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Can’t agree….you don’t survive in this league on “ dinks “ …men in trenches more a requirement.

Exactly what iv'e been thinking for months and the main issue i had with Ismael. It's completely pointless most of the time football wise and all it has delivered is knackered players, injuries and late goals conceded. Need to get a coach in who actually coaches a bit of football into them in the final third so we can create chances. The hard running should be done across the park and in particular midfield not all the forwards trying to pin the opposition in their own box but never seeing the ball nor a chance aside from pouncing on the odd mistake. It's like oh we can't create chances with the ball so we'll just try and force mistakes as our number 1 creative philosophy.

You're right. I stand corrected.

Spot on. Too many winning positions ending as draws and too many 'drawing' positions ending as losses. Relegated on goal difference (think it was only 1 or 2 goals difference) was devastating given the points we 'threw away' under Mowbray. Mulgrew, Conway and Graham - who in today's team can come remotely close to the quality those three had.

🤣 seems a bit inane to double barrel using the exact same name! Does sound amusingly like somebody reporting a 14 goal thriller though.

Burton away on a Friday night

Just by way of illustration his very first game was away at Oxford I think and we went one up, retreated into our shells as was Mowbray's tendancy, and ending up drawing 1-1. Stuart (formerly of this parish) went absolutely ballistic and was giving it "What the **** has he done to deserve to be even anywhere near this job etc etc" I thought that was harsh for his first game and rememember leaping to Mowbray's defence. The bigger point is that he had plenty of chance overall to get us out of it, the two games we eventually won at the end turned out to be too late and came after a run of no wins in seven I think. But as we keep saying the relegation wasn't all his fault or even primarily his fault.

Folk seem to be forgetting that we haven't paid compensation for a manager since 2013, and that was a very small amount. It won't be anyone already in a job who is coming here.

What I noticed about this whole 'pressing from the front' we seem to attempt the player will break their neck chasing down a player but very rarely ever actually challenge or block a pass. It's almost like they want to show willing but it's absolutely pointless. Except for ohashi we very rarely win possession back up front.

I’ll bite! Mowbray had a great few years here in the middle of his run but I still think he could have done more in that first season, he didn’t pick up a team stranded at the bottom and we threw away too many leads.

Remember bumping into Mark Bowen when we were both filling our cars at the petrol station on the A59 just days before the Burnley cup clash. I asked him if Savage's diet was raw meat that week, we had a chuckle and I wished him and the team well.

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Am I the only one noticing that Morishita is a bit lazy at his backtracking? Watched a bit from the Hull match and he dropped of on his defensive duties inside the first 10 min. I remember also thought the same yesterday.

I missed this one Zak Gilsenan has been on loan at Buxton in the National League North to hopefully regain fitness, so far has 2 goals in 3 games

Set pieces in general are so poor. Miroshita's corners were even worse.

Mark Bowen funnily enough is at Forest Green with Savage! Director of Football.

If Cantwell does find form a la earlier in the season he can be a game winner from midfield.. Baffled why none of his set pieces beat the first man it's almost like they've practiced the near post flick (like the Miller goal which he nearly repeated against Wednesday)

Yes, our level of ambition really only suits an unemployed desperado keen to get back into work of some sort. Lambert/Coyle/Mowbray/Ismael etc. The outliers were JDT and Eustace -they were also unemployed at the time but their careers weren't on downward trajectories.

Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki.

Yep, Savage is better placed than most to know what an absolute mess we are. Berg at least had the excuse of Venky's still being quite early in their tenure, although he still should have known better. It's been 15 years, and we're arguably at our worst in terms of boardroom competence.

He knows what a shitshow Rovers are - he's kept himself in the loop. So does Sutton.

Match report from U17s semi final win team Rovers put out is below (those in bold are from our U16s) Holt Pitt Decandia McIlroy Low Vare Ball Higgins Lister McCoy Joseph Subs - Wolsoncroft, Nosegbe, Walls, Flynn, Clanford I would like to highlight that West Brom had a wonderfully named player on the scoresheet, Justin Seven-Seven

It's 2026 and links to the National League's Forest Green Rovers manager are being downplayed because our owners ambitions probably won't match his. That's the Venky effect.

It's a poor do when even national league managers are laughing us off.

There's probably no more foundation to it than the Coleman links. Without blowing anyone's trumpet on this site O Rourke has probably had a look on here at some point and thought That's a good suggestion, "I can get plenty of clicks out of that" Same with Coleman, someone's probably either on quite an ingenious wind up or has seen the early betting odds and has made 2 +2 =5. It's only day 2 of the search most of the earlier names linked are invariably complete nonsense. I can barely remember Ismael's name being mentioned until Nixon said he was on a shortlist of 2 with Wagner a day or two before it happened.