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Mate from neighbouring village, whom I used to sit with at LR, and moi are back to see what all this relegation nonsense is all about and, if required, breathe some life into the old dog.
Resounding display, full of gallic flair and let hi-ho silver lining ring out.
2-1 Rangers 'ave it Monsieur!!
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Wild Rovers Return Fred on 15:51 - Oct 7 by Match82
I don't know what the answer is. It doesn't seem to be Ainsworth, but I don't know anyone can keep us up with this team. There's just a complete lack of quality. I don't know if there's a stat anyway showing how many crosses into the box are off target but it would be painful reading. Other than one surprisingly quality ball into the box from dozell at the end of the first half was there a single one?
Lack of quality but Ainsworth has to take responsibility for the complete lack of any obvious game plan, attacking patterns of play and defensive shape.
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Wild Rovers Return Fred on 15:55 - Oct 7 with 2566 views
Wild Rovers Return Fred on 15:51 - Oct 7 by Match82
I don't know what the answer is. It doesn't seem to be Ainsworth, but I don't know anyone can keep us up with this team. There's just a complete lack of quality. I don't know if there's a stat anyway showing how many crosses into the box are off target but it would be painful reading. Other than one surprisingly quality ball into the box from dozell at the end of the first half was there a single one?
i did suggest on here after the end of last season , that the deadwood, and i include chair in that, should be culled during closed season.
I felt that we werent a team, but a group of individuals, mostly all with a 'couldnt give a shy te attitude'
Unfortunately it seems like Gareth cannot get this dross (1 or 2 players withstanding) to play and work together.
We actually had one or two OKish attempts at attacking moves and keeping the ball going forwards, but the quality just isn't there, our execution at times is shocking (Chair is having a mare), especially from dead balls, and we are insanely vulnerable and easily turned on the counter. For a team that's lost four on the spin, Blackburn have been incisive, skilful and threatening - they could easily have been four up!
Lose the 2nd half another 0-2, and I just can't see where this management team is going from here except out the building. It's brainless, rudderless, and beyond painful.
I might be alone, but I think the performance, at least attacking wise, has been better than the scoreline suggests (albeit against an incredibly understaffed blackburn side). It's the reverse of the Leeds game on Wednesday where the half time 1-0 score felt totally unreflective of how horrific we had been (3 or 4-0 at HT would have been more of a fair reflection).
But in the end, 24 games in and GA still seems incapable of putting together a system in which the team can both attack AND defend reasonably. If we attack with any sense of purpose, the defence falls apart. If we defend, we might keep the goals conceded down to 1 or 2 (!) but there is next to zero threat.
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Wild Rovers Return Fred on 15:59 - Oct 7 with 2375 views
Wild Rovers Return Fred on 15:55 - Oct 7 by RangersDave
i did suggest on here after the end of last season , that the deadwood, and i include chair in that, should be culled during closed season.
I felt that we werent a team, but a group of individuals, mostly all with a 'couldnt give a shy te attitude'
Unfortunately it seems like Gareth cannot get this dross (1 or 2 players withstanding) to play and work together.
The straw I'm clinging to, which may not be much help for this year, is that the toxic me me me attitude that seems to have come from Beale is something Ainsworth is working incredibly hard to eradicate. It's likely going to be too late to save him but league position aside he'll leave this club better set up for the future than when he joined. Maybe the next manager has a foundation to build on which isn't made of sand.
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Wild Rovers Return Fred on 16:03 - Oct 7 with 2208 views
Wild Rovers Return Fred on 16:01 - Oct 7 by Match82
The straw I'm clinging to, which may not be much help for this year, is that the toxic me me me attitude that seems to have come from Beale is something Ainsworth is working incredibly hard to eradicate. It's likely going to be too late to save him but league position aside he'll leave this club better set up for the future than when he joined. Maybe the next manager has a foundation to build on which isn't made of sand.
I agree that Ainsworth has worked hard to try and make it a less toxic place but there’s been a huge mentality problem at this club for years and you think if Ainsworth can’t solve it then who can? We also have no money to replace Ainsworth and I really doubt even Warnock could get much more out of them at the moment. We are generally seeing a manger trying to manage with his hands tied and no chance of bolstering the team with a goal scorer.
My neighbour supports Fulham and is always taking the Mickey. My rejoinder is always “at least we've never played in the fourth tier” I'm gonna have to move next year.
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Wild Rovers Return Fred on 16:06 - Oct 7 with 2117 views
It's gaps all over the pitch. They can stroll through our midfield and then they are through on a slow, disconnected defence. You've also got Dykes & Armstrong isolated.
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Wild Rovers Return Fred on 16:09 - Oct 7 with 2041 views
Wild Rovers Return Fred on 16:05 - Oct 7 by bosh67
I agree that Ainsworth has worked hard to try and make it a less toxic place but there’s been a huge mentality problem at this club for years and you think if Ainsworth can’t solve it then who can? We also have no money to replace Ainsworth and I really doubt even Warnock could get much more out of them at the moment. We are generally seeing a manger trying to manage with his hands tied and no chance of bolstering the team with a goal scorer.
i think the rot started at Vauxhall Motors to be fair.
Wild Rovers Return Fred on 16:05 - Oct 7 by bosh67
I agree that Ainsworth has worked hard to try and make it a less toxic place but there’s been a huge mentality problem at this club for years and you think if Ainsworth can’t solve it then who can? We also have no money to replace Ainsworth and I really doubt even Warnock could get much more out of them at the moment. We are generally seeing a manger trying to manage with his hands tied and no chance of bolstering the team with a goal scorer.
He's been here for Months Bosh, and things haven't improved they've got worse.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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Wild Rovers Return Fred on 16:11 - Oct 7 with 1950 views
Wild Rovers Return Fred on 15:55 - Oct 7 by traininvain
Lack of quality but Ainsworth has to take responsibility for the complete lack of any obvious game plan, attacking patterns of play and defensive shape.
It wasn't so long ago that we were playing possession football under Warburton, Chair and Willock stars of the show.
Now we are playing the anti football that many feared would happen under Gareth and are getting done by teams playing football against us. Teams with a modicum of organisation moving up and down the pitch, moving the ball quickly, midfielders supporting the attack. Everything that we are not doing.
It's not all Gareth's fault but we are only heading in one direction under his tenure.
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Wild Rovers Return Fred on 16:17 - Oct 7 with 1699 views
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