Yippee try yay:
Fair play to Rovers the best team by a long way. As much as it pains me to say it Peters was a great appointment for them, if you look down their team sheet it's not star after star like Wigans is but the systems Peters has put in place makes them look so solid and difficult to break down.
Peters was the key appointment for them. Everything since has been a result of his appointment. Their player recruitment strategy has been a model in sourcing players brought in to fit a specific club culture. This is the model we have to follow if we want to be back up there challenging once more.
Like you say, its the system that rovers employ which is driving their continuing climb forward. Players such as Hadley or Tanganoa or Litten or whoever make the whole far greater than the individual parts. High class coaching with a clear development plan will have a bigger impact on a club than any inflated transfer policy will ever have.
I do think the appointment of JC is our first step in this direction. We are already seeing significant improvements in just a few months, but our player recruitment over the next couple of years is vital if we are to continue to progress. The right players have to be brought in for the right specific reasons, not some scattershot approach picking whoever takes our fancy at any given moment.
A high class coach will make good players better, high profile signings will be counter productive if they don't fit the system you are attempting to instil into your club. This is what Peters has done over the other side. It's what Brian Smith did, briefly, for us back in 1988/89 or Peter Sharp in 2006. Hopefully, it will be what John Cartwright has begun to impose on the club in 2025. A lot of hard work ahead of us, but even after defeats like yesterday there is still a sense of clear purpose around us going forward. Rovers will take care of themselves, it's my club I'm interested in and at last it feels like we have woken up and are fighting our corner again.
Onwards and upwards, hopefully. Keep the faith everyone.