Anderson

[mushRTID]

Looked like he was sarcasticly clapping the fans at the end.

After his performance as well. Cheeky bugger.

[Tommy A]

Hope not

He's an absolute shadow of the player he once was and needs to go but he's always been 100% rovers.

He must realise that the fans are well within their rights after that joke of a performance

[Hickleton Rover]

1st time in 40 years i have left a game early,  totally garbage  do they practice the chuckle brothers routine in training and not to mention the cost to me with 2 grandsons ☹☹

[Prez]

Out of all his passes today, it felt as though 80% of them were backwards. Everytime he received the ball his body shape was all set up to just passing back to Mitchell.

Truly horrendous tactics.

[Canadian Rover]

Out of all his passes today, it felt as though 80% of them were backwards. Everytime he received the ball his body shape was all set up to just passing back to Mitchell.

Truly horrendous tactics.

He will be playing to instruction. No doubt about that.

[Prez]

I totally agree, hence me saying horrendous tactics. It wasn’t just Anderson though.

It summed it up when we got a free kick around the 40 min mark, on the half way line. What happened?? We just ended up playing it back to Mitchell. Even the Tranmere fans were laughing.

Truly embarrassing.

[steve@dcfd]

Hope not

He's an absolute shadow of the player he once was and needs to go but he's always been 100% rovers.

He must realise that the fans are well within their rights after that joke of a performance

But he has players, playing alongside him behind him and directly in front of him that are  really below the level he was used to be playing with.

[mrfrostsdad]

Anderson is past it mate

[donnievic]

Hardly any movement in front of him at times so he either goes back and start again in possession or go long and we lose it

[mushRTID]

Hardly any movement in front of him at times so he either goes back and start again in possession or go long and we lose it

There were numerous occasions when Anderson had the ball with lots of space in front of him to run forward into (especially first half).

Almost every time he refused this and just whacked it forward.

He was shocking today.

[Branton Red]

Hardly any movement in front of him at times so he either goes back and start again in possession or go long and we lose it

There were numerous occasions when Anderson had the ball with lots of space in front of him to run forward into (especially first half).

Almost every time he refused this and just whacked it forward.

He was shocking today.

Has the manager considered playing central midfielders across the whole defensive line?

Seeing as how, under his tactics, centre halves are seemingly tasked with being the teams' ball players.

Perhaps a central midfielder in goal too??

[BigH]

Worst game I’ve seen him have in a rovers shirt. Pumping forward Hail Mary passes to Miller that their centre halves snuffed out easily.

The regular back and forth passing with Mitchell was bizarre even if it was to instruction. Redolent of a lower league side playing for time in a cup tie.

Got one booking and could have had another. Nowhere near their player for their third.

Struggling to find a positive from him today.

[steve@dcfd]

Anderson as never been a ball player even at his best. But without Anderson and Williams as they keep getting called useless and not good enough. Who have we got against Newport in the managers 3 he play one centre half . With the players we’ve got we can’t play 343. Has he got the money to go out and sign 3/4 good players who can play his system. No as we’ve still got to pay the wages of the players we got or are ECO Power doing that now. So we can blame the players and rightly so but what’s the manager and Copps the HOF doing with their judgements about our team. There is no progression from top to bottom of the club.

[Alan Southstand]

You can only sign what you can afford to sign!

[Padge_DRFC]

Let's hope he uses his fingers to organise that defence instead of putting them up at fans in the next match.

[Dagenham Rover]

Taken from Free Press


FT 0-0
‘Easy’ says a Tranmere fan, whose side had not won in 10 games before today and struggle to score. He’s not wrong.

That was dreadful from Doncaster. Tom Anderson gives the fans what looks like a sarcastic applause then makes a rude gesture before walking down the tunnel. Other players and staff keep their distance. Supporters understandably upset at that display and the decline of their club more generally.

Not good enough. A fourth 3-0 defeat of the season.

If that bits correct its totally unacceptable behaviour from him and he needs pulling by management and as my lad saw it Ive no reason to doubt the accuracy of the report

[Filo]

Taken from Free Press


FT 0-0
‘Easy’ says a Tranmere fan, whose side had not won in 10 games before today and struggle to score. He’s not wrong.

That was dreadful from Doncaster. Tom Anderson gives the fans what looks like a sarcastic applause then makes a rude gesture before walking down the tunnel. Other players and staff keep their distance. Supporters understandably upset at that display and the decline of their club more generally.

Not good enough. A fourth 3-0 defeat of the season.

If that bits correct its totally unacceptable behaviour from him and he needs pulling by management and as my lad saw it Ive no reason to doubt the accuracy of the report

Club Captain as well, needs to apologise, he should be setting an example

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Probably get slated but I can understand him being pissed off.  I doubt any of them want to lose and I'd react if I got abuse aswell.

On the same vein it doesn't feel like he wants to be here and I'd genuinely consider trying to move him on, it'd be good for us and him.

[danumdon]

Should of been moved on after his contract expired rather then given another, a shadow of his former self, the coaching he's now subject to is doing him no favours whatsoever.

Shame, but as a club we cannot afford to carry passengers in leadership roles, as we now evidently have a youngish side scattered with the remnants of previous good, experienced players who now cannot play consecutive matches we need to offload and reset.

[steve@dcfd]

We took up the extension the clubs choice not the player. They did it because they believed he had overcome is problem and were hoping to get a transfer fee for him my belief.

[Colin C No.3]

He, they put in a performance like that & he makes a gesture (as club captain) to 600 travelling Rovers supporters who have turned up on a freezing cold Boxing Day, shame on him.

He’s a shadow of the player he was before his injury lay off.

[NickDRFC]

Probably get slated but I can understand him being pissed off.  I doubt any of them want to lose and I'd react if I got abuse aswell.

On the same vein it doesn't feel like he wants to be here and I'd genuinely consider trying to move him on, it'd be good for us and him.

I bet several of them are pissed off and don’t like losing but there are ways to manifest that and swearing at fans is not one of them.

The guy’s club captain. He should behave in a way that befits that. If he’s done what’s being reported that should be it for him.

[danumdon]

It could also be that like all of us he was well and truly pi**ed off with the performance of the side and himself personally.

Frustration can get the better of us on here without sanction, he as a senior player, one who has been at the club when it has performed to a far better standard and probably cares more than most is allowed to feel frustrated with it all but should never display it in that manner to the fans.

Lets all hope some home truths were laid out on the table and the players have the capacity to strive for better from this.

None of them could honestly say they left that field after expending every last ounce of energy, grit and determination to succeed.

[Chris Black come back]

It could also be that like all of us he was well and truly pi**ed off with the performance of the side and himself personally.

Frustration can get the better of us on here without sanction, he as a senior player, one who has been at the club when it has performed to a far better standard and probably cares more than most is allowed to feel frustrated with it all but should never display it in that manner to the fans.

Lets all hope some home truths were laid out on the table and the players have the capacity to strive for better from this.

None of them could honestly say they left that field after expending every last ounce of energy, grit and determination to succeed.

Good post.

[Colin C No.3]

It could also be that like all of us he was well and truly pi**ed off with the performance of the side and himself personally.

Frustration can get the better of us on here without sanction, he as a senior player, one who has been at the club when it has performed to a far better standard and probably cares more than most is allowed to feel frustrated with it all but should never display it in that manner to the fans.

Lets all hope some home truths were laid out on the table and the players have the capacity to strive for better from this.

None of them could honestly say they left that field after expending every last ounce of energy, grit and determination to succeed.

It could also be that like all of us he was well and truly pi**ed off with the performance of the side and himself personally.

Frustration can get the better of us on here without sanction, he as a senior player, one who has been at the club when it has performed to a far better standard and probably cares more than most is allowed to feel frustrated with it all but should never display it in that manner to the fans.

Lets all hope some home truths were laid out on the table and the players have the capacity to strive for better from this.

None of them could honestly say they left that field after expending every last ounce of energy, grit and determination to succeed.

“….should never express it to those fans in that way ever..”.

Exactly & end of.

Would he have compression over & ‘expressed his frustration’ in that manner if his family had been in that section of fans? I very much doubt it & why?

Because he would have been disrespecting their support also. As well as having to explain to his wife & younger members of his family what that ‘hand gesture’ he made to them/us meant?

[dickos1]

Lot of rubbish here
If you’ve just played a game and bean beaten comfortably then you’re walking off the pitch and getting abused by your own fans then if there’s anything about you you will react.
Simple as that

[anton123]

The fans are the biggest and most important part of any club , but in the Uk this seems to almost always be overlooked, Anderson needs to come out and apologise of the club should rip up his contract as he will never be accepted by lots of fans if he thinks his actions were ok .

[Cramby10]

Let’s be fair, we cannot stand the vast majority of these jokers playing for us currently and I don’t doubt for a second that that feeling is now reciprocated by them. I bet most can’t wait to get out just as we can’t wait to get rid. There’s only Faulkner, Miller and Rowe I’d be sorry to lose. The divide between the players/coaches and the fans has been getting wider and wider since McCann left. To the point that now it feels like a gaping chasm.
That’s why the latest managerial appointment was so vitally important. And yet again we f**ked it up right royally. We needed a figurehead to motivate and galvanise the players and fans not a boy out of coaching school with fancy words.
The value of a united club cannot be underestimated. This, we are not!

[moses]

If Anderson and Mitchell do the ‘to me, to you’ routine on Thursday they will definitely get a reaction from the crowd.

[redarmi66]

The fans are the biggest and most important part of any club , but in the Uk this seems to almost always be overlooked, Anderson needs to come out and apologise of the club should rip up his contract as he will never be accepted by lots of fans if he thinks his actions were ok .

The fans are part of a club no doubt. But the manager, playing staff, and board (investment) are the most important parts of the club. Fans are simply customers and will turn up if they like the product. And wont if they dont! Anderson is an employee and will no doubt be disciplined internally. You and me are not in a position to demand he should be sacked!! Nor should we be.