Great players often don’t make very good managers. I don’t get the love in with Duff, just because he has done well in a tin pot league. It’s only because he’s an ex Rovers player.

Are you inferring that Eustace didn’t want him and was dragging his feet agreeing to the transfer. I thought that they just didn’t want to pay the asking price.

My thoughts exactly.

Interesting 🤔 could be a genius move, definitely thinking outside of the box.

That’s what you call “Garnering” the points. Score early for a Speedie result.

15/02/75? But without the drama of the 1st half as my nerves won’t stand it!!

Totally agree. Going off his performances with the England senior squad, I wouldn’t want Carsley, he’s a bit too gung-ho and would undo what had got us the success so far. We are a very good, tight knit disciplined unit, which is hard to beat. That is exactly what we need to garner the points we need to qualify for the playoffs. If it ain’t broken don’t fix it.

My view would be to get as many supporters as possible (good time for the abstainers to attend) in the ground, at the next home game and all chant “Venkies out” for the entire game. That would be difficult to ignore and would get media attention. Sadly there are still too many deluding themselves that we won’t survive without the Venkies. 😡

Can’t believe he cost us a lot of money. Pay peanuts get monkies.

Where is the JRC of yesteryear?

He won’t do that. It’s bad form to show your future employers that you’ll shit on them if you leave. It doesn’t go down well.

I thought that he’d just been managing in Ireland. Even if he has done really well there it is one heck of a jump from managing there to the championship, or have I missed something?

Why?

Thank you

Thank you

I am currently in South Africa at the moment, is there any way of watching the game today. As it’s an FA cup game I assume that it’s not available on Rovers tv?

I currently live in Devon so don’t really get to support Rovers too often, but I’m still obsessed with them, it’s like a drug you can’t give up. I wish I could though as it’s been going on now for 62 years and I’m sure it’s not good for my health, especially my mental health!! I really want new owners before I finally kick the bucket. I don’t want my days and weekends ruined a club owned by morons.

It’s a completely different ball game if we actually get in the prem. Apart from Tronstad, Travis and Brittain I wouldn’t be renewing any of the other contracts because they’re not good enough. Obviously when we don’t go up it’s a different “kettle of fish”. However, I still wouldn’t renew Dolan’s or Hedge’s contracts. You can’t fault their efforts, but moves fall apart when they get involved.

Totally agree. Sheer incompetence by the senior management who are responsible for securing new recruits.

Dolan, Hedges, Gueye, Buckley, Cantwell and Weiman all extremely poor tonight. No quality on display tonight including the manager who, I thought, got his substitutions all wrong.

Another 3 points dropped curtesy of our excellent recruitment team. Sign players so late that they can’t play until after our playoff chances go down the pan. Absolute amateurs!!!

He got Sunderland into the playoffs.

I never could count, which is bad news as I was an accountant. 😂😂

The one thing that that the signings have delivered on is pace, experience and players who, albeit not currently, know where the back of the net is. I feel that Eustace will be pretty content with what he has to work with. However, let’s hope that Tronstad gets back quicker than expected as it will tighten up our defensive situation, which is badly needed. btw contrary to most people’s view on here, I think Woodrow playing as a no. 10 could be a master stroke. He was brilliant at Barnsley playing there and like many players who fare poorly when played in a football style not suited to their game, he could shine again playing under Eustace.

Am I happy with transfers? So so, but it matters more that Eustace is happy. He has shown he can work wonders with players so let’s see how they all pan out in a few weeks time I’m disappointed though, to put it mildly, that once again our shitty owners have missed a great opportunity to cement their place in the playoffs. We’re fighting for 2 playoff spots (5th &6th) because we have dropped too many points as we didn’t sign players at the beginning of the window. That has meant we are too far adrift of the top 4 places. With the money previously brought in and being in a great position with FFP, any half competent owners could have matched the spending of the top four and given us an opportunity of an automatic promotion. We still have the opportunity to get promoted so that gives us hope. Unfortunately WBA and Boro have made some strong signings so we can’t really afford to have another bad run of defeats. The signings offer hope of promotion nothing more.