Angry_Pirate

Definitely on the precipice of "worst XI" of my lifetime here. Pears - 😵‍💫 Miller and Pickering - 2x defensive "wingbacks" (it's a back 5!) McLaughlin, Atcheson and Pratt - 2x kids at CB, plus a journeyman CB (who is having a really poor stretch right now) Tronstad and Gardner-Hickman - 2x defensive CDMs, 1 excellent, one middling at best. Cantwell - coming off an abysmal game. Our only creative player out of the XI. Baradji - still on the fence there. Hopeful, yet to really see anything. Ohashi - a pair of legs and half a brain. Not using that as a prediction, but 1 goal looks improbable and anything more than that looks almost impossible. Almost turned the car around when I saw that team, I'm still here - maybe for the last time - with 20,000 empties.

Good, available loan players are out there. Rovers have just seldom been ambitious* enough to go for them. In 2021 Lincoln City had Brennan Johnson AND Morgan Rodgers on loan - contributing 17 goals and 7 assists. Half of the current Enlgand squad have been on loan to the Championship in their development. 2021 was ironically that was our ambitious year with Harvey Elliott, but we always seem to unearth the Rakeem Harper, Leighton Clarkson and Clinton Mola type loans vs the ones who consistently propell teams to greatness. * - by "ambitious" I obviously mean too cheap!

Fairly certain the squad was up (drinking) till 3:30am watching the Stranger Things finale... Never seen a stadium so disinterested - on and off the pitch. On the bright side, I'm surrounded by Colorado Juniors FC on tour who think they are watching Bolton, cheered when Wrexham scored, and have slated Rovers from the first minute... they see it, and they call it soccer.

Didn't realise my "O'Riordan better than Miller" musing would cause a 4 page debate... To clarify my opinion. Miller is a liability when dribbling. If feels like 10% of his dribbles lead to tackles that are borderline lunges. He takes FAR too long to play/clear the ball down the sidelines, with I'd bet 1 in 3 being blocked - occasionally causing danger. His passing in general is easily his poorest trait. He makes the odd good forward pass (Ohashi scores the odd wonderful goal), but many are simply passed to an opponent in the middle of the pitch. Overall I think he is an okay RCB. Championship level. But anyone who tries to defend his passing, dribbling and all round urgency are not seeing the same guy as me. I hope O'Riordan is better. Otherwise, what is the point.

After seeing O'Riordan play for Rovers, but not a minute of football for any other team, I would still bet good money that he is better than Lewis Miller. Also, after last night when Pears seemed to have the urgency of a tortoise, I pray to God that Toth is back in from NYD. Gueye, Tyjon, Garrett, De Neve and one of Pickering/Ribiero to go, Pears too if we get any type of offer. We need a striker. Ohashi is a pair of legs and half a brain.

The Hillsborough sound system is a bit quiet! 🫨

50% have boycotted already over the past 15 years... about time we made it official. Timing is shocking, going into a transfer window, but coming from team "Express Yourself" it doesn't surprise me.

Let's let an obvious deflection go out for a corner. Fucking weapons.

Managed to come of a first half 1-0 up where we hardly looked competitive or up for it for 35mins, and had to survive a homer referee. Must keep XI on the pitch. Pratt for De Neve to move Yuri, maybe Sondre before long too for Sidnei (when did his shirt name change?).

To back up my Ohashi comment. Sure he's likeable, he presses, he gives 100%, and his finishing is passable... but fuck me look at his decision making and quality of passing. It's not professional sometimes. Miller is a donkey with a long throw we don't use. Tavares is easily the worst player in the Championship. Ribiero has lost whatever he had last season, and we're playing a back 5 and 2 holding midfielders at home to FUCKING OXFORD!

Unpopular opinion. Ohashi is fucking shite.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: There's no fucker here. Perhaps it is due to Venky's, the two postponements, or even the fact that we can sit here in December 2025 bemoaning the absence of Ryan Hedges and Adam Forshaw from our starting XI. PATHETIC what these owners have done to this football club over the past 15 years.

I don't care if the player is 25 yards from our own goal, the last man brought him down. 🟥 McKenna must have lock-jaw from all the BJ's he gives out to EFL refs.

In over 30 years of supporting this football club, I have never been more certain of a result - us losing at home. Yet here we are! 🥶🏳️‍ The we in that sentence is doing a ton of heavy lifting.

Only positive from that first half is that we never have to think about it, talk about it, or witness it ever again. Tragic.

That. Was. Fucking. Shit.

Big crowd tonight. 🗑🚮 Wouldn't take much more than 5 minutes to shake everyone's hand in the stadium. 5 of the next 6 at home. Wouldn't be confident to fill this place to capacity in the next 4 homes games combined (based on home fans only). Sad.

Premier League referee, of course. Good job them posh boys up there have VAR to do all the heavy lifting.

Thats 12pts from an unbeaten 6 games down Knob-End since covid. Outscored them 12-5 in the process.

Montgomery - though he hasn't done anything catastrophic - is miles out of his depth here. Also, at least 3 times Sky have been talking about one of our two Japanese players with the camera on the wrong one! 👀

That is one of the worse goals conceded in football history (given the context.) 14 fucking seconds.

You could sit here and say that the goal for Coventry was massively undeserved, the Rovers performance since that point has been woeful.

Had the displeasure of the BBC Coventry team. My God what a set of biased delusional cunts.

Another game where 5% volleys fly into our net. Fed up with it. Fell asleep on the free kick (which wasn't a foul). Shout out at 0-0 to Ohashi for shooting from 25 yards when we had a gimme 3v1. Dumb.

Touché, though three sides of the "new" stadium wasn't even built then! 🤣