15 minutes of fantastic precision and urgency in everything we were doing. And then we've just stopped...

Brilliant, brilliant team performance since half time. Substitution was spot on. This is fantastic!

Their finishing has been rubbish but I really like the directness of Bacuna and Dembele. I genuinely feel they are more like to score. Big half time team talk needed. More urgency required...

6 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

 

 

Whatever Ennis is being paid, he doesn't deserve it. 

2 minutes ago, des said:

While I think Adam w is good players on the ball when he does not have it  and having to defend his movement is too slow as shown in the goal there scored.  In a higher league  I think he will find it hard work. If we get a very good offer we should sell and reinvest in the team. 

Score should be each  the keeper could of done a bit better by getting a stronger hand to it. We need to have more impact  in the  second half

I feel like I'm fighting against the tide on this but there is no way the profits of a sale get reinvested in the team. 

2 minutes ago, pick32 said:

They look bad and are there for the taking don’t get how we are losing so unfortunate, can’t see us not scoring second half 

I feel the opposite today, suspect we could play for five hours and not get a goal. If we had signed a proper striker - at any time over the last two years - we would be a proper top 6 team

1 minute ago, roverandout said:

I'd sell Wharton in January. He's just not progressed the way we would have hoped.  And spend the money on a quality striker 

Not for me. I think we should all know by now that isn't the way transfer funds work at this club. We'll just have lost our most creative central midfielder - and a potentially much better one - and gained some youth team striker on loan for 4 months. 

1 minute ago, Tom said:

Funny how we all see it differently, absolutely the right decision on the red card for me, it’s an idiotic lunge as last man

Worrying flap from Leo there 

I agree, Tom. There was no need to do it. However, the main fault is with the players in the build up knocking it back under pressure and inaccurately. Wharton shouldn't have been put in that exposed position. Now we are under pressure neither Rovers nor Norwich deserved.

Clearly, we still really need a new goalkeeper.

9 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

It’s this for me Madon 

We will come out of this. Far too early in the season to be predicting relegation scraps. Many, many teams have been here before, including Middlesbrough last year 

I genuinely do think that this squad will click. Roll on the Chelsea game for me. It’s a serious chance to turn our fortunes around 

Gutted about today but so early on I won’t get carried away. 4 on the bounce is shite. But we’ve been here before. It’ll be the time for the more doom and gloom type personality to shine yet, for me, the turning point will be soon 

I really want to believe this, and hope you are right. But I don't feel it, right now, because of the significant imbalance, and weaknesses, in our squad and, based on my hazy memories, were not reflected in the teams of Boro, Forest etc that marched up the table. Each had a goalscoring striker. Each had strength in the midfield. Each had transfer window money to call on. We aren't the same proposition. 

I don't think we can be surprised at that line up failing to score a goal. I honestly thought, when I saw the line up, we didnt stand a chance. Nor a surprise at failing once again to keep a clean sheet. The result is no worse than I expected. What makes it feel worse is that this one really wasn't a deserved defeat, based on the performance of two poor teams. But ours is a team that is getting used to losing and I'm already wishing this season would end.

10 minutes ago, duckson said:

Chance for Sammy after Dolan won it back high up, slewed it wide. 

Jordan Slew-ed?

3 minutes ago, RoverInverness said:

Three at back with Britain LWB and JRC RWB - surely?

Who in Central midfield?

It's a really poor line-up. Hopes for a result have just sunk even lower

That was painful. I didn't expect to win this, but there were opportunities in there to do that. I'm getting really fed up of hearing about how we play nice football. It doesn't matter at all when you see us slipping down towards the relegation zone.

22 attempts at goal. Played some very nice stuff. And yet it all feels just as painfully futile as ever before, perhaps moreso. We don't have enough quality and the apparent focus on playing nice football only makes that even more obvious. In its own way this one has been horrible to watch.

26 minutes ago, JoeH said:

Achieving a sustainable wage to turnover ratio is a good thing, by my standards anyway.

To an extent, yes. But it also advances the real implications of Football Financial "Fair" Play, by further hammering down the clubs with less large fanbases and income streams, and reinforcing the power base of the wealthier, city clubs. Smaller clubs' dreams of having some form of relatively wealthy ownership that might take them to a level their fans would never have imagined become virtually impossible. I'm glad none of this % of turnover stuff was around in the 1990s.

On the basis this is going to happen, then any half-decent owner would be investing time, energy and funds into exploring and establishing every possible income stream so that % figure to spend on wages is high enough to compete and get to, and stay in, the lucrative competitions. Perhaps another reason why anyone thinking that sticking with Venky's is "safest" really isn't thinking it all through.

As usual, I found Broughton to be articulate and insightful. Can we know it is 100% accurate/truthful? No. Can we ever know this with anyone? Also, no. It was an interesting listen, but one that only heightened my feeling that we are always only ever one Venky's decision/change of direction/legal investigation/whim from potential disaster. Any organisation lurching along, going against strategy, like this one really doesn't stand any chance of success. It is no way to operate and no fun to support. They've got to go. Unless, and until, they do, I guess we keep waiting for their next "change in circumstances" to totally derail wherever those at the club have managed to drag it to, at the time. Rinse and repeat. Painful.

21 minutes ago, super_badge said:

He’s about 13 years younger than Balaji I think so I doubt it

I don't think that totally rules out Big Dog Balaji being the daddy 😉

I was really disappointed last Wednesday when I had a dental issue and required an urgent repair for which the only appointment available was Saturday early afternoon and meant I couldn't drive. No ticket to the big 'local' Rovers game for me or for my 6-year old, who I was planning to take to his first Rovers game.

In hindsight, I would like to thank my dentist for their perfect scheduling, and the heroic pig whose crackly skin I destroyed my tooth on. Your (involuntary) sacrifice saved me from witnessing a second successive Rovers defeat at Argyle.

Shambolic. Absolutely embarrassing. But not a huge surprise when you see how recent years have led to this shower of shite line up. Bar just a couple of players, it is a terrible team. And yet another transfer window has passed without any of it being addressed. I'd honestly take administration and start again with new owners or, preferably and less dramatically, just play the academy team and drop half of the 'experienced' (failures), than see the same spineless twats trot out game after game. 

Thanks all. Looks like the online facility has been fixed this morning. Hopefully see lots of us at Home Park, on Saturday! Last time I was there it was for our League One game and some local idiot turned up in full Burnley kit, baiting the visiting fans as they arrived at the ground. Some people are mental.

3 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

plenty of tickets left,you just need to scroll through the news sections of the website,sadly the website is`nt very navigable,looks like  it`s maintained by a group of schoolchildren

Thank you for the reply (and from DeeCee). I'm feeling pretty stupid here, but however I get to the Argyle v Rovers ticket section on the website, it doesn't seem to give me any ticket availability. Not something I've come up against before.

As a one-off, would you be able to send me the link you used, please? 

No tickets seem to be available through the Rovers website. Is our allocation sold out, or should I be getting from elsewhere? Thanks.

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Who should have started? If you say Gilsenan then that's a very, very brave call - he's got one senior start (and appearance I think). We're bereft of options upfront. 

Home against Hull is a fairly decent game to get your next start as a young player. And a better option than Dolan. Full-backs getting over-run (yet again) means it barely matters anyway.