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I don't rate PD's tactical ability and I'm curious as to what we do in training to look so disjointed at times but I wouldn't say he's a poor judge of ability at all - pretty much all the signings he made last season improved the team and you could say the same about a few this season given the short windo he had to bring players in. If he's given money (not saying he should/shouldn't be or has/hasn't been) I'd back him to bring quality in. For me the squad depth/weaknesses have been mainly brought about by the farcical pre-season situation for me thats the main reason we won't get near promotion. Whether he's getting enough out the current team is obviously a completely different debate of course...
Lockwood and albrighton were ok at best would you have them in the team now even at there best?
This guy [PD] has arrived at the club under a takeover farce and then gone through another summer break with another crap takeover farce. If I was him I would feel quiet Sh*t about his job. How many of us have gone to work and given 100% after being Sh*t on by our bosses. I believe he has tried and is still trying his utmost. If senior players can't be motivated or encourage the youngsters we should look at binning them. Wellens must realize no one wanted him except us so give us your all. I just want passion that's what we are all about. We are a pub team having a laugh - out to prove the know it alls' wrong - but I feel that some of the main players are just treading water.it should be ROVERS TILL I DIE - Dickov needs support by no means is he the worst manager he's had the worst conditions to work under. The others mentioned had know where near the crap he's had to deal with.Stop moaning and look at the positives. Tyson had never scored for 2 seasons till PD got hold of him. Husband was an inevitable departure but to get Main in exchange was a master piece. I could go on but feel that I would be typing for ever. PD is who we need but everyone - Including the senior players [which I feel may not be] must play for the club.
Two points about Paul Dickov:1. Someone has already mentioned our problem as regards winning back-to-back victories. However, it goes deeper than that. Rovers seem incapable of following up one good performance, whether in victory or defeat, with another one.Last Saturday's display at Walsall took me back to the turn of the year. We played well at QPR and were unfortunate not to take at least a point from that game. Yet a few days later we turned in such an abject effort in the FA Cup tie with Stevenage that for the first time I began to question Dickov's ability to do the job. Walsall followed on from a stirring second half display at Fulham and a (long-awaited) home victory over Chesterfield. For the benefit of anyone who wasn't there, think Stevenage in the FA Cup!And there's more. The wretched display at home to Port Vale followed two wins on the road (confidence should have been high) and we were outplayed by Oldham after a week that also saw two away wins, one at a team from a higher league. The reporter from Radio Deedar gave Dickov a real leg-stump half-volley, asking him if Saturday was a "game too far." To be fair, Dickov didn't want to go down that route, but a better question might have been "why does this keep happening, Paul?"2. For all Dickov's talk about "working hard in training" I don't believe his sessions are challenging or interesting enough. I believe the players were worked much harder under Saunders and did more varied tasks under O'Driscoll. After the defeat at Fulham the players were given two days off, although they had the option of training on Thursday. This meant that they had one day to prepare for the Walsall game. For me, training should be about a lot more than a bit of fitness work and a few games of seven-a-side. Players should be working on set pieces, formations and should be looking at the challenges their next opponents are going to be throwing at them. Dickov said that the players will be working hard in training this week, but we've heard that before. I'd hope that "hard work" will involve some analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Scunthorpe, but I have my doubts that it will.If he doesn't address some of these weak points soon either (a) he'll find himself out of work or (b) he'll take us down to League Two.
If we don't look at loans then we won't be making any signings for another 3 months.Which would be ludicrous
TRB, have your factored into your thinking the stated long-term aim of the board to develop a younger squad of Rovers players? Which I always presumed was picking up players from other teams acadamies as well as developing our own. I have no idea when these players become available, presumably during transfere windows.