superniko

Burnley win the league at Ewood and Mowbray wins the playoffs at Wembley first year after leaving us. Life as a Rovers fan

Build the team around the spine of Kaminski, Carter, Hyam, Wharton, Szmodics - add a number 9, quality wingers and a proper CM partner and we’ll finish top 6 next season. I only expect Rovers to address maybe max one of those areas though

Complete nonsense. Some of the stuff under Mowbray was far superior. The 5-0, 5-1, 4-0, 4-1 victories. Centre Backs like to pass it to one another if that’s what you mean (and they’re not that good at that) A -2 GD does not suggest good football at all

Did a prediction for procrastination sake. Have the table as below going into the final match. Which would mean we'd have to beat Millwall, and hope Coventry don't win away at Boro (who have nothing to play for), or that WBA lose away to Swansea. It was a fairly pessimistic view with just 3 points from our next 3. Either way, really can't see a way that the Millwall match hasn't got something riding on it!

Yeah - if the 2 are PNE and Millwall then we should sneak in on 70 - though GD could be the factor against others. If we can beat PNE on Saturday to get to 67 (or had we held on last night), then we're almost guaranteed to have something to play for against Millwall on the final day, regardless of Burnley/Luton results. The only way that wouldn't be the case is if Millwall beat Wigan (A) and Blackpool (A) and WBA beat Sunderland (H), Sheff Utd (A), Norwich (H) as both would then be uncatchable (all other teams would still be catchable regardless of their results)

Pears JRC - Carter - Hyam - Pickering* Wharton - Travis Thomas - Szmodics - Hedges Leonard *Brittain if Pickering is still injured

100%. He may walk because he either gets a better offer, or he's fallen out with those around him over false promises, but I'd feel much better if it's still JDT in charge next year as we have another year with JRC, Carter, Hyam, Wharton, Szmodics, Travis in the spine of the team. Back him to get some quality attacking players and we have a top 6 starting 11 who will be able to play quality football - oh for the £12m spent on Diaz/Gallagher this summer!

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Millwall are on a worse run than us. Not scored in 5 of their last 6

I think Huddersfield are the only team to ever get promoted with a negative GD

Not ideal but he was probably just on to run around and put them under pressure. We were 10 men behind the ball and as soon as we won it we launched it aimlessly (opposite of everything in the 1st half) - not sure what 5ft2 Dolan is meant to do with that.

Exactly this. 3 at the back and wing backs who are attackers (injuries may have played a part but it clearly doesn’t work)

The fact it’s landed waist high inside the 6 yard box is criminal. How has nobody cleared that corner away at the front. Useless 2nd half. Changed formation, changed tactics.

Summed up Diaz that free kick on 93 mins and he was offside. Shouldn’t be played again all season. Summed up Rovers - that ending.

Adam Wharton - I’m a huge fan and have wanted him in the team all season despite any gaming gossip. However, I thought the praise he got on recent cameos was OTT (perhaps due to Morton hatred) - in comparison to eart appearances. Eg Blackpool / Hull But today, wow, he’s been sublime. Best player on the pitch. Himself and Trav dominating it and this is against a very capable team. Will just add Brittain is so much more composed on the ball than Pickering. Helps when trying to move the ball forward in the style we do. And Gally - get in there lad!

Go on the Galllllly!!! Good lad!!! Eating the humble pie 90+39mins later

Would have rather seen a 3 man midfield I think against this lot. The lad Hamer is dangerous. Good news on Wharton though. Glad to see he went with Brittain to replace an injured Pickering. Hopefully a lot of attacking play from our fullbacks. Gally shouldn’t be starting.

It's making me uncomfortable that the 'ROVERS' isn't in the middle! (though I like the idea - always thought stuff like this, and covering corners of stands with flags/memorabilia is a good way to make it feel more full)

West Brom have Sunderland, Norwich and Sheffield United to play, as well as Swansea away, and they will be below either ourselves or Coventry tomorrow regardless of result. The last sentence is a worry for our lot though!

I’d have taken 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss from our 3 rivals tonight for sure. All 3 were odds on favourites to win! Millwall losing also just makes it more and more likely that final game of the season is going to be ‘win and in’. We can end up anywhere between 5th and 10th tomorrow night now

Since Morton rolled around on the floor and cost us that match he has played 90 minutes, 73 minutes, 90 minutes, 90 minutes - accumulating 2 points in the process. EDIT: for what it's worth, this is in order of appearance minutes in the league this season

I think his point is "so what if we had all moaned?" We're fans on a forum, not 'experts' employed to make these decisions. They shouldn't take any notice of us in these circumstances

We're favourites, as we're at home. On a neutral ground, say Playoff Final at Wembley, Coventry would be favourites.

I don't think you understood my post. We rank 21st in the league for shots per game not that we've had 21 shots. We're mid-table (13th) for shots on target, so we are actually pretty accurate when we do take a shot, (also highlighted by our xG being almost identical to our Goals Scored (46 vs 45). It's just that we're not taking very many.

We'd not afford Pearsons wages unfortunately. Stoke fans absolutely loving him, he's transformed them. I'd imagine they'd pay double us if he were to move in the Summer.