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Mercer

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  1. It's down to Waggott. What is he - a man or a mouse? Get them told we need a budget and in good time. If he doesn't get it then he should walk, possibly with a case for constructive dismissal, as clearly he has not got the tools to do his job properly. It aint rocket science.
  2. Feels to me like he's already laying the ground for a season of absolute mediocrity at best! Get those excuses in early!
  3. Yes, they are and without their support the club is finished. However, they are, IMO, paying for their idiocy. They bought a top 10 PL and their decisions since have cost them and us so very, very dearly.
  4. We need a proven winner - a ruthless, hard b@stard with a 'can do' attitude. IMO, there is so much complacency, deadwood, here for the holiday etc to be swept away. Don't think Keane is tactically great and that's why we'd need a clever number 2 / coach - akin to Kenny / Ray combo.
  5. Think you'll find it's even worse - 7 points from 7 games.
  6. Well let's see where he ends up. My view is he is capable of playing in the PL with the right support through good management and coaching. Did I say 'a great attacking footballer in the PL' - no I didn't. There is coaching and coaching and drills and drills. IMO, Mowbray, Venus and Lowe will never get the best out of Nyambe. I think better managers and coaches will. Case in point Raya who, IMO, looks a far more confident and competent goalkeeper since he moved to Brentford.
  7. If you accept a job to keep the club up and you don't then you have failed - FULL STOP. Of course Tony Mowbray is, IMO, responsible for our relegation. Warnock was employed by Middlesbrough to keep them up with 8 games to go when for all the world they looked like a basket case. Barring freak results in the last two games of the season, he has almost certainly succeeded. JOB FECKIN WELL DONE despite the mess Woodgate left behind!
  8. Keane would be my choice alongside an innovative and hungry coach. We need a whirlwind to get rid of all the complacency, deadwood and holiday club atmosphere that, IMO, is ruining our club.
  9. This is a great point. Mowbray himself said at Blues Bar in Feb. last year that he was brought to the club to keep us up that season. He failed. Safety was within our grasp (relegated on goal difference) but, IMO, too many tactical blunders and game management decisions cost us badly.
  10. That's nonsense!!! Professor John Curtice's exit poll at 2019 GE - based on 160,000 (0.5%) out of 32,000,000 was uncannily accurate. The poll on this MB of some 200 is about 1.6% of Rovers' average gate and, within the usual margins of error, is likely to be very representative (and the sample size is 3 times bigger <1.6% v 0.5%> than the GE poll) of the Rovers' fan base.
  11. Well it's over four months since we had fans in the stadium! Do you not think this MB gives you a taster and is it not representative of the wider Rovers' fan base? In my circle of Rovers' contacts (friends, colleagues, clients etc), I'd say 80+% would be glad to see the back of Mowbray which is not dissimilar to where the poll on this MB stands.
  12. I know Chaddy but how long do the extra sessions last and how frequent are they? For these drills to be effective, you need to use a number of players to replicate 'real' match situations. Beckham did many extra hours each week practising his free kicks.
  13. Will depend on how big the 'extra' is and how innovative our coaching team is. If the drills are anything like our pre match sessions then, IMO, little wonder he's not improving.
  14. Suhail is their eyes and ears. He can't fail to have seen how poorly we are performing in the main and how we are as far away from the PL as ever. I feel sure he will also have picked up the growing discontent about Mowbray. IMO, he will make the bullets for the Raos to fire.
  15. Crossing or shooting can be improved significantly with the appropriate drills in training. You put the extra hours in and you reap the benefits. Like a golfer who's weak at chipping around the green, with the right coaching and some hard graft you improve significantly - you may never be the best in the world but progress can be quite remarkable.
  16. If Hilton and Carter start, I will put 10 pints for you on your slate at your local wherever that may be!
  17. Why would he leave WBA as their number 2 to come here as a number 2?!
  18. Think Mulgrew might find getting paid £1million or so next season, for doing nothing but keeping fit, to be quite an attractive proposition. Same as Mowbray's contract - IMO, Waggott needs metaphorically shooting for signing them off.
  19. All professional goalkeepers will make good saves - remember the likes of John Butcher, Matt Dickins, Alan Fettis, Jason Steele and Walton (now ) all doing the same but boy, did they make some blunders! See if you can find highlights of Bond's worse moments! Just about 100 games in a professional career spanning 10 years says it all for me. If this is Mowbray's 'evolution' then it's doubtful he's read Charles Darwin!!!!
  20. Bowyer signed some good players - would love to know whether that was down to him or his dad Ian who was part of a hugely successful Forest side under Cloughie and he obviously knew the game inside out as his displays showed. Sadly, IMO, Gary didn't inherit his dad's understanding of the game. I think Mowbray's evolution/slow growth is about job preservation and buying himself time - the problem I have with Mowbray's view is, IMO, we've a threadbare squad, full of holes and with limited quality, more reminiscent of making it up as you go along! Contrast that to Warnock who, I believe, would have got us promoted back to the PL within two seasons - never heard Warnock talk about evolution/slow build!
  21. If Mowbray had passion about the club and its fans then, IMO, he would walk as surely he can see the roof is about to cave in - that's what happens when you build your foundations on sand.
  22. Nyambe has all the attributes to develop into a PL full back. He needs a consistent run of games to speed up his development. Some of the stuff Mowbray comes out with, IMO, can't do the lad's confidence much good and neither can the regular selection of Bennett over him. With a quality manager and or coach to help him, he could become top class - Kenny and Ray Harford would have made him a real player. I fear we will lose him and just like Raya, he will excel at his new club.
  23. Look, I've thought for some time Venky's would look to 'get out'. For some reason, they haven't. However, I think circumstances have changed. They are some 10 years into their very expensive 'project' (almost £200million gone in with the likelihood of no return) and it must be difficult for them to see any sort of progress whatsoever in getting back to those halycon days when they bought a top 10 PL club - our regression has been staggering! It would seem their business in India has also been hit hard with the pandemic. In business, including football, a 'tipping point' is always reached. In football we've seen this with Hayward at Wolves, Davies at Bolton and Whelan with Wigan. I don't think the 'mood music' is good and it's getting louder.
  24. You are not alone!!! Things just don't feel right (relative to how Venky's have been since buying Rovers) at the moment. Not scaremongering but in some 60 years of supporting the club, never, ever felt we are so vulnerable to insolvency and the abyss. In business, there is always a 'tipping point'.
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