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.

Norwich signed today’s goalscorer Crnac for £10 million in the summer. He was a sub. They also spent £5m on right winger, £3m on a centre midfielder, £3m on a centre back, £1.5m on a left back and £1m on a spare centre midfielder. This is what we are up against. They're 11th. I pointed out a similar thing out when Millwall striker Ivanovic scored a winner against us in December they signed him for £3 million in the summer. Everyone above us have outspent us and nearly everyone below us has. Including Plymouth and Derby... Let that sink in. If you don't think we're being let down or neglected by the owners then you're a moron. It’s a miracle we are where we are and we absolutely must continue to highlight the lack of investment from the owners.... If you think we lack quality look no further than them. They owe some more reasonable spending in the summer, or they need to leave.

Chrisene won't have expected a second yellow to be given there imo. He was making a meal of it to try and make sure he got a kind freekick to try and relieve some pressure, like all defenders do these days. It's a shocking decision from the referee to card him and one of the worst refereeing performances I've seen... got it wrong multiple times for both teams. Some simply can't have played the game, ever. Demote whoever he is.

and perhaps a promotion to Premier League?

Ah but you're forgetting "we're only a small club" the owners need the funds. and the football giant that is Brentford prevails.

cheap cheap cheap and convenient. No ambition, no plan, a plodder of a CEO and absent owners.

Personally feel this appointment is the start of the end. We will plummet next season under Ismael, Waggott and Suhail.

Reading now have a buyer https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2025/february/24/club-statement-letter-intent/

The only way for the board to make up for the Eustace debacle was to make a progressive statement with the next managerial appointment. Ismael isn't it. We were 5th so the opportunity was there to do that. It needed to inspire immediately across 13 games (now 12). I'm so unbelievably disappointed with the club again and for me it compounds losing Eustace in the way we did... and further validates the accusations against them.... As if that was needed. I'm not surprised at all by an unimaginative, cheap as they come appointment. It epitomises the board and owners.... but if that's what they wanted then why wasn't it done weeks ago....... and if they didn't want that, why can't they secure a first choice manager that takes some money and some convincing, when 5th in the league? They've got to go for me.

"Watford have sacked boss Valerien Ismael following a run of only one win in 10 league games". Get used to it. Minus the sacking part of course. I'd like to know why we took two weeks and still ended up here.... Clearly not a preferred choice but we got there in the end..... after being told to piss off by enough people.

Two names that don’t deserve to inherit a team in a playoff position, and wouldn’t usually.

Really? For a team that’s 5th with 12 to go and ran correctly? I think not. Desperate stuff because we aren’t ran correctly.

Part of me hopes it’s Ismael… so that I can stop buying a season ticket. had enough of the club and a Cooper, Gerard or O’Neil type appointment would have kept me going. Ismael or Wagner will just flatten the faint hopes of the fans and the players.

They are appointments no other clubs would have made if they were 5th. Yes we were 5th when we needed a new manager. Tragic stuff.

Another career Venky's and Waggott have harmed then? 🤔

Recently as in the entire season? Hedges has been anonymous in nearly every game since August. It's staggering he's still starting.

I can't get over the first goal today. It's a totally unacceptable error, one of the worst I've seen. Have we seen more individual errors and points cost by a goalkeeper in our history over the course of two seasons? He's absolutely terrible and it's criminal as said before that we didn't push the extra 500k etc for a proper number 1. He's had a "decent season" because Batth, Hyam and Tronstad have protected the life out of him. You can't go into any playoff games with a keeper like this. Toth must be f*cking useless.

We knew the lack of investment in a top quality keeper would bite us again eventually as it did last year. Just like the lack of investment in a top quality centre midfielder has. Common theme here.....

He was a fantastic squad player, replaced by a semi retired footballer. We tried the same thing last year with Fleck coming in for Wharton. It's extremely desperate stuff and you have no right being in or around the top 6 operating that way. - read this Waggott and fuck off.