13 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

The delights of Wycombe and Lincoln await around the Corner.

Let the good times roll. 

 

And Stockport and Wrexham..

As I said when appointed, Eustace is a step down from JDT.

We were bad under JDT, but at least under him we drew with Rotherham, if we played them tomorrow at Ewood I've no doubt we'd get beat, we're the worst team in the division right now.

13 minutes ago, Andy said:

I think that's a bit harsh.

He was terrible today, but he has had some good performances further up the pitch this season, most recently away at WBA.

I think there's more of a player there than the likes of Lowe and Travis, to be fair.

That’s like winning an award for being the worlds tallest dwarf.

8 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Stop wasting my time go and cry about it somewhere else if you can't grasp it.

Loans CAN be fucking cancelled IF there is the desire to do so !

Only within a window

Jake Garrett is absolutely appalling and I hope he never wears our shirt again. There’s no talent in there waiting to come out either he’s just fucking useless.

I sense a Deepdale pasting on Saturday. That was as bad as anything we’ve done under any manager since relegation from the premier league. Gallagher didn’t win a single header, is he the worst striker we’ve ever had at holding the ball up/winning headers? Other than the useless fecker who replaced him.

1 minute ago, wilsdenrover said:

5:04 it is then.

Probs seen this message board and will do it at 5:04 purely from spite 

2 minutes ago, phili said:

Will it be GB or Waggot introducing him in the media?

If GB is no where we can safely assume he has left.

Your guess is as good as mine, but 5pm is supposedly the time for ‘a statement’

15 min warning apparently

37 minutes ago, ruggles1995 said:

If WAGGOT READS THIS. BRING BACK BIG SAM ! hes open to it, said on his podcast. Dont wait, drop everything, GET BIG SAM IN!

I can think of a few more messages I’d like to give him 

End of the day it’ll remain to be seen if Eustace is a long term appointment. Cold hard facts is he has less experience than JDT, who’s win percentage at rovers was 44%, Eustace’s is 33%. He was sacked with Birmingham 6th after what? 10 games? We were above them 2 games later. Underwhelming and safe appointment on paper, hopefully not another yes man for those hiding in the shadows.

26 minutes ago, Neal said:

 

I was about to post something similar Jim but you've put it perfectly there. 

 

I think all of us appreciated hearing someone within the club talk about ambition for once, that's why people are mainly upset about this one. The reality though is 10 wins in 40 and the goals against column doesn't lie. He didn't get the best out of what he had and threw away countless points. We did sell key players but so have other teams (Hamer, Gyokeres, Scott, Akpom for e.g.)

 

Whilst I appreciated his willingness to put the owners and Maggot to the sword, his job was to win games and pick up points. He started with a pragmatic & measured approach with sprinklings of excellent football which I think really suited us. Eventually he ended up with a crazy fantasy football ideology without the budget and players to pull it off and without the dignity to take it on the chin and switch tactics. 

 

That isn't necessarily a criticism of just him but many other clubs outside of the top 8 of the prem who are trying to play the guardiola way, without the budget. In the championship you must get the best out of what you have and in the end... He didn't. With that said, as much as he wants to point at the finger at the lack of signings, it was the injuries that hurt him more. Those are proven championship players and you have no guarantees new signings will perform to the standards he wanted. 

 

It's a failed project unfortunately. No one is wrong in this instance for feeling the way they do, missed opportunity or relieved he's gone. We can all see the positives and negatives for ourselves. 

Difference is; all of those players’ transfer funds were reinvested. Coventry have spent nearly £25million this season. Boro have spent circa £10million.

36 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Blimey, there's some dewy-eyed romantic view of the Tomasson era on here when the reality is he's left the club in the middle of a relegation fight after a calamitous sequence of results. Ambition and optimism and a good personality are fine qualities but a coach also has to know to organise a defence properly and set up a team not to give away soft goals. Tomasson was a busted flush IMO, canny Championship managers had him and Rovers worked out in the second half of last season

 

 

All ifs buts and maybes but I honestly believe if Gregg had signed him O’Brien and a striker we’d be in the premier league now. We were playing the best football in the league back end of last season and just couldn’t stick the ball in the net. No proof of that, just a gut feel. Best finish since 2012 and Tyler Morton/Pears cost us a trip to an FA cup semi final. Let’s not rewrite history due to the clubs incompetency, that’s exactly what they want us to do.

5 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

I've said it a few times though, his win rate was never the issue, it's always been the loss rate.

For a lot of last year he was at 50-50... if we had the ability to draw more reliably we'd have made play-offs last season and been in less danger this.

I meant Eustace’s was 33%.

3 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

 

Don't get this, sorry. As it stands, Tomasson is taking us down to League One and shows no sign of knowing how to stop the slide. He's had a rough deal at Ewood but he has to go. We'll soon find out if his successor is worse but if Eustace or whoever saves us from relegation he isn't a downgrade

33% win ratio as a manager I believe. 

JDT to Eustace is a downgrade. ‘Happy’ with the appointment purely because it isn’t Stuart McCall. Every day shows show far we’ve fallen. We all know Benson and Lowe will remain.

4 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

He does, managed in SA.

See my any sort of note comment, think I could get a job over there

1 minute ago, FE123 said:

I think Benni McCarthy is a possibility. Ticks the boxes of cheap and appeases the fans to distract from the real problems at hand.

Does he appease the fans? We’re in a relegation scrap and they decide to hire someone with no managerial experience of any sort of note?

7 minutes ago, J*B said:

Because I wanted to make sure if the opportunity to say my piece to Waggott was there, I took it. 

I know the whole “we can’t say anything yet” is pretty shit, but all I can say with certainty is we said our piece. 

Is there any info you can share regarding when we will know the rest of it? Is an official club communication coming out?

Mirror on it now too

31 minutes ago, Roverthechimp said:

Any source other than Hope confirming this?

Grahame Bailey from HITC tweeted it too. Another north eastern based journalist, used to be Boro Gazette.

17 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

Conspiracy bollocks.

They’re laughing at you