31 minutes ago, philipl said:

Don't forget Ash Phillips will be giving a defensive masterclass.

How has he been doing for Plymouth?

Not exactly setting the world alight since his move, if he wanted to play in a league one quality team locked in a life or death struggle against relegation, he could have stayed put.

12 hours ago, joey_big_nose said:

12 players there I think!

Only if you count Leo.

13 hours ago, tomphil said:

You could play 2 Leos in one goal and we'd still concede iv'e never seen such an odd keeper diving for the ball, flaps well fair enough many young keepers in this era have that problem but backflips are a new thing.

He looked like a 10 year old trying to make a save look spectacular.

20 hours ago, arbitro said:

Eustace has played a back five in every game apart from the second half at Swansea. Pears was in goal for them all save for last night. In pretty much every game we have been outnumbered in midfield which in my view has gone a long way to not winning. My real doubt about Eustace is his lack of flexibility in his tactics (Newcastle apart) when our play has been predictable.

After JDT, you are worried about Eustices inflexibility???

On 24/02/2024 at 22:36, Leonard Venkhater said:

Chair will have to sit deeper..

He hadn't a leg to stand on.

Jimmk2 got there before me, well before me.

You could say I have been dethroned 

4 hours ago, arbitro said:

What about this tradition from Darmstadt when one of their Ultras is allowed to address the team on the pitch after the match. Can you imagine some of our darlings who are afraid of a bit of booing from a few fans.

 

He is saying bad words to me!!!!

Jesus this is terrible.

1 minute ago, Bethnal said:

We are basically a one-man team. He is a hero, a giant of a 5’7” man, truly a fucking legend of this club at this stage.

He is too good for League 1 😞 You know what that means.

Jesus the Swansea commentary is AWFUL!!

7 minutes ago, Andy said:

I’d have to check their results, but I’m sure they won an early game under him.

Better than what we’ve managed in several games under JE so far.

Lets just agree they were both terrible and I suspect we will be waiting longer for JE's fist win than Brum were for Rooney's first.

2 minutes ago, Andy said:

We are absolutely dreadful.

JE must have the worse ‘new manager bounce’ in history.

At least we’ll win a few matches in League 1 next season.

Worse that Wayne Rooney who replaced him at Big Club?

2 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Micah Richards is an open City supporter even though he's from the Midlands.

You'd love it if he supported us. 

Nobody wants Micah Richards as a supporter  🤣

8 minutes ago, roverandout said:

No it isn't. It's down to players with the best technique.  A stupid way to go out

Well if Sammy had scored his Dom Hyam would not have been taking his penalty.

It's a lottery stop crying FFS it was a great performance when we all feared a tonking. 

Dave O'Leary scored the 5th penalty to put Ireland into the quarter finals of Italia 90, it does work sometimes 😉

Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

ffs,why let a tired centre back take the last penalty

Our star striker missed one too, at the end of the day its down to who is willing to take one.

Fancy Pears

3 minutes ago, rigger said:

Is that a rented bus, or have we bought our own ? 

While I'm dreaming, we demote waggot to bus driver, fill the bus with pigshit and make home drive to all the games for no reason while out players take private jets to all the games.

3-1 rovers. It ignites the team and we go on an incredible run for the rest of the season.  Sneak the playoffs on last day of the season. Win the playoffs get sold to the Qutar sovereign wealth fund who casually bin Eustace and hire out of work coach Jose Mourinho. Jose spends 150mil in the summer and finishes us 5 in  the league and Europe. 

Rovers fans complain that we don't play attractive football, can't be doing with all this park the bus shit.

2 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

telalovic up against a premier league side🤣

I think that could be a masterstroke, after 10 mins the Newcastle players will assume it's a make a wish foundation situation and might let him score a goal.

I wonder would he be averse to shaving his head? 

59 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

 

i think it was brian clough who said "nobody can lose you a game quicker than the goalkeeper,always buy the best you can afford"

That's the problem, we did 😞 

22 minutes ago, DuffsLeftPeg said:

One of Leo’s better games? Chris Sutton called him a “Flapper” on the commentary!

Yeah one of his better games 😁

5 hours ago, NeilInBristol said:

Perhaps,but let's not forget all the wins jdt did get us and jdt didn't have gally, hedges, dolan or jrc for most of the past few months. He was playing attractive footy without many of our first team players.

His style of playing could have got us 6 points out of those games against Cardiff and Brum with those players back in the team.

Those games were dross and we got 1 point out of 6 so not exactly worth praising JE for playing defensive.

His style of playing got us bugger all against QPR.

We were not playing this style last year so I am not arguing last year was a great effort.

My opinion was that he had lost the plot coming into this season after they refused to let him out of his contract and said, "if you want attacking football while giving me cheap players here you go"

2 minutes ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

Would you target this one or Saturday for example. 

Newcastle is a bit more of a free hit.

If this policy was being given serious consideration I guess you go hard at Cardiff, rest players for Norwich and then put out a full strength team to save utter embarrassment against Newcastle.

1 hour ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

If pears, tronstad, szmodics or Gally goes down I jured and misses even half of the remaining games we are in big trouble as there roles or replacements are not replicable. Lot of games coming up in a short space of time too, in normal circumstances I'd be tempted to start the 3 outfielders mentioned on the bench. 

But if we did that it would be tantamount to accepting defeat now. With that in mind I'd rest Hedges and that's it.

Time to start targetting games and points the way Big Sam did?

We have a few games coming up that our best 11 are not likely to get something from, just rest out better players for those ones.

18 hours ago, Mercer said:

So you were there yesterday and I wan't for a Championship match - what do you want, a feckin Blue Peter badge?

When you've watched the Rovers in shit holes like Tranmere, Halifax, Chesterfield and Mansfield in the old Third Division on cold Friday nights / Saturday afternoons then you have earned your colours.

'Rovers till I die' - hope there's a bit more to your life than Rovers!  This shower of sh1te are simply not worth it.

In chaddy's defence, another year or two and he'll have clocked up most of those venues.

9 hours ago, rigger said:

Because Gilsenan is not good enough yet.

If we are going to leave out all the players who are not good enough, we will be playing  some of the travelling supporters. Hope they have their jerseys with them.