BegSteeleOrBoro

What do you expect from this bunch. gamesmanship and cheap shots is all they know. Will be really glad to see them go back down to league 1

1-0 to the anti football team. I hate Rotherham.

Another awful week. This is on Gibson - he is either not backing managers, picking the wrong managers, or both. Need some results in the loan window over the next week or so. I don’t think we’re going back up with him as chairman. He has done a lot for the club in the past but it’s time he moved on. Plenty of investors coming in at other clubs, so I don’t buy that no one is interested.

The worst thing is losing to a team that has no idea how to pass the ball 10 yards. Can’t see them beating luton. They were just kicking our players and hoofing it.

This is depressing. Coventry are dire. Just hoof it and kick people.

Barely any contact. So soft from the ref. Can’t understand how the double jeopardy rule doesn’t come into play there - I.e. red and penalty. Rules are just wrong about making a play on the ball. Another instance of a ref ruining a game

Was at the game today. Utter shambles the first 45 mins. Much better once Wilder remembered that 3-5-2 is supposed to have wing backs (and width!) - and brought on Jones and Giles. The players visually perked up after the subs. Few other notes 1) Goal was Clarke’s fault. Why he felt the need to charge into the final third and give the ball away is beyond me. Inside centre backs bombing on in 3-5-2 is a tactical error. Made a similar error towards the end of the half. Poor defender. 2) CM was awful. Howson marginally better in the second half when he started comin short to

Not commented for a while. I'm for keeping Wilder at the moment - as I don't see who is available that would be better. We've sold some of the club's best players, left the club very light at CM, and the new strikers don't fit the way Wilder wants to play. His comments about the club recently suggest he's been really annoyeed about not being properly backed, as was probably promised to get a manager of his calibre. Yet again the club seems to have different ambitions at the Board/DoF and manager levels. The issues all stem from the overall set up and the lack of realtive investment (compa

Is this not exactly the problem we were complaining about a year or so ago? New manager comes in with a different style and we have to turn over the whole squad because it’s not “their team”. We flounder for a few years and then get a new manager in. I much prefer the Norwich/Brentford model - DoF controls the signings, decides on a team identity and hire a manager that can work within it. If we are going to play with fast wingers, solid strikers and a defensive midfield then Warnock fits. Importantly the DoF strategy means that the next manager (or a list of candidates) should already ha

There is nothing anywhere in the rules about getting the ball or not. See earlier post.

The argument is that their player contacts our player (not the other way around). That rules out a lot of the reasons for a foul. For a foul to be given against Saville you either think he made contact (I think the video shows their player kick Saville), or the challenge was already careless/reckless/dangerous. You appear to think the latter, I don’t. Football’s rules are full of subjective calls - and the only opinion that matters is the refs (unfortunately). Happy to disagree, just explaining my reasoning. I’d not have given a foul either way.

There’s a really good breakdown here https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/10719/in-soccer-can-it-be-a-foul-even-if-the-player-gets-to-the-ball-first if their player makes contact with Saville, then it can only be a foul if careless, reckless or using excessive force. I don’t think that is the case here. anyway - we were never going up without some decent strikers, so I’m not too gutted. Will be interesting to see whoWarnock signs over the summer.

So if a player takes a shot then runs into another player then they get a foul - because that’s the logical extrapolation of what you are saying.

You can tell that Bidwell hits the boro player by watching bidwell’s foot. It turns sideways on contact, that doesn’t happen if he hits the ball.it’s a call a player will spot and ref’s always miss. Another crap ref performance - the championship needs VAR more than the prem.

Crap result again - but I think the team was massively outperforming pre-Xmas rather than underperforming now. This is a team that almost got relegated last year - people forget pretty fast. I don’t expect us to be challenging for playoffs this year and the fact that we are anywhere near is a bonus. Is NW the right man for the long term? Who knows... - I’d prefer to build a footballing culture and bring through young managers playing attractive, attacking football but 1) so would every club 2) Gibson won’t change/commit to that 3) fans won’t take 2/3 seasons of being mid table or lowe