USABlue

What made you become a fan of lil ol Rovers instead of the big teams that NBC saturate.TV with over here. Given the stress and heartache this team has had me endure for 50+ years I almost envy.your position. The Prem win and years leading up to it I had no knowledge of over here. There was zero coverage of English footy back then.and having lost touch with everone I had no clue. I did get to see the Final win over Spurs and our Demolition of the Dingles due to a fine group of folks on here, one of us would get the tape, VCR correctly formatted, was it you EiT? .and we would maolmit all ove.America,.watch it and forward it to the next.fan...Giid days.on this board back then, quite a camraderie. Fitting that my return coincides with our demise since. This internet has been a blessing my American wife.does not get that I am up at the crack of dawn to watch a team I have not seen live since 84. Love it just love it...Hate it just hate it.

Always excellent picture quality on my puter.

ESPN plus in the States.

He has gotten infinately better now it looks like he is not coming here. I don't think there was that much excitement st the thought of him comimg here. I think the only one, that I recall anyway, singing his praises was chaddy. Just cos I do not remember now does not.mean it did not happen.

Then he did not see it, brum only half hearted appealed too. I am sure if they all yelled loud enough he would have given it even if he was looking the other way

Yet Mowbray persists with Gally out wide. He's ruined the lad altogether now, sucked out of him all his confidence.

Funny that, I was thinking the same thing and was a bit concerned, also glad to see Parsons is OK.

He has such terrible technical ability that 100% effort is all he can give. He does huff and puff and work his socks off but I can do that.

Kaminski does not make that save and I think we lose that game. It seemed to lift the lads a bit. What can you say about young Dolan. So full of enthusiasm, running and confidence. What can you say about 5million Gallagher,.can't trap, pass run with the ball, infuriating. That ref needs investigsting. FA should watch both them games he reffed against us and go see if he has Dingle memorabelia hanging in his house. To give Trav a yellow then ignore two Brum challenges after that was bewildering. Never a more biased reffing job have I seen. 3 points, a welcome break for the cup then back at it hopefully with a proper central defender or two that is more sturdy than a carton if eggs. Course he will tease us by climbing back into contention of a PO spot then another slide to mid table obscurity. Final thought, firstnhalf I thought we were well on top, should have been far enough ahead to have the game wrapped up. Then we come out after ToMo's half time team talk and we are terrible, this happens time and time again. What does he say that makes levels drop so often.

Clear and obvious.

Very true, add to that.Dolan's lack of quality minutes.

If that is true, well I don't know what to say. Criminal.

Well done there, clean sheet left egg on some faces.

Shades of a desperate man, is Trav really ready to start? or is he being set up for failure?

An observation on Armstrong, maybe I am reading more into it than what is really was. We have all noticed.Arma's.reluctance.to pass. He has purposely overlooked Gally and perhaps even more often Brereton. Even in biildnups I have witnessed him clearly ignore Ben when the pass was on. Now,nhaving witnessed this frequently I found it interesting that when Dack first returned.comimg on as sub he passed to him wheever he had the chance, is there something to that? Has he issues with Gally.and Big Ben? Anyone else notice this.

Could work.

There is not a cat in hell's chance that these owners will pot Mowbray, not a chance. For one who is going to out the bug in their ear that it is time to go, his best buddy Waggot? no way not going to happen. Look how long Kean kept his job whennit was clear to all and sundry he was way out of his depth. Of course there was those in football's hierarchy who said we, us fans, were being mean and unreasonable, but the point stands, he should have.been gone after the 1st season. Same thing with the outstanding, brown paper bags all round, candidate stuck around way longer than he should have. He should never have made it into the New Year. Couple that with the fact they kicked into touch the REAL outstanding candidate and it shows just how clueless and devoid of ambition they are. No ToMo is here to stay until he subjects us to a Coventry type meltdown which, when watching the player's body language, is not too far away. Nope, there is nobody here that can guide the Venky's, that can.explain to them the footballing idiocy that this dinosaur comes up with week in week out. No one to show them how players are not being played in there strongest positions, how favourites get game time ahead of better players, yeah he's here for a while yet. Sorry I should have put thisnin the Mowbray thread, Mods move if you want.

Baffled me too.

Was evident whennhe went off against Hudds they immediately took control of the game whilenhe was on we were in charge.

He has to go doesn't he? Who would the loons get in though. Is Bilic working yet?

Calm down everyone we still have a bit to go yet. Lose at.Brum, limp out the cup then we might see a few results.

I thought so, clearer than Gally

Will he drop Douglas so we can defend those attacks. Doubt it.

Not time to win yet. We have gone from 2 to 7 points back of a playoff spot, I think when we get to about 11-12 back we will start winning again to solidify our mid table comfort. It is absolutely galling what goes on here get within a win the fade over and over and over. Gifting games over and over and over.

Inthiught we'd be up for one point over the festive period but expected it at Hudds with defeats to Wednesday and Big Club. One point ahead of my expectations. When are we going to stop dominating possesion only to fall behind with the ooponents 1st or 2nd attempt on goal. Notnunderstanding why Rothwell ismolaying somdeepnand.notmunderstanding why Douglas is still starting ,he's been horrible.