roversfan99

I dont get why anyone would ask for his opinion on articles he presumably didnt even write.

Im not sure its that competitive in that its just a made up competition that the players seem to see as a hindrance. But those friendlies didnt need replacing.

That would be a massive come down for both, Coventry replacing a good manager with a terrible one and Lampard having to work in the Championship despite chaddy calling for him to get the England job.

Even if Tuchel was in charge. The tournament is 19 months away, playing a few extra jazzed up friendlies in an already overcrowded schedule isnt going to make a difference.

The initial issue with Mcguire was that despite a record sale, the owners wouldnt authorise a buy for a couple of million. We then renegotiated a loan late in the day which obviously descended into chaos. Im not sure the recruitment this summer has been a lot better at all. But whoever is employed here has both arms tied behind their backs because we regularly sell and dont reinvest.

Doesnt really make any difference whether they succeed or fail in this case. The main barrier is and has been for a long while that they simply dont want to invest. The main thing that it proves is that they dont care about the club nor do they plan to put money into it. Waggott is their arse licking lap dog, Suhail is their sneaky snake, both are merely enabling symptoms of the real problem.

Watching Rovers often does lead to torment. Thats because it means something unlike the Nations league. 8 pull outs tells you everything you need to know. Interesting to see how many magically recover in a fortnight.

Just the 8 players pulling out for the pointless glorified friendlies.

The thing with Brown is in his day, he was a competent Championship striker. He turned up here with his knees knackered and he spent most of his time injured. Gueye is coming into his supposed prime.

As long as it suits you. Thats the main thing. A non public transport user, who sets off to away games earlier than necessary anyway, who doesnt have kids playing Saturday football and who likes to have the option to do half a match of pre Rovers scouting.

And sadly even though there are big question marks over Ohashi himself, the alternative is frightening.

If there is a manager who can be mainly accused of misusing and being a hindrance to Travis' career, it's undoubtedly Tomasson.

6 or 7 dinner time games at the same time felt like a step too far. Surely the viewing figures on the additional games are very small, predominantly just fans of the teams in question. Theres no question that it is an inconvenience for many. Public transport being unreliable at times doesnt mean that people wont use it, but wont be able to with these early kick offs. Driving/getting a coach means regular silly set off times to make kick off. Winning and playing well doesnt offset that inconvenience. It makes it worthwhile for those who did go at silly o clock, but im sure they would have preferrered to set off at a more reasonable time and would perhaps have been joined by more fans.

Even if we were having a real go at promotion. A laughable idea under Venkys as you say but lets run with it. It still wouldnt make sense to give up a guaranteed current shot at the Premier League for a potential one in the future, so he would still move.

Yes, its a really big issue. For away games, it means if you are driving you have to set off at a ridiciluous hour. Or if you get public transport, it can make it difficult or even impossible to travel. If its at home, it could very well cause issues if kids play morning/dinner time football, they may have to miss games. There is absolutely no justifiable reason to have 6 or 7 EFL games at half 12 on a Saturday at the same time.

Would like ACD to return and replace Hedges and Beck will be probably expecting to come straight back in. Otherwise, the other 9 players should be confident of retaining their places.

Szmodics has scored away at Tottenham to put Ipswich 1 up. I suspect having taken probably the last chance he will ever had to play Premier League football, and having scored goals at big stadiums against the big teams, whether they come straight back down or not, this idea that he made a poor choice going there is one he certainly wouldnt agree with.

Its not based on stats. More often than not when I have seen him, he has been very good and made numerous saves. Its not objectively true, its my opinion that a keeper of that calibre at this level will earn you points.

Good to see him on the mend.

How can you coach it out of him? And how would it then come back? The one manager who would have question marks over his usage and treatment of Travis certainly isnt Mowbray. Travis was very good in that last Mowbray season.

Fingers crossed a random European side will take Gueye back off our hands.

It was a great effort especially considering the disregard shown to them with a third 12.30 kick off on the bounce. I dont rate Hedges, no. He has shown over a number of seasons that he is incapable of producing in the final third on anything other than a very sporadic basis. He had a great chance to do something yesterday and made the wrong decision. Was clean through v Stoke and took too long. I dont have a clue how close ACD is, I just would like to see him in the side ASAP to get Hedges out and to give us some pace. Ohashi wasnt one of the two players no, my comment was in reference to the idea that Pears and Hedges were scapegoated. But I dont think that he is up top being a regular striker at this level, nor was he intended to be. Eustace referenced him as a Telalovic replacment when he signed. Problem is, Gestede found an absolute donkey in Makhtar Gueye so Ohashi has to keep being our main striker. You wasnt seen post Stoke, but have been very keen to dismiss the idea that Gueye's lack of success has been in anyway down to his lack of movement/anticipation, and purely on a lack of chances created for him. Cantwell put a header on a plate for him midweek and he still missed, has your opinion on Gueye changed at all? I said that you had fabricated this idea that people were so critical of Pears as if they felt that he shouldnt be making errors. His issue had been the quantity and regularity of them.

Its not a figure, its obviously an opinion. With Pears, he certainly cost us last season far more points than he won us. Either way, this idea that people expect Pears to make no mistakes is very misleading. His issue was the number of mistakes he made.

Considering that it allowed him to play every game in a Premier League season, to suggest that it was unwise would be wrong. Similar to Szmodics, was probably a last chance to do it.

Seems a strange conclusion within the aftermath of an away victory to come to the conclusion that our best side makes 4 changes to that and adopts a totally different formation that we have never played before.