I mean come on, your argument loses a bit of credit on that sentence. Some grim individual performances (which in fairness is your point), but we saw exactly that and far worse under every other manager, was it 7-0 against Fulham under Mowbray. Worst memories as a Rovers fan is over doing it I think. He took us as close to the playoffs as we’ve ever had under Venkys and further in the cups too, despite all the off-field turmoil at the same time. Anyway, I’m not particular against Eustace, it’s about as good an appointment as we could make. More just sick to death of how this club is being run, then you spend 2 hours watching pure Sunday league shite and it’s just the cherry on the top

I honestly don’t think we looked hard to beat though, we lose that match to 85% of this division, we were as bad as Birmingham, it’s just Cardiff are even less clinical than them. Cardiff had 10 points from their last 15 matches, not scored a goal in their last 3 home matches, won 1 of their last 7 matches. They’re basically neck and neck with us in the form table across 10, 15, 20 games. Yet they still did more to win that match than us, a lot of recency bias to suggest we lose that 3-0 under JDT. We were on a shocking run under him, riddled by injuries yes, but he’d won 3 in a row against Cardiff including a 5-2 battering

We better hope we’re on 45 or so points by the 10th March, as I can barely see a point after that looking at the fixtures.

He won’t be here regardless. Venkys, Suhail, Waggott will be ordering the Indian ready for the £5m bids we’ll get and Broughton will scour the ‘Brighton academy’ tab on his spreadsheet for a loanee replacement

Alexa - please can you sum up that Rovers performance? ”Okay, John Buckleys 93rd minute free kick cross”

😂 fair play. My reply - because absolutely no version of football is worse than what we’ve served up over the 60 minutes

It ain’t scrippy scrappy (whatever that is), it’s just utter shite

I think it was the summer he came in. Might have been before Broughton arrived to be fair (does this class as me doing him a disservice?)

Szmodics, Hyam, Brittain, Thomas, Morton, Mola, Hirst, Wahlstedt, O’Riordan, Fleck, Sigurdsson, Tronstad, Ennis, McFadzean, Telalovic, Hill, Ayari, Chrisene, Koumiteo, Moran 20 players signed under Broughton 1 true success (Szmodics) 1 likely to be a success (Tronstad) 3 solid and capable on occasion at this level (Hyam, Hill and Morton) 1 potential but not seeing it (Sigurdsson) 1 too early to judge (O’Riordan) 1 will never play for us (Koumiteo) 1 37 year old (McFadzean) 3 it didn’t work out (Moran, Thomas and Hirst) 6 absolute shockers (Mola, Wahlstedt, Ayari, Chrisene, Telalovic, Ennis) 1 soft arse (Brittain) 1 crock (Fleck) I feel like I’m being generous to be honest. In the mean time we’ve lost Kaminski, Nyambe, Lenihan, Rothwell, Diaz, Dack, Wharton and others. In terms of the ‘develop and become self-sufficient’ or whatever the nonsense he’s spouted, we’ve made a total of £0 revenue from players he’s signed. He’s done well rinsing the academy and signings from previous regimes though and spent upwards of £7m with likely loan fees too

Any positives? I honestly can’t think of any. Pears not making any mistakes I guess, he’s probably been our best player by default. Maybe Tronstad too, who has done his job pretty well. Just how bad is the Swedish team if Ayari and Wahlstedt have got caps? Chrisene isn’t a defender, I’m not even sure he’s a football in all honesty. Jake Garrett spreading 50 yard balls to their full back - total football. Utter dross, summed up by Szmodics worst showing for a long time. We’ve had 1 shot and it was Hyam from 50 yards as a complete waste.

Szmodics absolutely seething we’ve sold Wharton

Their lad just had a free header from about 8 yards out on a corner. I thought we’re meant to be ‘going back to basics’, ‘more solid at the back’ etc etc. We’re just regressing more and more every time I watch us.

We absolutely honk

Looks like we’re setting up to ‘grind out a draw’ and ‘become a more solid unit’ Hahahaha, has the manager not seen these lads in training? We need to score 2 at least to even pick up a point.

Yes, I was (a dingle could list off everyone to blame before our ex-manager on both hands)

Yes, the real culprit in all this

Gregg has had his hands tied some what. But by god he’s pulled off some shockers. Szmodics and Tronstad and a passable Hyam. The other 15+ have been crocks, soft loanees or complete flops. Poor ratio

That really is horrendous reading, especially considering we've been the superior team to PNE, Wigan and Bolton (in terms of finishing positions) for the majority of that time. Shows how spineless we are from ownership down. If anything sums up the Venkys reign, it's the fact we haven't beaten Burnley once over 9 matches.

A 4%-5% certainty. A Mercer betting special.....and there's been some doozys over the years.

Am I right in thinking none of this counts towards FFP? For the same reasons as rebuilding the riverside if they wished. ”Never refuse a cheque” It’s on Waggot almost as much, as CEO he should be actively looking to improve our facilities, let alone just keep them at the bare minimum.

In fairness he spent the last few years in the German equivalent of North West Counties - then we decided to sign him. I think he’s still yet to score a goal at a level above 4th division part time regional German football

Yeah I agree with that. I’ll eat my hat if we see the lad start a match though. He might sneak onto the bench if we get desperate I guess. Feels like the waste of a loan spot

Has anyone got the quotes from Brittain please? I think I missed them but seen plenty of comments about him being gobby. I could do with a laugh after that performance

I guess for this specific example you only get a limited amount of loanees you can pick in your squad. Almost every position on the pitch is needed more than CB so why did we loan someone who struggled in the French 2nd division over a CM to replace Wharton for example.

In that exact order. Maybe manager below players as he’s only been here a week