13 hours ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

 LET today:

"Despite sitting third in the table, Tomasson has played down expectations or talk of a promotion push, stating that Rovers aren’t expected to challenge"

Is this the mind set he is selling to the Squad while we sit in third position?

No wonder most of the players look like they have zero fight in them. 

13 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Seemingly the whole ethos of BRFC - as proven last January.

A very strange football club.

Very. Rotten from the core. 

12 hours ago, K-Hod said:

What a way to run a club. Chance of promotion, which is the point of being in the competition in the first place- ‘no thanks mate’.

This is rubbing off on me and I’m sure others. Why should we bother to waste time and money on them. 

12 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Simple Yes overall.

Some questions for you to answer

1) Do you enjoy watching JDT's style of football and his team selection? if you don't why or if so why? 

2) Would you not subscribe that league position is the most important than anything? 

Typical head coach talk trying to take the pressure of the players

FFS Chaddy, your blind optimism is absolutely baffling. Will it take as long as it did with Mowbray for the penny to drop with you? 

31 minutes ago, broadsword said:

Oh God, absolutely.

It's not a FCKING project, it's the centre of a community. It's something for like-minded souls to gather round and share in the pain and glory. Take their minds off of all their troubles by being part of something bigger.

Instead we're owned by chicken botherers thousands of miles away, they take no interest, but they refuse to sell. We're being run by faces in the shadows, time servers and ring holders who don't want to rock the boat. And as a front man, we have another guy who talks about projects, marginally improving squad value while we become further indebted to our abductors

Well, you can shove all that. Football is meant to be fun. And if it's not fun, then there should always be hope.

Well it's not been fun for a very long time. It's dispiriting. Demoralising. Disenchanting. Demotivating. As for hope, the only hope I hold onto is somehow we get rid of these people and become a proper football club again. 

I still care out of loyalty, but the feeling isn't really there any more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spot on. 
 

I was thinking back to the Hull match being cancelled last minute last year. I was annoyed at the time, but in hindsight, it was a blessing. Lovely Boxing Day ruined by Rovers yesterday and salt rubbed in the already sore wounds by seeing that fucking idiot Mowbray celebrate like he’s just won the FA Cup. Three matches in the last five I really wanted us to win(Dingles, PNE and yesterdays) and they’ve let us down. I said to my lad at 90 minutes yesterday that we will concede from this free kick and that’ll be me done for a while if so. 10 seconds later they scored. 

52 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

The worry is that anyone could see Hyam and Brittain are decent championship players before they came...their gambles have been shit, Smodìck, Hirst, Mola, Morton(arguable)....we need proven players, none of this clever arsed bollocks

The problem is that I don’t think JDT’s vision is not going to work in this league because we haven’t got and won’t be able to afford the players to pull it off and I believe you need to mix it up. Total football isn’t the answer in this league; the two teams I believe will go up automatically are the Dingles and Sheff Utd, both teams are full of shithouse bullies as well as decent players. Look how well Luton did last season by kicking teams like us off the pitch. 
 

Oh how I’d love a few players in the mould of Nelsen, Savage, Reid and Todd. I’d love Black eye Rovers to return, but I don’t believe it’s JDT’s style and I believe he’s that stubborn that he will fall on his own sword before he changes. If it all works out it’ll be great(I’d love JDT to be a massive success), but if we’d got a more proven manager in like Big Sam(who I wasn’t a massive fan of towards the end, but appreciated what he did, especially in recent times), he’d bring in a few shit houses and also make the most of what players we do have rather than trying to make them play in a way they can’t. 
 

Not sure I’ve got the appetite for another 3 season journey/project that ends up in the same place we started. 

4 minutes ago, blondie said:

The January Transfer Window is a chance for Tomasson to create an identity, and a style to mirror his ambitions.

Anything less will inevitably lead to another death spiral of his own making.

However recent results suggest it may have started.

 

If Hirst(number 1 target!!🤯) and Mola are anything to go by, I’ve no confidence we’ll improve much. Brittain and Hyam have been great though, so fingers crossed. 

15 hours ago, roverandout said:

I want him to succeed and he came across well at the beginning and I'm sure promotion was on his agenda.  But I'm pretty sure scumbags have whispered in his ear that promotion isn't that important and it's about making profits on players.  Now he's dialled down expectations and probably has his feet up

14 hours ago, J*B said:

I think you’re right. Venkys have seen the 200M on offer for promotion to the Premier League and instead prioritised selling Ash Phillips for 15M in 2 years.

I wonder if getting promoted would stop the project of adding value to players and then selling them on for big profits? If we were in the Prem now, there’s no way we could risk playing any of our current academy graduates, we’d crash and burn with a team of inexperienced kids. 
 

Venky’s would have to spend a lot of money to even have a chance of staying up, we’d need an entirely new squad bar 2 or 3 players which would wipe out the £200 million and not allow us to continue the project. 
 

Though thinking about it, they could pocket the £200 million and then pocket the parachute payments and make more money that the project. They’re probably not clever enough to think of that though. I wonder why they bother with us, as it they always seem so half arsed. 

6 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

That’s the beauty of football - winning against the odds. And on our form it was a big surprise. 
 

Batting away criticism of the club and manager by constantly quoting our league position doesn’t wash. You’ll have to do better than that because it’s obvious as it stands we’re heading for a fall

I think the same posters were saying the same thing when the death spiral kicked in last season. I wish I could have a bit of the blind optimism sometimes, but years of Rovers has made me a miserable negative bastard 😂

5 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Burnley showed the blueprint how to dominate us to everyone else live on sky. Press us and we are piss poor. Our home record is built on teams coming to Ewood and sitting back and letting us play it around and probe. Far more teams will close us down and rob us in our own half at Ewood now. 

Nail on the head. We’ve been figured out, as has our manager who doesn’t have a plan B. 

1 minute ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

So are you saying his time is up , half way in to his first season and in a play off position ? I was responding to a poster who said it was.

I like JDT, but I’m not liking his stubbornness to keep on with the pissing around at the back and his tactics in general. I’m prepared to give him time, but he’s not showing any signs of learning froM his mistakes. You have to set your team up to suit your players, but he doesn’t. We don’t have the players to play how he wants and even with good transfer windows it’ll take years and years to achieve if ever. 
 

The lack of fight and desire is also a massive worry. We have soft weak players, but we are spineless. Teams have us figured out. We are getting bullied.  Are the players giving everting for him? Is the training not working? This league needs fighters as well as skill. 
 

Id love him to turn it around,  but I’m not sure he will. The league position has flattered us all season and the good luck we had has now run out. 

3 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Has our great leader spoken yet? Who did he throw under the bus and blame for our latest capitulation? 

Chatting shit right now on Sky. 

2 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

His "cracker" was going wide until it deflected off one of our players. He's not as good as Ledson.

Sky bigged it up like it was Josimar’s goal against Northern Ireland 🙄

28 minutes ago, broadsword said:

Pall Mall Gazette noted that their followers were "a northern horde of uncouth garb and strange oaths".

I know you all think I’m a yob now, but I’m 29 miles away, so I still think it’s an impressive feat. 
 

ps. Is that message Broadsword calling Danny Boy? 😉 😂

2 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Blow the whistle ref and end this agony. Great start to the sporting day.... just watch England lose too

On penalties too no doubt. I’ve absolutely no desire to watch the match tonight now. Bloody football, honestly don’t know why I bother. 

Snowing heavy now. Needs to be called off and replayed at a later date for player safety. 

3 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Can you repeat it but aim it at JDT this time?

Believe me, I have 😂

6 minutes ago, West Yorks Rover said:

Hooligan !

This display has caused out of character behaviour 🙄😂

Highlight of the match for me was just now when I said “FFS Mola, you’re fucking shit” and Sky apologised for any offensive language immediately after. Didn’t think I’d said it that loud…

1 minute ago, rock steady said:

Playing like someone slipped some ketamine into his cuppa this morning.

More like GHB. Don’t tell Ched Evans. 

1 minute ago, CambridgeRover said:

Not to blown my own trumpet, but many of us have seen what travis is for years, he is a league 1 plodder. Good to see that is becoming more and more evident but he needs shipping out

Travis and Morton are shite. Should have both been subbed. Where the fuck is Adam Wharton??? 

5 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Where's Gregg?

His Skype:  Out of Office until January with no access to calls or emails. 

4 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Preston have a simple method in the short time I've been watching...... play in your opponents half of the field instead of your own

It’s not rocket science is it? 

Fucking $ky love us losing. 

Another manager that is too stubborn to see his tactics don’t work. Fuck off and take your shit passing around tree back with you. 

23 minutes ago, Tugay-is-God said:

Enjoyed Holland's prime Allardyce-ball yesterday. 

Reminded me of the good old days Samba up front. 

Definitely prefer it to fannying about at the wrong end of the pitch 

Just now, bazza said:

I'm only quoting Sam Allardyce

Sam liked to get it straight into the box. 

3 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

I wasn't particularly interested in today's match until now. Looking forward to seeing how this manifests itself...

Hopefully we’ll also get some penetration, to go with the foreplay!