Hasta

Boss, where’s the pigs in blankets gone?

Going back to Hyam my view is that he is a bang average, middle of the road centre back. However in the last 10 years what better centre backs have we had that we have owned? There's a couple that spring to mind but they aren't massively better (and both were pretty experienced). It's not a position we've been blessed in.

Who was actually in charge? Same question I suspect as who actually interviewed and chose Owen Coyle as manager? Something which has never been answered.

If ever a post showed you up for happy-clapping trolling it's that one. You know what you have put up is incorrect. Otherwise, please explain why the hell our club is selling Hyam, Travis, Brittain, Buckley and JRC for just €2.03m combined. At least Chaddy has had the sense to go into self-imposed exile for a bit rather than try to justify this window.

He will just throw his replies through AI and ask it to correct the English language and make him sound intelligent. Like I will do to this sentence. He will invariably channel his responses through an artificial intelligence model to elevate the linguistic precision and intellectual tone—much in the same manner as I shall with this very statement. Of course, AI was really made for this:- There once was a fellow named Rudy, Whose management bordered on broody. He shouted, not led, Left logic for dead, And ran the place poorly and rudely.

If they refuse to keep paying the matched bond we are.

It's the fact he's leaving now. Even if you take the view of "it's a good fee" and we invested a big chunk of that money in a replacement we won't get them in untill January (which is always overpriced or limited ) And as we saw last time we went down, by then it could be too late.

Remember I said senior players were unhappy with Waggot / Pasha back in March after Eustace left. Since then Travis, Batth, Brittain, Weimann have left. Looks like they want Hyam out and Pears is ‘missing’. JDT names Pasha and he’s gone overnight. The guy looks like he is a shadowy control freak who deals with dissent by shipping people out.

Telalovic didn’t score in 20 appearances for us. He was a flop. He scored a few last season in the German second tier. That tells me it’s probably an easier league than the Championship. I bet this year in the Bundesliga will be a different story. Awful signing.

Move on? You brought his name up FFS.

Which also perfectly coincided with losing Travis and having no replacement as the squad was wafer thin. We then lost Baker and replaced those two with a guy who couldn’t get in bottom placed Plymouth’s team. Ismael will hit the same problems during the season, let’s hope he has points in the bank by then.

Apparently we’re changing our name to Jupiler Pro Rovers 👍

Yeah I get what you get for Coyle so Transfermarkt has it wrong.

Let’s hope Ismael can pad his record out by beating shit sides in the cups. Oh wait.. Transfermrkt has Owen Coyle at 1.11 ppg at Rovers and Ismael at 1.06

We shouldn’t have had a point yesterday as we had no one good enough to put the ball in the net, something we have been highlighting all summer Against Birmingham, we got what we deserved due to a lack of individual quality in the last 5 minutes. Downgrade your players and that’s what happens. The individual performances so far have been less that what we were used to from those they have replaced. Let’s hope they either adapt or improve quickly. You say tactics isn’t the problem. I’m inclined to agree. It’s the quality of the players why we have lost 4 out of 5. Otherwise what else are we blaming? Luck? Referees?

People were moving out of their seats in the JW Upper as the roof was leaking on them. Row about 19 or 20. Fortunately there was plenty of space around them.

So if Travis pulls him first he should give a penalty as that occurs before the Alebiosu incident. Regardless Alebiosu should still have been stronger and got a decent connection on it. And the defenders in front should never have let it bounce over their heads. But no it’s not the players fault we’ve lost 4 in 5. It’s those bloody referees every time.

Probably watching Travis pulling their goal scorer for about 5 seconds whilst the ball was in flight.

To be fair Suhail gets far more stick on here than VI, probably because we didn’t expect much from VI based on his record and reputation when we employed him.

We were in many games when we got relegated in 1999. But small margins cost us. We didn’t lose any of the first four games by more than a goal then. It’s rare a team gets relegated that aren’t “in” games unless they are really, really shit. It’s fine margins This season it is individual moments of a lack of quality costing us. Not clearing that long throw at West Brom. De Neve getting skinned and then Tavares delivering a crap corner against Brum. McLaughlin and Kargbo today. I know you’re incredibly blinkered on refs, but the only real one against us I feel is the penalty at West Brom. Everything other major decision I’ve agreed with.

Come on Chaddy, it is 4 losses in 5 and half of the players he mentioned were here last year. How long do we give them before judging them?

Worth remembering Kargbo is 26, not some unpolished kid,

🐍🐍🐍 It will be just about money. 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🙄

Maybe. But the referee and linesman don't have freeze frame and his momentum was clearly going into the box. At actual speed I thought penalty. The blame surely lies with the player for allowing the situation then pawing at the striker in panic. Just let him go.

4 defeats in 5. Exciting times.