Numero Uno

He’s already told everyone how many windows he needs. 4-6.

Can Robins TV do a special video of Big Nige filling players in before he waves them on his way this evening?

Don’t you dare go using facts......

Of course we will. Favourites I would think but who cares? If Pearson brings in the right players we’ll be fine. Isn’t worth going overboard about.

Best part of the season starts here....finding out who will be ******* off??

Some wet wipes on here.......we know that side won’t be starting in August. I was expecting 4-0 minimum today tbh.

Nah, that was weeks ago.

Tbf you hold your hands up on that goal. Great play. First one was pub standard.

Identical to the first?

Wednesday 3-2.

Yeah, even the ones Pearson thinks we need next season. That will show ‘em.......

We won’t be fielding this side next season so it’s not worth crying over.

Goal difference is irrelevant, Rotherham’s is way better.

The rejuvenation has begun........

I think that’s the obvious explanation tbh. Kalas has been available every game and whether he’s played well or not there is no need to risk an injury that makes him miss the Euro’s. Good man management by Pearson.

Some belter thought they'd sold 7K the other day............... Rovers are a massive club, are they ****.............to pinch a song about Sunderland.

I don't know who LJ thinks his "target audience" is but it certainly wasn't the average BCFC fan and isn't the average Sunderland fan. Therein lies the problem, you have a manager who is trying to give a coaching and/or psychology masterclass every interview when the majority of fans just want to hear the truth about the game in plain language. When you look at the backgrounds of many footballers themselves I could imagine that the language he uses, if replicated with them, would grate with quite a few after a while particularly when the guy delivering it does not have a track record of actually winning anything.

You can probably buy mead by the goblet full at the ToT.

People wouldn't moan about the injuries if they were your bog standard muscle strains that were 2-6 weeks out BUT we seem to have more than our fair share of "season enders". Add to that one complete mis-diagnosis in the case of Paterson and Williams openly criticising the rehabilitation programme he was given which subsequently saw him come back for two matches and miss the rest of the season and it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to work out that we might have significantly more than a bog standard injury situation caused by Covid. It can be dressed up any which way you prefer but our last three Managers have moaned about it causing a club internal investigation to apparently take place. When you then sprinkle a Head of Performance on his third catastrophic injury crisis at consecutive clubs you must be able to understand if you are not blinkered on behalf of the club that supporters have perfectly legitimate concerns rather than simply laughing it off as an "evil plot"?

These Managers aren’t stupid. Everybody knows that if you come into the Rovers job and utter phrases like “I’ll sign players who will put it in for the quarters” they just lap it up........”he speaks out gurt language, ‘ees a legend ain’t ee”. Dumbest fan base in the country bar none.

The best analogy I can think of is that Johnson was like the person in the office who did a decent job but was left to his own devices. Thing were done their way and because they never caused the boss problems that was accepted. When handing in his notice the person taking over his job looks through his work and hasn’t got a clue what they’ve done or how they did it, there’s no plan or audit trail and the only solution is to start again from first principles. In football speak the recruitment was substandard in the medium term and his way of playing was entirely one dimensional to suit the recruitment. Too much was done to achieve short term results and job protection rather than building anything on a solid foundation. As such we could never progress to the next level with his recruitment and management.

Congratulations to Cheltenham on gaining promotion and at the same time leap frogging the Tesco Bags in the West Country pecking order......................

Looking at the results tonight the Tent Boys look like they have a nice visit to Barrow next season..........

I missed that bit!!!

Gaslogic dictates that as long as you are "convinced" whatever it is you are convinced about becomes absolute fact.