chaddyrovers

No surprises from Eustace. 1-1

Yes he is. That's why he wasn't on the bench on Saturday

The defensive work is also testament to the players and having Travis and Tronstad as centre midfielder partnership is a great. Hyam's performances have improved cos we are less open. Every Championship team grinds wins out. We have Eustace, staff and players who are very good at it. Plus we don't created many chances but when we did it's good football to get us that like Leeds at home when we were the better team and created the better chances. It suits us our gameplan to have less of the ball. Would that change if we sign 2 attacking players of quality, I'm not convinced we would change that much our playing style.

Southgate always he was taking out of the game and possibly a very different career path. Not sure he wants to be club manager The Athletic reported Ashworth wanted a head coach with PL experience. They named 4 names which were Thomas Frank, Eddie Howe, Graham Potter and Marco Silva

Bat at 6 and let's Stokes Bat 7. I would Drop Bethall

My previous comments was our attacking players We need to defensive solid and build on that. We played good attacking football when we can but we dont over played too much like last season. Organisation is key to us challenging for the top 6 and keeping clean sheets but also the form of players like Hyam, Pears and Brittain cos of the solid Organisation based. We wont agree on our attacking players so I leave it there for this week

He is out of contract in the summer so they have decision to make whether to sell or keep.

I've read various different things from Ratcliffe didn't want to keep ETH in the summer or Ratcliffe unhappy with Ashworth shortlist to replace him and Almorin wasn't his choice at all but the CEO one. Just doesn't seem a good fit at all from what I read and I wonder if regrets leaving Newcastle now

Maybe the reasons why he has picked up this season is a change of manager and his form dipped down to Lowe and how he was played. Heckingbottom is playing to his strengths finally I worked with a number of PNE STH all rated him and said he is quality player.

Brilliant game for a neutral.

He isn't a Travis type player but of course the Travis Tronstad partnership is first choice cos it give us that solid base and ok fair enough.

I think its testament to Eustace, his staff and the players. Yes I disagree. But we pick up wins cos we have been defensively solid and we took our chances where its Hyam with the goal or Travis. In the last 4 games, we scored 6 and conceded just 1 goal with 12 points from 12 points available.

Not been the best in all truth but with different head coaches and different structure, you will be get this. We need to settle this down and employ a chief scout with 4 scouts under him looking at different parts of the UK and Europe for players. Does anyone know any of the current scouting staff? have we made appointments to the scouting staff in the summer?

We have to see what is available in the January market. I seen Nicko comments but I hope we can spend some money on a striker or wide player. Could be the different between a playoff place and not. Finding a quality striker is hard enough with money. I think Riis from PNE would be decent enough and an improve on Gueye.

Chelsea looking so poor after 14 minutes. Spurs have started so well today

what awful keeping by Sanchez for Chelsea.

Yes people said that before we signed Tronstad who has been quality signing. Who is the second player after Cantwell?

Its a fair point but depends whether they would qualify similar to what Tronstad did

I wouldn't. Not alot of championship clubs are spending much money out there unless they sell key players. Plus its will be interesting who we appoint and whether Gestede gets to appoint who he wants. I would prefer someone with experience in a similar role and knowledge of UK and Europe markets.

Yes the Glazers didn't want to sell the full club but wanted to secure extra investment into the club hence why they took the Ratcliffe offer and give him the control of the football side of the club

Smith has to come back in.

We discuss our opinions Matty. That's all exactly what this site is for. I respect him as I do every person on here as we are all passion Rovers supporters.

You make an interesting point you make and something I haven't focus on his French team Nice and how they been doing recently. He is partner of F1 team Mercedes which has had a couple of seasons of mixed results but next season should be better

I am still surprised he is there and they have not sack him yet.

I have agree with some points RF99 makes and respectively disagree with others. Just like many posters including yourself. We all want the best for Rovers this season and this site is great for discussing and debating our thoughts on Rovers and football subjects