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Pears and the centre backs don't pass around at the back but clear the lines and kick more cos we don't want to take much risk at the back and we set up more pragmatic now whilst playing some decent stuff. Set Plays are put into the box and yesterday we show we can score goals from them. We didn't do play hoofball as the poster said but we sometimes play balls down the sides of the centre back which turns their defenders and then pushes them back creating spaces for our attacking players. I was massive fan of JDT but to be honest, it had reach the end cos he didn't want to be here anymore, Its seems like the players lost confidence in him and maybe him in them. I do think he would have taken us to PL if he had been backed in the summer and I was disappointed he wasn't. I wish him well in the future.

What do he do well and could improve with? could he challenge Pickering next season for the left back/wing back role?

Brittain had a good game and he suits the wing back role

We don't play hoofball under Eustace. Eustace has made the defence tighten and more of an unit now then this season. Its effective. Also it is overplayed that all Norwich had to do was just played in behind McFadzean. It happened a couple of times cos we pressed much higher up yesterday

Sad to see JDT after his first season but he wasn't happy here. Eustace has gone back to basics and make us harder and more solid defensively. Similarly to what Hughes did here when he took over here

I wouldn't be surprised if Lowe left now Downing has joined here. No surprised Ben Rosen has left now JDT gone

I think it was good solid performance against a very good team. Its another point on the board and defensively we look much better as a team given that Eustace has had very little time on the training ground with them. Norwich caused problems for us but given their quality I would expect this but they only had 7 shots at goal which surprised me to be honest given their quality. Kenny McLean makes them tick and Szmodics and Dolan had a job to do defensively on him. After Norwich scored, Sam Gallagher had 3 good chances to score each time Gunn made a good save. After Half time, we applied more pressure and Hyam scored a good header from Pickering good corner. After that we continue to tried and work hard but just couldn't find that winner we all want. Stand out performers for me were Sam Gallagher, John Buckley, Domonic Hyam, Sammie Szmodics(given his partner just given birth this morning) and Ty Dolan. Yes we are playing less on the front foot and more pragmatic under Eustace who is taking the team back to basics and similar to what Mark Hughes did when he took over the team. I thought the ref was awful and clueless. Just another out of depth ref at EFL level On to Tuesday night and the Alan Shearer derby. It will be very interesting to see the team we will pick for this game.

Fair play Leeds. I still think Leicester won't win the league and won't finish top 2. Leeds and Southampton will

Andy Bayes and Elliott Jackson have been asked on twitter about Zak Gilsenan being part of the first team. I would have him on the bench instead of Markanday

I think tomorrow game will be interesting to watch different styles of football. I expect Eustace will set up to similar how we played against Stoke and I expect Dolan, Hedges and Buckley to start. Expect it to be 3-4-2-1 formation. Norwich will have more possession in this game. We need to carry on being solid defending from open play and build on the last 2 performances I think we will win 2 nil with Dolan and Hyam scoring

Don't think that an extra man in midfield is needed tbh. We need Dolan in the team. We need his movement and energy plus this will help Gallagher and Szmodics aswell

Pears Hyam McFadzean Wharton Briitain Buckley Tronstad Hedges Dolan Szmodics Gallagher

Each to their own Mercer, but I will be renewing if you don't buy a ST, fine but don't lecture me into my commitment to my football club which I will always support through the Good and bad times As others has said a boycott has already of alot of fans for various reasons.

I will renewing my ST for next season when available

Thanks for report there arbitro. Eustace has gone back to basics currently similar to back Hughes did when he first came in here. Sometimes not great but can affect. More time here he will develop our attacking football. Time on the training ground is needed for Eustace

The weather won tonight. Rovers got our first clean sheet since 25th November. That's the positive and another point on the board

Dolan with a great chance there

Dolan and Buckley coming on for Garrett and Gallagher

Moran coming on for Ayari

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Correct. My post was aiming at the decision making in appointing him and then sacking him so early. They clearly didn't get who they wanted to replace Mowbray

Understanding of the role. Understanding of the working structure and circumstances. Far too many people act like experts and so easy to do so. I have listened to a number of interviews on training ground guru youtube channel with director of football and learn and develop the understanding of the role. I know a plenty of Them thanks. Given the number of podcasts and interviews I have watched over the last few months. Stockport DoF is Simon Wilson. Salford City DoF is Chris Casper. I named those 2 clubs in an earlier post.

Thanks for reply. Much appreciated Ian.. So around £40m to 80m then. That's £40m to buy the club and training ground. £20m for running cost plus extra for Stadium improvement and training ground improvements. Need a good CEO who has commercial background plus a good head of Commercial and Marketing would be a must

No answer to simple questions posed? Give Eustace the benefit of the doubt? On what? What experience have you got in a Football DoF role? He has been a DoF for nearly 2 years.. So who would replace him then? Any names?.

We were 7th at that time. Things look good at the time. Ennis has gone and somehow we got 500k for him. Did you miss that transfer? 🤔🫡