Another defeat but......

We travelled down to Bristol Rovers today following a pretty eventful week at Bloomfield Rd.We saw Simon Grayson depart after a depressing defeat by Gillingham. David Dunn was installed as the interim manager whilst the search goes on for a new manager.

Today’s game was Dunn’s first  in charge. With captain Jay Spearing forced to sit out the game due to being concussed in the midweek game, Dunn made three changes with Husband, MacDonald & Virtue in the starting lineup.

After a much improved all round performance by the team and after going 1-0 ahead in the 2nd minute with a Madine strike, we ended up suffering a 2-1 loss.

The sending off of stand-in skipper Ben Heneghan in the 43min for a reckless tackle didn’t help our cause but we got to half time still 1-0 ahead.Unfortunately in the 2nd half we were playing against a swirling wind, but nevertheless we had several chances to increase our lead and nearly squared things up in the last minute when Nathan Delfouneso effort was deflected past the far post. Today’s loss is a continuation of our current luck, not helped a lot of the time by poor officiating, today was no exception. Still, we can’t keep using that as an excuse for the results. 

This next coming week will hopefully see a new manager installed or at least identified as suitable.

Several names have come up including  Nathan Jones & Ian Evatt. The only hopeful who has officially put his name forward is Gary Taylor-Fletcher. It’s surprising how many managers are currently out of work, so perhaps an outsider could still take over the reigns. David Dunn has already indicated he’s not interested in taking the job on permanently. 

One person who hasn’t gone down well with us fans is former manager and favourite for a return to Bloomfield Rd, Ian Holloway.

His recent comments about the sacking of Simon Grayson as being disgusting hasn’t done his reputation with fans any good. In fact I would say any chance of a return here has now gone for good. Perhaps that’s how it should be, because as in the case of Simon Grayson, a return to a previous managed club is rarely the same. 

Looking forward to see how the forthcoming week will develop and who our new manager will be. There’s one thing for sure he’ll be working for a great owner in Simon Sadler, who will back him but who will expect results, after all he’s one of us. UTMP