Just be like us to lose vs the taffs or saffas now

This is one of the great England wins. In any sport. 

The officials are panicking that we’ll win this.

If England come through this they can take great pride from the fact they’ve beaten New Zealand and the officials

Fuck off!!!!

This is just what happened vs this lot at twickenham. Playing 17 men.

England have been very good. New Zealand haven’t been under this sort of pressure yet and they don’t look quite as imperious as normal.

Watched the first half of the rugby league on bbc2. Bet there won’t have been 10 viewers left

So many lazy all black runners. Offside but never penalised. Naturally. 

He’ll of a start!!!! Must have been Eddie Jones’ pre match chat “I’m sure on Saturday we might get beat and they might be better than us, but we’ll try”

There were suggestions nowell would play full back due to Daly’s poor defence that never happened. 

Nigel Owens the ref ?‍♂️. A seemingly impossible task just got harder 

Whilst the team, formation and tactics aren’t predictable a few things are.

We will play dull walking football where we’ll look to get the opta stats up with meaningless possession at the back. This will neither generate chances nor pull Preston players out of position. We aren’t good enough to play possession football so we will become frustrated and lump balls towards Gallagher. The wet paper bag will no doubt win some headers vs smaller full backs but we will not get to the second ball.

After some weird substitutions (anyone dares to have a good game in Prestons half will be hooked) I suspect we’ll lose 3-1. Tony will be surprised by how poor we were in certain aspects and never saw it coming even though it’s been dire for 12 months. Tony will then bemoan the miracles that happen at brockhall vs the girls team.

Failing managers need their own catchphrase “we gave it a right good go” and “real fans can see what we’re trying to do” are already taken. So his can be “we were in league one once therefore can’t expect to compete in this division.” Will talk Preston up as Barcelona. Then all back to Yarm for ice cream where he will present the players with these trophies:

I doubt Mowbray will be gone if we’re adrift at the bottom. Appointing your own superiors is a cushy number.

Just now, tomphil said:

Since when is a club going to hand out free tickets for an away game they'll have to pay for never mind what the local police would think about it ?

Whoppers ?

Free tickets?!?! Ha. Waggott wouldn’t give the fans the steam from his piss let alone free tickets.

Tony talks about league one as if we were there for decades. The dizzy heights of this championship league. We’re not worthy we’re not worthy. 

With Tony there’s every chance.

8 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Churchillian...

“I’m sure on Saturday, we might get beat and they might be better than us, but we’ll be there competing.”

Unbelievable. Few lads a work we’re telling me this. (Weren’t even Preston fans). When he gets sacked there is at least a job in theatre playing Henry V before agincourt. We might get beat, they might be better, but we’ll turn up.

We are at Preston not Barcelona ffs. Every time see an interview with him now I think of that green mile scene. Dead man walking. Dead man walking. We’ve got a dead man. Dead man coming through.

 Genuinely I think being the manager of rovers is one of the best gigs going. You have a fan base that won’t really turn on you (odd grumble walking away from the ground). Owners that don’t know enough or care enough to drive high standards. But if they like you and/or your wife they’ll back you in the transfer market. You can decide for yourself what constitutes success. You have the ability to hire and/or promote your superiors. 

But you will have to fly to India once a year to sell them a dream you’re incapable of delivering and possible might have to bamboozle them with reasons you failed to deliver precious self set targets. 

Could it be a shot on target. Only took 88 mins?

Preston, sheff wed, Leeds then the international break. I pray there’s a new manager in before Barnsley. 

Still 0 shots on target. 

They’ve lost 4/5. Anyone surprised making us look like a pub team

Just now, Crimpshrine said:

I truely believe that Venky's have no ambitions for the club in footballing terms.

As part of their business they will have to address their losses and decide the right point in time to pull the plug. What then ?

At the moment I think they treat ownership of Rovers like I do my gym membership - I renew it every year and persuade myself I will make an effort to exercise more often, but deep down I know I probably won't.  There will come a point where I won't renew it.

I think the sum total of Venky's ambitions is to not worry too much about Rovers until one day it comes to the crunch. In term of money, yes they are wasting some of their massive wealth but they can afford it. To them it's probably equivalent to the £15 a month for my under utilised gym membership. Remind me to cancel it in January!

Haha. I’ve never thought of the Venkys owning us as like a gym membership to them but I think it’s probably quite accurate. Start off with good intentions, know the money is coming out but it’s too insignificant to cancel. They might even get the odd bank statement and wonder what a Brereton is and why they’ve spent £7 million on it.

I genuinely believe the only reason they haven’t pulled the plug on us is they’re too lazy to be bothered and the money they pump in isn’t significant enough to lose any sleep over. 

Just now, MarkBRFC said:

We'll keep limping on, winning once in every 4 or 5 games or so just to give us enough of a cushion to be sucked into any real trouble, whilst others tell us we're only 6 points, 7 points, 8 points etc off the play offs with every passing week.

You’ll also hear it’s a tight division there’s at least 10 teams who could challenge for the top 6. We’ll be right up there if we put together back to back wins, well 3 wins, well 4 wins, well 5 wins...

Then if we’re lucky enough to succumb to mid table mediocrity you’ll hear this was a transitional season cementing our championship status again. All the while qpr have transformed fortunes and past us over a summer. Preston are competing with no budget. 

Has Mike Philips really just said that was one of Wales' best ever wins?? They were shite against 14 men