v Bristol City (a) - 10/04/2024

[bluebruce]

3 minutes ago, Dan said:

That interview makes me think he’s thick as fuck.

Not as thick as he thinks we are... imagine expecting fans to believe that a 5-0 defeat to an average side won't have any effect on our confidence leading up to playing one of the best sides in the league! 🤣

[London blue]

10 minutes ago, superniko said:

When we lose to Leeds it’ll be 10 points from 13 league games under Eustace and 1 win.

JDTs final 13 league games….11 points.

Worth reminding all those with blinkers on raving about how we’ve improved the last few weeks and constantly quoting X points in X games.

Has a manager ever had the opposite of ‘new manager bounce’ to this extreme

This is quite damning

[M_B]

4 minutes ago, London blue said:

This is quite damning

On who🤣🤣🤣

[Dan]

2 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

It is harsh to say it but it seems so. 

He literally comes across clueless.

Just apologize to the fans it wont make you bleed or cost you anything you idiot.

I’m still shaking my head in disbelief at that interview. I know you don’t want to lose your players, but if I were manager I wouldn’t be able to hold back. 
 

I know it was going completely Pete Tong under JDT, but at least he didn’t just talk absolute shite like this guy. We’ve had so many managers that just talk shit, Mowbray, Grinder Gary, Kean.

[alcd]

8 minutes ago, superniko said:

When we lose to Leeds it’ll be 10 points from 13 league games under Eustace and 1 win.

JDTs final 13 league games….11 points.

Worth reminding all those with blinkers on raving about how we’ve improved the last few weeks and constantly quoting X points in X games.

Has a manager ever had the opposite of ‘new manager bounce’ to this extreme

To be fair the squad is mostly crap for this level. It's impossible to polish turds. Having a 16 year old as the backup striker on the bench says it all when Bristol can bring on as subs 3 experienced proven strikers all better than any of ours. Venkys have presided over a decimation of the squad and the last three transfer windows have been pitiful. 

[Dan]

6 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Not as thick as he thinks we are... imagine expecting fans to believe that a 5-0 defeat to an average side won't have any effect on our confidence leading up to playing one of the best sides in the league! 🤣

Don’t worry it’s a good opportunity to come again on Saturday 🙄

[superniko]

1 minute ago, M_B said:

On who🤣🤣🤣

Yeah I guess from my original post I also wanted to highlight how bad the end was under JDT….yet it’s looking as bad or worse under this fella. 
If we needed a change then, there’s an argument to say we need a change now away from Eustace. 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

1 minute ago, Dan said:

 We’ve had so many managers that just talk shit, Mowbray, Grinder Gary, Kean.

He's of the same ilk this one.

What the feck have we done to deserve this?

[wilsdenrover]

9 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Has to be a world record, that.

Does women’s football count?…

[Andy]

One of the greatest attributes any leader can have is humility.

All JE is interested in is self preservation with these stupid soundbites.

I can't bring myself to listen to his interviews. You know what generic bollocks is going to leave his mouth before he even starts.

I'd genuinely bin him right now and let Johnson & Lowe take the remaining games.

[wilsdenrover]

5 minutes ago, Dan said:

I’m still shaking my head in disbelief at that interview. I know you don’t want to lose your players, but if I were manager I wouldn’t be able to hold back. 
 

I know it was going completely Pete Tong under JDT, but at least he didn’t just talk absolute shite like this guy. We’ve had so many managers that just talk shit, Mowbray, Grinder Gary, Kean.

Swipe left…

[alcd]

16 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

Also Pears.

Wtf man. He went down early for the first pen 

He also was shocking for the first goal although yes hyam caused it but seriously. He doesn't ooze confidence and probably makes the defense nervous 

Pears got away with several ill judged rushes out of his area and was all at sea with the in swinging corners. He's never far away from a calamitous error. But he's still better than Walstedt..... 

[Ghost7]

Nail in the coffin tonight for me. It wasn't just the errors John, they looked inexcusably flat and slow from the moment the whistle went. Rovers invited the errors and looked beaten from minute 1. Bristol were way more up for it and I've no idea why that would be given the circumstances. That team is going down and they all know it, I even think the manager knows it. You can only put it down to ability after tonight, they just don't have enough of it.

[rovers11]

A lot of neutrals tipping us to go down now and I agree with them. I was hopeful after recent results but I think we only have one point left in us, which we'll prob get against Wednesday. 47 points won't be enough. Us and Brum are going down I reckon. 

[bluebruce]

8 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Does women’s football count?…

It does, but not in the mens game. Has to be a record at our sort of level and above. Certainly in England, if not globally.

[Polky]

We’ve currently conceded 71 goals in the championship this season. The most goals conceded since relegation from the Premier League.

22/23 - 54

21/22 - 50

20/21 - 54

19/20 - 63

18/19 - 69

16/17 - 65 (Relegation)

15/16 - 46

14/15 - 59

13/14 - 62

12/13 - 62

 

[wilsdenrover]

1 minute ago, bluebruce said:

It does, but not in the mens game. Has to be a record at our sort of level and above. Certainly in England, if not globally.

I expect you’re right.

[Gamst]

Why did Sammie play the full 90 mins when he’s clearly exhausted? Once the game has gone at 3-0 surely you bring him off? 

[M_B]

3 minutes ago, superniko said:

Yeah I guess from my original post I also wanted to highlight how bad the end was under JDT….yet it’s looking as bad or worse under this fella. 
If we needed a change then, there’s an argument to say we need a change now away from Eustace. 

All I'd say in his defence is that we all know  he has had to start from ground zero. It's our first hammering in 13 or whatever, so he has somehow managed to make us harder to beat (till tonight 🙄). 

He isn't going anywhere anyway , I'm just hoping he can grind out a win against Wednesday to keep us up. Nervous about that already. 

 

[JHRover]

1 hour ago, jim mk2 said:

Don’t understand this. Why would they leave if we went down? Why would one automatically lead to the other? Relegation is the worst thing that could happen. 

Relegation would be a catastrophe yes. 

But its coming. This year, next or in two years. The only way of avoiding it is if Venkys leave or they suddenly change their ways and run the club properly. Neither will happen.

So survival gets us nowhere other than a stay of execution, a nice bonus for the facilitators ahead of the next round of cuts and sales.

There is some slim hope that with relegation comes the final blow to the finances needed to push them out and drain the Ewood swamp. Its a slim hope but more likely to get them out than surviving. 

I accept the most likely outcome is League One stagnation for a few years with Venkys still here, basically a modern day Crewe, but they are taking us there sooner or later anyway with their current funding and recruitment 'model'. 

 

[bluebruce]

1 minute ago, wilsdenrover said:

I expect you’re right.

Nobody will ever convince me he didn't do that shit on purpose. I've always suspected someone threw him a bribe, telling him it would also speed up his move away.

[simongarnerisgod]

1 minute ago, Gamst said:

Why did Sammie play the full 90 mins when he’s clearly exhausted? Once the game has gone at 3-0 surely you bring him off? 

eustace most likely did`nt want sammie kicking off about being subbed

[wilsdenrover]

5 minutes ago, Polky said:

We’ve currently conceded 71 goals in the championship this season. The most goals conceded since relegation from the Premier League.

22/23 - 54

21/22 - 50

20/21 - 54

19/20 - 63

18/19 - 69

16/17 - 65 (Relegation)

15/16 - 46

14/15 - 59

13/14 - 62

12/13 - 62

 

I thought I’d check whether we’re on course for a club record (we’re not as we conceded 102 in the 32-33 season.

1954-55 looks like it was exciting though, 114 scored 79 conceded!

[JHRover]

1 hour ago, Waggy76 said:

No good blaming Eustace or JDT ..

It is all on the owners .

They have to go asap , bring on adminstration..

If ,, we stay up this season, we will be  relegated next ...

The club is set up to fail ....

Spot on.

Waggott will be chuckling into his cuppa watching fans bicker about players and managers and performances when its all immaterial. 

It is all caused by Venkys. It will continue as long as they are here. Until everyone recognises that and accepts it they will continue to get away with it. Eustace will just be the latest patsy. If he takes us down they will turn the spotlight on him and Broughton and deflect away from the real culprits in India. 

[davulsukur]

Stunning to see how we've assembled a squad of such losers. The mentality of these lot has been pathetic for far too long.

It costs nothing to have some professional pride, how can none of them have any?