v Burnley (a) - 31/08/2024

[Displaced Rover]

This is woeful

[RTM08]

A complete lack of effort so far, funnily enough with a lot of players who also put no effort in 2 years ago. 

Commentators all over Burnley's amazing football but we just hoof it to them every time we get the ball.

[OsloRover]

Some of the worst opening 15 minutes I’ve ever seen from rovers

[Tom]

Hannibal there doing the kind of stuff I want our lads to do, it’s like no matter the words our lads always fail to get the significance and what’s needed 

[Penwortham Blue]

This is just a carry on from last year’s showing. Has Travis touched it yet ?

[Darwen Rover 007]

Only one team up for this 

[davulsukur]

Can't get anywhere near them.

[Penwortham Blue]

Just now, Penwortham Blue said:

This is just a carry on from last year’s showing. Has Travis touched it yet ?

In fact, probably half our team have hardly touched the ball or made a tackle, pathetic !

[Exiled_Rover]

Just now, Tom said:

Hannibal there doing the kind of stuff I want our lads to do, it’s like no matter the words our lads always fail to get the significance and what’s needed 

What, pushing a LB off the field of play? 

[davulsukur]

Big Mac, just shoving their guy over. 

[booth]

Brittain and Hyam still passing it around at the back and losing it.

[Forever Blue]

Eustace has got it totally wrong. He’s trying to press them high up and they’re just playing thru us with ease. 

[Mike E]

Nice bit of shithousery from Trav.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

4 minutes ago, roverblue said:

Every derby game we look totally uninterested, just being out ran and out worked. No pressing or movement just trying to keep the score down by the looks 

This is what I cant accept..makes me so f'kin angry!!

[Exiled_Rover]

1 minute ago, RTM08 said:

A complete lack of effort so far, funnily enough with a lot of players who also put no effort in 2 years ago. 

Commentators all over Burnley's amazing football but we just hoof it to them every time we get the ball.

They just have better football players than we do.

As we've said repeatedly, we needed pace adding to the attack - we didn't really sign any (I've no idea if this Brighton kid is any good) so they can just push up the field with little fear of us getting in behind.

Dolan gets worse the more he plays by the way. 

[Tom]

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

What, pushing a LB off the field of play? 

Yep and that’s more like it from Trav and Gueye 

Remind them we are here 

[MarkBRFC71]

Men against boys this.  They are a thousand times more up for it than we are.

[booth]

The fattest man on the pitch beat our defence.

[matt83]

Brittain hasn’t done anything right yet. It’s astonishing.

[DE.]

2 minutes ago, CambridgeRover said:

I loved the complete bollocks people were spouting about JE being more up for a derby than JDT

Neither of the managers can get anything out of our mentally weak losers. Some of these players are as soft as they come 

I think JDT tried the 'take the pressure off' approach by trying to treat it as just another game, as annoying as that sounded to us. He likely felt that was the best way to try and alleviate the mental pressure from a group of players well known for being unable to handle it. Eustace has made a point of how important the game is, almost the opposite approach.

JDT's approach didn't work, and Eustace's doesn't seem to have done much either based on this start.

[WacoRover]

Unfortunately, these are the real Rovers; not the ones who defeated two recently promoted sides. 

But, once again, Burnley has a plan; we are a project…

[Crozzy]

Looks like they forgot to unpack the bag that had composure on it.  We look so scared on the ball

[B16Rover]

Get the ball

Hyam to pears 

Pears to Hyam 

Hyam to Brittain 

Give the ball away 

Ad infinitum 

[Tom]

Genuinely didn’t know hedges was playing till then 

[Darwen Rover 007]

Were our lads out on the lash last night..

Serious question.