3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Leonard was just doing his warm down before the game ends 

Give over. He went out on 2 separate occasions - I've not noticed any other players do that this season or any of the other subs yesterday. They do a warm down after full time. They forgot they made a sub in the first half. It's a shit show from top to bottom.

I think it sums up the circus when Harry Leonard went out to warm up twice after we'd made 5 subs.

Everyone's heads have gone - management and players - it needs a change.

1 hour ago, pick32 said:

Most of those were his second touch.

I don't expect we'll see any ins or outs until after this court case - spend money and there'll be an argument of why do you need to send this much if you have money for transfers. Sell players and bring money in = why do you need to send this much when you've just recouped £x.

If only we'd recently signed some left back cover 🤔

Re Hayden Carter - When he was being treated they heavily strapped his ankle and foot to restrict movement - to me it looked like he'd rolled it.

He was struggling for a while before signalling to the bench and going down. I think if we'd had options on the bench he'd have come off.

Hope to be proved wrong but I can't see Carter being fit for this and the Rovers comms on Saturday thought S Wharton would need to sit out 7 days if concussed.

Whalstedt

Travis Hill Pickering Brittain

Tronstad Wharton

Moran Szmodics Dolan

Leonard

Through form and injuries the team picks itself for me.

Approximate starting appearances in the Championship for the team last night - tells it's own story, especially the bench.

7 - Wahlstedt
56 - S Wharton
7 - Hill
170 - Travis
27 - Brittain (+37 for Barnsley)
43 - Szmodics (+40 for Peterborough/Bristol)
7 - Moran
7 - Sigurdsson
23 - A Wharton
7 - Tronstad
63 - Dolan

0 - Hilton
0 - Atcheson
0 - Gamble
0 - Batty
4 - Garrett
6 - Leonard
5 - Markanday
0 - Ennis
0 - Telalovic

The arseholes have put netting over the padded seats upto row 13 and have 2 external security grippers at the bottom. Presumably to protect Waggott from getting any stick. 

He'll be in there GB has just come out.

Edit. Or not. Looks like he's bottled it which says it all.

The ticket system will feed into the website rather than the other way around - they're able to sell tickets over the phone and in person but with the online channel down it will put more pressure on the ticket office.

The next amateur-hour move has been made - emails have gone out with pre-match info but full of broken images because they're linking to the rovers.co.uk hosting 😕

The website's not working because there are no records telling the domain where to route traffic (the A record and MX records are missing). If it was a problem with the DNS provider (the company that controls those records) they could simply update the nameservers on the domain to somebody else and reinstate them. It does take a while to propagate but no longer than an hour or two.

It's straightforward to remove then re-add records. You'd think 'surely not' but it is an easy way to stop/slow down sales to fit the narrative of closing the Blackburn End whilst blaming technical issues.

I expect there'll be people here who have more insight but that's my take.

If anyone does wish to give him a bit of stick he usually sits on the BBE side of the closed centre seats - around row 10. You'll be able to walk along the row of padded corporate seats and be a few feet away from the incompetent arse hole 👍

Thoughts from walking the dog but I think most have been covered:

1) Time is well overdue on starting with the new GK - 11 goals conceded in 4 games

2) Adam Wharton's value is dwindling playing how we are. We forget his age - he still needs managing and taking out. Unfortunately the ideal replacement is at Sheffield Weds

3) How does Dolan continue to get minutes? Please can we try someone else there - Gilsenan, JRC, Batty, anyone..

4) They can't continue with this brand of football / shape. Reminds me of the period before Christmas (I think) when we got dicked against Burnley & North End. We then went with 3 in the middle and looked a lot better - time to shore up.

5) As much as I like JDT, the blame is starting to land on him. He's the best manager the club has had in years but we're trying to play a style that doesn't suit the players available. Is this to prove a point? I don't think it's sabotage but what is it? Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?

6) Linked to 5 - why didn't we go into the game with the same set up and mindset as the Watford game?

We don't have the players to come in to the same positions to change how things are going and for me there's going to need to be a tactical change if we're to pick up points from Leicester and Coventry.

oh one more, need a positve...

7) Bradley Who? Really impressed with how Sammie Szmodics has stepped up this season. Despite the history and sentiment he is showing it was the right decision to not renew BD's expensive contract in the summer

Jesus 😕

18 hours ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

The Coates family also had to turn debt into equity and essentially write off over a £100m in order for them to comply with FFP

This despite selling players to the tune of £15m and selling their ground to the owners

It is often missed in JH's posts, that all clubs follow the exact same rules, and that his idea that owners manage to circumvent it is wrong. What his post also misses out is that Stoke's wage bill has been cut by a third since 2018. This is because they were heading for an iceberg, and had they not made these decisions they would have been fined or worse

We are no different in this regard

Missed in your post is that Stoke were playing in the Premier League in 2018 - of course they're going to have slashed their Premier League wage bill in that time.

Wahlstedt

Buckley Gamble S Wharton Pickering

Tronstad Garrett

Moran

Markanday Gallagher Gilsenan

Was fairly amused on Friday at Fleetwood when How Much Is The Fish? was played before the teams came out.

Just back.

Absolutely no width - each time the ball got to either side, 9 times out of 10 it was cut back and go onto the stronger foot. Crying out for either proper wingers or proper sided fullbacks who overlap. With the side tonight though there was neither. It was all too predictable at times.

First half was dire, last 40 minutes much better but lacked anything up front.

Wasn't impressed with Tronstad. Yes he kept trying a shot but none looked like going in. Gave the ball away in dangerous positions with sloppy passes. The lad who came on for him Charlie Weston looked better though he was a different type of player popping up all over. Thought he stood out more than when I've seen Jake Garrett.

Szmodics probably the best player - seemed most things went through him when he turned it on.

Defence is sound with JRC, Carter, Hyam. Brittain not the answer at left back if we're not playing a left footer in front of him.

Gallagher was Gallagher - a lot of running, had a header saved very well and hit the post but he's too much of a 'nearly' man. I'd love him to hit 20 goals this season but more often than not we see he's the wrong side of those fine margins.

From that starting XI I see Kaminski, JRC, Carter, Hyam, Szmodics as good enough to be regulars in a top 6 side. Add in Adam Wharton, possibly Pickering but for me we're still nearly half a side away.

The U21s have the second worse record at home in the league. Away they're fifth and have won the last 3.

I get there's disappointment that a lot of fans won't be able to go but I don't think it's going to impact the team too much.

1 hour ago, CambridgeRover said:

In what way?

Pockets of Bumley fans celebrating in the corporate seats. Next to me around row 15 a youngish lad was cheering after the goal, He was told to fuck off by a few people then others took it past words and started throwing punches. My big gripe here is on that stairwell they've got an old dolloper as steward backed up by a short woman. It was clear before the game started the padded seats were full of their fans - saw loads taking photos of the away end and another guy on the phone waving to someone in there. They needed proper security there.

The lad shit it - he wasn't a hooligan and the old steward and girl tried to get him out but they got followed on to the concourse where I saw him on the floor taking a few kicks. They managed to get him up and he wasn't hurt. After it was over around 10 coppers and security arrived.

My big gripe is at Rovers here - the same shit happened against North End and they didn't deal with it then. They're happy to take 200+ people paying £100 a head and skeleton staff it. 

One Rovers fan got taken away by police and will no doubt get a ban when the situation should never have been allowed to happen.

Being brought up in Preston means games against North End are bigger than the Bumley ones for me. I was utterly pissed off at the final whistle but have since mellowed.

I absolutely hate the 'project' / 'journey' shite and have switched off JDT interviews recently when it gets spouted but bigger picture, the side has come along way since the start of the season. He's seemingly learned/coached the players to be better in possession, the urgency to get forward evolved in the new year and I expect with time, game management will come too. 

I feel in some ways his hands are tied - expecting everyone of our better players to play 90 min twice a week isn't realistic. He needs to make changes but with the squad we've got, the options aren't there. We've needed a Bradley Johnson/Danny Graham on the bench the last couple of games and I've no doubt we'd have seen them out. Even Daniel Ayala - some experience who can show some nous and close the game.

I don't think the playoffs are done - I've a feeling we'll win on Tuesday and it will go to the last game. I watched North End at Millwall last week and despite winning they weren't great, we can get a result there.

Another stat, It's been just short of 6 months (22nd Oct) since we went 2 nil up at home. Toothless.

Kaminski

JRC Carter Hyam Brittain

Travis Garrett Wharton

Thomas Leonard Hedges

Won't happen, Morton will be in as will Gallagher and BBD. Wouldn't be surprised to see the same side as Saturday swapping Brittain if Pickering is injured 😕

https://www.flashscore.co.uk/standings/KxHDmZRb/xECCP5F5/#/xECCP5F5/table/overall

Spurs need to win 2 from 3 when they've only won 4 from 23 games all season. I think we'll be ok.

Won't happen but...

GK (dont think there's much between the 2 on recent form)

Brittain Carter Hyam Wharton Pickering

Travis Garrett Wharton

Szmodics

Brereton

We need to get back to hard to beat/solid.