Two really poor teams.

2 minutes ago, BigBar said:

I find this less frustrating being honest. All well and good when you have the players but when you don't there is nothing worse than watching a bunch of players with limited ability struggle with every single pass and look so uncomfortable trying to knock it about. I'll take a scrippy scrappy over tippy tappy.

They still look like that now.

Wharton just then 🤦🏻‍♂️.  Its comedy football.  

We've threatened more in 48 secs than the first 45 mins.

1 minute ago, Roverthechimp said:

87th

92

This is a new level of shit 😂

7 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

For what it's worth, Nat Phillips has looked completely untroubled by Szmodics and Gallagher. 

The ball has been completely untroubled by any Rovers player in the opposition half. Awful, awful performance so far.  Not convinced we've even put 3 passes together.

Venkys Out 

Last night we were shit. Plain and simple.  Have to expect a lot more of those performances between now and the end of the season. 

Birmingham have been better all over the pitch.  Very lucky to only be the one down so far.  

Worst performance of the season for me and there have been some shockers.

WTF are we doing?

2 minutes ago, martonrover said:

Our situation certainly wasn’t all on JDT, but equally it isn’t suddenly all on Eustace.

We look like a struggling side, which, bar one result against an awful Stoke side, is exactly what we are.

It’s simply about cobbling enough points for survival.

Agree with that bit.  Stoke were absolutely wretched that first half.  

This is a fairer reflection of what our squad can/mainly can't do. 

We look awful. New manager bounce gone already. 

10 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

Football is cyclical, the original way will probably come back around eventually.

Especially now they are letting more physicality back into the game.  

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

It’s obvious, win the ball high up the field, play as much as you can in their half.

King Kenny's mantra.  Play your football in their half. 

52 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Yes they do, and when Rovers have players of that stature again I hope we can play that way. At the moment we don’t have those players.

If you take 2 similar quality teams, one plays out from the back, one sits deep and counter attacks with pace. 

I know which one I would back to win 8 times out of 10 and its not the tippy/tappy.

I also know which I'd rather watch. 

That said,  I always thought Rovers best performances over the last few years have been when we used a high press. 

6 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

I'd be willing to bet that Rovers delegation never make that flight across the Atlantic now.

New manager, possibly new targets

New manager, cheaper targets.

Underwhelmed if it's Eustace.

But then I've been underwhelmed by everything the club has done in the last 14 years!

2 hours ago, roverblue said:

The guy was taking us into league one, he knew the score last summer and should have walked. instead he’s persisted with his brand with a group of players not suited to it.

Plenty can and will achieve better with what we have got.

Problem is, what are this set of players suitable for? 

They can't play the tippy tappy stuff.

They are too slow to play on the break.   

Too small/weak to go direct/long ball. 

It's a piss poor squad. 

10 minutes ago, tomphil said:

He's captain now because he's one of the very few senior pros left and probably a very well spoken professional guy and that's fair enough.

However if there were 5 or 6 around his age he wouldn't be el'captitan i wouldn't have thought so that says a lot. Focusing half time on mollycoddling a few young players against the fans sounds about right. He should have been kicking the others up the arse and telling his head coach this isn't working.

But this is what they've reduced the squad to and i said ages ago if you have an U23s squad you'll get U23s football and the mistakes and flimsyness that goes with it.

Makes you wish Hyam could spend 5 minutes in a dressing room with Andy Todd.  

I'm hoping  the new old  lad Mcfazdean or whatever his name is may be a bit more old fashioned in his approach. 

18 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Hyam has moaned about the fans and crowds since he first turned up and we've ended up with a guy who is often one of the limpest on the pitch as club captain.

It's no wonder he's making an issue out of it, not his fault it's the fans.

See what i mean about victim mentality on all levels of the club it's pathetic if this was Boro/Millwall/Leeds/Sunderland they'd be getting torn a new one every week.

You know we are fucked when Pears is trotted out as a senior player. 

Hyam though, he's disappeared on the pitch. No leader at all. 

10 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Did any ask Hedges what the fuck did he try and chip it for

That really made me chuckle!

QPR brought on some of their last minute signings. 

Ours were either missing altogether, not fit enough or not good enough to come on.  

Kevin Gallagher alluded to it on the radio. 

Says all you need to know about our window. 

2 hours ago, Roboftherovers82 said:

i said few months back JDT wast up to the standard we needed and got slaughtered for it wonder if same people still think the same now 🙂 

i wanted it to work for JDT but he only plays one way and does not change it at all we need fresh ideas to give us a fighting chance of staying up 

The way we play surely lies with the Director of Football/ CEO.   The coach is brought in to play the style of football the club has identified. 

In our case the club identified it wanted a style of football that put players in the shop window so they could be sold.  The only remit - to avoid relegation.