Originally Posted by
AucklandRover
You are the only Rovers fan I've seen (except the half-dozen on the Telegraph site who would criticise a ten-nil Mowbray win for not being 11-0!) who found that game "painful to watch"! Look at the BBC report of the game. Their reporter watched the same one as me!
Who was in the "wrong" position in the starting line-up? Do tell us?
And I did not say - and never have - "It's all down to luck". I have always argued, however, that luck is a significant factor. If Foster had dived the other way, Armstrong's penalty would have looked like a "good" one. This is an indisputable fact of football - and utterly outside the manager's control
The fact is, we lost a game that we dominated for about 80 of the 90 minutes, against a team just down from the PL.
Almost everyone accepts that the squad is still gelling.
You are in despair. All hope is lost.
I'm quite excited by what I've seen and by our prospects for the season.