So we've supposedly had the ball for 31.5 min and don't have a shot on goal...how long before we gift it away in a dangerous area and concede?  

Just now, jim mk2 said:

Lots of possession but it never amounts to much. Flattering to deceive as always. 

It's been this way with that front 3 for months...the only time we look dangerous in the last half is when Dolan is on the pitch.  

5 minutes ago, Stonesrick said:

As it stands, 19 points ahead of us. Slow build?

but who has more possession?

1 hour ago, davulsukur said:

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2021/march/preview-bristol-city-h/

No Armstrong, Travis, Davenport or Ayala.

When was Ayala due back? he's been out for ages.

I’m not sure I can recall him ever showing up to begin with. 

Gutted for Dack.  Lads battled to get back on the pitch and if it is an acl it’s going to be difficult to come back from. Just the amount of time out makes returning difficult. Cant blame TM or anyone else. These things happen and all you can do is support the boy in his recovery and hope he can get back what he had 18 months ago. 

5 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Those 2 penalty decisions against us were diabolical. 

Perfect excuse for TM

I can’t recall the last time we got on the end of a cross in the attacking half. We continuously pump them in and never look dangerous. 

1 minute ago, booth said:

How is Douglas on the pitch?

Absolutely shite

I can’t wait to see a proper left back next term. Douglas is awful. Every time he gets the ball in space it ends in a sub par cross, a pass back or a give away when trying to play forward. 

9 hours ago, only2garners said:

Well Dack and Brereton both had decent chances as well. But my point was we made a number of chances and should have scored more than one. Jim was suggesting that Cabango was the reason why we didn’t and I was disagreeing.

Counting chances that fall to SG is like the old proverb. If a tree falls in the woods but no hears it did it make sound?  If a chance falls to SG and it’s wasted was it really ever a chance? 

4 minutes ago, only2garners said:

But we could easily have scored two or three more and it wasn’t down to him that we didn’t.

Right, except the chances fell to SG.  So we really couldn't have scored any more than we did. 

31 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

I wouldn't be quick to put Armstrong straight back in. For all the faults of Brereton and Gallagher, the shape of this team works with their physical presence and it's noticeable that it's working better for Dack too. 

I think Dolan does a better job of pressing and moving than AA.  He drags defenders out of the space, leaving more room for Dack.  With that said, I would put AA right back in, get him top scorer to increase his value come summer.  Were showing that we can perform without him for next season.  If we can get 30 million for him and use some of that to bring in a central defender or two on a permanent basis, we could be in good shape next year. 

19 hours ago, yankfan said:

I understand the fella who pushed the crowd noise button at Ewood after Rovers score has been furloughed as he’s services are not expected to be needed for the next 4 months 

If we continue to play wingers wide, and others in their natural position they might have to call this fellow back in 

I suppose I am to consider this negative progression on our journey.  We didn’t win possession, had more shots and goals. Performances like this go against everything we’ve been told the last 10 weeks 

1 minute ago, BigBar said:

Commentator: "if Gallagher hits the ball either side of the goalkeeper it's got a much better chance of going in"...wow!

Fancy that 

3 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Aye but can that toaster lightly toast an unsliced Bap ready for 2 rashers of fried bacon.

That's the real test.

No but it can play right back

9 minutes ago, frosty said:

Sharpe reckons it's Dolan up front. Surely, surely even Mowbray wouldn't have a pure winger up front and a rangy striker galloping about on the right wing. Surely.....

He’s probably just making the assumption based on TM previous selections. Remember we don’t have formations, so everyone is really slotted anywhere on the team sheet. 

Kaminski, Rankin-Costello, Lenihan (c), Harwood-Bellis, Douglas, Buckley, Trybull, Dack, Gallagher, Dolan, Brereton.
 

could be the least experienced side we’ve lined up in 25 years. What’s the average age here? 

1 minute ago, simongarnerisgod said:

no armstrong is indeed bad news,in mowbrays world this will mean playing with no striker at all😖,probably a massed midfield in the hope we frustrate the mighty millwall and get lucky with our solitary chance

I thought I recalled us spending $14 million quid on strikers. I guess they were a winger and right back...my memory has gone to shit I guess 

3 hours ago, roverandout said:

He talks about possession based teams getting out the league. How's it working out for Cardiff? Who get results regardless of possession.  How come Neil warnock has won promotion from this league so many times? Hes talking total bollocks 

There’s certainly an element of possession that can lead to success but possession for the sake of possession is worthless. In his post match comments he seemed to be pleased with the volume of crosses and “how we got behind the defense so many times”. I must have tuned into the wrong match on the tele because I didn’t see but one or two half chances. I certainly didn’t come away thinking our stack was anything but toothless. 

3 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

We are useless in the final third 

10 games unbeaten for Mick McCarthy's Cardiff after four-goal win over Wayne Rooney's Derby side https://the42.ie/5370348

Completely lost up there. I’d rather see us lose the ball trying to get through than going backwards to keep the ball. It’s all too easy to defend. 

4 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

????

Have we scored?

He currently does not want 

28 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Well. 

I'd say that goal was just a symptom of the system we are set up to play.  There was no movement for him so back he goes.  It could have been any of our midfielders getting their pockets picked heading back towards our goal.   

 

Worse than the goal though was watching us go from the edge of their area 3-4m from the byline and play it all the way back to our box.

 

Absoloutely appalling.

Mowbray out.

Like we’re run by a center back that’s never known what do do up there 

We simply lack the ability to get behind the defense.  Individually no one in the wing can dribble by a player and as a team we can’t connect to get in behind. Instead we just piss around in the middle and back.  Giving away possession there is dangerous. 
 

worst of all when we get in the final third we don’t even attempt to get in behind. Like they’re instructed to play possession instead of trying to score. It’s shocking how poor we are in the final third.