What our club needs right now, more than anything, is a ‘critical friend’ That’ll learn ‘em

Was Valerie Dismal a Rudy hire? Should we be grateful? We really are run by utter cnuts.

Silly comparison. JDT has us GD from the play offs. This new fella is just plain shite

So nothing to do with ‘mentality’ then. We were 5th under Eustace with a below average squad in terms of outlay and wage structure. He was an excellent manager. We lost key players and lost form. We’re now much worse under, it seems, a really poor manager. So pretty much all about the manager and shit investment, not spurious notions of ‘shot mentality’.

I haven’t read his comments so no idea if he’s writing this season off, but if he is it’s an excuse for not being good enough. He was in a fantastic position to go for the play offs and he’s already been found wanting.

As said in my original post, you don’t have a successful season (relatively speaking) if the ‘mentality is shot’, whatever that means. They now look a disorganised rabble. That’s not a mentality thing, that’s a shit manager thing. And results nosediving since Travis got injured isn’t a mentality thing either, which you’ve just acknowledged. Genuinely no idea what you’re arguing.

You’re making assumptions and stating them as fact. All we know is there wasn’t ‘significant investment’. You have no idea the players mentality of the players will be ‘shot to pieces’ as a result. We won 2 out of 3 under Lowe. Mentality was fine then. This manager is shite. Results are shite. ‘Mentality’ is a meme.

Sure, if you think Forshaw has been a regular and Tronstad and Travis haven’t been excellent all season. Sanderson has played about twice. You’re referencing squad players to make a point about the first team. Anyway, the discussion was about the mentality of the players, not squad depth. We all know the issues there, and that was the main reason for the Jan slump under both Eustace and JDT. As soon as a key player or two is injured it goes down hill rapidly. It’s accelerating now because the new manager is shite. We were 5th when Eustace left. We were GD from the play offs after a full season under JDT. The mentality of the players is evidently fine.

The players aren’t the issue. Apart from a disastrous 2 month spell under JDT, when relationships crumbled, these players have consistently batted above their average for a few seasons. The issue is that the new manager is utter wank.

Rovers performances in the last 3 games suggest that is a standard Valerie Dismal pre-match team talk.

What did Benno say exactly?

I’m not sure who WATR represent at this point? It’s certainly not me or any fan I know.

There aren’t any tactics

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You should have started at 60mins. That’s also when the manager likes to pull people off.

The manager is wank. It doesn’t matter who he picks. Le Coyle Sportif

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That was evident from his first game. He’s a shit manager

You don’t start with subs.

Subs on 64 mins. He keeps us guessing. He’s a fascinating manager.

We’ve never got anybody in the box

Looking forward to the 60mins subs. That’ll be exciting.

Prediction: We’ll limp on until summer, maybe win one or two before the end of the season. We’ll finish 15th. In the summer there’ll be lots of talk of ‘he needs his own players, he needs to stamp his identity/methods on the club, we’ll be a lot better once he’s had the lads for a full pre/season’ Next season we’ll be bottom 3 by November and he’ll be sacked.

On terms of organisation and having a game plan this is far far worse.

We’ve regressed massively in just a few weeks under VI (Victory Improbable)