Ghost7

Why did Rovers need Sheffield Wednesday to tell them £750,000 wouldn't work... I could have told them that. I also could have told them the wage structure isn't high enough to buy a striker for £3m like Smit, so don't bother if another Championship club has any interest in the player. You aren't competitive in the market, or taking the league position seriously.

Our ambitions and budget deserve League One.

All signs you need a new manager. The first 30 minutes of nearly every home game this season has been like that, against lesser opposition.

Gestede should be ashamed of himself

The manager's been getting it wrong for months, heading back to September. The squad isn't great but it's better than where it is in the table. 4 at the back would have been fine in many fixtures against some really ordinary teams (Oxford, Charlton, Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth). Alebiosu as a right midfielder and Miller as a full back would have worked well at this level for much of it, along with Ribiero or Pickering at left back and Morishita as a left midfielder. Ribiero, McLoughlin, Hyam, Miller. Is how we ideally should have started every game this season. For what it's worth I think we'd have had a lot less injuries too. Playing with wing backs is intense for everyone, a back to basics type appointment earlier in the season and I'm confident we wouldn't have lost so many home games. Ismael and the "data" approach has cost us a huge amount of points and potentially relegated us. In fact I'm fairly certain it's already sent us down and there will be no change in the dugout this season.

It's out of order, personally.

Waiting to lose a few more games first.

It's crazy Ismael still thinks 5 at the back is working. Firstly we currently don't have the players available to play it and haven't had for some time. It should have stopped as soon as Alebiosu went to AFCON. We aren't winning any games playing it, and are hardly having any shots. It's completely laughable we haven't attempted any tactical change in any fixture either before or during, no changes in shape. He's one of the worst managers I've seen. We could have easily gone back to basics weeks ago, hardly any Championship teams play it, maybe Preston and Wrexham?

Rovers fully deserve relegation this year, that's the only thing that will make it easier. You can't run a club this way and get away with it.

None of us wanted him in the first place. Crap manager and the best Gestede can get.

If they had anything about them at the club, Gestede would be asked to desperately move on De Neve, Henriksson and Tavares now. Then bring in 3 replacements that can play at this level, along with a LWB. The other option is you tell all 3 they won't be registered and bring in the players who can play anyway. Either way it's been made clear that signing players should not be Gestede's responsibility.

As I say - Henrikkson, De Neve, Gardner-Hickman (Hyam's replacement), Moussa Baradji and McLoughlin all available tonight. This is not about injuries, it's all about appalling, naive and arrogant recruitment from Ismael and Gestede, and a lack of real investment from the owners. To top it off Ismael is a terrible manager. One of the worst we've ever had.

Precisely, I don't know what people are expecting from players that no other Championship club would have an interest in.

Has to be the managers last game But it won't be.

Tonight’s line up tells you all you need to know about Gestede and the recruitment. Not fit for this league.

It takes cutthroat interested executives with a reasonable level of autonomy to see through it and do something. Something Venky’s wouldn’t even want present at the club.

No injuries to De Neve, Henriksson, McLoughlin and Gardener-Hickman all season. We just recruited poorly in the summer, it's as simple as that. That's 4 fit, completely crap players that make our starting 11 far weaker than last year. Plenty of the new signings have been fit throughout our bad form. Tavares, Morishita and Miller have been available at the same time as the above for a huge amount of this seasons fixtures. The problem is when you add that poor recruitment to last years further cost cutting recruitment (Ohashi, Gueye and Kargbo), then you have the spine of an extremely weak and ineffective first team squad for this level. This is the reality. We're witnessing a team that can't win games due to back to back budget cutting anywhere and everywhere over the past few years.

Interesting when he signed for Bodo 6 months ago he saw himself “as a winger” but as soon as he signs for us, he’s the striker we’ve been dreaming of. I hope he does well but generally with incomings since the summer under Gestede and Ismael it feels like we’re getting pissed on and being told it’s raining.

or when your club can't sign any player capable of starting a football game immediately without the fear of an injury, or needing to get "up to speed". Pathetic.

Terribly weak defending YET AGAIN by Hyam's replacement Sean Mcloughlin on the second. How many easy goal contributions against us is that now... ? I'm almost seeing one a game. This guy will be starting at the back for us for years to come. That's how Venky's operate. We should have been spending good cash on a Hyam replacement as you'd expect either before he left or Jan 1. This sale was easily the most detrimental but that was extremely obvious at the time, to anyone interested in Rovers getting results this season.

We lost a lot of players in the summer but not enough to be seeing performances like this for almost the entire season. Other teams have their injuries too and can handle them. The core of the team is not performing under this manager and he's enabling terrible player recruitment. He's part of the problem and needs to go.

Axel Henriksson and Dion De Neve, would not be at any other Championship club. They're playing at the wrong level completely. It's ludicrous they're involved.

This guy wouldn't still be in a job at ANY other club.

This guy's one of the worst managers we've had. Simple as that sadly.

I think the other signing is Ryan Hedges back sooner than expected.