v Derby County (a) - 8/3/2025

[Herbie6590]

The BRFCS POTM in association with www.PSLSoccer.co.uk for yesterday’s game is…

[chaddyrovers]

Just now, Herbie6590 said:

The BRFCS POTM in association with www.PSLSoccer.co.uk for yesterday’s game is…

Our best player tbh 

[roversfan99]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Well that's where we have to disagree given what we know now about Eustace and what was going on with him. 

Ismael hasn't come in and said or done a number of things that previous head coach did. Yes he has comments how great the fans were and yesterday we were fantastic. 

Of course Ismael can be criticise when deserved but some of it is bang out of order. We lost yesterday on not being able to defend 2 very simple balls into our box and our keeper flapping like a bird. Plus not putting enough crosses into the box. Is any of my comments above wrong? is Ismael 

More BS as ever from yourself. You might not have a problem but plenty of fans do as we witness yesterday and the home game against Plymouth

Carter and Hyam couldn't deal with their front 2, its clear they were struggling. How did you not see that? 

Options were limited? really? Could have brought on JRC or ACD or more Brittain to right wing and Carter to right back. The options weren't limited at all. 

 

Sanderson helps alot defensively and settled us down as Hyam and Carter were all over the place, could you not see that? 

never ideal having we 3 right footed but Derby had a left foot at right centre back and never once did we exploit that. 

Ribeiro kept drifted away from the left making the pitch smaller which didn't help one bit 

Eustace was an employee. Ismael is an employee. Neither had/have any attachment beyond that. Eustace said and acted in that way to create a strong team spirit which he did and led to very good results. The only reason youd look back and say he was wrong to do that is if you feel jilted as if hes an ex lover.

You keep patronisingly saying "did you not see that" as if your opinions are matter of fact and im an idiot for not seeing it the same way. After the quick 2 goals, Derby then were only interested in sitting in and making it difficult for us. Sanderson didnt settle us down, he isnt very good and he should have cost us a third with a dreadful mistake. Going to a back 3 just led us lots of possession in non dangerous areas, and with an imbalance of a back 3 of right footers and Ribeiro naturally inclined to come inside. That to me is poor tactics by the manager. 

[Ghost7]

1 hour ago, M_B said:

Other than come on here and call other fellow Rovers fans happy clappers, what have you done that makes you a non happy clapper?

That phrase proper gets on my tits.

Not pretend everything is fine at the club.

Quite simple really. 

[chaddyrovers]

15 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Eustace was an employee. Ismael is an employee. Neither had/have any attachment beyond that. Eustace said and acted in that way to create a strong team spirit which he did and led to very good results. The only reason youd look back and say he was wrong to do that is if you feel jilted as if hes an ex lover.

No its was wrong and his comments were wrong. If you disagree fine but don't keep going on about. The fans message yesterday to him was clearly and maybe you disagree but fans I have spoken at games feel very similar to myself. Are we wrong and your opinion is right? 

15 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

You keep patronisingly saying "did you not see that" as if your opinions are matter of fact and im an idiot for not seeing it the same way. After the quick 2 goals, Derby then were only interested in sitting in and making it difficult for us. Sanderson didnt settle us down, he isnt very good and he should have cost us a third with a dreadful mistake. Going to a back 3 just led us lots of possession in non dangerous areas, and with an imbalance of a back 3 of right footers and Ribeiro naturally inclined to come inside. That to me is poor tactics by the manager. 

You enjoyed using you are patronising against me. FFS grow up. 

I have given my opinions on the game, tactics, my view on the goals conceded or what we didn't do enough off like get Brittain and Ribeiro further forward and putting crosses into the box for Gueye and Ohashi yet both were too deep and scared of crossing the ball. Is that comment wrong. Please enlighten me if that is wrong comment? 

[LDRover]

7 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

And somebody else gets the Derby job and that chance has gone.

And we bomb into mid table oblivion by the end of the season and his stock has dropped to the level that no-one wants him.

[RevidgeBlue]

Wonder if the players knew about the impending arrival of Valerian when they downed tools at Swansea as well?

[NeilInBristol]

5 hours ago, arbitro said:

Me too but on the second goal Hyam and Carter were far too weak.

To give Eustace a bit of credit it appears he was looking to exploit our weaknesses by getting the ball in the penalty area as often as possible. He also had Adams chipping away at Travis and it worked as Travis became preoccupied with Adams and lost focus.

He would know our weaknesses. 

The quick goals at the earliest opportunity. He knows how slow we start a game 

[Andy]

36 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

He would know our weaknesses. 

The quick goals at the earliest opportunity. He knows how slow we start a game 

This, plus target Pears - as they did mercilessly, throughout the game.

JE knows better than anybody how much of a weak point Pears is and took full advantage.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Wonder if the players knew about the impending arrival of Valerian when they downed tools at Swansea as well?

That went through my mind at the time. 

[Exiled_Rover]

46 minutes ago, Andy said:

This, plus target Pears - as they did mercilessly, throughout the game.

JE knows better than anybody how much of a weak point Pears is and took full advantage.

Every team should just shoot on sight against us. 

[arbitro]

7 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

Be honest, Norwich dominated the match and should have won by 3 or 4. Rovers were fortunate to snatch a point. 

I don't think anyone would dispute yesterday's second half was abysmal. Apart from a brief period before half time Rovers were poor overall.  Either the players are still sulking over Eustace going or they don't understand and/or are not on board with what Ismael is trying to do.

On the evidence of 2 deeply disappointing displays under him  that have probably finished our playoff hopes, I think it's the latter.

We'll see in the next game. Another performance like yesterday will confirm my suspicions

Norwich were better which was generally acknowledged by many. I was commenting on your notion that the players weren't playing for Ismael when we equalised late on and showed a bit of character.

Yesterday was undoubtedly poor and the error riddled slow start gave us a huge task but I wouldn't have questioned the players commitment at all.

[Gav]

These lads know the score, good effort gents 👍

 

Edited Sunday at 19:59 by Gav

[Paul Mellelieu]

On 09/03/2025 at 18:18, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

That went through my mind at the time. 

Or Plymouth away, Bristol last season away, etc, etc.

[booth]

1 hour ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

Or Plymouth away, Bristol last season away, etc, etc.

Let's face it, we've been shit under Eustace for a while. I'm not sure why anyone was expecting any different. That's why he left, he was running on empty.

Yes man Suhail didn't replace Szmodics, didn't replace Wharton, didn't even replace Baker. We were never going to sustain a promotion push with the shite he's presided over.

[Upside Down]

On 09/03/2025 at 21:59, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

From what it showed on the tv they were mostly kids who don’t know any better.

That's not an excuse.

[chaddyrovers]

On 09/03/2025 at 08:59, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

From what it showed on the tv they were mostly kids who don’t know any better.

Well I will tell you, its wasn't mostly kids, it was mostly adults Tyrone. Mostly between 25 to 45 aged but some older. 

 

[Wheelton Blue]

16 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Well I will tell you, its wasn't mostly kids, it was mostly adults Tyrone. Mostly between 25 to 45 aged but some older. 

 

Adults acting like kids then.

[chaddyrovers]

14 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

Adults acting like kids then.

They are entitled to their opinion just like you are. I have posted some comments from fans I spoken who aren't on here who have a different opinion to some on here. 

 

[DE.]

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

They are entitled to their opinion just like you are. I have posted some comments from fans I spoken who aren't on here who have a different opinion to some on here. 

 

He never said they weren't entitled to their opinion, so what is the point of saying this? Just seems like an attempt to deflect and provoke an argument. There's a difference between being entitled to an opinion and doing something idiotic related to that opinion. 

If it is your view that standing around waving toy snakes at a former manager is an adult thing to do and a better use of energy than actually cheering, chanting for and supporting the team and current manager, own that and just say so. To many it's a pointless waste of energy than misses the point of what happened, and as you say, that's an opinion people are also entitled to. If you agree then I struggle to understand what you are doing with the above post other than trying to start an argument. 

[chaddyrovers]

52 minutes ago, DE. said:

He never said they weren't entitled to their opinion, so what is the point of saying this? Just seems like an attempt to deflect and provoke an argument. There's a difference between being entitled to an opinion and doing something idiotic related to that opinion. 

If it is your view that standing around waving toy snakes at a former manager is an adult thing to do and a better use of energy than actually cheering, chanting for and supporting the team and current manager, own that and just say so. To many it's a pointless waste of energy than misses the point of what happened, and as you say, that's an opinion people are also entitled to. If you agree then I struggle to understand what you are doing with the above post other than trying to start an argument. 

No argument provoking at all

Just that some fans feel very annoyed by Eustace and his comments/actions. They feel let down by him so they rightly voiced their opinions and some feel he is snake so brought snakes to the game. They are entitled to just like others are on here. That's all I am saying here. 

[DE.]

Nobody is saying they aren't entitled, they're just saying it's stupid. 

[Wheelton Blue]

The irony is that if a number of supporters brought 'Venkys Out' placards into the ground and waved them aloft, they'd undoubtedly get hounded out with 'Get behind the team FFS' nonsense. 

[chaddyrovers]

34 minutes ago, DE. said:

Nobody is saying they aren't entitled, they're just saying it's stupid. 

But they don't think they were and actually did what they thought and voiced it at Eustace  

[DE.]

7 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

But they don't think they were and actually did what they thought and voiced it at Eustace  

And what? Because they think they were right it means somebody else can't think it's idiotic and pointless? What are you arguing against here?