How about backing your club you supports, very easy for you given you are at the other side of the world, so easy for you! People need a clear criminal record for their jobs and you are putting your job at risk and given the financial problems facing the UK job market coming in the next few years I wouldn't be recommending it to anyone.

I wasn't defending the club about Forshaw, cos I didn't believe his Forshaw assumptions from the time he mentioned 100% agreed. You need an owner or owners who want to own the club, run the club from Ewood Park/UK and understand how footballing world works and will appoint a CEO and board who understand the area/supporters base, how to run the club, price ST and match day tickets reasonable for the fan base considering a number of financial situations of people in local area, communicate to the Supporters and improve the commercial operations of the club.

No one has said results are acceptable but we have only won 4 games in the last 19 games and the players confidence is very low at the minute.

I said then serious questions need to be asked about Ismael's future. I also said that Rovers should have been out there with better communication with the supporters base and been pro active with interviews explaining every thing to the supporters why Eustace left, what the recruitment process be and why Ismael was appointed. This is what should have been happening in my opinion and it what I would have done. ok thanks for being honest but wasn't you off the same opinion after Eustace first 5 games? Ok,

correct you did, so my apologies for that. So what would your team be for this game? If Karbgo and Beck were fit, I would be picking them. Some signings are squad signings like Sanderson and Forshaw not starting 11 players. Its only based on what I watched with Toth. He doesn't fill me with any confident and we need to start our recruitment in the summer with a new number 1 and 2 keeper being sign

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I dont agree the season is over either. We need to win games of football. Supporters have spent their hard earned money backing these players and club, they need to perform better. Confidence is low but we need to wins games and score goals. You can criticised my team but you don't say what your team would be, so what would it be? Pears is in cos I dont rate Toth based on what I've seen. Not going the Hedges and Dolan debate yet again!

Then serious questions need to be asked. If Rovers appoint him with a free pass this season and they will back him in the summer to overhaul the squad to his tactics and style of play then Gestede should be communicating this to the fan base. Gestede should have being interviews the day Eustace left and the day we appointed Ismael. Rovers yet again very poor with the media and lack of communication with the supporters is shocking. What your opinion and would you want a change of head coach if we only won 1 or 2 of the remain games and what the plan for replacement?

No. Want Buckley for his passing quality and to find those quality passes we need in attacking areas

ok Matty. Any more questions?

delighted to see PNE losing to Villa

He has spoken of playing with high press but as you said rightly we haven't once play with a high press. I think yesterday we might have done well if you think we sack in May why not now otherwise what the points when you spend 3 months scouting players to fit into his prefer tactics, seems a waste of time of Rovers recruitment staff doesn't it? if we did as you said who are you appointing Matty?

Pears Carter Hyam Batth Pickering Buckley Travis Dolan Ohashi Hedges Gueye

Results will determine whether appointment of Ismael was good one or not. You had similar doubts with JDT and Eustace I bet after 5 games. I criticise when they were employed just not repeatably like yourself who loved to criticise even for the minor of points We also lost to Oxford away, Hull at home under Eustace, but the most alarming stat for me is our record against Promote teams and losing to them under 4 different head coaches to them. No concerns about that I see, I see bits of different ways, getting wide and putting more crosses in which is what Ismael has spoken about and did post games. Yes we do looked disjointed yesterday mostly but we try to get the ball wide a few times similar to the Cardiff game. If you didn't fine but I did, This is what I think Ismael's identity and style of play he wants. If I am wrong, I will hold my hands up and admit I was wrong like I have done before. Yes we do need to win the next game and we need to be right behind the players and backing them. I want to win the game. If you don't fine. Anything can happen in Football. Coventry and WBA both lost their game but we couldn't win our games.

Depends on results and also if you scouting players to fit into Ismael next season tactics Surely better off backing him. This should have been part of the interview process for the head coach appointment

As a front 2, its doesn't seem right to me, You want a target man with a number 10 goalscorer/pacey striker/pressing forward(Ohashi) or playmaker as number 10 with a striker who makes runs in behind How much you set up on Friday night team selection and formation wise?

I haven't had any inside info regarding Rovers since we were set to sign Steven Caulker before we backed out of it. That's it. deffo

if you are asking before we played one game under Ismael, think I can see why he was chosen as Eustace's appointment if the question is based on after 5 games, then results and performance suggested not. Anything else Matty?

confident from where? You thought the other week Ismael was being told to play Forshaw which hasn't been the case has it?

Woodrow and Ohashi has a front 2 doesn't make sure unless you press them high I think Ohashi and Gueye as a front 2 is a better partnership or Ohashi and Cantwell

Look at the record before Eustace, it was 2 wins in the last 11 games after winning back to back games before that. Lowe and the players got 2 wins from 2 games before we were battered by Swansea, since then our confidence has gone and we were all drawn into a false dawn and the last 6 results have been very poor. Losing key players like didn't help that and our confidence has gone, plus if we don't scored the first goal we almost lose the game and its is rare we ever come back to win games under different head coaches, why that is I don't know. Pompey had 2 shots and won the game, similar to Derby. Our players confidence is very low down to results and I think we got into a false dawn after Lowe's 2 wins and if we score first, we look good and confidence, but soon as we conceded, too many players heads drop and confidence goes. Look at our record away to promoted clubs under 4 different head coaches is nothing more than pathetic, why is that, I don't know why that is or what it down to. Always willing to answer questions from anyone(if that person is on the ignored list then that question won't be answered cos I don't read their posts) if directed at me.

Its only been 5 games, so yes I am willing to give the summer and shape the squad in his own way. Am I disappointed by the start under Ismael? Yes I am apart from the Norwich, Derby bullied our back line and keeper flapping hasn't help Ismael, but these players confidence is low and we need to score first for once, cos at the minute, we aren't doing good enough. Yesterday, we should be winning that game and I was disappointed by that but its another team we conceded first and we don't come back and this symptom has been happening for too long now and it got to stop. So is that not down to the players and them not created that chance or delivering that quality final pass or confidence dropping as soon as we conceded? Ismael wants us to created more chances, more crosses into the box and have more shots at goal, is that really a wrong approach? no cos we haven't created loads of chances but if we ever conceded the first goal under Eustace we tended to always lose, similar to JDT time here. We don't come back into games and pick that point or win that game like other teams do. The Norwich game, picking up a point there was positive with a last minute equaliser. I said pre match that was suprising selection by Ismael. What other team selections has been weird? We struggled under Eustace against bottom 8 teams like We lost to Hull at home when Plymouth with Rooney in charge away or Coventry away being our first lost of the season or Stoke at home?. All near bottom of the league when we played them, so why that? The playoffs have probably gone in all truth sadly but results will decide Ismael's future. The players confidence has gone and has soon as we concede our heads dropped. You could see that at Derby or Stoke. For example, Travis yesterday should be rallying the players yesterday and showing that passion we know he got. We need to win the next game and scoring first would massive help the confidence of the players and the fans aswell.

He wants us to have more possession in the final third and created more chances. I explained to yourself what the game plan was against Cardiff, if you can't see it fair enough, I couldn't care less Previous head coaches? I said the same comments post Swansea game abut Lowe. we won 4 games in last 18 games, Apart from picking Woodrow, how was it an weird team? How can you called anyone, you can't even answered the most basic of questions, like did you have ST for the 24/25 season or tying yourself in knots over your choice Rob Edwards to replace John Eustace. Get yourself into Politics, you fit in well you would I won't ever bet against my team

We haven't played the long ball game tho under Ismael. Eustace's tactics at times were limited and we don't created enough chances and to be fair it doesn't help when Pears flapped like a bird and Hyam/Carter get bullied by Derby's front 2. Most of these players have played in 3-4-3 formation. In Lowe's last game, we got battered by Swansea.