Nothing ever changes does it?

[scawsby steve]

Only the second time ever I’ve left a rovers away game early. What a shambles of dull football. Can we please get rid of Mitchell. It’s painful to watch.
I took my lad for a quick trip to Anfield and Goodison. Far more inspiring

Mitchell is absolutely shite.
But you can’t say that on here apparently as he’s “a good shot stopper”.

Like any of the saves he makes, any other competent goalkeeper wouldn’t make.

Two questions, Mush. Who do you suggest we should get in League 2 that's better than him? and why are you singling him out for criticism amongst a team of frauds masquerading as professional footballers?

[mushRTID]

Only the second time ever I’ve left a rovers away game early. What a shambles of dull football. Can we please get rid of Mitchell. It’s painful to watch.
I took my lad for a quick trip to Anfield and Goodison. Far more inspiring

Mitchell is absolutely shite.
But you can’t say that on here apparently as he’s “a good shot stopper”.

Like any of the saves he makes, any other competent goalkeeper wouldn’t make.

Two questions, Mush. Who do you suggest we should get in League 2 that's better than him? and why are you singling him out for criticism amongst a team of frauds masquerading as professional footballers?

I’m singling him out because il be honest he frustrates me the most.

It’s not my job to suggest and find a replacement. But i can’t wait until we do get one.

[ncRover]

Our recent managers have presided over horrible to watch football but invariably some fans come up with the “he needs a transfer window to sort this out”.
After the transfer window nothing changes.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Because we go in to every transfer window with a “he’ll do” sort of attitude.

[Chris Black come back]

Two fantastically bad windows were when we went in looking for a striker and came out in one with nothing and signed Kwame Thomas and Rakish Bingham, and the other Joe Dodoo. Absolute amateur hour.

[scawsby steve]

Absolute minimum is a good CB, a good CM, and a good CF to work alongside George.

I'm not holding my breath though.

[Chris Black come back]

It’s true they don’t work as a unit and that some are injured but we have a long list of contracted centre backs at the club in Anderson, Faulkner, Olowu, Williams, Long and Younger. We might benefit from a new one (or two) but we’d need to shift out some of these lads if so. No side at this level can have that many senior centre backs on their books, nor a group that when played are so consistently abject as a defensive unit.

[Chris Black come back]

A helpful late Christmas present from JR:


https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/football/ex-doncaster-rovers-chairman-john-ryan-calls-for-big-changes-at-club-starting-at-the-top-3966610

[StocksArmy]

Just think we get beat under Schofield without playing overly bad. The worrying thing is its an improvement from the last manager and i cant see anything drastic happening in January.

Without playing overly bad? Who have you been watching? We are absolutely shocking. And you think it's an improvement over the last manager? I don't see anything any different at all. Same old, same old.
This is an awful league, with the exception of a couple of teams. Evidenced by the fact that despite how awful we are, we're only 5 points off the play offs

This is how bad things have got at the club. When you compare performances of the 2 managers this season i would rather watch us now. We at least create chances which is an improvement. Outcome still the same. Shocking all over the pitch. Not one player willing to die for the shirt.

[coventryrover]

A helpful late Christmas present from JR:


https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/football/ex-doncaster-rovers-chairman-john-ryan-calls-for-big-changes-at-club-starting-at-the-top-3966610

oh great

[tyke1962]

Generally speaking success is primarily down to one thing , recruitment .

Get the recruitment right and most of the time everything falls in to place .

Arteta at Arsenal was getting called everything from a pig to a dog by the Gunners fans not too long ago and now he's the " second coming " .

They've recruited extremely well and gone from absolutely no where near the champions league to topping the PL and 7 points clear which is extraordinary .

From the outside looking in the recruitment at Rovers isn't good enough and hasn't been for a while .

[BigH]

Agree on recruitment and, adding to the OP, we are still highly deficient down the left hand side of defence. Something that we thought and hoped would get fixed last summer but which seems to be just as bad as ever.

Defensively, we've been a shambles for a long time now. I like Knoyle as a right-sided midfielder and I think that Mitchell's done ok but, otherwise, have any of our defence signings over the past 3 years been a success?

[moses]

You just know we are going to sign 3/4 players from Huddersfield/used to be at Huddersfield. Then be stuck with them on three year contracts when the new manager doesn’t fancy them.

[GazLaz]

Tactically we create nothing against low to mid blocks and are vulnerable to counter attacks. That tells me, that short term, we should sit in and try and counter teams. We did that against Grimsby and played well.

[danumdon]

At our level the best teams we have had have been the full of energy, hard pressing, run all day teams a la Dave Penny or the very skilful, technical adept, and intelligent teams a la SOD.

As we are currently we don't have the energy of one or the brains of the other. JC and DS are trying to create according to the laid down criteria with the completely wrong set of players(bar two or three possibles)so for the tactic to work we need an influx of players with the right skillset, basically a full spine as the one we currently have is defective and beyond repair.

So what can we do in our predicament, it seems the direction of travel from the top down is to be sustainable and able to self finance our existence, so that rules out the skill and brains and we are left with the energy, run all day, youthful and bright type of player.

There is a pyramid below us of hundreds of these types of players, young, cheap, full of energy and intent, all we need is the skill and nous to be able to select the right ones.Lots will complain that we are going for the cheap options again but that's were we are now as a club.

Plenty of homework for you James.