v Portsmouth (a) - 29/3/2025

[Ferrit]

And that’s a foul and a yellow card, hahahahhahahahhahahah. Someone needs to be looking at this prick, no one can be this bad legitimately 

[Exiled_Rover]

Portsmouth player tries to break Ohashi's leg - yellow card.

Batth wins the ball and the Portsmouth players falls over him - yellow card.

And people wonder why I complain about the refs every week. 

[rock steady]

Absolutely mad booking for Baath there. Ref as bad at their job as some of our staff.

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, onlyonejackwalker said:

Appleton, Berg, Ince, Hodgson, Kean, Coyle, Ismael.

This has been a bad three months even by Rovers standards.

I'm not a Woy fan but I don't think you can put him in that Company.

The players clearly don't like Ismael, I'm getting very Jim Iley like vibes from this appointment. They should have gone with our suggestion of Warnock until the end of the season

Good job with our usual perceptiveness we gave him a 3 year deal

[Polky]

Ref is completely out of his depth. 

[bluebruce]

2 minutes ago, Bethnal said:

Looked “an old-fashioned yellow card” on first viewing, to me

Old fashioned? If by that you mean a few decades ago it would've only been a yellow, then sure.

[duckson]

How is that even a foul never mind a yellow. Some random person off the street could do better than this.

[Exiled_Rover]

3 minutes ago, Bethnal said:

Looked “an old-fashioned yellow card” on first viewing, to me

Back when it was a contact sport, yes.

The rules have changed - it's a red. Reckless, over the top of the ball and left his feet. 

[Norbert Rassragr]

Put your house on relegation next season if Ismail is still here.

[Bethnal]

1 minute ago, bluebruce said:

Old fashioned? If by that you mean a few decades ago it would've only been a yellow, then sure.

Yeah, Billy Bremner gets a booking and a finger-wag for that, basically.

Edited Saturday at 15:44 by Bethnal

[duckson]

1 minute ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

Put your house on relegation next season if Ismail is still here.

He will be. Even if we lose the rest of the games this season they wont pot him on a 3yr+ contract.

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Portsmouth player tries to break Ohashi's leg - yellow card.

Batth wins the ball and the Portsmouth players falls over him - yellow card.

And people wonder why I complain about the refs every week. 

Give it a rest for 5 mins.

[Exiled_Rover]

9 minutes ago, StHelensRover said:

Anyone heard VI's Radio Lancs interview for this game? He said that when he took the job he had targeted the international break as the period he would use to change the tactics and get his message across to the players, this was apparently agreed when he took the job, according to him.

So I'm curious to know what they worked on in the last fortnight, as it is well and truly on him at this point.

He's a proper 'jam tomorrow' man isn't he?

"The original plan was always for me to get to the international break" (he's changed his system 3 times in 5 games).

"We're planning for the summer where we can get my type of players in" (was handed a team in 5th).

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Nice one Hedges. Next time a man is on the moon we can ask for our ball back

[simongarnerisgod]

ismael rebuilding job in the summer,rebuild means selling what players of value we still have and replacing them with past it,loans and youth players

[booth]

That "shot" by Hedges. Fucking hell.

[Ferrit]

Literally no positives other than we are only 1 down. Dreadful stuff.

Rovers TV need to stop talking about other results going our way, top 6 was dead 2 months ago

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Need Pape on now for some height and presence in the box. He always seems to come up with the goods in games like this. On from the start of 2nd half. 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Total Gash.

[Exiled_Rover]

1 minute ago, Ferrit said:

Literally no positives other than we are only 1 down. Dreadful stuff.

Rovers TV need to stop talking about other results going our way, top 6 was dead 2 months ago

Portsmouth are dreadful. 

[duckson]

1 minute ago, ... said:

Need Pape on now for some height and presence in the box. He always seems to come up with the goods in games like this. On from the start of 2nd half. 

Agreed, but we can only make subs from 60 mins.

[Gamst]

Just now, ... said:

Need Pape on now for some height and presence in the box. He always seems to come up with the goods in games like this. On from the start of 2nd half. 

I suppose we will have to wait until 60mins for this to happen. 

[OllieNO]

4 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He's a proper 'jam tomorrow' man isn't he?

"The original plan was always for me to get to the international break" (he's changed his system 3 times in 5 games).

"We're planning for the summer where we can get my type of players in" (was handed a team in 5th).

Are these actual statements made by VI?

[roverblue]

Ismael looks a clown there has been a massive downgrade in both attack and defence since he came in. It looks aimless and I don’t know how we expect to score any goals playing like this 

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Just now, roverblue said:

Ismael looks a clown there has been a massive downgrade in both attack and defence since he came in. It looks aimless and I don’t know how we expect to score any goals playing like this 

I mean first 10 mins was hoof ball. 80th minute stuff