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I was expecting us to stay in the division and avoid relegation. A season of consolidation with a few scares along the way. What I have seen so far has been encouraging and I think my expectations will be met.

2 defeats from 7 this season. Not the worst start to a season by a long way.

If some of the posters on here are actually a representation of our home support then its no wonder we cannot buy a home win. I think sometimes we have an inordinate amount of fans that do not know a lot about football and I cannot work out why.

Yes you are right. Its time. With two defeats in 7 this year, after the start of a rebuild we have not seen the likes of since the great man Terry Cooper led us out of the darkness, it is clearly time. How we are not 100% at this stage, and smashing teams 3-0 every week is a disgrace. In fact I will be glued to this forum all night without any sleep expecting Nigel Pearson to do the decent thing and resign. In fact he should never manage a football club again after dropping points this season with the abundance of riches and strong core club mentality he inherited. Give me strength.

Starting to become, if it was not already, a psychological problem. The record at the new Ashton Gate is frankly abysmal. Too nice a place for away fans and teams, not enough vitriol or demand from our own fans. It will be 16 without a win by the time Bournemouth leave our carpet of a surface with a smile on their faces.

Extending your astounding run of catastrophic posts with a belter here my friend!

Nigel Pearson joined because Mark Ashton had switched off/was asleep at the wheel and allowed the process to happen knowing he was on his toes to Ipswich, and did not care on what terms the new manager joined. Prior to this, when Holden was appointed, Ashton desperately needed to buy some time and it was important his position was not diluted in order to exact his exit strategy. Hence, any experienced manager that was interviewed could see the problems in our club and surely sought to amend/rectify as part of their vision moving forward which was not acceptable. Hence we ended up with Dean Holden. The cards fell perfectly for Mark Ashton, during possibly the most conceited and self-serving 12 months any individual has had at our club. Injury crisis’ not being dealt with, transfer insanity, contracts being allowed to run down and literally millions of pounds walking out of our door unchecked. Ultimately it set us back 3 years, but we can thank our lucky stars it did not cost us our Championship status as that could have led to 82 repeating itself, and that we ended up with Nigel Pearson at the end of it. If you think this is over-dramatic it is not. We have been very fortunate.

Ipswich Town. My favourite sub-plot this season is developing perfectly. Who knew that bunging together 19 expensive players, with no cohesion or knowledge on if they can play together, signed by a CEO, who has a narcissism complex, would result in this? Oh yes, we did, Oxford did, Watford did. Watch the cracks start to appear between him and Cook. Not sure Paul Cook will toe the party line like Johnson/Holden did here.

Thought Pack was decent today. That little no-look reverse will have LJ purring into his Malbec watching Quest tonight. Went on record as saying Marlon was “world-class” at that. Hindsight maybe bestsight but keep Pack and don’t sign Nagy?

Class act. Early days but the most effortlessly natural footballing central midfielder we have had since Zico Hartley. Will be huge for us. Pearson was possibly the only reason he joined. Shows the value of a respected and credible manager.

“I’ve been Mark Ashton, you’ve been the best…..”

Hardest to watch 45 from an academy product playing out of position since Dean Holden lined up Towler vs Sarr at Watford last season. Did that actually happen or did I imagine the most ludicrous thing ever. I mean even typing it out seemed odd.

Vyner, deary me. Do we have a rule in our club that we are only allowed to play with one specialist full-back on the pitch? We spent 60% of last season with no left-back and have decided to have a go this year with no right-back.

No its ok thank you. I would rather see how we go this season and get behind him. Plus it would be wasted as I am not the worlds biggest Kalas fan, and I actually think Wells is under-appreciated, under-used, and wasted by not being played up top. I fully endorse tonights captaincy selection.

Early contender for “Post of The Season with Fewest Actual Truths and the Most Completely Baseless Statements” Such few words and minimal use of sentences, and yet a work of infinite fantasy. Good effort.

Nige doing it his way then! Mad to think we have Kalas, Nagy, Palmer and Wells considered not good enough to start under him. £19 (nineteen) million pounds well spent by the previous regime.

The jealous bile spouted by this “fan” is tangible. I have never read so much nonsense, and carrying around that amount of hatred, delusion and negativity is not healthy. This overly-wordy and dramatic piece of literature which includes evocative terms such as “terrorism, sadistic, and bully” smacks of a very bitter individual who feels he/she needs to justify their wasted degree in Sociology whilst hating the side of the fence fate left him/her on, and has put that together on many a dark night over probably a 10 year period, manically tweaking it until they could unleash this “masterpiece” on a Rovers forum. Unfortunately he/she is pretty representative of Rovers fans of a certain generation and he/she will be one of the one first talking non-stop about City next year and looking for our result as their own side slips further into insignificance in front of 6000 pairs of eyes. Astonishing indeed.

I hate them with a passion (as they do with us) and will always enjoy even the slightest footballing related mishap they have to suffer (which thankfully are plentiful and often). Unfortunately the truer the Rovers fan, the more abhorrent their behaviour is, and this often culminates in an out-pouring of bitter, irrational, City related jealousy. Rejoice in this thread and make the most of it. They are our biggest rivals and always will be. Make no bones, if it was the other way round it would be unbearable. All of us with long enough memories will agree, and thats the way it should be.

Personally, and no disrespect to the OP, I think this was a thread started with well-intentioned, but ill-timed jest, which he/she is now trying to justify, but is frankly ridiculous.

Not in turmoil? Ok. I have nothing to respond.

I expect us to be Top 6, which is what the board stated when appointing Dean Holden. 48% pass completion, 1 shot on target again. I have supported this club for 37 years and I cannot recall it being this bad. Careful what you say about the Gas, for all our glitz and glamour if we played them tomorrow I would be nervous.

He has come on leaps and bounds, but my point is Zak Vyner should not be a stand out player in a side with Top 6 aspirations. Simple concept to understand.

Shows how poor the season has been then. A striker with no league goals, a centre half playing anchor midfield, and a guy who’s early season promise has dropped off a cliff. Pretty damning in itself if this is your highlight.

Thought he looked decent tonight and more assured the more he plays, on a side note, it seems all of a sudden Kieffer Moore has turned into John Charles x Luca Toni, and listening to Sky and many on here who has him down as unplayable, it seems on that basis a it was a good nights work for Mr.Vyner.