Fully deserved win for Preston. Set up as a team, we just look like a bunch of lads having a kick about. Fuck sake, banging on every striker in sight at the first sign of getting beat, Gallagher at right back, then banging on all the loans, because we have to player them, just fuck off Tony, sick of him big time.

3 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

I'd given him till last xmas. 

Hey

9 minutes ago, J*B said:

Anyone else worried sick we’re going to do that 3-5-2 that we know doesn’t work tomorrow?

No, because I just can’t see him reverting away from the 3 up top that he likes so much these days. We have to play 3 up top, we don’t have a striker who can play the lone role, and we don’t really have two strikers that work well together, it worked with dack and graham but we don’t have the right personnel now.

27 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Taylor played under top name managers? Who were these apart from Souness who sold him. 

Johansson played 2 games for Bayern. That's it before he was sold to Nuremberg. He never played for AEK Athens. So dont know why you mention then..https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/nils-eric-johansson/profil/spieler/205

 

What’s the point you are trying to make? They are both better than any centre half we currently have, so what point are you trying to make?

49 minutes ago, Gav said:

The same club that has spent £4.99 on Armstrong and Dack who are now probably worth £30m+ in todays market.

Its just a lazy argument concerning Gallagher and Brereton, its time to move on, posters need some new material.

By the way Tiny Taylor was an awful centre back, if you think any different that says about your ability to spot a player than anything else, Johansson was a bit better.

The argument isn’t whether or not certain defenders are good or bad, it’s whether or not they are better than what we have now. Taylor and Johanson are streets ahead of lenihan, Ayala, Williams, Magloire. Brathwaite, not seen enough so hold judgement. Taylor and Johanson played many games in the top flight, both were competent top flight defenders, none of the current crop are competent championship defenders half of the time. 

From what I've seen this season, it's the same old, a run of scraping some wins and then boom a bad run, players having 3 or 4 really good games and then boom they go missing - Armstrong banging them in for fun, then we don't see him for 5 or 6 games, Bradley Johnson starting the season off well and looking very dominating in midfield and now looks like his legs have completely gone, Kaminski commanding at the back collecting clean sheets, and then 1 clean sheet in 12 games, even gallagher looked okay for a couple of games, bagged a couple of goals and now looks absolutley useless again. Then theres the manager, we start the season absolutley flying at teams, Dolan, Breo and Arma terrorising defences, the fullbacks getting further up the field than we are used to and then all of a sudden everything has gone very laboured and we look clueless.

Everything points to the manager, to let players get away with such inconsistencies on regular basis is poor, drop them, it's that simple, but no he strangley drops players who are in form, at time this season Dolan and Rothwell have been put on the bench a week after having good games, whereas the likes of Lenihan who has been awful all season keeps making the team (okay at times unavoidable, but go with a back 3 with Nyambe in there if need be).

We were more effective with Danny Graham knocking the ball down to Dack, than we are now. I've seen a few fans on twitter saying things along the lines of "he wants to play the right way, but the players just aren't good enough yet" - Well don't frigging play that way then, it's simple isn't it? surely!

We are 17th in terms of goals shipped, probably a couple of games away from dropping into the bottom 4 in terms of goals shipped, this defensive issue has been going on for far to long now under mowbray, last night some of the defending was completely unacceptable, it was like wathcing a schoolboy game, 3 or 4 of them chasing the same ball and leaving huddersfield with 2 players free at the back post on 2 or 3 occasions, utterly woeful. It's clear we need a proper defensive midfielder in there to protect this woeful back 4, I thought that's why we got Trybull in, he isn't a forward thinking player, he is a pitbull type player, but he's hardly played a game, instead we have Johnson in there who struggles to run. Just not good enough.

Be interesting to see how they get on in this game, Stoke struggle against teams like Rovers, as in teams who have a lot of the ball, they aren’t scoring much at the moment, so they’ll probably bag 4 against us!

Be interesting to see how Rothwell plays, as Stoke are interested in signing him in the summer, their manager is a big admirer of him, not that they are any better than us.