v Swansea City (a) - 22/2/25

[XLM]

24 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Pears is such a Jekyll and Hyde keeper, unfortunately you don’t know what one has turned up game by game until he has either pulled off a great save or threw one into the net. He needs replaced as we can’t be having this degree of variance in performances in a keeper. 

He's Jekyll and Hyde in that he's either shit or average

[roversfan99]

19 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Very disappointed result and performance, Didn't expect that after the last 2 wins. 

Could have been very different if Weimann scored at nil nil but we didn't, after that simply not good enough. 

Thanks Lowe and the staff for 2 wins  after Eustace left but we need a new head coach appointment now. 

You didnt expect it because you defended the selection even though it was the opposite of what you wanted yourself.

Hedges is something else and not in a good way.

[NeilInBristol]

20 minutes ago, Valconite said:

Knew as soon as the line up was announced that we would loose but I expected them to at least try.

That was diabolical. DL and that selection. I am so fed up that those in charge keep selecting line ups based on who they are mates with and because they are “good lads”. You don’t win games like that ffs.

Having your best players on the bench each game while the likes of Hedges for example keep starting is baffling. And don’t get me started on Pears (can Kaminski come back please if Luton get relegated).

Feel bad for the fans that travelled.

 

Also, f u Waggot and Pasha. How the hell is there still no proper manager / head coach in place.

 

DL made "tweaks " in training this week. FFS.

Why.

Just keep the same players and plan it did you good for two games 

[DE.]

Hedges being a first teamer perfectly encapsulates the downgrading of the team in recent years. He was brought in as a cheap sub and for a club with top six ambitions that's all he should be. 

The fact we keep getting in and around the top six (before inevitably falling away at the end) despite Venky's best efforts to sabotage us just calls into question WTF the other teams in the division are playing at. Is ownership/leadership at all clubs in this division just at a truly abysmal level?

[Roverthechimp]

Washing machine decided to stop working mid cycle after 30 mins of the match. Thank fuck for that as it saved me watching the rest of the game (first 30 was bad enough...)

Still onwards and downwards - seventh place is doable...

[Gamst]

Lowe, Pears and Hedges are scapegoats but they are all good professionals. They’re just not quite good enough for this level. Pears is a decent back up keeper who became first choice due to us selling a very good keeper and twice buying an inferior replacement. Not signing De Lange was another big mistake. Lowe has never wanted to be a head coach/manager and is probably not even been paid extra his efforts. He’s in this position because they have failed to support his 2 decent predecessors and both have done all they can to leave. Always frustrating to lose, but the scapegoats don’t deserve our wrath. That should be fully focused on our penny pinching billionaire owners and their stooges at Ewood park! 

[Exiled_Rover]

10 minutes ago, DE. said:

Hedges being a first teamer perfectly encapsulates the downgrading of the team in recent years. He was brought in as a cheap sub and for a club with top six ambitions that's all he should be. 

The fact we keep getting in and around the top six (before inevitably falling away at the end) despite Venky's best efforts to sabotage us just calls into question WTF the other teams in the division are playing at. Is ownership/leadership at all clubs in this division just at a truly abysmal level?

No, it just goes to show how big a club we actually are. Despite deliberate sabotage for 13 years we're consistently there or there abouts.

We'd be Brentford or Brighton with good ownership.

[Gav]

Safe trip home you Rovers hordes, hero’s everyone of you. 

[Inferi]

I think this was the worst performance of the season. Swansea is not a good side. Makes you wonder what Lowe did to prepare the players for the match. We offered nothing going forward and despite the very defensive tactics we also looked poor defensively.

[DE.]

13 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

No, it just goes to show how big a club we actually are. Despite deliberate sabotage for 13 years we're consistently there or there abouts.

We'd be Brentford or Brighton with good ownership.

I agree, but then there are other similar sized clubs who have really struggled under incompetent ownership. Sheff Utd and Leeds spent a lot of time in League 1. Ipswich too. We've generally bumped around the Championship fairly comfortably in spite of Venky's, 2016-2018 aside.  

Those clubs all bounced back in a big way eventually, however, whereas we're stuck in eternal purgatory because we have owners who refuse to release their stranglehold on the club. You just wonder at this point when will it ever end? 

[roverandout]

Pears for me was at fault for the second goal as well as the first

[StHelensRover]

3 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Pears for me was at fault for the second goal as well as the first

No question. Sanderson defended the initial break very poorly but Pears had an age to come out and narrow the angle. The angle should be second nature to a professional goalie they shouldn't even have to think about it, but he ran out too late and made a bizarre angle which allowed him to roll it past him straight in. It was a tidy finish but 9 times out of 10 in the Championship the goalie stops that.

Edited February 22 by StHelensRover

[Upside Down]

39 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

No, it just goes to show how big a club we actually are. Despite deliberate sabotage for 13 years we're consistently there or there abouts.

We'd be Brentford or Brighton with good ownership.

We'd probably be above them due to us having some actual history and standing within the game really.

[Michael123458]

1 hour ago, Torgeir said:

Coventry have real momentum and will overtake us. Only thing in this match I find comfort in, is that Eustace would've had the same approach - and most likely the same result. Hopefully we can get a new man sorted soon, we need a breath of fresh air inside the club.

Mate we need a new manger a new strategy and some form of direction. In eustace up while Xmas before last year I thought were in a good place here and we will progress. Swansea away is a horrible place to go just one of them away games that most think this is horrible this game it’s in lap of gods in my opinion JUST MOVE ON NOW RTID!!

[Hasta]

Eustace this. Lowe that.

The minute we replaced Barker with Forshaw and then Tronstadt got injured our fate was sealed. 

Edited February 22 by Hasta

[Herbie6590]

1 hour ago, StHelensRover said:

Odd that you're not able to give zero as a score, Pears gets ZERO from me 😂

That’s a feature not a bug 😆

[martonrover]

Well at least it should dampen the temptation to give it to Lowe.

Our caretaker manager bounce has finished, now we need some new manager bounce.

Otherwise it’ll be time to say “we’re only x points from the play offs” ad - nauseam, until May. 

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

You didnt expect it because you defended the selection even though it was the opposite of what you wanted yourself.

 

Missing the point that was made cos my point, you slammed the team selection alot before games and that was the point like the WBA game

[Ricky]

1 hour ago, Gav said:

Safe trip home you Rovers hordes, hero’s everyone of you. 

You still up for giving it Lowe for the rest of the season mate? 

[islander200]

46 minutes ago, Inferi said:

I think this was the worst performance of the season. Swansea is not a good side. Makes you wonder what Lowe did to prepare the players for the match. We offered nothing going forward and despite the very defensive tactics we also looked poor defensively.

We were poor today extremely poor but Weimann should have buried both those chances,especially the second 1 so we did create 2 very good chances before Swansea took the lead 

If Weimann puts 1 of them away we wouldn't discussing a defeat now

Poor team selection. Buckley had a good game v West Brom,could understand giving him a bit of a rest last week but he should have been back in today. 

I still feel if the manager situation is sorted out there is reason to be a little optimistic. Batth,Beck ,Tronstad and Cantwell not involved should be back soon, Ohashi back on the bench,and Carter waiting to get back in the 11. 

Huge game next Saturday now,really can't afford a Norwich victory it would put them a point behind us 

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I just can't bring myself to comment anything positive about this. One to forget and move on to next one at home against Norwich. 

[Exiled in Toronto Mk2]

ANY decent keeper stops the first two. The first goal would defy belief if it wasn’t Pears: a barely still rolling ball straight to his feet and he literally kicks it in. The second one exposed one of his long term flaws: he has no idea where he should be or even is - he didn’t come out early enough or far enough to narrow the angle, but he came out too far to make it a routine dive save. After that 6 minute shitshow it didn’t matter who’d been picked or how they were playing. He should’ve been benched after losing us the Bristol City match and we’ve zero chance of the playoffs if he isn’t benched now.

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apparently we bully teams 🤷‍♂️

 

 

[DeeCee]

Conspiracy Theory,: Swag/Pasha/Gestede told DL to pick the starting line up they specified, with an option to try and catch up on 70 mins?

[Lecogsportif]

1 hour ago, roverandout said:

Pears for me was at fault for the second goal as well as the first

Pears should have played to the whistle, caught in 2 minds

Goal 2 & 3, Sanderson, need to put those tackles in… 

Goal 1…dare I say it….