It’ll be especially painful if that rubbish goal proves to be the winner. 

Just now, K-Hod said:

Thought when we got a new manager, we were meant to get a ‘new manager bounce’, but we haven’t won under him yet. But apparently it’s a good thing we got rid of his predecessor. 
What a time to be alive.

To quote Steve Coogan ‘this is liquid football’. But it actually isn’t, is it?

Come on, Tomasson had to go 

Eustace increasingly looking like a Poundshop Tony Pulis. Poor tactics and performances minus the decent results. 

This game was already difficult enough without giving away a soft goal like that. It's unforgiveable. 

Thing is, where's the equaliser coming from? 

Eustace has had the best part of 2 weeks to work with this lot. Have to say I can't see any difference

1 minute ago, K-Hod said:

Hope everyone that bigged up Pears is proud of themselves.

Lad’s absolutely shite, I’m afraid.

We all know he's the least worst of 2 poor options. 

Leicester's defeat gives Ipswich a huge incentive today. If we can avoid defeat we will have done well. 

3 minutes ago, rigger said:

It is absolutely pissing down in Warton.

It's a good job Rovers play at Ewood then

Both Mowbray and Tomasson both blew big chances to get in the playoffs. The collapse in form in the latter half of those 2 seasons were similar but it felt worse under Tomasson because we had been in the top 6 right to the very end only to fail at the last hurdle. The game at Preston will wrankle for a very long time.

There's a rose tinted view of Tomasson because of his fluent passing game but forgotten also were many dreadful performances when the team did not compete and gave away some of the silliest, softest goals I've ever seen through unnecessary mistakes at the back.

I liked Tomasson but he outstayed his welcome and was allowed to continue in post far too long. In the end he had lost interest and was actually damaging the club. 

England have a poor record against Brazil and last night was a chance to beat one of the worst Brazil teams I've seen. Their celebrations at the end shows how much it meant to the Brazil players and the coaching staff. I don't think they expected to win.

England are destined to fail again this summer. Southgate doesn't have the nous to win a tournament. England will need a foreign coach in order to move forward and finally win some silverware. Their understanding of the game is so superior. 

Dear Gareth loses another when faced with top class opposition

Nothing changes

A non-statement full of weasal words and little more than a tribute to how wonderful the owners are.

It's actually an insult to the intelligence of Rovers fans - at least those who can see through the continuing bullshit coming from the management at Ewood Park.

I agree that the "should" word is the most relevant. If the statement had said "we are confident that" there might be cause for optimism but as it stands it provides little reassurance that these problems might be over

Rovers showed what they are capable of against Newcastle and the players have to play every game to the end of the season with the same level of commitment and intensity. Ipswich aren’t a wonder side and they can be ruffled and got at if every Rovers player can reproduce the fight and battling qualities of the FA cup tie. They’ve shown they can do it - do they want it enough to do it again? 

5 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

massive getting tronstadt back,not sure about rushing hedges back,he`s likely to break down again,have no idea why that liverpool lad is on the bench in front of o`riordan and feel i bit sorry for leo,after his great showing last week,i think it`s a bit unfair on him

I really don’t think it’s unfair at all. He’s a calamity in waiting and his gaffes are one of the reasons we’re in dire trouble. This isn’t a ringing endorsement of Pears just that he’s the better of the two

4-man defence. Which makes a welcome change and Tronstad back to bolster the midfield . About as good as could be expected I suppose

14 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Careful!...To my Irish in-laws he is a 17th century Hitler!

Take them to Huntingdon. They'll love it

51 minutes ago, lraC said:

I have just spoken to my journalist contact and he doesn't have much information at the minute. He is going to ask around though and let me know what he can.

He has done the odd interview with Waggott and did not speak very highly of him and mentioned that he was a member of the press fraternity himself with none other than the daily sport. 

Something I didn't know, but interesting shall we say.

Have searched around but can't find any references to Waggott having a former life as a journalist

Did find this though - the "Saviour of English football"

https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/34577/Is-this-man-the-real-saviour-of-English-football

From what I remember Rovers have a good record generally against the north-east teams, particularly away from home (no doubt some statto will correct me) so hopefully this will be the case against Boro. Another point wouldn't be bad and probably the best we can hope for until the likes of Tronstad and Rankin-Costello come back.

Eustace will also have had a full week to work with the players so he has no excuses this time on getting his ideas across and putting his playing philosophy into practice. 

I'm on a good run with predictions having got 4 in a row spot on so I'll go for a 1-1 draw

Szmdics is a late developer and has got better with age but he's now at a stage when his age will be a problem for top clubs and they will not be willing to part with decent (from our point of view) money. I can't see him leaving for more than £5 million and even that might be wishful thinking

To be fair to old Tony, we did have some top loanees in his time. Elliott, Tosin and Harwood-Bellis were top class players. Branthwaite didn't shine but is now highly regarded as a future England player

It has to be said the current lot are a poor bunch. 

36 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He came with a back injury. Teams didn’t do medicals then. We ended up taking Hudds to a tribunal and getting some of the dosh back. The guy who treated me for disc problems also treated Gilliver and he told me he recommended him for a disc fusion which I believe he had. He went to see my guy un-officially because he didn’t rate the club staff. It was a shame because at Hudds he looked the real deal. A big, strong, hard running striker. Like Gally only he could play.

We signed another crock around that time - Martin Britt from West Ham for £25,000 a lot of money then. His cruciate had gone IIRC

2 hours ago, onlyonejackwalker said:

This series has been a total car crash. Should have been 5-0. We've lost this test by an innings in three days. Absolutely effing pathetic.

Duckett and Pope are simply nowhere near good enough. One fortuitous innings each out of 10. Front line batsmen? Front line effing garbage. Crawley has huffed and puffed, puffed and huffed, the obligatory beautiful cover drive, but has the concentration of a teenager, or 6 week old labrador and clearly should be batting at four or five. No one will convince me hes not thick as pig shit. Root played like he was on crack, meths, skunk and diazepan for three tests. Effing hysterical if your one of 2 billion joyous Indians. Unfortunately I'm not. Some of those ridiculous shots he played were unforgivable. Then suprise, suprise he started scoring heavily again when he played his natural game. Shock, horror. Wheres his scoop gone the last two weeks? Tit. Stokes as a test batsmen simply isn't good enough, shuffling indecisively about his crease. Hes averagine less than 20 this series! My effing next door neighbour could do that and she's at least 75. At least! Probably nearer 85 although I've never enquired. That why I cut her lawn. Bairstow with his childish across the line run a ball stupid scores of 30. Neither use or effing ornament. Gormless Yorkshire twit. Argghhhhh!!! Foakes with his dominant right hand chipping to short mid-wicket every other dismissal like a total effing numpty. What the fack. Its like groundhog day watching him get 20+. And the longest ever tail since Caddick, Mullaly, Tufnell and Giddens. But without the laughs at Caddicks long barrier and Tufnells stoned lack of bravery. I'd rather watch Willis and Malcolm. Useless. Totally effing useless. The lot of them. So, so disappointing.

Occupy the crease. Take the shine off the ball. Tire out the bowlers. Let the moisture dry out of the wicket. Play on the ground. Protect your castle. Play straight. Rotate the strike. I'm talking to myself.

Scoop. Reverse sweep. Play across the line. Play in the air. Get out. Lose the match. Yippee!!!

Boycott once scored over 200+, batted for three days and was dropped for slow scoring. Thou shall not pass. Oh for some of his effing guts amongst these pathetic snowflakes.

Absolutely marvellous 

But far too long for the Netflix generation 

Can you do a T20 version? 

On 07/03/2024 at 15:23, jim mk2 said:

Must win = must not lose for me.

A point from every game and we will probably survive

In view of our difficulties scoring and conceding soft goals I'd take another 1-1

 

That's 4 in a row absolutely spot on. Time to take this betting lark seriously 

6 minutes ago, CambridgeRover said:

Plymouth really look awful. Really bad. 

I think they might be favourites to go down

**Edit aside from Rotherham

Wouldn’t it be best to post this after/if  we’ve won? 

Neil Warnock is available again after stepping down at short notice at Aberdeen.

It's never too late

26 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

Wahlstedt

Brittain

Hyam

McFadzean

Wharton

Pickering

Buckley

Ayari

Szmodics

Sigurdsson

Gallagher

 

Better than feared

 

Powder puff midfield. 

5 minutes ago, rigger said:

There was a reason Beamo's name was derided by his own fans. Hickman would not get in over Sammy. And in my eyes it is a toss-up between Gally and the Don.

As in, heads Gallagher is useless, tails he's overpaid and useless?

Come on