What the hell has happened to Gueye?

He looks a completely different player.

David Lowe's blue & white army...👀

7 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

er,have you forgotten what happened when venkys took over!!!!!!!!!!!!!there is more chance of carlo ancelloti coming here than sam

Yeah, understood - though I'm sure he's gone on record in recent years (his own podcast, I think) in saying that he'd return to us.

Though whether the people who make the decisions on Venky's behalf would come to the same thought...

9 minutes ago, Madon said:

https://x.com/NoTippyTappyPod/status/1755902682156482978?t=aNMWrkI0rrqAnbQknJmCew&s=19

Get him in until the end of the season with a contract extension and a million quid if we go up. 

I said earlier in the thread - Big Sam, along with Warnock or Dyche would be the best case scenario for us.
Not sure Warnock fancies it anymore and Dyche would command wages we'd likely not pay.

So Big Sam would be my choice. Listen to the opinion of any player who's worked with him; they love him and would walk through fire for him.

Also massively underrated as a tactician, gets the best out of his players and has them playing as a team.

23 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

unfortunately toth reminds me of wahlstadt, overawed at the speed of the english game and unlikely to ever get to grips with it

Michalski is highly rated and came through the Academy - I'd genuinely be fine blooding him in games like this.

If he shows that he has the ability, it's an easy decision to replace both first choice calamity 'keepers that we currently have.

Hyam's goal was well onside, shocking decision.

Surprised to see a few 'Forshaw is shite' comments - today he's been decent, so far.

I'm a Cantwell fan, but he has to take responsibility for that first goal; loses the ball softly in a bad area.
GK needs to do better, of course.
Takes some doing to look a worse choice than Pears, but Toth is managing that quite well at the moment.

Pleasantly surprised with Kargbo, seems to be what we wanted ACD to be.

I saw somebody mention Big Sam earlier; this would be a best case scenario for me.

Showed an interest last time around and was even prepared to take the Bolton job when that came up, so he's itching to jump back in.

I couldn't give the slightest shit about how attractive our play is, it's all about results.

I'd be confident of the top 6 if Big Sam came back.

3 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

"Why are people who have no interest in and no knowledge of football, and who remain hiding thousands of miles away, happy to throw money away every year, without EVER making an attempt to win promotion?".

I've heard the conspiracy theories on this, but I'm not too sure.

Who had heard the brand 'Venky's' before they bought Rovers?
Literally nobody outside of India.

Now, they're a household name, certainly in the UK (albeit for all the wrong reasons, but 'any publicity is good publicity' and all that).

6 hours ago, Polky said:

Just done some quick sums…

Sigurdsson’s stats in all competitions:

Appearances - 41

Starts - 22 (53.65% of games available)

Minutes played - 2023 (49.34 minutes on average)

Goals - 8 (goal every 5.1 games)

Assists - 5 (assist every 8.2 games) 

That's definitely preferable to Hedges and probably holds up against Dolan, Cantwell, Weimann, ACD.

Keeping him fit is the main issue.

But hopefully a move can be sorted out, so he's not sat around picking up a wage for doing the square root of bugger all.

9 hours ago, CottonTownBoy said:

We have brought in two forward players in the Summer, in Gueye and Ohashi. We've now brought in three additional forward players in the last few days and yet we can't stop the ball going into our own goal through a sub standard goalkeeper.

I will keep happening all the way to the end of the season costing us dearly. I don't know what length of contract Pears has but he needs moving on at the end of the season. 

100% agree with this and I'm trying not to focus on it too much recently, or it'll sound like I've got an agenda against Pears.
I don't; he's just nowhere near good enough and actively costs us games.

It blows my mind a little bit how it's not blatantly obvious to everyone.

Kargbo looked decent in his cameo.

I thought Buckley was pretty decent tonight, too. Maybe I have low expectations for him and I'm pleasantly surprised by an average performance.

Thought both goals were avoidable, which seems to be the recurring theme for us.

Ignore the Bamford thing - he was on about Dennis (being a good signing, if he stays fit), I presumed he was on about Bamford, being a Leeds fan.

Sorry!

1 minute ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Eh???

He sent me a message saying 'fantastic signing if you can keep him fit' (in reference to Bamford).

Don't know if it's based on something from the Leeds end or not.

Leeds fan mate just told me that Bamford has been confirmed.

27 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

We only sign players when no other clubs are interested. Given a choice they always chose the other club. Who was the last player we actually won a competition to sign ?

Well, Cantwell, to be fair.

Both the player and the club confirmed that he had a lot of other options, but he liked how JE sold the club and ambitions to him.

33 minutes ago, onlyonejackwalker said:

Are you confusing Oxford with Bristol?

On checking, yes, I was - but my points stand.

He's been poor recently, I don't think anyone who has seen the goals we've conceded can deny that and keep a straight face.

1 hour ago, M_B said:

Keep it real, he'd absolutely no chance with the goal at Oxford for a start.

I disagree - his positioning was poor and gave him a harder job to get across. Showed far too much of the goal to the Oxford lad.

Then the shot itself was quite soft - and he got a hand to it, but pushed it into the goal.

But his main failing here was his poor positioning.

6 minutes ago, Roverthechimp said:

To be honest i would have expected a free kick outside of the box unless the ref played advantage for some reason (not likely given it was potentially a head injury) so while it surprised me when given it was probably the right decision.

Thought the ref would actually give the PNE pen (to "even it up") but thought it was a header contested and won by Gueye without being a clear foul and he didn't lead with his arm.

Only seen extended highlights so can't comment on ref overall but thought he got these 2 decisions right on balance.

As for Pears - wtf was that for their goal?!?

 

Worryingly, he's showing signs of regressing in recent weeks - after quite a stable season.

Last night's goal was extremely soft, as were both goals at Oxford and on top of errors like Portsmouth at home and a number of fumbled catches / ones he's gotten away with.

JE is a smart chap; these performances won't be lost on him. 

I couldn't post on here last night, site was playing up.

However, pleased to get the 3 points as the priority, as always.
Gueye is looking better with each passing week, thought he was very good last night.

Defence looks as good as any in this division and Travis made all of the difference, as we thought he would.

On the negative side, I thought Pears continued to look dodgy - the goal in particular was very soft and he was again beaten at his near post by a shot you'd expect any Championship GK to make.

And we dropped deep the moment that Preston started going route one, instead of continuing to play our game.
Against a side better than Preston, that could easily have cost us.

5 minutes ago, AJW said:

We won’t be signing the Egyptian lad this is purely a rouse just to appease unrest amongst us 

 

don’t be fooled 

Happens every year.

They see the discontent and start throwing a few scraps to the likes of Nixon.

They honestly think we're stupid.

I actually missed the Coventry game in it's entirety, as I was away for some conference thing.

You would think that Toth has the benefit of still being an unknown entity right now.

Pears, we've had to experience this level of general incompetence for a number of years now.