Some of our own fans are too!!! Almost think we deserve this!

There’s just nothing to say really that hasn’t been said already. The club is the absolute pits. There will be 5k in a 30k stadium next year watching 11 academy players (the last bit I actually hope for as I never want to see the likes of Gallagher, Hyam, Brittain and co put on our shirt again - absolute zero effort regardless of their quality)

We’re gone. Could be playing Barrow next season

Stoke score…..HOLLLLLLLLDDDD

QPR concede. Come on Leo…..HOLD

I thought we were meant to be more solid defensively these days? Yikes.

We’re actually odds on for this match, whilst I was aware Plymouth were in a bit of free-fall themselves, they must be rated very poorly. We really need 3 points, they look like the team as likely as ourselves to drop into the bottom 3. We’d all love a bit of breathing space going into the international break if we can grab a point at Boro too.

Regarding the betting posts previous… Yeah the Indian market is big (declined a little recently with crack downs), but it certainly is not filtering into Championship football, and 100% is not filtering into shots on target or manager sackings / appointments which was quoted. Remember that someone is taking the other side of the bet, do you really think they’d be willing to lay large amounts on Rovers in a Championship match in India? If 4 bets in row for £20 were placed on Big Sam next manager to go at 33/1 the price would be cut instantly to single digits, that’s a liability of £2.5k - no firm anywhere is ending up with a huge red book or payouts of millions on those markets, and they’re not even offered in India The majority of wagered money in India is cricket (see what turnover the exchange used to do on the IPL), the rest is lotteries / gaming. I despite Venkys as much as the next poster, but the betting angle is a massive stretch.

Thats the sort of logic that loads of this board were saying about the team, its set-up and how much we’d improved after a few early undeserved draws… by that I mean brushing over the wider picture of the quality of team we’ve faced + the extra CB yet still not looking better defensively. I could equally counter that we conceded 1 less goal against those 6 teams faced under JDT. See your tiny sample size is either factually incorrect or statistically useless (we also did so whilst scoring 6 more goals - 1 extra goal per match) To summarise, no we do not look more solid / harder to breakdown / more of unit etc etc at all

I’ve still no idea where this myth of our “shored up back line”, “tightened up” and “back to basics” has come from. We look just as horrendous defensively and that’s with an extra CB and to the detriment of any attacking/progressive play remaining. Not a clue what some of you have been watching this past month. On the attacking front we’ve had an xG above 1 just once in his 6 league games and that was 1.01 against Norwich. Those matches include Millwall, Swansea, Cardiff, Norwich, Preston, Birmingham - all outside the playoffs and we’re not even coming close to troubling them OR looking good defensively. (If you hate xG I’ve just used it to show how dire we are at creating anything now too)

The most important game of our season so far. Must Win

Sums it up perfectly. Low budget, but shambolic use of it. The lot of them would be gutted if we had competent owners.

I honestly can’t believe we finished that match with 3 at the back. 3 lads at the back launching it down the channel to Markanday….against Millwall!

Bad when the lads in the riverside can see the picture clearer than you. What on earth was he doing passing that back in. There’s a lot out there tonight that I just don’t want to see in a Rovers shirt again, their time is done.

Not once, not once, did we look like winning that match. For that reason, we will not stay up, as it literally doesn’t get any easier than that tonight. Eustace has been brought in to allegedly keep us up, and therefore, he has to go tonight. We are horrendous

Thank fuck for that gift! And thank god for Sammie Szmodics - imagine if that had fallen to Gallagher feet!! Come on Rovers, kick on and win this

But what exactly is ‘run of play’. We’ve done nothing but pass it around the back/middle and give it away in their 3rd with some aimless lump up the line. xG 0.23 at home to Millwall after 1 hour. Eustace has ripped us apart

Well that’s put an end to that 😐 These lads aren’t fit to where the shirt and those that were praising Eustace after scraping a few draws need to open your eyes, this football is as bad as I can remember and we can’t even defend despite adding the extra CB

Our only hope is Szmodics, next up I’ve probably got Scott Wharton, that’s what it says about our other attacking players.

Dolan is a frustrating player. He looks like he should be fast but he’s extremely slow with the ball and he looks like he’d be a good dribbler but I’ve never seen him beat the first defender. Add in the poor decision making and he doesn’t really offer much more than work rate.

So long as he can defend that’s all I care about right now as not many of the others can!

Glad to see no Moran and that Pickering is starting. Worried would be an understatement for the fella in the sticks though. Let’s hope he doesn’t have much to do.

Fingers crossed for Sammie - feels our only hope to stick the ball in the net!

Broughton probably mentioned the international break hoping by that stage we'd be mid-table and he could just reel off a few lines about next season and tying up the player then, to which happy clappers would defend him and the club. It's backfired for him (as has everything he's done since joining the club pretty much), as we're now in a relegation battle and he's going to come out and explain (or remind us) of how much he cocked up in January whilst we're 1 point above a relegation place and in free-fall. Hope the curry was nice at least.

Tonight's match feels like one of the biggest in recent memory (for the wrong reasons), and it looks like we'll see one of our lowest ever crowds for a league game in recent decades, all thanks to the appalling way the club is being run. Anything less than 3 points simple isn't good enough now.