v Watford (a) - 11/02/2023

[rock steady]

Credit to the team thus far, but I do wish we wouldn't start trying to just hold on so early in games. Still ages left.

[G Somerset Rover]

1-1 we cannot hold onto leads anymore. Reckon they’ll go on to win this.

[neophox]

Thank for that Gally

[simongarnerisgod]

shocking in the 2nd half,cannot keep hold of the ball and can`t get out of our own half

[OldEwoodBlue]

Almost 2 in a minute

[chaddyrovers]

Hedges and Szmodics for Dack and BBD

[Fraserkirky]

Right through Pickering 

[duckson]

For once Gally gets his head to it, wished he hadn’t. 

[Exiled_Rover]

Just now, neophox said:

Thank for that Gally

Thanks for what? It wasn't a foul.

[bluebruce]

4 minutes ago, rock steady said:

Did you negotiate them up, or they come straight in with that?

(Football Manager 2020 related, skip if you're not interested)

Not gonna lie, I fudge player sales. I think it's some weird sort of OCD thing in me that I feel the need to get maximum value (save, offer to clubs at what I think I should get, reload and try again with a smaller or higher ask depending what happened). Yeh it's cheating, but it's more an obsession, as I do it even when I have way too much money in the bank and for players worth about 100k! I don't do it with matches. Sometimes you can get way more for players than you think (like with JRC, I probably started asking about 12 mill which is what the game said his value was), and I don't like the idea that I'm missing out. I also like to pick apart how the transfer system on the game works, cos I like to know how stuff works. Doing so has made me see there are some really weird, sometimes unfair and unrealistic, quirks in there, which heightens my sense that I don't want to get shafted out of a good fee lol! Things like, a club is willing to pay up to 10 million, but if you ask for 10.5 million they won't even make a bid, rather than offering 9 or 10 and seeing whether you'll accept. Frankly it's a waste of my time but I weirdly enjoy it.

It also helped me figure out that almost universally, you can pay exactly 1/3 of a player's price up front and the other 2/3 in 12-monthly installments over 3 years. Super useful, as only the first third comes off your budget for this season (the rest comes off when installments are due, but gives you time to make the money for it). And you can usually pay about half the fee based on league appearances (and still split the guaranteed bit into thirds), very useful for players you know won't ever play for you and are just development and resale projects. They only want slightly more (like 10 percent maybe) than they'd want if you paid it all up front. Might be different on later FMs.

Ahh the inevitable Watford equaliser...

[OldEwoodBlue]

No outlet or threat since Sorba withdrawn.

[BigBar]

Poor from Gally has to be said. Just help it out for a corner or throw..sent it back into the danger zone.

[booth]

Porteous just literally walked past Brereton with the ball.

Porteous dives from a challenge by another player.

Watford score.

Fuck off Brereton.

[ItsRoverZ]

Can see them winning this now with 15 to go, really don't get why we try hold on for 30 minutes, do that in the last 10 to 15 not almost an entire half 

Thomas needs fitness I get that but him going off didn't help us as an attacking threat and we must have the weakest midfield in the league? 

[neophox]

You flick it out for a corner not in the box Gally 

[Fraserkirky]

Dolan been gash, as usual

[BigBar]

1 minute ago, Fraserkirky said:

Right through Pickering 

He is a ghost in every sense of the word 

[SoldierMo]

Gallagher is a joke

[scotchrover]

Why do we stop playing? That goal’s been coming. 

[Bethnal]

1 minute ago, Fraserkirky said:

Dolan been gash, as usual

Hard disagree.

[Nuttall is lost]

1 minute ago, BigBar said:

He is a ghost in every sense of the word 

Where you watching this Bar?

[Dan]

1 minute ago, BigBar said:

Poor from Gally has to be said. Just help it out for a corner or throw..sent it back into the danger zone.

Who was saying he’s worth his place as he’s good at defending corners? 🙄

[roverandout]

Gallagher has to be one of the worst players ever to wear a rovers shirt

[Exiled_Rover]

1 minute ago, ItsRoverZ said:

Can see them winning this now with 15 to go, really don't get why we try hold on for 30 minutes, do that in the last 10 to 15 not almost an entire half 

Thomas needs fitness I get that but him going off didn't help us as an attacking threat and we must have the weakest midfield in the league? 

Thomas is on a yellow too - probably the right decision to take him off. 

[booth]

I hope it's not gone unnoted that Brereton allowed Porteous to literally walk past him with the ball. I'm appalled.