I will keep banging on about Steve Evans if I want to we are all entitled to our opinions the football under him was more exiting with better players the reason Evans hasn't done as well he has not got as good a chairman as Tony Stewart to work with never a dull moment when he was here.
As for our present manager the players should be told they are playing for there futures at the club but the silence is deafening expecting a very meek performance on Saturday the very least they can do is give us something to cheer.
You're dead right THMiller. The very least we should expect is that our lads will go away to West Brom with their £70m budget and give a footballing lesson to their four England internationals and eight or nine other players with thirty or forty odd caps apiece for various countries. FFS. A few people on here need to have a word with themselves, including anybody who thinks the players haven't given their all this season. We were soundly beaten on Saturday, but please don't confuse lack of ability with lack of effort. We have been well beaten a few times but at no time this season have we suffered for lack of effort.
I couldn't care less who we are playing need to show that the players want a future in playing for the club if not get rid when you play these teams don't show them any respect under this manager we just lie down he can go too.
It's my birthday today and I've been out for a couple of sherbets, so forgive any faux pas. I came back from Australia in Dec 2013 after 10 years defending the southern hemisphere against attack from the unruly pirates of the southern seas. My first game at NYS was the Millers 1 v Coventry 3, after which we were then promoted in an unforgettable Wembley play-off final. After Millmoor, I was entranced by our new home. Since that introduction to NYS, I have witnessed 5.5 incredible seasons; 2 promotions, 2 relegations (1 pending) and 2 heroic survivals. Has any other club been involved in so much relegation, promotion, survival intrigue in such a short period of time?
I have a constant pre-match conversation in the NY Tavern about the type of club we want RUFC to be. Do we want to entice new (possibly foreign) investors to enhance our chances of reaching the halcyon heights of the Premier League (which I personally despise and consider to be the cancer that will kill English football). Or do we want to live within our means, or more accurately the means that Tony Stewart is willing to afford us, and position ourselves as a League One/Championship yo-yo side who enjoy exciting seasons whether it be fighting for promotion or against relegation.
It's really all about perspective. Every football club cannot be a Premier League side and if you're content to follow a club which enjoys exciting football competition, every season, then Rotherham's not a bad place to be.
My message is; keep it all in perspective. Enjoy what you have, the grass is not always greener (ask Bolton, Chesterfield or Leyton Orient) and relish the fact that we have stability, integrity and the opportunity to enjoy relative greatness every couple of seasons.
They have given their best every single week. If you can't see that you've got problems. You seem to be concluding that if we don't win it means we aren't trying, which is patently nonsense. You can absolutely guarantee that they will be trying on Saturday. We may well lose simply because we are playing against a team that is much, much better than we are. If we try to go toe to toe with them we will probably get murdered. Look at how really good Premier League teams play against Man City. The truth is that teams who have players substantially better than their opponents usually (not always) win.
Can't fault the effort. But it was the most dissapointing performance of the season Monday brought about by the worst team selection I've seen in a long time by a Roth U manager. Agree? Worst two transfer windows we could have had this season. Agree? Baffling contracts given to Wood & Proctor. Agree. Somebody's got to carry the can. Agree
So Monday was acceptable? Transfer windows, longer contracts given to Wood & Proctor same ?
Let me focus on Saturday's team selection, that you have been so scathing about.
Warne picked all the attacking players that you said pre-game you would have picked. He chose not to play Ajayi in midfield, perhaps so that he could get a more attack minded midfield three, which made sense in a game we had to win. Plenty of people prefer Ajayi in defence and have been asking for that. I doubt that you would argue with Ajayi being played instead of Ihiekwe, as you wrote Ihiekwe off as a footballer a long time ago and clearly don't rate him. The same with Jones/Vyner. You wanted Vyner (who was humiliated when his substitution was cheered at a home game) sending back to Bristol so presumably the selection of Jones on Saturday wasn't very controversial.
So really we are talking about the selection of Wood, aren't we? And we are talking about it because he made a howler that resulted in their second goal.
The Wood thing must be difficult for some posters on here, who want Warne out but love Richard Wood. When that is your starting point, where do you go with it when Woody makes a costly error?
Personally I wouldn't have picked Wood on Saturday but I can understand why Warne did. Wood last played in the win against Forest, since when we have conceded six goals in two games. As many regularly point out, our points per game ratio is higher when Wood plays than when he doesn't. Birmingham have the biggest, strongest target man in the division and that is the sort of battle that Wood relishes. When you look at it, the selection of Wood really wasn't that controversial at all. It looks it now with the benefit of hindsight, but I didn't hear many people questioning it at half time. In fact, Wood had a decent game apart from one very bad mistake but that mistake is all he will be remembered for from Saturday, such is the brutal nature of the game.
Singling Wood out and ripping into Warne for picking him is another exercise in being frustrated by the result and feeling that you have to find someone to blame, or carry the can as you have put it this time.
No doubt Wood's mistake was a big turning point in the game, but it wasn't the only one. If we had gone two goals in front and got a second goal before half time it might have been a very different game. The other massive turning point on Saturday was when Vaulks missed an open goal from six yards shortly before half time. Why aren't you talking about that gwru? That error was just as big and just as costly as Wood's mistake. You won't want to hear that because it doesn't fit your agenda, but it is true isn't it?
Don't get me wrong, I am not having a pop at Vaulks just as I wouldn't have a pop at Wood. There are no more wholehearted players than those two. But please don't single people out to carry your can based on who you like/rate and who you don't.
Point of order, Mr Speaker. Last two games we played, took place over the Easter weekend. We played on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Where does Saturday come into the debate? Which Saturday is the poster referring to? It doesn't deflate the thrust of their views but it sure as hell plays havoc with my circadian rhythm.
Point of order, Mr Speaker. Last two games we played, took place over the Easter weekend. We played on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Where does Saturday come into the debate? Which Saturday is the poster referring to? It doesn't deflate the thrust of their views but it sure as hell plays havoc with my circadian rhythm.
Simon
It is pretty obvious I was talking about Monday. Well done for spotting the mistake though. We all make them (I think).
It was made easier as it was repeated a number of times. I was actually questioning my own sanity. The latter being called into question a few times over the years by non professionals. (I know).
You are going to change your mind about players during a season. Ihiewke thought he'd done after last season's play off semi finals but to his credit he's not let us down, wouldn't say he's that strong a central defender or got good positional sense but he's done all that's asked of him. Would say Rodak Ajayi Robertson Mattock Vaulks Smith are our mainstays. Ihiewke he's in the next level there isn't many with him. Wood should be retired he's a liability now. Towell & Newell were as bad, then we end up as always with Taylor & Forde on the wings who've not done what they were brought to the club for be wingers in 3 seasons.
Already told you this before the game I was talking to someone who has something to do with the club before Mondays game. He was singing Warney's praises saying he picked Wood because of Birmingham's height up front. I told him then Warney he's got to go, Wood & Forde wouldn't be at the club if I had anything to do with it along with now quite a few others.
TS I think he's shell shocked what's happened in the past. Sure a TS of a few years ago Warney would be gone. He wouldn't let his business fail like we have this season.
The silence from the club is very worrying is there anything happening seems to me that they have given up I have a question for RUFC is there anybody alive out there. I am dreading a right pasting on Saturday hang on to your tin hats it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Yorkshire Post
Published : 17:20
Tuesday 23 April 2019
'ROTHERHAM UNITED manager Paul Warne insists that the Millers are not giving up in their quest to secure their Championship status despite his side suffering a damaging home loss to Birmingham City.'
I don't believe it! Warney cannot be serious! Might want to sell more tickets for last home game at the NYS?
Yorkshire Post Published : 17:20 Tuesday 23 April 2019 'ROTHERHAM UNITED manager Paul Warne insists that the Millers are not giving up in their quest to secure their Championship status despite his side suffering a damaging home loss to Birmingham City.'
I don't believe it! Warney cannot be serious! Might want to sell more tickets for last home game at the NYS?
If we win on Saturday and the others lose, then the dream is still alive.
But would i want another season of what we have all endured (not enjoyed) , with Smith trying his hardest to score, made to play with a broken toe, and no plan B when it goes t**ts up. No thankyou
But I will still make the 240 mile round trip for the home games, and will still spend in the club shop and kiosks, but we need a proven striker and not 2 weeks before the start of the season because he hasn't got a club yet, no journeymen.
With Millwall having three games left to play, surely the hooligan element of their supporters will behave themselves on the run in?
If they're gonna misbehave it could happen at any one of their last three games but I'm tipping it'll be at Wigan, their last game.
Points deduction to follow for them and we win one of our last two games?
Wishful thinking and clutching at straws on my part.
Having said all that I'm not sure that staying in the Championship for another season will be good for my blood pressure. The highs and the lows, the peaks and the troughs, the agony and the ecstasy.
