22 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

We sold our best player !

It seldom works well !

 I remember people telling me that we had a very good January window.

19 minutes ago, martonrover said:

Funny how no-one used to say that when we went on a ‘Mowbray death spiral”, the back end of last season being another good example.
The head coach, whoever that maybe, obviously isn’t the main problem. 

Perhaps because Mowbray had superior squads (and underachieved) and he was backed much more significantly in the market. Just look at what Mowbray brought in in his final season when we were around the top and what JDT got last season.

3 minutes ago, martonrover said:

As above, we were dropping like a stone.

And we've continued dropping under Eustace. It is only because of the overperformances that JDT got out of the players early in the season that we aren't already dead and buried. 

Drawing lines of the cheeks of someones ass rather sums VAR up.

1 minute ago, speeeeeeedie said:

Leicester are already promoted. Whether they are playing for top or second won't matter to them. They'll be full of confidence and wanting to put on a show for their fans. 

Rovers are going to need help from 2 of Hull, Norwich, and Sunderland to stay up. 

Only need help from one of them in order for us to stay up.

2 hours ago, Gamst said:

Slightly positive opinion incoming. We will survive next week and we will be grateful for the scrappy home points we’ve scraped together against Norwich, Southampton, Plymouth, Millwall and Coventry. It’s not been great and there have been some catastrophic performances along the way but we have amassed 50 points which is more than enough in most years and it will take a fairly unlikely (not very unlikely I accept) set of results to see us relegated next week. Eustace rightly won’t get a lot of credit, but he’s not been Eusless as the squad he inherited was completely bereft of confidence and ability. Yes you should beat a tired Coventry side down to 10 men, but they have good players and regularly score late and perform against the odds. Losing would have made next week significantly more perilous. 

If we survive then what we should be most grateful for is the outstanding work done by JDT in the first 4 months of the season because we have seen in the last 5 months just how much he overachieved with this group of players.  And without those 4 months we would be no way near 50 points.

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

Chrisene is attacking wing back who has pace and can put a good ball into the box.

Which is a complete waste of time with our forward players

Law of averages you'd expect us to stay up but when you break the games down in isolation it looks a lot more precarious. 

Firstly I struggle to see us getting the point we need at Leicester which means we are relying on other games.

I would be stunned if Sheffield Wednesday didn't get at least a point against a Sunderland team with 2 wins in 14.

I'd probably favour Birmingham to beat Norwich. Norwich are not great away from home and may rest a few with them pretty secure in the top 6. Also Birmingham do seem to have a habit of last day survivals.

With Hull still in with a chance of overtaking WBA I think them getting something at Plymouth is the best chance of a result going in our favour. But as Plymouth showed last time out at Home Park against Leicester they are no mugs down there.

The legacy of Bob Lord lives on. Vile club.

What a cracking game. Good result for us also Hull now have something to play for at Plymouth and Leicester can win the League before Saturday.

The standard of goal keeping across the whole of the Championship is terrible

1 minute ago, simongarnerisgod said:

eustace the type of manager if you gave him 50 million quid to spend,he`d still play the same way,like a lower league david moyes,boring tactics thus boring football

A pound shop Tony Pulis

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

down to opinion

It is literally a fact.

3 minutes ago, Blue and White Blues said:

It was a good time for cowardice.  That point makes it extremely unlikely Rovers will be relegated.   Relegation means £5 million doesn’t arrive from the Premier League and much less television revenue.  With the awful attendance numbers, all the more expensive players get sold.   That point was probably worth almost £10 million. 

One goal would have made us safe. We are playing the league leaders in our last game and will most likely lose meaning that we will be relying on other clubs to do us favours and keep us up. All Eustace's cowardice has done is get us closer and closer to the relegation zone and more and more reliant on favours from other teams.

Eustace is a coward whose cowardice has left us looking around for other teams to do us a favour. He talked last week of this being a magnificent opportunity well with 30 minutes against 10 men it was an even greater opportunity but just like with other games this season he lacked the courage to really go for the win.

The man is worse than Coyle and more on a par with Kean. Get him gone ASAP. 

2 hours ago, islander200 said:

O'Riordan was signed with the future in mine though to be fair, bought for his potential.

You don't see many under 21 centre halves coming from league 2 and straight into the action for a Championship side.

Only in time will we see if that money was well spent or not .I do take the argument that the fee could have been used on a player more ready to aid us this season but what does 500k in installments get you these days 

When funds are low and you are in a relegation battle surely you are better of spending those little funds that you have on someone who can help you in that relegation battle. 

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

Its one of them, you either accept considerably less accuracy in decisions and enjoy a "purer" game or you accept the delays and at times how slight the margins are in favour of much more accuracy.

The thing is I'm not convinced that it is accurate that the way the offsides are checked with the dodgy camera angles and lines being drawn all over the place. Not to mention how difficult it is to pinpoint the exact millisecond that the ball is kicked. I do think that the semi-automated thing is much more accurate and much quicker but it still dilutes the game.

Just now, Andy said:

As long as Pears isn't in the squad and Szmodics starts, the rest are all interchangeably poor.

In fact, no, Markanday and Ayari both looked like they had a bit of fight in them, when they came on - start them.

I like Ayari looks like he has a bit about him. As for Markanday he seems to have been made the scapegoat by the manager for Bristol City as the other 10 starters in that game have started the two since it. And that is a big problem with the manager he doesn't seem to want to make any big decisions and drop some of the more senior players. Instead keeps faith in the likes of Hyam, Brittain, Gallagher, Dolan and far too often they fail to deliver.

25 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

I dont see how you can start using grey areas like "clear daylight" when trying to get objective offside/onside decisions correct. 

You wouldnt say similar if it was nearly over the line. It was the last minute of an FA cup semi final so the decision had to be correct and it was. You cant review it and go well he is offside but only just so lets give it.

It is unfortunate as we all wanted United to lose but there is no grievance to be had.

These ridiculous offsides are not in the spirit of the game, the offside rule was brought in to stop players goal hanging and gaining an advantage. Wright gained no advantage by having a toe slightly bigger than Wan Bissaka. VAR is trying to suck all of the joy and emotion out of football and turn it into an exact science by checking if someone has a toe or an armpit offside.

And I'm not even convinced he was offside, the angles they use and the way that they draw the lines on never fully convinces me. The line was drawn across Wan Bissaka's boot and not on the very edge of it. I suspect had that goal been scored at the other they would have altered the lines slightly to make it onside.

VAR has to go for the sake of the game.

6 minutes ago, superniko said:

A lot is down to the fact that Huddersfield play Birmingham. They both cannot catch us, so there is only one spot left on that basis, with the likelihood that it goes to the other of those two. 
We basically want Huddersfield to win that, which means Birmingham can’t catch us and Huddersfield would have to beat Ipswich away (assuming we lose both). Draw is next best, Birmingham win and we lose to Cov and it’ll be a sweaty final weekend 

If we lose our remaining two games then Birmingham could still catch us even if they lose to Huddersfield. It will be down to goal difference then

32 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I watched the FA Cup game this afternoon and Roy Keane in the after match comments on Man Utd said an interesting thing -  “ this set of players are extremely difficult to like “. 
 

Just how I feel about the current Rovers team.

The softest, most gutless, most entitled and most unlikeable group of Rovers players I have ever seen. Szmodics aside and without him the rest of them would be where they deserve to be.

                              Telaovic

JRC            Carter              Koumetio    Pickering

                 Tronstad          Ayari

Markanday            Moran               Dolan

                            Szmodics

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

possible keeper signings in the summer 

Marek Rodak from Fulham, out of contract this summer

Ben Wilson from Coventry. would cost a transfer fee

Daniel Grimshaw from Blackpool. would cost a transfer fee

Zander Clark from Hearts, would cost a transfer fee 

 

Well that is 3 of them out of the running straight away then.