Love him or hate him, Di Maria has brought his 2014 CL final performance out today for the lads.

Evening @mercer 👋.

Fucking go on Rovers 💪.

Genuinely can’t remember people saying to change half the team, but I remember people criticising us playing about at the back. Hardly factually incorrect.

If anyone is re writing history, it’s you to be fair.

No, everybody was asking for us not to pass it around aimlessly at the back, as it was causing us to concede goals.

I think people are doing the classic of mistaking frustration at recent results and performances with not backing the manager. Not sure why it happens so much, but it does.

Absolutely. Against Italy, it was blatantly obvious they kept coming on stronger and we allowed it to happen. It was crying out for someone to put their foot on the ball and stop them. A real shame that we got so close and effectively bottled it.

If anyone that understands a thing about football watches us, the only thing having value added to it lately has been our goals against column…

What I don’t get on the adding value thing, is that it is brought up by the club far more often than talk of winning matches. So presumably, they think it’s more important…. What a way to run a club…

If Messi doesn’t excite someone, that’s fair enough. Maybe football isn’t for them?

Absolutely no need for melodrama of this nature.

I think it all comes down to what’s more important for JDT. His ego and forcing us to play a way that we don’t have the players for. Or, three points for the team. Hoping he gets over himself, bins this pointless, suicide football, gains some pragmatism and we give a good account of ourselves.

Southgate has done a lot right since he’s been manager and he’s made the national team likeable again. But, it’s another familiar story of us coming out on the wrong side of the fine margins, again. If Southgate were to leave the England job, I doubt he’s get a PL job and for me, that speaks volumes.

I wouldn’t say they don’t want promotion, but I don’t think it’s that much of a priority, despite where we are in the league. You can hear it when they’re talking more about adding value to the squad, than winning matches. Even JDT seemingly prioritising implementing his playing style over winning matches. I think it’s absolutely batshit that any football club would consider anything more important than winning matches tbh.

Only chance bar the pens of note was the Maguire header. Bar that, we had a lot of the play, but France took their chances, that’s the difference. Hard to take, but them’s the breaks.

Miss a decisive pen like that, you get what you deserve, for me.

One question- the fuck are you playing at?

Not fit to wear the shirt. Another level of pathetic today.

‘Keep it tight first 5 minutes lads’.

I meant more in terms of JDT saying the team would be refreshed and ready because of the break, wasn’t meant literally….

Glad to see the warm weather training camp got us firing 👌.

Absolutely gash that from Wharton. We all know what happens when we go a goal down, too…

Probably not very helpful to call posters on a forum moaning minnies, particularly when barely anything has been posted about a potential postponement. Not exactly conducive to Messageboard harmony!

A lot of noise about Modric and rightly so, he’s superb, but Brozovic and Kovacic are cracking players too. Some midfield is that.