A letter from your new head coach - blimey theres more spin there than a good man can shake a stick at!!

bluebruce I meant exactly what you said-misinterpreted my post. Perhaps I wrote it down badly!

Lets really hope Ohashi & Tronstad especially are near match-fitness. Can anyone tell me what Cantwell brings to the team apart from a high wage? Decent penalty taker I grant you(something super Sammi Szmodics struggled with I do concede)! Like the look of Kargbo and Gueye is improving. But the short-term nature of many players contracts leaves one with a grim sense of foreboding. There is no Adam Wharton to sell off again this summer. Wonder if Ismael is good developing academy players? Really hope we get a positive response against Norwich.

Re interview :comes across as quite tough and not a lot like Eustace. Whether his style works is anyones guess. Very interesting to see team selections(presumably guided a bit by Lowe) . If its all about effort and commitment rather than skill then could be better for Travis & Dolan than Buckley & Cantwell. We shall see.

The right call on Siggy. I really hope the Russell Martin link is for Swansea and not us otherwise I think we can kiss all those clean sheets goodbye! Passing out from the back ad nauseum.

No one covers the hard yards(certainly as a forward rather than midfielder)better than Dolan. Ridiculous if we let him go for almost zero pence. He could even improve and given the large number of old stalwarts in the squad(some of whom have been good aka Baath) we need at least the odd player with re-sale value. I like him and so do the youngsters who I know that attend(they probably like his hair-style)??

Hedges poorest player against the knobbers for me. Pears easily MOTM and has just a smidgeon of Rayas cat-like qualities. The rest of his game needs serious improvement-a new goalie coach perhaps? It still rankles with me how we virtually gave away one of the worlds great goalies - (albeit not fully developed then). Mowbrayfication at its finest!

Quite right Mash! If Pears is delivering the goods who cares what some of his previous performances have been like?

Bizarre as it sounds delighted with a point against 10 man knobbers. We still struggle against teams of cloggers. The JDT effect not completely out of the system? These refs cant cope with the rough stuff and we seem to be on the receiving end of a lot of it! Plaudits to Pears on the derby clean sheet. Like the look of a bigger back line with Brittain & Pickering out of the picture(though will be needed later on). Hopefully Dolan improves after his (perhaps expected) poor performance against Preston of all teams cos Cantwell looks miles off it in the cameo. Maybe Cantwell is one for 2025 ?

Yes Ty,that was the match where Adam took out two Burnley players with one tackle. He was already on a booking to boot but the ref.nicely just reminded him of that. Brownhill got sent off too!! Plus they had a goal disallowed somewhat questionably). Kind of a day when the Dingles didnt get the rub of the green. Hee! Hee!

Fantastic performance all round for effort and tenacity! Big shout outs to Owen Beck(what a debut in a baptism of fire!!). Goal of the season from Andreas Weimann at the Dingledome of all places. And Adam Wharton. Adam Wharton? Yes,his MOTM performance for Crystal Palace against Burnley 3-0 helped relegate the Dingles last season. Omitted a start by JDT last time around, he was setting the record straight.

Cant disagree with much said. As poor as Pears is, most Rovers supporters Ive spoken to think Hilton is,at best about at Leos standard. So a change of goalies is just not an option. Even at home against a League I side.

Eustace very much getting a gallon out of a pint pot(in quality terms/wages & budget so far)so whats not to like? The new-found resilience is a breath of fresh air!!

Look second best so far. Gotta shake it up and get some subs on. Meanwhile super Sammy Szmodics scores against the 3rd of 4 Premiership teams hes faced(Newcastle,Leicester the other two). When you are that good, you are just that good! Agreed,Gueye ,Weimann & Buckley on please.

Who is next out of the door?? Ive no issue with the aggressive selling, IF aggressive(ambitious??)purchases are brought in. Sort of "freshening up the squad". Brighton anyone?? I know this is ONLY the Championship but we have an excessively threadbare squad! With the best will in the world, you would think Eustace is going to do his nut & walk if this continues.

Stoke have become my second favourite club(after Rovers) because of the massive favour they did us taking Ennis & Gallagher off our hands. Also got Moran in,I know......I wonder if they would swap goalies aka Pears out for Johannsson in(perhaps with small cash amount to them)?? I think they maybe also enquired about Travis(should be a no-no given we could yet be in a relegation scrap). Saves them time looking further afield, wouldnt you say?

Good to see there is life after super Sammy Szmodics. We never used to come back from going behind under JDT. That was a great header -wonderful goal poaching skill!

Ipswich have previous with us. Do you all remember the Keith Andrews saga when he went on loan,performed well and scored loads of goals for them and they refused to buy him? Different times, different owners I know but also consider their low-ball offer for Gallagher( to unsettle as many Rovers players as possible as we are in financial straits??) On this one,I totally agree with Chaddy.

Given its a long hard season that team did look a bit full strength. Agreed, Buckley has quality but is inconsistent. No disrespect, but its a tad easier against Stockport. Jack Vales goal the best of the lot. He has already surpassed Telalovic, Chris Brown & George Hirst IMHO. Now the harder job of him getting to Gallys standard (forget all about Armstrong,Diaz etc). .

Ive said it before and Ill say it again. Super Sammie Szmodics is easily in the 50 greatest Rovers players of all time going back 3 centuries. Yes Tugay & Alan Shearer did it at the top level but they were surrounded by good or great players. Sammie had to do it in a poor team ,pulling them all up by his own bootstraps. As poor as Brittain & Pears have been this season at least they turned up today. Markanday & Hyam need releasing on frees. JE at least kept us up,Ive no confidence JDT would have done with "non-defending".. So the "bad to watch"football with clean sheets can work....good work Daz/Persil Eustace !!

Nice gesture from Alan Shearer. 30 goals in a season is some achievement for super Sammy particularly after Adam Wharton was sold to Palace for £18 million. And this in a team fighting against relegation NOT for promotion!!

All credit to JE & the lads for a great win at Leeds. I reckon thats our best performance this season(along with the cup-tie against Newcastle),eclipsing the 1-5 win at Sunderland given the opposition and hostile crowd. It will live long in the memory. A big shout out for all the supporters who made the effort so the players had a decent crowd to celebrate with. Super Sammy Szmodics has scored 30 goals and almost single-handedly kept us up(I hope). And unlike Alan Shearer hasnt got great players to play with. Easily in the greatest 50 Rovers players of all time going back to the Victorian era. Remember he has also scored against the two Premier League clubs he has faced,and hes not even a striker. Frank Lampard eat your heart out.

Yes Herbie boy,as a metalhead myself,a really good day! The Nobbers & Ipswich doing us proud. No I agree we shouldnt be relying on the charity of others still you take what you can get. A decent amount of effort all round,but Brittain & Siggy not enough lead in their pencils for me( In spite of their hairstyles). No Northern soul for me but Nottingham is rock city. At least we dont have them to play. Big shout out to the ref .who didnt add on ten minutes of Alex Ferguson time at the end. Better than the ref. against Newcastle however you slice and dice it.

Yes its hard for Broughton when hes only buttons to spend. But...Gary Bowyerdid as good a job(perhaps better) with buttons as well as being first team manager; even though hardly using the Academy lads. Cairney, Duffy & Gestede come to mind immediately for some sort of fee generated before the wages sent Venkys into cost-cutting mode.

By the "Cov lad" Im supposing Abbey means ORiordan from Crewe. It worked with Sutton agreed. ORiordan has scored a pretty respectable 6 goals in 50+ appearances for Crewe. After all he is a central defender(knows Gilsenan from the Republic of Ireland set-up). It might be worth a punt-some defenders can score and I just dont see Tel getting anywhere near 6 goals. George Hirst & Jack Vale are the worst two Ive seen in the JDT/JE eras. At the very least,he would be another big lad to help the defending from set-pieces.