[Archived] Birmingham Big Club v Rovers......7.45pm Tuesday 14th April

[Salgado Is Still A Hero]

8 unbeaten away sounds good sadly our home form is lacking

how many wins in the 7 i cant recall?

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[tomphil]

These unbeaten runs are amazing. We seem to keep going on them but never really seem to get many points or get anywhere in the league. I wonder why this is

[Rover_Shaun]

ah yes.Leeds, sheff wed and charlton .thats play off form away. with relegation form at home

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Watch out for roaming Zulus and the dreaded Brummie Burgers!

[tomphil]

One thing you could always rely on in Brum back in the day was a routine bricking of coaches. Then in the Prem days they regularly showed they'd stepped up a bit by showering the away corner constantly with coins whilst plod/stewards stood the looking gormless then whizzed out any away fan who showed his displeasure. One of the biggest shoiteholes on the football map.

[LewisF]

I wonder if Gestde will be fit enough to start tonight. Has any more news been said of him?

[Tom]

O'Sullivan gets his start

Rudy on the bench, Brown starts

[chaddyrovers]

Rovers team:- Eastwood, Marshall, Spurr, Kilgallon ©, Olsson, O'Sullivan, Spearing, Evans, Conway, Brown, Rhodes.

Subs: Steele (GK), Henley, Cairney, Williamson, P Taylor, Lenihan, Gestede.

Really pleased that O'Sullivan starts.

[Tom]

Not sure why Marshall is randomly at right back when Henley is on the bench.

[chaddyrovers]

Maybe Henley is carrying an injury.

Pleased to see Cairney dropped. His performance recently hasn't been good enough.

[Tom]

Maybe Henley is carrying an injury.

Pleased to see Cairney dropped. His performance recently hasn't been good enough.

Then he shouldn't be on the bench.

Cairney and Marshall have both warranted being dropped in honesty Cairney has been poor all season.

With Marshall and Olsson at full back it does give us the option to switch to wing backs if need be.

Surprised Lenihan doesn't start after not featuring yesterday but imagine he will get half an hour

[frosty]

Brown will inevitably bundle one in at some point, and we'll never hear the end of it from Bowyer. Get Rudy playing.

Glad O'Sullivan is playing but it should have been instead of Marshall who's been poor/uninterested for a long time, rather than at the expense of Henley who's done really well lately and needs as much game time as possible to keep developing.

[G Somerset Rover]

I too haven't rated Cairney at all this season, but that being said he isn't really being helped out by the lack of pace and runners out wide and up top. Also, 90% of the time he's on the ball he's too deep to do anything incisive with it due to the opposition squeezing us up. Again due to a lack of PACE.

Let's hope O'Sullivan adds some of that tonight; good to see him start. Odd that Henley has been benched. He's young and on form - why drop him?

[Tom]

Brown will inevitably bundle one in at some point, and we'll never hear the end of it from Bowyer. Get Rudy playing.

Glad O'Sullivan is playing but it should have been instead of Marshall who's been poor/uninterested for a long time, rather than at the expense of Henley who's done really well lately and needs as much game time as possible to keep developing.

Well Brown is due one

[davulsukur]

Glad to see O'Sullivan start. Hope he does well, lord knows we need some good players coming through the youth system.

Hopefully Lenihan will get on at some point.

Agree with other's though bizarre starting with Marshall at right back when Henley has been playing well.

[joey_big_nose]

Can't figure out the formation? Is O'Sullivan a winger? So a standard 442 then?

[A cup of beans]

Glad to see O'Sullivan start. Hope he does well, lord knows we need some good players coming through the youth system.

Hopefully Lenihan will get on at some point.

Agree with other's though bizarre starting with Marshall at right back when Henley has been playing well.

Agree.

Surprised Paul Taylor isn't playing.

Impressed some at Leeds, not been seen since.

[Exiled in Toronto]

Agree.

Surprised Paul Taylor isn't playing.

Impressed some at Leeds, not been seen since.

Isn't he a cokehead loan player that we didn't need, shouldn't have signed and was keeping kids out of the team? Or did I mistake the derision of his signing for warm appreciation?

[chaddyrovers]

Can't figure out the formation? Is O'Sullivan a winger? So a standard 442 then?

yep its a 4-4-2 formation with O'Sullivan as the right winger

[A cup of beans]

Isn't he a cokehead loan player that we didn't need, shouldn't have signed and was keeping kids out of the team? Or did I mistake the derision of his signing for warm appreciation?

The very same. However, now that weve got him here and especially after the intial praise he got...

Why not play him?

[onlyonejackwalker]

Isn't he a cokehead loan player that we didn't need, shouldn't have signed and was keeping kids out of the team? Or did I mistake the derision of his signing for warm appreciation?

You seem to have a bee in your bonnet of late.

[chaddyrovers]

Rovers 1 nil

Kilgallon scores

[LewisF]

Get in. Come on you blues!

[Tom]

Get in Killgallon

Right end this time

[Exiled in Toronto]

You seem to have a bee in your bonnet of late.

I believe the technical term is "posting" :-)