Rovers v Ipswich (Matchday Thread)

I don’t think the body language of some of the cardboard cutouts helped though. There was at lest one behind the goal whose head had dropped fairly early on.

May not he his biggest fan. But if he is a possession based manager. Why was the second touch today given to one of the centre halves who wacked it as far as he could down the pitch?surely first kick off should allow some type of ball play between the team

Ah! Is that the Leahy who Walsall fans told you about? The same Leahy who was the highest ranked outfield player last week.

I'm afraid I have to disagree again....he hasn't succeeded and is still here. After roughly half a season of competitive matches.

I would say BG has had one whole transfer window and almost two, and has been backed by Wael financially.

The post says give it time, fair play. This is arbitrary, as from when?

BG has had time.
And I've been patient.
I've invested time and money following BG and am no more qualified than you or anyone for having an opinion, but I have seen the same game v Southend kids as I have today even to the fact that upson received a booking!

It's shocking management, BG appears to have no clue what is going on around him or how to change it. It's the same scratchy chin, bemusement and on 69-72 mins make a substitution to change nothing!

But, hey.....give him more time.

We were so bad some of them got up and walked out before the end.

To be fair, they were a bit flat right from the start.

Well the only good thing about that was that ifollow worked and was sat in the garden on a nice afternoon! Haven’t read all the thread but fwiw:
We are so easy to play against, some players press but we don’t press as a team so it’s easy to play against.
Ipswich easily got behind us again esp in first half and they were given so much time.
Thought the CHs played ok until Ehmer’s mistake and Alfie was ok, not special nor as good as he can be.
Midfield didn’t work any better than the last few matches. ZW is good in possession but he’s doing it in our half, not theirs. I didn’t think Upson was too bad but I’ve no idea what Grant was doing or what his role is. JML looked lost yet we know how dangerous he can be. They looked disinterested after two league games, it looks like a long season.
Attack, what attack? I felt sorry for Hanlan he looks ok when facing goal and holds it well but he has no support. Having said that he should have scored, he had so much time and space.
Thank goodness we had Jaakola, without him we’d have been hammered just like last week.

People talk about the Garner project but having watched the 3 matches so far I’ve not a clue what this project is. We have less possession than any team we play against, we don’t create chances so we don’t score and we are easily bullied off the ball. We appear to have recruited well this season but the players are unable to show us how good they are so far. It’s only two leagues games so far so important not to panic but it’s clear that the system, whatever it’s meant to be, isn’t working so far. We may get better but any scout would have seen that we are so easy to predict. Teams will know how to defend against one striker so we need to have an alternative way to play. I haven’t worked up the courage to listen to his post-match views yet.

Sort it out BG or its going to end badly. Unfortunately I’m not confident he can though I hope he does. 🤔

UTG!

So I just caught the lowlights on quest. Quick summary, almost as quick as the quest clip:

- calamitous defending for both goals
- the cardboard cut outs on a terrace are just an embarrassment. Why tape them to the barriers? Surely better in the south stand? It looked like a fairground coconut shy.
- meh

Maybe we should start with them next Saturday.