He’s a different player without Batth. When are Batth and Beck coming back?

The only positive is that we didn’t play as badly as we did against Derby and Stoke. I never want to see ACD in a Rovers shirt again. We looked the better team and Cardiff looked knackered till he came on. Just send him back now.

If he wasn’t sacked for two consecutive January transfer window shambles he won’t be sacked for 2-1 loss. Probably get a pat on the back and another bonus.

I’ve never seen that happen before. He just gave in to the Cardiff players.

Ref gives a penalty to us then recinds it.

Fuck me. I sound like a stuck record but ACD is awful.

His biggest mistake was bringing on ACD. I haven’t seen a single player negatively affect a performance in quite some time.

Amazed it wasn’t 3-1 then.

I’d take him off. His inclusion has changed the game.

To anyone not watching. Against run of play. ACD continuously giving ball away and providing zero help defensively off the ball. Since Dennis went off injured we’ve been playing with 10.

1-2 Cardiff. Began their move with ACD giving it away. What a fucking liability that lad is but Hyam was weak.

Nah, it’s just barrel scraping from Sufail.

ACD is a liability.

No he’s off after a decent performance. ACD on and first thing he does is take the ball to the opposition box then pass it to the oppo.

Speaking of thin, you should see the bench...

So now we're down to just one defender that got us into the top 6. At least Forshaw and Cantwell aren't starting. Looks like we've gone 4-2-4! Gueye, Ohashi, Dennis and Dolan.

Bizarre that you don't think the club sabotaging another season, leading to the shock decision of the head coach to leave won't affect the mentality of the team. It certainly affected Eustace's mentality.

This is the problem with making it simple. In my previous post I said since Travis got injured.

Simply, it's way beyond the managers fault. We were shit under Eustace, we're just a different shade of shit under Ismael.

Well it's my opinion, but aren't you also assuming the mentality was fine? Or is that a fact? It clearly wasn't if the guy managing them decided to leave a team in the play off places. I could see with my own eyes that things went quickly downhill when Travis got injured and there was no sign of help from above. Results have been shite since the away match at Millwall, 21st December. Even when we won it wasn't convincing, besides Luton. Manager was shite last year at this time according to many around this time.

I'm referencing them because there was no way we were going to maintain our league position with them. Eustace knew that, and it was obvious to most people on here besides the likes of Chaddy. They clearly haven't been brought in as squad players as we're relying on them too much. If they were signed as squad players then that's even more disgraceful as we needed players who could make an impact on the team. It's all interconnected. The mentality of the players will be shot to pieces when they bust a gut to get into the position they were, then saw the likes of Forshaw and Woodrow bolstering the ranks, along with a bloke who hadn't played in ages. Then Eustace leaves because he has no fucking chance, and there's no way that turmoil is helping anyone. We didn't slump in January, the rot set in a few weeks before when our squad depth was found wanting. Ismael may very well be the wrong man, but the only right man would have been to keep Eustace and hope for the best. And he wasn't taking us up either after the annual Swaggfail January sabotage.

It ended in 2010.

Sure, if the past 15 years, especially the last 3 haven't taught us anything. Sanderson, Dennis and Forshaw didn't get us into the play off places. We'd have been bottom of the table if we'd played them since the beginning of the season. The manager may be part of it, but whoever they appointed we were set up to fail. All thanks to "we don't need to spend anything" Sufail.

If he plays Forshaw and Cantwell again, I'm joining the haters.

Forgot to mention, Cantwell isn't a player for this league. I'm not sure what team he would suit really. He just seems to saunter around and gets involved when he likes and gets pushed off the ball easily. And Dennis, what a pointless waste of a squad place. May as well kept Sigurdsson.