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I believe it is more down to the individuals making up the staff. I have zero confidence in this guy being assigned the task of uplifting the spirits at the camp for the Southampton match (or any other match...).

Death spiral in October…what happens in January then?

Id absolutely love to dig out my first post I did on Valerian Ismael around him being terrible. Barnsley fans not rating him. But I can't be fucked. He IS FUCKING SHIT. @chaddyrovers where are you? Excited by him being appointed? Pasha, Gestede, Owens, Ismael hang your heads in fucking shame!

De Neve actually does get into good positions and has pace. Unfortunately his final ball and general technical ability is far, far below this level. At best he'll get a few lucky bounces of the ball as he did tonight, but he's absolutely not the answer. Unfortunately neither is Hedges, or anybody else who could play on that side of the pitch. I feel for Alebiosu. The one player who has actually exceeded expectations, and in another season would have been judged as a genuinely great bargain pickup. Unfortunately he's come in at the worst possible time.

He had a good game alright, everything good we did came through him. Last player I'd have taken off.

I can honestly see him losing the next 6 matches in a row and he still won’t be under any pressure by Rudy and Pasha. What on earth he was thinking with those subs tonight the whole approach is clueless.

I think this is the worst squad rovers have had in my 60+ years of supporting rovers. Worst thing is there’s no one in the squad or at the club who can turn this around.

That was awful starting with initial tv pictures showing very sparse stands - fans voting with their feet and rightly so. We need even more fans to go missing on Saturday. Those there should have given Pasha, Gestede, Ismael and the team pelters given what went on in that match - too many of our fans merely offer a shrug of the shoulders and are getting what their indifference deserves. As for the game itself, if confirmation our Head Coach and our team are a busted flush then this was it. Diabolical defending, headless chickens in Gardner-Hickman and Henriksson, a brain dead wing back in De Neve (Burrows showed him how it's done) and a dud of a centre forward in Gudjohnsen. Add utterly bizarre substitutions and it's little wonder the end result was inevitable. Two of our 'star' midfield recruits missing - Tavares seemingly not even good enough for the bench whilst it would be a surprise to see Baradji on the field of play in 2025. Only Alebiosu, again, emerges with credit - this lad will be off in January. We are in one huge, huge mess. My only consolations tonight were an excellent curry, a couple of 'Boxers' and a wonderful bottle of red to finish.

Cheers. Well explained. I didnt think the Cross had the slightest relevance to the Club. Does anyone know why the suggestion for an all white shirt was made as Im equally bemused by that.

Mate he’s a pub player, he’s got zero ability! Running up and down doesn’t make you good. He’s useless.

He'll have to start on Saturday

I thought he had their full back on toast all game. Needs to work on his final ball but De Neve is the least of our issues.

Absolutely. They try. Neither would be particularly good in League 1 which is a worry ahead of next season.

I think Gudjohnsen may of had his best game for us tonight, but that doesn't mean he had a good game!! Signed as a striker, he doesn't really look like scoring. Few good touches and nice cross which led to the goal. As for De Neve, his crosses were hurried and woeful.

Saturday's game feels like waiting on death row...150 and all that.

Hard to see how you'd convince a manager to leave a bigger club like Carlise, sigh.

I was confused tonight by Ismaels change of shape after his substitutions. We went from quite an attacking system with two up front to one who was Kargbo. This was when we were losing. God knows where he had Hedges playing as he looked as confused as the rest of us. Then he went from a back three to a back four by taking McLoughlin off and putting De Neve to left back and like for like with Montgomery on for Gardner-Hickman, again when we were losing. And at 2-1 we game we take everyone back for a Sheffield United corner leaving no opportunity to counter attack. Nobody will ask the questions so Ismael is not held to account. I can't fault the players effort tonight as I can't in almost every game this season. But the lack of quality and experience is killing us. I know it's been said many times but the downgrading of so many players looks likely, even at this early stage to get us relegated. Step forward Gestede and Pasha as they both have deconstructed our squad alarmingly. They neither will be accountable for their part in the whole sorry mess we are in. In normal circumstances a relegation could mean a change of ownership and a chance to clear out the debris. We know however that simply won't happen here.

That doesn’t account for our point deduction when Venkys stop paying the bill

I had zero excitement before the game. Trundling down in the pissing rain along empty streets to watch a poor standard of football is not exactly enticing. It looks like many other supporters have lost their mojo as well. I took a long range photo of the Red Rose Executive dining suite about 10 minutes before kick off and not one table was taken, they didn’t even have the tables set out ready for guests. The other photo was taken on 94 minutes. I would hazard a guess at less than 6,000 actually turned up at Ewood tonight. Thank you Venkys 🤬

I walked off the ground and for the first time didn’t really care that we had lost. I just expected it and it happened. Sad times.

De Neve is absolute dog shit, let’s just call a spade a spade he’s absolute horrendous.

Both de Neve and Henriksson look like hard workers but just not enough for this league. de Neve had a good game and has had some good cameos off the bench lately, but we need a bit of composure in the final third and he's not the answer either - neither is Hedges although he's had a good season so far (which is quite telling tbh). Going to bed, knew we would lose again, but had to watch.

They are not on their own, though!

I genuinely don’t know what to propose other than an empty stadium (and they are doing that well enough on their own). We aren’t BRFC/Rovers any more, we are a toy, a play thing in the corner that they have forgotten and don’t want to play with. They have systematically overseen unmitigated carnage, yet don’t give a shit. I despise them, all they stand for, and the fact the Rovers Trust thought they were suitable for 10 pieces of silver. Rotten to the core. I love my club, I hate Venkys. I wonder why folk still turn up to support this criminal regime?

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/october/21/ismael-reflects-on-blades-defeat/