I can’t see us getting a point, genuinely

I think it’s ok to be both upset with Ismail and the team as well as Venky’s. All this blame Venky’s/buck stops with them gives a bit of a free pass when they’re undeserving of one. They may have been over performing at Play off spots but that doesn’t excuse this shower

I think it’s ok to be both upset with Ismail and the team as well as Venky’s. All this blame Venky’s/buck stops with them gives a bit of a free pass when they’re undeserving of one. They may have been over performing at Play off spots but that doesn’t excuse this shower

Glad I didn’t bother carting down the m6, joke of a manager and team

Travis interview reads like a hostage statement.

Why are we continually trying to score from headers when they have 7 men back at all times. Utter stupidity

Cantwell is utter shit, stat pads a load of passes in midfield then when it matters clips one straight to their left back. Useless

We’re fucking terrible, absolutely woeful. If I was Ribeiro I’d have pears up against the wall at halftime for the number of hand grenades he clips in to him

The idiots who organise fixtures/Sky will contrive to have us play Burnley on the 5th should neither be promoted.

There are a lot of similar teams in the champ this year, all fur coat and no knickers would be how I'd describe it. Leeds, Burnleh all have lots of the ball without looking particularly dangerous if a team can remain compact and well organised. This is why I think Sheff Utd are the best bet to win it as they at least have a couple of ways of playing, they can maintain possession but if needed can be much more direct, something Leeds, Burnleh and others struggle with. We've seen on 3 occasions now if you limit Leeds to having to play around a compact defensive unit they're not particularly threatening, I'd argue the same could be said about the Dingles too

We've been going backwards since Christmas, the two positive results under Lowe were blip rather than the norm over the last couple of months

Yeah to be fair, I'd not noticed they were at the start of the school holidays, I had it in my head the old fashioned dates of the Champ final being on Bank holiday monday

Well, I reckon I'll know by 5.15 on Saturday whether I can book a holiday for May half term or need to be looking at London hotels!

This just has a Derby 1-0 win written all over it, it would be peak Rovers. It's what we do, year on year even pre-dating Venky's. Whenever a team is in dire form and desperate for a win we roll over and get our tummy tickled.

Absolutely, it’s certainly the way we’ve played the last 12 months. Brittain and Beck almost always orient their body to show the player down the line rather than back inside. I think this is in part because JE was confident in our ability to win aerial duels. It’s definitely a modern coaching nuance where keeping players out of the central zone around the D is the main objective when defending

To be fair to eustace it was a passive press with hedges and Dolan curing off full backs and shadowing the pivot until they crossed into the middle third and then it became a more engaged press. Yesterday was horrible, whether that was a poorly executed JE press or a badly advised VI I don’t know

This is what I was saying in an earlier post, the awful press led to them being able to go deep on our left, drag us across leaving their opposite full back and winger playing 50/50 all the time and cheating out wide, left Brittain totally exposed most of the first half with the switch from their right to left

I’m sorry but you’ve made no sense there chaddy, yes a high press can be open to being played through if you get it wrong. A poor midblock is even worse as your starting position is so much deeper the midblock we played today with poor cover shadowing and incorrect distances, with poor triggers to slide led to us being played through and being massively unbalanced with the cross field pass with supporting numbers underneath being on everytime. The least compact midblock you’ll see this season. You talk about the danger of Sainz, we literally let him have the ball in ‘zone 14’ continually due to the tactics. A starting position of activating a press after the half way line made the situation almost comical, we wanted to restrict sainz yet let them play through to him at will. We didn’t engage until Norwich were in the final third and attacking centrally. Really poor out of possession tactics imo.

They played through the non existent mid block anyway

The most frustrating aspect of today was the Norwich are crap, if the manager had anything about him he’d have pressed the life out of them and that’s the worrying thing. The instructions they’d been given did not match the opposition at all

Sits in the cuck chair

I think Dennis was getting increasingly frustrated with the ponderous speed the ball was being moved forward. He was constantly looking to get behind Chrisene and directing where he wanted it only for it to not come and is lose the ball, which I think played a part in his rashness, albeit the second wasn’t a yellow.

If I was either Brittain or Ribeiro I’d have had Pears up against a wall for the amount of hand grenades he chucked Brittain and passes to Ribeiro in poor areas. He takes so long to make a decision and then clips a ball to them under oressure. I didn’t understand the pressing structure. Front line far too passive and not creating cover shadows on midfield. 2nd line stood too far off, so when they tried to apply high pressure the gaps were too big and they got popped off. Why on earth we didn’t press Duffy who we know turns like a bus is beyond me. The few times we did they shit the bed and gave it away. We should have done everything we could to get the ball in between Duffy and the right back for Kargbo to run at them Thought Travis had his worst game of the season

I think his career has gone the same way at each of his last 2 (arguabley all 4) clubs, starts with fanfare. fails to deliver, becomes others faults, downs tools, falls out with fans, and it goes on.

Surely Waggot collects a bigger bonus if we go up