Eustace Home record:- Played 7 Won 0 , Drawn 5, Lost 2 We’ve scored 4 goals in these 7 games, conceding 7. That’s dire, and that’s what they have to sell season tickets on the back of. Yet It looks like almost 16,000 home fans yesterday against Coventry despite the run we are on. At £15 a ticket. As we’ve often said, do it for decent Saturday games and not unappealing Wednesday night games and the evidence is there cheaper tickets work.

You ask @roversfan99 this like it’s a difficult question when it is obvious. They had two up front only because we kept 5 at the back. If we had put an extra midfielder or attacker on they would have had to have withdrawn one of their attackers because they would have been overrun in midfield. Ayari, Moran or Markanday should have been on within 5 minutes of the red card.

The problem is Chaddy your ‘viewpoints’ constantly are things like “the manager is good”, “the recruitment has been good”, “the tactics are good”, “I think we will finish close to top 6.” And yet here we are going into the last day hoping to stave off relegation.

Exactly. @chaddyroversis just being a bit giddy cos we didn’t get beaten. However there are little statistics to be positive about regarding Eustace. We could have started without Gallagher and with Ayari in midfield and JRC wider. We could have switched from 3 centre halves when they went down to 10 men. I applaud the effort today. They looked like they knew it was an important game , unlike the week before against Wednesday. It’s just with Sammy slightly misfiring, there is no goals at all in that side.

Just the 1 (enforced) change from last Sunday. Brave from Eustace, because if this lot turn in the same shite performance again he is going to get absolute pelters.

Waggot attempting to employ shiny object syndrome on the forum.

By 5pm we could be in the bottom 3 and Burnley could be out of it.

Because the people running the club are thick and incompetent

If any of the players revolted under Mowbray there was a chance they might be dropped and eventually replaced with someone brought in like a £5million Sam Gallagher, a £7million Ben Brereton, a Stuart Downing or a Harvey Elliot. Under JDT they are thinking “are you really gonna drop me for a 17yo kid or that bloke from the German third tier”. They knew it was highly unlikely they would be be replaced before the manager went That’s why the players were able to take the piss with JDT at the end, probably also knowing he wanted out as well so he was going to be gone soon enough.

Exactly. So they signed 4 players who improved the team. We brought in 6 players. One who has been useful but 5 who havent played despite us being in relegation form since Janaury. That clearly wasnt trying to "back the manager and improve." Travis / Wharton out and Fleck in is one of the biggest bits of WTF transfer activity we will ever see.

If we stop up I’d give him the first half of next season despite having reservations. If we go down then , considering where we were when he took over, I have little confidence he could lead us back up and I would prefer to be shut of him. Would I renew my season ticket at existing prices? I honestly don’t know. It’s easy to be knee-jerk and say no, but with the prospect of either loads of unfriendly kick off times in the championship or the likes of Lincoln, Stevenage and Northampton to look forward to its not appealing.

That’s a good question, albeit we don’t know how the summer will pan out. If we are in the Championship then with what little I expect us to spend , he will have done a good job if we end up about 13th.

We have 24 points at home this season. The same as QPR and (surprisingly) Watford. Only Rotherham (20 pts) are worse in our league. Worst in the football league is Carlisle with 15 points (just 3 wins).

That what was so noticeable on Sunday. The Wednesday front four and midfield closed and harassed from the first whistle. By the time they were tiring, they were 3-1 up so could then sit back and rotate some of the players. We haven’t hunted in packs like that for a long while.

I think it’s waaay too big. We could be in the bottom 3 by teatime on Saturday. Having said that, if we draw and Huddersfield win then we are safe. Its a funny old game.

Thing with that side is we have no idea if that back 4 is any worse than what we are currently fielding. It’s probably got more bottle. Hedges, Leonard and Gilsenan may well be better than recent pairings of Dolan, Gallagher and Moran / Ayari. I look at that team and the only real misses are Szmodics and Tronstadt.

Did he? FFs. He likes to point out excuses and then say “we won’t use it as an excuse”. If it’s not an excuse then don’t flippin mention it in the first place.

Trojstadt, JRC, Carter, Wharton, Hedges and Pickering would be ok as a mainstay of a league one side. It’s how many of them would stop? We would still be woeful short up front even at that level.

Just noticed this is £15 a ticket. If Coventry beat Hull and still have a chance of playoffs they will pack that full Darwen End and hospitality out. Waggot be like…

Hyam. He will be like the League One Beckenbauer. As long as we don’t boo him.

I’ve finally watched the highlights. Hyam could have played it a bit slower and a bit more in front of Pears. However I think Pears is trying to get it upfield. As it’s coming at a bad angle to him, he’d be better launching it into the Riverside and bollocking Hyam. Pears really needs to deal with it better. And I don’t want to dig him out too much, but when he heads it to Hyam for the first goal he stands there and admires it for a second or two. What is he waiting for? A one-two? The minute he heads it he should be retreating back to his goal at full speed.

I said it before but Hedges is a big loss. He shouldn’t really be, but it’s because he offers something different. A bit of presence. The squad is littered with lightweight ‘ball playing’ midfielders who can’t compete physically and seem to shrink when the going gets tough - Ayari, Markanday, Moran, Dolan, Buckley. You start trying to pick a bit of a different formation and wonder who to put out wide and you are just swapping one non-entity for another. JRC would be the only other option out wide who may have more presence, but you’d really want Travis to then go alongside Tronstadt (enough said there). Otherwise you have to choose from one of the above-mentioned lightweights in midfield, or toss Garrett back in who, after showing glimmers of promise, was poor last time we saw him. In fact, I’d go with Garrett in the middle and JRC wider. At a quick glance, our record with him on the pitch looks better than most of the others and he doesn’t seem to have started many of the pastings except of West Brom. Otherwise it’s just rinse and repeat.

I never said they would. 🤔🤔 People are saying we are probably safe on 49, but we really aren't. Birmingham need to win 1 of two very winnable to go above us. Wednesday need to win one of 2 tougher games to go above us, but after yesterday it's difficult to say that won't happen. A point against Coventry (or Leicester) might save us but I really think if we lose both games we go down.

I mean personally I'd rather we went for 3 necessary points against one of the worst teams in the division rather than cling on to one.. But we should have learnt what the approach would have been after we did the same against Millwall. It's proof Eustace didn't take the Stoke game. We actually attacked them from the first whistle that day.

Exactly. Negative.