Rovers minus rhodes

[Rvblue]

Sorry to see him go and wish him all the best

The shame was we lacked the creativity to make chances for him this season.

Not sure how he will cope with the world of one up front which is in vogue these days.

Time for us to move on. It has happened before with Field, Crawford, Shearer, Bellamy, Santa Cruz.

Lets hope PL hose the nous to unravel another talent or 6 as that is what we need right now.

[Despair]

[quote="AucklandRover"]But it was a cup game, we were not on a particular good run, we had just lost our 'star' man, we had a few newbies in amongst us. I would say that's more a case of sour grapes from him, as they had every reason to be reasonably confident (hence them being favourites).
Then again, yes for sure we have far harder games to come, but let me put it this way: IF we had lost I can just see the headline now !!!
You should, if you have not, have listened to PL's post match comments, in reflection.
He was not crowing in any way (as he maybe could have) he was very guarded in saying the same thing we all have - no team is one man. There's a huge job to put together a team that can challenge, the real work starts towards the end of this season. JR was a very good servant for us and it would have been nice for him to have stayed, but even with him here we still couldn't manage it.
He echoed we should have