Dreams of 1995

He has shown that technique with his feet before

@rock steady do the business please

Someone post the Gueye picture please

He’s not good enough for me. Below Dolan in the pecking order - says a lot really

Gueye is colossal

Can’t believe they’ve took Pryce off!! Got nervous every time he had the ball Classic Mowbray

Love this The new meme

Don’t tell roversfan

Pretty much as expected Mowbrays teams don’t like to play against structured and organised defences. The gaps will open up 2nd half. We’ve seen it all before I think Weiman and Hedges will be subbed second half and we will punish them Keep it as it is for the next 15 then make the changes

Touche Better the devil you know and all that I think Lowe has made his intentions clear. This is a soak up, keep it level and hit late type of team For what it’s worth, I think we will see a rare Hedges goal today

That is a LEAP

Oh I get you now. That's what I was saying Chaddy - out of them all, I won't miss Matt Gardiner I felt like our set pieces were crap under him

We never win at the Hawthorns so that alone fills me with dread Do not understand the issue with the team. Same lads who have us in 6th place. If anything I'd have liked to have seen Dennis in for Weimann and given more of a free role As it stands, we have a bench of Cantwell, ACD, Dennis and Kargbo. Plenty of options Game plan is clear - keep it tight early doors and introduce some pace later on in the game. One thing Lowe will have is plenty of experience of Mowbray. Onwards & upwards

Fairly certain Matt Gardiner will

Not arsed about Matt Gardiner going one bit. Felt like our set pieces were pretty disappointing considering he’s meant to be a specialist!!!

For what it is worth - I don’t think it will be any of those managers except for O’Neil Karanka and Wicky aren’t Waggott appointments for me I am thinking it will be out of O’Neil or Edwards

Be careful with this The Club will be able to attend now. You won’t be any of the wiser who. They’ll simply leave their camera off and listen in

The statement is another master stroke by Steve Waggott He managed to produce a similar situation under JDT - instead, at that time, he brought in fan groups and senior players to almost provide a show of resistance against a "troublesome" manager This time, he has realised that won't work. Instead the tactic is to put out a statement that effectively tells Eustace to go and that the Club feel they have done everything they could possibly do to entertain his ambition and demands Waggott thinks that statement will work. I think Waggott is correct. You don't get to where that weasel has got without knowing how to "play the man". Waggott is playing the man here

The foundations are crumbling for Venkys There’s no where to hide anymore. There has been that many managers and that many executives that even the most hard-faced sod will struggle to absolve them of blame With the court case still hanging over them, a CEO who has been whispering of retirement for years now and another manager leaving for concerns around the Clubs ambition - how much longer will they hang on? For everything that is happening I still have hope that their time is coming to an end

I think this is a done deal. Unfortunate - we will never keep a good manager with this lot in charge

I was thinking this myself earlier - the home page and the general feel of this website is far better than the Clubs for me. It’s very professional If we could get the club to agree to letting you lads run the ticketing website it would make our lives a lot easier Good work all involved 👍

Dolan is awful in the press. He marks the wrong lane all the time - makes rash decisions one way or another and gives an easy way out They will always bring it out from the defence on his side. Just watch

I felt like Hedges and Beck had the run of their right back for the majority of the first half. It was a link up that worked quite well

No it isn't an exaggeration Woodrow is "crap"; Gueye is "crap". It's easy to use the forum search function roversfan and tbh we all know it's what is wrote as we read it ourselves But nevertheless my post wasn't aimed at outing individuals. It's a general overview of what I see. There's been a negative perception of our recruitment over the past 3 / 4 seasons. It is easy to see why - the big names go elsewhere these days. We all wax lyrical about Baggies signing Armstrong, or Boro signing this man, or Hull signing this man It's quite common to see the words "ambition" used when speaking of other clubs But here we are, competing and at times bettering those around us whilst spending quite a lot less than them And for me, that is down to what must be an incredibly productive recruitment team. Or else what is it - luck? If we do manage to make the play offs then it is a consolidated team effort, driven by a manager who has recognised the way this bunch of players are required to play and has drilled them well. Not one man, not ten men but all involved - even Gueye, who as far back as 4 weeks ago had 1 wooden leg and three left feet in the eyes of some I am not saying that people are being negative "for the sake of it". People will see a negative for many reasons - some may think we should 'think bigger'. I'd agree with that. For others it may be that they have a general dislike of the player bought; think we need players in other areas; but sometimes people may just be a glass half empty type. The theme remains though - a general negative outlook. I suppose, if you don't consider yourself as a negative poster, then what I wrote has no bearing on you. And if you think I am saying people are being negative simply for the sake of it, then my post is not explained very well. It is that it has become quite clear that certain fans' expectations are not aligned with the resource we have. You can set yourself up window after window for disappointment, or you can look at it for what it is. That we are continuing to achieve more than the sum of our parts; and that for all of the players that come from crap leagues, with no ambition, or are crap, they continue to perform beyond expectation despite all the obstacles in their way

Look, I know you love being the man to defend "just criticism" but the point is that our recruitment team 'wee with the willy we have' Over the course of the previous few seasons, almost all of the signings have been met with a large degree of scepticism I'm done with that. I'm well-versed to the fact we will be signing relatively unknown players, or young talent seeking to develop, or even older players in their twighlight. Because they are the pools we operate in. Am I happy about it? No. But will I constantly look to call those players 'crap' because they don't fit in with the Football Manager generation of 'wonderkids'? Nope. And in fact, our progression has shown that largely we are getting it right. We have continued to outperform teams around us despite our budget constraints. Gueye - "crap"; Ohashi - "came from a crap league"; Weimann - "crap and old" etc etc etc etc But despite all of that, this is another season we find ourselves in play off contention. We may not make it - fine. That's the horror of Championship football. But it looks as though this is another season that the hard-working & clearly very diligent recruitment team have taken a shoestring budget and produced a winning team And so, with all that said and done, it has nothing to do with simply "getting behind the team ffs" and more to do with looking at the recent history and seeing that more often than not, the critique has been wrong, and the recruitment team has been right