v Coventry City (h) - 21/01/25

[RoversTilliDie]

6 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

We watched a different match.

You must not have been wearing your glasses, apart from a couple of great saves from the Coventry keeper, we were never in it.

[USABlue]

1 minute ago, RoversTilliDie said:

You must not have been wearing your glasses, apart from a couple of great saves from the Coventry keeper, we were never in it.

What? Bit silly really.  One thing this game showed ist the importance of a decent keeper.  We swap keepers with them and we probably win by six.

  I do not know how critical we can be of our lads with the injuries we have.  Any team. will stuggle, ANY TEAM, with 10 first teamers out.  The lads deserve, (and Eustace) credit for what the have managed with all the injuries.

  Now begins the annual saga, End year in playoff spots, spend jack shit in Jan, players realize why should they care when the owners. dont and then begins our yearly decent toward the relegation spots.  Bloody awful shame.

I would like to see more of the BigMac we saw on Tues.  He was good.  

Edited January 22 by USABlue

[RoversTilliDie]

It might have been a blessing in disguise losing last night and sliding out the top 6. Can you imagine this team in the Premiership, against teams like Liverpool, Man city; Arsenal etc.

[USABlue]

5 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

It might have been a blessing in disguise losing last night and sliding out the top 6. Can you imagine this team in the Premiership, against teams like Liverpool, Man city; Arsenal etc.

You mean Rovers Reserves?

[aletheia]

Can we call it a death spiral now? Of course, it has been since 2011.

Or perhaps the usual VLOM –Venkys Loop of Mediocrity?

[Crimpshrine]

7 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

There is no difference, they own the club. You can’t be a ‘friend’ of Rovers and not be a ‘friend’ of the Venkys. A true ‘friend’ of Rovers would be calling for the owners to sell up which WATR are categorically not doing. Understand? 

Categorically ? 

And, no, I don't understand that logic at all.

Does it follow that you can't be a fan of Rovers and not a fan of Venky's ?

[RoversTilliDie]

3 minutes ago, aletheia said:

Can we call it a death spiral now? Of course, it has been since 2011.

 

Or perhaps the usual VLOM –Venkys Loop of Mediocrity?

 

According to USA blue on this site, we were brilliant last night.

[RoversTilliDie]

17 minutes ago, USABlue said:

What? Bit silly really.  One thing this game showed ist the importance of a decent keeper.  We swap keepers with them and we probably win by six.

  I do not know how critical we can be of our lads with the injuries we have.  Any team. will stuggle, ANY TEAM, with 10 first teamers out.  The lads deserve, (and Eustace) credit for what the have managed with all the injuries.

  Now begins the annual saga, End year in playoff spots, spend jack shit in Jan, players realize why should they care when the owners. dont and then begins our yearly decent toward the relegation spots.  Bloody awful shame.

I would like to see more of the BigMac we saw on Tues.  He was good.  

It's going to be this way, until we get rid of the venkys. We get off to a fantastic start to the Season, and get in the top 6, then along come the usual injuries, and no transfer money to bolster the squad.

[USABlue]

10 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

According to USA blue on this site, we were brilliant last night.

And I stated that where?  We have played worse and won.

[Forever Blue]

10 minutes ago, Crimpshrine said:

Categorically ? 

And, no, I don't understand that logic at all.

Does it follow that you can't be a fan of Rovers and not a fan of Venky's ?

I think you’re missing the context of the ‘critical friend’ comment. 

[USABlue]

8 hours ago, joey_big_nose said:

I think we can accept that Bristol City is as close to a nailed on loss as you get in the Championship. I'd never normally do this but I would seriously think about putting the kids in with the few seniors who have not had much game time (Sanderson, Buckley, Forshaw) and giving everyone else a rest.

The key is then who we can get back fit by 31st January for 5 games in two weeks. If we have even some of Travis, Tronstad, Ohashi, Carter, Pickering back, plus a couple of signings we could get back into the driving seat.

We may want to do just that, give some a break, just never know perhaps youthfull exuberance might pull us through.  We don't usually do so well against them either.

[USABlue]

6 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Genuinely what homework was that? A sliced shot that turned into an incredible pass that faded away from the GK and landed on the head of their £7m striker 2 yards out? Freak goal.

With a Pearsesque punch to knock it into danger followed by an even more Pearsesque flapping of the hands nowhere near the ball to let it in.  

[Forever Blue]

8 minutes ago, USABlue said:

With a Pearsesque punch to knock it into danger followed by an even more Pearsesque flapping of the hands nowhere near the ball to let it in.  

Pears is better than the punch and flap by Toth, this season at least.

[RevidgeBlue]

49 minutes ago, Crimpshrine said:

Categorically ? 

And, no, I don't understand that logic at all.

Does it follow that you can't be a fan of Rovers and not a fan of Venky's ?

I think you two are splitting hairs somewhat.

You can be a fan of "Rovers" (The Club that has existed since 1875) and want the best for it whilst simultaneously not being a fan of "Rovers" (The Club, ownership and management as it has operated for the last few years)

Imo.

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, RoversTilliDie said:

It might have been a blessing in disguise losing last night and sliding out the top 6. Can you imagine this team in the Premiership, against teams like Liverpool, Man city; Arsenal etc.

you could apply that to most of the championship,you spend some of the riches you get on some better players

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, RoversTilliDie said:

It might have been a blessing in disguise losing last night and sliding out the top 6. Can you imagine this team in the Premiership, against teams like Liverpool, Man city; Arsenal etc.

That's rubbish.

Even if we perform like Southampton, we'll take the £100m + thanks.

Would put the Club in a much better position.

[islander200]

1 hour ago, RoversTilliDie said:

It might have been a blessing in disguise losing last night and sliding out the top 6. Can you imagine this team in the Premiership, against teams like Liverpool, Man city; Arsenal etc.

We haven't slipped out of the top 6 yet.

[Lancaster Rover]

the most frustrating aspect of our owners/executives ability and/or willingness to act is that this year the championship is a really poor league and the best chance of a non parachute team getting promoted. The top 3 teams in Leeds, Sheff Utd and Dingles are rank average with Sheff Utd being the only team with a plan B. Sit deep and give Leeds and Burnley the ball and they look bereft of ideas. Anyone who goes up this year will get slapped all over the Prem but it really is a golden opportunity to go up given the relative lack of quality in the league 

[Herbie6590]

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[USABlue]

3 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

The punch was OK. When the ball comes back in he has a decision to make, come for it or stay on your line. If he stays on the line he has an easy save. If he comes for it he HAS to get there first. 

It's no use starting to come out, only getting half way then dong "the starfish". That might work in a one on one when an attacker is bearing down on goal but not in that situation.

Wonder when the penny will drop.  Almost every keeper comes in here and goes backwards or does a lot better elsewhere. They all seem to have the same weaknesses.  We need to hire a proper keeper coach, preferably one who has done the job.

[Mashed Potatoes]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

That's rubbish.

Even if we perform like Southampton, we'll take the £100m + thanks.

Would put the Club in a much better position.

Agreed - and yet there are some who say the owners don't want that £100m+

[chaddyrovers]

14 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Travis, Tronstad, Brittain, Batth have all played game after game and the strain of having a small squad has led to these injuries. The likes of Carter, Pickering and Sigurdsson (not that we miss him) are injury prone anyway.

Small squad of 23 players roughly? 

 

14 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

And as has been the case for years, hence the constant second half of the season declines, when you peel beyond our first 11 our squad players are nowhere near good enough. Forshaw, Buckley, Hedges etc. Not Championship standard. We will fall soon out of top 6 contention.

It's fairly that your squad players will not the same quality as first team regulars or key players. 

14 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Gueye's general play was good. His finishing is very bad.

Thought keeper made 2 good saves from him plus Batth's shot first half

[chaddyrovers]

11 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

Home side in the top 5 creates a few chances against a side in the bottom half, so they bloody should to be fair!

We obviously have very different standards if we're thinking that was a good performance last night.

Years of mediocrity seems to think creating a few chances at home to a poor side is worthy of praise.

Well Eustace's comments are it was good performance and we shouldn't have lost. Take it you disagree? 

[roversfan99]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Small squad of 23 players roughly? 

 

It's fairly that your squad players will not the same quality as first team regulars or key players. 

Thought keeper made 2 good saves from him plus Batth's shot first half

Small squad in terms of quality. Obviously your squad players wont be as good as your first teamers but for most teams the gap isnt as big. Midfield is an obvious example, in Travis and Tronstad, you wont find muc better at this level. You wont find a worse partnership than Buckley and Forshaw. You could say we had a big squad last year but youd be counting Ennis, Telalovic, Garrett, Markanday etc. Its not just how many bodies you have. 

What did you make to Hedges and Forshaw, 2 players you have defended a lot?

With JRC picking up an injury and Tronstad out until March. Are you still happy just to run with Travis, Buckley and Forshaw in there?

Do you still see us as likely to get into the top 6? And if so, do you still think we only need a left winger and striker to achieve it? Or has that number gone up?

[roversfan99]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Well Eustace's comments are it was good performance and we shouldn't have lost. Take it you disagree? 

😂 you are allowed your own opinions you know