Swansea 9th March at Home

[bluebruce]

3 hours ago, Ghost7 said:

Gallagher was doing the right thing in trying to clear the danger and many refs would have ignored that kind of contact since it still created a chance. The player didn't take it in his stride and get upended by a missed clearance. He stretched to get there, forced contact and went down like he'd broken his ankle, completely bought a penalty imo. The ref was conned.

 

Here we had two players going in for the ball, both having every right to, a 50/50 basically where our man was slightly slower to it. It was facing away from goal, in a fairly innocuous position, and as you say, landed at their lad's feet for a chance anyway, which it wouldn't have done without the contact.

Compare that to 2 minutes into the game, BB bearing down on goal with only one defender to stop him, who simply throws his whole body at him, clattering him off the ball and making no real attempt to play it. And that one isn't a pen but the other is? Fuck off ref, you biased bastard.

[A Northern Horde...]

5 hours ago, Gav said:

 

Midtable is about our level.

 

Utter Claptrap Gav...we just need a Manager who can see the quality we have within the side and exploit it to its maximum. 

Again, such a waste of a season its feckin criminal.

Edited March 10, 2021 by A Northern Horde...

[Ulrich]

God isn't journalism on the decline:

Spot the mistakes:https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56065009

 

[Gone to seed]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

Here we had two players going in for the ball, both having every right to, a 50/50 basically where our man was slightly slower to it. It was facing away from goal, in a fairly innocuous position, and as you say, landed at their lad's feet for a chance anyway, which it wouldn't have done without the contact.

Compare that to 2 minutes into the game, BB bearing down on goal with only one defender to stop him, who simply throws his whole body at him, clattering him off the ball and making no real attempt to play it. And that one isn't a pen but the other is? Fuck off ref, you biased bastard.

But our player, Gallagher, was as slow-witted and clumsy as fook, just like he continues to be at the other end of the pitch 🤔

Oh, for a player with the goal instinct and quality of someone like Andre Ayou - we'd have had a hatful if we had a properly hungry and sharp goal sniffer last night, rather than confidence-lacking lads who have been coached out of any knowledge of the joys of hitting 'th onion bag.

Still, it was another slightly more encouraging turn out from our lot once again, and a million miles from that shite served up against QPR, Coventry and the like.

[Hoochie Bloochie Mama]

5 hours ago, Gav said:

Do you think Barnsley will be playing Premiership football next season Hoochie?

You asked how we could compete not who'd be in the Prem. So how are Barnsley managing to compete? 

 

[Gone to seed]

1 minute ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

You asked how we could compete not who'd be in the Prem. So how are Barnsley managing to compete? 

 

I think we can all see what has happened to the other sides who, despite having limited resources, have kicked on towards the playoffs / promotion, whilst we have fallen away.

There are at least four elements that have been missing from Rovers under the gurning one since mid-November:

1) A clear and consistent game plan

2) Leadership to inspire belief and commitment where it matters (on the pitch)

3) Playing players in their natural position to allow their strengths to be utilised

4) A bit of steel (no, not Steele) in defence (we've shipped far too many sloppy goals)

The first three are all down to TM and his bizarre approach / losing of the plot.

The last one is down to a variety of factors, including Mr Gurn, but also leadership and application on the pitch.

Again we will finish the season with more questions about what 'might have been' than memories of 'what was' and, for me, the blame for this has to lie with the manager. If he had put more effort into sorting the defence; if he had played to players strengths, if he had sought a consistent line up and stuck to it; if he had adopted a consistent style of play / game plan and stuck to it;

Ifs, buts and damned maybes is all we are left with, unfortunately.

So I say, feck it - for the remainder of the season let's just take some scalps and bruise some egos. We are going to be in this division for at least another season (up or down!) but with any luck we will employ someone as manager who can actually address some of the problems that have held our heads under water this time out.

COYB!

[JacknOry]

Swansea looked very ordinary which just goes to show how much we have fooked up this season. Didnt look like a team gunning for automatic promotion to me. We should have won by all accounts, even the biased Swansea commentary said we deserved it more.

Less said about the ref, the better. How ours is not a pen and sending off for purposely taking out our player through on goal but theirs is a pen for a misplaced kick/clearance?

Dolan was a livewire as usual and could become a key player for us and Buckley had his best performance in a Rovers shirt. 

BB really should have scored and we might as well stop bothering playing for corners and freekicks as we are useless at them. 

 

[yankfan]

9 hours ago, only2garners said:

Well Dack and Brereton both had decent chances as well. But my point was we made a number of chances and should have scored more than one. Jim was suggesting that Cabango was the reason why we didn’t and I was disagreeing.

Counting chances that fall to SG is like the old proverb. If a tree falls in the woods but no hears it did it make sound?  If a chance falls to SG and it’s wasted was it really ever a chance? 

Edited March 10, 2021 by yankfan

[tomphil]

I thought beforehand the way they played might suit us and it did, more time on the ball in some key areas etc.

Swansea are similar to us just better at it, if only more teams in this division played that way we'd be up there.

Sadly they don't and that's half the problem.

[Boroblue]

Last night showed how Mowbray has wasted an opportunity to get us into at least the top 6. Young talented squad but let down by a lack of organisation. Such a shame really 

[Mattyblue]

Thought Trybull was excellent, does the Evans role, but with actual technical ability.

His problem seems to be attitude, as there’s definitely a player there at this level.

[chaddyrovers]

Good to hear that Buckley and Trybull had good games. Hopefully we see Buckley keep improving and will be key player next season..

Haven't seen the game live or listen to the radio commentary of the game. Going to watch the game shortly 

Edited March 10, 2021 by chaddyrovers

[Bigdoggsteel]

I would sign Trybull up if we could. There is potential with him ,Buckley and Dack. Keep Rothwell around too, Travis and Davenport and that's 6 good options for the middle 3 positions. 

[Hoochie Bloochie Mama]

Has Mowbray officially given up on his 433 yet? 

Think we can say it failed if improved points and/or improved league position was the objective. 

[tomphil]

Finally detach from Evans and put that wage towards Trybull would be my priority. 

Evans will never get another gig like he's had here though so he'll take some shifting. Hopefully when Mowbray humanly offers him another deal it's one he finds derisory and fires off.

[arbitro]

Another really good performance on the back of the Millwall match and one in which we can feel hard done to for not getting three points. Once again, in my view the catalyst was young Dolan who is leading by example with a huge appetite for hard work to go with his unquestionable skill. His infectious attitude seems to be rubbing off on others as once again we are pressing high up the pitch and not allowing our opponents any time on the ball, so much so that the service to Lowe and Ayew was virtually non existant. 

I'm actually frustrated at the moment as this way of playing seems to have been sidelined for a few months in favour of a more laboured, predictable style of play, in my opinion costing us several points in the process. And this is on Mowbray for me.

[joey_big_nose]

1 hour ago, arbitro said:

Another really good performance on the back of the Millwall match and one in which we can feel hard done to for not getting three points. Once again, in my view the catalyst was young Dolan who is leading by example with a huge appetite for hard work to go with his unquestionable skill. His infectious attitude seems to be rubbing off on others as once again we are pressing high up the pitch and not allowing our opponents any time on the ball, so much so that the service to Lowe and Ayew was virtually non existant. 

I'm actually frustrated at the moment as this way of playing seems to have been sidelined for a few months in favour of a more laboured, predictable style of play, in my opinion costing us several points in the process. And this is on Mowbray for me.

Yes - the last unequivocally good performance in the 433 was Preston away back in at the end of November..... We just ran out of steam to play that way. Too many games to play with the required intensity to make it work, too many injuries, other sides tactically figured us out.

How did it take us 3 months to come up with an effective plan B? I'm not having Dack as part of that, Rothwell or Holtby could have played behind the striker in a 4231. We had all the personnel to do it...

[joey_big_nose]

2 hours ago, tomphil said:

Finally detach from Evans and put that wage towards Trybull would be my priority. 

Evans will never get another gig like he's had here though so he'll take some shifting. Hopefully when Mowbray humanly offers him another deal it's one he finds derisory and fires off.

Yeah, Id take Trybull. Massive midfield overhaul coming up - Evans, Johnson, Bennett all on their way out. All nice guys, have good games from time to time, but way way way too injury prone for us to cover them.

Let them all go, bring in Trybull and one high quality other and promote someone from the youth side. Job done. 

[Mattyblue]

Still a year left on his deal and relatively big wages (he signed his last contract just before they kicked off their last PL campaign) would be the issue re Trybull, you’d think...

Edited March 10, 2021 by Mattyblue

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Still a year left on his deal and relatively big wages (he signed his last contract just before they kicked off their last PL campaign) would be the issue re Trybull, you’d think...

There’s a clause sending his contract through the roof if they go up so they’ll be desperate to sell. Could even look to flog him free of charge.

Issue is getting him to sign a wage that fits our bill.

[Mattyblue]

I imagine Evans is one of our top earners, get him out of the door in June for a start and who knows...

[chaddyrovers]

Buckley was very impressive yesterday 

 

 

[Oldgregg86]

18 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Buckley was very impressive yesterday 

 

 

That’s the player I and many others have been raving about

[WacoRover]

18 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Buckley was very impressive yesterday 

 

 

I love our young guys. Their performances might be a bit erratic sometimes, but they will gradually smooth out the wrinkles.

[chaddyrovers]

1 minute ago, Oldgregg86 said:

That’s the player I and many others have been raving about

I agree totally. Talent player and someone I've watched come through the Rovers club structure from under 18's to 23's and now the senior side. 

I really enjoy watching our under 18's and 23's before the pandemic hit and we werent allow in anymore..