QPR and Huddersfield, Cardiff ( who we never beat either 😂) Thinking about it, perhaps it is bad 😬

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      Yeah that’s my thinking for it too. There’s a comment that says we haven’t got any scrappers either and I have to agree with that because this squad plays better I feel when things are going well. But with their backs to the wall, I don’t know. Have they got it in them to pull us out of trouble? I bloody hope so. Can’t stand the idea of League One

    • @peterfalk7084
      @peterfalk7084 7 місяців тому

      @@tommykelsall Agree completely with your thoughts over the last few weeks. Relegation would be horrendous, it creates all sorts of issues, I imagine FFP being one of them.
      I'm no expert on this so I'm happy to be corrected, but I believe League 1 is incredibly difficult to get out of, very competitive and our team have already shown that is not their strength, as you have pointed out (good when the going is good).
      On that argument then, you would almost need an entirely new squad just to compete in that environment, different types of players.
      So going down is not an option I would choose at all. I wouldn't be surprised if the owners changed direction either. I'm not saying they would, but they could, if it's just not a viable option anymore ( I'm probably going overboard now) Let's see, Middlesbrough next, one step at a time, calmly does it, cool heads.
      I'm sure we'll get it right, a win next week and one of our competitors loses and it all looks different again and we talk about an outside chance of the playoffs 🤣

  • @TCPH
    @TCPH 7 місяців тому +1

    That first half was absolutely atrocious, nothing stuck, poor decisions, horrible positioning, no teamwork, dawdling on the ball, wayward and aimless passing, no-one running to make space, second to every ball, it was wretched. we played okay for 15 mins in the 2nd half and then seemed to coast towards a draw, to which Milwall thought fuck that, we want a win, and they did! We have to be truthful and admit that a large number of our players do have shit for brains and/or are incapable of motivating themselves to step up. Millwall played a 4/10 performance and won. It's unacceptable that with the ability available within this team that we cannot show even 20% of what we should be capable of.

  • @Doug.swoff186
    @Doug.swoff186 7 місяців тому +1

    This is such a low point . Sick to death of the years of frustration anxiety of fighting the drop and poor shows . Ye we could still get out of it but we deserve better . Fans wont return until it changes no matter what is promised . Tired and weary bluenose kro

  • @davidedwards3922
    @davidedwards3922 7 місяців тому

    We don't seem to understand the concept of Defending tight in the last 10 minutes...and where was Jutkiewicz today

  • @robertcaulfield5233
    @robertcaulfield5233 7 місяців тому

    Hi Tommy, defo enjoying these watchalongs - will you be doing these regular?
    What can i say - we really do look like relegation candidates right now, despite a few decent players we got, there's no leaders out on the pitch...
    Relegation in my view is down to the person who signed off Eustace's sacking and Rooney's appointment.
    Relegation will go one of two ways, we'll come straight back up as per 1995 😅OR we end up like Portsmouth or worse, Bradford.....
    Fingers crossed but on this occasion, sorry to say, the overhyped squad is way poorer in my view.
    KRO my friend, quality content as ever

  • @AndyBDrone
    @AndyBDrone 7 місяців тому +4

    Sleepwalking straight into league one.

  • @peterfalk7084
    @peterfalk7084 7 місяців тому +2

    I can't call the next few games, I'm not sure we have a good record against Middlesbrough, then it's all up in the air. I don't think Huddersfield will beat West Brom though.

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому +1

      I really hope not. Will look awful to see us in the bottom three at this stage

  • @davidedwards3922
    @davidedwards3922 7 місяців тому

    I hear what you said then, its true we are deep in trouble and gone into it without realizing...

  • @johngameson9768
    @johngameson9768 7 місяців тому +1

    Lets All get out in Town Thursday
    Big Party With the Ajax Fans

    • @wodens-hitman1552
      @wodens-hitman1552 7 місяців тому

      You'll be partying with the walsall fans next season

  • @davidchamberlain5425
    @davidchamberlain5425 7 місяців тому +2

    We have two home games..Boro and Watford 🤔.Then .Preston ,Coventry,Cardiff and Norwich Home
    .........Q.P.R, Leicester , Rotherham and Huddersfield away 😉 no particular order but will need 4 wins and a draw at least 🤔.Still possible 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏...Jukey help..help..help....

  • @matthewwalker2281
    @matthewwalker2281 7 місяців тому

    As a supporter of a L1 team it is not a place you want to be, you're everybody's cup final and its a really tough division to get out of playing Saturday, Tuesday every week!!

  • @jamesstevens2444
    @jamesstevens2444 7 місяців тому +1

    A bit like when we couldn't get a goal for love nor money, and then scored in the next five (ignoring today's game) our luck and official decision making HAS to change.

  • @johnwarren9112
    @johnwarren9112 7 місяців тому

    League one here we come!!

  • @davidedwards3922
    @davidedwards3922 7 місяців тому

    where was the ref standing so as not to see the push on Roberts for their goal?

  • @jamesstevens2444
    @jamesstevens2444 7 місяців тому +1

    We do have some winnable games. But whether this team can win them, is a completely different thing.

  • @tommoloney4300
    @tommoloney4300 7 місяців тому

    Mistake bombing eustace for Rooney eustace was doing really well

  • @tommoloney4300
    @tommoloney4300 7 місяців тому

    Good listen been saying for years efl refs and officials are awful

  • @briancorrigan120
    @briancorrigan120 7 місяців тому +1

    l,m with you that l,m still livid we went down after the carling cup,we needed 3 poiints from 6 games and managed only 2-pathetic,-they put us through the mill as fans,lv,e had over 60 years of it ,-will it ever end,- with all the dreams the owners have for us it be a disaster if it did happen,-however i,ll be there on Tuesday at the Boro game,-got to win it,KRO

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      We have mate. And as fans we can only watch and comment. So I think we all feel a little powerless particularly with the excitement at the start of the season.
      But being a Blues fan for 60 years like yourself, they’ll always find a way to let you down, as my Grandad says 😂 And I have to believe it’s true.
      Got to get some wins in and as soon as possible.
      KRO

  • @sleepwalker6825
    @sleepwalker6825 7 місяців тому +2

    If they do a Netflix doc on Blues they should call it " Can't score Won't Score " Todays line up was bizzare ( Resting Players ) .. If Your mid table and can't threaten the top six or are not in trouble of going Down then "Yeah " rest a few BUT if Your Struggling big time why Rest Your decent players ??? absolute Joke .. And the Players in the first Half were shocking couldn't string a pass togethor ... AND BTW F the EFL ( the Refs have a Agenda against Blues )

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      I just think they’re just terrified of giving big decisions in case they get marked down for getting it wrong. No way to officiate that and we should’ve been given a penalty and had a chance to win the game.
      I agree the lineup was odd and that we do need a consistent team. But I don’t think we played that badly. Just lacking that threat in front of goal and switched off when it mattered most

  • @deanthompson68
    @deanthompson68 7 місяців тому

    I here the players had a meeting after the game few home truths told

  • @johnmalin1676
    @johnmalin1676 7 місяців тому +2

    If we don't get 4 points from the next 2 critical home games, i'm afraid the writings on the wall.

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому +2

      I have to agree with you John. It’s going to be a mad scramble either way 😕

  • @Mynansabrick
    @Mynansabrick 7 місяців тому +2

    Unless we get the gaffer back soon we have had it , we have no leader on the pitch and no leader off it , players need to wake up and fight for the badge KRO

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      Well said 👏 Wins are of critical importance

  • @pwisblue.6699
    @pwisblue.6699 7 місяців тому +2

    Relegation is a certainty, no heart in this team.

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      Welcome to my League One nightmare 😖

    • @pwisblue.6699
      @pwisblue.6699 7 місяців тому

      @@tommykelsall Lad I've been there before, no big deal.

  • @richl7910
    @richl7910 7 місяців тому +1

    Everyone needs to calm down, 30 points to play for we will be fine. Next two home games we need to collect 4 points as a minimum. Keep the faith kro.

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      Well I respect your optimism Rich and to a certain extent I agree with you. I know we can all get carried away and maybe in three games time I’ll look back and think that. Tough end to the season. Desperately need points and I can’t see us doing that. League’s so tight too

    • @richl7910
      @richl7910 7 місяців тому

      @@tommykelsall we have been in far worse positions over the years we won’t go down, we will pick up the points required. In the summer mass clear out and we go again.. kro

  • @markLawley-g8u
    @markLawley-g8u 7 місяців тому +1

    Did you just say we were not that bad, I need to go to specsavers then. We were absolutely pathetic and gutless.

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      I don’t think we were. We were just inconsistent in front of goal. Millwall’s goal was easily preventible, yes but aside from that we defended well, I thought. Just my thoughts

  • @seanmcgonigle7610
    @seanmcgonigle7610 7 місяців тому +3

    the more gmes you lose the ferther you go down if your team dont take any chances you wont get results if Huddersfield win blues will be end up in 22nd if blues do get relegated i think you might just stay there

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому +1

      Yeah it’s a good take. League One’s such a tough division. Teams like Portsmouth, though they’re looking like they’ll finally come back up, have been down there for years

  • @peterfalk7084
    @peterfalk7084 7 місяців тому

    Just to add, we also have Preston and Leicester, unlikely we win those 😂 so it's down to Coventry and Rotherham and how the other teams do 😬

  • @dorsetblues4897
    @dorsetblues4897 7 місяців тому +1

    Mark Venus is starting with the wrong team. Resting players when all teams around us know it's the last throw of the dice and playing their best 11.

  • @stevecourtenay7393
    @stevecourtenay7393 7 місяців тому

    One shot on target out of 16

  • @spin641
    @spin641 7 місяців тому

    Who ever is saying being relegated to L1 will be good for the club needs to give their head a wobble

  • @deanthompson68
    @deanthompson68 7 місяців тому

    I said we should have e bought in a interim manager in like rowett

  • @MrPhilippou9354
    @MrPhilippou9354 7 місяців тому

    Two poor sides ,game could of gone 1.0 either way ,but we had that bit of luck today.

  • @TMiller-c2q
    @TMiller-c2q 7 місяців тому +3

    We should never of got rid of John Eustace

  • @deanthompson68
    @deanthompson68 7 місяців тому

    Need rowett in till end of season

  • @AndyLudwig-mv8dj
    @AndyLudwig-mv8dj 7 місяців тому +2

    You won't go down, Plymouth and Blackburn are goners

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому +1

      They’re both still above us. At the moment it’s us, Huddersfield and QPR. It’s tight yes but we ain’t got the easiest run of fixtures

    • @AndyLudwig-mv8dj
      @AndyLudwig-mv8dj 7 місяців тому

      @@tommykelsall I honestly think you will end up on about 53 points and avoid the drop, probably like me you have done a forecast on what clubs down the bottom will suck the large one, in my opinion Blackburn have the toughest run in but I can't decide between Sheff Wed, QPR or Plymouth will follow Rotherham and Blackburn into Division 1, I'm hoping we (Millwall) will still keep our act together but I'm not counting on it.

  • @knowhatimean5141
    @knowhatimean5141 7 місяців тому +1

    officials are biased against us, and have been for years,...its about time blues did an official complaint about the bias of refereeing,....as I say its not just this season,...its season after season,...we hardly ever get decisions in our favour, and that means a bias.

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      Yeah they’re poor. Wouldn’t say they’re biased. I’d perhaps say they were more incompetent really or afraid to make big calls because they might be marked down. No way to officiate though. And that penalty shout said it all about EFL refs

    • @tarantini623
      @tarantini623 7 місяців тому

      Crap refs sre nothing new in the EFL, but three match-changing howlers in a row? The problem is that they are not “consequenced” as Simon Jordan might say. Scandalous decision, no explanation, onto the next game…
      None of that is to excuse the lack of bottle this team is showing. Venus may be a good wingman, but leader of men he is not. Don’t fancy Cook’s chances against Wagner if we’’re flushed down to League 1.

  • @darrengarfield4887
    @darrengarfield4887 7 місяців тому

    Our centre back aint promotion players

  • @robertlangan3475
    @robertlangan3475 7 місяців тому

    In twelve months time the same squad would be comfortably mid-table or competing for the play offs. But they lack character, they lack self-belief and they look like they will crumble under pressure. It's no coincidence that this has happened while Mowbray is absent. Venus just cannot seem to motivate the players

  • @classic-shirt-obsession9843
    @classic-shirt-obsession9843 7 місяців тому +1

    Huddersfield on,y have to draw don’t they

    • @tommykelsall
      @tommykelsall 7 місяців тому

      No they do need a win to go above us. They’re on -16, we’re on -15

  • @michaelmacafield6665
    @michaelmacafield6665 7 місяців тому

    COYL

  • @davidrichards-67
    @davidrichards-67 7 місяців тому

    Blues are in big trouble !!!! They seem to be deluded into thinking they are better than they actually are !!!! When we won the cup that team seemed to have the same attitude & look what happened & they all soon left the sinking ship !!

  • @garyjohnson5948
    @garyjohnson5948 7 місяців тому +3

    It's obviously not the best team results and league position don't lie the squad are piss poor injury prone players players that no other clubs want thats why they have ended up at blues we are relegation fodder I wouldn't trust this team in league 1 they are that bad.

  • @dinopalmeri2167
    @dinopalmeri2167 7 місяців тому +2

    All this is garry cooksfalt getting roony in