v Ipswich Town (a) - 17/1/26

[simongarnerisgod]

you can be a poor side but hard to beat,we ar`nt hard to beat and don`t score goals,which is very worrying,i just hope gudjonson comes back firing and the new lad jorgensen develops an understanding with him ,yuki needs a rest,he`s been running on empty for a few weeks now

[Ghost7]

Terribly weak defending YET AGAIN by Hyam's replacement Sean Mcloughlin on the second.

How many easy goal contributions against us is that now... ?

I'm almost seeing one a game. 

This guy will be starting at the back for us for years to come. That's how Venky's operate. We should have been spending good cash on a Hyam replacement as you'd expect either before he left or Jan 1.

This sale was easily the most detrimental but that was extremely obvious at the time, to anyone interested in Rovers getting results this season.

[bigbrandjohn]

Did we ascertain whether Pears is injured, pissed off, or about to be sold.

[bluebruce]

So I was working all day today and I've just watched the highlights.

What in the Shane Duffy was that own goal?! I knew Cashin had scored one, but that was far worse than I expected. Nobody anywhere near him, keeper has the ball covered, lashes at it for no reason giving the keeper no chance, and then, possibly worst of all, casually grabs the ball and heads back towards the centre circle like it wasn't shit.

Appalling. I'd say Sammie Szmodics looked more embarassed to score!

[not exactly Scarface]

How did you view Szmodics today up against his former team.     He's a player that appears on his way out here, McKenna gave him 10 minutes towards the end and even scored but is often left out and rarely features now.      Your team just didn't test us nowhere near enough today, we didn't even play nowhere near our best but still ran out comfortable winners.     Rovers just didn't present enough of a challenge.      I hope you can survive and remain at Championship level.    League One is tough to get out of once you drop down and you need to do what you can to ensure such a scenario doesn't occur.

Can imagine you must be pleased to get these fixtures over with against us this season what with the abandoned game cut short with 10 minutes remaining when you had a lead, the rearranged game where we stole a point right at the end when should have been rightfully beaten and now today.    I don't pick the results and outcome of games or dictate what players or indeed referees should do and we've rode our luck at times in the matches involved but today was different where no-one can really dispute a winner.

If you want Szmodics back despite scoring the third I'd allow him to return as he just seems surplus to the time ahead at Portman Road.   It's a pity for the player and clubs involved as had he stayed up there Rovers could maybe have continued with his services or indeed proficiency that he just hasn't replicated here with us.  

 

 

[ageoftherover]

Just watched the highlights. Cashins own goal was appalling, as bad as you'll see at any level. He was very very lucky to not concede a penalty towards the end of the game too. Looked an absolutely nailed on pen that would have had VI scribbling in his notebook if it had gone against us.

[cesus]

4 hours ago, not exactly Scarface said:

How did you view Szmodics today up against his former team.     He's a player that appears on his way out here, McKenna gave him 10 minutes towards the end and even scored but is often left out and rarely features now.      Your team just didn't test us nowhere near enough today, we didn't even play nowhere near our best but still ran out comfortable winners.     Rovers just didn't present enough of a challenge.      I hope you can survive and remain at Championship level.    League One is tough to get out of once you drop down and you need to do what you can to ensure such a scenario doesn't occur.

Can imagine you must be pleased to get these fixtures over with against us this season what with the abandoned game cut short with 10 minutes remaining when you had a lead, the rearranged game where we stole a point right at the end when should have been rightfully beaten and now today.    I don't pick the results and outcome of games or dictate what players or indeed referees should do and we've rode our luck at times in the matches involved but today was different where no-one can really dispute a winner.

If you want Szmodics back despite scoring the third I'd allow him to return as he just seems surplus to the time ahead at Portman Road.   It's a pity for the player and clubs involved as had he stayed up there Rovers could maybe have continued with his services or indeed proficiency that he just hasn't replicated here with us.  

 

I love Sammie back and would be pretty confident he could score us the goals to stay up, but this manager would probably play him at left wing back or something stupid like that.

[philipl]

Catastrophic Cashin debut. Long felt McLoughlin's level as a Hull reject was a correct assessment of his capabilities.

With George Pratt in the side instead of Cashin we are not 2 down inside 10 minutes. Crap selection.

The biggest problem is VI is simply not coaching us on how to play when in possession. There is no guile, no movement, no nothing.

These players are much weaker than the team which the loons dismantled but they are better than what they are showing.

Of course we are ravaged by absences but this is getting dangerously bad.

Edited 10 hours ago by philipl

[Lancaster Rover]

There are 19 championship Clubs ahead of us in bringing Sammie back

[RoversTilliDie]

8 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

you can be a poor side but hard to beat,we ar`nt hard to beat and don`t score goals,which is very worrying,i just hope gudjonson comes back firing and the new lad jorgensen develops an understanding with him ,yuki needs a rest,he`s been running on empty for a few weeks now

There's light at the end of the tunnel  my opinion , we were well beaten with high flying Ipswich, but we're not far off the injured returning, and our new strikers debut. I will be attending the Watford game, and  hopefully, see Rovers turn the corner.

[RoversTilliDie]

I will be attending, the Watford game, Rovers till I die.

Edited 9 hours ago by RoversTilliDie

[RoversTilliDie]

20 minutes ago, Lancaster Rover said:

There are 19 championship Clubs ahead of us in bringing Sammie back

Sammies long gone, onwards and upwards, Come on the Rovers.

[ElTwis]

Well this guy certainly sounds like a serious poster and definitely isn't just on the wind up

[Parsonblue]

A long day yesterday and not a happy one.  Portman Road is never a happy hunting ground but yesterday we shot ourselves in the foot conceding two poor early goals.  The Cashin own goal was one of the softest I've seen.  I must admit of the three centre-backs, young Atcheson looked by far the better of the three.  McLoughlin simply doesn't win enough headers and is easily knocked off the ball.  Cashin, who looked decent at Hull last week, was clearly unnerved by the own goal.

The spells when we got ourselves back in the game produced very little although I thought the new lad looked decent when he came on.

It's now a big week with Swansea and Watford in quick succession.  I'm hoping the journey back from Swansea will be a happier one than yesterday - we need at least a point - and hoping to see a home win on Saturday.  Four points from these two games would give us something on which to build when players return from injury.  As RoverTilliDie said - onwards and upwards (hopefully). 

Edited 8 hours ago by Parsonblue

[Herbie6590]

43 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

I will be attending, the Watford game, Rovers till I die.

Good for you chief…will you also be at Swansea? 

[KentExile]

7 hours ago, not exactly Scarface said:

How did you view Szmodics today up against his former team.     He's a player that appears on his way out here, McKenna gave him 10 minutes towards the end and even scored but is often left out and rarely features now.      Your team just didn't test us nowhere near enough today, we didn't even play nowhere near our best but still ran out comfortable winners.     Rovers just didn't present enough of a challenge.      I hope you can survive and remain at Championship level.    League One is tough to get out of once you drop down and you need to do what you can to ensure such a scenario doesn't occur.

Can imagine you must be pleased to get these fixtures over with against us this season what with the abandoned game cut short with 10 minutes remaining when you had a lead, the rearranged game where we stole a point right at the end when should have been rightfully beaten and now today.    I don't pick the results and outcome of games or dictate what players or indeed referees should do and we've rode our luck at times in the matches involved but today was different where no-one can really dispute a winner.

If you want Szmodics back despite scoring the third I'd allow him to return as he just seems surplus to the time ahead at Portman Road.   It's a pity for the player and clubs involved as had he stayed up there Rovers could maybe have continued with his services or indeed proficiency that he just hasn't replicated here with us.  

 

 

The strange thig with Szmodics at Ipswich was last season for me. 

Why did McKenna  play him on the left wing?  He still had a record of 1 in 5 in the Premier league playing out of position, If he had been utilised correctly you may have had made more of a fight of staying up.  As it was, he was still your second highest's scorer last season despite missing half the season with injury  But used properly, you would have got so much more out of him.

Obviously this season your entire squad started badly and then he got more injuries.  But for me his was criminally misused by Ipswich last season

 

I would have him back here in a heartbeat, but Rovers no longer pay average Championship level wages, let alone anywhere near what Szmodics is currently on, so if he is to depart Ipswich, Rovers will unfortunately not be his destination

Edited 7 hours ago by KentExile

[Tomphil2]

Sammy certainly looks fed up down there and he's way too good to be bench fodder but the chances of getting him back here are slim to non.

No point dreaming.

[Gav]

14 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Sammy certainly looks fed up down there and he's way too good to be bench fodder but the chances of getting him back here are slim to non.

No point dreaming.

I know footballers are all about the job/work/pay, but I'd not come anywhere near Ewood Park if given the chance and he knows the club better than most. 

What must he have thought when Waggott brought a handful of fans into the club to speak to the players? I seem to recall Josh giving them some grief and them, the players, moaning about it, what a place, what a club, shambles.......

 

[Hasta]

3 hours ago, RoversTilliDie said:

There's light at the end of the tunnel  my opinion , we were well beaten with high flying Ipswich, but we're not far off the injured returning, and our new strikers debut. I will be attending the Watford game, and  hopefully, see Rovers turn the corner.

We finished 7th last season. Why are we even in this tunnel ?

[bluebruce]

10 hours ago, not exactly Scarface said:

How did you view Szmodics today up against his former team.     He's a player that appears on his way out here, McKenna gave him 10 minutes towards the end and even scored but is often left out and rarely features now.      Your team just didn't test us nowhere near enough today, we didn't even play nowhere near our best but still ran out comfortable winners.     Rovers just didn't present enough of a challenge.      I hope you can survive and remain at Championship level.    League One is tough to get out of once you drop down and you need to do what you can to ensure such a scenario doesn't occur.

Can imagine you must be pleased to get these fixtures over with against us this season what with the abandoned game cut short with 10 minutes remaining when you had a lead, the rearranged game where we stole a point right at the end when should have been rightfully beaten and now today.    I don't pick the results and outcome of games or dictate what players or indeed referees should do and we've rode our luck at times in the matches involved but today was different where no-one can really dispute a winner.

If you want Szmodics back despite scoring the third I'd allow him to return as he just seems surplus to the time ahead at Portman Road.   It's a pity for the player and clubs involved as had he stayed up there Rovers could maybe have continued with his services or indeed proficiency that he just hasn't replicated here with us.  

 

 

You have absolutely wasted Szmodics. He is a fine player and deserved better.

[Hasta]

10 hours ago, not exactly Scarface said:

How did you view Szmodics today up against his former team.     He's a player that appears on his way out here, McKenna gave him 10 minutes towards the end and even scored but is often left out and rarely features now.      Your team just didn't test us nowhere near enough today, we didn't even play nowhere near our best but still ran out comfortable winners.     Rovers just didn't present enough of a challenge.      I hope you can survive and remain at Championship level.    League One is tough to get out of once you drop down and you need to do what you can to ensure such a scenario doesn't occur.

Can imagine you must be pleased to get these fixtures over with against us this season what with the abandoned game cut short with 10 minutes remaining when you had a lead, the rearranged game where we stole a point right at the end when should have been rightfully beaten and now today.    I don't pick the results and outcome of games or dictate what players or indeed referees should do and we've rode our luck at times in the matches involved but today was different where no-one can really dispute a winner.

If you want Szmodics back despite scoring the third I'd allow him to return as he just seems surplus to the time ahead at Portman Road.   It's a pity for the player and clubs involved as had he stayed up there Rovers could maybe have continued with his services or indeed proficiency that he just hasn't replicated here with us.  

 

 

We played Szmodics slightly deeper than an out and out forward, but he would often run past the last man. The number of goals he scores where we sprung the defence and got him one on one was high. If he played wider or up top he wasn't as effective. However once he was scoring regularly his confidence was up and his finishing was top notch.

A bit like Adam Armstrong, he's very good in this league but probably ineffective in the Premier League. But if he goes to a club who plays him to his strengths he would still score 15+ a season. I presume the way you play doesn't suit him, in which case you are both better parting ways. I'm not exaggerating when I say he looked 10x the player George Hirst did.

[Rogerb]

No harm in asking to loan Szmodics back in this window with a wage contribution.

[KentExile]

5 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

No harm in asking to loan Szmodics back in this window with a wage contribution.

Problem is, our offer of wage contribution will be about 30% of his wages (he is apparently on circa £30K/week), If Ipswich do want to loan him out, they will find plenty of takers offering at least double what Rovers would be prepared to offer

Edited 4 hours ago by KentExile

[Herbie6590]

The BRFCS Player of the Match in association with SUITS ME - the official Rovers debit card provider - is Balazs Toth...⚪🔵

[Tomphil2]

2 hours ago, Rogerb said:

No harm in asking to loan Szmodics back in this window with a wage contribution.

Nah they'll spew 20k wage contributions on the likes of Dennis but ask for something that actually makes sense and they run for the hills.