Lancaster Rover

It’s akin to putting a child from set 4 in set 1 for maths. They’re trying their hardest they just don’t have the capacity to operate at the higher level. I think our players sometimes look like they’re not trying because they’re a mixture of confused/lost/don’t understand the game around them. Their lack of technical ability means they can’t even see the decisions they should be making as their brains simply aren’t wired to complete those higher order tasks. look at the pace of our play, it’s so slow. I believe this to be because the players are so focussed on completing the low order tasks like control, etc they don’t have the speed of thought/capacity to move the ball any quicker

I’ve said it over and over, it’s not lack of effort (Tavares excluded), it’s lack of quality.

As I said, losing the header for the second isn’t luck. Not closing the man for the original shot on the first goal isn’t luck. If either of those instances don’t happen, they don’t score. There is no divine intervention for goals

What if the medical team said Carter only had 60 mins in him, any further would risk injury?

Problem is, there are so too many players who can only play if they have a safety net of a defensive spoiler next to them. It’s the reason we don’t score goals, we’re so unbalanced all over the pitch. All boils down to appalling recruitment during the summer

I bet if you dissect every goal we’ve conceded (and scored) there is an error somewhere that is the major contributing factor. Be it a pass, positioning, decision, etc. I just don’t buy we’re unlucky. We’re badly organised, weak and make poor decisions (on and off the pitch). That’s why we’ve lost so many games not luck

I struggle with all this talk of luck. Take the Alebiousu slip; O’Riordan wins the header and there is no goal. But what happens is O’Riordan loses loses out, Alebiousu is wrong footed and therefore slips due to pushing off against the turf. Their player making the run to tap it in, that’s not luck. Luck is a cop out. Reality is we are the main contributing factor to the goals we concede

McLoughlin tearing a strip off Cantwell after the goal

Cantwell gets in so many good positions to either slow it down to the point of them recovering, run into traffic or kick it in to their player. Probably the most frustrating player I’ve seen in a rovers shirt

I think Leicester will want someone more expansive and with a ‘name’ over a solid if unspectacular manager like Rowatt

Given Rowett walked out of a comfortable and relatively successful job at Millwall due to their board messing him about I just can’t see him coming here. Feels to me a name being thrown about to cause disquiet, well then get an ‘exciting’ manager hand picked by Rudy

The betting market will be relatively small so a smallish number of bets/patterns will shorten the odds as bookies cover themselves.

Let me be clear first, I don't think we should bring Hughes back, that ship sailed long, long ago. But to be fair to him on Savage comparisons, Carlise took him on after letting Simpson bring in about 15 players in the transfer window then bombed him off a couple of days after it shut! Carlisle were adrift at that point and he nearly got them out of it. Not to say that's acceptable but there is some context to the situation. I think the damage had been done already at Carlisle, consecutive relegations and a pretty poor culture all told. This year Carlisle must be very disappointed, they've got a massive wage budget and if Rochdale win their games in hand should realistically run away with it. Given the investment at Carlisle along with their crowds I would think Hughes would be off at end of the season if they're not promoted.

To be fair he absolutely stank the place out whilst here

Ferguson, like Gestede was also badly behaved on wanting to leave Rovers if I remember correctly.