[Archived] Rovers 0-2 Everton

[only2garners]

  Manchester Blue said:

According to one site Everton had almost sold out so should be a good crowd i'd have thought.

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According to Everton's website there will be a small number of tickets available at Ewood so presumably they should have c7,000. On that basis I would hope for c24,000.

[Hasta]

This is the Racing Posts preview of todays game.

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The pitch will not exactly be dripping with creative class when these two workmanlike outfits emerge from the tunnel and a bore draw is probable. There will be destroyers - Tugay, Nevilla and Savage - stationed all over the pitch and a no doubt half empty Ewood Park is unlikely to stage a spectacle. In their two meetings last year only one goal was scored.

Recommended Bet - Draw

Gits

[Ozz]

Will ther be another minutes silence today? After all Best is buried today.

[Rover4ever]

  Hasta said:

This is the Racing Posts preview of todays game.

Gits

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They forgot to mention our tough, hard-tackling left winger Pedersen, and the physically imposing Bentley

[Exiled_Rover]

I can't make it this week. Last game I missed? Charlton.....sods law we'll bang four past them again

[Bing]

Team News:

Friedel, Neill, Todd ©, Nelsen, Gray, Thompson, Reid, Tugay, Pedersen, Bentley, Bellamy

Subs: Enckelman, Khizanishvili, Emerton, Savage, Kuqi.

[philipl]

Cannot say that Hughes isn't his own man. Here's hoping Sav and Emo respond positively but this sends a very clear message to all the squad.

Dickov still not fit?

We will need to take our chances with a 4-4-1-1 formation.

Edited December 3, 2005 by philipl

[Exiled_Rover]

  philipl said:

Cannot say that Hughes isn't his own man. Here's hoping Sav and Emo respond positively but this sends a very clear message to all the squad.

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I was just about to post something very similar to that, though I was waiting for his pre-match interview to make sure they weren't injured

[krislu]

  Bing said:

Team News:

Friedel, Neill, Todd ©, Nelsen, Gray, Thompson, Reid, Tugay, Pedersen, Bentley, Bellamy

Subs: Enckelman, Khizanishvili, Emerton, Savage, Kuqi.

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Are we going 4-5-1 again? With the results we have gotten playing 4-4-2 I do not like this line up at all! Why isnt' Kuqi starting the game after his performance against Charlton?!

If I had a bad feeling about this match in the first place, then it aint getting better seeing this line up....Expect us to be 1-0 down at HT...

[todd_could_take_tyson]

What the hell has Khizanishvili done wrong? he been banging sparkys wife or something

[Exiled_Rover]

No we're playing 4-4-2, Bentley is playing upfront (where he should play mind). I'd suggest Kuqi is being saved for a second half blast if we need it, that's where he's most effective.

[Rovers Air Force]

guesses on the attendance?

[Shevchenko]

http://www.brfcs.co.uk/mb/index.php?showtopic=13210&st=60

[Rovers Air Force]

sounds like we've started ok!

[Exiled_Rover]

Typical we're all over them and can't put it in the back of the net, they get one chance (which we gifted to them by all accounts) and they put it away.

[modes98]

after a good start and not scoring while we were on top we are paying for it!

0-1 mcfadden

it just gets better and better, todd sent off! why is he playing ahead of zurab?

Edited December 3, 2005 by modes98

[Exiled_Rover]

Game over, and this ref is an absolute tw@t. He's clearly from Merseyside.

[krislu]

  todd_could_take_tyson said:

What the hell has Khizanishvili done wrong? he been banging sparkys wife or something

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Agree, now the ###### stupid idiot Todd has just gotten himself sent off. Why people like this arsehole I can NOT understand!!!

[Exiled_Rover]

Probably because he's English, Rovers own him and he's a better player? Completely random reasons if you ask me.

[todd_could_take_tyson]

At least todd will most certainly be dropped now!, its no coincedence we;ve started to leak goals since hes returned to the starting line up.

[AndyH16]

Bah, Arteta - 2-0

[Exiled_Rover]

Whatever Mark Halsey is being paid it's too much. The man is a disgrace.

[newquayfan]

everton are so bad we surely still have chance with a smart triple substitution, bentley-off, gray -off, thompson -off. 3 at the back khiz,emerton and kuqi -on. p.s never pick todd and bentley again ifyou're reading this sparky.

(always hate cottee commentating on us, jinx)

Edited December 3, 2005 by newquayfan

[krislu]

  krislu said:

Are we going 4-5-1 again? With the results we have gotten playing 4-4-2 I do not like this line up at all! Why isnt' Kuqi starting the game after his performance against Charlton?!

If I had a bad feeling about this match in the first place, then it aint getting better seeing this line up....Expect us to be 1-0 down at HT...

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I knew it was a poor line up, but 2-0 down, with the idiot sent off..oh dear, big mistake by Hughes not playing Zurab!!

[modes98]

  Exiled_Rover said:

Whatever Mark Halsey is being paid it's too much. The man is a disgrace.

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agreed, he seems to have a grudge against us, sent zurab off against pool and put both tug and shorty out of the league cup final.

Annoying that 1 bad decision is going to cost us again!

Bad defending is also to blame, not going to say had savage been there we wouldn't have let in the second but it sounds like the sort of role he would be in.

Just hoping for a few dodgy everton sendings off and 2 penalties......yeah rovers getting the ref's bias thats going to happen. Where's Clattenburg when you need him