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I get that having a left footer and right footer may help in an ideal world. But life is about trade-offs , and surely having a make shift full back who is getting skinned alive by their winger is worse than it being a bit more tricky to pick passes into the right side of the pitch from centre half... I can accept that Ismael didn't realise that TGH was going to be taken apart at RB. But what I cant accept is bringing on Tavares who is no competitor at all, and not changing the RB again after 10 mins when it was obvious we had completely lost control of the game. Very interesting to see how Ismael responds now, especially if Alebiouso is out for Swansea. Ive got an awful feeling he might be the sort of manager to double down on his mistakes, hope I am wrong.

That run of fixtures fills me with dread and emphasises the desperate need for a minimum 4 point from these two home fixtures. Until yesterday, I have been relatively happy with a few of the performances, Hull, Ipswich and Watford especially and also thought we were ok against Norwich and B’ham. However, aside from the Hull match which was a real outlier, the concern is that we are just not creating any real chances. As well as we competed against Ipswich, we didn’t look like scoring until the penalty and aside from a lucky one against Hull, Yuki has hardly had a sniff of goal and that is a real worry ! If this run of fixtures goes as badly as I fear it could, fragile confidence and morale would disintegrate and we would then be looking at a real relegation battle.

I wonder if the Stasi will allow spectators at the Burnley game.

The club is absolutely beyond embarrassing.

Most of what needs to be said about this terrible match has already been said. Yesterday we saw just how misguided this theoretical (Football Manager) approach is – the idea that players can cover lots of different positions. Almost everyone has one position they are good at – and at best they can fill in elsewhere if there’s a crisis. But it shouldn’t be a crisis 7 or 8 games into the season. TGH has, among other things, said that he’s best as a central midfielder, and he was a pleasant surprise against Ipswich. Yesterday – a dreadful performance once he was shifted to right-back. Lewis Miller? He was extremely poor at centre-back, so why wasn’t he prioritized at right-back? Beyond just losing football matches, one might wonder if this is also affecting the confidence of new players who are trying to find their footing in a new league, at a higher level, etc. You have to give it another two or three games before passing judgment on Ismael. So far it’s been a bit mixed. But the squad is a real concern. And let me just add: Rudy out. Pasha out. Venkys out! To ban LT is an utter, utter disgrace.

I can also call confirm that the post that led to Glen receiving legal threats, was one he made on here.

The sooner he is run out of the club the better.

Haha amen to that! Maybe BRFCs could look into funding there own bots for FB, Twitter and LT! It's always funny when you go onto the Rovers FB group, check the people commenting and it's brand new accounts with no link at all to Rovers

You could also add Hendry with Berg, Gale or Pearce to that list. Centre back is arguably the least important position where the strongest foot matters

Maybe so, but it does no favours towards players like Tyjon, Montgomery, Michalski ect, who end up playing next to no football at any level At first team level, they are subs at most, so there is surely no harm in them having 30-45 mins for the U21s each week? If anything, surely that speeds up the conveyor belt?

Trying to rush the kids up to U21's level might have something to do with it as the academy conveyor belt towards the first team is running on low in the near future i'd say.

The I know best, thats emanating from other areas of the club. They are teaching the coach their traits.

Rigger I back you. I've seen enough of Valerian to think what I think on him

I am 66, and I am learning how to use a smart phone. Every day is a school day.

I know it's down to Ismael's thinking but in my view his rationale is flawed. Some of the best centre back pairings I have seen at Rovers haven't been a left/right foot combination. Faz and Keeley, Nelson and Samba and Hyam and Baath. Ismael will use inverted wingers but at centre half he wants something different. His logic is really flawed and contributed to our defeat yesterday in my view. It comes across as 'I know best' arrogance.

What is also scandalous is that some supporters go along with it.

That was beyond a terrible performance. Charlton looked awful and we didn't lay a glove on them. Not getting too upset over it as we've put in some decent performances over the last few games. I'm still confident that Val isn't the man - Happy to be proved wrong but with all what's going on off the pitch we will be milling around bottom half all season.

He's just turned 50, if he's not learnt already, he never will.

Even Tyjon, Michalski, Montgomery etc who are getting no game time for the first team and are still age wise, U21 players I think it's Adam Owen who is responsible for "alignment" between first team and the underage groups, but your point still stands, surely a few should be featuring at some point, the second U21 game last week was essentially the U18s, and a kid who had turned 14 earlier this month ended up playing 30 minutes from the bench, Rovers were 3-1 up when he came on, they lost 4-3

Let's hope VI learns from it.

Been an absolute bloodbath, this. Loved McIlroy telling them to STFU when he was teeing off 🤌.

Fantastic Performance by Europe again. Great 2 days

Ismael want a right foot at right centre back and left footed at left centre back from his comments. I'm surprised he didnt go 3 at the back at half time or during the second half. Also Pickering started was a strange move by him.

Yeah....They did not even sack Steve Kean!

A few games this coming week U21s are away to Leicester on Monday night PL Cup (U17) game at home against the Dingles on Tuesday afternoon U21s are away to Stoke on Friday night U18s are away to Leeds on Saturday The U21s also have a couple of cup games during the international break Home to Leyton Orient on the 8th Oct in the Premier League Cup Away to Preston on the 14th Oct in the Central League Cup Wonder if they will try to replay the U18 Wolves game during the break?