Stoke and Wednesday losing. Our saving grace might be not being the worst of a bunch

In the McFadz argument - I’m in the camp that he’s okay, I’ve not seen enough to form a strong judgement either side. But I will take him every day and twice on a Saturday at 3pm over Dom Hyam. He is just too weak, too quiet, too slow and too soft for a relegation battle.

Frustratingly if we had won just one of either Millwall or Plymouth we’d be sat in 15th, with 6 teams between us and the drop and 5 points clear with a better goal difference and 9 games to go.

Well we’re now 3rd favourites for relegation behind Rotherham (no odds offered anymore) and Sheffield Wednesday. It seems everyone else is clocking on to our downfall too now

This was my favourite. You’re a WUM point blank. Saying JDT was as manipulative as Kean. Open your eyes.

You just keep blabbing on about how we were the better team and should have been in the lead and unlucky, you must be asleep and dreaming through the 90 minutes. Clueless.

He is beyond frustrating. When you look at individual moments in the game you realise how bad a footballer he is, in positional sense more than anything else. Prime example today, the Sigurdsson sitter he missed, the break when Szmodics had the ball, Gallagher was still trotting around about 30 yards behind the ball. You’re meant to be our number 9! Beggers believe we didn’t cash in when we could. What a waste of wage. Built like a Spartan but has the brain/skill of a *insert inept character*

He inherited a team that was pretty much mid table, about 12 points (or close to that ?) above the drop and finished outside the playoffs by goal difference last season

Very well summed up and such admiration for the travel and time you put into the club despite these turbulent times

Thats easy to say from the Sigurdsson chance but Plymouth had 2 or 3 big chances themselves in that period. 2 one on ones alone when our CBs had no clue from a long ball. 2 up is blinkered looking at our chances alone. We should have been level in my eyes, as every single stat would validate.

That Waggott meeting and that Brittain quote. Jesus what a bunch of spineless gits.

I’ve seen a lot of what you’ve posted recently and you’re either a good WUM or a dingle. You’re no supporter of this club, if you are, you’re aiding our downfall.

Worst case at least it’ll be some form of comedy post-match. He wouldn’t put up with some of our dossers though. Unfortunately there’s no chance he’d work under Venkys

Yet some posters will come out and say Eustace has “shored up our defense” because we only conceded one. Cheltenham next week - blinkers are well and truely on for some

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