His decision to sell Sheff Wed 7,000 tickets last week was staggering. What other club in our position would do that?

Time after time clear as day examples of what his remit is.....financial over any sort of footballing success. He couldn't give a toss about the club or more importantly the fans. Utter contempt.

The season ticket sales this summer will be pitiful but no doubt he will find an excuse.

I cannot stand him. 

Brilliant Rovers! While since I’ve said that

Dack on - feels strange.

I would give Telalovic a run

‘Eustace not interested in other teams…’

Seems he isn’t interested in a  few things…….excuses, the league table, other teams, points, or perhaps most importantly winning games.

Mediocrity perhaps.

4 minutes ago, Andy said:

Gilsenan must be sat there watching Chrisene playing LW, trying to make sense of the world.

What does he do have to do to get a game?!

Has anyone seen him play live? Genuinely a lesser option than Crisene or Hedges?

Glad we had all that ‘time on the grass’. We are actually worse. 
 

Wharton can complain about how bad life was under JDT as though he is Baresi MKII….he is a shocking player.

What do we think we will get for him this summer (assuming we stay up) and what would people be happy with?

I think: £5/6m

I'd be happy with: £10m+ based on his impact this season which we know we wont replace

He is a person out of depth operating in an environment he can't control.

I don't think he is a bad person, unlike Waggot and Pasha. He's simply ineffective. 

Of all the interviews, Bayes was the best.

Poor from Wharton to come out publicly criticizing JDT. Let's not re-write history Scott....you were crap for a season and haven't pulled up trees this year.

JDT set high standards and took no prisoners, likely having played at the highest level with world class players. How many of our squad will get anywhere close to his achievements in the game?

JDT was never going to work at Rovers under this setup and owners. His standards were too high and we were never going to have the players with the ability or character to play how he wanted. He had thrown in the towel from Jan onwards.

I think the players will like Eustace and come out saying he is great as they have an easier ride - doing what they've done before and with a coach who settles for less.

I don't think we will see him play for Rovers again. A shame as he looked a world beater early season, saw at QPR and he was majestic. Like the rest of the team, crap since.

At least we might get a fee for him as he signed that new deal.

Buy out bidder - Dan Williams Interview

Doing some googling and found this....I wonder what might have been.

It looks like this got fairly serious at one stage. Anyone know what happened?

22 minutes ago, Danishfan said:

https://www.fotbollskanalen.se/video/20796297/se-landslagets-presskonferens-i-efterhand/

At the end of this prematch interview before tonights match Sweden-Albania ( go to ca.16.30 min - the interview is in English), Jon is asked, why he didn´t pick Leo Wahlstedt for Swedens internationals.

I think, his answer was very diplomatic 😂😆😁

Cant listen - think need a VPN.

Humor me.....what did he say?

As an alternative….the interviewer from ‘Training Ground Guru’ with no affiliation to Rovers could have chosen not to ask any questions on contentious subjects. He did. 

Guess it’s how you perceive it.

- McGuire..........doesn't say why we the permanent transfer got cancelled. We know Gregg. They were 'disappointed not to get it over the line'. Down the human error. He seems miffed and blaming the 'directors'. 

- Big difference to the O'brien fiasco....he doesn't take accountability for the McGuire farce.

- He mentions JDT plenty of times - clearly not over that or anything to do with him going. Said he chose JDT when he came in. 

- Says 'things came to a head' with JDT in Dec/Jan and a change was inevitable (I reckon he knew about the Sweden thing). Does NOT say he chose Eustace. Did claim Kidderminster were the 'Barcelona of non-league football....

- Says he has no idea what the transfer budget or wage budget is, unlike in 2022 the first window. 

- Ben Rosen found Szmodics apparently. Good job he has left then...

- Says it was Wharton's agent and Adam that pushed for the move once Crystal Palace came in. States Rovers wanted to keep him until the end of the season.

- Swerves the question on reinvesting the Wharton money. Read....we aren't going to see any. Talks about investing it across the '4 key areas of the club'. Recommended it gets spent over the 'long term'. States the summer investment won't be affected.

- Goes on again about young players and style of play.

- Suhail is gatekeeper to the owners.

The guy interviewing him did a good job. Didnt give him an easy ride.

Oh my.....we are a mess.

New Broughton interview on YouTube…note it isn’t with or by the club.

Broughton Interview - International break

I reckon he’s off.

12 minutes ago, martonrover said:

A statement to get the Facebook crew creaming their pants.

The bit about Eustace is particularly laughable. As if they even have a clue who he is.

I haven’t seen anything positive at all on the various channels.

The tide may finally have turned.

Club statement (18.03.24) | rovers.co.uk

The fun goes on....how depressing.

9 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

STILL no word as to what happened.

If we had a proper CEO he'd have been right on top of it and put out a press release long before now.

The Club at operational level is an absolute joke.

I’d argue all levels except the academy….

Brought in by Waggott as a ‘yes’ man and someone who would do as he is told, unlike JDT. Another journeyman manager harking back to the days of Appleton and Bowyer.

Underwhelming appointment. He is showing in both results and interviews he is out of his depth. Came in promising a flexible style….I am yet to see it. His interviews I cannot watch anymore - cliche after cliche. Hedgy, Pearsy, Siggy….. 

Further dumbing down after last season. Scary to think the optimism and opportunity squandered in the summer. 

He won’t last 12 months at Rovers. Simply not up to it and the continued narrative on his success at Birmingham is nonsense, they had played a handful of games.

Inept and out of his depth.

Hired by Waggott to not rock the boat and do as he’s told. 
 

Thank god for Sammy Smzodics. What a season he is having. Special.

Eustace is out of his depth. I would get rid now and that isn’t a knee jerk reaction to this crap tonight. Been dross since he came in. Bring a manager in who can make an immediate impact with some tactical knowledge and presence. See Sheff Wed…

No wins in 7.

We’re just rotten.

15 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Awful this. Summed up by Pickering's shit corner.  

Oh for some Mulgrew quality from set pieces.

Could be doing with prime Mulgrew again in L1 next year

Selling Adam to raise funds to run the club in the short term is going to backfire rather horribly when we get relegated. We stand to lose even more millions.

1. By all accounts he did not want to leave

2. He was integral to the team and the best player we had

3. Why not keep him until the end of the season, increase his value more, then sell him. Telling me Crystal Palace (and others) would have lost interest by then?

Another outstanding decision from our glorious leadership.

Rotten.

You just have to laugh at it all. Shambles doesn't even start to cover it.

5 hours ago, Penwortham Blue said:

Others may disagree but for me JDT had the makings of a fantastic manager. If they had only backed him in January 2023, I think we may well have gone up.

This season, he had his legs taken from beneath him and was left to front a club in crisis. Despite this, until injuries and the paper thin squad was exposed we were riding high in the table and playing the best football for many years. The fact that he eventually got worn down by Swag and the off field incompetence, I certainly won’t be holding against him.

He was a breath of fresh air and tried to breathe new passion, aspiration and ambition into a near dead club and a long suffering and dwindling fan base. Eventually, he may have failed but I think he gave it everything he had. For a short while it felt like we might be getting our Rovers back but as we all know, it is very difficult to beat the system / authority no matter how hard you try.

Brilliant post.