First step to Wembley-Match Day Thread

we are in a bad rut

4-2 FT any positives.... we scored twice and can concentrate on league and checkatade trophy now

We've allowed a L2 team 20 attempts on our goal and conceded 4.

I'll write the manager's post match interview for him, that'll save him a few mins;

Not good enough, not good enough from me, not good enough from the players, we know that, we are all hurting. We are sorry to the traveling fans.

Place on loop, repeat after each away hammering.

But it won't change, we do the same thing every time and look all surprised as the 4th goal hits the back of our net.

If Darrel has any friends around him they'll be telling him quietly that he needs some help.

It wont make any difference if the players arnt good enough.

I can see darrell clarke becoming the next "paul trollope" or don megson.

Finding it hard to give a s**t tbh.

Without tens of millions of pounds of investment in infrastructure we are right about on the limit of where we can go anyway.

Finding it all a bit "Meh" really.

I know we mess around with each other, but being serious, last summer DC had a chance to go to Leeds, and if he had put feelers out could have probably got himself a job at a bigger club than Rovers, you would have thought that as part of the package that enticed him to stay he would have wanted guarantees about transfer and wage budgets?

Having said all of that, we don't do basics properly when defending set pieces, that's training ground stuff. 

Each supporter has to decide what they think the problem is i suppose.
I think after 2 promotions we needed very serious investment in the team to just maintain a good league position as lots of players have hit a wall in terms of the level of performance their capable of.
I believe the manager was bitterly disappointed with the finance available to him this season.
He will get sacked somewhere along the line and a new man on the managerial merry go-around like john sheridan or lee clarke will be brought in on a strangely even smaller budget and before you know it were back in league 2.
We have all seen it before havnt we going right back to the don megson era but then it was waiting to drop back into div 3.
Once you bring in help for your manager he might just as well go anyway and let the "help" run the whole thing imo.