superniko

You continuously post this but all I remember is “Brittain > Nyambe, Hyam > Lenihan” from a few months ago.

Nice gesture from the club, one I’m sure many fans will get behind. I’m going to fly over for this, gutted I missed West Ham and it feels like it could be our last shot at anything this year. Hopefully we get to extend our allocation

Pears JRC - Carter - Wharton - Pickering Travis - Garrett Thomas - Dack - Hedges Dolan Assuming we have no Kaminski, Ayala, Hyam, Brittain or Adam Wharton Struggling with #9 given Thomas' skill is crossing the ball. Could give Leonard a go given he's sticking it in the net at youth level. No Brereton, Gallagher or Vale as all are way out of form or just not good enough. Perhaps even go to 433 with 3 in the middle to help us, but not sure where Dack fits in there and he's the only one capable of sticking it in the net recently. Either way, there are a lot of decision to made, every team posted in here has been different, shows how poor we have been and lack of consistency (of the good variety). For what it's worth, I expect JDT to play Morton, Brereton and either Vale/Gallagher

So Burnley v Fleetwood and Leicester v Rovers. Either of us win (obviously Burnley, not us) and derby day is postponed to a likely mid-week night match.

Talking about squads mate. Forgot we didn’t have a single injury for the last 5 years and that Hyam hasn’t played all year.

It’s funny how the narrative changes…. Many said Hyam > Lenihan, Brittain > Nyambe, fully fit Dack, Adam Wharton impressing. You’re fooling yourself if you think it’s a worse squad than what Coyle left us.

Who even is on our board these days? Is Waggot not one of them?

Great point, a lot of talk about ‘if we had a decent striker we win that’ or that ‘we’re just missing a number 9’. As you say, we’re creating barely anything. What 2 or 3 decent chances against the worst team in the league at home? A top 6 creates at least double that.

What I’ve taken away from that shocking 2 hours (remembering we’re at home to bottom of the league) - Interesting that the comms mentioned we’re 24th (rock bottom) in xG, it’s starting to become well known how truly bad we are. - I wouldn’t play Diaz again all season. Thomas, Hedges, Dolan to rotate on the wing. - JRC has to keep his place in some form when Brittain is fit - Adam Wharton should be straight back in when fit we haven’t solved CM despite Travis performing well. You thought Buckley was bad….up steps Tyler Morton with as poor a cameo as you’ll get. - Whatever they’re being coached, it’s shocking. I’m sure I read we have a set pieces coach too, but our throw ins just get lobbed down the line to nobody….then that free-kick, wow! We also looked dodgy on every defensive corner. We look worse and worse each game and the football quality is as bad as I can ever remember. This lot aren’t up to the job I’m afraid. 24th in xG….keep going at this rate and that’ll be reality next season. Shite pitch and facilities, a January window more embarrassing than any we’ve ever had, CEO from a TV sitcom, extremely boring football and completely uninterested owners. The joys of Rovers!

JRC our best player to be fair, starting to think I’d give him a run at #9 😂 would be a vast improvement on anything we’ve got!

Yeah - think he meant 2nd half stats that they quoted

WHAT ARE THEY COACHING THEM?

Our shocking pitch doing some damage.

Diaz touched the ball this half? That bloke isn’t playing for Chile again.

Thomas looks an improvement on what we had, both physically, but also as a proper winger. Would like to see himself and Hedges wide. Would have been nice alongside an O’Brien / Wharton midfield

Much better when utilised as a box to box midfielder, going forward with the ball.

Honestly what are they coaching these guys? That throw-in looped down the line giving ourselves no chance, it’s pathetic. Shocking from the players and coaching alike.

Hedges and Gallagher for Brereton and Vale please

Yep- some dodgy output/quality, perhaps a bit rusty, but he does look faster/stronger than what we’re used to seeing!

Did you miss the replay? Pathetic from Thomas holding his face

We’re looking worse and worse as the weeks progress.

That was awful from Brereton, not sure how he is holding his place lately, especially considering he doesn’t want to hang around here.

Perhaps a little unfair then given the time frames I agree. Regarding resources, didn’t we spend more in the summer than we have since Brereton was signed? He also has an extra years experience on a decent academy bunch (if he actually decided to use Adam Wharton for example) Agree that the ‘project’ stuff is just empty words, nevertheless frustrating that we just continuously have it rammed down our throats.

Am I right in thinking Mowbray said the exact same thing (and rightly got slated) when we were 2nd / 3rd last season?…”I don’t look at the table” Also this continuous “we are building”, “it’s a project” etc. Are we safe to say JDT and Egg will have failed if we finish with fewer points / lower position to last season? Especially considering we were a 3rd place team in Feb last year, and finished 8th. Say a 12th place finish this year, with less points and worse GD is surely a failure, and no building is done with only a 6 month loan that a rival club are willing to give us.

Absolutely baffling that you weren’t entertained when we 1) won promotion 2) won the league cup 3) finished 6th multiple times in the league and 4) played in multiple European competitions. That 25 years should be 15 years. We were entertaining in the 00s. From the Duff/Jansen/Dunn team to the Bentley, Bellamy, Santa Cruz, McCarthy team.