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  1. 6 hours ago, bigbrandjohn said:

    I’m not sure I agree with much of that.

    The first goal was a crap pass made under not much pressure by Wharton, and not for the first time this season or last. The second was a ludicrous choice by Kaminski and a crap player being very crap. The third Hyam got sucked out wide so Wharton HAS to tie up Evans, but doesn’t. The 4th they all dozed off.

    The Dack marooned upfront point doesn’t stand up at all if you look at the heatmap.

    My rule of thumb is that when Hedges isn’t in the front 3 and when Brereton stands on the touchline the whole game, we lose badly. Add in a system which exposes crap players then we get a debacle.

  2. 4 hours ago, arbitro said:

    I wasn't going to post this because of the million questions that follow criticising credibility of source and other things but I was told by somebody close to the players that many players aren't happy with Tomasson. The exact words were 'he is only two senior players away from losing the dressing room'.

    Interesting Tony, and completely believable. They can’t enjoy looking like mugs every week, or indeed having to get up on their hind legs and do tactical presentations. They also must know by now that he won’t change and that many of them are going to be replaced. Not only does he not care, it’s what he wants. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, arbitro said:

    I don't think that any of Tomassons starting team could be sold for decent money because they simply aren't good enough John. The talented youngsters are the ones who will hopefully command big fees but Tomasson isn't really giving any of them a chance. I honestly don't understand the psyche of Tomasson in any respect of team selection and tactics or indeed the end goal of what he wants to achieve.

    I agree Tony, I think he wants most of them gone and hope to get better players to surround the talented youngsters so they can blossom properly.

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  4. Pathetic effort. Seems to me all the focus is on the sustainable part of the so called journey rather than the promotion part.

    All the top clubs play it out from the back, so players who can be an effective part of that system will be the ones that attract buyers. Most of our current team can’t, which I think Thomasson is making a point of proving to his bosses.

    I don’t think he likes our squad any more than we do. The players brought in weren’t missing pieces to compliment our existing lot, they were somewhat desperate, warm-bodied gap-fillers. I expect squad turnover in spades by next Sept.

    So why does he not play a different system? Two reasons I think. 1) I have no idea what system will make players like Travis and Gallagher much better, and 2) there’s no point doing anything with Wharton, Buckley, Garrett etc if it’s going to just be long punts to the big fella.

    Personally, I’d make the big calls this window: call time on Travis (maybe RB for a while since Brittain is always injured), send Morton back, trade Gallagher for really any striker, go with our future midfield of Wharton, Bucko and Garrett. Start giving Phillips more game time. I’d even sell Diaz if some idiot offers over £5m as he’ll be playing glued to the left touchline to not get injured. 

  5. 20 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

    I’ve got my doubts and nothing today has made me think again. He’s not getting the best out of what we’ve got so far.

    I don’t think he’s trying to. I think half of yesterdays team will be gone in Summer, which he’ll justify by saying they can’t play the way he’s going to keep us playing. I can think of no definition of the word “project” that involves trying to get the best out of Mowbray’s misfits.

  6. 1 minute ago, AllRoverAsia said:

    I agree with all of that 

    Garrett should develop into a decent box to box midfielder. Good first touch, decent pass and if his aggression, which I like, can be channelled correctly that will stop him just being Travis Mk2. Garrett certainly has much more natural mobility than Travis.

    And he did create our one chance through determination, heads up vision and good delivery. Travis wouldn’t have.

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  7. Some observations I’ve had for a while that were fully on show yesterday:

    - When Hedges isn’t supporting the front two, we create very little. He’s the key for me.

    - The more Diaz stays rooted to the left touchline, the worse we do as he’s just a spectator waiting for “the” ball. The combination of these first two points means inevitable defeat IMO. 

    - I love Ayala coming on to defend a lead like John Wayne in the Alamo, I hate him starting and having to think and pass.

    - I still believe JDT is conducting a prolonged public audition of the squad, perhaps to make a case to the owners for major squad turnover and spending in the summer. I think that’s why he is persisting in his way of playing but with players who can’t play it, rather than changing tactics to what they can play (answers on a postcard as to what that might be). 

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  8. 8 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

    I have just endured watching a full replay.

    Burnley were above us in every facet of the game and by some distance.

    Not the reason we lost so convincingly but I thought the Ref was appalling. How did he not book Barnes at least once?

    There is an interesting passage of play from about the 71 minute. It starts with us having  the ball wide left near the half way line. We then go on to create 2 good chances for Burnley over the next couple of minutes, one resulting in their 2nd goal.

    Mola is heavily involved in that fiasco as he was in their 3rd.

    It's a bit mean to pick Mola out when many others had poor performance but that lad had a nightmare second half.

    Vale may as well have stayed on the bench and we could have played with 10 for all the use he was.

    That must rank as one of our worst derby performances in my 70 years.

    I thought Mola fell apart when we went to a back 4 with him at LB, which he clearly isn’t one. Very surprised at the time Pickering didn’t come on for him. But we were beat at that point anyway.

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  9. 1 hour ago, jim mk2 said:

     

    The tactics of endlessly playing the ball around at the back and it causing us alot of problems is a fact, not opinion. The defeats at Luton, Reading and Coventry and one of two others were a direct result of defenders giving the ball away.

     

     

     

    “A lot” isn’t a fact, it’s an unquantified generalisation.

    I can’t recall a single goal scored from Kaminski kicking the ball upfield, so “a lot” of our goals scored, and victories, perhaps also had their genesis in playing out from the back?

  10. A repeat of Boxing Day ‘77 please.

    Waggy lighting a cigar before slotting in within the first few minutes; a player we’d never heard of making a fool of Stephenson for the second, then, on the stroke of halftime, King Noel beating the offside trap on the halfway line and taking seemingly a month to tap into an empty net after bamboozling Stephenson.

    Then bring on Ayala second half and not give them a sniff of a chance.

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  11. 6 hours ago, arbitro said:

    Winning is the name of the game John, always has and always will be so job done as far as Rovers are concerned. My point is that we ended up with a back eight and defended on the edge of our box which simply allowed Huddersfield to push on. I haven't a problem with defending a lead but we just do it far too deep. Another ten yards up the pitch would deny our opponents the room to get at us. I did notice yesterday that Tomasson at times was gesturing to the players to get up the pitch but for some reason we didn't. Yesterday again it was every player back in our box to defend corners and there was no body there to challenge when it was cleared. It also enabled Huddersfield's deepest outfield player be be thirty five yards out.

    We all want the best for Rovers and in the view of many these sort of things will make us better.

    Perhaps I’m in the minority Tony, I always enjoyed Alamo-style defending, feels more like a real achievement. As to doing the defending ten yards further up, that’s when I start to worry about Ayala having to turn for balls over the top and about Wharton having any time to think - he’s too prone to doing something daft. I think they are both better defenders facing the right way with their backs to the wall.

  12. 23 minutes ago, 47er said:

    Your distaste for Big Sam is well scripted but he would have kept us in the Premier League for years and we would eventually have had a team more attractive to watch---home and away.

    Did you criticise Souness so much when he was on the point of taking us down? We had nothing going for us then.

    Anyway, as has been pointed out, both were running a Premier League team, a far different situation.

    Back to JDT----we are way better higher in the League than I expected us to be and clearly the manager has talent and should be given time to develop his team. That doesn't and shouldn't prevent criticism of some pretty obvious defects.

    We were at home, we are 2nd in the League, we were playing the bottom club, not the top one! Pulling up the drawbridge and settling for 1-0 so early seems inappropriate and potentially very risky. It worked this time, we can't rely on it. 

    It’s worked 8 times out of 8. Of course, someone might scab a late goal but it seems JDT thinks there’s more risk stretching our own team in search of another goal from what is effectively a one-man strike force. I think I agree with him: our defence is a lot better than our attack.

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  13. 1 minute ago, jim mk2 said:

    Yet when we've never been able to come back after going behind IIRC.  The defence is miles better this season but you have to admit we ride our luck at times. 

    We defend really well when we set out to, nothing lucky about that - everyone knows their job. Huddersfield had one shot on target - easily saved - and a half chance, they didn’t deserve anything from the game given Diaz missed two one-on-ones easier than the one he scored.

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