It's incredible to think that we are scoring the number of goals we are and yet have hardly played a recognized striker all season.

Praise has to go to JDT for that and also to Sammie Szmods who is having the season he could only dream of.  If there is one player we need to wrap in cotton wool at the moment it's him

Have to say that I think the standard of goalkeeping presently is the worst I have seen in my time watching football. We at Rovers have been blessed over the years/decades with some terrific keepers whose only job was to keep the ball out of the net. The likes of Jones, Bradshaw, Gennoe, Arnold, Flowers , Robinson, and of course Friedel. Kaminski also deserves a mention..

Now you are likely to see a keeper make a mistake or two in every game which ends up costing a goal.

What do people think, has the last 20 years or so seen standards drop ?

Looks like they are going 4-4-2 with jutkevic and stansfield up front. .

This is no foregone conclusion tonight, they have some decent players. Bacuna, dembele, Sanderson are all good players.

No mention of Carter being injured from JDT in today's press conference so hopefully he's ok, unless we are playing our cards close to our chest.

Only issue if so is Travis or Brittain at right back ?

Approach the game in the right way and we should win. I've watched Rovers for too many years to be certain of anything though.!

7 games coming up in December as well , so I would imagine JDT will have to think hard about rotating the squad over the coming weeks ( as much as the squad allows anyway)

Hopefully have Hyam, Gallagher and Pears back in the next couple of weeks to strengthen the squad.

Team for Wednesday assuming Wharton is out

                             Leo

Brittain.        Hill.          Carter.         Pickering

                  Tronstad.         Wharton

Moran.          .  Szmodics.         Siggy

                           Dolan

2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I think I could score goals against 1321 year olds !

Don't write him off yet  is all I'm saying. 😃

Think Tronstad is a perfect illustration of not writing players off too soon.  Even coming from a decent Dutch league you could see in his first couple of games the game was passing him by and JDT took him out of the side.

Now he is probably first name on the team sheet. We also now have Leo who is establishing himself and had a clean sheet yesterday, and Telalovic appears to be getting up to speed and scoring goals, albeit in the I321s at the moment. 

I think both of these players will also prove to be solid signings for the club. I don't think we sometimes understand how difficult it can be for players moving from abroad to settle into new surroundings and produce their best

Just wondering if there is a concussion protocol in place that means Wharton has to sit out a game or two, which we obviously don't need .

Anybody any idea?

Just gets better Nobbers now conceded 2 in injury time .

How does it feel Nobbers ?

That makes a refreshing change, 2 late goals for us !!

Dingles also stuffed, lost 2-1 conceding 2 in last 5 mins 

What a weekend !

A few more options now Carter and Pickering back. Was happy with Scott Wharton against PNE, thought he was mom. So maybe this ...

                          Leo

Hill.           Carter.          S Wharton.       Pickering

                     Tronstad.     A Wharton

Brittain.             Szmodics.          Siggy/ Dolan

                        Dolan/ Leonard

4 hours ago, metalrover said:

What happened to the reported hundreds of  City breaches?

 

All forgiven and forgotten?

They are being investigated but there are that many breaches (115), it could be a couple of years before a decision is made apparently! 🤷‍♂️

26 minutes ago, rigger said:

yes you can. 

If you say so 👍 You seem hell bent on dismissing a 15 year old lad playing his first game in a much older age group because, according ,to you he's not quick enough, when everybody else seems to have been really impressed with him 

Knock yourself out if that's your philosophy 

7 minutes ago, unsall said:

Premier clubs well aware of his talent, and for some reason he chose Rovers in the summer 

Presumably because he knows his chances of progressing through the ranks are better at Rovers than premier League clubs. Our reputation for giving young players a chance has to have helped

4 minutes ago, rigger said:

You can be both, they are not mutually exclusive.

No, but if it's one or the other I know which I'd have.

15 minutes ago, rigger said:

I have never said he won't make it. I said premier league teams will not come in for him if he doesn't have pace. You quote the move for his goal. Did you see the one in the second half where he did exactly the same to his marker. He was easily caught before getting near to having a shot. By the way, what other players have done in their careers, has no bearing what-so-ever on how another player will turn out.

All I'm saying is give me a strikers "nouse" over simply being quick any day of the week

He showed great awareness of where the defenders were to flick that ball on to himself.

That you can't teach. At 15 he is only going to get bigger and stronger

1 minute ago, rigger said:

If Tyjon can't improve his speed, I doubt if a premier league team will come calling.

Bit harsh to say because a lad at 15 , on first viewing seems to lack a bit of pace that he won't make it. Having looked at his goal again last night when he flicked the ball on, the defenders started to catch him only as he steadied himself to shoot. Plenty of strikers can make it without having pace (Sheringham for one) . Dack was never blessed with pace.

I think the lad has definitely got something 

Enjoyed the game, Rovers did well for 75 mins then seemed to run out of legs and PSV finished much the stronger.

Agree about the lad Tyjon, seems to have something about him, although maybe not  the quickest. 

21 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

We've got 5 strikers at the club (1 being Vale out on loan), the manager doesn't play any of them, although I suspect Gallagher would have played the majority of games if he was fit.

Any thoughts of bringing in a striker in January will be way wide of the mark. Gallagher the senior/experienced striker (when/if fit) and Telalovic, Leonard and Ennis to keep gaining experience/developing (if JDT ever plays them) with a view of shifting for some profit down the line.

Chances of bringing in a Billy Sharpe type (I'm not saying we should be signing Billy Sharpe, just an example name), to come in and "block pathways" are basically non-existent.

The only way we bring a striker in is if Gallagher is sold. With Szmodics having the season of his life (so far) and being amazingly top of the goals scoring charts, I'm sure GB will say there's no need .

Really not sure where we would look to recruit in January tbh. Apparently left back not being locked at either.

NB

Just starting to get over Friday night, too gutted to comment at the time.

Thought a draw would have been a fair result, considering the injuries we had ,thought we coped really well.

Special word for Scott Wharton, who looked somewhere back to his best, and Travis, who gave it absolutely everything despite being hampered with a knock thoe last 1/2 hour or so

1 hour ago, JohnD said:

He's going to cost a few £m, have the magic money taps been switched on or just more lazy journalism?

The latter I would say

Bit of transfer gossip....

https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1204418256?-11198:839

7 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

I think bringing Buckley back makes sense. But also probably midfield is our best covered position - Travis and Garrett ready to come in - so it doesn't necessarily solve the biggest problem.

The big issue will more be right/left back as JRC could cover right back and allow Brittain to move to left back as needed if Pickering was not available. With him now gone we are basically down to Brittain and Pickering staying fit and available through to January. I guess Buckley has played right back, but he lacks the athleticism and positional discipline needed to make a proper go at it imo. And for whatever reason Batty does not seem favoured, not even getting anywhere near the bench.

Hill can always move back to right back once Carter and Hyam are back, but Hyams injury seems to have been kept very quiet.

1 hour ago, BlackburnEnd75 said:

We always play 2 midfield ?

That's my thought too, although the Telegraph seem to insist it's 3, as they categorize Szmodics as a midfield player. Not what I've always regarded as a midfield player tbh

13 minutes ago, yankfan said:

surely we will line up like this. No other choice really except maybe Travis in the middle  or Siggy on the left, but Dolan and Trondstad deserve to keep their places. 
 

                      Leonard

Dolan.           Szmodics                 Moran

                Wharton.          Trondstad

pickering.   Wharton.  Hill.      Brittain

                          Whalstedt

         

Sigurdsson on the left, Dolan up top for Leonard for me.

He's done really well last few games