Funny thing is at the start of December with us 7th in the league with this small injury hit squad lacking in quality he was basically working a miracle.

Now the wheels have come off and I feel like he has given up to an extent and is probably exacerbating the situation. 

                      Pears

  O'ridordan.  Fadz.   Wharton

JRC.     Tronstad.   Fleck.    Chrisene

               Dolan.     Szmodics

                        Gally

8 minutes ago, Atko's Engine said:

Maybe someone can try & get Salgado involved, he knows a lot about what went on during the early years I believe, and he has an ongoing afinity with the club.

A lot of the players of that era left under an NDA. That might be dissuade a few.

2 minutes ago, bazza said:

Warnock, Potter, Cooper, Eustace. Any of those would give this squad a shake up and instil some fight. Worth trying.

I don't care. As the above poster says its same shit different day. 

Get rid of the owners. Nothing else matters now

Bad news is we lost and are in a relegation battle.

Good news is the blackburn end turned on waggott and the venkys. There's anger here and we need to use it to get rid of them once and for good.

5 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

The LET are nothing other than the club stenographers. They have plainly said that he has been blocked from talking to the press.

There was press done with new signings but not the manager.

Make of that what you will.

Agreed. Jackson didn't have the inside scoop on anything in the last couple of days. He's pretty poor I'd say.

Makes Sharpe look a lot better by comparison.

2 hours ago, TommyRovers said:

I don't know. He lead training as usual. Club have decided against holding a pre match press conference. 

Aren't a lot of the pre match press stuff usually done on the Thursday? Might explain it.

Centre mid options:

Tronstad - very good imo

JRC -needed elsewhere on the park / gets injured

Garrett - not had a run of games playing deeper. He's got something but I'm not convinced. Would be a massive step down in quality from Wharton. 

Ayari. - little experience /not our player

Buckley - currently injured and hasn't played much all season. Will take a while to get back up to speed.

The lack of cover from tronstad is alarming. 

30 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

What's keeping JDT and GB here? 

I'm so confused 

It'll be the promise that next window is the one where they'll get the money.

Then that'll fall through for whatever reason. 

A never ending cycle.

We desperately need cover for tronstad. Another cm is a must now.

Is it 5 loan players in the match day squad isn't it? Someone at rovers needs to be keeping track of this because someone is missing out at this rate.

Can anyone expand on the claims that Adam has been 'pushed out the door'?

3 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

Fantastic stuff from the Orlando account. The ONLY positive from this mess is that it will hopefully shine a lot on these clowns and their running of the club.

It is this kind of spotlight and attention shown by the Orlando account, that we need in order to open a few more eyes.

Nah nobody will notice. They never do. Most people don't even know venkys still own us. This won't register on their radar.

6 hours ago, J*B said:

I think we target Suhail. Get a number of us buying tickets Jack Walker upper tier - he sits every home game alongside Waggott in the Directors seats. We can very easily be within eye-line and earshot of him. He’s got away with being the owners representative for far too long. 

This. Suhail is the one, venkys wouldn't notice.

He wants to work in the shadows. We shouldn't let him.

Ackermann would be interesting, former fm wonderkid

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/09/saka-ackermann-what-happened-to-next-generation-2018

32 minutes ago, rog of the rovers said:

McFadzean also used to playing in a 3.

 

I'd imagine we're switching to a 3-5-2

Pears

Hyam - McFadzean - Scott/O'Riordan

Rankin-Costello - Tronstad

Dolan - Szmodics - Sigurdsson

Gallagher

 

A team thats hopefully good enough to get the 18+ points needed to not be relegated.

Playing with 10 men? 

It's a bold strategy cotton let's see if it pays off!

6 minutes ago, tomphil said:

The Coventry guy until the end of the season makes decent sense we are crying out for some experience and able back up in this squad.

 

I don't love it or hate it.

It's cover till the end of the season. To me it indicates we will continue with a back 3/back 5.

Makes sense not to panic buy now and make 4 or 5 quality signings in the summer. 

Assuming the AW money doesn't go into a big black hole (most likely scenario).

6 minutes ago, Jimmy612 said:

It's all well and good listing those players, but which of those can come and get the ball off the defenders in tight spaces like Wharton did?  JDTs style of play is heavily reliant on that, and as recently as Monday night their goal came from a Garrett mistake in a dangerous area.   You say Travis' doesn't suit JDTs style of play, but which of those 4 (assuming Tronstad is a mainstay now) is going to play alongside him to great effect? 

JRC also had a couple of cameos in midfield before his injury and I'm not sure he has the discipline or know-how to play in a fairly exposed midfield. 

As things stand we've lost two first team midfielders (one the best player in the team IMO and irreplaceable with the current crop), and we've brought in a relative unknown from Brighton who struggled at Coventry earlier in the season.  It's not good enough, and if we don't address it I'm expecting a real slog from now until May. 

We had a good run earlier in the season with a cm of JRC and tronstad. Wouldn't mind that again but JRC is currently needed at right wing back or right cb in the current system and at right back in the 4-2-3-1. 

If we are commiting to playing this new shape then a pacey right wing back would really help to allow JRC to play inside

                      Pears

     O'riordan.  Hyam. Wharton

Jrc.        Ayari.    Tronstad.     Chrisene

            Dolan.       Szmodics

                    Gallagher

Ennis arrived unfit. Kept picking up niggling injuries and since he's been fit hasn't been favoured. Apart from a goal vs Walsall and a good cameo in the 2nd game of the season away at Rotherham he's been awful.

But... he cost us nothing. He's on a long contract but I'd imagine if we were willing to waive a transfer fee we could get him off the books to a Bolton. So it's not the worst signing ever, it's just clogging up the wage budget atm.

Telalovic - I just don't see it, he'll never make it here imo, he's playing above his level. He was a last minute punt when GB realised we needed another striker with no budget available. His positioning has improved but the games too quick for him and he lacks the technical ability. At least he tries, can't knock him for that.

if we get mcguire in I'd happily let both go and write it off as a couple of bad punts. Leonard is better than both imo and would be 3rd choice striker. 

17 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Broughton said they are going to retire Wharton's shirt number 

Is this a joke?

If it is, its great trolling because its really wound me up.

If tronstad gets injured or suspended we are genuinely in trouble in cm. 

I'm not usually one for loan signings but a cm loan until the summer would really help here. By then you've got Buckley fit again and Travis back from Ipswich and we can reasses. 

£20 million guaranteed for Wharton to just start the conversation. That can be up front or installments.

Any less and I think we are selling ourselves short. Personally not as bothered about a cut of his next deal, I'd rather have an extra 5-7.5 million guaranteed and 5-10% of his next deal as opposed to 30-40% of his next deal.

48 minutes ago, rigger said:

In my opinion Gent is not as good as Batty.

Is batty any worse than this villa lad?