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Nicked off of Facebook, who's the fella in the background?

20 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

They’d be in the full light of the Premier League publicity machine then. The way things are now suits them down to the ground.

But why bother to own us then?

Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

i don`t agree with that policy,some players are poor trainers but on matchday they excel,i know for a fact that david dunn and tugay showed **** all in training but on saturday afternoon,more often  than not they were fantastic,i think it`s daft to flog your players in training and possibly injure themselves so they can`t  play the next game,once the season gets 5 games in you should be match fit and ticking over,no need to go mental in training imo

Totally agree with that.

Particularly when it gets to Jan/Feb and the pitches are heavier. Flogging yourself in training doesn't help, and you should already be conditioned due to close season work, and the games and training you've already had. Disastrous transfer window notwithstanding, maybe this has had an effect on our form tailing off in a gig big way?

1 hour ago, Hasta said:

Morton must have trained like an absolute machine.

Weird isn't it I thought the proverb was train hard, win easy

Train like a machine, play like a balloon, doesn't resonate so well

1 hour ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Can we improve this side when we are apparently going shopping in Poundstretcher with a begging bowl?

Surely that situation cant be exceptable to JDT if he is ambitious.

Could be hard times next season,we are being strangled to death by the Pune Goons.

There's a tiny part of me that still hopes that they'll sell up soon. If they're choking off the funding (making a change from choking their gizzards) then perhaps they're getting completely hacked off with the losses. If they're thinking they can get the losses down to nowt, they're very much mistaken. They're slow learners, so the penny when it eventually drops, may see them sell?

It's the only hope I have left 

I've not enjoyed it at all. Admittedly there was a cup run. But the way that ended left a sour taste.

I do like the ici perspex retro kit I have now though. And the sixties kit. Guess that's something

Fair point.

Or he may have put feelers out, put his name in the frame. I guess we'll find out.

If it was me and there was an offer there, I'd be off. You're on a hiding to nothing here.

From where I'm stood, the club appears to have an incoherent organisation, with incapable people like waggott occupying key positions and being vastly overpaid. It's not an organisation that's going places, and I don't feel it ever will until venkys decide they've had enough, of they ever do.

So if you're at the club and someone comes in for you and you are talented and have something between your ears then of course you're going to go. I did have it wrong about jdt, but then again, we're so difficult to predict. I think given what an absolute train wreck of a club we are, we have no right to even be thinking of the play offs. I'd be surprised if what he's done here has gone unnoticed elsewhere

I've still got my ticket stub from the play off final. I remember that missed penalty, someone took out super, I remember him giving Newell the thumbs up. Certainly the last ten minutes was something akin to the Alamo for rovers. I can remember it now.

It was an unbelievable day. I think the overriding thought is that I fell so old now. What happened? Not brass farthing in my pocket, but so much energy and not a care in the world.

Think he does hospitality for the club. At least he did.

I'm glad Derek is in good health

Oh it would've been forty of years ago.

But it's no wonder we've got ex players now with so many issues, when things like that were happening

I would hope and pray that wouldn't be allowed these days. No bandage, no stitches, nothing by the looks of it.

Yeah, it's bravery. But medical discretion is the better part of honour. I know Hendry is worried about the damage he's potentially done himself. John McNamee isn't very well, he's another tough ex defender. I've been reading a bit of Rob burrows book. It makes for sobering reading.

I don't want to be a stick in the mud. I know people like watching gladiatorial contests. But if guys are playing like that every week, they're risking their health

32 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Adam Wharton in midfield next season with a proper, no Gallagher, forward in. We should have a chance but I really don't think Venkys are interested in promotion 

Noel Gallagher you say?

Maybeeeeeeeeee

Even better than the real thing

I'd definitely take a point right now ta.

A last minute winner for Burnley that secures them the title. This is the stuff of nightmares

2 hours ago, Shirley Crabtree Wrestler said:

Can you imagine what any of our legendary strikers would have done with the Hedges chance towards the end there? Actually it doesn't take any imagination at all - the ball would have been buried in the net by most putting their foot through it with glee, some might have put it in row z which would have slowed the game down anyway, 

 

BEEEEEEEEEAAAMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

3 minutes ago, Silas said:

Regardless of deserving, we'd get battered.

Lottery ticket whatever,  over 180 mins against those clubs we've no chance.

We can't even hold out 5 mins against lesser clubs.

And if we went up, we'd get absolutely tramelled every week.

Not that we're going up, and we won't be doing so at least until the chicken ticklers are gone.

Tony and John sadly not very well but still with us. We've lost Ken, Mick, Johnny and Don unfortunately.

Good find that,ta

Great kit, hope it brings us luck today. I was born in April seventy two, so they were wearing something very very similar at that time.

I wonder how many players from April seventy two are still with us?

3 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Technically still in it but it's quite bizarre that we are after a run of no wins in how many?

I'd still wager though that no matter how badly the other sides perform we'll react accordingly and do whatever it takes to finish  just outside the playoffs. You could put your house on it. It's the mentality that's built up within and surrounding the Club.

The narrative will then be about how unlucky we've been and what a great season we've had, when in reality ( for the second season running) a play off place should never have been in doubt

Couldn't agree more with this. Since venkys took over, getting a gig at rovers means doing just enough to get your money, but don't be too successful because that will raise expectations and you might not be able to meet them

 they're all at it and venkys couldn't give a shit.

8 minutes ago, Neilbristol said:

Can't blame the keeper for that. 

Handball.

Why was Wilson allowed time and space unmarked in the box

Why did we give them all the time and possession free kicks and corner in the final 5mins

Why bring on morton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was thinking more that if you're lacking bottle, then tim is yer man to bring in 

https://twitter.com/FootballCliches/status/860607416878190592

8 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Is there a bigger set of bottlejobs in the Football League than this mob?

Unfortunately you have to include the manager in that. Went all "Sheffield United" again and put us completely on the back foot with the substitutions.

 

Bring back Tim flowers

17 minutes ago, superniko said:

It's making me uncomfortable that the 'ROVERS' isn't in the middle!

(though I like the idea - always thought stuff like this, and covering corners of stands with flags/memorabilia is a good way to make it feel more full)

(rofl) Bloody cack-handed Rovers.

Feel dead nervous, I get the feeling he won't pick Wharton or Leonard, and it will be Gallagher and Morton instead, and we'll lose. Will love to be proven wrong, I'm just readying myself for what feels like impending disappointment.

11 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

The message is the same from the Stands.

This is called Ball ...put in back of Onion Bag (PLEASE FFS!)

Need to get close enough to it to make contact first.

59 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

As I thought. When the heat is on our boys melt. Been the case since that lot rocked up over a decade ago. Sickening.

Actually, that is very true

Perhaps because the cat is in India and the mice don't care enough