Your end of season summary

[47er]

Most up and down season I ever remember. Started off well with succession of wins, followed by consecutive defeats, rinse and repeat.

Hardly any draws.

Hampered by poor goalkeeping and lack of strike force.

Unable to beat the crap teams especially mid-week. The negatives were obvious but not addressed in January.

in the end, another seventh, another lost opportunity.

Off the field happenings strongly affected events on the field.

We can’t argue progress because the squad is about to be broken up.

[jim mk2]

An average squad did better than expected and we were spared at least the trauma of a relegation battle but it was the usual mixture of hope, despair and, ultimately, frustration at another opportunity lost.

In the end it's another season gone and a return to the Premier League seems as far away as ever. It's sad because for older supporters who are  running out of time and haven't got long left, it would mean so much.  

 

[Bbrovers2288]

Just think there is an uneasy feeling around the club this season with the results a kind of juxtaposition to that up until the arrival of ismael. Any normal club would be thinking 7th is a great place to kick on from and be certainty for play off next year but I bet the majority of us are more thinking we are just as likely if not more than we could be relegated next year , such is the turmoil behind the scenes and lack of investment in the squad 

[Michael123458]

As the dust settles we all know and agree a massif opportunity missed there simply because of those 5 defeats but looking on positive side much improved on last year but big summer ahead for us all now descision to be made on number of players won’t even bother mentioning ownership issues. 
 

enjoy summer and go again next year RTID. 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Its the Ownership issues that will always hold us back...cant be ingored and we all know it.

Rinse and repeat season after season after season.

Edited Sunday at 05:51 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Ferrit]

Good rally at the end but the standard mid season slump killed us.

A genuine disasterclass of a January transfer window, the likes of Gestede need to go but obviously won’t. Club is rotten, rotten owners, rotten board. It’s a miracle we weren’t in a relegation scrap this season so in that respect you have to say it was better than expected.

Major concerns for next season.

Edited Sunday at 06:01 by Ferrit

[DeeCee]

Nothing I can add that hasn't been posted already. 

Tronstad player of the year.

Overall opinion of the season: Meh

[rovers11]

It was a miracle season in lots of respects. The quality of the squad is bottom 8 so we did well to avoid a relegation battle, let alone get to the final day with a chance of top 6.

Eustace proved he is the best manager in the championship, but there are signs that VI may not be as terrible as first feared.

The summer will bring a tiny budget as always and I think we will sell some that only have one year remaining on their contracts. Players like Tronstad and Brittain know they can move onto better things. Dolan will obviously leave.

The bottom line is that we are going nowhere (well, not in a positive direction anyway!) with Venky's as owners. Nothing changes there.

Best players this season: Trav, Tronstad, Batth

Biggest disappointments: Cantwell, Dennis

[47er]

The Club's aim is to stay in this division. That's all we have to look forward to.

 

[RevidgeBlue]

18 hours ago, Hasta said:

From where we were at the start of the season , success

From Christmas , failure.

That sums it up perfectly. You have to look at the season in context. OF COURSE we'd have taken seventh before a ball was kicked etc etc but given the fact we unexpectedly occupied the play off positions for most of the season and viewed from where we were with twelve games to go, seventh is another dismal failure. 

Added to that the Coach who was mainly responsible for getting us into a decent position left in February for a team in the relegation zone and the Club subsequently bizarrely admitted that the play offs were never our priority. Therefore impossible to view the season in any sort of positive light imo, indeed it's probably going to be the forerunner of something far worse.

[philipl]

Club sacked for the third time by a manager in the last ten years says everything about the Rovers now.

[Upside Down]

Another year of venky rovers where we didn't get promoted.

Final verdict: Complete failure.

[philipl]

What might have been again.

What would have been if we didn't have sub National League personnel in Swag and Pasha.

What should have been had Venkys got the first clue if how to use their money in football....

[Parsonblue]

A season of ups and downs like the majority of the sixty odd seasons I've watched Rovers.  I would have been ecstatic if someone had offered seventh at the start of the season after last year's fight against relegation.

In the main, it's another season that I've enjoyed following the team up and down the country with friends.  Health issues meant I missed an number of away games before Christmas and only emphasised how much I miss not being at games.

It's been a privilege to see young Dolan grow into the player he has now become and I fear we are going to miss him far more than many  believe.

In the main, it's been I season I've thoroughly enjoyed.  I've seen some really good games at all levels with some of the under-21's catching the eye at times.

Like every campaign one can look back and think if only we'd won here or there but that's football.  In many ways I think we have overachieved this season with the squad that we have.  Eustace got every last drop out of the players and Ismael, once he and the players got on the same wavelength, has done the same - which is encouraging for the future.

The summer, like every close season, will see players come and go, and the pre-season will see some youngsters given the chance to step up.  Despite the disappointment of missing out on the play-offs there is still much to be encouraged about the future for our club.

 

 

[Mattyblue]

You think we have an encouraging future under Venky’s?

[roversfan99]

How have we got to the stage where anyone would pre-emptively be "ecstatic" at finishing narrowly and frustrating outside of the top 6 of the Championship?

[roversinmyblood]

Why oh why couldn’t Rovers have carried on losing games!!😡 After supporting them for 62 years I had decided that I was not going to let Venkies hurt me again with their ineptitude. I was doing really well going “cold turkey” and not reading anything about Rovers and then they started winning again with an outside chance of a top six finish and I got dragged right back in again!! My addiction was once again reignited, damn them. 
Sadly, the hope that comes with a new season and maybe one or two signings that might excite the imagination and increase expectations will no doubt drag me back into another season of ultimate heartache. 
Can anybody recommend a decent psychiatrist to help me. 🤪

[sharpysharps86]

A strangely uncomfortable season given where Rovers finished in the table. Sadly the way this club is run means I go into every season simply hoping that Rovers will stay up rather than mount anything like a playoff push, so in many ways it was pleasant to see them at the right end of the table after last seasons disaster.

That aside, the narrative of a season changes as it progresses based on how the team is doing, and its difficult to be anything other than disappointed for not making the playoffs.

The effort of the players has been outstanding for the most part, and against the odds they pushed for the playoffs. We can talk about some of the defeats to relegation battling sides, but overall I'm proud of the group. Ultimately they needed more help from up above, and had they got that help then maybe some of those defeats would've turned into draws or even wins. From the January signings only Ribeiro is a positive. The way the club operates is circus-like. Rudy Gestede is an embarrassment, as are the other two clowns, and it is they who have ultimately cost the club a crack at the playoffs with the woeful recruitment in January and the poor handling of the Eustace departure.

[chaddyrovers]

4 hours ago, Parsonblue said:

A season of ups and downs like the majority of the sixty odd seasons I've watched Rovers.  I would have been ecstatic if someone had offered seventh at the start of the season after last year's fight against relegation.

In the main, it's another season that I've enjoyed following the team up and down the country with friends.  Health issues meant I missed an number of away games before Christmas and only emphasised how much I miss not being at games.

It's been a privilege to see young Dolan grow into the player he has now become and I fear we are going to miss him far more than many  believe.

In the main, it's been I season I've thoroughly enjoyed.  I've seen some really good games at all levels with some of the under-21's catching the eye at times.

Like every campaign one can look back and think if only we'd won here or there but that's football.  In many ways I think we have overachieved this season with the squad that we have.  Eustace got every last drop out of the players and Ismael, once he and the players got on the same wavelength, has done the same - which is encouraging for the future.

The summer, like every close season, will see players come and go, and the pre-season will see some youngsters given the chance to step up.  Despite the disappointment of missing out on the play-offs there is still much to be encouraged about the future for our club.

I hope you are well and better health wise. 

You make many good points in your post. A lot of pundits have us going down or bottom 6 so its shows how much the players and head coaches(Eustace, Lowe and Ismael)  proven these people and many fans who wasn't expecting us to top half and challenging for a playoffs before the season I would have snapped your hand off 

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

How have we got to the stage where anyone would pre-emptively be "ecstatic" at finishing narrowly and frustrating outside of the top 6 of the Championship?

What were your expectations before the season and did we out performed? So if we did then does it show progress and show some happiness?  

[roversfan99]

14 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I hope you are well and better health wise. 

You make many good points in your post. A lot of pundits have us going down or bottom 6 so its shows how much the players and head coaches(Eustace, Lowe and Ismael)  proven these people and many fans who wasn't expecting us to top half and challenging for a playoffs before the season I would have snapped your hand off 

What were your expectations before the season and did we out performed? So if we did then does it show progress and show some happiness?  

I dont get any happiness out of again just missing out, agonisingly, having lost our very talented manager and the main reason we were in the top 6 for much of the season in the circumstances that we did, no.

I dont follow this binary thought process of we expected to finish here and finished here instead. We were in the top 6 for so long, are run so bad that Eustace moved to a relegation battle, our season nosedived and in that change, the new manager took only 1 point from 7 favourable games.

Its not even like we can look forward and think we can build under these owners. The whole think is built on quicksand. The slumps keep happening, the very talented manager has gone, why would next season be different? It would only be progress if it was part of something that is being built.

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

I dont get any happiness out of again just missing out, agonisingly, having lost our very talented manager and the main reason we were in the top 6 for much of the season in the circumstances that we did, no.

I dont follow this binary thought process of we expected to finish here and finished here instead. We were in the top 6 for so long, are run so bad that Eustace moved to a relegation battle, our season nosedived and in that change, the new manager took only 1 point from 7 favourable games.

Its not even like we can look forward and think we can build under these owners. The whole think is built on quicksand. The slumps keep happening, the very talented manager has gone, why would next season be different? It would only be progress if it was part of something that is being built.

We had a good overall season and we gone from relegation candidate to playoff challenges within 1 season. Most pundits thoughts we would be bottom 6/relegation team. 

The players deserved alot more credit than you given them. 

You acted like Eustace is the only one responsible for our progress this season. 

[den]

47 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

We had a good overall season and we gone from relegation candidate to playoff challenges within 1 season. Most pundits thoughts we would be bottom 6/relegation team. 

The players deserved alot more credit than you given them. 

You acted like Eustace is the only one responsible for our progress this season. 

Good season?

its now 13 years since we were relegated from the Prem and we’ve never finished in the top 6 of the league below in all that time. It was also another season where we were nailed on for a top 6 finish then blew it.
 

we can either cling on to measly pickings or look at the bigger picture. I would say it’s anything but good.

 

Edited Monday at 15:57 by den

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

We had a good overall season and we gone from relegation candidate to playoff challenges within 1 season. Most pundits thoughts we would be bottom 6/relegation team. 

The players deserved alot more credit than you given them. 

You acted like Eustace is the only one responsible for our progress this season. 

It possibly shows how low standards have dropped then. Finishing outside the play offs having been in then for most of the season, with another second half of the season slide, with our talented manager leaving because the club is run so badly and with minimal reason for hopes of building on it because our key players are coming to the end of their contracts. Not sure whats positive about that.

I havent in anyway criticised the players in my posts in this thread.

[chaddyrovers]

21 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

It possibly shows how low standards have dropped then.

Stop talking such bollocks pal

21 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Finishing outside the play offs having been in then for most of the season, with another second half of the season slide, with our talented manager leaving because the club is run so badly and with minimal reason for hopes of building on it because our key players are coming to the end of their contracts. Not sure whats positive about that.

in 12 months were gone from almost being relegated on the last day of the season to just missing on the playoffs. Pundits predication us to be relegated or bottom 6, yet the players and head coaches proved that lot so wrong. 

Did you expect Rovers to be playoffs candidates this season or not? 

21 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

I havent in anyway criticised the players in my posts in this thread.

you don't praised them for this season but willing to give all credit to Eustace 

[roversfan99]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Stop talking such bollocks pal

in 12 months were gone from almost being relegated on the last day of the season to just missing on the playoffs. Pundits predication us to be relegated or bottom 6, yet the players and head coaches proved that lot so wrong. 

Did you expect Rovers to be playoffs candidates this season or not? 

you don't praised them for this season but willing to give all credit to Eustace 

Its irrelevant what people said before the season. We were in the top 6 for a big chunk of the season and fell out, provoked again by how badly we are run as a club. 

Obviously they deserve praise but I definitely think thats its not controversial to suggest that the biggest reason for us being up there was Eustace.

It does come down to standards. Im not going to wax lyrical about a successful season considering the running of the club has caused us to be in the top 6 and fall away at the end due to how terribly we are run. The feeling looking back is frustration and anger, not positivity.

And its not a building block because its built on quicksand.