Blackburn boss has Plymouth Argyle dig

Jon Dahl Tomasson has questioned Plymouth as he provided an update on Niall Ennis.

Blackburn boss Jon Dahl Tomasson has revealed that Niall Ennis is still a week away from returning to the pitch, as he questioned Plymouth for how they handled the striker in the past.

Niall Ennis joins Blackburn

It’s set to be a very busy summer for Rovers, who are looking to build on a promising first season under Tomasson, which saw them just miss out on the play-offs.

With the influential Ben Brereton Diaz having moved on, and plenty more following him out the door, there is a need for quality new additions this summer. And, Blackburn made a positive start on that front by winning the race for Ennis.

The forward scored 12 goals for Plymouth as they won promotion to the Championship last season, but with his deal expiring, he was available on a free, and he decided to move to Ewood Park.

Given his ability and potential, it was an exciting signing for Rovers, so it was a surprise when he wasn’t involved against Accrington for the friendly games over the weekend.

Why wasn’t Niall Ennis involved for Blackburn?

It has since been revealed that Ennis has a ‘lingering groin issue’ which appears to be something that he has been managing for some time.

That’s because Tomasson wasn’t too happy with Argyle when he discussed the player and gave an update on his situation to BBC Sport Lancashire.

“With Ennis, we need to build him up. He had a lot of things with Plymouth that were not top class, so we are building him up, and he will probably be on the pitch with the team around the first Monday when we come back from Austria.

“We need to work, this is a boy we need to work on. He is working hard on those things, so in that way it's great.”

As Tomasson mentioned, Rovers are travelling to Austria today for the next stage of their pre-season preparations, which will finish up with two games against TSV Hartberg on Saturday.

From the update, Ennis will not be involved in the fixture, with the player set to join up with the rest of the group two days after.

Plymouth would no doubt contest the claims from Tomasson, and they would point out that Ennis featured in their final six games as they won the League One title.

Sounds like they are playing the blame game with us but if he were carrying a groin injury and he nursed it to get through our final run of games they took the gamble and signed him regardless to that fact and after he took a medical which if he had anything serious Blackburn's medical department would have detected that so there is no fault at our door here.

If BR FC are unhappy they can always send him back LOL

They must have lost their receipt otherwise they’d ask for an exchange !!

What a bunch of dobbers they are!

Angry wrote:

Sounds like they are playing the blame game with us but if he were carrying a groin injury and he nursed it to get through our final run of games they took the gamble and signed him regardless to that fact  and after he took a medical which if he had anything serious Blackburn's medical department would have detected that so there is no fault at our door here.

sour crapes perhaps they need to take a look at there own medical staff letting the injury slip through ..cos he was certainly different class for us last season

Jambo Pasty wrote:

They must have lost their receipt otherwise they’d ask for an exchange !!

What a bunch of dobbers they are!

leave off Jambo we’re not Marks & Spencer’s

Not M&S - More like Trago then is it? lol

Ennis was just as injury prone at Wolves, probably one of the main reasons why they were prepared to let him go in the first place.

Yeah but surely they have a medical before they signed him? How come they never picked it up then? For me it’s a gripe about nothing

Covering his own arse in case the big contact he's getting, proves to be a massive mistake

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

Covering his own arse in case the big contact he's getting, proves to be a massive mistake

This, and the fact some of the Blackburn fans may be raising an eyebrow at the fact he has an arse the size of 2 Beyoncés.

Like what’s been said, he had a medical and must have passed it to award him a 4 year contract and potentially 5, what is it with these people