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If any of you want to dissociate from your minds and bodies, without the financial and toxicological implications of a rhinoceros-level dose of ketamine, check out Ismael’s interview with Sky, the psychedelic properties of his bullshit are potent.
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5 minutes ago, Tugayslongwalkoff said:
Absolutely gash. Turned it off and had a tug after 50 minutes, did the same during Derby game and will likely just go straight to tugging at the weekend.
season has gone.
One letter away from nominative determinism, with this post
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3 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:
Why we didn't go for their keeper in the summer, God knows
Waggott’s pension contributions were the priority.
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What a keeper that Johansson is, massive paw on that.
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Just now, OsloRover said:
Gally getting a yellow the highlight of the match
He’s rattled despite being one up against his previous club. Should be strolling about the place having a whale of a time.
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I would almost prefer it if we didn’t score, which is new territory for me. I almost cannot handle the hope that a goal would bring.
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We are so shit it is genuinely unbelievable. I am struggling to believe that this team gets paid to do this every day and this is the best they’ve been able to come up with.
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Just now, jim mk2 said:
This is as bad as the Derby second half. No pressure, no creativity, no apparent hope of us scoring
The manager has contributed fuck all this half except the subs and even then didn’t seem to understand why he was making them.
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Just now, rovers11 said:
Cantwell will be off to a club abroad in the summer. He's not up to it and is clearly not enjoying his football either.
We cannot afford passengers who are top earners.
Reckon he’d love a stint at LAFC, Hollywood probably very attractive to him.
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1 minute ago, Tom said:
Think it’s partly this
Excellent reference.
Thing is - I still fall for this, because when he just does the basics and focuses and works hard, he’s good. He’s got something. When he loses focus, starts trying to be The Big I Am and The Main Man, he can’t compute. His reflex to take the game to the opposition is to do all sorts of tricks and - much to our chagrin - he pulls of one in five to a high enough level that it confirms in his mind that he needs to keep trying it, while entirely forgetting that he fails with it 80+% of the time.
We are losing to a squad of former Rovers players that weren’t deemed a sufficient standard to hold down a regular first team place, which I think has to be perfect comic irony.
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I buckled. I said I wouldn’t watch. I also said I’d not be drinking at home. For obvious reasons, that resolution has been shattered.
It is insane - utterly insane - that we can give any credence to the theory that the club is being intentionally sabotaged by its own executive team.
But the thing is - what else is it? Maybe there’s a mentality issue at Brockhall, that seems to be inherited by every player that passes through its doors. We’ve been down here for 13 years or so and not been in the playoffs once. We are being intentionally defunded, pointedly, even.
The CEO is giving himself a bumper pay rise despite having achieved physically nothing of note. Having improved absolutely nothing about the club. Even the infrastructural expenditure has been about maintenance. Our sponsors are a regional solicitors’ firm with an annual turnover of half the club’s. They were graduated from the back of shirt sponsor.
Theres nothing at all anymore that points to a rational action. It’s intentional, it’s malicious and we as fans need to make Ewood (and away grounds) a no-go area for the executive team on matchdays. Nothing else is going to have an effect. If you need evidence - they’ve quietly asked their opponents’ exec team to get their stewards to take down the anti-ownership banners in our away end. The arrogance of that action while pulling in eye-watering sums of money as a wage to manage a football club into a potentially terminal decline is staggering.
But I saw that the away fans were taking selfies with Waggott. How nobody there didn’t make that guy so scared he got into his McDonald’s-strewn, travelling salesman saloon car and drove immediately back to Kent, I’ll never know.
We were fucking shit, except for Gueye who is my favourite player out on that pitch currently.
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Just now, simongarnerisgod said:i really think next season will be a complete implosion with not many fans in attendance
Friends and family up north have already said they’re not bothering with a season ticket next season. Today’s genuinely the first time I’ve considered not watching anymore since about 2011-12. I entirely stopped engaging for about 18 months or so, living abroad.
Today has been a bit of an eye-opener, on a personal level. Was a little nervous this morning, wondering about the lineup, wondering what Eustace would be trying to capitalise on, while trying to look at it rationally, that Derby are relegation fodder and a mid-table league one side in a championship stadium. Essentially put off a bunch of important stuff due to fretting about this. Did the odd bit, here and there but it’s taken about 9 hours of my day so far. And I’ll get up now and dawdle about a bit, maybe have SNF on in the background and do something else in the flat, but it’ll still be there. And tomorrow, just as it was yesterday, Thursday and Wednesday before.
And that’s me as a relative armchair fan. Think about the 2700 that travelled. Maybe a handful live locally or local-enough that the journey isn’t hours each way. But they all turned up, prioritised it over other things. For what?
We turn up, we tune in and the people in charge cop out. There are people that have made millions out of this club while achieving nothing. The decision makers haven’t watched a game in a decade. And we’re still turning up every week, buying the shirts, the tickets, the poorly-poured pints, the hospitality, the pies, the Bovril and all the bullshit they spout.
And they’re laughing at us. They’re laughing at us not being able to get a protest together for over ten years (25 tennis balls, aside). Laughing at us arguing with each other that no other person in the world would buy and finance us as the current owners do. Laughing at us when they’ve sold our best assets for medium-sized bucks and invested virtually nothing, before telling us they’ve “made significant investment.” Laughing at us when they say that if we want safe standing, we’ll need to crowdfund it. Laughing at us when they’ve talked about how impressive it was to have paid all our bills.
Post-match, we’re all prone to hyperbole, but I think - for the rest of this season, at least - that’s me done.
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This is a deeply uninspiring second half performance. So little imagination. We get trapped on the corner of the box and don’t know what to do with it. Running the risk of “being the better team between the boxes” again, which is how you wind up in trouble. Some big lads on the pitch and nobody getting enough decent balls into them.
Whatever Ismael tried today, I don’t want to see it again.
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Who’s the fucking ref? Looks like he’s on work experience.
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We look weak across the park.
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1 minute ago, moerpho said:
I can’t watch this
There’s a fairly compelling netball game on Sky Sports Main Event
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Just now, simongarnerisgod said:
harsh that,he`s only been here a few weeks,judge him next season,personally i think he`ll break this team up and build another one,wether that is succesful only we`ll have to see
He’ll have to do it with less than zero budget.
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Just now, Tom said:
Was it a muscle injury for Kargbo or an impact one? Hope the latter as players with his pace and muscle injuries is a bad combination
Looked like his calf, but hadn’t seen an impact.
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Just now, Exiled_Rover said:
I'd like to actually pretend for once in the last 15 years that we're trying for it and are a functional club.
You and me both, but the opening 7 minutes of this game makes me wonder how bad it would be. Sounds like Derby fans have turned up the volume and we are overwhelmed. Feel for the many that made their way down.
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Just now, BigBar said:
Why the fuck are we such a gift? Fucking hell that's infuriating, can't even enjoy a big game with alot to play for. Straight off the bat it's a collapse. Fuck sake.
Could you imagine how badly we’d fold in the playoffs? Almost makes it look like we’re being done a favour being kept out of it.
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Just now, doctorryan said:
Back to bed.
For the best.
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This is fucking embarrassing
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Everything I said earlier about getting an early one also applies to us, so we know how this is going
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That’s the lineup I’d have picked, but - ironically - that fills me with no extra confidence, as it’s become clear this season that I don’t know as much about football as I thought I did.
Despite being a general fan of Cantwell, I’m glad he’s not starting today, as we need to be at it early and he doesn’t instigate early on. Nothing better than getting an early one against a side that will have very little belief at the minute. Getting two and there’s every chance they crumble.
I do wonder how many defeats in the bounce Eustace will be allowed before the crowd eventually turns. They’ve not looked too bad apart from the QPR game, but what little belief there is will be fragile and Eustace is currently experiencing a new manager splat that could become terminal with a heavy defeat at some point. Hopefully that’s today.
v Stoke City (a) - 12/3/2025, k/o 20.00
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Said we had big chances, Stoke didn’t and that our players needed more belief, temporarily forgetting that he’s in charge of team talks, tactics, training and picking the team, which would be all the points at which you instil belief