After yesterday would anybody still sign Sorba? He can play but the lack of effort at times was appalling.

Hedges must do better or corner flag.

Wharton should have dragged him down/back after his slip/mistake 

All the players looked nervous after our goal - that is hard to coach out of players.

JDT should have left Sammie on even if it meant hooking Brereton.

That said: the deflection was hideously unlucky 🤬

Switched to UK/EFL broadcast and fuck me the commentator is so DULL

Spanish tv is awesome. Crowd noise and excitable commentators ( it helps that I have no idea what they are saying 👌🤣)

1 minute ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Not evening the bench?

A player who actually looks likely to score.

Who do you drop from the bench?

11 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I was earlier than normal last night so had a walk round and bumped into somebody I have known for a long time and who has been employed in the football industry for many years. He told me he had a meeting with Broughton recently and that Broughton now occupies the office that was the managers office under the likes of Hughes, Allardyce and Mowbray. He didn't know where Tomasson's office is now. As they were coming out of the office Tomasson was walking down the corridor and not even a glance was exchanged between Tomasson and Broughton. The guy I was talking to said it was so strange that Broughton didn't introduce him to Tomasson. It also bears out a report in early February that essentially said the relationship between the two had broken down over the failure to bring in players in the positions Tomasson wanted.

Deeply worrying. JDT gone in the summer. Will Broughton bring in a proper replacement or someone he can control 

Look at our bench and starting lineup to see where the blame should lie and the deeper issue.

Game is not played in a vacuum - coventry would throw everything at us and the changes were to deal with that. With Sorba, Brereton and Dolan on the pitch we have players to counter-attack. With our bench i think we made the changes available to us

11 minutes ago, BigBar said:

Yeah can't give them any encouragement. Was it Hull where from the kick off for the second half they walked straight through to the edge of our box and had a shit? Cannot give these an inch.

🤣 Think i would have remembered that..

Fair play - they did the job, board made a good appointment (not so clear cut at the time), the admin team did their job and everbody really bought into ”do everything we can” including the players.

Rovers - look and learn ffs even if it is 10 years late. 2 seasons in a row that we have been in a good position in january only to fuck it up. IMO our head coach is the least culpable and i will be surprised if he stays here if there is not a serious change in recruitment policy/routine in early summer

29 minutes ago, tomphil said:

That's my point really we've no excuse not to die trying.

We are looking every bit like we are in for the meak surrender again like last season despite all the 'talk the talk' that comes from players and gaffer.

I knew looking at that team sheet then in the first 5 mins there'd be nothing from that game. It was identical to others although mostly away from home and i'm fuming where is the 'we really want this' attitude ?

Last 10 - right good go - mins of course.

We don't have enough depth or quality but what we are severely lacking is bottle. No excuse for that and look at the others up there, Millwall, Luton, look at the teams on our coat tails now like PNE.

I'm not having it for a min they are better than us they are just applying themselves better.

I would say that we have a more skillfull set of players but the others have more strength (physical and mental), more depth (look at Norwich subs today) and more balls/bottle as you point out.

often i find the phrase “men against boys” springing to mind but many of our players have 100+ senior games behind them 🤔

25 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Odd game aside over the last few months we've been poor yet we know the squad is better than that.  If you want success in this league you simply have to approach games like today the same as Sheffield in the cup, Leicester etc.

Agree with much of what you write but not sure about the bit i highlighted. We know our team can mix it when everyone is fit and in form but our squad is pretty thin and we have few leaders that can drag the rest along when it gets  tough.

JDT is hamstrung but i agree that ”balls to the wall” should have been the tactic today and for coming games

Honestly think Morton is far from the worst of the bunch so far…

Ffs - can i have my tenner back

4 minutes ago, philipl said:

Me too. 

Match Centre not working

Switched to Edge and refreshed the page

Edit: probably just a coincidence 

Downer but fair enough - we tried and lost. Hedges shot goes in it is a different story.

Good cup tie and it really is the hope that gets you. Give JDT credit for giving us hope again 

Wondering if Conte has a severance clause?  Could be that sacking him at any point triggers a decent payout and from his perspective why not try and make it happen… 

Zinedine Gallagher (zz Sam? 🤣) - sublime backheel 

19 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Backing is what he needs most. Best manager we've had since allardyce and by far the best under venkys

If true that Greg B identified and recruited JDT then hopefully he, should the need arise, will be picking the next one as well. Until then I hope JDT gets what he wants/needs in terms of player recruitment 

22 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

Have to say I'm very disappointed with the reasoning put forward in the appeal. The fact we took it as far as we did made me think there was something in it but all we did was try and argue a pedantic point about the deadline and then give a sob story about staff being in the  wrong place. I felt embarrassed reading the appeal and can't beleive we wasted the legal fees on it. 

Would have preferred Broughton came out admitted the cock up and made changes to make sure it doesn't happen again. 

Does Broughton actually have that remit or can he only suggest changes to the very people that cocked up?

Anyone else get the feeling that Broughton will be deemed responsible and removed/resign in the summer so that the circus can carry on?

Now we know why he wasn’t exactly comfortable doing the video about the appeal/failed transfers

Wonder how much cash they wasted on this fantasy adventure?

The issue is unlikely to be Venkys refusing to pay for a pitch.

Think more about a decision regarding upkeep and a suggestion that the budget for that be raised by a factor of 100

That would probably cost Waggot his job. Much better to say a request has been made that he refused and saved them x millions 

Good boy - pat on head and owners feel good that somebody is looking after their pennies…

Make sure that JDT stays- preferably by signing players for positions that he has prioritized…

3 hours ago, islander200 said:

Nixon saying the hearing is scheduled for the 28th.Also saying Forest are waiting to see what happens with it before considering offers from the MLS for him 

Would the 28th be 14 days after the request for arbitration and, according to the regulations, the last date for it to be held in accordance with the EFL rules? 🤔😉