v Fulham (a) - 5/3/22

[simongarnerisgod]

onwards and upwards,9 points coming up🙂

[Gav]

Fulham are the best side in the division, we have the most injuries in the division.

Battled well 2nd half but this threadbare squad is coming home to roost as many of us predicted before Christmas. 

The owners had an opportunity to push the club forward, they failed to do that, no ambition and we are where we are. 

Edited March 5, 2022 by Gav

[superniko]

We have the best run in out of all 24 teams in the league, let alone our rivals. 
11 games and only 2 top 10 teams (one of which are 10th) 10 of 11 games against teams placed 10th or worse in the league. 
It’s ours to throw away now. 

I’ll start screaming and sweating when we throw away our matches against Reading, Bristol City etc. 

For perspective, we play 46 games in a season and that is our toughest match (on paper). 

2nd half we were decent, a Kaminski shocker (again) cost us, although this time we’d have lost anyway. 

I’m still fuming about the Sheff Utd match!!

[AAK]

16 minutes ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

Well at least we have an easier run in than Bournemouth.

Need to get away from that mindset, 2nd place is miles gone, Bournemouth have 5 games in hand! They only need win a couple of them and they are gone (at least out of rovers reach anyway).

[booth]

2 minutes ago, Gav said:

Fulham are the best side in the division, we have the most injuries in the division.

Battled well 2nd half but this threadbare squad is coming home to roost as many of us predicted before Christmas. 

The owners had an opportunity to push the club forward, they failed to do that, no ambition and we are where we are. 

Is it the owners or Mowbray Gav? Seemed to be he had the opportunity from what he said.

[garnersfags]

15 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

A QPR and Luton win (by 2 clear goals in Luton's case) and we are out of the top 6.

Yes, but a Luton win dents Middlesbro's push.

There are enough negatives without us going looking for more.

We will be in the top six tonight. Sorry if that disappoints...

[rigger]

20 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

A QPR and Luton win (by 2 clear goals in Luton's case) and we are out of the top 6.

No we aren't. We would still be above Sheff Utd, so sixth.

Edited March 5, 2022 by rigger

[simongarnerisgod]

come on north end,kick the **** out of bournemouth and their overrated **** of a manager

[Miller11]

Didn’t expect anything here, but we were the architects of our own downfall today. Two really poor goals to gift them.

They are a horrible side. When players dive that much I just wish one of our players would send one of them off on a stretcher. Ref was at best unforgivably inconsistent and weak.

Pickering was awful, particularly in the first half. Nobody really covered themselves in glory. Dolan tried, Gallagher looked decent until it came to actually doing the job of a centre forward… he was unlucky with the chalked off goal though. Johnson and JRC really sloppy to give away such a cheap offside.

Our January business looks more horrific by the week. Unless we get some/all of Nyambe, Brereton and Dack back soon, our season will peter out into nothingness very quickly.

[Gav]

5 minutes ago, booth said:

Is it the owners or Mowbray Gav? Seemed to be he had the opportunity from what he said.

We couldn’t afford our long term target Maja, we couldn’t afford the lad that went to Swansea either, Dembele went to Bournemouth.

The manager was priced out of those deals Booth, the owners could have made those deals happen in my opinion, Jack wouldn’t have missed out.

[rigger]

9 minutes ago, superniko said:

We have the best run in out of all 24 teams in the league, let alone our rivals. 
11 games and only 2 top 10 teams (one of which are 10th) 10 of 11 games against teams placed 10th or worse in the league. 
It’s ours to throw away now. 

I’ll start screaming and sweating when we throw away our matches against Reading, Bristol City etc. 

For perspective, we play 46 games in a season and that is our toughest match (on paper). 

2nd half we were decent, a Kaminski shocker (again) cost us, although this time we’d have lost anyway. 

I’m still fuming about the Sheff Utd match!!

It's only a better run-in, if you win the games.

[J*B]

2 minutes ago, Gav said:

We couldn’t afford our long term target Maja, we couldn’t afford the lad that went to Swansea either, Dembele went to Bournemouth.

The manager was priced out of those deals Booth, the owners could have made those deals happen in my opinion, Jack wouldn’t have missed out.

The owners spent 16m quid, the absolute maximum they could get away with, to buy the training ground they already owned off the football club so that we didn’t fail FFP dramatically due to huge overspends by the current senior managements and the impact of COVID. They can’t spend money that they’re not allowed to spend. 

[1864roverite]

I just don’t see any further progression for this season and I don’t believe that we are capable of sustaining a play off spot challenge. Injuries and mistakes are killing the season

[islander200]

19 minutes ago, J*B said:

As it stands Fulham, Huddersfield, Bournemouth, QPR, Sheff United and Luton are all in better positions than us. That’s six teams, for anyone that hasn’t counted. 

We have played all those teams twice with the exception of Bournemouth those teams still have to play against eachother they can't all win them all.

Sheff United and QPR still have to play eachother twice.

Our record against bottom half teams this season is as good as anyone's.

Today was poor and the last month has been but a generous Run of fixtures to come 

[Dolly blue]

Kaminski..started the rot…terrible error at this level 

Zeefuik…is he another injury every game lad 

Rankin Costello….VERY limited , can’t believe he gets a squad shirt .. he’s physically weak 

Lenihan….decent, stupid yellow 

Van Hecke …hammered by the bully Mitrovic ..shouldn’t have tried to go toe to toe….bad decision  led to first goal 

Wharton ….steady ..a couple  errors could have been more costly 

Pickering..😳…very slow, poor reading of game …was embarrassed by Wilson

Travis …slow thinking , slow moving …terrible form at the moment 

Johnson….should NOT be playing at this level ….unfit

Giles….grew into game ( some felt he should have crossed when choosing to shoot late on )…..but he is SOOOOO left footed he hadn’t a chance 

Khedra… did little or nothing before “ injury “ 

Dolan….did what he does …he ran…but no end product 

Gallagher ….a very  limited player …but, in his defence, he did show some intent 

Rothwell…..too little too late

Mowbray….suffering as he has been found out….back to players out of position, no plan B ( what is his plan A? ) realising ..it’s all gone tits up 

It’s hurt to type the truth …but we are such a limited club….Forest, Shef Utd, Huddersfield, QPR , Middlesbrough….even Luton on the rise ….as we wonder where our next goal is coming from….

 

[simongarnerisgod]

1 minute ago, J*B said:

The owners spent 16m quid, the absolute maximum they could get away with, to buy the training ground they already owned off the football club so that we didn’t fail FFP dramatically due to huge overspends by the current senior managements and the impact of COVID. They can’t spend money that they’re not allowed to spend. 

so why are fulham and bournemouth allowed to spend mega millions when we can`t

[superniko]

4 minutes ago, rigger said:

It's only a better run-in, if you win the games.

Not sure that even makes sense. 
It’s a better run in, as probability wise, we’re more likely to pick up more points than if we were playing different opponents. 

[islander200]

2 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

so why are fulham and bournemouth allowed to spend mega millions when we can`t

Parachute payments

[Riverside under the drip]

Dolan my MOTM. Willing to be fair and admit that having Gallagher on for Khadra did somehow work well. He still looked pretty talentless but somehow the ball bounced in the right direction from our point of view. Not his fault his goal got chalked off. A decent outing.

Not too angry about losing as Fulham were excellent value but what grates is the idea that we can't be expected to compete with a promotion-chasing side even though we're chasing promotion as well. Other sides have done it. We beat Bournemouth. Why not? If only we had a real striker to head in Giles' crosses. Ho hum on we go...

[J*B]

1 minute ago, simongarnerisgod said:

so why are fulham and bournemouth allowed to spend mega millions when we can`t

Look at their finances and work it out. Clue - massive parachute payments, significantly higher match day revenue, a much more successful corporate operation. 

[davulsukur]

13 minutes ago, rigger said:

No we aren't. We would still be above Sheff Utd, so sixth.

Good shout

[Gav]

4 minutes ago, J*B said:

The owners spent 16m quid, the absolute maximum they could get away with, to buy the training ground they already owned off the football club so that we didn’t fail FFP dramatically due to huge overspends by the current senior managements and the impact of COVID. They can’t spend money that they’re not allowed to spend. 

They’re responsible for club finances, they run an absolute shit show. 

They’ve clearly taken us as far as they can to the point we are now asset stripping.

They should sell up and sod off.

[G Somerset Rover]

The pressure on Tuesday night is going to be huge come 5pm today. We simply have to win.

[martonrover]

Our January business was poor, and I blame that on Mowbray, not the owners.

He signed players we didn’t really need, (eg Hedges),  and failed to address the most obvious, pressing need, namely a centre forward.

Mowbray is quoted as saying that we had the opportunities to bring in a forward, but chose not to.

Three goals in eleven league games. Predictably pathetic.

[J*B]

2 minutes ago, Gav said:

They’re responsible for club finances, they run an absolute shit show. 

They’ve clearly taken us as far as they can to the point we are now asset stripping.

They should sell up and sod off.

They’re not the ones missing their targets every single quarter. FFP is almost designed to stop clubs like ours being successful. Until the management team - not the ownership - can work out how to generate significantly more money then we will never be able to financially compete whether we have Venkys, an American billionaire, a Middle Eastern investment group or are fan owned.