roversfan99

Out of interest, based on what we saw last season on the pitch and on a wider scale just everything about the club at the moment, negligent owners, failing management, impending sale of key player, CEO incompetence etc, would "justified pessimism" be antagonistic in your eyes or understandable considering everything? I think personally that Rovers are a bigger club, bigger stadium, training facilities, recent history etc. Sideways step I meant as in from one Championship club to another. We are more established as A Championship squad but run by aforementioned shit owners who dont care enough to stop an incompetent manager from taking us backwards. Blackpool have a bright and talented manager and new ownership who seem to really care. Hes a central player there literally and metaphorically who would probably end up on the wing here. I would say that our squad at the moment is better so theres pros and cons for him. Ultimately all of the above reasons are of little importance compared to the main reason to go from one Championship club to another, money. Id like to think that we can offer a Blackpool player more should we want to but with their new owners and our managers every other word being "covid" then im not entirely confident of that anymore. We have strikers that could get 20 plus goals at League 1 level in our academy at this moment in time? All touched on above, I struggle to muster enthusiasm on how Mowbrays new side minus our key 3 attackers will shape up next season at this moment in time. You seem to have reverted back to type on the subject which is your choice.

Yates impressed in the play offs and looks a good all round striker. But he might consider it a sideways move, and would we pay the money? End of the day, he seems to have an active agent but even if he did sign, no one will equal the goal output of our departing striker. With the same manager, that spells further regression sadly. Thats before you consider the loss of Elliott.

With a year to go and our club totally rudderless, he would be crazy to sign a new deal.

Newcastle have got a pretty shoddy squad of players, hard pushed to argue otherwise in my opinion.

Would take half of that personally which is still a decent amount and more than I suspect that he would generate.

Very peculiar story but interesting to see how this comes back to his Rovers career. Doubt that hes done loads to attract other suitors but with a year left on his deal, will he want to sign any longer? Will these breaks hinder him or help him? I must say and this may be me being miserable, hes a big money signing who has done very little over a 3 year period, obvious improvement last year granted, but the "we couldn't be more proud" nonsense on twitter from the club seems over the top to me. The Chile angle obviously provides the mystique. I think Keith Andrews has shared an international pitch with Messi!

Since he signed, he has done more on social media than he has in a Rovers shirt.

Whether you see the logic in anyone buying one or not, there are people who are waiting to buy one ready with their money. It shows how disorganised the club is considering how starved of income they will have been during the pandemic. That is before you come onto the conversation of keeping fans in the loop.

We shouldnt turn our nose up at loans as long as they improve us. To be fair, if you took out Elliott and Harwood Bellis last season, we might have been in real trouble. Weve had some crap loans in recent years though too. Palmer, Trybull, Douglas, Branthwaite and Walton in 3 years.

If that is the case, considering the frustration that a lack of prices or indeed communication about season tickets has already cause, (and indeed about anything) it would surely be another PR own goal to delay it further due to bollocks like this!

If there was a protest, it would surely be at the owners. Mowbray is just a symptom.

I think as ever, we are in our usual post season lull where nothing gets done for ages. Budgets, transfers, kits, season tickets, nothing. The links all seem like the above, eager agents touting their players out to numerous teams. Throw in the stagnation on the pitch and its easy to see why no one is getting excited.

Is it really bad that Scotland fans are getting exciting considering how few and far between an appearance at a major tournament is for them? I would be the same I am sure. We can take for granted qualification, albeit more often than not we are on our way home early. This would be a stupid tactical decision by Southgate if there is any truth: https://talksport.com/football/892753/gareth-southgate-full-backs-england-euro-2020-croatia-man-utd-luke-shaw-centre-back/ 4 full backs, Shaw at CB where he has never played, and totally changing the formation to try and protect one player. Why have 3 other centre backs in the squad?

With possession, often once a team scores first (and most likely goes onto win) they may happily concede possession to sit back or indeed because of less urgency to probe for a goal. In such regular situations, it would make correlating possession with results almost meaningless. Take the Derby game, we was 3 up after 20 minutes, it wasnt a win built on a lack of possession, the stat due to the way that the game went was essentially arbitrary.

Lets be honest, the points system and brexit are not the thing stopping us from assembling a team of hidden gems fron across the continent. Last summer we had the supposed scouting network set up and signed one senior player from Europe, Kaminski was the exception amidst signing the son of a managers friend, a player that the manager had signed previously, a last minute favour to lend us a kid and a couple of other last ditch loans of unwanted cast offs.

I think thats a somewhat understandable opinion to an extent. What riles is when people actively appreciate and praise Venkys for simply issuing share capital in their parent company which is what they have to do to offset the self inflicted losses that Rovers as a business generate. Willing to tolerate out of necessity, fine, appreciate and praise, totally unwarranted.

He is very much an amateur "journalist" who tries to cover the whole of the football league with clearly a very limited knowledge of individual clubs, as I suppose it is difficult not to have if you are trying to be an expert on 72 clubs, so he covers that up with the sort of terminology littered within this thread to seem like he knows what he is talking about. Caused a stir the other week when he dismissed Armstrong and said that we should sell him for 10m and reinvest, unaware that he clearly could fetch more of a fee and that a big chunk will go to Newcastle.

I suspect that at least some of them are created by the aforementioned pundits and supporters and never used within the game.

We could speculate as to what is said on the training ground but in the main amongst supporters, this sort of nonsense tends to be used to try and appear more knowledgeable. Agree with your last sentence for sure, jargon indeed.

"Ball recyclers" and "verticality" added to the phrasebook of unnecessary nonsense.

The travel is an irrelevance, indeed if it is an issue then obviously dont declare yourself for a country so far away. An international manager cant and shouldnt factor that into their thinking. The manager wont know if he isnt good enough, and indeed a qualifier is perhaps not the time for experimentation, but he will have at least seen him in training. The whole squad never features during an international qualifying break, but the players who dont appear cant and shouldnt feel like they needn't have bothered. Sorry Alexis, I know you have travelled from Italy, but Ben has travelled a long way too so I'd better not waste his time.

If he has an issue with "being dragged half way across the globe to not give him a minute" then maybe international football is not for him. Can't be expected to be given minutes purely because he travelled, all the players did, a number from Europe.

I think there is plenty of fawning over the attacking talent that we have, its competitive with all teams really in the competition and no one is doubting that. But there are obvious cracks beyond that and questions over the manager which are very valid. Its not about being positive/negative/ready and eager to slate them, although ultimately repeated past failures naturally do create a tinge of fear and wariness.

But then why would it ever be mentioned on this forum in the first place if you or anyone else felt that others lacked the full understanding/knowledge to be able to discuss it? Thats not me in any way discouraging talking about it but I dont think that the brick laying comparison is a like for like one.

Jorginho is a good player, and for me better than Rice. If we was to face Italy, I suspect that as in the past, we would struggle to get much of the ball and they look like a dark horse to me (if they arent too big to be called that!) with some very technical players. I don't think that we have a central midfield that can control games, our key players are all ahead of that.