That was shite

[DRNaith]

It was the first game for a team that hasn't had much of a preseason together. We all knew this to be the case.
We're rebuilding, not continuing with the team from last season.
I can't believe anyone expected anything different.

The team showed promise and I have no doubt that the team will click once they've settled, then they'll be able to prove the booers wrong.

I don't understand why there's the need to be so negative after one game, a game we knew the team wasn't settled for.

Personally, I feel the team did a better job of being a team than some of the supporters did of being supporters.

[roversdude]

Sums it up perfectly DRNaith
I don’t get this negativity that certain posters have towards Bogle so I guess my spaceship from Zod or whatever has just landed

[mpc123]

Can safely say Barlow and Gardener are possibly the worst signings I’ve seen at that level, the football was abysmal but even worse was the run of the mill stuff, Got told my DNA card would be ready to pick up today, goes in only to be told they haven’t printed the next batch, then the bar is closed …why??? Then told its shut for the next two home games then the idiots in the ice bar served 4 people in my queue at half time!!!! Then the clown who eventually served me gave me 3 pints of bitter instead of bud…. w**k:

After one game, your a very clever person if you have managed that from one game. I saw Grealish play several bang average games in the summer but he has just gone for 100m

[Chris the Rover]

We are currently a disjointed team full of relative strangers. See where we are after ten games - nobody can make accurate judgements based on one match.

[mpc123]

We were poor today and I took my 15 year old Grandson for the first time after getting season tickets.

I was gutted when we left the stadium and sat eating food in the Cheswold, we were talking about how well we didn't play, he then popped up with can we go to away games too.

Perfect day I thought

[drfchound]

We were poor today and I took my 15 year old Grandson for the first time after getting season tickets.

I was gutted when we left the stadium and sat eating food in the Cheswold, we were talking about how well we didn't play, he then popped up with can we go to away games too.

Perfect day I thought

To win you have to learn how to lose.
Nice story mate.

[tyke1962]

Big spending Ipswich Town needed a last gasp equaliser to rescue a point against mighty Morecambe .

Funny old game innit .

But Morcambe brought in more players than we did have more players over the age of 21 in their squad paid  a transfer fee for a striker who was in league 1 last year. So let’s not belittle Morcambe

Let's be clear I ain't belittling anyone but you'd take the point Ipswich Town are a significantly bigger club than Morecambe .

My point was that nobody is defined on the opening day of the season .

[PDX_Rover]

Can safely say Barlow and Gardener are possibly the worst signings I’ve seen at that level, the football was abysmal but even worse was the run of the mill stuff, Got told my DNA card would be ready to pick up today, goes in only to be told they haven’t printed the next batch, then the bar is closed …why??? Then told its shut for the next two home games then the idiots in the ice bar served 4 people in my queue at half time!!!! Then the clown who eventually served me gave me 3 pints of bitter instead of bud…. w**k:

You’re out for the day I see. Anything else? Newspaper not ironed? Parakeet not doing uniform stools? Grass on the pitch not green enough?

[WarwickRover]

Not a good start but earlier days and taking account that we had 10 new players compared to our last team i don't think we can complain too much about today's performance. One minor concern is is, if reports are correct and I have no reason to believe it is not correct, our manger/coach moving from dug out to camera gantry view is not a positive sign to players on the pitch. Perhaps a view from the gantry view and looking at the monitor provides more detail of what's happening, but maybe there is an appropriate time after the the game for detailed analysis. Where do players want to see  their coach? On the pitch or in in the TV gantry? 

[the vicar]

Get them playing together and get the injured players back and we will be ok.  But, if it takes too long we will get into the losing mentality and we don’t want that

[RoversAlias]

Not a good start but earlier days and taking account that we had 10 new players compared to our last team i don't think we can complain too much about today's performance. One minor concern is is, if reports are correct and I have no reason to believe it is not correct, our manger/coach moving from dug out to camera gantry view is not a positive sign to players on the pitch. Perhaps a view from the gantry view and looking at the monitor provides more detail of what's happening, but maybe there is an appropriate time after the the game for detailed analysis. Where do players want to see  their coach? On the pitch or in in the TV gantry? 

That detailed analysis he was doing was in order to change the game as it was happening, not much good waiting til after we've lost is it?

The players will be aware of Wellens' intentions to view the game this way. They aren't kids who need supervision, and Noel Hunt and the other coaches were there on the touchline.

Wellens wants the players to think for themselves (unlike Darren Moore) and that is something he has learned from Sean O'Driscoll.

[DonnyOsmond]

You can see more detail from higher up than you can in-line with the pitch, he'll be able to potentially get a different view to Hunt from being there and if that can help us get a result why not? We shouldn't just do the wrong thing because that's the way it's always been.

[River Don]

You can see more detail from higher up than you can in-line with the pitch, he'll be able to potentially get a different view to Hunt from being there and if that can help us get a result why not? We shouldn't just do the wrong thing because that's the way it's always been.

I always think you get a better overview of how a team is performing from higher up. You can see the flow of things better from a computer game vantage point.

Being low down on the touch line, you don't get the same impression of width.

[the vicar]

A lot of managers sit high up these days, most coaches in rugby league do it as they can see everything

[mrfrostsdad]

For me, it wasn't just the fact there was no cohesion as a 'team', that's to be expected when it's basically a brand new side playing their first competitive game together. It was more the real basics. How can a professional footballer not play a 10 or 15 yard pass to one of their team mates, time and time again? A 10 yard pass that goes more than 10 yards astray sometimes.
Our basic short passing game is awful.
And defensively we don't have a clue. I hope the two centre backs sort themselves out and quickly. It was shambolic at times yesterday. The number of times Anderson and (is the other centre back Williams?? - don't know any of the new players) gave the ball away was incredible. Had we been playing a top side we'd have got beaten by more. We could quite easily been two down at halftime.

Onwards and upwards. It can only get better after that. Hopefully

[Leedsrover]

How good was it to be back watching the Rovers? Absolutely loved being back in that atmosphere!
The performance wasn't good but after 2 years to be able to have a post match analysis/whinge it lifted my spirits after these awful times.
Struggle to be optimistic after the disappointment but  a few big plusses for me - what looks to me to be an extremely competent goalkeeper in Dahlberg, and a good game for Seaman ,who looks an exciting player, as I had not seen him before.
More than a little concerned for Hillsborough next week - but with a loan or two to add some pace/firepower the Rovers might surprise us all.

[sha66y]

That was shite = that was expected!

Reminds me of when SOD came and stamped his ideas on the team….took a while for us to understand it, but then it clicked…..we were a very good team then…

Now Richie is in the same situation….a team he has built , with a plan he wants to initiate, the players haven’t had the good fortune to understand the plan fully….but they will,

The problem as I see it is we have a cluster of fans who will not forgive the defeats, they will see development and call it headless chicken,
They will see stray passes and say we are clueless
They will see players out of position and say they are shite…

The reality as I see it is..we have a lot of older fans who can forgive the defeats, that can see progress , and can understand what the Manager wants to happen going forward, …..it does take time for these things to come to fruition, and the only way to enjoy your Rovers experience is by accepting what you are being served up  and being patient…

Coming on here and stating the obvious is just spouting for spoutings sake…and it tends to rile the locals…

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

When wellens was on the touchline he was working incredibly hard on telling players where to be, how to move etc. There's no doubt they are nowhere near ready for the season as yet.

[NickDRFC]

Not a good start but earlier days and taking account that we had 10 new players compared to our last team i don't think we can complain too much about today's performance. One minor concern is is, if reports are correct and I have no reason to believe it is not correct, our manger/coach moving from dug out to camera gantry view is not a positive sign to players on the pitch. Perhaps a view from the gantry view and looking at the monitor provides more detail of what's happening, but maybe there is an appropriate time after the the game for detailed analysis. Where do players want to see  their coach? On the pitch or in in the TV gantry? 

That detailed analysis he was doing was in order to change the game as it was happening, not much good waiting til after we've lost is it?

The players will be aware of Wellens' intentions to view the game this way. They aren't kids who need supervision, and Noel Hunt and the other coaches were there on the touchline.

Wellens wants the players to think for themselves (unlike Darren Moore) and that is something he has learned from Sean O'Driscoll.

When wellens was on the touchline he was working incredibly hard on telling players where to be, how to move etc. There's no doubt they are nowhere near ready for the season as yet.

Bit contradictory?

[DonnyBazR0ver]

I think there are a few quick wins and tweaks RW can make to improve on that.

Not convinced at this stage that Rowe is best suited to left wing back. We need to control possession much better in midfield for that to work. He's not a natural defender and at the mo, moving up field as he did in the second half, when John came on is probably a better solution.

Bostock will probably give Close and Smith a better platform to work the ball and with Rowe on the left, or coming inside, and Seaman doing the same on the right, it should be more fluid.

Looks to me like Barlow is more of a fox in the box so he needs to be able to stay further forward and work closer to Tiago/Bogle.

A good week on the training ground will sort a few things out.

[River Don]

That was shite = that was expected!

Reminds me of when SOD came and stamped his ideas on the team….took a while for us to understand it, but then it clicked…..we were a very good team then…

Now Richie is in the same situation….a team he has built , with a plan he wants to initiate, the players haven’t had the good fortune to understand the plan fully….but they will,

The problem as I see it is we have a cluster of fans who will not forgive the defeats, they will see development and call it headless chicken,
They will see stray passes and say we are clueless
They will see players out of position and say they are shite…

The reality as I see it is..we have a lot of older fans who can forgive the defeats, that can see progress , and can understand what the Manager wants to happen going forward, …..it does take time for these things to come to fruition, and the only way to enjoy your Rovers experience is by accepting what you are being served up  and being patient…

Coming on here and stating the obvious is just spouting for spoutings sake…and it tends to rile the locals…

It's always been this way.

Remember the initial reaction when SO'D started out?