I think he’s trying not to handle it and give them an indirect free kick. That’s the worst decision making he’s made all day when he doesn’t just get palm it away

He wasn’t the reason we lost last night but Bobby Madley was taken off the Birmingham game and put on ours at the last minute because he supports Huddersfield who are a relegation rival of Birmingham’s. Doesn’t seem to make sense to then give him to another relegation candidate https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/key-birmingham-city-v-cardiff-28969709.amp

The QPR winner yesterday is the sort of thing Eustace’s rovers would never be brave enough to get (see Hyam calming the fans down in injury time vs Millwall). It’s the 92nd minute, they’re drawing 1-1 in a massive relegation six pointer, the centre back goes up field for the goalkeeper’s kick to get a winner

Football is a game often decided by the odd goal. For that reason you can’t have your goalkeeper throw in as many goals as both of ours have this season. We are a poor team but would easily have enough points to survive with an average championship goalkeeper

The issue with games like yesterday and Birmingham away, is that we have still conceded as many chances as we regularly would under JDT but without the attacking prowress. The only “it wouldn’t have been any better under JDT” argument I have is how bad the QPR game was. Otherwise, like many I feel we would have lost a few but won a few during this run under JDT and had more points.

Anyone know how to actually start a roverstv game on a windows pc? It used to be obvious but despite me purchasing it I can only watch it live on my iPhone app at the moment

The worrying thing is that the relegation form actually started in March. We’ve been struggling to average a point a game for the last 20 games. To be upbeat, onlookers often ask if we would have been happier with the last two seasons had the form being reversed I.E start poorly and have a strong end which results in just missing out in the playoffs. Maybe we’ll find out

Yes. If we carry in playing the same way and letting the opposition have 20+ shots a game whilst he says the tactics are fine then that is Mowbray style stubbornness

I agree with this as a formation. The wide players in the front 3 are generally our weakness and not as effective in their position as some of the players on the bench (mainly JRC) could be in their’s

So many poor signings under successive managers. Our academy has really saved us in that aspect

We’re 4/1 to win at Ipswich on Saturday. I don’t normally bet on Rovers but that seems good value considering how many chances we are creating home and away. Ipswich are great on the counter attack though. I’m quite intrigued by next week’s Carabao cup game. A chance to see if a few of the new signings have much about them

It’s not really the defenders’ fault. The style of football leaves us very open when a team counter attack. A different manager would have the same defence set up to have games end 1-0 either way. Pros and cons to both approaches

Tronstad and Buckley better options in that role surely but one not in the squad and the other out on loan. Garret better in the Travis role

Ridiculous isn’t it. I was going with a mate who lives in Leeds but is a Liverpool fan. He should have bought them with hindsight but with it not being a rivalry and me not being a hooligan, I didn’t think we had to be clever when ordering

I’m a bit annoyed about this. I probably shouldn’t have used the same email address I use for rovers tickets but I didn’t think it would be a big deal. I planned to keep my mouth shut in the posh seats

Every fanbase has it’s nobheads, don’t think we particularly have more. The main issue I have with away games is some people unofficially deciding away games are sit where you want whilst others demand to sit in their seat. I often end up with 10 people standing in the five seats surrounding me or, as happened today, a bunch of young lads in my seat refusing to move and people moving me on when I find another empty seat

He’s always been better when playing off the left but he seems to be hugging the left touchline more than ever at the moment. For this reason he has barely had a chance to miss recently. Most of our attacks seem to come down the right at the moment which should result in your inside left forward getting a lot of chances but this hasn’t happened due to delivery and/or movement. He was still fairly wide yesterday when we were chasing for an equaliser which seems baffling

JDT reminds me a little of arteta. Similar to arteta, some of the performances in his early days were truly dreadful as he tried to change the way we played but a cup run offered promise. You can now see improvements in performances but we lack a cutting edge and have a tendency to “bottle it” not unlike Arsenal. Arteta has had some big money signings to help his “project” and that’s where I feel JDT’s project may fail.

As someone who has coached a bit at junior level, when in a bad run and unsure of how to get out of it I often go back to the team I was playing the last time we were on a good run which for various reasons I may have drifted from. JDT may have done the same minus Buckley when he dropped BBD against Preston if Gallagher was fit

I’m pleased it’s in our hands. I hated 2017 when we won our last two (fairly difficult) games but it wasn’t enough due to other results

You know how we have all these statistical measures like expected goals now? I’m convinced that if you had a way of measuring supporter happiness whereby you got a lot of points for things like coming from behind to win, beating your rivals, scoring a late winner and lost points for the opposite then we would be lower down than most teams on that measure in the last ten years. I can’t complain too much though as we had a much better time than most fans in the nineties and noughties

The recent run reminds me a little bit of the bit I’ve circled from last season. Not playing terribly all the time but not getting the results. We then actually started playing terribly as it came to the run in

We’ve gone back to Mowbray’s Rovers a little bit. I always felt that under Mowbray we were competitive in most games without dominating. First half of the season we were only competitive in half our games and Coyle levels of bad in the other half. Somehow we won every game we were competitive in. We are back to most games being fairly even and decided by fine margins like they were under Mowbray.

He’s a big issue and possibly not criticised enough. We will not get promoted as long as Travis starts regularly

I said similar last season but it won’t be as easy in future seasons even if we have a better team. The likes of Watford, Norwich, WBA and the 3 relegated teams will be stronger next season