Rotherham United - Failings By the Previous Manager / Recruitmet Team / Owner

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

What we don't know is how many decent players we're rejected because they didn't pass the "good human being" test

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Sooner would have kept Wood than buy a player in Morrison well known for his injury history, so getting
getting value for a player who would have played more games.

We should have sold Woody and not signed Morrison and looked elsewhere

Thanks for that IBS

I should have wrote -
Sooner would have kept Wood, than Get a player in Morrison. well known for his injury history.

Don't know why I put buy.

[flourbasher]

I actually thought Morrison did well defensively yesterday .

He also led by example in pushing us forwards to try and set up an equaliser.

We should have had the equaliser but their no5 made a great save .
We were sat right behind that shot and it was going in, so no penalty required

[gru]

Yeah that’s him . 👍 he still gave 100 % like all the players yesterday. Btw it must great living in your world , the person who never makes a mistake. Trot on .

100% of what? all players go out giving that not always enough.

[MillersJ81]

100% of what? all players go out giving that not always enough.

Yeah and top 200k a week footballers make mistakes, so give it a rest .

[MillersJ81]

Yeah and top 200k a week footballers make mistakes, so give it a rest .

Will also had to this . How many mistakes did the officials make yesterday. If that’s a premier league game we probably win the match .

[HensonsPRman]

I was an MT fan but one mistake he did make, and this is not a hindsight one, was not signing any full backs.
That’s defenders , not wingbacks. Experienced ones not youngsters from prem teams who’ve hardly played a first team game.

The cship is far too unforgiving to have an inadequate back line and as we know only too well if we concede first it’s going to be difficult to get anything out of the game.
Not only were the players we did sign injury prone they were also for similar positions.

Flour you have hit the nail on the head the tactics Taylor used basically designed at stopping teams playing through the middle, that meant to be succesful we needed to be strong in our set up out wide. As we have seen week after week we have been destroyed in the wide position. So you are correct the lack of good defensive full backs was a massive mistake. Would Kioso have made a difference, who knows.

[LincsMiller]

And that's been the problem all along, players not wanting to come to a club that has little or no glamour with almost nailed on relegation, because we can't/won't offer the wages that are expected by even mediocre players at this level. We now seem to be rejected by would be managers for the same reasons. So what's left, apart from the sweeping ups that we get.

Over 60 years of following the Millers Id say your post applies to 80% of those years. The fans that are left have come to accept mediocracy ( myself included). We are told we should be thankful that we have a football club that's on the whole solvent but surely there should be more than that? Ive got a car that's economical and reliable but it would have been nice to have owned a Bentley for a while

[Back of the net]

Over 60 years of following the Millers Id say your post applies to 80% of those years. The fans that are left have come to accept mediocracy ( myself included). We are told we should be thankful that we have a football club that's on the whole solvent but surely there should be more than that? Ive got a car that's economical and reliable but it would have been nice to have owned a Bentley for a while

Agree with that.
The town doesn’t back the football club though.
It’s easy to criticise the owner but where are the fans?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Over 60 years of following the Millers Id say your post applies to 80% of those years. The fans that are left have come to accept mediocracy ( myself included). We are told we should be thankful that we have a football club that's on the whole solvent but surely there should be more than that? Ive got a car that's economical and reliable but it would have been nice to have owned a Bentley for a while

We did - David