It's not so much the defeats but the manner of defeats. Yes players and team should be affordrd some to to adapt but there are to many things that don't look right. If it's because the players aren't happy then i think the writing is on the wall for Rowett which will be a shame but also fair and the correct thing to happen.
Agree!
Sounds like the crowd really turned today which is probaly born out of sheer frustration and not a good omen for Rowett. need a big change in attitude and performance from both the manager and players in the next game. Another defeat and i think the crowds reaction will seal Rowetts fate. Foootball has a habit of throwing up coincidences and ironic outcomes- Stoke his former club may well be another example of that.
Yep, the Stoke supporters would love to beat us if it also helped to get Rowett sacked after the game finished! They absolutely hate Rowett and they blame much of their recent demise on him - his extravagant spending on very average players (£12M for Afobe!), that put them in hock in the first place!
My own thought are that the players aren't happy and are playing without heart and desire. That is not on cause they should at bare minimum playing for the badge and personal and professional pride. Need to go back to basics and see if they perform.
This. 100%
Roewtt is responsible for much of our current plight but what he can't be held accountable for is players not be focussed enough or capable of string a few short passes to feet together.
But he should be seeing on the pitch that players are making poor passing mistakes, and that he needs to be working with them on the training field! No?
Some of the players also need to stand up and play as though they care. If they ain't happy tell the manager, don't fucking melt and sulk.
Maybe some players have had a word but Rowett isn’t listening! We know he can be a stubborn old Goat when he wants to be, and only seems to change things when his back is up against the wall and he has no other option left open to him!
The next game is huge. Lets get behind them and show a bit of patience. If we give our all and the team and manager don't then it's time for the board to step in, ask questions and make a decision.
COYL.
The support will be there, as it was today, but it will change if we give another poor performance against Stoke at home next week! Rowett will have no hiding place at The Den!
There is mutterings that the team isn't happy with the tactics. Not sure if that is fair or right that they should be questioning things otherwise a manager losses his authority.
But players are bought to play in certain positions because that’s where they play best! You wouldn’t stick Flemming at CH, you play him as a No. 10 because that’s his favoured position and where he scored 15 goals last season! You don’t then change that for this season, and play him up front, wide right, and then wonder why things aren’t clicking for him! It just seems so strange that
Rowett can’t see this, and won’t do what’s needed to put things right!
They should give it a go rather than sulk and if after a certain amount of games it doesn't change then go to the manager. We've gone from winning at Boro to losing to Reading and Bristiol in the space of two weeks. That's not long enough for a reason for the players to revolt.
Trouble is, it hasn’t just been problems against Reading, City and Norwich, has it? These types of poor performances have been going on since the end of last season - in particular the last 10 games which eventually cost us a play off position! Shouldn’t 13 games (last season and this), be enough to get the players concerned about how their own performance should be in a different system, and what’s being done to rectify it so the players can feel and play better in themselves?
