MK Dons vs Bristol Rovers Matchday Thread

Think the same would have happened under GC. We have loads of injuries and a lot of the player's playing, are playing with knocks. We have played loads of games lately. Even before the Christmas period, we had cup replays and trophy games midweek etc.

You could see the player's were dead in thier feet in a lot of games. We were dominated at Ipswich, against Plymouth etc, but rode our luck.

JCH does not look fit and Garner said he's playing with a knock.

I think it's about building for next season now. Way too early to judge garner. Think our keeper would have saved 2/3 if he didn't go off and if Leary scored the decent chance at the start, it would have been a different game.

Let's not panic yet.

Settle down everybody! all teams have these kind of form dips ,LIONHEART is spot on with his post, we would have taken 8th at xmas at beginning of season and the rest of the season will likely see us floating twixt 6th and 10th, as for having a go at new manager after 3 games ,ridiculous! he took over after a fantastic run of results which were never going to last so come on Gas eds chin up, could be a lot worse .look at our neighbours result today, shame eh!(tee hee!) at least all our ex managers won today, so pleased for Ollie! on to a 3erd round cup tie (there's a novelty!) v a very good title challenging Coventry side(with no ground!)so lets be UP for the cup!

That’s reminded me that we don’t appear to be improving over those 3 games, in fact we are getting worse and it could yet get a lot worse before it gets better. Very little to take optimism from today. Defence, midfield and attack all a shambles and no sign of any clear strategy.

Early days for Garner, but no win in 3 puts him under a bit of pressure now as this could become a monkey on his back like a striker without a goal.

Posted similar. Played loads of games lately. Cup replays, trophy games etc, before the busy Christmas period.

The trophy game next week, won't help!! Still playing 2 games a week and getting no rest. Could have done with going out of one of the cups.

All catching up with the squad now.

Possession doesn’t win games playing to your players strengths does and we clearly don’t have the players to play a patient passing game.
That’s not a knee jerk reaction to today I’ve been saying all season when defending Coughlans style saying that he had found a way of getting a very average bunch of league 1 players playing above their natural standard.
We did have games under Coughlan where for certain parts or the whole of the games we went a bit tippy tappy , Southend first half , Bromley whole game at home off the top of my head and it didn’t work then and it isn’t working now.
At least all those fans that couldn’t stand a way of playing that got us to 3rd in the league will be back and happy now eh ?
As for whoever came in nothing would be different we don’t know the answer to that but perhaps if we’d employed from within and kept the style until the end of the season we might have had a great chance of playing championship football next season.
I’ll keep supporting Garner and I’ll keep supporting the team but I’m disappointed with the road we’ve gone down these last 2 weeks.

Can’t afford to be out of the Cups. The Cups could generate enough cash for us to break even this season.

Very poor but it looks a tired team with energy which made up for lack of quality now flagging. With 9 players now injured there is no opportunity to rest a few. BG faces a hard job and recruitment will be crucial.

Excuses. It's Xmas. There's always loads of games, other teams have to put up with it too. You just get on with.

The performances since BG has come in have been awful and we look a very different side already, and not in a good way. Fleetwood performance was the only one that in anyway resembled how we have looked the rets of the season.

So why start with the same starting 11 today, why not bring in Kelly, Hargraves & Adeboyejo, even Bennett & Russe? Why play JCH in every game when GC never did? Anyway it seems weeks ago since we played Swindon reserves in an EFL Trophy game, how can that have any effect over the festive period?