Angry_Pirate

Can we send Ohashi to the Chinese league... my fucking christ he's shit.

Ohashi might well be the most brain dead footballer I've ever witnessed...

4 of the last 5 goals conceded are objectively hilarious...

Sean Mcloughlin should pay the fine for that Yellow card on Powell. My christ.

Ohashi (or Roomba 😂) despite his clear struggles with a football, is also unbelievablely inept with his vision... or he is just arrogantly selfish.

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That is one of the worst "defensive" headers you will see at ANY level of world football!

This thread has averaged 4.95 pages per day since the window opened, and is comfortably on pace for a sub 225-250 page climax. That says it all really...

Dayummmmm

Rovers would struggle to get within £1m of that asking price!

Could be a LWB to be excited about. Him and Alebiosu might actually make this formation succeed.

Why is everyone so desperate to keep this current 3-5-2 (5-3-2) formation? It was employed first away to Coventry, and has been used for 17 games now. In that span we have won 5, drawn 6, and lost 6... That might well be 57pts over a season. But that is 1 win in 10 and 41pts season average since late November. It has been found out. Alebiosu can play in a 4 or 5, and between Pickering, De Never and Ribiero - the LWB options are horrid. We're playing 2x academy kids, calling loans back from L1, and being linked to below average CBs to feed bodies into a back 3 formation that is barely successful as is. If Miller cannot play in a 4, then so be it, he can be a reserve RB. Go find a player who can. Or rotate Carter, Wharton, McLaughlin, O'Riordan, Pratt, NEW signing. Starting with "wing backs" and two holding midfielders at home to Charlton Pathetic is embarrassing. No wonder we are in 20th with the 3rd lowest goals scored. This team needs proper attacking reinforcements, and a new idea.

Definitely on the precipice of "worst XI" of my lifetime here. Pears - 😵‍💫 Miller and Pickering - 2x defensive "wingbacks" (it's a back 5!) McLaughlin, Atcheson and Pratt - 2x kids at CB, plus a journeyman CB (who is having a really poor stretch right now) Tronstad and Gardner-Hickman - 2x defensive CDMs, 1 excellent, one middling at best. Cantwell - coming off an abysmal game. Our only creative player out of the XI. Baradji - still on the fence there. Hopeful, yet to really see anything. Ohashi - a pair of legs and half a brain. Not using that as a prediction, but 1 goal looks improbable and anything more than that looks almost impossible. Almost turned the car around when I saw that team, I'm still here - maybe for the last time - with 20,000 empties.

Good, available loan players are out there. Rovers have just seldom been ambitious* enough to go for them. In 2021 Lincoln City had Brennan Johnson AND Morgan Rodgers on loan - contributing 17 goals and 7 assists. Half of the current Enlgand squad have been on loan to the Championship in their development. 2021 was ironically that was our ambitious year with Harvey Elliott, but we always seem to unearth the Rakeem Harper, Leighton Clarkson and Clinton Mola type loans vs the ones who consistently propell teams to greatness. * - by "ambitious" I obviously mean too cheap!

Fairly certain the squad was up (drinking) till 3:30am watching the Stranger Things finale... Never seen a stadium so disinterested - on and off the pitch. On the bright side, I'm surrounded by Colorado Juniors FC on tour who think they are watching Bolton, cheered when Wrexham scored, and have slated Rovers from the first minute... they see it, and they call it soccer.