Angry_Pirate

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.

Didn't realise my "O'Riordan better than Miller" musing would cause a 4 page debate... To clarify my opinion. Miller is a liability when dribbling. If feels like 10% of his dribbles lead to tackles that are borderline lunges. He takes FAR too long to play/clear the ball down the sidelines, with I'd bet 1 in 3 being blocked - occasionally causing danger. His passing in general is easily his poorest trait. He makes the odd good forward pass (Ohashi scores the odd wonderful goal), but many are simply passed to an opponent in the middle of the pitch. Overall I think he is an okay RCB. Championship level. But anyone who tries to defend his passing, dribbling and all round urgency are not seeing the same guy as me. I hope O'Riordan is better. Otherwise, what is the point.

After seeing O'Riordan play for Rovers, but not a minute of football for any other team, I would still bet good money that he is better than Lewis Miller. Also, after last night when Pears seemed to have the urgency of a tortoise, I pray to God that Toth is back in from NYD. Gueye, Tyjon, Garrett, De Neve and one of Pickering/Ribiero to go, Pears too if we get any type of offer. We need a striker. Ohashi is a pair of legs and half a brain.

The Hillsborough sound system is a bit quiet! 🫨

50% have boycotted already over the past 15 years... about time we made it official. Timing is shocking, going into a transfer window, but coming from team "Express Yourself" it doesn't surprise me.

Let's let an obvious deflection go out for a corner. Fucking weapons.

Managed to come of a first half 1-0 up where we hardly looked competitive or up for it for 35mins, and had to survive a homer referee. Must keep XI on the pitch. Pratt for De Neve to move Yuri, maybe Sondre before long too for Sidnei (when did his shirt name change?).

To back up my Ohashi comment. Sure he's likeable, he presses, he gives 100%, and his finishing is passable... but fuck me look at his decision making and quality of passing. It's not professional sometimes. Miller is a donkey with a long throw we don't use. Tavares is easily the worst player in the Championship. Ribiero has lost whatever he had last season, and we're playing a back 5 and 2 holding midfielders at home to FUCKING OXFORD!

Unpopular opinion. Ohashi is fucking shite.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: There's no fucker here. Perhaps it is due to Venky's, the two postponements, or even the fact that we can sit here in December 2025 bemoaning the absence of Ryan Hedges and Adam Forshaw from our starting XI. PATHETIC what these owners have done to this football club over the past 15 years.