v Stoke City (a) - 12/3/2025, k/o 20.00

[alex l]

Awful. No cohesion and no effort. For 1.5 games we've been outplayed and out fought by teams fighting for their place in the league. We don't have the intensity of a side trying to push for the top 6. 

[DE.]

Is this another case of us "wanting it too much" 🤣 what nonsense, unless by "it" he means the players' holidays not being interrupted by those pesky playoff games. 

[Mercer]

Feckin shite - simple as.

[superniko]

Tronstad for Forshaw

Ohashi for a CB

Dennis for Cantwell

4-2-3-1 

and do it at HT don’t waste another minute of this dross

Edited March 12 by superniko

[ROVER_N_OUT1978]

This manager is a fraud , pathetic display. So much for the new manager bounce 

[simongarnerisgod]

Just now, MillHillRover said:

Travis looks like a totally different player since the Eustace departure. Gone back to the headless chicken running and giving the ball away like before he went to Ipswich. 

he relies on tronstadt sitting in so he can rampage forwards ,he is`nt getting that with forshaw,who seems allergic to the football at times and he can`t keep up with the pace of the game

[roverandout]

Just now, superniko said:

Tronstad for Forshaw

Ohashi for a CB

Dennis for Cantwell

4-2-3-1 

A mannequin for dolan

[davulsukur]

Where's the Significant investment? Oh yeah, he's on the bench.

[booth]

3 minutes ago, roverandout said:

That was total shit

We looked better in the last 10 minutes but I think that will be all efforts spent for the night.

[JHRover]

When the club forces the popular and overperforming manager out in February to bottom of the league Derby, once again sabotages our promotion hopes with a dismal January window, deliberately runs down the contracts of the players who put us in the top 6 and then appoints a strange and unimpressive character as manager

Is it any wonder the players are downing tools?

I'm not saying they should as they are paid professionals but apply the above to any other club and you'd probably get the same reaction as we have seen here since January. It is an inevitable result of the owners/boards actions (inactions).

[joey_big_nose]

Just now, MillHillRover said:

Travis looks like a totally different player since the Eustace departure. Gone back to the headless chicken running and giving the ball away like before he went to Ipswich. 

Yeah Eustace got the best out of players who had previously struggled by giving them an organised defensive platform - Travis, Hyam, Pears all really benefitted. Feels like we've lost that now and they are all back at sea.

[Penwortham Blue]

2 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

I got shot down after  the Derby game for saying  the Rovers players aren’t playing for this manager but what more evidence is needed? 

The death spirals post January are hardly a new thing Jim, not something that Ismael has drummed into this latest set of losers !

[yankfan]

Just now, joey_big_nose said:

Yeah Eustace got the best out of players who had previously struggled by giving them an organised defensive platform - Travis, Hyam, Pears all really benefitted. Feels like we've lost that now and they are all back at sea.

Eustace looking wiser by the day getting out with a good reputation while he could 

[Ferrit]

1 minute ago, davulsukur said:

Where's the Significant investment? Oh yeah, he's on the bench.

He’s in the stands, nice juicy pay rise.

[neophox]

 

Travis back to his normal shit.... for the fans the players should stand up...just not crying about missing John Eustace...this is pathetic as it is....

[rigger]

I don't think we have played that badly, but there are two poor teams out there. Suicide cross field ball that thirty years ago, would have been drummed into every schoolboy never to try at 0-0.

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Think I've seen enough. Was that  waggot and suhail I saw flash up on my screen? I nearly kicked my TV in

[superniko]

Since Luton at home on 14th December:

4 wins, 3 draws, 9 defeats approaching 10. 

15 points from 16 games - relegation form for 3 months 

[Mercer]

Our club is an utter shambles.  Indefensible.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.

[pick32]

It’s just awful, don’t even know what can change it maybe Tronstad and Dennis

[Tricky]

1 minute ago, ... said:

Think I've seen enough. Was that  waggot and suhail I saw flash up on my screen? I nearly kicked my TV in

Gestede with a ridiculous tache and his Wag

[roverandout]

1 minute ago, Mercer said:

Our club is an utter shambles.  Indefensible.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.

Chaddy says hi

[rock steady]

What's the opposite of bounce?

[RevidgeBlue]

4 minutes ago, JHRover said:

When the club forces the popular and overperforming manager out in February to bottom of the league Derby, once again sabotages our promotion hopes with a dismal January window, deliberately runs down the contracts of the players who put us in the top 6 and then appoints a strange and unimpressive character as manager

Is it any wonder the players are downing tools?

I'm not saying they should as they are paid professionals but apply the above to any other club and you'd probably get the same reaction as we have seen here since January. It is an inevitable result of the owners/boards actions (inactions).

Great post. Agree 100%.

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, rock steady said:

What's the opposite of bounce?

Dead cat splat.