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roversfan99

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  1. No, surely it should be the job of a supposedly revamped scouting network to come up with signings across the team, but my point is that we need a few attackers as the front 3 yesterday would struggle to get 20 between them in a season and without serious reinforcements I expect we will be very much in a dogfight next season. Nothing to look forward to with Rovers. I have no idea, I havent watched Pickering as havent the majority hence why I am skeptical as to how brilliant a signing he is.
  2. I noticed that Crewe are 3 down to Burton, goals against seem a regular occurance. Will Pickering come in and make a difference to our defence as assumed?
  3. In regards to the playing squad, and of course whilst acknowledging the obvious deficiencies elsewhere, especially in defence, my biggest fear is in attack. Since we got promoted, we have always had a goalscorer or 2 which has ensured that we have never really looked over our shoulder, firstly Graham and Dack and now Armstrong. I think it is imperative that assuming that Armstrong leaves, Dack is out for the long term and even Elliott goes back, we prioritise the attack with 3 new players across that forward line, as the 3 we currently have is as impotent a Championship forward line as you can wish to see. Last weekend was supoosedly the signal of a more effective Rovers without our top goalscorer and his selfish nature, but the reality is that in the 4 games that he has missed, we have scored 3 goals, 2 from the now stricken Dack and a lucky one off Gallaghers torso. If we leave the onus on the 12m duo to step up to the plate, plus a kid who we need to really weigh up if he is better served being an impact sub here or a regular out on loan elsewhere, then we will be in deep trouble. The other areas do need addressing too. Potential solutions such as Ayala, Holtby and Davenport have proved far too flimsy to count upon, making things a lot more difficult.
  4. Its not anyones fault, Raya, Mowbray, its just incredibly unfortunate. No need to blame anyone. It does something I didnt think was possible and makes the rest of the season even more flat. The performance was not good enough and neither is 5 points from 10 games.
  5. Absolutely horrendous. If that front 3 is the future then we need to be worried. Toothless.
  6. We are apparently 1st in passes per defensive action, proof of our "identity." Another example of a totally worthless and meaningless stat more like.
  7. Do you mean with a 5m budget on top of the fees for Armstrong and Nyambe? If the answer is yes, then we wont spend that much. If no, then we will make a healthy profit this window without the need to aggressively lose any ambition.
  8. @JoeH 1. "15th can be achieved with a small budget." How have you managed to conclude that using a system where we sell all of our best players, dont spend hardly any of that money, dont have any wages of over 10k and throw any ambition to one side, that are league position would remain largely unchanged! Makes absolutely no sense. 2. With such a set up, how do you expect us to churn out 22m worth of player sales each year if we arent investing in players to begin with? 3. With such a reliance on the academy, what happens when we go through inevitable dry spells in regards to prospects breaking through? It is not a reasonable expectation to churn out a number of new graduates into the first team every single year. 4. "Forget the Premier League." What is the point if you have absolutely no ambition? Why does it have to be either wreckless spending (as if we do that!) or total cutbacks. 5. Ayala, Dack and Gallagher will all be on more than 10k and have at least 2 years left. Do we have to wait to start this plan? 6. Why is the default argument to avoid becoming Bolton or Bury? They are totally different situations, and how can you be content with the club merely surviving as if thats a badge of honour? 7. "Lord knows Brentford operate this way and have managed to grow slowly." No they dont. Toney cost 10m, they certainly do not work on a 500k transfer fee cap. They do not heavily rely on their youth set up. They are very much in the hunt for promotion, they dont pretend the Premier League doesnt exist. They place plenty of importance in their manager and scouting network, things you havent touched on. They dont play pragmatic football. Breaking even at Championship level is incredibly difficult, and can not be done by totally abandoning any notion of ambition. Selling players for a profit and then via an impressive scouting system and adept management and coaching, signing and improving replacements, maybe. What you suggest? No chance, we would go down within a couple of years. Our current method isnt working, but that is because recruitment is massively flawed and the manager isnt up to the job, nor have we had a manager good enough to really compete since these clowns took over.
  9. Even if that is the case, im not sure the I told you so routine is warranted when he said he didnt rate the player and provoked off the back of 1 good performance. There was also stuff about him being worth 10m with Premier League clubs sniffing, maybe they will be proven in time but well off at this moment in time.
  10. Not sure that one good performance proves your point when your opinion was that you didnt rate him! The fact that he is highly rated was clear by the fact that he has always been in the first team squad for 2 years. Didnt require supposed ITK contacts.
  11. Problem is, if that is true, the player will know that and it just means there is a bigger wage on Norwich's books to shift. A loan with minimal wages paid by us then becomes even more difficult to agree, and the fee is an irrelevance, its simply the wages that become the problem.
  12. Surprised by this, he was bright as ever and the best of the front 3 but not as effective as Saturday. Dack for me would edge man of the match, he makes such a huge difference to us. Buckley and Trybull wouldnt be far off though. One of those 3.
  13. There was one part where he did a lovely turn then looked like a rabbit in the headlights with no clue of what to do next, which was worrying. Next time he got it he played that brilliant pass to Brereton which was very impressive. I felt like his off the ball work on Saturday was better than on the ball, and he put himself about again tonight but I felt on the ball he was better and more decisive.
  14. The parachute payment argument is massively flawed. Parachute payments are not to give teams a leg up to make them impossible to compete with. They are for clubs to cope with the acclimitisation of massively reduced income and initially Premier League level expenditure. They dont come down and spend 100m on new players. The majority of high earners that took them down have now been removed having been burdens rather than assets. Only Ayew really remains, with their team predominantly loans and academy graduates. Even if Barnsley dont go up, they prove they can compete with Swansea etc. An inferiority complex is based on a massively flawed theory.
  15. Armstrong is set to leave but we would have to bring in a couple of attacking players to replace him and Elliott. Not enough goals otherwise.
  16. I feel like the balance between industry and goals is too far towards the industry side at the moment, if you played a season with that front 3 im not sure theyd get 15/20 between them. I felt our only likely scorer tonight was Dack. With Dack, I think it is the way he is being played rather than the absence of Armstrong, in a much more balanced side with the 2 behind him.
  17. Good performance and dissapointing not to get a win. The commentators are absolutely infuriating, especially Warren Lucy. Does anyone think they are any good? Absolutely transfixed from a bias viewpoint about refs, Lenihan jumps up and punches it and they dont say a word yet they go made at decisions that dont actually happen! Dack for me was man of the match, he seemed the only goal threat really for us and is just levels above, such a clever footballer. Buckley was very good too, again combative and more decisive on the ball. Trybull again very good too, them 2 behind Dack have struck up the most unlikely of effective partnerships. Defence all 7 out of 10. Front 3 all busy but theres little goal threat there and thats why Armstrong walks back in. Brereton with a poor miss and Gallagher clumsy as ever for the penalty. Dolan 100mph as ever and full of tricks.
  18. I do find it strange how Dack looks better in his actual position.
  19. These commentators are transfixed with referees and are so biased. I thought the Brereton one looked a penalty, as was the Lenihan handball which they didnt mention. Unsure on the actual one that was given. We have been pretty good but dont create enough of substance.
  20. Cabango is not on loan. Guehi is from Chelsea as is Hourihane from Villa. Obviously they can work though as much as they arent ideal, as Adarabioyo and Elliott prove.
  21. http://www.roverschat.com/2021/03/09/why-rovers-shouldnt-spend-a-penny-in-the-summer/ Thought this as a discussion topic is an interesting one. Totally get the angle of being self sustainable but I think that is simply impossible as a competitive Championship club. I dont think on a minimal budget or solely feeding from the academy that we could find a few sellable assets each year to do this. I think this would be essentially be giving up any ambition and probably lead to relegation within 2 or 3 seasons in my opinion.
  22. Very true. Many of our midfielders are tenacious, defensively minded ones like Travis, Trybull, Johnson, Davenport and Evans. The ones who are supposed to be more creative in Rothwell, Holtby and Buckley often struggle to impact on games, and Dack is a number 10.
  23. To be fair, we won that specific game so the decision was justified, but in general, something isnt quite right. But I have misgivings about the current system in general.
  24. Of course, although it seems that those loaned out seem to have had mixed fortunes. I have long since suggested that the under 23 set up in general is too sanitised to set youngsters up for senior football. Possession obsessed, no pressure football against fellow kids. Its just a little confusing that I see the results and the league table, yet there doesnt even seem to be anyone on the cusp, Pike and McBride were on the bench the other week simply to make the numbers up with seemingly no intention of being used, and I am unaware of any stand out player that is likely to break through imminently. As you say, maybe that is partially a fault on the manager. Is Pike the stand out, and if so, is he good enough to compete with Nyambe and Rankin Costello? At the end of the day, even if none of the current crop do break through, the numbers we do get through more than justify it so it is not a criticism of Rovers really.
  25. But even with those considered better, Vale cant get into Rochdales squad, Brennan struggled at Fylde, Butterworth has barely played any football in 2 years, Mols couldnt get a game in the amateur leagues in Spain and Grayson cant get a game for Oxford, when he played here v Oldham he looked well out of his depth. The worry with Pike would be when we had no available right backs, he still didnt play. So how close is he?
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