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Miller11

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  1. Completely agree. We’ve been left with a morale sapped squad completely used to playing JDT’s unswerving style, and without Adam Wharton they are absolutely shit at it. We’ve lost the one player capable of making an incisive forward pass (especially with JRC injured), so we are stuck with backwards and sideways passing. Look at the Broughton signings in January, players out on loan at this level for the first time who are near and tidy on paper, but miles off being Championship ready. We were hurtling down the table sticking to JDT’s philosophy and it’s took a 37 year old journeyman centre back to help arrest the slide. Eustace has quickly solidified things, but turning us into any sort of attacking threat is a much bigger ask due to our complete lack of athleticism, pace, power, nouse and experience. Clean sheet tonight is very welcome, we may well have struggled against a better side but I thought Pears looked good and Scott Wharton’s second half performance was much more like it. We need Pickering and JRC back though, Carter too. I hope Eustace lets Dolan off the reigns a bit, gets him running at players again. The amount of times Britain stopped and cut back inside today was ridiculous, another lingering effect of our possession based approach. I also think we’d be giving Eustace a much better crack at things by facilitating a back room clear out. The JDT approach needs binning and an effective way needs to be figured out, I think we’ll need new coaches for this.
  2. Bring back the long ball for the second half. We can’t string 2 passes together when they have to go forwards.
  3. Can’t see Dolan staying on the bench much beyond half time. We will miss the energy he brings. Wonder if Ayari might sit a little bit deeper, pack the midfield a bit. Hard to know as we’ve seen so little of him.
  4. Yep. Sell on clauses are a god send to little clubs, but neither here nor there for us. The fact they are so celebrated at Rovers suggests small time mentality.
  5. Record fees are all relative though and don’t take normal inflation, let alone football hyperinflation into account. The fact we’ve been out of the Premier League for a long time now (and of course our recent dip into the third tier) does make it very difficult for us to sell players at their optimum. Unfortunately it’s also not helped by the “can’t do” mentality within the club either. With Adam tied to a long deal, and being a home town lad, we only needed to show the tiniest bit of ambition (and not be beholden to an Indian Court) to hang on to him til that really big money move came along. I’ve seen this spoken about quite a lot, I can state categorically that the sell on clause is the absolute bog standard 15% on any profit.
  6. The repeated balls up that was the McGuire transfer has really deflected from the major disappointment of the January window. Selling Wharton so early and for so little was a travesty. Unfortunately there appears to be a fair number of Rovers fans on social media who seem to enjoy watching Jamie Carragher talking about Wharton in a Palace shirt more than they did seeing him play in a blue and white shirt. They genuinely seem to derive more pleasure from interacting with Palace fans on Twitter about him than they did from him bossing our midfield. Modern football I suppose. We are still miles off “the model” we have supposedly tried to employ for a few years. If we were getting it right we’d be selling our players at their optimum value to a “big club” after getting a good few years out of them. Unfortunately we are closer to a classic Crewe model than the fabled Brentford one, where we sell our stars at a low price to a stepping stone club before they make their big move.
  7. I think it’s very difficult for Eustace to implement any of his ideas at the moment. There’s barely any time in between games at the moment to do anything other than recovery and the very basics. We’ve got an unbalanced squad that lacks the required physicality and is mentally weak. We will just have to muddle through til the end of the season, a win, a loss and a draw in his first 3 games is ok, if we keep that up we should be ok. I’d have taken a point before kick off today, it any time you throw away a 2 goal lead it has to be seen as points dropped. Don’t know about Remy in the away end, but apparently JDT was at Brockhall this morning. I’m guessing it’s because his lads have remained in the Rovers academy, but it’s still very bizarre.
  8. Only Wharton and Garrett from the academy in the match day squad. Can’t remember the last time that number was so low, must be a long time since just one home grown player has started. I thought Buckley would’ve been in the squad today, and Gilsenan and Duru should’ve been.
  9. I’m not advocating bringing all of them in, but I’d rather give our untested kids ago than other teams kids who aren’t up to it. Duru or Montgomery wouldn’t do any worse than Brittain has for the last few months (good game on Saturday being the glaring exception). Agree with you on Fleck. Gilsenan is way ahead of Markanday for me and I’d rather blood him than an out of form Brighton player too.
  10. Appalling performance. Eustace has probably only had one full days training with them, but he’s got a very busy couple of days ahead. If I was him my first port of call would be the U23s. We’ve got absolutely no pace, power or athleticism in our squad so I’d be trying to see what we’ve got in the young lads. Duru, Batty, Montgomery, Gilsenan, Nsangou all worth a go on the bench over the likes of Ayari and Markanday. If Telalovic has come through our academy he’d have spent the last 4 or 5 years in the North West Counties.
  11. Only managed to bring myself to watch a couple of minutes of it. Still too gutting to see him in another teams shirt just yet.
  12. Unless he flew there and back, and had a meeting, between full time against QPR and Monday lunchtime, I’m saying it didn’t happen.
  13. Either that, or Steve Waggott can defy the laws of space and time.
  14. I can categorically state he didn’t. He didn’t go to India last week at all.
  15. Telalovic shares the same agent as JDT, wouldn’t be surprised if he tries his best to get him moved on at the first available opportunity.
  16. I think there are a lot of parallels between Rovers under JDT and Rovers under Roy Hodgson. Played some wonderful stuff at times, looked like we could really challenge then fell off badly, mixed continental recruitment, players didn’t buy in to the system after a while, captains causing chaos… Maybe a continental style doesn’t fit us as a club. Souness and Hughes thrived. Hoping Eustace is more in the mould of the latter.
  17. Think it’s also worth mentioning that Sky, Talksport, The Mirror, Elliott Jackson, Andy Bayes, or Dave on Twitter can all announce that one manager is leaving and another is coming in as soon as they get wind of what is happening. The club can’t announce a manager has left until the contract is actually terminated, which is often accompanied by negotiations, payments, agreeing to and signing of many other documents, etc.
  18. It has been provisionally agreed to bring it forward, but with the fallout from yesterdays meeting and the ongoing situation at the club we aren’t going to push it. Perhaps if things are a little calmer over the weekend we might bring it forward a day or two. It absolutely shouldn’t be the boards priority at this moment.
  19. Are you talking about secrecy? If so then we were told to keep it to ourselves but there would be a lot of speculation and press noise coming out over the next day or so. It took 20 minutes. I don’t think the content of the Mail article was a surprise to anyone at the club. I’ve drawn my own conclusions from this, but I couldn’t state it as fact. Those conclusions were JDT is gone.
  20. A box of these and an anonymous letter were delivered prior to the joint Blackpool protest. This covers off everything in a factual and accessible manner up until that point.
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