roversfan99

There was a sub and one or two other minor delays in extra time so I dont think it was part of a conspiracy to keep Palace in the competition.

Youan starting for Hibs as normal. I think that rumour was unfounded.

Games like that only further highlight why I find it totally bizarre that anyone either doesnt care about or actively wants us to exit the FA Cup. Wharton was just crap today, looked like he wanted to be anywhere else. Can make excuses for him but he was just not good enough.

18 months until Cantwell is out of contract, unless he has an unreported option to extend. So he may need selling next summer. Toth is also in the same boat. I will never believe when they say anything will change regarding contracts. Until it does.

The owners arent happy that a pitch they refused to fund the overhaul of is costing us?

I feel like managers always come across well at events like this. They always say the right things. They always suggest that contracts are on the table, until they start getting signed, nothing changes. We have key players like Toth and Cantwell with 18 months left, but there are also much easier deals to be done for some of the youngsters. None have been done. Same with transfers. Its just hot air until they happen.

Ismael specifically said that we wanted a left footed centre back, hence signing Cashin. I dont know why.

Ismael has said we want 2 strikers. We need 2 so that would be correct. No mention here of why the signings havent been made as suggested. Dont see why we suddenly dont need a right wing back. We badly need a left wing back.

I think we should have 1 spot with Toth being converted. Gueye never had a slot. Its hard to sign a reasonable striker for a cheap fee and cheap wages. But if we put too much focus on Championship experience in the most expensive position then we will only be able to get unwanted crap. Players like Lyndon Dykes, Frey at QPR, and even then their wages might be too much. We are short of Championship experience but up front its goals and pace we need more.

Did he make any claims about the potential timing and quantity of any signings? Was he asked why we havent signed the players we "expected to" before Hull?

A lot of question marks over his attitude and work rate.

Where is that from?

But "of course" we were prepared coming into the transfer window. With a plan to get most of our business done by the Hull game, whats happened?! I dont get why we need an experienced Championship striker. I feel like that will leave us with sub par plodders like Lyndon Dykes.

But surely if he had that attitude he would put out really weak teams. His record in the cups was absolutely woeful but I dont think it was because he didnt respect them.

It was strange under Mowbray. His selections didnt tend to suggest that he had no care for the cups, far from it but for some reason his record was shocking in them. I remember in the season that we finished 8th, we played Morecambe at home early in the season in the League cup, I dont think we had signed anyone by that point, another example of the owners letting us down, and we went pretty much full strength and still embarassingly lost. A couple of other examples of cup exits. We played Newcastle in the third round of the FA cup I think the season after promotion and went full strength and got unlucky with dodgy decisions. Then a couple of years later we played Wigan, again the team wasnt a weak one but the one change that cost us was the goalkeeper. Equally, Tomasson didnt necessarily play his strongest team by any means but we went on a good run.

I get that we do need to rotate our squad which is not fit for purpose. But I think if I was going that I would at least want to see a competitive side. That should be possible with rotation, it seemingly wont be here. If you was willing to disregard the cup to that degree, as if it doesnt matter, then I dont even see why you would bother going. Surely a more fitting mindset would be that you understand a few will be changed but you are still desperate to see us progress.

Big day today with all these signings coming in.

Alebiosu and Tavares.

Gueye is in the pictures of training on Rovers' twitter which were taken to "showcase" our new loanee. Seems any supposed move is not imminent.

It will have been an absolute non-entity of an event. Business people watching a sanitised set of questions.

Behave.

We really shouldnt.

I think it stems from the bizarre way that football clubs all seem to be run nowadays. People in suits telling the actual qualified manager what type of football to play. All this shite about philosophies etc.

I would argue that he even put the required effort in. Even before comments about not running in training, numerous times I have seen him (not just this season) not put in the required work rate. As you say, there is a lot of revisionism on here. He hasnt been hard done by, hes just not up to it and thankfully we wont have to see him in a Rovers shirt again.

What are people blowing off steam about that they dont understand?