[Archived] Rovers v Blackpool: 1st Feb......3pm.......must win?

[roversR4ever]

perhaps you should change it for a Seahawks one.

[roversR4ever]

afterall you don't want to be shut out of Ewood and then watch the Seahawks shut out the Broncos lol

[ABBEY]

How does knob off sound

[roversR4ever]

LOL

[tomphil]

My title was simply a reaction to the last two games, and a discussion point......every game is a must win, because if you do throughout the season you win the league! It would be good to win, as we have a tricky Feb, and it would be good to put a run together. Naturally we need to put the Dingles to the sword, irrespective of which bits of the ground are netted off. How many donkey lashers expected so far?

They'd only sold around 800 by yesterday but they expect a lot to pay on the day.

[Bucksrover]

Will the penny finally drop and we play good attacking football for a full 90 minutes???!!!

3 up early on so Mahoney can have a full half of football.

Yes - dreamland is nice this time of year!

[AggyBlue]

If only Ince was still their manager

[Blue blood]

Well I'd say it's probably must win on two counts.

One: if we are to have any chance of playoffs (unlikely but still theoretically possible) then games like this against dire teams need to be 3 points.

Two: If we can't win these kind of games, then we're probably in a slump. That'd make it 5 without a win, and the further you get into a slump the harder it is to get out - as Blackpool are discovering. Especially with a tricky February coming up.

Having said that even if we continue to slump the chances of us going down are totally minimal, Too many weak teams and too many points already gained for that to be a real danger. But a negative end to the season could really impact next season.

However I fully expect us to win this one. Blackpool are all over the place and can't see them sorting themselves out for tomorrow. We played well in the first half vs Barnsley, and without a great defense I can see us getting the type of lead we can sit back and defend. Especially with the amount of goals Blackpool are scoring.

All in all reckon a 2-0 or 2-1 victory to Rovers.

[Hekla]

Comfortable 1-0 home win.

[rovers11]

Hate to say it, but fancy a shock Blackpool win here. Law of averages state they have to win a game at some point and can see that being tomorrow.

Barry Ferguson will come back to haunt us.

[SoldierMo]

Hope conway starts tomorrow

[Stuart]

Comfortable 1-0 home win.

Contradiction in terms.

I certainly won't be feeling comfortable!

[FGS5635]

Hope conway starts tomorrow

They have rushed through his papers so he's available for tommorrow. The options out wide are slim

In my opinion bowyer will have to start him really

[Stuart]

Hope conway starts tomorrow

Did we sign his sister too?

[Proudtobeblue&white]

Did we sign his sister too?

On fire tonight dear boy, nowt wrong with a bit of Hope!

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

1-1

15,200

[Tardyrover]

4-1 .Rhodes hatrick! Gestede.

[Husky]

4-1 .Rhodes hatrick! Gestede.

That's more like it. We need to and are gonna smash 'em. I'm going for the same score.

(Gestede, Rhodes, Cairney, Conway). Total Football and an all round team performance!!!!!

[somersetrover]

0-2. As Rovers begin their slide down the table as they did at the same stage last year.

[tkturner]

3-1 Rovers

Dabo screamer, Conway bossing it and assist for 2 from Rhodes…

[Tom]

Comfy win, Conway to have an Emerton debut

3-0 Rhodes x 2 and Cairney

[bob fleming]

0-2. As Rovers begin their slide down the table as they did at the same stage last year.

That's the spirit!

[darrenrover]

We're due a good performance in our topsy turvy season. I fancy us to turn over the Lasher's comfortably 3-0. ( But Wednesday, Brum, Barnsley?.......)

[roversfan99]

Robinson ©

Kane Hanley Kilgallon Spurr

King Dabo Cairney Conway

Gestede Rhodes

Subs: Kean, Henley, Best, Dunn, Taylor, Lowe, Mahoney.

Should be an easy win.

[Josh]

2-1. Robinson with the opener after the wind helps the ball loop over Gilks' (I think he's their keeper) head