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Sadly I don’t see anything in the players we have that will be with us next season anything other than a mid table team at best.COYR
Quote from: glosterred on February 12, 2022, 05:59:02 pmSadly I don’t see anything in the players we have that will be with us next season anything other than a mid table team at best.COYR I have concerns that this seasons headache will roll into next. We have seen it before. I’d take mid table next season right now. We could easily do a notts county or Scunthorpe. Been there before of course.
Quote from: normal rules on February 12, 2022, 06:04:26 pmQuote from: glosterred on February 12, 2022, 05:59:02 pmSadly I don’t see anything in the players we have that will be with us next season anything other than a mid table team at best.COYR I have concerns that this seasons headache will roll into next. We have seen it before. I’d take mid table next season right now. We could easily do a notts county or Scunthorpe. Been there before of course.If people think we are run badly they should look at Scunny. They can’t even afford GPS units for the players.
It is under any measure, an absolutely appalling 12 months. The same problems persist, oddly regardless of who the manager is or who the players are. It’s terrible but a total mystery why this has endured for so long. The only potential explanation is that mediocrity or worse, failure has been normalised within the club. I can’t imagine that is true, but the cause is a genuine mystery. We are absolutely risible.
Quote from: Chris Black come back on February 12, 2022, 05:44:26 pmIt is under any measure, an absolutely appalling 12 months. The same problems persist, oddly regardless of who the manager is or who the players are. It’s terrible but a total mystery why this has endured for so long. The only potential explanation is that mediocrity or worse, failure has been normalised within the club. I can’t imagine that is true, but the cause is a genuine mystery. We are absolutely risible. I'm starting to think that the club has been culpable of institutional failure. We're well past the point of it being the fault of any single individual.A common link to the last three months has been the appointment of rookie managers. Why? Has there been an unconscious bias among the Board to want a certain type of individual? Someone who they can control, who isn't egotistical and who won't kick off and make life difficult for them? I don't know but there seems to have been an avoidance of appointing or seeking out anyone with significant managerial experience.I won't criticise Bramhall because he's put his money where his mouth is, but I now think that the other Board members don't have enough football savvy to know what it takes to make the right appointment, to go out and appoint a big personality who can lead, be a dominating presence and command the players' attention. An authority figure who the younger guys will look up to and who the older guys will respect. I'm loathe to suggest further managerial upheaval but we need a leader in there somewhere because right now this is what the club are lacking.
72 clubs in the football league. Rovers have: -- lost more games than anyone else (22; next worst 19 Crewe, Peterborough, Barnsley)- conceded more goals than anyone else (63; next worse 61 Morecambe)- have the worst goal difference (-41; next worse -37 Peterborough)- have the second worst goals per game record after Barnsley.This on a mid-table budget. The other team mentioned above all have amongst the smallest budgets in their respective divisions and on that basis would be expected to struggle.Pound for pound, relative to divisional status, we are categorically the worst performing team in the Football League.We haven't become bad we've become mindbogglingly atrocious.
Club Doncaster. Going really well.
In the window we needed an experienced centre half, we got Younger, decent player but not experienced.We needed an experienced defensive midfielder, we got one but he’s totally unfit and the manager isn’t playing him. We needed the same for goalkeeper, we got a non league back up keeper.We’ve got some promising players, Griffiths, Martin. We just needed more know how. It still can be done but it gets more unlikely every week. Sad to see.
Quote from: Sammy Chung was King on February 12, 2022, 07:37:20 pmIn the window we needed an experienced centre half, we got Younger, decent player but not experienced.We needed an experienced defensive midfielder, we got one but he’s totally unfit and the manager isn’t playing him. We needed the same for goalkeeper, we got a non league back up keeper.We’ve got some promising players, Griffiths, Martin. We just needed more know how. It still can be done but it gets more unlikely every week. Sad to see.Agreed, we needed big horrible gets like that big goon who scored in injury time today, someone like a young Peter Clarke, the only big rough lad we had we let go to Hartlepool and he’s doing alright. We’re far too lightweight all over the pitch.