Back from the game..... Donny Rovers

[Royal Lady]

Royalee - weren't you the one preaching on about how fantastic it was that Rodgers was giving the youngsters a chance at long last? Where were Davies, Robson-Kanu, Church, Henry.... he only gave them a chance because he had no-one else he could play because he had to get rid of everyone else. Now he's been given some money, he's brought in other players - not all of them young ones. So why aren't you now complaining that he's not playing the youngsters?

Zac - so you're saying our players aren't very good then.

Did I miss something or did Pearce, Karacan and Sigurdsson all start with Church on the bench? Henry's not good enough, we knew that, and the other two had been on international duty - you really should work on your arguments because they don't stack up.

So, since when do you rest two of your players because they've been on international duty. Are HRK and Davies better or worse than the players out there today. If they're worse, why did you and some others get so excited that we were playing them? And if they're better or the same, why did we bother buying in more players in their positions?

[Royal Lady]

Who ever text in R.106, saying that they didn't think Rogers was the man for the job... really sounded like the kind of person who sat in front of me today and went 'who are all these players, what was wrong with coppells team' ! ARGHHHHHH

Good performance today and as shaun said, if your not going to win, your better off withh a draw and a clean sheet which gives the defence even more of a boost and helps them gel which will have its effect further up the pitch, than loose.

Not if you only put one little player up front and no-one shows him much of the ball.

[winchester_royal]

I can't really see why we're playing 4-5-1 at home, 4-3-3 it aint.

"Rodgers revolution taking us up!" MY ASS!
More like THE RODGERS RELEGATION!!!

Gr8 stuff Ideal.

[Royalee]

Royalee - weren't you the one preaching on about how fantastic it was that Rodgers was giving the youngsters a chance at long last? Where were Davies, Robson-Kanu, Church, Henry.... he only gave them a chance because he had no-one else he could play because he had to get rid of everyone else. Now he's been given some money, he's brought in other players - not all of them young ones. So why aren't you now complaining that he's not playing the youngsters?

Zac - so you're saying our players aren't very good then.

Did I miss something or did Pearce, Karacan and Sigurdsson all start with Church on the bench? Henry's not good enough, we knew that, and the other two had been on international duty - you really should work on your arguments because they don't stack up.

So, since when do you rest two of your players because they've been on international duty. Are HRK and Davies better or worse than the players out there today. If they're worse, why did you and some others get so excited that we were playing them? And if they're better or the same, why did we bother buying in more players in their positions?

Since we have a lot of games coming up. RK and Davies are both light years ahead of Kebe and come to think of it so am I. Can't grumble with anyone else out there though, Howard looked good and Sigurdsson's good. I'm still excited about the prospects we have but you can't play them all at once, you need some experience.

[Schards#2]

Royalee - weren't you the one preaching on about how fantastic it was that Rodgers was giving the youngsters a chance at long last? Where were Davies, Robson-Kanu, Church, Henry.... he only gave them a chance because he had no-one else he could play because he had to get rid of everyone else. Now he's been given some money, he's brought in other players - not all of them young ones. So why aren't you now complaining that he's not playing the youngsters?

Zac - so you're saying our players aren't very good then.

Did I miss something or did Pearce, Karacan and Sigurdsson all start with Church on the bench? Henry's not good enough, we knew that, and the other two had been on international duty - you really should work on your arguments because they don't stack up.

Pearce and Karacan played several games last season. The only youngster who played that didn't play much last season was Sigurdsson. If you think any more are going to play on Wednesday, you're living in dreamland. Rodgers seems to agree with Coppell that they can't cut it and they will be kept out by players inferior to those that kept them out last season.

[winchester_royal]

Royalee - weren't you the one preaching on about how fantastic it was that Rodgers was giving the youngsters a chance at long last? Where were Davies, Robson-Kanu, Church, Henry.... he only gave them a chance because he had no-one else he could play because he had to get rid of everyone else. Now he's been given some money, he's brought in other players - not all of them young ones. So why aren't you now complaining that he's not playing the youngsters?

Zac - so you're saying our players aren't very good then.

Did I miss something or did Pearce, Karacan and Sigurdsson all start with Church on the bench? Henry's not good enough, we knew that, and the other two had been on international duty - you really should work on your arguments because they don't stack up.

Pearce and Karacan played several games last season. The only youngster who played that didn't play much last season was Sigurdsson. If you think any more are going to play on Wednesday, you're living in dreamland. Rodgers seems to agree with Coppell that they can't cut it and they will be kept out by players inferior to those that kept them out last season.

Can't cut it?....or thinks they shouldn't all be thrown in at one?

[Royalee]

Pearce and Karacan didn't play nearly enough last season, this year they are starters. As for Rodgers' selection, we'll see.

[floyd__streete]

A load of absolute rubbish again in all honesty. Reading and Doncaster very well matched; both teams try to pass the ball, but who gives a t*ss how many sideways passes you make when your end product is nil. Kebe - once again - disgracefully ineffective and disinterested, I'd love to see those of you who bother attending matches defend his performance today.

[andrew1957]

Im not gonna start preaching how good we are now, because we aren't yet , but its so obvious to me that IF Rodgers gets this style right, we will be very very good, and also have a team with a lot of years ahead of them. To start asking for the Coppell style back after the hammering it got on here in the 2nd half season is hypocritical and dam right retarded.

Quite right - it takes time to develop and change a style of play. Unfortunately Steve Coppell's 4-4-2 and nothing else, did begin to look jaded in the modern game when we had been worked out. You need flexible and different formations and I think we do now look like a team that "could" be very good at some point.

Very few on here realistically thought we would get promoted this year and if we do then Rodgers is a genius in my opinion. More realistically we are looking at mid table and I believe that we will achieve that - then next season we have every chance.

Those that want to sack Rodgers already because we are not top of the league really are numpties!

And another point Royalee and me are usually at loggerheads on here, but he seems to have morphed into a relatively sane and sensible poster. I guess it was the blind hatred of SC that made him sound disturbed, but now Coppell has gone I find myself worrying that I am agreeing with him more of the time!

[FiNeRaIn]

LOL@ rodgers comment of " they passed the test, just not the result".

[winchester_royal]

A load of absolute rubbish again in all honesty. Reading and Doncaster very well matched; both teams try to pass the ball, but who gives a t*ss how many sideways passes you make when your end product is nil. Kebe - once again - disgracefully ineffective and disinterested, I'd love to see those of you who bother attending matches defend his performance today.

Agreed about Kebe, who was awful today, but to critiscise the team as a whole is silly IMO.

Instead of whingeing, how about praising players like Howard and O'Dea who both looked very good on debut.

[Pablo]

Well basically the way I see it is that our defence is good, other than occasionally moving forward from Cummings but that leads me onto my next point our midfield is missing something, Kebe can't beat a man and can't cross but on his time can be brilliant. The way I see it we need a man and have done for some while that can boss our midfield Siggy and Karacan simply cannot do this. Although there is a silver lining here I believe the man we need to do this is Macanuff.

Overall we played well but just couldnt move from midfield to attack and thus couldnt finish but the future is bright

Gar'n URRRRRZZZZ

How can Siggy boss our midfield playing out wide on the left?! Brendan bought Howard to play in Mareks and Siggy´s position that is behind the striker so Siggy has been forced to play out wide. I think a big team will sign Siggy after this season on a free

However I think the problem is we need a better stiker who scores 20+ goals a season.

[FiNeRaIn]

Howard hit the bar and did 1/2 decent passes, but ffs guys that does not make him one of our best players. Bertrand and o'dea were streets ahead.

[winchester_royal]

Howard hit the bar and did 1/2 decent passes, but ffs guys that does not make him one of our best players. Bertrand and o'dea were streets ahead.

Still had a good debut. Always looking to go forward which was nice.

Marek was crap when he came on, and I'm one of his biggest fans. Looks very, very unfit.

[ZacNaloen]

Howard hit the bar and did 1/2 decent passes, but ffs guys that does not make him one of our best players. Bertrand and o'dea were streets ahead.

Howard showed promise, but we can't be using midfielders and expecting them to score the goals.


The way we started the game was all wrong though and that's what let us (me) down. If we started how we finished we could well have won the game at least one of those half chances should have turned into a goal eventually. We didn't look like we were playing to win until all the subsitutions had been made and I can't really blame the players for that it wasn't their tactics.

[floyd__streete]

4 goals in 7 games against Championship opposition this season, I refuse to count the joke of an own goal Barnsley donated in our Carling Cup beating by the worst team in the division. Of those 4 goals, 3 of come as a result of a set play. As slow starts go this season is very much Paul Collingwood.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

No it's got nothing to do with degrees of anything, you just don't get players that good at this level.


The better the players the less time they need to gel into a new team if at all.

you don't need players as good as Man C bought at this level tho, they bought in players at the high end/top of the level they are competing at, we bought average players for the level we are playing at.

Added to that inexperienced but promising young players from a higher level.

[FiNeRaIn]

I think we'll steadily improve rather like England have done under Capello.

"Don't worry, Rodgers is a great manager! There are no problems with our style of play!"

LMAOOOOOOO

PoTW!

[Royalee]

I think we'll steadily improve rather like England have done under Capello.

"Don't worry, Rodgers is a great manager! There are no problems with our style of play!"

You're a goon, hth.

[FiNeRaIn]

hth = " hope this helps".

What exactly has your insult helped him with?

You don't make sense.