On 23/09/2023 at 17:08, jim mk2 said:

The season is taking shape and I think it's time to look at the possibility that we could be in trouble

The squad is weaker than last season, it's inexperienced, it's lightweight, it's unbalanced, and it's struggling

We're shipping easy goals every game. Players are making costly individual mistakes. The goalkeeper is a liability 

Worse, the manager doesn't look like he's bothered and it wouldn't be a surprise if he left

I hope this thread can be consigned to the rubbish bin and we comfortably stay in this division, but I'm worried. 

 

Blimey, it was written a bit tongue in cheek and as a talking point for discussion only really but it's coming true sadly. 

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

Eustace sounds  about as inspiring as a wet lettuce. If ever a team reflected its manager there it is

He needs to start throwing some tea cups around the dressing room

Where's the anger and the passion? 

To put this in context, Luke Williams lost his opening four home league games as Swansea boss  until today.

Rovers are still winless after six games under John Eustace 

There always one team that drops like a stone from mid-table in the second half of the season. Looks like it's us this year

And I said after the last 2 away games I attended at West Brom and Brum that we looked a relegation side

Nothing has changed

On 29/02/2024 at 12:58, jim mk2 said:

Don't be surprised if we lose this

Swansea 2 Rovers 1

That's 3 in a row I've got dead right - not that I'm taking any pleasure in it

Teams below us won too

QPR at Leicester. Really?

Just now, CambridgeRover said:

Gallagher has no touch

 Concrete in his boots

Are the Rovers players cheating?

Pull their tripe out for a big Cup game in front of the TV cameras but can't be arsed in a run of the mill league game

And to think, some folk were eyeing a top 8 finish after Tuesday night's performance

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Swansea haven't won at home in yonks and shipped a load of goals too - then good old Rovers come a calling

After the Lord Mayor's show

This was always going to happen

Don't be surprised if we lose this

Tuesday will have taken alot out of the players. They put in one hell of an effort for 120 minutes and their legs will still be feeling it on Saturday. Then there's the emotional climbdown after losing on penalties

Eustace will have to manage the team carefully and gets his subs right to nurse us through the game. I'd be very happy with a point but I think it'll be:

Swansea 2 Rovers 1

BBC commentator tonight..... "Man Utd have ONLY won 4 trophies in the 10 or so seasons since Ferguson retired".

Jim Ratcliffe in a recent interview: "The past 11 years have been agony"

Don't you just love the entitled, self-serving elite? 

Pears is improving without a doubt and is streets ahead of the Swedish lad who is one of the main reasons we are in relegation trouble. He still only 25 - young for a goalkeeper, and his game is beginning to mature.

I'd like to see him more dominant in the 6-yard box from crosses and corners - several times last night he should have come out to catch or punch the ball away but stayed on his line. 

4 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

I just can't credit relegation at all - Eustace obviously knows what he is doing tactically, we look motivated, we have the leagues top scorer, we have tightened up at the back. 

Any neutral person looking in won't see us as in any serious danger. We should be looking up the table now, trying to get into the top eight of the form table between now and end of the season I would say. That would be about 20 points from the last 36 to get in there, and while it wouldn't get us into the playoffs (probably finish around 8th-10th) it would give us optimism for next season. 

Really? One good game in the Cup and we're now looking at the top 8?? The players put in a massive shift last night but the question has to be asked why they didn't do that in the league (my last game at Birmingham was awful) and whether they can repeat it. Last night will have taken its toll. All the games are difficult from now on - starting at Swansea 

14 minutes ago, JC4LAB said:

Thought BBC Pundit Shearer did well coping with divided loyalites last night..and Liniker was not as sneery as I thought he would be....Marvellous show from Rovers.....Pundits said they couldnt name just one man of the match. and I cant..Lots of Flop of The match candidates  on Lucky Newcastle..

Mmm, not sure about that

He said some nice things about Rovers at the start but for the rest of the time his comments were from a Newcastle viewpoint. I know he's a Newcastle fan etc etc etc but he's paid very handsomely - about £450,000 a year (yes, really) by the BBC to provide insight and analysis and that requires objectivity - not how "we" aren't playing well or "we" should have scored at least three.

Gary ("shame Blackburn went down" - 1999) Lineker doesn't like us because we had the temerity to try to buy him years ago - which he regarded as an insult. He just about passed muster last night but still made a snide remark about the game at half-time after what I thought was an enthralling first half 

Just now, superniko said:

Give over. If I won a million trophies with Newcastle (lol) and they were then playing Rovers in a match there is still only one team I’m supporting. He’s a Newcastle fan, at the end of the day. 

He's a pundit, paid a huge salary by the BBC to give insight into football, not be a superfan waving his Newcastle scarf. He was unprofessional and it was all the more galling he was so open about it at the club where he made his name. And he called us Blackburn too.

1 minute ago, RTM08 said:

Why? He's literally a Newcastle fan?

Out of respect for the club he used to play for and made his name, and our fans 

Brilliant effort by Rovers, could easily have won in normal time

Shearer gone down in my estimation tonight - he should have been more neutral for this game

Just now, Bethnal said:

Where is Pickering? 

Yorkshire

Brilliant by Pears

Rovers look knackered 

Rovers have given a great account of themselves through sheer hard work - exceeded expectations. 

One moment of quality does it

Huge gulf between the clubs. There's some top quality Prem players out there tonight against some very ordinary Championship squad players.