roversfan99

You keep talking about starting slowly as if thats something to strive for. Serbia are a big and physical but ultimately limited side. Southgate's approach of long ball made the game far closer than it ought to be. Had we continued as we started with one and two touched they couldnt cope with it. Would you want to stick with VAR if it was used as efficiently in the Prem?

We have technical players much better than theirs so lumping it long was not the logical approach. Kane struggled because hoofing it was food and drink to their 3 big centre backs. Had we tried to keep the ball on the ground, we would have had much more joy. We have a far better standard of players than Serbia so playing as we did tonight made the game far closer than it needed to be. Direct football played into the hands of a side as big and strong as youll find, we should have played it on the ground and we would have had plenty more joy. Regarding performance, obviously if we bore teams to overall tournament triumph then great. All football is about results. But the reason people are concerned is not because it is a hard watch. But when we face better opposition, we might struggle unless something changes, ie results could well go against us. Serbia are an average side, their midfield is made up of a Fulham squad player and an aging player who was in and out at Sevilla, often at centre back. Thankfully they didnt have the quality going forward and our defence held strong but there was no need for it to be as difficult as it became. Even when Foden plays to the left for City he is so much better than he is for England. Got to look at the manager. Although we had world class players having to try and feed off hopeless long balls for the last hour.

But he wouldnt have got a kick unless the tactics changed massively from Pickford going straight up to Kane.

Hes a great talent and deserves to be in and around it but bias aside, Wharton doesnt make a massive different there IMO. The gameplan was clearly to keep going long regardless of if it stunted our main attacking players.

It isnt a tactic that suits these players to just lump the ball towards Kane, especially against 3 centre backs. Just because there are examples of teams starting slowly in tournaments (not really relevant to us as we have never won this tournament for all those slow starts) doesnt mean we can dismiss concerns heightened by a poor performance even in victory. The win is all that matters at the end of the day but im struggling to see why we are the favourites aside from blind patriotic gamblers.

Only important thing is getting the win on the opening day and we are now in a position especially considering the current format where we have a foot in the last 16 already. But the performance was really poor. We just dont have the ability to control the game. It was just endless hoofing the ball up to Kane against 3 big defenders. Foden is a totally different player when managed by Southgate.

I dont see how the team could be seen as negative. Alexander Arnold is a risk in midfield but in the absence of a stand out choice next to Rice it is an understandable one, certainly not defensive. People keep talking about Bellingham playing deeper but that wouldnt make sense.

Yes, lurks in the background not saying anything. You are assuming that we are a normal club.

He might be proven right and we might have money to spend, but if they havent even decided, then he cant possibly know either way. And to be fair, he didnt say otherwise, its just that people read into a random sentence at the end of a random article as if it was club endorsed statement.

Rovers Trust were told he didnt meet them as he was sorting budgets. Would be typically late for us so sounds reasonable although Suhail does seem keen to avoid interaction and just lurk in the background as a Venkys puppet.

If Suhail only went this week to India to sort the budgets, it proves that what Elliott Jackson said about us having money was purely an opinion.

I think the likes of Italy and in particular the very impressive Spain and Germany might call you up on that.

He loves that line. And some believe it.

The budget should have been sorted irrelevant to which staff came in. A normal club would have decided before the season finished upon budgets for each league. It shouldnt require a meeting in India over a month after the season, simple as that.

https://www.roverstrust.com/news/newsletter---june-2024 Venkys pet Suhail was flying to India this week, thats over a month after the season finished to discuss budgets.

He was going to discuss the budgets over a month after the season finished?!

Hard to read too much into tonight but Germany certainly have a team that looks really strong under Nagelsmann. They conceded a freak goal on a night they werent otherwise tested but their defence looks decent on paper, they have real threat in attack (Musiala was excellent) and they can control games against anyone with players like Kroos and Gundogan. Scotland have absolutely nothing in attack, and their defence and keeper couldnt stop an onslaught. The other 2 teams in that group are also quite strong so even 3rd place seems an uphill battle especially with their goal difference taking a battering.

Mixed bag under limited resources. Certainly nothing to be sure he is a good appointment.

A lot of irrelevant twaddle, but not really elaborating as to you suggestion that there are no question marks over Eustace, having shot down a poster for suggesting there is. There either is or isnt.

You dismissed the idea that there are question marks over him. Even if you like him, you surely have some questions and not absolute and total faith in him.

"Delighted" seems a strong reaction when a person with absolutely no experience or credentials is appointed purely because he was a player here for a bit and he needs to start his career somewhere. Do you think the actions of the club under these owners especially in the last 12 months deserves lots of praise?

Would Gestede have got this job had he never played for us? Based on zero experience, id suggest not.

So you have no question marks at all about Eustace? Even if you see reasons for optimism and green shoots, fine. But surely you have some uncertainty and some questions. He didnt win a home game, we struggled to score, his points tally was relegation worthy. Keep him/sack him, thats one seperate question. But of course there are question marks over him. There were suggestions when he was dropped by Hull that he wasnt in the best physical shape and liked a beer or two. Obviously only rumours so pinch of salt but hes hardly ripped up the league either way.

Absolutely, I mentioned that even if we only managed to get say someone like Ruddy, a freebie counting down days until his imminent retirement, or even nobody, that is just as likely down to finances rather than Eustace specifically wanting him. Do we? Underwhelming goal record, big rumours about application and personal life.

Success is obviously a big thing and would impact sales. But to say people would attend regardless of price is a very naive thing to say, a lot of people simply wont be able to afford current prices. As mattyblue touches on, it would just cause night games and moved games to have stupidly low crowds. Whereas if the full price was just low enough, people would be less concerned that they might miss games but the number of people with season tickets in the first place would be much higher.