v Norwich City (h) - 30/8/25

[Trinidad Rover]

Oh dear.

Been poor with little attacking threat again. Tavares and Kargbo struggling.

Hull masked a few clear issues with the team and tactics, they’re awful.

1 in 4 is not good.

[joey_big_nose]

6 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

Feel sorry for the fans who paid good money to go to the game. Game over after 45 mins.

Well... Id say from a season perspective its pretty important we can show we can dig in now and at least not get turned over if we can't scab a draw.

Travis is such a big loss when you need to compete in midfield like games like these. 

[ben_the_beast]

I'm sorry but that's not a red and a penalty. I could accept one or the other but applying the double jeopardy rule for something which is essentially a dive is ridiculous. Game ruined for such a minor infraction is insane. 

[AAK]

Played hull last week and a few got over encouraged, hull are poor and will be down there with us. Unless the new Japanese lad and eidur son turns out to be real finds, and the other midfield lad.

Edited August 30 by AAK

[chaddyrovers]

Taraves off Wharton on

[DE.]

3 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Norwich are a good team, don't talk crap.

They're bang average and will finish mid table at best. 

[joey_big_nose]

At least Tavares is off... Not sure how it will work in midfield? We'll get even more overrun if we dont give Tronstad some support?

[yankfan]

Not sure it was a PK as the contact was outside the box and Seargent was looking for it. But that doesn’t change the fact we are deservingly losing and really should be down more than 1 

[StHelensRover]

2 minutes ago, ben_the_beast said:

I'm sorry but that's not a red and a penalty. I could accept one or the other but applying the double jeopardy rule for something which is essentially a dive is ridiculous. Game ruined for such a minor infraction is insane. 

If the player had any nouse/brains, he could have 'attempted to play the ball' and would have only been booked. Instead he yanked him over like an idiot. Now misses next 3 games as well. 

I'll be stunned if we get anything from this game now 

Edited August 30 by StHelensRover

[K-Hod]

Safe to say, it’s probably game over.

For those that can’t appreciate context, I’d love to be proven wrong.

[London blue]

Tavares hooked at HT. He's been very poor and is far from a replacement for Travis as thing stand. 

[AAK]

Just now, DE. said:

They're bang average and will finish mid table at best. 

Agree with this, Norwich are mid table fodder, they’ve lost their best player to their big rivals and aren’t reinvesting.

[Bohinen1983]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Taraves off Wharton on

Did nothing other than kill a good counter attack thus setting up a dangerous Norwich attack- looks languid, lazy and wank..  Hope to god he improves because thus far he looks awful.

[alcd]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

Taraves off Wharton on

Absolutely need to get a decent midfielder before the window closes.m Will be utterly sunk if not.

[Mercer]

8 minutes ago, DE. said:

If we're this shit against Norwich we're in huge trouble. Hull result was blatantly down to the majority of their squad being unwell. 

Getting thumped again today.

Don't think their illnesses helped them but they are a very poor side and will be bottom six like us.

[wilsdenrover]

3 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

If the player had any nouse/brains, he could have 'attempted to play the ball' and would have only been booked. Instead he yanked him over like an idiot. Now misses next 3 games as well. 

I'll be stunned if we get anything from this game now 

1 game 

[DE.]

Just now, Mercer said:

Getting thumped again today.

Don't think their illnesses helped them but they are a very poor side and will be bottom six like us.

Agreed, but I think last week would have been much closer in different circumstances. It stands out massively from all of the other matches we've played this season. 

[davulsukur]

Started the second half like a total car crash.

Going to be embarrassing this.

[booth]

I'm just seeing a bunch of cheap replacements giving the ball away repeatedly without any semblance of gameplan.

[roversinmyblood]

Far too many individual errors being made. Terrible passing. 

[Mercer]

3 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

At least Tavares is off... Not sure how it will work in midfield? We'll get even more overrun if we dont give Tronstad some support?

There is a reason Tavares couldn't command a regular starting place last season in Portugal and a reason why he only finished about 3 of the 22 games he started.  If he struggled in Portugal then he's no chance in the Championship. 

[davulsukur]

Surely Gueye should have come on at the break? All we're going to do is punt it long.

[Tom]

I’d have been tempted to put Miller on along with Gueye, if a throw in anyway in the final third becomes an opportunity we need to try it 

[Neal]

Why? WHY??? HASN'T HE PUT MILLER & GUEYE ON???? We had a throw in deep in their half that went backwards whilst we're 1-0 down at home. Fucking div. 

[AspRover]

This is where you need a Big Sam type manager, he'd 100% have a backup plan involving Gueye and Miller etc. ready to go for just this sort of situation