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He is spot on to be fair, Andri is the only one who you can even remotely think about putting it on his head from a long free kick. Ohashi and Jorgensen ain’t that.

We’ve had so many good players… I imagine him and Tronstad would’ve done a job back then and now!

Maybe it’s the couple of pints after work but I watched the pre match for the weekend and I just think we’re in better hands already. Below is a snippet; https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUYoxPmDmDh/?igsh=MTB0M3I1cnl5eWRzMQ== Tactically, there’s no way to know from the outset but he did talk about effort and endeavour, getting the crosses and creating chances - something VI never even mentioned, he couldn’t fit that around the complaints about fitness or referee decisions (remember his list?) This isn’t advocating for DJ, I just loved hearing about how he sends his kids to local schools and talks about the working class values of the town. There won’t be any excuses, and that suits me.

That shirt looks old too so this would make sense.

I agree on Jorgensen needing time and also how isolated he looked. I just wanted to add his headed clearance (was it onto the bar?) was useful!

Oh btw just remembered that “almost” McLoughlin own goal. Some stellar awareness there, and I’m sure half the Jack Walker at that side heard Toth’s call btw

I agree he has the quality. Im just saying he ain’t performing to it. He is also a poor captain. I don’t think anyone with a straight face can argue against that.

Technically you can make that point but mentally and attitude, he’s last on my team sheet. If I had to pick one player to keep from that 11, it’s tronstad all day.

He played absolutely terribly Gav, he walked around, threw himself on the floor and kicked the ball out of play more than finding the man.

Cantwell was an abomination.

Because he spent all evening looking for his fucking shin pads

He’s worth a fucking clip round the ear, the useless bastard. Couldn’t pass fucking wind

Can you imagine Souness’s reaction to him fucking about with shin pads? Absolute embarrassing stuff

Was the right decision though in the end! Fucking clueless manager.

I think the easier 2+2=; We made no more signings today and signed a cheap punt on Sunday because it cost us £1+million to say bye Val.

Agree with a heavy heart!

@roversfan99 who are the credible alternatives

My ideal one right now is ange Postecoglu the on a similar record - I just think we both know this backroom / setup / ownership isn’t bringing in anyone with that sort of reputation

Key word here is laughing. Knew why they did what they did, but I’m a rovers fan. Was a similar feeling with JDT and JE, “Just do your best”. Difference with Eustace, he’s old fashioned. I personally couldn’t stand the JDT “keeper gets most of the ball” setup, but both go down in a category of putting themselves first. Cant blame them from the outset. But I’m not fucking sat on the outset! 🤣

Will Still (be owned by the Raos)?

Because our backroom management are shit, and the people signing the cheques, don’t give two shits, and/or just want to cut their expenditure. All very different to some weird fascination with the backroom / owners loving what the manager was getting out of us because “dumbing down”, and would never sack him of course.

JHR we’ve had these discussions plenty of times over the years, you have this way of weaving the worst case scenario, and when (like this afternoon) it’s proven to be way off, you just move goalposts. I’ve grown tired of intervening with any comment and it’s rare that even read your posts these days (taken the advice of our resident mod mate to just scroll on), but I just found it poetic today that the first post that sat on top of my feed when texts of “vals gone” came through my phone, where JHR attempting his regular attempt to convince everyone in your familiar tone, that the powers that be are “happy with Ismael”. Response to being wrong on that? He walked away because of a bust up… despite the fact he should’ve been sacked weeks ago.

What’s the difference between Ismael winning 1 in 15 and being potted and Ismael winning 1 in 15 and falling out with the DOF and resigning? I would die on the hill that the both amount to exactly the same thing!

Weeks? Try decades. You never accept the spiel you’ve been spewing is shite. Your position was that he is a deliberate “gear” in operation dumb down rovers… Don’t try and spin it as semantics. The manager was terrible and deserved relieving of his duties. You know, you can say that AND still think the Rao’s, Pasha, Rudy etc are all frauds.

Absolutely - expertise gets the most out of its money. If the careless cunts in India had considered this, we’d never been in this scenario.