davulsukur

Boro 4 up and cruising away at Hull. Hull looked dreadful in that opening 45.

Speaking of The Dingles, one of their lads is now banned for 4 games for spitting at fans. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cq5q3jdn6w4o

He's no stranger to the treatment room either tbf but the reduction in quality of the squad now has us bemoaning the loss of Ryan Hedges. De Neve will start in his place 100%

Really, really not looking forward to this. When do Rovers EVER do anything the easy way? Was only the other season we really needed to beat Sheff Wed at home to give us the best chance of staying up (might have been enough to keep us up?) and we turned in an absolute horror show and lost 1-3. Instead we went and drew with Coventry and then turned champions Leicester over in their own back yard to secure safety.

Who on earth would pay £35 to go and talk to Valerian Ismael? Apart from Rudy Gestede.

Sadly, I don't think it would take Bannan much effort to get the better of Sidnei Taveres

Celtic have appointed Wilfried Nancy as their new manager. Didn't really know anything about him but read a couple of articles on him yesterday, sounds like this would be another Ange type appointment, where attacking is the main focus of his set up. Plays a back 3 and the 2 "wider" centre backs often find themselves higher up the pitch than you'd expect. Wingbacks are basically attacking wingers and its all about overloading the opposition in attacking areas. It'll probably work out really well for Celtic (domestically), as they are a cut above the rest of the league but like Ange, if he gets a move elsewhere in the UK, I'd expect it fail spectacularly. Certainly one to keep an eye on. BBC article, for anyone who's bored for 5mins: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdegj67p1z2o

Gudjohnsen won't be nearly half as productive in his goals return without Yuki doing all the running he does.

I'm surprised they are willing to write that statement, or even someone is willing to approve/accept it. It would probably take north of circa £200m investment into the first team, to get promoted and then stay up.

As I said, Baradji is currently an unknown but at first glance, he doesn't look anything special. Considering he was "the one" that they were desperately keen to sign, I was expecting a lot. Perhaps my expectations are too high. I'll give him his chance for sure though. McLoughlin is ok, championship experienced which is good but he's no great shakes. Poor in a 1 v 1 situation as well. Basically, we'd be better off had we kept Hyam. Mori is a good footballer as I said but he gets pushed off the ball very easily. I think he'll get better as the season goes on but he'll always struggle with the physicality of the league. Gudjohnson was completely anonymous vs Ipswich, only popping up to miss place a pass or screw up a counter attack. He works well, to a degree, with Yuki as Yuki does all the running and closing down, which leaves him free to nip into that space or peel off the back post etc. He clearly has a very good strikers instinct which is something we've not had for a while. All of his goals have come from having that instinct and knowing where to be at the right time, something you can see that none of our other strikers have but yeah, his all round game is pretty poor.

"Truly top level" De Neve - Not Championship standard Taveres - Not Championship standard, one of the worst Centre mids we've had for sometime Henriksson - Not Championship standard Lewis Miller - Ok but probably the worst passer of a ball i've ever seen Gudjohnsen - Right place, right time (great knack for a striker), all round game is abysmal Baradji - Unknown really but doesn't look anything particularly special from his game time so far Morishita - Good footballer, shows flashes, really struggles with the physicality of the Championship Alebiosu - Good McLoughlin - Average TGH - Poor mans Trav, average at best 🤷‍♂️

A must win. Absolutely no excuses. If he fails to win this, I want Ismael sacked straight after the full time whistle (I want him gone anyway but still)

He's out for 5 weeks, probably only end up being back as Alebiosu comes back

Absolute desperation from a poor and quite frankly arrogant manager. You can argue the toss all day about that potential red card but at the end of the day HE is responsible for that last minute equaliser, subbing on poor players and leaving solid, championship experienced defenders on the bench.

Ipswich at least, showed exactly why the game needed to be replayed and why we could never have been awarded the points.