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The decision not to play Sadlier in the recent games is just bizarre, and I thinkDM needs to explain it. He’d been in arguably his best form of the season and is our biggest goal threat by some distance. The tinkering with the team is crazy. DM shouldn’t be above criticism, this has been poor management.
Bang on tyke.We will face a virtual rebuild again in summer as well as probably losing some of our own players, people like Sadlier who will be getting totally brassed off at being left out of the team when he clearly is one of our better ones.
Quote from: mrfrostsdad on February 22, 2020, 07:31:16 pmI really think the big issue is the number of loanees.If you have 5 loan players playing every week, every season , it's all but half the team. You don't get promoted, the loan players go back (maybe even if you do as well) and so it goes on.We've a huge re-building job this summer. Should Sadlier go (very likely) we need to bring in a minimum of 6 players who are tried and tested at this level, permanent signings, not loanees.That will probably cost more money than we're prepared to spend. Or maybe not, who knows.Loans are not the way forward. IMO obvsAgree I think the huge reliance on loans is definitely having an adverse effect on your ability to get out of league one and become a championship club .It's perfectly fine to keep you stable at this level but that's obviously not the end game at Rovers .If your better young players are loans then you aren't creating future revenue when they can be sold on at a good profit and give you an edge in League One .Loans with an option to buy is perhaps worth looking at in the summer as an alternative strategy .
I really think the big issue is the number of loanees.If you have 5 loan players playing every week, every season , it's all but half the team. You don't get promoted, the loan players go back (maybe even if you do as well) and so it goes on.We've a huge re-building job this summer. Should Sadlier go (very likely) we need to bring in a minimum of 6 players who are tried and tested at this level, permanent signings, not loanees.That will probably cost more money than we're prepared to spend. Or maybe not, who knows.Loans are not the way forward. IMO obvs
Quote from: Jonathan on February 22, 2020, 08:16:15 pmThe decision not to play Sadlier in the recent games is just bizarre, and I thinkDM needs to explain it. He’d been in arguably his best form of the season and is our biggest goal threat by some distance. The tinkering with the team is crazy. DM shouldn’t be above criticism, this has been poor management. I might be wrong, but my theory is it could be something to do with him not signing a contract yet
Quote from: tyke1962 on February 22, 2020, 08:00:58 pmQuote from: mrfrostsdad on February 22, 2020, 07:31:16 pmI really think the big issue is the number of loanees.If you have 5 loan players playing every week, every season , it's all but half the team. You don't get promoted, the loan players go back (maybe even if you do as well) and so it goes on.We've a huge re-building job this summer. Should Sadlier go (very likely) we need to bring in a minimum of 6 players who are tried and tested at this level, permanent signings, not loanees.That will probably cost more money than we're prepared to spend. Or maybe not, who knows.Loans are not the way forward. IMO obvsAgree I think the huge reliance on loans is definitely having an adverse effect on your ability to get out of league one and become a championship club .It's perfectly fine to keep you stable at this level but that's obviously not the end game at Rovers .If your better young players are loans then you aren't creating future revenue when they can be sold on at a good profit and give you an edge in League One .Loans with an option to buy is perhaps worth looking at in the summer as an alternative strategy .Yeah, perhaps we need to ditch our strategy and adopt Barnsley’s.Much more sustainable.
Barnsley donut the right way as Peterborough do buy players that are quality and sell them on, eventually you will become a steady championship club, I think rovers board have done brilliant for us I just wish they would take a little gamble now and again
I think you will go down tyke but you will be very strong next year,being favourites to go up and knowing you will be challenging will get you the better players
Big fear for me is at the end of the season. All the loanees go back and the pre season is spent trying to get more loans and we are back where we started
I had no intention of implying it is "simply" a lack of Mesters.
People talk about mental steel, but at the same time concede that we are out of the running for a play-off place with 36 points to play for and Rovers being (potentially) only 4 points of a play-off's spot.....