Premier League season 21/22

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

13 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

What, after they won today ? Strange, that must have been planned before today.

[jim mk2]

So Farke and Warnock available for employment. It obviously didn’t work for Colin at Boro but he and Farke have good track records in the championship. Both a big upgrade on Mowbray 

[davulsukur]

29 minutes ago, DE. said:

Assume they must have someone lined up. 

Making a move for Wilder before Boro get him?

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, DE. said:

Assume they must have someone lined up. 

Not sure they do. Webber statement is interesting

Inside story of Daniel Farke's Norwich City dismissal | Eastern Daily Press (edp24.co.uk)

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

What, after they won today ? Strange, that must have been planned before today.

This very much the case

Edited November 6, 2021 by chaddyrovers

[chaddyrovers]

Great touch by Max Aarons post game at Brentford 

 

[Wheelton Blue]

Farke would be top of my shortlist for replacing Mowbray,

[booth]

1 minute ago, Wheelton Blue said:

Farke would be top of my shortlist for replacing Mowbray,

Farke or Wilder could finish the job.

[Sparks Rover]

39 minutes ago, booth said:

Farke or Wilder could finish the job.

Wilder in at Boro apparently 

[booth]

2 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Wilder in at Boro apparently 

We miss the boat again.

[DaveyB]

Football’s a funny old game, eh? I’ve just watched the highlights of the dingles game at Chelsea on MotD and (whilst I know it’s dangerous to judge on 6/7 minutes of highlights) it looked almost as poor a performance from them as ours on Wednesday. Chelsea were absolutely dominant, getting in at will and had numerous clear cut chances to score (25 shots, 70% possession), the only difference was, whereas Fulham were clinical, Chelsea were wasteful in the extreme. And then one chance gets taken and has the fans hailing their team rather than demanding apologies. Like I say, a funny old game!

[chaddyrovers]

Normann and Krul were key to Norwich winning yesterday. 

Frank Lampard and Russell Martin are the 2 favourites for the Norwich City head coach job

[Bigdoggsteel]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Normann and Krul were key to Norwich winning yesterday. 

Frank Lampard and Russell Martin are the 2 favourites for the Norwich City head coach job

Who is that Russell Martin guys agent? Absolute miracle worker 

[Bigdoggsteel]

3 hours ago, DaveyB said:

Football’s a funny old game, eh? I’ve just watched the highlights of the dingles game at Chelsea on MotD and (whilst I know it’s dangerous to judge on 6/7 minutes of highlights) it looked almost as poor a performance from them as ours on Wednesday. Chelsea were absolutely dominant, getting in at will and had numerous clear cut chances to score (25 shots, 70% possession), the only difference was, whereas Fulham were clinical, Chelsea were wasteful in the extreme. And then one chance gets taken and has the fans hailing their team rather than demanding apologies. Like I say, a funny old game!

Wasteful, not sure, Burnley defending exceptionally, obviously rode their look, but they threw themsleves in front of everything 

[chaddyrovers]

23 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Who is that Russell Martin guys agent? Absolute miracle worker 

Why? 

Martin's style of play the way Swansea hierarchy wanted their team to play

[roverandout]

12 hours ago, Sparks Rover said:

Wilder in at Boro apparently 

It quite sickening.  Rovers are a far bigger club than boro yet they have greater ambition.  Either venkys need to piss off or pull their finger out

[DeeCee]

Just read that OGS has overseen 21% of Manure's losses in the Premier League, if that's true, Wow 😁

[longsiders1882]

4 hours ago, DaveyB said:

Football’s a funny old game, eh? I’ve just watched the highlights of the dingles game at Chelsea on MotD and (whilst I know it’s dangerous to judge on 6/7 minutes of highlights) it looked almost as poor a performance from them as ours on Wednesday. Chelsea were absolutely dominant, getting in at will and had numerous clear cut chances to score (25 shots, 70% possession), the only difference was, whereas Fulham were clinical, Chelsea were wasteful in the extreme. And then one chance gets taken and has the fans hailing their team rather than demanding apologies. Like I say, a funny old game!

 

1 hour ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Wasteful, not sure, Burnley defending exceptionally, obviously rode their look, but they threw themsleves in front of everything 

25 shots indeed - only 4 on target. Of course when we go to a club like Chelsea built on billions we ride our luck but, as pointed out, we defended resolutely and in the main successfully. Defending is still part of the game. As for possession, you don’t get bonus goals for it, it’s a meaningless stat - and didn’t Chelsea win the Champions League final with about 20% possession? I’m not claiming we deserved anything from the game but we did work damn hard.

Just on demanding apologies, we expected a thumping. As I said earlier I regarded 2-0 or less as a decent result for us. Our manager is under no pressure - well maybe a few weird fans on the inter web but nothing serious.

[Sparks Rover]

21 minutes ago, roverandout said:

It quite sickening.  Rovers are a far bigger club than boro yet they have greater ambition.  Either venkys need to piss off or pull their finger out

Would you have Smith...?  Another one just become free

Edited November 7, 2021 by Sparks Rover

[roversfan99]

How a quarter of Premier League teams have sacked their managers yet Solskjaer remains is incredible.

[chaddyrovers]

Villa sacked Dean Smith

[DE.]

I don't know enough about the situation at Villa to comment. It seems harsh from the outside but judging from the Villa forums they seem to accept it was the right decision, albeit they all seem to be pretty sad that it didn't work out. Not too dissimilar to how the reaction would probably have been to Mowbray's departure if it had been confirmed 18 months ago.

[DaveyB]

42 minutes ago, longsiders1882 said:

 

25 shots indeed - only 4 on target. Of course when we go to a club like Chelsea built on billions we ride our luck but, as pointed out, we defended resolutely and in the main successfully. Defending is still part of the game. As for possession, you don’t get bonus goals for it, it’s a meaningless stat - and didn’t Chelsea win the Champions League final with about 20% possession? I’m not claiming we deserved anything from the game but we did work damn hard.

Just on demanding apologies, we expected a thumping. As I said earlier I regarded 2-0 or less as a decent result for us. Our manager is under no pressure - well maybe a few weird fans on the inter web but nothing serious.

Like I said Chelsea were wasteful. Obviously I didn’t see the whole game, and I’ve already said it’s dangerous to judge just from the limited MotD highlights, but from what I did see Chelsea got themselves into some exceptionally good positions and had a number of chances that, on another day, they would expect to take. 
And just to put the stats into perspective, Chelsea created more chances, had more shots and had more possession against you than they did against Norwich, and than Fulham did against us, both of which ended as 7-0 results. 
 

But it wasn’t meant as a dig at Burnley, or to put Dyche or the players down in any way, just an observation really that there is often a very fine line between a good day and a bad day, and whether your luck is in or out can sometimes be the difference between a good result and a hiding 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

5 minutes ago, DaveyB said:

Like I said Chelsea were wasteful. Obviously I didn’t see the whole game, and I’ve already said it’s dangerous to judge just from the limited MotD highlights, but from what I did see Chelsea got themselves into some exceptionally good positions and had a number of chances that, on another day, they would expect to take. 
And just to put the stats into perspective, Chelsea created more chances, had more shots and had more possession against you than they did against Norwich, and than Fulham did against us, both of which ended as 7-0 results. 
 

But it wasn’t meant as a dig at Burnley, or to put Dyche or the players down in any way, just an observation really that there is often a very fine line between a good day and a bad day, and whether your luck is in or out can sometimes be the difference between a good result and a hiding 

Lukaku and Werner being missing is handy also.

[Waggy76]

1 hour ago, DE. said:

I don't know enough about the situation at Villa to comment. It seems harsh from the outside but judging from the Villa forums they seem to accept it was the right decision, albeit they all seem to be pretty sad that it didn't work out. Not too dissimilar to how the reaction would probably have been to Mowbray's departure if it had been confirmed 18 months ago.

Sold their best player , very rarely ends well...

Edited November 7, 2021 by Waggy76

[bazza]

We missed out on Wilder but Farke, Dean Smith, Alex Neil and even Warnock are now available. There's always someone suitable for Rovers available.

How long before Pearson gets sacked at Bristol?