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This is as succinct a summary of the disaster I think we're currently staring in the face as I can imagine.

Just fucking pathetic. How do they not see that this will just cost them money as people will just go to pubs showing games instead? Dickheads.

I think they're genuinely convinced they can continue to slash costs and stay in the division. False confidence brought about by JDT & Eustace performing miracles with a squad that was continually being downgraded (albeit the wheels fell off for JDT towards the end). Their 'strategy' was only ever one managerial change away from disaster, and we may be there. Neither JDT nor Eustace were willing to see the core of the team replaced by cheap, unknown alternatives, knowing the consequences, and so both ultimately found a way out. Ismael is seemingly on board with it, and I can only see it ending one way.

The usual suspects come out and start questioning the manager. Not defending or attacking VI but why dont some fans spend half as much time questioning the man who hired VI if you think he's the main problem and assembled the previous squad and out together this squad or suhail who has consistently worsened this club.

I've said it for years on here, the reason that Ryan Hedges has played for this club for years under many managers is that he can read a game. His skill set leaves a lot to be desired, but he doesn't look out of depth working with a full back.

Perhaps 7 games into his managerial tenure here?

I thought the ref was fine today, we made his job easy by allowing Norwich to buy some stupid fouls. The amount of times rovers players bundled into the back of players waiting for contact was painful to watch. Each time slowing the game down and allowing them to control the flow of the game

Ismael had a couple of dead rubbers too at the end of last season!

The last 3 players we've signed will all have an impact IMO.

Not a mistake. A strategy to downgrade the club to fit into L1 and cut the losses by doing so.

He is Alex Da Costa reincarnated, FFS.

Fair enough and I’ll wholeheartedly support him in blue and white, I am Just very worried about our current recruitment teams ability to spot a player

Having known 6 weeks ago that he has some injury, Ismael says they are going "to assess" this week whether he needs surgery! You couldn't make it up.

He's even more useless when he starts. A yellow or ed card waiting to happen.

Had anything at all been said as to when Baradji is likely to be on the pitch 🤷‍♂️

It’s even more than just being cold; there’s something off about the whole guy. People can believe Brittain and Travis (and the rest) only left because they were offered more money elsewhere, but the fact that Pasha, Rudy, and Val are running things is, in my view, just as relevant—if not the real reason. And what leaders do we even have in the squad now? Who’s going to step up and lift the others when we’re sitting on a handful of points in January and sinking into the relegation zone? The players we’ve brought in are well below the standard of what Championship clubs usually sign (let alone a club that’s finished 7th in two of the last three seasons). They’re just thankful for the opportunity and willing to put up with the current state of the club. As for today’s match? Listening to the RoversTV interview is absurd. That first half was every bit as bad as the lowest points under Ismael.

That would be insanity. Toth getting a season ending injury against Watford meaning poor Michalski or Goddard get thrown in game after game is a destruction pathway not a development pathway!

Hull game aside, we've averaged 2 shots a game in the other three league matches. 1 against WBA, 2 against Brum and 3 today. For me that is not OK, we can't win matches with such a low amount of shots hitting the target and our current attacking options being what they are. Particularly when, Hull game aside, we've conceded in every match as well. We simply have to do better at the opponent's end of the pitch because, even if we are in games, those fine margins will likely continue to go against us.

What motivation is there for a young player to improve if better/more experienced players are just moved aside to keep their ‘pathways’ clear? First team opportunities should be earned.

Noting transformational that's for certain. Midfield is desperately poor and will be even worse if anything happens to Tronstad .

We were in many games when we got relegated in 1999. But small margins cost us. We didn’t lose any of the first four games by more than a goal then. It’s rare a team gets relegated that aren’t “in” games unless they are really, really shit. It’s fine margins This season it is individual moments of a lack of quality costing us. Not clearing that long throw at West Brom. De Neve getting skinned and then Tavares delivering a crap corner against Brum. McLaughlin and Kargbo today. I know you’re incredibly blinkered on refs, but the only real one against us I feel is the penalty at West Brom. Everything other major decision I’ve agreed with.

Of course they will. Could you tell us how long that is?

And conceded 3 goals at home, in 90 + injury time.

Plenty of rubbish emerges after a win. Plenty of rubbish emerges (LET comments and elsewhere) after a new plan emerges. As for patience -hmm, is 15 years enough?

At the moment I'll reserve judgement on most of them, but I'm not optimistic either. My concern is more that, even if some of them improve and the team gels into a more cohesive unit, we may still be fighting a losing battle if confidence is low and we've lost a lot of matches by the time that happens. We cannot afford to keep losing games whilst waiting for the team to gel. They have to start picking up results, and if they're incapable of doing so whilst adjusting, then we're going to be in huge trouble and it will have been a mistake from Suhail and Gestede to initiate such a destructive transition.