4 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Clearly defensive set pieces have improved but I feel like such a small sample sized based on xg is a bit misleading on our attacking set pieces. I havent seen an improvement, our corners in particular are just as off the cuff and ineffective. I remember a Hyam header v Norwich early in Eustace's reign, cant quite remember the second one. But mirroring in open play, I have seen clear improvements in solidity, very little idea in attack

Might it be that concentrating on not letting them in, has maybe affected the attacking side of things? 

Or is that a bit too simplistic? 

47 minutes ago, rigger said:

I doubt the powers that be, will be meeting on a bank holiday.

Nottinghamshire live saying Tuesday at the earliest. 

4 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Yes, because the Egg is the problem here 🙄

I realise his hands are tied to a point, but  can we not  point the finger at the head of recruitment  for poor recruitment? 

Might as well let Waggott off 

45 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Eustace set us up with a packed defence so the keepers have as little as possible to do. With a better keeper we may be allowed to play a more expansive game.

I'm sure if Eustace wants a new keeper it will be the first name on the list,he may keep Pears as back up. 

The one bonus is, as bad as it's been, this season has given him a good look. 

I wouldn't be too hasty with Pears,he's young for a keeper, and this season might just stand him in good stead. 

Yes, he's dropped a couple of clangers, but if anyone thinks we'll sign a keeper who doesn't, they will be in for disappointment. 

The improved defensive displays have come with Pears in goal. It looks like we've a coach who can set up a defence,it'll be interesting if Eustace gives him his support going forward. 

8 hours ago, Upside Down said:

In reality it's not even a rebuild it's starting from zero.

We need to sign 15 first team players. 9 of them need to be first pick starters.

 

When Broughton came in, he actually said this is a refurb, not a rebuild. 

We're starting his 3rd season,  him and his extensive, shiny new recruitment team might want to at least get the tools out of the van. 

45 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

Looks like bucko isn't wanted by him either 

No, it's a shame being one of ours, but he just hasn't pushed on. Eustace may see it as horses for courses though, he may just not see Buckley as right for the situation last season (let's call it last season) 

Using the same logic, he obviously feels he can trust Dolan and Gallagher. I personally think we'd be mad to let them go. 

Despite the stick they both get, they're both experienced squad players and they are both paid for. What we need is to keep both if possible, then sign players to challenge them for their place. They've been first choice players for too long. 

Now we're safe, I'm sure he'll look back on this period as a pre pre-season. As fraught as it's been, it's been the perfect situation to assess what he does and doesn't need. 

57 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

Fanny hurting

Wasn't she a nurse in Carry on Doctor? 

18 minutes ago, waynerovers said:

The below stats show he's done a great job

This season

Win/draw/loss
JDT 10/3/17
JE 4/8/5

goals conceded per game
JDT 1.9
JE 1.1

goals scored per game 
JDT 1.45
JE 1.05

He took a team that had the worst form and defence in the league, only lost 5 of his 17 games, plugged the leaky defence and made us hard to beat, had bristol not put 5 past us we'd have conceded less than a goal a game under Eustace. He's done his job in keeping us up so he now deserves full backing from fans and the board to kick on with a clean slate next season. It hasn't been pretty, but pretty football was sending us down to league one.

Agree completely. 

It's been a grind, but any coach who can get 6 clean sheets in 17 out of our team deserves the chance for a fresh start next season. 

15 hours ago, Miller11 said:

I’ve provided a playlist for every game since about January. Previously the club were using a very small pool of songs. In the early part of the season you’d often hear most of the same songs I provided for the fans takeover games being played on repeat. At one game they got someone external in as a one off to do the PA and he turned up with his decks and played World of Our Own by Westlife at the final whistle, after another crap result, which loads of people felt strongly enough about to email in complaints.

Every home game there is almost an hour and a half of music to play before kick off. Most of it is played to a very small audience, but I’ve tried to stick to the general rule of thumb of never picking the same song twice (with one or two exceptions), and every game songs are played that are by local bands or supporters who are in the crowd.

They won’t change the actual walk out music from that rubbish Red Hot Chilli Peppers rubbish, this was apparently picked by the players - I complain about this on a weekly basis, but I’m hoping that will be different next season. My biggest bugbear is that if my timings are slightly under they fill the gap with Thunderstruck by AC/DC which is about as generic and unimaginative a song as is possible to play - it’s Clitheroe’s (and almost every other non-league teams) walk out song for gods sake.

Off the top of my head the following have all been played in the 15 minutes before kick off over the last few months…

Oasis, Stone Roses, Metallica, Motörhead, New Order, Joy Division, Judas Priest, Faithless, Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx, Green Day, Status Quo, Hard-Fi, Charlatans, Kasabian, Led Zeppelin, Reverend and the Makers, Talking Heads, Bowie, Buzzcocks, Prodigy, The Clash, The Who, Shed Seven, Chemical Brothers, Thin Lizzy, James, K-Klass, Kiss, Dario G, Depeche Mode…

As mentioned above, Hardcore Uproar was played against Newcastle, and in fact has been played every single time I’ve compiled a playlist this season. It’s THE Blackburn acid house tune and was basically born in Ewood Mill. The feedback on this has been really positive and it was trending on Twitter when it got played in the FA cup game.

Another myth that still persists is that the version of Wild Rover by Morning Call still gets played. Well, at the start of the season this was accidentally deleted by someone at Rovers so they don’t even have a copy of it. I sit in the Riverside with the singer who has provided me with it, so if it does make a comeback you can blame/thank me.

As for 2Unlimited as the walk out music, I’m not dying on that hill. During the build up on occasion, no bother.

Thanks for Sound of the Suburbs, brilliant.

Walk out song for me would be Swords of a thousand men.

6 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Complete fucking bollocks. 

The team was 7 points from the bottom three. 

We should have been looking to push on and sneak into the playoffs. Instead all we've done is go backwards. 

If you're trying to argue his record is anything other than complete dog shit then you need to give the psychedelic drugs a break for a while. 

The guy is a walking disaster and is on par with Coyle. 

I'd cut him some slack for the squad being absolutely awful but he hasn't even tried to win a game yet. 

Tightened things up at the back you say? We got smashed by Sheffield Wednesday and Bristol City. The games against the likes of Plymouth, Millwall and Big Club were all points dropped. I would expect a points return of at least 12 from those five games. 

The guy is as thick as two short planks, he's tactically inept and has a loser mentality.  At any normal club he'd have been binned off by now for being so shit. Instead he'll be here for another two years as he fulfills the owners desires and drags us down to new depths.

Useless. 

In Eustace's 16 games we've had 5 clean sheets, in the previous 28 we had 4.

We've also had 6 games where we've let 1 in, so in 11 of his 16 games in charge, we've let 1 or less in. 

And that is with an "awful" squad, 

He's obviously come in and been a risk averse manager, it obviously won't do from the beginning of a season,but to get a tune defensively out of this lot, under these circumstances , I think shows some tactical know how. 

3 hours ago, ABBEY said:

Car crash that was 7 points clear and 13 clear of weds. No home wins . Not tried to win a game ...aye it ain't bad

Bloody ell, 7 points clear of relegation, I didn't actually realise how bad the decline was. 

That's cliff edge stuff. 

2 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Eustace isn't up to it.

No one can take Damien Johnsons win away from him - which is arguably our best game since JDT left.

Eustace 2 wins in 17 is quite frankly embarrassing.

5 defeats in 17 isn't at all bad though,considering the car crash he took over. 

3 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

If you'd given Mowbray's budget to JDT we'd be playing Premier League football right now.

I don't know how he managed it, because he's far from charming, but he managed to convince the owners to back him with significant cash and allowed him to have free run of the place (appointed Waggott, Venus was our defacto Head of Recruitment etc).

Should have kept Mowbray on to sign players for Tomasson,could have been a dream team. 

1 hour ago, Upside Down said:

How many wins though.

We've drawn games that we should have won easily. The guy is shit and over the course of a full season we'll be easily relegated.

We certainly didn't "tighten up at the back" against Bristol City or Wednesday.

We only need a draw, the conversation was regarding how many we'd lost. 

20 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Have to completely disagree with this. Moan to the ref about time wasting don't go get yourself sent off in a massive game.

Then effectively defend against 10 men for 30 minutes.

We were right next to it, the whole situation was a nothing. The red card was ridiculous. 

Pickering did more than anyone and didn't even get booked. 

9 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Unfortunately two of these were Birmingham and Sheffield Wednesday.

Yes, not good ones to lose looking back. 

9 hours ago, Upside Down said:

What are you on about? We got smashed by one of the shittest teams in the division.

We've lost 5 in 16 in a relegation battle is what I'm on about. 

8 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

And we aren't?

Regarding winning games, yes. Regarding not losing games, no. 

14 minutes ago, neophox said:

Leicester smashed Preston to pieces...we have no chance on Sunday

 

Preston were woeful. 

5 hours ago, rovers11 said:

I think Preston will get at least a point tonight meaning Leicester will need something on the final day to win the title. Even if they don't, we're not getting anything there so I don't think it matters. We're totally reliant on one of the teams below us not winning. It's therefore not in our hands on the final day in reality.

I'll personally be keeping a very close eye on the Plymouth game as I think that's the key one. 

At the moment,the Nobbers are lucky to get nil. 

3 hours ago, BankEnd Rover said:

4-1 Leicester.

You can bank of Sheff Wednesday beating Sunderland because the latter are awful.

Birmingham will beat Norwich and for some reason I can so Plymouth getting something against hull.

We are down and we probably deserve it.

Just wondering, did you predict that Hudders would beat "nothing to play for" Swansea and Birmingham would beat "already down" Rotherham? 

9 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I dont get why you dont have enough faith in your opinion to just pass it off in favour of McKenna's. We dont even know if he picked him but he wont have seen him week in week out for years like us.

That being said, there is an element of truth in what you say about losing him. Hes proven himself over many years to be somewhat effective at this level, he usually gets 8 or 9 goals and he offers other things, I'd say he is Championship standard but bottom half. If we signed a player with his record for a free, we would probably be saying he is a decent squad pick up. 

We are also likely to be scrambling around in the frees and loan market, and we know from experience that it is difficult to get anyone anywhere near good enough under those conditions, so to get 2 up to standard will be hard.

That being said, he has had a particularly bad season this season, especially with his recurring injuries, and he is the top earner. It would be a no brainer to let him go if we had competent owners and room to manouevre budget wise, as we likely wont then it is a bit of a risk but I still think he should probably be let go.

Was replying 4 times not enough faith? 

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Even McKenna won’t have seen Gally as much as I have.

I'm not saying he is, or should be our number one forward. It just seems mental in our position that we'd be happy to lose an experienced centre forward for free. 

Ipswich supposedly bid £2 million for him. We've no money and he's already paid for. Obviously it would be dependent on wage demands,but from a squad situation, to me it's the most obvious thing to do. 

Unless we've actually got  that Wharton money to spend.