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  1. 2 hours ago, davulsukur said:

    Some PNE fans giving us pelters on twitter for only taking 350 to this game lby far the lowest away attendance in the championship) despite the fact they only took 250 (their game was a Friday night just before Xmas but still)

    Complete clowns they are they took the same number as us to Norwich despite being higher in the league and our game being on tv on a Sunday dinner time.

    They really do give Burnley a run for their money in the delusion stakes but unlike them lot they have very little to back it up with.

  2. 2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

    Just seems a strange angle to go down. Any hostility in the crowd amidst poor performance after poor performance has all been aimed away from the players and manager.

    I still find it strange how these boo boys berating our team (apparently) would specifically be aggravated by playing deep and going long.

    Because it's a frustrating style of play to watch and some just think oh they are negative they can't be arsed shit manager and players who don't care.

    When in fact it's designed to stop the opposition and protect a slow back four, going in nil nil at half time in a relegation scrap is never a disaster.

  3. 21 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

    The boo boys?

    Don't pretend they don't exist there is nothing more piss boiling than hearing boos at half time when it's nil nil it's fucking pathetic.

    I remember us laying into the dingles for that when Dyche was first there it's six fingered territory that stuff and we are better than that.

    We need some urgency from the team obviously but we need patience and backing from the terraces there'll be plenty time and justification to kick off if we are rubbish and lose again but lets not contribute to it.

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  4. 5 hours ago, arbitro said:

    Despite a really good start to his Rovers career I have to say that yesterday McFadzean looked exactly what he is, a 38 year old centre half. Swansea exploited this and along with the dithering Hyam looked like a slow and cumbersome duo. Perhaps it's time to look at O'Riordan and Koumetio and give them an opportunity. I couldn't understand bringing Gilsenan on so late in the game. He is on fire and scoring for fun so why hold him back? Baffling. 

    Eustace has some big decisions to make for Tuesday. I hope for his and Rovers sake he makes the right ones.

    This is a real problem now and one the boo boys need to consider as we have to defend deep and maybe go long to cover the slowest defence in the league.

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  5. A forward thinking CEO with nous would have offered some incentive at the Newcastle game knowing it was a guaranteed big crowd with many part timers and knowing how important the league games now are.

    A 10% discount voucher, a free pie or pint, a free scarf !  Absolutely anything to offer a bit of incentive to get a few more through the door.  They are useless to a man down there and couldn't care less, instead punting a 5 game package that barely 100 people will afford to commit to.

    I'm sick to the back teeth of these imcompetent buffoons stealing a living the only thing important now is getting 3 points and trying to get as much help as possible from the stands.

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  6. Aside from promoted coaches and Appleton every manager Vs have employed has been unemployed having been sacked elsewhere.

    Tomasson bucked that trend having stepped down himself after winning two Swedish titles and was looking around for his next venture.

    They have reverted to type having yet again learned no lessons about anything but the prospect of relaunching a young coaches career, then maybe getting compen for him in 18 months time, i'd say is probably the driving factor behind this appointment not the impending spectre of a real relegation fight.

    That's how stupid they are

  7. 8 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

    Anyone yearning for the “good old days” under Tony Mowbray? 

    No, he'd be struggling badly this season also and spouting the same old crap.

    The Eustace early days are mirroring the early TM ones and both scenarios have been created by incompetent chiefs and the need to sell good players to pay the bills.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, superniko said:

    You said we should all be positive because we scraped a draw in a shocking performance at Cardiff. As well as your belief we were marching towards mid-table and no longer slipping towards the bottom 3 (which was factually incorrect at the time, and further eye-opening now)  


    Judging by your posts tonight, you’re no longer positive so that last sentence is hypocritical. 
    Glad you’ve seen some sense anyway, sort of. 

    We scrapped a point playing shite at Cardiff, that was a positive.

    We haven't managed it today despite a good second half because weak play by the usual suspects gave us a mountain to climb after 10 mins or so.

    That's a negative, where you negative on Tues ?    Actually don't answer i can guess.

  9. 12 minutes ago, superniko said:

    Glad to see you’ve come around. You were telling me to come around to reality and it only took you 2 weeks to do so yourself. 

    I haven't come around anywhere pal

    Any manager needs to build his own team in his own style with the time and budget he has available.  He like anyone else coming in has to work with what he has right now and that isn't much.

    About time some finger pointing was done at the players they all suddenly turned into trojans when the cameras were here but within a few days they are mice again.

    He needs time but we need points right now so yeah not looking good but the Appletons vibes are more to do with the guy himself and the scenario hes walked into.  We have to remember that he had a load of tripe as well but he did have Jordan Rhodes.

    So, sorry whatever i said 2 weeks ago still stands.

  10. 5 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

    Had we let them go for free then maybe, but either way, them staying was not through the owners desperation to get back into the Championship.

    Not for me to defend them but they were under no obligation to keep the budget they did other than owing it to the fans and club employees to try and get back up.

    As always it was probaby the one or two of them who do actually take notice who listened to some right advice for once.

  11. Gallagher has had one of his bad days today but previously hes been playing well so lets not rewrite history every time he has a stinker, he really isn't alone and never is.

    He is what he is.

    Main issue is there is no one to take his place when he's struggling or injured and we know where the blame lies for that, they brought in a 23 yr old German B level striker who can't cut it and was ill today anyway.

    We know where the blame lies and it isn't big Sam.

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  12. 38 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

    As if the owners were desperate to "facilitate a quick return" last time.

    Many of the players we had were senior and would have hardly had teams queueing around the block for them, many a relegation of a season after joining on frees 12 months prior.

    Seemed quite happy to pay them? They had little choice although when the owners have been praised for "pumping £20m in every year" then I suppose again merely paying the bills and offsetting the losses their business made, both which are not optional if the business is to continue, warrant praise and can be turned into some warped sense of ambition.

    Of course they had a choice they could have moved them all on don't tell me for one min Graham, Mulgrew etc wouldn't have found a new home quick enough.

    Rovers then were just basically an agents vehicle they'd have had a field day if they had the nod from the owners.

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  13. Eustace is on the books of Wasserman who haven't had anyone in here in a while i don't think ?

    Anyway massive agency with a massive set of players on the books, a hell of a lot of non entities from all over the world worth a few hundred grand or so.

    I wonder if that came into the thinking when employing him, prospect of a catalogue full of cheapo players !!!

  14. 1 hour ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

    He had a very prestigious cup win at Arsenal too. I couldn't help thinking about that the other night..

    We defended like tigers in that game, took the one chance we had and the keeper Jake Kean turned in his one and only world class performance out of thin air......

  15. 2 minutes ago, alcd said:

    The losses will be smaller in L1. And the remaining assets in the squad - Szmodics, Carter, Hyam (now I'm being generous) - can be cashed in . It might not have been planned but it it's a financial outcome that will not disturb Venkys.

    That's the way i see it, they weren't fazed by the risk and aren't that fazed by relegation that's why there has been #### all urgency this season with anything.

    Shoulder shrugs all round, the people at the heart of it keep their jobs or are retiring anyway, in India it won't bust their business and will actually save it a few quid.

    No fucks given.

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  16. 2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

    Last time it seemed to be a no no being in League 1 for some reason. The owners seemed quite happy to carry on paying the wages of high earners like Mulgrew Dack and Graham to facilitate a swift return to the Championship.

    Even sanctioned the purchase of Armstrong in January.

    This time? I'm not so sure. Don't see us bouncing back for some time should the worst come to the worst.

     

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    I think the saving grace there was they were all well paid players so even with the relegation reduction clause written in their contracts they were happy to stay as they got it back in a promised promotion bonus.

     Waggot won't have had the brains to write that in contracts hes overseen plus all the above and one or two others were too good for league 1.  Not sure we can say that this time around about many of them it'll be more like finding their true level so big problems ahead unless they could reinvest sales into a first time bounce back attempt.

    And again this is Waggot who instead will budget the money to pay bills, tell the owners we don't need much from them and safeguard his own position.

  17. We were always more likely to head to league 1 under these lot than back to the Prem and so it came to pass.

    Since bouncing back it has always been more likely we'd drop back again than even challenge the top 6 by May and so it'll come to pass whether it's this season or next or the one after.  Next time though it'll be a long hard old slog to even get back into the Championship.

    There is only ever one way out of this doom cycle.

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  18. 27 minutes ago, RoverCanada said:

     

    FYI, Jackson reported that GB said he'll do a post-transfer window interview during the international break, saying that he wanted to give Eustace some space before addressing it. (Not endorsing that btw, just saying FYI!)

    I really can't imagine how he'll try to spin it... if rumours are to be believed that GB's ultimately heading off (I've had a soft spot for GB's seeming competence, but I can't give a fuck anymore either way), it should be SW in the firing line, but he'll probably hide as long as he can. Might as well let GB take another bullet on his way out...

    Whatever the format of the interview, I only wish they'll be asked point blank 1) did A. Wharton push to be sold, 2) did we have to make that sale due to Venky's apparent inability to fund the club (and, as a follow-on if they claim FFP, run us through exactly how close we would have been to breaching FFP given budget cuts and also selling the likes of Kaminski and Phillips...)

    They may insist Wharton wanted to leave, it wasn't due to Venky's inability pump in more cash, FFP, blah blah blah, but might as well get them on record as lying (will at least get a partial answer to the latter when the accounts come out over a year from now...)

    Waggot will just trot out the tired old line 'when a Prem club comes calling' etc etc

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  19. I always think setting out to sit back for a draw is asking for trouble but setting out to protect the 0 but showing some intent at the top end is justified.

    If anyone knows what i mean.

    Anyway i'd snatch the hand off for a point or three however they might come but still think we need to score first.

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