S-Clarke

IMO they were a constant threat, not from arial bombardment - but from width and pace, i lost count of the amount of times they got in behind us. They broke very well, and switched play brilliantly. Most of the time harding was chasing back and trotman had to come over to cover, which left our defence short - but Jaidi did well dealing with the crosses in. You can't really say they weren't much of a threat in the 2nd half though..

Depressing isnt it. no matter what ****ing league we're in, we still struggle at the bottom end. what is up with us?? these swiss guys have got their work cut out.....but because of the type of guys they are, im 110% confident they'll succeed in the end.

agree with that - fair assessment. if we're 10, or more points adrift in Jan - then it's game over for him. def. i think he'd resign if it was like that anyway.....but i honestly believe we'll be out of the bottom 4 before xmas.....

..and thats why fans should not run football clubs.

He's got pace and will therefore improve us. the players in this league aren't world beaters by any means, i mean bristol rover's wide men weren't amazing players at all, but if you have pace it causes uncertainty in defences. for this reason, i'd throw him straight in.

Lowe was trying to push Davis out too, that was the reason behind forecast signing...and was also the reason webster was put on gardening leave i believe. It was the same with Rudi, Safri, Davies, Rasiak...saga...john....euell. Ok they were obviously on a fair whack of wages, but it was too big a gamble to shut them all out – and it was also not the choice of Jan - what an awful situation he was in, if you think about it. Hockaday spoke up about it, he knew the kids as he had worked with them in the acamdy..he said to lowe it was too much too soon for them….but that was that and hoackady was put on gardening leave too. The plan was to get these young players doing well, and then sell them on for big bucks a season later - that's the only way lowe could possibly pay back the creditors and barclays. He was never looking for investment.

But we should not be moaning about being given 5mins time at home - it should be us, as the home team that is lifted by that. but it had the opposite effect, the players seemd to panic and worry even more - rovers senseed that, and went for a throats time and time again in those 5 added mins.

Spot on. What i've seen with lambert over the weeks though, convinces me we're trying to play him the wrong way. He tries hsi hardest with the long ball, and wins a fair few - but IMo he's more effective on the ground, dropping deep, spraying the ball to the channels. If we want him to get goals...that's what we need to do. Perfectly illustrated for Papa's goal, he worked it to the right channel with a good ball, james crossed it in and he headed it against the bar Thats how we need to play him IMO. You can see with rovers setup last night how he scored so many goals last season.

That tackle was shocking, saw that from the kingsland, the guy went straight in on him, studds up. Hammond was lucky. I've seen weaker tackles get red cards tbf. I don't like blaming the ref, as i think it's our fault we lost it - but he was weak.

He wasn't that good, he anticipated the goal well though - a yard before any rovers players were there. I had hopes for him as a winger to solve our right side problem, but not on last night's showing. Just ran like a headless chiken and did not keep wide at all. Was better when he was put through the middle IMO. He has pace, but like Jake...he doesn't use it correctly. I'm sure he'll get better though...esp his offside issues!

again - completely agree. We need pace off lambert, it's bleeding obvious to even a blind man. Dickson for them was excellent, he's only on loan from charlton and was one of pard's signings when he was there - possible target i'd hope after tonight.

I do agree with that, i saw the logic in the subs at the time. The game started to pass Morgan by...made sense to bring on someone to strengthen it (although id have preferred gillet on the bench tbf) Mills was another lgoical choice - Harding needed help, was obvious -b ut for some reason it just didn't work, kind of made it worse. Again, mills didn't really offer the support to harding i thought he was put on to do. Papa was never going to play 90 anyway, was knakcered after 60mins and Saga was the only option. Although he didn't really offer too much. So...the subs were logical and made sense to me at the right times, but they just didn't work out as they should have. I'm sure pard's is wondering why too. Lessons to be learned though, by everyone.

i agree with that, the 'team' is the key - we don't have that yet. Will we become one? it's hard to say...sometimes it just doesn't work with a group of players, no matter how hard they try. I really really hope this isn't the case here though. Mills, IMO, was brought on to help harding contain williams - but it actually made the situation worse, bizzarley.

If we get relegated, he'll be gone. That will be one almighty failure by any stretch of the imagination. If we go down to L2 with this sqaud, something is seriously wrong - so for that reason, i wouldn't want to keep him. I know what people are saying, we've chopped and changed alot etc and it hasn't helped - but keeping someone in the job, who clearly isn't doing a good job, for the sake of continuity is wrong IMO. at the moment though, it's still too early to make that decision.

It will get better IMO - keep the faith, i know it's tough but i saw the passion out there tonight - those players want it as much as us. Rovers were good though, they're weren't **** at all.

We won most home games with Osman there, and we got into the top 6 in the championship. When he was brought back for the Sheff U game 2 years ago, we won it and the atmosphere was buzzing at K/O. I think he did make a difference.

Ask the stoke fans what they thought of Pullis a few seasons ago.... they hated him - they were chanting him out etc, but the board were strong and it worked out int he end. They're in the premiership...pushing to become an established mid-table team now. Crazy. Thats what i hope we have now - a strong board. don't get me wrong...I don't want us to stick with a guy if it's clearly not working, but i hope we've seen an end to these knee-jerked quick fixes and changes. 10 games is not enough time in a 5 year plan to make such a huge decision.

Was it Stuart Dennis, or Justin who made that comment? Didn't see much of an issue with it at the time...but... I think we could do with Osman back, if im honest. I know alot of people don't agree, but he really did get the place going before KO - and it was certainly alot more interesting than what Stuart Dennis offers. It's not really a priority...but as the board are looking at all areas of the club, i'd hope this is another area they'd address.

If we're 15 points adrift in December, and still not picking up the results then i'd say the board could well be looking at solutions. As i've said, Nicola isn't an idiot and he'll be looking at the bigger picture rather than knee-jerking at the moment. If we're more adrift by xmas though - then there's obviously a problem.

Cannot agree with the people who are saying we lacked effort/motivation. Seriously - how could you not see our passion in the 2nd half? We wanted it, and we wanted it bad. We harried their players more than i've seen a saints team for a long time, maybe too much at once - because we couldn't sustain it. I agree re: left wing though, that was our weak area, Harding had a shocker but alot of that was down to him being exposed by Mellis - who was awful.

I'd take their wide players right now, and also Dickson who was excellent i thought.

+1, adam and morgan were the key players when we were dominant, rovers couldn't handle them at times. the only thing that worry's me about morgan in particular, is he has a tendency to go missing for bits of the game - and during those periods rovers came back at us.

still currently 10 points off, but Brighton have a game in hand.

We were as motivated as we have been for years tonight, seriously - you cannot question the commit and the attitude, the players were well up for this one. Personally at the moment i couldn't give a **** if we won 1-0 in the 90th min against gillingham.

bizarre summery. Wagio was ok - morgan was the best player on the pitch, and rovers were excellent. wrong game maybe?