O'Brien would have been the end of Buckley so it really was a double kick in the balls. At least they recognised where the problem area is.

Jesus Buckley is shit, offers nothing but errors. At it again there and doing nothing productive, ultimate passenger.

Travis being very positive and driving forward. Been neat and tidy in possession. He is driving us forward when he gets the chance. Great to see.

Think Travis has been decent and worthy of his recall.

Good from Vale and Sorba there ..nicely done.

Gay?

The fact he is a regular this season shows how desperately we need to upgrade. Wanted it to work out for him but he's at nothing it seems.

Been bad alright. Sad to see.

Usual story.

Fuck all football played on it too. Disgraceful.

There is joy to be had down there left. Thomas, JRC and even Travis have gotten in a few times already quite easily.

Can't really defend Morton lately in fairness but would have liked the other 2 to start. Pickering and Buckley always a worry. Hopefully Travis shows up after his sabbatical. Big game for alot of these players. Let's see if they actually have the metal to actually put a shift in with the pressure on...

Those looking for Morton to be dropped will be happy. Would have liked to have seen Hedges in the starting 11.

All a bit hostile on the forum recently and completely understandable. Hoping for a win and actually think we will get it. A defeat and no show will tip alot of people over the edge given the week we have experienced. Should be excited at the prospect of having a top new midfielder on show, getting 3 points, potential to get back into the playoff spots and kicking on the rest of the season. In classic rovers fashion we now face the possibility of the board fcking up the transfer, losing to the bottom of the league team and being outside of the playoffs and dropping. The ultimate head fcuk.

I'm sure people would have the same attitude that @chaddyrovershas if it suited them and not him. Can't really give him any grief because he said the games moving don't bother him in fairness. Annoying their is so many changed but not really worth bickering about, it's the same for most teams. Premier league has games every day of the week now, Thursday games becoming more and more regular. Certain times will always be inconvenient to some people.

I did think about them but left them off...right to include 👍

I was thinking the same but if you look at it closely Sheff U, Watford, West Brom, Millwall, Sunderland, Preston and Norwich all dropped points so not too bad.

Whoever you feel is to blame or whatever side you take, the fact of the matter is they are all to blame. They all had a job to do and as a collective it didn't get done. All as guilty as each other. Simple as that.

Yeah there was an element of anger and I would imagine he is angry but also embarrassed. Lots of looking to the floor and looking away, voice was shaky.

That's a lesson though that he shouldn't really need to be learning. Not good enough to say I'll do better in future. Too avoidable for me to see any silver lining.

I thought the opposite. Thought he came across nervous and edgy and had the energy of a man who fucked up. Jittery and voice quivering. Weather he didn't do his part as he should have and was too casual or not knowledgeable enough or allowed people under his management to drag their heals. Eithee way the buck stops with him, lots of vague, non detailed, evasive shite imo. Not impressed at all.

I feel like we have blurred the line between hypothetical and actually real life?😂😂😂

This really has left the sourest of tastes in my mouth, struggled to shake it all day. Fucking shocking. I try tell myself not to be irate but I can't help it. It's like mustering up the courage to ask out the sexiest most coveted woman in the area, she says yeah ok go on then. You can't believe it, you send her all the details on where and when. You get a shower, the fancy shirt, the counterfeit cologne. She's at the chosen location, she's actually going to see it through. You are ready to go, ready to pretend to be whoever she wants you to be, hopefully she falls for it. You walk out the house, stick the keys in the ignition only to release you haven't put any petrol in the car, try to call a mate to bail you out and your phone battery dies. It's all falling apart. You are royally fucked...and not in the way you wanted.

I agree and I wanted him here desperately but I'm not naive enough to think it's Ronaldo level of image rights involved. Should have been a standard transaction end of story.

The statement issued is so worrying. No accountability. It's like they tried to convince us that the O'Brien deal was so complex and alot of technicalities involved that we simply ran out of time and a valiant effort was made. Then it's "oh yeah we fucked up the other deal too but don't pay too much attention to that". I gave them the benefit foolishly but now I reckon it's actually much worse that we think. Unsigned forms, technical issues, missing documents, no terms agreed. It wasnt one slight oversight it was a complete shit show. Just have a vision of utter panic, paper flying everywhere, documents getting cellotaped together, staff asking how to turn the printer on, phones ringing off the hook, WiFi dropping out. Absolute joke.