Ghost7

I think the players are disinterested during and after January when they realise they've been over-performing and still don't get backed. Too many of them have been involved in this cycle with disinterested owners for a long time. The investment and strategy don't align in trying to seriously help the players get into the Premier League, whether they're 5th or 2nd they know it doesn't happen. That includes when it comes to finding the players a new head coach. Until there's a real significant investment in permanent players and not a fantasy PR one, the players will keep running out of inspiration and steam. By a real significant investment I mean a few million spent on a few key positions such as GK, ST, RW, LW, CM and CB we won't ever seriously stand a chance of getting into the Premier League. Not 600k spent on a winger from Serie B/C or 300k on Ryan Hedges.... As someone mentioned with Lewis Baker, cutting a corner on him in summer cost us, just like cutting corners on two keepers in the past 24 months did... It's a shame the entire fanbase can't see whats right under their noses and unite against a disingenuous board and uninterested owners. Even when season ticket sales fall to an all time low (and I think they will soon), would someone at the club be held accountable? Will anyone ask for more investment from the owners in players? I doubt it.

Absolutely embarrassing. Not good enough from the players or the manager since he joined.

Certainly looks it on recent showings.

The board and owners refusal to invest in known players for a fee. Let's stop pretending we don't know the answers to these things. A total lack of ambition and funding.

Mine isn't getting renewed. Not a chance.

That's called not believing in a system.

Been way too easy all match for Stoke this Manager has got his setup completely wrong, really worrying from him.

I always get the feeling after he has one nice effort not go in, that's his contribution for the night.

Really great banners! We need more of it.

Wages. If there's good competition for a signing we don't pay the wages needed.

We look a team that already does not believe in their manager. What a sorry state of affairs this is.

Yep, would you trust them in a play-off semi final let alone a final?

It doesn't turn sadly, don't renew until they go, or if they make a genuine "significant investment" in players. There was a very deceitful early bird offer last season, engineered by Waggott to trap fans because they knew Eustace wasn't getting the budget he'd been promised. It worked because many trusted them to spend the Raya sell-on and some of the Wharton fee on players, however, we sleepwalked through the summer spending pennies and positioned ourselves as favourites in the media to go down because of it... There's no reason it'll be any different this time. Bridges have been burned between the club and likely thousands more season ticket holders, with the non-existent transfer budgets and an inability to keep hold of decent managers. The CEO, Directors and Owners have been given chance after chance to be honest and communicate with the fan base but they are incapable... They need starving out.

Not pretend everything is fine at the club. Quite simple really.

From a players perspective with this amount of disruption during what you would consider a successful season. Why wouldn’t you feel something is wrong? It’s largely unheard of. If your answer to that is, you wouldn’t, nothing is wrong Eustace was just a snake. Then you’re a deluded prat. The problem is a good chunk of our fanbase (the happy clappers) will fully be thinking that way. There’s a major IQ issue in football fanbases.

It's funny how someone like Toth can come in make a slight error, then not get a sniff for the next 20 games but Aynsley can consistently flap at crosses and cost us vital goals with other ridiculous errors over multiple seasons. The positioning on his freekick at Bristol was sackable. The one the other week with his feet where he's kicked it in? One of the worst keeping errors I've ever seen. Totally inexcusable. I'd have dropped him immediately after that. Flapping at it today costing us another vital goal.... The miss kick vs Sheffield Weds... there's so many more. An alarming amount more. I've never seen a keeper who's tested so little.... make so many errors when tested. JDT bizarrely playing him over Kaminski cost us the playoffs before. Eustace wanted a new no.1 too. Get him GONE and bring in a more physical goalkeeper!

Shock... Adam Armstrong is helping West Brom get into the playoffs ahead of us. Meanwhile our new signings lack fitness, you get what you pay for. Pathetic stuff.

We've been lucky the past few seasons to have some very good managers come in, sadly good managers don't last with bad owners but as we've seen in the past..... bad ones do......

I'll say it again.... the only reason Tyrhys Dolan entered the Rovers record books today is due to a severe lack of investment in players from the owners over the past 5 yeas. Not something to celebrate.

The reserve keepers must be absolutely shite in training. This man costing us way too many games season after season.

They simply must significantly drop season ticket prices in this case, and choose one stand to almost give them away in. Obvious choice is the Riverside.

Waggott taking up half the transfer budget 🤣

Could buy a decent right winger in place of Waggott. What a cretin.

I think that not investing in a quality right winger to rotate or replace (and somewhat protect) Dolan is costing us far too regularly in key phases... Whether that be losing possession when facing the wrong way or a lack of goals as a team. If you are only providing 3 or 4 outfield goals a season, and 4 or 5 assists then you HAVE to be performing better for the many... many minutes in between if you're playing regularly and he is. That means passing sharper, protecting the ball well and carrying it better. Then you can go about asking for a big wage. He needs to focus on improving.... and sack his agent but it's too late. I worry where his career will go after his next move. His minutes played are that of someone you would expect to be a higher earner but his ability isn't there. That's because we've hardly spent a penny in recent years and we've created a problem where a player thinks he's better than he is. Useful squad player that needs to improve but starts nearly every game.

It would be nice if SKY or ITV bothered to show it as a highlight.... They're quick to show Norwich missing a couple of chances but not a major talking point against them.