davulsukur

Get in!!

Good job we can look to the bench to turn it round.....

Dingles 1 up already as well, just to compound our misery 

1 down already.

We aren't great at turning games around. Could be a long afternoon.

22 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Now Sigurdsson is injured. That bench is totally pointless.

Bloody hell, he's injured as well!

Not many options if things aren't working today.

On 29/11/2023 at 23:21, Mattyblue said:

Big Dack fans too…

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/waddley-cack.1620589/

Classic Rovers, follow up a couple of good wins with a loss against a poor team. Fully expect us to bottle this, especially as we're not far off the top 6.

-----------------Wahlstedt

Brittain----Hill-----Carter----Pickering

------------Tronstad---Wharton

Moran--------Szmodics-----Sigurdsson

---------------------Leonard

Down to the bare bones is an understatement, probably a full bench of academy lads.

4 hours ago, tomphil said:

Harsh on Dolan just when he had found his good form again and silenced the internet critics.

Awkward for the team as well seeing as it'll probably mean a change in style not having two busy guys who press. Hopefully JDT reaches into his box of tricks and comes up with something that will suit the potentially good more traditional number 9 we have.

How long is Dolan out for?

Yes Harry!!!

I'm ready......

As always football....

.....kick me in the nuts

FFS!

Don't throw this away!

Just now, LDRover said:

Hate to say it but it's looking like a carbon copy of many of our games this season. Start well, look a class above, don't score when on top, opposition get a foothold, opposition score, we huff and puff but lose.

Yep, just feels like we are waiting for a goal to go in for Birmingham now.

Keep making mistakes at the back and we'll get punished soon enough.

Birmingham look to have us figured out already.

If JDT is out thought by Rooney, then good help us all 

Dolan off

Leonard on

We certainly take some insane risks at the back 

That's twice already we've given them a chance

Just now, Proudtobeblue&white said:

Dolan clattered and not even a free kick!

Yeah, not sure how nothing was given for that.

Trav in at RB for Scotty W but otherwise unchanged.

On 27/11/2023 at 16:26, joey_big_nose said:

Garrett came on and played inside right very well. I think JDT has come to a similar conclusion with him to Travis - not good enough technically on the ball to be a pivot, but if you let him press, cover ground and get into tackles he can be pretty useful.

Not sure where Garrett would play in our starting 4231. I think the only place he'd get a go is probably - as bizarre as it sounds - number 10. Or I could see us using him at left back if Pickering got injured in the same way we use Travis at right back. I cant see anyone displacing Tronstad or Wharton from the deeper midfield roles, and if one of them was injured I think Moran would be drafted in from further forward to keep that technical quality on the half turn.

I was thinking about Rovers whilst cycling home from work tonight and I got the feeling that Garrett would start tomorrow in the 10 role behind Szmodics.

I like Garrett and think he could develop into a useful player for us. Not sure why JDT is trying to turn him into an attacker but your suggestion of him not being quite good enough technically as one of the holding mids seems like a fairly logical conclusion tbh.

Moran! 

0-2

Scotty!!!

Get in!

2 hours ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Ennis out for "two weeks or so".

Absolute waste of time and effort. 

You couldn't make this up. 

So Gallagher and Ennis are just permanently crocked now? 

Let's hope Leonard hits some form.

11 hours ago, Upside Down said:

What have we got to lose?

Matches?

On 18/11/2023 at 14:28, lraC said:

In a lot of ways, the premier league are largely to blame for what is going on here. How can they introduce financial fair play, but then effectively allow states to own certain clubs.

Just using Newcastle, as an example, they are owned by the Saudi Arabian public investment fund, who in turn own 4 teams in the Saudi pro league. There is no financial fair play in that league.

It has already been rumored that they will start to loan players from those clubs and that is already being scrutinised. 
Should they start to look like falling foul of FFP they could simply sell one of their current players to one of those clubs for an inflated price and ensure it is enough to bring them back in line. 
When you look at the premier league accepting Abramovic and his money (which now appears to be from dubious means) as fit and proper, you have to say they have made a rod for their own backs. In truth if the likes of City and Chelsea were properly investigated it would be thank you and good night to both of them, if they got a proportionate penalty. 

Where this ends who knows, but both Leicester and Burnley are both seeking compensation from the premier league and who knows who else will jump onto the bandwagon. It is one hell of a mess. 

Yeah I saw Eddie Howe mention signing Ruben Neves on loan in January, a player that moved to Saudi for £55m and they'll sign him up for basically nothing. 

They also managed to balance the books nicely with the £30m sale of St Maximin to a Saudi club previously. Not saying that was an inflated price, more that those kind of deals were able to happen whenever they needed them.

4 hours ago, metalrover said:

The guy just gone tits up after a bright start. Looks pretty inconsistent to me. But i doubt rovers will pay a fee to sign him permanent

Do we need to pay a fee? I can't remember the situation surrounding his contract/club. 

I thought GB was on record saying we already had a deal in place to sign him up for the long term?

On 14/11/2023 at 19:14, simongarnerisgod said:

wahlstadt looks like another walton to me,uncertain,error prone,slow to get down and does`nt inspire confidence in his centre backs,i cannot understand why we`ve spent a million quid on him when there were steady keepers going for free in the summer transfer window

Not sure what happened there, I think Chaddy said that, not me.