12 hours ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Doubt there isn’t a fan here that’s questioned their support or how much support they are willing to give next season is things remain the same. It’s been a hard hard season, that January window was the lowest iv ever felt supporting the team and that Wednesday match only rivalled with the Wigan relegation game for worst game.

for just now I’d take waggot getting potted and squad rebuilt. I’m on the fence with eustace but I don’t see him being sacked just now 

Without serious investment in summer the chances are we’ll struggle again. Any team that only has one player capable of regularly scoring goals is going to be nearer the bottom of the league than the top. Look at the rest of the so called strikers at the club this season  

- Gally, never was a world beater but he’s regressed alarmingly. He never even looks like scoring the odd goal, never mind scoring regularly. Telly, probably well out of his depth but never gets a minute never mind a game. Ennis, what was that all about ? A really strange signing. Came unfit and stayed unfit. Leonard, not ready to play at this level but he has been injured for most of it. Vale, another not good enough to play at our level so he was loaned out.

That was it. To expect any manager to thrive with that lot betrays a lack of understanding of what Championship football is all about. Goals change games massively. More now than it ever was in my day. If we can score first we normally play quite well but without goals coming from other players besides Sammi we don’t score first often enough.

Buddy Holly - True Love Ways

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

It's entirely possible and I'm sure he'll get his chance in the not-too-distant future. It's not that dissimilar to the situation that Jansen found himself in prior to the 2002 World Cup (although Jansen was vastly more proven and experienced in club football).

I just think it would be a big risk to throw him in at the deep end and a waste of a spot in a squad to take a player when you're not certain that you can totally trust them at that level. 

He’s not ready to play at that level yet but he will in a couple of years.

1 hour ago, arbitro said:

Bloody hell that just puts a tin hat on it. I don't know and Rovers fan who will be celebrating if we stay up on Saturday. We are where we are for a reason, because we haven't been good enough since early December and Eustace and the players have had a big part to play in that. Maybe Waggott has shown him his interview from August where he says the goal is to avoid relegation so crack on John, break out the champagne. Small minded people and an insult to Jack Walkers memory.

Irrespective of how Saturday goes my overriding feeling will be of the missed opportunity to build on last season. It's just another reason to detest the errant ones.

A completely wasted season. We haven’t even stood still, we’ve gone backwards.

Roy Orbison - Dream Baby 

9 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Both Mowbray and Tomasson did not only good jobs here, but totally different jobs here. Mowbray inherited a much worse situation, so although he had more funds, that was in the earlier years when the squad he inherited had been run down and stacked with crap and freebies. Ultimately like with Tomasson, when we got in a position of strength, he was really undermined by our shoddy owners. 

Mowbray undermined himself.

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One of the unknown great guitarists.

11 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Sounds like a sensible plan.

Perhaps we should have kept him in case we had injuries or suspensions 🤦‍♂️

We don’t do sensible.

24 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

He’s played 333 minutes for them including only 20 minutes in their last 10 matches (albeit one was against us when he couldn’t have played)

Whatever they saw which made them sign him hasn’t translated into them wanting to play him on anything like a frequent basis.

I think he was signed in case anything happened to Morsy. Injuries, suspension etc.

2 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Every Mowbray signing…

It speaks for itself. Plenty of eminently forgettable players in that list 

1 hour ago, M_B said:

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

Mowbray signed way more bad players than good. Bowyer ( or his dad ) was the manager who signed good players.

26 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Tbf a few are saying that we will stay up because the teams below haven’t picked up , with the exception of Rotherham I would say they have, they have all got points I wouldn’t have considered, we could really have done with a couple of them not picking up. Even Huddersfield have ran us close. Preston and Leicester in particular seem to have thrown points to our relegation rivals 

Every season there’s usually one team that looks dead and buried in January but goes on an unbelievable run to get clear. This season several teams have gone on runs to pull clear.

13 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

50% of our attacking threat? Come off it Adam Wharton is a fine player but to suggest that he with 2 goals and 3 assist was 50% of our attacking threat when we have the leagues top scorer who has the most goals in a season for the club since Shearer is preposterous. Anyway if Wharton had played under Eustace his ability to impact a game would have been stunted by Eustace's dreadful cowardly football. The reasons Wharton developed so well and quickly under JDT was that JDT encouraged his players to play football and take some risks.

It’s not just about statistics is it ? He was the one player who could consistently get us from deep in our half to deep in the opponents half with a pass or a carry. Tronstad can’t, Travis couldn’t , JRC could do it once in half a dozen games. It’s not his fault if he was laying balls on a plate for the other dopes to squander.

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1 hour ago, Ewood Ace said:

Yet the returns have got no better under Eustace and we are now lower in the table and closer to relegation in terms of points than when he took over. So what does that say about Eustace and the the ship he is in charge of? And if we do achieve what you view as a success and stay up it will be thanks to the points accumulated by JDT where in the first 4 months of the season where he massively overachieved with this group of players.

JDT had Wharton. When he left 50 % of our attacking threat went with him out of the door. It was our “ Ken Knighton “ moment, when the management sold the one player that could have possibly kept us up to pay the wages and keep the lights on,

7 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Yep. Survival is being marketed as a success by many.

That’s because it will be. The team/club/manager relationship had unravelled under JDT to a point were  the relationship wasn’t retrievable. We were a rudderless ship heading for the rocks.

Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That

Eddie Cochran - Something Else

The Rockin’ Rebels - Wild Weekend

Great instrumental.

Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On 

8 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

As much as I want Birmingham down, I think it's the Plymouth game we need to keep the biggest eye on as I think it's the one most likely to go in our favour. Rovers are more than likely going to get absolutely shafted, so we need one of the other results to go our way. 

Fingers crossed - at least we're not in a position like last time where we pulled off a great win at Brentford for it not to matter.

Or like last year at Millwall.

1 minute ago, rovers11 said:

Oh I think we'll stay up as I think Plymouth will lose. I just don't think we'll get anything against Leicester, even though they've battered Preston and now won the league, so we're relying on other results to keep us up on the final day which is not a nice position to be in. Let's hope Leicester have a few late nights this week!

They’ll be on the piss all week now. They’ll be seeing double on Saturday.

5 minutes ago, neophox said:

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

 

How about Saturday ?

1 hour ago, K-Hod said:

Nah, he’s from Ramsbottom.

I used to drink with the guy who was his headteacher a few years ago. I can’t remember the name of the school but it was in Bury. He told me back then the lad was going to sign for City. 

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