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Atko's Engine

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  1. Poor game overall but think we shaded it. Credit to the ref & lino for giving the offside. Not an easy one to see, but the replay shows their guy (who's a proper unit) behind our last defender & in front Leo when the ball is headed at goal. Also to their manager for fronting up about it afterwards. It was bad defending from us to allow the header, probably the only proper defensive mistake we made all match bar some stray passing around. Back 5 were generally solid, Hyam & Carter were solid, great save when needed from Leo, & Trondstad gave them great protection & used the ball well, looks handy, puts himself about & tough to dispossess. Attacking wise we were poor 1st half, no-one clocked, no fluidity. I said a few times no one was making runs to break the lines; Siggy isn't quick, SS had an off game, & playing JRC & Brittain further forward meant we lost their ability to surge forward from deep undetected. Thankfully JRC provided that 2nd half, & should've got two. Overall a good win after a 2 week break to start this next tranche of matches, Cardiff will be tough to be for most this season. Back it up with another win on Tuesday & we'll be right back in the playoff mix.
  2. Can't agree with the first sentence, though do agree with the second. Before the pass came the take, it wasn't an easy looping header to take down with his chest, back to goal with defenders around. Then he looked up, saw the run, swivelled & played a lovely weighted 20 yard forward pass that took out 3 central defenders. In a match of rather low offensive quality overall it was quite a superb piece of play & consisted of everything that his detractors say he can't do (i.e. control & hold the ball up in tight positions, look around for options & execute composed end product). He has the raw talent & ability, he needs the consistency; this last few games he's started to find some.
  3. Wow, parents know how to pull our strings sometimes don't they?! Be strong. You can always come on here if you need cheering up... 🤔
  4. I lost my mum nearly 3 years ago, having barely seen her for a year prior due to covid. She had dementia so had no idea who we were by then. I missed her passing moment; we'd been allowed to be with her for 24 hours, I went to freshen up at dad's & answer a couple of urgent work emails re a trial the next day. I'd only been gone 10 mins when my brother called me & said she'd passed. I got straight back in the car in floods. Be sure to treasure that moment you had as she breathed her last; I kick myself daily for missing it due to stupid work. It'll never not be a painful memory I'm sure, but it can be a source of strength forever.
  5. I guessed that but didn't want to speculate. I know he said he just wanted to get back to playing again so fair play to him for that. But so many young kids, whether they make it or not, or make it then lose it, would do well to heed the warnings of experiences such as his. I bet he had loads of no-do-gooders around him who are nowhere to be seen now.
  6. I'll put this here, only as it shows how cruel football can be. Jordon Ibe, once bought by Bournemouth from Liverpool for £15m as a 20 year old, has just joined Ebbsfleet United, aged 27. I'm sure he's earned (and probably lost) a few pennies in that time; it's a salutory lesson to all academy youngsters to enjoy every minute they have in the game.
  7. And Lenihan, Rothwell & to a lesser degree Nyambe. Totally agree re measurement of risk financially, given what we now know but didn't 3 months ago. I can see us having to make a big sale in January just to keep the lights on (or stop more being switched off), but if we do I think GB would be as good as anyone to find a modestly priced alternative.
  8. In the main, GB has done a v good job in identifying decent talent to bring in. As with all recruitment it's a mixed bag, but looking at it currently: Hirst - bad failure, low risk financially Hyam - huge success, high financial risk Szmodicz - huge success, high financial risk Morton - ok, low financial risk Mola - failure, low financial risk Thomas - ok, low financial risk Ennis - jury out, low financial risk Siggy - looks top but early days, low financial risk Trondstad - promising, low financial risk Wahlsted - promising, low financial risk Telalovic - jury out, low financial risk Moran - looks good but early days, low financial risk Hill - promising, low financial risk. Standout failures are Hirst, O'Brien & a missed striker last January. Any one of those not happening could've seen us get that missing extra point last season. All signings are risks in terms of will they do what they were signed for, or could an alternative have done better. But overall, and given the context that needs no repeating here, that's not a bad record for GB imo, so far, & significant room for further growth but less room for regression.
  9. Bet your Chelsea mate was chuffed given what was going on at the turf at the same time. Was he cacking his pants about when we go down there at the end of the month?!
  10. Why doesn't JDT get manager of the week if 4 of his players get in the team?? Not that it matters, but still...
  11. I'm writing this not having read any of what's been said before, or seen any replays. The scoreline flatters Leicester, no doubt, but we have to be better in both boxes. Leicester's 1st goal was poor from our perspective. I don't think Pears needed to tip it over, but better safe than sorry I suppose. Having done so though he has to claim the cross or a defender has to challenge. For Faes to be on his own, without challenge from a nothing cross, is criminal. Our goal was even more criminal from their perspective, what they were thinking I don't know,and we took full advantage. It was then a really nip & tuck game, but we missed a killer touch again to put finishing touches to some good approach play. Their 2nd goal is class from them to be fair. The run, cross, control & shot were top notch. Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up. 2nd half we started much the stronger, and had Travis (great save) or Szmodics (great defending) scored then the last 25 mins would've been very different. As it was, Wharton lost the ball meekly, they broke forward then got the pen (soft but can't grumble), clinically scored, then we were wide open & had lost shape for their breakaway 4th, which was poor from Wahlsted. I came away v downbeat but overall on reflection, we'll not meet many sides of Leicester's quality & overall if we play like that we'll win more than we lose. But we need to find more steel and ruthlessness in both boxes, or this season will quickly get away from us. We need to be confident & bounce back well. We can beat Cov & QPR but need to be more ruthless. A couple of other things. Their #18 (or was it 19?) committed 3 bookable offences inside the first 20 mins. Also, why Faes wasn't booked when he fouled Sigurdsson 1st half is beyond me. Why did we announce Brittain being MoM? The Leicester fans proper to the mick, it was quite embarrassing. Pears - poor, Wahlsted no better on the day, but way too early to judge him. Brittain, Pickering solid. Hyam not so good, Carter was better but still needs to be led. Travis good but played too far forward to me, created gaps in front of the back four. Wharton - plays above his age but still rash & loose in possession. Plenty of talent but must improve game understanding. Sigurdsson - looked tidy, seems creative but we were too narrow most of the time. Faded badly, understandably. Moran - looked really good, but again faded. Szmodicz - as above, ended up looking lost, is not a forward & lost his major strengths due to subs & formation. Markanday - best I've seen him, but needs to improve his end product. Hard without a striker to play with though. Subs were made too late IMO. Dolan looked lively, Telalovic had some good touches, JRC caught out for the 4th. Overall a better match than the scoreline suggests, but we really need 4 out of the next 6 points.
  12. Wonderful post, totally agree. For those having a go at Eddie, I can see his logic too. There certainly is a sense of entitlement amongst many fans, and I don't think that would change with fan-based ownership because there is a large (often vocal) number fans of any club who will treat those in charge with disdain & mistrust, and will always feel they can do a better job without knowing exactly what the reality of a club's position us behind the scenes. That, to a large extent, reflects modern society. Rovers are unique in that Venkys, using a scarcely disguised agent-led ownership model that the FA, PL etc didn't see fit to investigate, took us from being a paragon example of a well-run, community-oriented & self-sustaining PL club in days before FFP rendered that a necessity, to a shambles operating at a £20m annual loss and even 11 years in, is only back at square one (I.e. pre-Jack) in terms of the level of football we're at, without it's own training facilities and with threadbare attendances in comparison to our divisional peers. Venkys don't seem to care, other than perhaps how their dismantling of the club affects their family reputation. At least Chansiri seems to care.
  13. Didn't Wednesday fans want Moore gone after they lost 4-0 at P'boro in the first playoff game?? He certainly got dogs abuse from a large number of them.
  14. Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me, but didn't he suffer a ruptured Achilles which sidelined him for nigh on a whole season?? That might be relevant.
  15. Usually because our "2nd string" have been playing against the opponents' "2nd string", which prior to today was against L2 clubs. Fairly obvious really. And "struggling to stay out of the relegation places" is a bit of a reach, even for you Rev, given we're 3 points off the playoff spots. There are issues to sort out, let's be clear, but don't let facts get in the way of your agenda.
  16. 5 live ignored us too. Ours was the only game they didn't have a reporter at last night. Mind you, I wasn't there either so I guess I shouldn't throw the first stone...
  17. On a serious note, the situation at Rovers seems pretty dire. Shutting down the BBE for financial reasons is a new low, especially as the DE stand will stay open when Cardiff will no doubt bring no more than a few hundred fans. That sends out such a desperate statement of muddled distress, moreso even than turning off the transfer taps mid pre season. How on earth is the club going to generate revenue if the revenue streams are switched off, it doesn't make sense. I'm not buying that the website drop out is related, but it certainly sums up the mess we're in. Does anyone know what's going on in India, given that the summer tap being turned off was meant to be a short term measure?
  18. I read that as Burlesque at first, and now I've realised you actually said Burnleyesque I've got a horrible image in my head. I hope you do too!!
  19. I can't make this game, I missed Saturday too, am starting to get withdrawal symptoms as have only seen us play W Brom so far. We've got a real chance to turn a good start into a very good start tomorrow, playing a team level on points. Sunderland will be no pushovers as their 5-0 win v Southampton shows, but like all teams in this division they have their vulnerabilities and I trust JDT and his coaching staff to know how to exploit them. If we can put our chances away and stay solid, we've nothing to fear. I think someone said on the Boro thread that we'd had an easy start to the season and it gets tougher from here. I can't agree with that; they're all tough games when they come thick & fast like they do at this time of year. To be where we are with a 3/1/2 record is positive IMO, especially given the context of funding issues, how we recovered at Rotherham, nearly won v Hull when a man down for 80 mins, and by all accounts should've got something from Plymouth. We'll be in top 6 tomorrow night if we win, that'll do me fine for our opening 7 fixtures, with the promise of better to come once the new signings have bedded in.
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