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TheRoversReturn

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  1. Bit harsh, we grew into the game as the half went along. We restricted QPR to just the one shot, which hit the crossbar. Some good linkup play was being developed toward the end of the half. The major disappointment was Buckley, who is very lucky not to have been sent off. That would have changed the game and we'd have been up against it if he had. He needs to mature as a footballer...and fast.
  2. That goal seems to have given the lads a bit of confidence. Suddenly trying much more ambitious balls, going on the attack.
  3. I wouldn't be surprised if a big part of it is just fancying a change. He's been with us over a decade, it's natural to want to freshen things up at some stage. With the management team leaving, it probably seems like a good time for him to leave too. He was a good player for us, nowhere near great. No hard feelings and good luck to him, just not when playing against us.
  4. Something to look forward to this summer! What on earth happened to our once-proud club...
  5. Mowbray leaving is speculation. The Venktards are as likely to give him another contract as to pot him. Knowing what they've been like with us, there's more chance they haven't a clue what they'll do than they do.
  6. It's certainly felt like strange things happen regularly at our club since 2010.
  7. People seem ready to believe Mowbray when he says Venky's would have given him the funds for another attacker but he wasn't interested. Really? Surely he's clever enough to know never to bite the hand that feeds him. Better to say that then say the bosses wouldn't give him any more money. Why care what the fans think, if him taking the blame for that will make him look good in Pune? We've blown our best chance of getting back to the Prem since we relegated through sheer ownership incompetence. Does anyone except the fans care?
  8. Outfought and out-thought by Ince. Take away that second-half against Derby and we've barely scored at all in 2022. I'd love to be proven wrong but we've been here time and time again. He can't stop a Death Spiral until we've nothing left to play. If we fall outside the play-offs, then he has to go in the summer. It'd be a massive failure over a six-month period to consolidate on the best position we've been in for over a decade. This was his big chance under us, it's looking like we've blown it...
  9. Donkeys are useful! He might be a donkey but here's our donkey so play him in as a number 9, Tony!!!
  10. It's been said time after time but Mowbray sticks him on the wing. Get him as the number 9 next game! No more false 9 crap...
  11. Thank god Dack's coming back just at the right time to save our season. Gally a real handful when played up front. He might be as graceful as a pissed-up donkey but he unsettles them by his very presence. Gally up front frees space for Dack, Dolan, Khadra and Rothwell to exploit. It's not rocket science Tony, so stop this false 9 crap with Buckley and Johnson....
  12. I think George Burns would be better in that position... and he died in 1996.
  13. He should be told to stop looking for the ball. Just stay up front. By his very position, he'll force at least one opposition centre back to stay near him, opening up space for the rest of the attackers to exploit. Not having someone staying up front is making it easy (game AFTER game) to defend against us. We're not giving them anything to have to think about. Either play Gally up front as a striker, or don't play him at all. He offers us nothing on the wing.
  14. Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy. Which I think sums up our farcical attempts to score!! If the teams below us win their game in hand, we'll be in eighth...
  15. Gallagher up front in the centre, please. We need some kind of presence there. Even when not playing well, it means their defence has something to keep them occupied and Giles has someone to aim toward. It might just need a ball falling off him that lands well for us to get a goal...and not many goals may be needed to win this one.
  16. It's because two of our centre halves went AWOL. Zeefuik hardly covered himself in glory, but you can see that his man to cover was on the right, yet there was only one centre half back to cover two Swansea players in the middle. The goal was down to the lack of our back three defending together. While the central defenders have been doing well, it's still the case that none of them are as good as Ayala, plus isn't his strength in organising those around him? A bit of rotation might be called for on Wednesday.
  17. Feels like we've thrown away a great chance to real put a marker on this promotion challenge, move four points clear of third and force those behind us to get something from their games in hand to stay in touch. Instead, we threw away a glorious chance (with glorious chances) to really put down a marker. Suddenly, 1 win in 4 games means we're under pressure. One point from three away games in Hull, Luton and Swansea...that's not what is needed for a play-off spot, never mind the automatic places! We're now going to watch Bournemouth and QPR overtake us. WBA have serial championship promotion specialist Steve Bruce who knows how to get out of this division more than any other manger (or at least...equal with Neil Warnock as they hold the record for four promotions from this league). Will we be able to turn this mini-slump around or will it see us instead battling instead for the 6th place...with a resurgent Middlesbrough and Forest?? Suddenly...Wednesday now feels like a must-win game. We need our best players starting again and we need to show that we're not just going to slide down the table while watching the likes of our next opponents overtake us.
  18. The JRC substitution seemed to drain us off any kind of momentum for a while.
  19. We're so bad at coming back from behind that we might as well bring out the deckchairs and allow the lads to have a snooze to rest them for the next game when we concede. We'd end up with the same points at the end tof the game! The crazy thing is that we really didn't look like scoring for long periods of the game, yet still managed to miss a few of the easiest chances we're going to get this season...
  20. No, we weren't unlucky. Missing incredibly good chances is not bad luck, it's incompetence.
  21. Those were so easy that no professional footballer has any excuse not to score...
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