1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He got a performance out of Markanday and Moran and Ayari didn't look out of place at CM.

He might be a miracle worker. 

And Sigurdsson looked a lot better

5 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Brilliant effort by Rovers, could easily have won in normal time

Shearer gone down in my estimation tonight - he should have been more neutral for this game

We all know where he stands. But the smirk at the end was poor form.

Cruel game. Thought we subbed ourselves out of the game, but wonderful comeback. A little strange that Sammie plays every minute of every game and if he gets injured we're relegated. Some gamble that.

Can be proud of tonight. Don't criticise anyone for missing a pen in this situation, take one yourself.

The smirk on Shearers face. Fuck off.

Tough to choose a MOTM tonight, a lot of fantastic performances.

Good night. 

2 hours ago, Penwortham Blue said:

We haven’t had a quick team for many seasons. The odd player with a bit of pace but as a collective, so slow and one of the key reasons why we never seem to move forward and won’t until this is properly acknowledged and remedied.

It makes us less flexible in terms of style, that's quite evident now with how we're struggling to relieve pressure. 

7 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Not a good watch and a fairly drab game, a point is not something we should be settling for at home so happily, wasting time delaying throw ins, and I dont agree with Eustace that it was a very good performance. Though saying that, a point is better than nothing albeit it is 2 points less than basically all of our rivals so not a good day.

I understand if the intention is to solidify and go from there, but we were far from solid today. Norwich had a field day in getting balls in behind in particular McFadzean whose lack of pace really caused us issues today. Sargent wasted numerous chances one on one and we got fortunate. Also, just blindly punting the ball forward is not sustainable, we didnt really carry a threat ourselves, Gallagher went close twice but Dolan and Szmodics were ineffective. The latter is being smothered by these tactics. McFadzean again is guilty of aimless punts more than anyone.

Its early days and there has been minimal training ground time, as he keeps saying contrary to the no excuse culture he keeps banging on about. But we hopefully will try and actually at least play a bit of football amidst the hoofing, and we still have work to do to solidify. McFadzean is a conundrum, reads the game well and excellent when we are deep and backs to the wall, but so slow and limited on the ball.

Pickerings return (replacing Hedges who seems to have been flogged a bit too much) was a big plus. One of few players we have who can do things with one or two touches and fantastic corner.

 

Fadz is quicker than Hyam. Overall our current team is the slowest we've had for a number of years. 

3 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

12,956...lowest crowd by a country mile in the Championship.

Waggott out

2 minutes ago, Groundhog said:

We weren't scoring when we were trying to pass through the middle either, so f*** knows what we are to do. Just got to get hard to beat and keep working on it. 

We don't have an outlet any longer like we did in Arma, Khadra and Brereton. 

On another note I thought the ref today was soft as... 

1-1 a fair result. 'Of course' they score a fantastic freekick against us... 

Thought we adjusted well in the second half, and we're a lot more solid now. Great goal by Hyam but he gets found out 1vs1 defensively. At least we have good cover now with three at the back, even though it's a difficult task for our central midfielders. That's why we can't control games... In this system it would be great if we could have one of either McFadz or Hyam to slot into the anchor role when we're on the ball, but neither are good enough for that role. 

Hope we can nick a win here and there to not put too much pressure on the fixtures that stick out.

14 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

Suspect Cardiff were very happy not to lose and played accordingly as the game went on.

Neither side risked much really. Dull draw but we'll take it at this stage. The home games versus Millwall, Plymouth and Sheff W. stand out as the must win matches from now and until the end of the season.

How much better than Wahlstedt is Pears? Imagine where we had been with him all season instead of that Swedish dud.

Never thought I'd say that...

1 minute ago, Tugayisgod said:

Absolute shite for an hour, much better last 1/2 hours with  the subs making a big difference.

Buckley excellent considering he's hardly played for 3 months and Dolan also busy as usual.

Clean sheet, Pears solid, put the point in the bag and move on (as Tony would say)

Moran too deserves some credit. A lot better than his teammate from B&H.

A lot better. Bucko and Tronstad look a good pairing. Still only one good chance over the 90 minutes so all in all a poor game by all standards, but take the point and prepare for Norwich. Chrisene improved a little too in the second half.

Cardiff there for the taking, as were Birmingham.

Just now, Miker said:

Szmods won't be here next season... he looks fed up.

That'll be because we can't refuse a big bid, not because he wants to go. Star man here.

Conceding less, more defensive sound now with three CB's but also a lot worse going forward.

Travis starting for Ipswich tonight. Think he would've started in Wales too, if he was there.

Our senior players need to take a hold of this one and settle the young lads down instead of slagging them off. We have a real chance here, Cardiff look very poor but still not as poor as us. 

What the hell was that!? Not fighting for our lives...

Garrett looks like a fish out of water, Ayari is taking a hiding and our forward two can't trap a ball. Intensity level of a behind the doors friendly. Christ.

Not looking forward to our matches at the moment, been a rough couple of months. Anxious feeling going into this one, but we did have great energy at least against PNE, just the quality lacking. 

Tronstad having to do the  work for two in midfield at the moment.

Last season we played 1-1 at their place with Hyam scoring an oggie in overtime. 55% possession and the better side. Today we had 37%...

Just route one at the moment. What happened to this group? No direction. I actually didn't bother much after the horrible match against Brum. Gallager was a little bit better, he needs a referee that's on "his side"... Good to see Sammie continuing his goal-scoring form.

12 hours ago, NeilInBristol said:

So we sell Wharton and loan out Travis and loan in fleck but don't play fleck, not even for 10mins?

Baffling

We did we loan out Travis?!

I don't think Fleck is fit. 

How many points can people on here see us win after our last game? From the fixture list the two home games versus Plymouth and Sheff W. look absolutely crucial. Think we'll get beaten soundly by PNE.

8 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Sometimes you are in a position where that's not as important as just getting the fuck out.

It's his first DoF gig. Even if the project has changed, he can be successful under different models. I'd say there's less pressure now as we have no money to spend on players, so all the emphasis will be put on the academy.

Thank you Stoke

Could've needed Travis for this one. Instead he's sat on the bench for Ipswich again tonight. Our captain.

31 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

I guess Gregg and his team had been working for a while on the detail of this, as a permanent signing.

Then at the 11th hour Venky's -via Suhail and Maggott- told them the money was withdrawn.

I think the problems started from there.

I would expect Greg to be on his way at the end of the season. Amazed that he has not walked out already!

 

Where would he walk to?

1 minute ago, Gav said:

I was sat with a Brum fan for most of the day yesterday and he was telling me they're not playing badly, they just can't score at the minute, the chap that scored last night has just come into the club in January.

So last night was pretty much true to form, Brum created plenty but couldn't finish, it could have been 3/4.

As for out lot, nothing changes really, we are a depleted squad cut to the bone financially and that doesn't change with a change of manager. Our only hope is we have players returning to fitness and they will make a difference, but will it be enough.......

 

 

Spot on.

Everyone was singing the praises of Dolan, Hedges and Gallagher after the weekend, but they were noshow'ing us again last night. We have too many players that blow hot and cold unfortunately. We need more Tronstad's.