v Swansea City (a) - 20/1/26

[HowzBRFC]

Injuries are part of football, but the volume and morale of players and fans is down to the environment.

Rovers has suffered the same fate, fading away for the last 5 years, but when has the manager or board going to look in the mirror. The lack of planning, transfer gambles, common sense around letting the whole spine of British, championship experience walked out the door was criminal. The attendences are poor so i'm not surprised the players prefer playing away with some atmosphere. 

The injuries are because:

• The recruitment over the years has been terrible so players can't get rotated as quality nose dives. Most recently Val played Litherland & Forshaw 3 games back to back .... hamstrings gone
• The pitch at Ewood is a mud bath and will take its toll on the players 
• The pitch has resulted in playing 2 extra games 
• I'm sure there are more examples

Val and the board can't moan, they caused this. The fans have a right to moan and be worried for the future. 

[G Somerset Rover]

One big upgrade he could make is to swap out captain marvel, McLoughlin, for Pickering at LCB - Harry has never let us down in that position. He was also extremely liked by two managers who shouldn't ever be mentioned in the same sentence as Valerien Ismael.

Clearly it's pounds, kids and favourites before common sense, so I don't expect anything to change.

Edited 1 hour ago by G Somerset Rover

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, G Somerset Rover said:

One big upgrade he could make is to swap out captain marvel, McLoughlin, for Pickering at LCB - Harry has never let us down in that position. He was also extremely liked by two managers who shouldn't ever be mentioned in the same sentence as Valerien Ismael.

Clearly it's pounds, kids and favourites before common sense, so I don't expect anything to change.

Maybe they’ve hoping to off load Pickering and they don’t want him getting injured ?

[roversfan99]

@ruggles1995 you say that Baradji tried but I dont think he did at all, again. He was signed after a very strange career, being relegated from the Swiss league having been in the lower leagues in Italy before that. A Championship move should be an absolutely massive opportunity for him.

He clearly has more ability than most of our signings but he just strolls around, doesnt bother running back, regularly gives the ball away dawdling and just is symptomatic of how we have been run down. Hes is one of our more talented players, we have plucked him from obscurity and he cant even be arsed.

Another symptom would be that McLoughlin has regularly worn the armband and often (not last night) played in the middle of a back 3. Absolute crap.