Preston at Home

[white boy]

20 minutes ago, blueboy3333 said:

Cheers. How have the players you recently signed from lower league been doing? I notice Potts has scored a couple. The lad you got from Exeter (Storey?) and his CB partner were getting good reviews on the football league show last night. 

Neill seems  to have built a good squad on very little money. 

Potts has played in championship before so he has gone straight in and done ok, looked a bit tired in last couple of games but maybe he was carrying an injury.  Storey keeping Huntington and Clarke out.... young makes errors but one decent player now and should get better.  His partner came thru youth, was played as right back... terrible, as centre back very very good although form was poor beginning of season...  be top player.

 

most of our squad have come from a lower level and haven't cost a lot, in my opinion it makes it interesting to see how a manager try's to get by when your chucking lads in that don't have the experience nor maybe the talent (only playing them tells you) and still gets points.....

 

we we signed a lad from Walsall been at Burnley....not been near team yet!

[JacknOry]

and we sign 7 million unused subs. 

[Don Said]

What an annoying day.

The formation worked in parts and we looked better than we did recently. But why on earth would we try to execute it with a right footed, nothing offerer like Bennett on the left and Smallwood/Evans trying to run a midfield that didn’t need two sitters? Shot ourselves in the foot there. Awful call Tony, especially considering the bench we had.

The referee was an utter disgrace. Absolutely inept. Cost us a goal, and another probable goal. He should never ref again, but we’ve at least two players that should never play for Rovers again so no point focusing on that.

As a few have mentioned what on earth was that kicking the ball out nonsense? 1-0 down to local rivals, their player is sat down clearly not needing urgent treatment and we politely roll the ball out? That summed up the last 6 weeks perfectly for me.

Rovers, Tony, get back to basics, get a f*cking grip of yourselves and fast.

[white boy]

As a follower of football in general it's always interesting to gage the true thoughts of other teams followers.  It also interesting to see how other teams recruit and what there fans think they should be spending on players and wages.  The Bristol City manager said last week how he liked some of our buys that our sort of clubs are fishing in the same pot.....then  a week later the local press report that our wages bill has gone up to 15 million....while Bristol City are spending 28 million.  Interesting pot!  If a manager feels he wants to put somebody on the bench should it matter how much he cost?

 

we all think differently I suppose it's what keeps it interesting...

[tomphil]

24 minutes ago, white boy said:

Potts has played in championship before so he has gone straight in and done ok, looked a bit tired in last couple of games but maybe he was carrying an injury.  Storey keeping Huntington and Clarke out.... young makes errors but one decent player now and should get better.  His partner came thru youth, was played as right back... terrible, as centre back very very good although form was poor beginning of season...  be top player.

 

most of our squad have come from a lower level and haven't cost a lot, in my opinion it makes it interesting to see how a manager try's to get by when your chucking lads in that don't have the experience nor maybe the talent (only playing them tells you) and still gets points.....

 

we we signed a lad from Walsall been at Burnley....not been near team yet!

Does your manager play these lads in their natural positions where possible ?

[Peteb2014]

Can I just say well done to the classless chavs fighting on livesey branch road outside the Mcdonalds for frightening my 2 boys so much that there scared of going again. 

[blueboy3333]

7 minutes ago, white boy said:

If a manager feels he wants to put somebody on the bench should it matter how much he cost?

 

we all think differently I suppose it's what keeps it interesting...

Spending 7m on a sub Striker when your defence is appalling is frankly criminal. So yes it does matter. 

[AllRoverAsia]

31 minutes ago, blueboy3333 said:

Spending 7m on a sub Striker when your defence is appalling is frankly criminal. So yes it does matter. 

Actually BB is now an "apprentice" sub Striker, Joe being ahead of him in the Mowbray stakes. 

[G Somerset Rover]

The Irish national team must be in dire straits to call up Del Boy. He’s the first in a long line of players that needs flogging this summer. 

[tomphil]

38 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Actually BB is now an "apprentice" sub Striker, Joe being ahead of him in the Mowbray stakes. 

Could well be the strike force next season ?

Nuttall up top, BB and Armstrong wide, typical TM stylee....

[arbitro]

5 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

The Irish national team must be in dire straits to call up Del Boy. He’s the first in a long line of players that needs flogging this summer. 

Publicly flogging? That's a tad harsh.

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[JacknOry]

3 hours ago, white boy said:

As a follower of football in general it's always interesting to gage the true thoughts of other teams followers.  It also interesting to see how other teams recruit and what there fans think they should be spending on players and wages.  The Bristol City manager said last week how he liked some of our buys that our sort of clubs are fishing in the same pot.....then  a week later the local press report that our wages bill has gone up to 15 million....while Bristol City are spending 28 million.  Interesting pot!  If a manager feels he wants to put somebody on the bench should it matter how much he cost?

 

we all think differently I suppose it's what keeps it interesting...

BB has been playing with the under-23s he has been so bad. Then again, he is a striker and being told to play on the wing by TM so go figure.

It certainly does matter how much they cost when he took up pretty much 80% of our summer spending when there were glaring deficiencies in the squad that needed investment. Striker was one, yes, but one that might start and for 7 million quid you should be expecting a starter, not one for the future - we aint Chelsea. We have been calling for a CB for the past two seasons but this lot dont spend money on CBs as they usually dont turn a profit as much as other positions.

The BB signing was for nothing more than some kind of stupid profit making exercise rather than for the benefit of the team. I highly doubt TM was even behind it. 

[JHRover]

28 minutes ago, JacknOry said:

BB has been playing with the under-23s he has been so bad. Then again, he is a striker and being told to play on the wing by TM so go figure.

It certainly does matter how much they cost when he took up pretty much 80% of our summer spending when there were glaring deficiencies in the squad that needed investment. Striker was one, yes, but one that might start and for 7 million quid you should be expecting a starter, not one for the future - we aint Chelsea. We have been calling for a CB for the past two seasons but this lot dont spend money on CBs as they usually dont turn a profit as much as other positions.

The BB signing was for nothing more than some kind of stupid profit making exercise rather than for the benefit of the team. I highly doubt TM was even behind it. 

Think you've hit the nail on the head here. Whatever money was spent on Brereton appeared to materialise late on in the window when someone in India fancied a flutter on a signing that would turn out a significant profit. Within the parameters handed down and within a narrow timeframe and on a deal no doubt staggered over numerous years and weighted on various clauses the market and time wasn't there for us to cherry pick ready made players. We all know that the money should have been used differently, I suspect deep down Mowbray does to, yet won't ever admit it, because his bosses set a certain criteria and wouldn't see signing a 28 year old CB who had been around the block as a profitable exercise.

You watch Preston and Wigan come to Ewood and then think of how ludicrous it is that we have spent that money on someone not ready to play.

[G Somerset Rover]

3 hours ago, arbitro said:

Publicly flogging? That's a tad harsh.

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Ha - if he keeps his form up he won’t be far off! 

[bigbrandjohn]

Hopefully Mowbray will recall Downing and as always when asked to step in, he will do a sterling job. And everyone will wonder why he was allowed to be loaned out in the first place. 

[arbitro]

Of all the crap spoken by Mowbray this takes the biscuit for me. He says that Mulgrew may have injured his hamstring due to being tense from his manager shouting at him. I'm really hoping he reads this back and realise what a prick he sounds.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/march/concern-over-mulgrews-injury/

[roversfan99]

8 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Of all the crap spoken by Mowbray this takes the biscuit for me. He says that Mulgrew may have injured his hamstring due to being tense from his manager shouting at him. I'm really hoping he reads this back and realise what a prick he sounds.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/march/concern-over-mulgrews-injury/

Thats as good as anything Kean said.

[Mercer]

8 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Of all the crap spoken by Mowbray this takes the biscuit for me. He says that Mulgrew may have injured his hamstring due to being tense from his manager shouting at him. I'm really hoping he reads this back and realise what a prick he sounds.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/march/concern-over-mulgrews-injury/

Unbelievable.  

Keanesque - reminiscent of the dew on the grass.

[rog of the rovers]

26 minutes ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Hopefully Mowbray will recall Downing and as always when asked to step in, he will do a sterling job. And everyone will wonder why he was allowed to be loaned out in the first place. 

Paul Downing made a costly error yesterday for Doncaster, which allowed AFC Wimbledon to score.

An error that any of our defenders would have been widely criticised for making.

New signings of a requisite quality in the summer are needed.

[AllRoverAsia]

16 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Of all the crap spoken by Mowbray this takes the biscuit for me. He says that Mulgrew may have injured his hamstring due to being tense from his manager shouting at him. I'm really hoping he reads this back and realise what a prick he sounds.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/march/concern-over-mulgrews-injury/

When I was late teens,  playing as a striker,  my coach gave me the verbals after I missed a sitter. It coincided with my having a three day boner.....  I never thought to credit my coach...  

[arbitro]

Just now, AllRoverAsia said:

When I was late teens,  playing as a striker,  my coach gave me the verbals after I missed a sitter. It coincided with my having a three day boner.....  I never thought to credit my coach...  

You could just use viagra now ?.

[Mattyblue]

We really are screwed if we are getting psychosomatic injuries now!

 

 

[G Somerset Rover]

15 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Thats as good as anything Kean said.

Yep. That is a hugely bizzare and concerning interview. What the feck is he on?

[AllRoverAsia]

Just now, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Yep. That is a hugely bizzare and concerning interview. What the feck is he on?

Lemon Drizzle cake and biscuits,  a dangerous mix! 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

11 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Yep. That is a hugely bizzare and concerning interview. What the feck is he on?

His head's gone. That explains a lot. What would happen if he threw the cups and saucers at him, a heart attack ?