Duncan McGuire is out of contract on 31 December 2024.

I cannot visualise us paying a fee for him this summer when our planning will be to get him for nowt in January.

In the MLS this season he's scored 4 in 9, so there could be other bidders.

I'm sure our shenanigans were not unnoticed by others.

Maybe it's just that I never heard that the hierarchy took that freebie to Florida already to sign that pre contract.

4 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

LOL talk about an agenda. 

Pointing out what actually happened?

@DE. Just WOW!

I will have to re read to take all that info in.

Do the same for players as transfer targets and the Rovers DoF job is yours for the asking.

46 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I didn’t either, he did ok under the high ball today.

He played well today, showed bravery.

Super Sammie!

Pears save looks better each time I see it.

4 hours ago, superniko said:

Fair fucks to Waggott. That bus does look swanky. Purple lights and everything. 

Toasting a great away win with a warm can of Brain Rot!

Cheap as Maidens Water

Well done Rovers 😊 😊 😊 

Thank you Leicester 😉 

FO Brum 😂 😂 😂 , I would have been just as happy to see SW go down to the sewer

I'm also pleased Ipswich get automatic promotion and that Plymouth stay up.

The pitch looks in good nick

2 minutes ago, sympatheticclaret said:

Just a thought ...

I was at Turf Moor when we were presented with the old 4th Division Champions Trophy in our last home game of the 1991-92 season, against Wrexham. Full house, party atmosphere .... and we lost 1-2 to a Wrexham side we'd tubbed 6-2 at the Racecourse five months earlier.  One of your own and a friend of mine, Vince O'Keefe was between the sticks for Wrexham that day ....

 

A hero of mine as I saw his heroics at Wembley v Charlton.

3 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

A really inspirational leader would be out there in a fixture of this magnitude.Hopefully, the team can man up like Sammy, rather than capitulate like Hyam.

Hyam being AWOL automatically makes our backline faster. Not a bad thing.

1 minute ago, Tricky said:

No Hyam, good, he's useless and probably called in sick like a wimp. 

That's what happened.

Markanday too.

4 hours ago, WacoRover said:

Back to Leicester, they have almost nothing to be excited about, playing this game. If they play several starters, those guys are quality. Their reserves are better than some of our starters. If they play youth, those kids will try to impress. 

I expect a strong effort from our players.
I don’t think we have much hope of getting a point, but if we do, we’re going to earn it. 

They've won the league. They are being presented with the trophy. They are at home, playing before a full house of their celebrating fans. They will want to be at Leicester in the PL.

They will start with their best team to thank both the players and fans.

We are in for a difficult time.

We will lose but not be relegated but Sheff Wed will go above us in league position.

I want Brum to go down but also think both Brum and Plymouth will lose.

Come Saturday, mid afternoon I'll be wishing I was a betting man.

23 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

And we still are rudderless. The only reason we may stay up is because other clubs have beefed it, not because we are any better.

Spot on.

Eustace's record will take us down over a full season.

We will be safe this year because Plymouth definitely and probably Brum will fail.

SW will finish above us.

Eustace is a failure waiting to happen and when we stay up anyone thinking that a success, ..... well I'd best stop there.

All IMHO.

With a win% of 12.5% Eustace is in joint 2nd place with Jim Iley, in the list of crap Rovers managers.

Berg tops the list at 10% but only got 10 games before being fired. Iley got 16 games, the same as Eustace is currently on.

Eustace has 2 years to run on his contract and we all know he'll be here for the duration whatever happens on Saturday.

That's purgatory under the Raos direction.

With little or no funding and GB running recruitment the forthcoming window will be another shambles.

And yet we're going to put ourselves through another summer of torment based on lies and false promises by the charlatans installed at Ewood and echoed on here by a few.

Count me out, I'll be watching cricket.

Vardy scored his first league goal for Leicester against Rovers.

He's 37 so it's possible he scores his final league goal for Leicester against Rovers.

But, he's still got more pace than our lot combined so I wouldn't bet against him featuring in the PL next season, and scoring goals.

He may well be a plank but what a career he's had since rejection as a youngster by Sheff Wed, the home town club he also supported.

The party has started.

If you do a Google search for Leicester City you get a nice firework display.

Vardy is our only hope and can be relied upon to keep the party running.

BUT, Maresca is no fool, he'll have them sober by KO but a pissed up Leicester are more than a match for our soft lads

1 hour ago, Ghost7 said:

The reality is he wasn't in charge at the start of the fixture so it's really kind to give it him as his first win. 

It's also extremely harsh on Damien Johnson and the people who took training that week, and prepared for the game.

IIRC he only appeared on the touchline with us leading 3-1.

BBC "Having watched Blackburn beat one of his former clubs, new boss John Eustace now comes in for an intriguing first game in charge against another on Tuesday when Rovers face Birmingham City at St Andrew's"

Jonno did the pre and post match match interviews.

But if someone wants to give Eustace the win well it makes little difference to the appalling PPG of this manager.

He will be well up in the league of the worst of all time Rovers managers, which I will confirm post Leicester defeat.

Truth will out.

Hull will win, they are streets ahead of Plymouth.

Norwich will win, they are better than Small Heath.

I want SW to lose. Some of their fans online are banjo players. I think they'll draw.

We will lose but stay safe for yet another season of managed decline in the Championship.

Project "Inflict Excruciating Pain" will ramp up a notch.

I don't usually do predictions so I'll revisit this post match.

1 hour ago, onlyonejackwalker said:

It is very difficult getting points in professional football. As we and other teams low down keep demonstrating. I have believed all along that we will stay up, but only because the other teams simply cannot accrue enough points to save themselves.

It's been a thoroughly depressing season. I foolishly had high hopes for us this year. 

Those hopes were realistic going into December 2023.

At 1st December we sat in 7th position, P 18 W9 D 1 L8, GD +3, on 28 points.

The proverbial then hit the fan, a manager discontented, players acting like small children led by Wharton Snr and a club becoming more dysfunctional by the day.

22 points earned in 27 games since the above stats.

The players who downed tools under JDT have not picked them up again, Sammie excluded and some others but my finger points directly at Wharton, Brittain and Hyam.

Something is rotten in the state of Ewood and the stench emanates from Pune.

We will lose, probably by a margin of at least 3 goals.

We will finish in 20th position due to our being surrounded by crap which is also what we are.

Eustace will be lauded for saving us, even by some on here. 

I will spend the summer watching cricket.

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

In the second half of the season we have 19 points (obviously with one to play)

Last year QPR stayed up despite only getting 16 points from the last 23 games

The year before Reading stayed up having got 20 points

The year before that Bristol City stayed up having got 18 points

I haven’t looked any further back but it would appear to be a surprisingly regular occurrence.

 

 

 

Summary:

1. We stay up due to the points earned early on by JDT before he threw his toys out of the pram and the players, led by the crybabies Wharton, Brittain and Hyam went on strike.

2. Eustace would relegate us over a full season.

3. JDT smiles. He thwarted the Waggott led relegation drive.

It's not 3 wins, never was, never will be.

Trump style gaslighting.

There are about 2 people in the known universe who think it's 3, and one of them is Eustace.