18:42 on this video.

Thats some save.

34 minutes ago, Mercer said:

We should not be paying fees for players like O'Riordan and then loaning out.

Players we pay fees for have to improve our first team.

Especially one that already has over 50 appearances in league football. I’m all for loaning players out to gain first team experience, but he already has it. 
 

Whenever I see Rotherham, Rathbone looks pretty poor. I don’t think he’s Championship standard.  However when he plays against us he’s like prime Roy Keane.

5 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

any names? 

Wonder how many Sheff Wednesday and QPR fans who wanted their previous managers gone could have named Rohl and Cifuentes? Not many. Therefore how did those respective clubs manage to find managers who did such an excellent job? It’s almost like those clubs had people whose job it was to specifically know more about football coaches than the fans do.

A bit like Dack, it took him a while to find his feet, but once he did it’s been a superb season and a half.

He’s in the prime of his career at 28. Without wishing him away, if he’s going to have a crack at the Premier League it probably has to be next season. And if he does good luck to him.

2 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Wagner again.

To be fair Leicester did exactly the same as Norwich, and did it infront of their own fans.

Begone horrid season. But fair play to the 11 on the pitch today and the manager.

But everyone told me that we were safe on 49 points, and no way we would go down with 50 points. It was a billion to one or somethings.

If we concede here I think we go down.

1 minute ago, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

Incorrect, if Birmingham score they go above us on goal difference 

Not if we don’t concede.

Norwich team looks fairly strong at Birmingham.

Have we gone 6 at the back?

56 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Different league but surprising too see empty seats in the Bolton 'Biggest Club in Lancashire' End tonight at Oakwell!

Bolton sold out within the first hour of going on sale. My mate at work missed out.

I presume Barnsley didn’t offer the full end

 Excellent article.
 

The Foxestalk article which the 1992 section refers to is also a good read featuring quite a bit of Rovers - https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/132670-the-city-went-absolutely-mental/#comment-7052234 

2 hours ago, lraC said:

The point made above about a 2 1/2 years contract is a valid one. Who in their right mind decided on that? Surely even a short term contract to the end of the season with a set target, meaning it was extended for 12 months would have been more like it.

Had that target been based on wins, then there is a fair chance it would now been thanks bit no thanks.

In terms of a replacement, who knows, but he would have to be pretty bad if he can't improve on an 11% win rate, as I think even I could do better than that.

 

Surely it should at least have been a 2 1/2 year contract which could be reviewed at any point in the event of relegation. That would give the manager security providing they aren't an absolute failure.

11 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I have seen lots of comment from Wednesday supporters who think they are safe and it appears some of their players are in this frame of mind too. Football has a habit of kicking you in the nuts when complacency sets in.

Yep.

"It's 3-1..... Millwall.... This is it. They've done it. They're in the play offs. Secured".  😃

Sunderland owe us a favour.

15 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

You’ve got a very generous bookie offering 90/1 on that! Who is the bet with? 

 

It's around 19/1. 

Hopefully this is the attitude throughout the day by everyone connected to Leicester City.

13 minutes ago, danger19_80 said:

Didn't Tom Lawrence already play for us once

He did, and infamously put a ball into orbit when it was easier to score.

18 minutes ago, aletheia said:

If we go down, do you think it is JDT's fault?

Partially yes. And he's gone, just as he had to. If we go down I will also want Eustace out of the club.

1 hour ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

Do you think that getting 5 points from his last 11 games, most of them with Wharton in the team, was a major managerial failure by JDT ?

Yes. As was getting into a position where he was completely demotivated to do the job and allowing a bad relationship with the players to start to fester.

The difference being , unlike many,  I can criticse JDT whilst also seperately criticising Eustace. It's not either / or.

2 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

JDT had Wharton. When he left 50 % of our attacking threat went with him out of the door. It was our “ Ken Knighton “ moment, when the management sold the one player that could have possibly kept us up to pay the wages and keep the lights on,

Not having it. It sounds like you are basically saying this side would go down from where we were in early Feb no matter who the manager is once Wharton left, but Adam Wharton ‘could have possibly’ kept us up.

If we go down on Saturday it’s a major managerial failure by the incumbent. That doesn’t detract from its also a monumental failure by those above on several levels - Wharton, Travis, appointing Eustace, Ennis,Semir and Leo, Send buttons, Indian court cases, etc..

17 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Not quite. 

Eustace has steadied the ship, but he has absolutely nothing to throw on upfront to change a game... and the starting options outside of Szmodics are shit to begin with.

But that's a problem which JDT had all season, even in the early part when we were doing quite well and got enough points which ultimately has made us safe. On top of that, he had Dolan injured all of December and January. Gallagher out from mid-September to January. 

I don't deny that this squad would struggle from day 1 next season. But when he came in he already had a points cushion over the bottom 3 to protect, which has been evaporated. 

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

That’s because it will be. The team/club/manager relationship had unravelled under JDT to a point were  the relationship wasn’t retrievable. We were a rudderless ship heading for the rocks.

I agree JDT's tenure was up and that results had deteriorated. Had the manager / team / club relationship been better then relegation wouldn't have been a worry.

But a new manager has come in to reset that relationship, and yet results have continued to be poor, with no home wins against a very middling set of opposition at Ewood. Stopping up is what should have been achieved by any competent manager taking over at the start of February from the position we found ourselves in, not portrayed as a great achievement.

This isn't a criticism of Eustace, more a criticism of portraying stopping up being some great sense of achievement. 

36 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I think this is the toughest pill to swallow.

The 'no excuse' culture has been filled with excuses and, what's worse, the lowering of expectations to a point where an excuse is perceived to not be needed.

Yep. Survival is being marketed as a success by many.

11 hours ago, tomphil said:

Not sure how else whole blocks of like hundreds together in the outer wings of the riverside and JW upper/lower fell entirely into the hands of City fans.

Odd ones dotted all over the place had obviously got their hands on tickets from locals selling them but those areas no chance, they'd been empty all season.

It was dodgy beyond just a few fans grabbing a bit of money back.

I agree. I presume they just sent a couple of mates to the ticket office and bought bulk, or did it over the phone). I'm just sure Rovers weren't online at that point. 

First time I ever encountered away fans trying to buy tickets was Man Utd at home in 1992. Got asked if I'd sell my ticket off two people whilst going down. Wasn't even a big game and finished a drab 0-0.