Ipswich vs Rovers - Matchday (No1) Thread

But I think reading this thread is more depressing than watching us today. Can’t disagree with some of this but there were some positives.
...Zain W, Sam N, looked comfortable on the ball and ZW was always looking for that forward ball. They will be very important players for us. Ipswich didn’t get too close to ZW, he was able to do most of our best stuff but he had no forward players to look up for.
...Cameron H tried his best and he never hid, he looked for the ball, made himself available. I hope he wasn’t taken off because he was the easiest and wouldn’t rock the boat. He has bundles of energy. He’ll get better.
... I don’t agree with all the stuff about Baldwin, I thought he looked the most comfortable CH on the ball and was able to play it out better than the other two. Not his best game but he’ll get better.
... Van Stappershof had a very good game, for a number two he has improved and was confident and made several very good saves.
... Ehmer started off poorly but he did get better.
... Upson when he came on made a difference as did Ayunga. Someone said at halftime we’d look better with those two on. They were right, we did look better.
... when Ayunga came on, although he didn’t play much better than the others it gave them something to worry about. We looked a better shape and we were more of a threat.
... Little looked comfortable on the ball and you could see what he was trying to do even if it didn’t always work.
... and despite being outplayed for long periods we did have 3 good chances and that Nicholson one in the first half would have made it 1-1 and things could have been very different. And goals change matches but not today!

But
... Our wing backs were caught out of position too often and left the CHs exposed esp in the first half.
... Grant didn’t protect the defence and I’m glad Ogogo is still there although BG probably has a different opinion than me.
... JML looked lost in the first half, he wasn’t used to his best.
... At times we were bullied off the ball.

The biggest worry is that BG seems able to do the coaching stuff but results are making it hard for many to be totally confident about his ability as a manage. I’ll keep supporting him but I hope he gives me some reason soon. Today wasn’t good but there were some positives, not many, but some.

UTG!

Yes Sam we don't hold the ball long enough to get the wing backs up far enough we lost possession and they are left in no man's land making our whole defence look dreadful. It reminds me when we sold Rickie the same thing happened. The danger is if we don't deal with it these young players will lose confidence, the essence of performance. As you say he didn't change it and then doesn't tell the truth in the post match interview.

"Through the first two-thirds of the pitch I don’t think there was too much in the game."

Which "two-thirds" were those, defensive, midfield or attacking?

"We created four or five really good chances and didn’t take them"

Really?

We should be on Mastermind, Favourite subject .....
'Failing to replace a striker 1956 - 2020'

We are fortunate to have
a manager that
turned down every offer of managing a club in the
world yet chose ours.

Yep the kitman always has a excuse up just sleeve

How does BG seem to be able to do the coaching stuff? Surely we wouldn’t concede such abject goals if our issue was simply that we couldn’t score because BG’s hands were tied in the transfer market? Our issues today seemed very much to do with coaching and that we simply don’t know how to defend the basics. Maybe we made a few decent passes so that’s a feather in Garner’s cap...but that doesn’t amount to a hill of beans when your side concedes three. We were totally outclassed today it seems so it’s hard to argue that at least the coaching isn’t a problem. It very much is, we just played a couple of friendlies that hid our deficiencies.

Dam brilliant mate, the first Rovers related thing that has brightened my day.

I think we both agree with each other but are approaching it from different angles.
Like I said he was given pre season / signings / input on training ground and yeah sack after one league cup game - stupid.
I agree with you about him last season - water poor although he had a massive family problem which from what I gather was a serious illness.
If I was club owner I probably would have sacked him once the season was concluded to be honest but then I probably wouldn’t have appointed him as manager either, first team coach / tracksuit manager with a more experienced head alongside him to do the management side of things I think would have been a much better option.
Having said all that we are where we are and whatever we feel about him we’re going to have him probably for at least another 10 games at least no matter how bad it is so we just have to wait and see.

Not sure about this but hate to disagree.
Why don’t we have a straw poll?
Result may be too scary but better than a scarecrow?
Does this scarecrow rotate; we find out when we see the lineup in our next 2 matches?

Up The Pole?
UTG