Nothing ever changes does it?

[Chris Black come back]

I make this over two years now with exact same failings time and time again:

Truly terrible defensive performance
Slow, like really, really, really slow, with no pace anywhere
Playing side on dreadful run of form and losing
Jon Taylor getting injured
Passing around at the back before then lumping ball forward and losing possession immediately
Absolutely no urgency from anyone on the pitch
Bullied everywhere

[leedshayter]

Wtf has happened to our club ?
I’ve just about finished with em it’s embarrassing

[Chris the Rover]

We are pathetically poor. Tactics are an absolute mystery to me - and to the majority of our players judging by what I’m witnessing. I can’t remember ever feeling so utterly disillusioned with my team and I’ve been watching them a long, long time. The attendance on Thursday v Rochdale will be as bad as the team’s performances I suspect.

[donnyallday]

Its called self sufficient. thats what gives you a total shit show, its here to stay.

[Chris Black come back]

Butler, Wellens, McSheffrey and Schofield.

All of them playing basically the same horrific football with entirely predictably terrible results.

I said ages ago that we can write this season off already and should prioritise getting safe from the drop, then try and get a grip of what is happening, because this is consistently piss poor.

[Copps is Magic]

Our passing out from the back football was outwitted by a half-hearted press. Not even a full press.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I make this over two years now with exact same failings time and time again:

Truly terrible defensive performance
Slow, like really, really, really slow, with no pace anywhere
Playing side on dreadful run of form and losing
Jon Taylor getting injured
Passing around at the back before then lumping ball forward and losing possession immediately
Absolutely no urgency from anyone on the pitch
Bullied everywhere

I was just logging on to vent, but you've just written precisely what I was going to say.

Absolutely f**king abject. There's not a semblance of professional pride throughout the side. 11 players going through the motions of being professionals.

[karldew]

Our passing out from the back football was outwitted by a half-hearted press. Not even a full press.

I think we’d pass it to an opposition player if they stood still tbf. Absolutely shocking

[Glyn_Wigley]

Its called self sufficient. thats what gives you a total shit show, its here to stay.

Let's go bust, at least the football might just be worth watching along the way.

[andyst79]

Our passing out from the back football was outwitted by a half-hearted press. Not even a full press.

Exactly this, totally negated our tactics by not pressing our cb's , just got into their own half and maintained their shape. I don't think the press was half-hearted , just tactically astute

[roverstillidie91]

In DS defence he hasn't has a transfer window to address these issues?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Those two goals in the second half were utterly embarrassing. No pressure, no challenges as players ambled into the box unmarked.

Where is the f**king professional pride? Where are the players prepared to bust a gut to prove they are better than the other side?

We are a bunch of unprofessional wimps.

[BigH]

In DS defence he hasn't has a transfer window to address these issues?

Sorry, but that’s no defence for that performance

[DonnyOsmond]

In DS defence he hasn't has a transfer window to address these issues?

Sorry, but that’s no defence for that performance

No one's defending it. Just stating things may hopefully improve within the next month.

[andyst79]

Need two cm's for starters

[firestarter]

Don’t even know where to begin analysing that”performance “ .. except to say “amateurish”

[drfchound]

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.

[monkeytennis]

I can’t help but wonder who in their right mind would want to transfer in. If Donny was the best offer they were getting would we even want them?

[Colin C No.3]

We are so slow & predictable.

The number of times in the first half Mitchell passed the ball to Anderson only for him to take a touch, look up, turn & pass it back to Mitchell only for him to look up, point 'somewhere' before passing it back to Anderson who then took a touch. looked up, turned & passed it back AGAIN to Mitchell it was not only frustrating to watch (must have been in the double figures) it was embarrassing. Even the Tranmere supporters were cheering 'the move' (taking the p**s & rightly so) why?
What the heck are we doing on the training pitch?

And Clayton, deree me. If he never takes another dead ball kick I'll be delighted.

We are so pedestrian.

Is it the manager? The tactics (gawd knows what they are!)? The players?

We are a bang average Division 2 outfit.

I'll carry on buying my season ticket but, can I really be bothered to travel a round trip of 146 miles in winter to a Stadium that has become about as welcoming as 'The Ice Queens Palace', & then to sit in the cold & dark to watch the sort of football that has YET AGAIN been served up today? I don't think, after 50+ years of support, I can honestly put myself through that.

Please don't tell me 'I'm a fair weather supporter'. I think I've paid my dues many times over through the years. For the past two seasons or more, I have just felt totally 'detached' from this team. bar the odd player like Tommy Rowe.

How sad is that.

[Fal]

The problem is the board, there is simply no care or ambition anymore and we are just going through the motions.

75 percent of the fanbase can see it a mile off, but sadly the remaining 25 think they can do no wrong.

There’s so much wrong with the club right now that we don’t even know half the issues in the public eye. I’m just hoping something can be resolved before we fall through the trap door.

One look at most of the social media responses to anything the club posts now just show a bunch of disillusioned fans!

[normal rules]

No leader on the pitch.
And no leader off it .

[Donnywolf]

Don’t even know where to begin analysing that”performance “ .. except to say “amateurish”

Abysmal ?

[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.

[moses]

We had the Tranmere commentary on and they summed it up really well.
Tippy tappy and slow, not what I would want to watch.

[mrfrostsdad]

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

[Lesonthewest]

Our passing out from the back football was outwitted by a half-hearted press. Not even a full press.

I think we’d pass it to an opposition player if they stood still tbf. Absolutely shocking

Listening opposing fans laughing at our hopeless football just about sums up what we have become, an utter, total embarrassment.

[mushRTID]

I make this over two years now with exact same failings time and time again:

Truly terrible defensive performance
Slow, like really, really, really slow, with no pace anywhere
Playing side on dreadful run of form and losing
Jon Taylor getting injured
Passing around at the back before then lumping ball forward and losing possession immediately
Absolutely no urgency from anyone on the pitch
Bullied everywhere

I was just logging on to vent, but you've just written precisely what I was going to say.

Absolutely f**king abject. There's not a semblance of professional pride throughout the side. 11 players going through the motions of being professionals.

Been with my brother in law today who lives over that way and is more a rugby man.

“Going through the motions” his exact words.

[Lesonthewest]

We are so slow & predictable.

The number of times in the first half Mitchell passed the ball to Anderson only for him to take a touch, look up, turn & pass it back to Mitchell only for him to look up, point 'somewhere' before passing it back to Anderson who then took a touch. looked up, turned & passed it back AGAIN to Mitchell it was not only frustrating to watch (must have been in the double figures) it was embarrassing. Even the Tranmere supporters were cheering 'the move' (taking the p**s & rightly so) why?
What the heck are we doing on the training pitch?

And Clayton, deree me. If he never takes another dead ball kick I'll be delighted.

We are so pedestrian.

Is it the manager? The tactics (gawd knows what they are!)? The players?

We are a bang average Division 2 outfit.

I'll carry on buying my season ticket but, can I really be bothered to travel a round trip of 146 miles in winter to a Stadium that has become about as welcoming as 'The Ice Queens Palace', & then to sit in the cold & dark to watch the sort of football that has YET AGAIN been served up today? I don't think, after 50+ years of support, I can honestly put myself through that.

Please don't tell me 'I'm a fair weather supporter'. I think I've paid my dues many times over through the years. For the past two seasons or more, I have just felt totally 'detached' from this team. bar the odd player like Tommy Rowe.

How sad is that.

Really is sad, just to say you're not on your own thinking this way.

[Scooter]

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

[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.