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Please tell me he said we wanted it even more than Saturday, which is why we lost again.

Unless it's an inside job to get them to raise tickets to such an obscene price nobody can afford them.

You boys will be fine. Robins is a decent manager who I think will prove himself with a bit of backing. As for us, E I E I E I O, down the football league we go.

Unless we both somehow get relegated by the end of this season, unlikely.

Maybe it's just a final F U to Suhail, Waggott and Venky's.

Just a question of how low we finish now. Hard to see us winning another match, so 15th or 16th entirely possible.

"Should've just given the job to me."

allez les merde

For a fair few of them, the manager went to bat for them to get new deals, as well as have his own hard work rewarded. Manager told to go forth and multiply. Does so. Some loser brought in as replacement. Not hard to see why they're thinking 'fuck this', as our own fans think their job is done by waving snakes at Eustace.

Still can't get over that we're regularly playing a 33 year old who Plymouth gifted us as a starter. Even if we assume Tronstad is still getting up to speed, is JRC that bad that he can't get ahead of Forshaw?

Is this another case of us "wanting it too much" 🤣 what nonsense, unless by "it" he means the players' holidays not being interrupted by those pesky playoff games.

Love these second halves of the season when we inexplicably transform into the worst team in the division. Takes some dedication to do it year after year.

And what? Because they think they were right it means somebody else can't think it's idiotic and pointless? What are you arguing against here?

Nobody is saying they aren't entitled, they're just saying it's stupid.

"We are reaching the situation" where Venky's aren't prepared to listen to the fans? It's been like that since day one.

Well, that's true. I should have said the pressure should be on, but it won't be because as far as the hierarchy is concerned this season's mission is already achieved.

He never said they weren't entitled to their opinion, so what is the point of saying this? Just seems like an attempt to deflect and provoke an argument. There's a difference between being entitled to an opinion and doing something idiotic related to that opinion. If it is your view that standing around waving toy snakes at a former manager is an adult thing to do and a better use of energy than actually cheering, chanting for and supporting the team and current manager, own that and just say so. To many it's a pointless waste of energy than misses the point of what happened, and as you say, that's an opinion people are also entitled to. If you agree then I struggle to understand what you are doing with the above post other than trying to start an argument.

Most hated by who? I don't get the feeling there's a groundswell of hatred from the overall fanbase. Mainly just on places like here where there are older or more detail-orientated fans.

Considering how much JDT revealed in the press regarding his frustrations, how likely is it that he happened to completely leave out being forced to select a player? He picked Pears for reasons only he knows. It was a mistake.

Norwich reminded me of a Russell Martin team - lots of possession but rarely did anything threatening with it. They only had 3 shots on target the entire match so not sure how it can be concluded they were causing us major problems. Just seems like trying to rewrite history to be kinder to the new manager by suggesting they were an incredible team we did well to draw against, rather than an insipid outfit that were nothing special but who we nonetheless couldn't beat. The king is dead, long live the king... It was a home match against a team below us who are poor away from home. We needed to win, instead we scraped a draw. It's nothing to be pleased about. The Derby defeat was even worse. The pressure is on for the Stoke game.

If you don't beat us you probably are going down. A club on a poor run of form has no better chance of arresting the slide than playing us.

If we lose to both Derby and Stoke in Ismael's first three games then the outlook is going to be very bleak indeed. As other teams begin pulling away the pressure piles on, and we know how these lads deal with playoff expectations. Fully expecting another miserable defeat as the force of nature that is our second half season collapse continues on unabated. Desperately hoping I'll be eating my words at full time.

100%. The cursed second half of the season was already happening before Eustace left. It's just something that happens now, like the tides or the sun rising each morning. An unstoppable force. We could be 20 points clear at the top at the end of December and we'd still end up finishing 8th.

The "players aren't playing for him" idea might have slightly more weight if we didn't regularly lose to teams in dire straits. At this point teams on a poor run of form likely mark Rovers on the fixture calender as a target to get back to winning ways.

We haven't paid off a manager since Coyle over 8 years ago, and we're currently spending as little money as possible, so I think this is unlikely to be honest. It may be possible if Ismael has us in relegation trouble - but just like Coyle, Venky's will pull the trigger too late and we'll be sunk anyway.