John Eustace - our head coach

[martonrover]

One swallow doesn’t make a summer, but some of the criticism has been OTT and very premature.

 

[M_B]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

delighted for him today. 

He has made harder to beat and defensively much better plus having JRC back from injury and having that front 4 available will be massive help to him going forward

Defensively, the turnaround has been impressive. 

[Bohinen1983]

Let's just calm down a bit..  He's won one game. A lot of the games he's had were against sides around us too..  He'll have to do a lot more to convince me..  Hopefully he proves me wrong as if I am wrong that means Rovers are successful..     Without major investment any manager is going to struggle though. 

[roversfan99]

His results overall have not been good enough even allowing for the excuses he professes not to want to use. And I dont agree that performances have been excellent up before today as he said post match. But fair play today, we were set up really well, we pressed well and the result was fantastic so hopefully its a springboard.

[Upside Down]

2 hours ago, M_B said:

Defensively, the turnaround has been impressive. 

How? We've conceded in nearly every game.

If we'd have had 7 clean sheets I would say that is true but we're still conceding goals only now, today aside, we've totally nullified our attacking threat.

Almost as though having nothing up front means more has to be committed forward to create goals and that, funnily enough, leaves us exposed at the back.

When Szmodics is sold for a pittance in the summer and he's not replaced how many will we win when conceding nearly every game and we've got Markanday and Leonard up front?

[M_B]

5 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

How? We've conceded in nearly every game.

If we'd have had 7 clean sheets I would say that is true but we're still conceding goals only now, today aside, we've totally nullified our attacking threat.

Almost as though having nothing up front means more has to be committed forward to create goals and that, funnily enough, leaves us exposed at the back.

When Szmodics is sold for a pittance in the summer and he's not replaced how many will we win when conceding nearly every game and we've got Markanday and Leonard up front?

In Tomasson's last 11 games we conceded 27,in the 11 since we've conceded 11, and never more than 2.

We've lost 3 out of that 11,all by a single goal. We needed tightening up, we were going down. The bloke has shown some nous. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

13 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

How? We've conceded in nearly every game.

If we'd have had 7 clean sheets I would say that is true but we're still conceding goals only now, today aside, we've totally nullified our attacking threat.

Almost as though having nothing up front means more has to be committed forward to create goals and that, funnily enough, leaves us exposed at the back.

When Szmodics is sold for a pittance in the summer and he's not replaced how many will we win when conceding nearly every game and we've got Markanday and Leonard up front?

How many of those goals conceded have been down to Pears ? What can a manager do about that ? Drop him and play Wahlstadt ?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

21 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

His results overall have not been good enough even allowing for the excuses he professes not to want to use. And I dont agree that performances have been excellent up before today as he said post match. But fair play today, we were set up really well, we pressed well and the result was fantastic so hopefully its a springboard.

And when we did break on Sunderland we got plenty of bodies forward. 

[Upside Down]

6 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

How many of those goals conceded have been down to Pears ? What can a manager do about that ? Drop him and play Wahlstadt ?

That is an X factor, bear in mind that JDT had Leo in goal for quite a few games and his confidence and therefore the defences confidence in him were all completely shot.

 

[Gav]

Just moving away from the petty point scoring, today’s result was massive in the context of the relegation battle. Eustace has inherited a mid table squad low on quality and lacking in confidence. 

Today's result was massive and all credit to the manager, players and his back room team, nobody saw that coming. 

Onwards and upwards. 

Edited April 1 by Gav

[Ossydave]

You'd have to be a bit simple to not realise Eustace has made improvements on the defensive side of things. What he's struggled to do is get the balance right in terms of attacking. Today he got it spectacularly right. A few returning players were crucial to this as well.

Edited April 1 by Ossydave

[jim mk2]

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

How many of those goals conceded have been down to Pears ? What can a manager do about that ? Drop him and play Wahlstadt ?

How many goals have we given away not through poor defending but to downright bloody awful goalkeeping. It just should not happen at this level. Priority number one in the summer has to be a solid proven goalkeeper. He doesn’t have to be special, just one who doesn’t keep letting the team down with silly, basic mistakes 

[Upside Down]

A great win today and that could well be the one result that keeps us up. Gives us a massive confidence boost and puts a nail in the coffin of the teams below us.

Hopefully we'll beat Southampton. I'd love for that tosser Martin to fail getting the best squad in the league promoted.

[tomphil]

6 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

How many goals have we given away not through poor defending but to downright bloody awful goalkeeping. It just should not happen at this level. Priority number one in the summer has to be a solid proven goalkeeper. He doesn’t have to be special, just one who doesn’t keep letting the team down with silly, basic mistakes 

Between the two of them they've gifted several points directly to the opposition this season it's quite ridiculous for a club of this stature to be so weak in that position.

We are right back to the Steele, Jake Kean level of a decade ago and that's pathetic given how much time it took to get the keeper dept decent again.  Jake didn't cost 800k either and a Simon Eastwood would be number 1 in this set up.

[simongarnerisgod]

got to be a priorty in the summer,a reliable goalkeeper,id`e put both pears and wahlstadt on the available list,get them off the wage bill and buy a keeper who is bigger and more consistent

[Tom]

Well I’ve not been impressed so far but what a performance and win that is, let’s hope it’s a real turning point 

[Andy]

Today was brilliant, really enjoyed that.

But it is slightly worrying that he thinks that we've been 'excellent' in every game he's managed for us.
We've improved defensively, but if the last 11 games set the standard of 'excellent', it doesn't really inspire any confidence for next season.

We've been a team in transition, of course, but we have been far, far from excellent on the whole.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, Andy said:

Today was brilliant, really enjoyed that.

But it is slightly worrying that he thinks that we've been 'excellent' in every game he's managed for us.
We've improved defensively, but if the last 11 games set the standard of 'excellent', it doesn't really inspire any confidence for next season.

We've been a team in transition, of course, but we have been far, far from excellent on the whole.

It’s just the usual modern manager speak for public consumption. What he actually thinks or says behind the scenes could well be different. As long as he doesn’t actually believe that I’m ok with it.

[Leonard Venkhater]

29 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Between the two of them they've gifted several points directly to the opposition this season it's quite ridiculous for a club of this stature to be so weak in that position.

We are right back to the Steele, Jake Kean level of a decade ago and that's pathetic given how much time it took to get the keeper dept decent again.  Jake didn't cost 800k either and a Simon Eastwood would be number 1 in this set up.

This...and it doesn't half make me angry. How many points have these two cost us this season?!

Talk about spoiling the ship for a ha'pworth of tar...

[47er]

1 hour ago, Ossydave said:

You'd have to be a bit simple to not realise Eustace has made improvements on the defensive side of things

Its a struggle though when you have 2 keepers like ours. I always feel both have a couple of blunders in their repertoire!

Disgusting that we are lacking in such a key position.

[RevidgeBlue]

2 hours ago, Upside Down said:

How? We've conceded in nearly every game.

If we'd have had 7 clean sheets I would say that is true but we're still conceding goals only now, today aside, we've totally nullified our attacking threat.

Almost as though having nothing up front means more has to be committed forward to create goals and that, funnily enough, leaves us exposed at the back.

When Szmodics is sold for a pittance in the summer and he's not replaced how many will we win when conceding nearly every game and we've got Markanday and Leonard up front?

Bah Humbug.

[Upside Down]

59 minutes ago, 47er said:

Its a struggle though when you have 2 keepers like ours. I always feel both have a couple of blunders in their repertoire!

Disgusting that we are lacking in such a key position.

What's more disgusting is we had a good keeper and sold him for absolutely fuck all.

[AllRoverAsia]

Well, he pulled the rabbit out of the hat today!

I didn't see the game so can't offer opinion of us or Sunderland but everything I've read and seen, which is now quite a bit, says we were good and they were very very shite.

Home to Southampton is a much bigger test.

A draw would be ok but a win makes us more or less ok whilst screwing Martin. What could be better than that 

[rigger]

11 hours ago, Upside Down said:

What's more disgusting is we had a good keeper and sold him for absolutely fuck all.

Twice.

[lraC]

3 minutes ago, rigger said:

Twice.

How much did we get for Raya in the end, excluding the £5m we seem to be due at some point in the not too distant future?