[Archived] ROVERS VS WIGAN

[booth]

So we're defending a point but bring Chapman on when under pressure with a man less?

Make your mind up Tony.

Would love him to set up a hat trick. TM would still drop him next match.

[Bigdoggsteel]

Did Bennett dive or was it a bad decision? If he dives,no excuses 

[Bigdoggsteel]

Just now, booth said:

So we're defending a point but bring Chapman on when under pressure with a man less?

Make your mind up Tony.

Would love him to set up a hat trick. TM would still drop him next match.

Keep the opposition guessing I suppose 

[Husky]

Just now, booth said:

So we're defending a point but bring Chapman on when under pressure with a man less?

Make your mind up Tony.

Tony Tombola?

[West Yorks Rover]

Just now, Miker said:

The ref just ruined this game as a contest... and right after giving Smallwood an extremely dubious yellow card as well. If there aren't any reprisals over this after the game, this will be an absolute farce.

Bennett was slid in on quite hard by the Wigan player, and passed the ball on to a teammate IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH. It is ridiculous to even make the assertion he dived. We were still in possession...

Wouldn't be surprised to see Smallwood subbed as he's on a yellow, TM won't want to go down to 9.

[West Yorks Rover]

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[Dan]

1 minute ago, West Yorks Rover said:

Wouldn't be surprised to see Smallwood subbed as he's on a yellow, TM won't want to go down to 9.

It’d give that negative boring b*****d Mobray an excuse for dropping 2 or 3 points. 

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Did Bennett dive or was it a bad decision? If he dives,no excuses 

Looked a very harsh sending off but other than receiving two cards you'd have struggled  to remember whether he was on the pitch or not. 

Doubt the sending off will make much difference to the result. We never had a shot wirh eleven on the pitch and it'll depend on whether Wigan are good enough to break us down.

[G Somerset Rover]

Bradford and Charlton winning now too.

[Lihamylly]

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Looked a very harsh sending off but other than receiving two cards you'd have struggled  to remember whether he was on the pitch or not. 

Doubt the sending off will make much difference to the result. We never had a shot wirh eleven on the pitch and it'll depend on whether Wigan are good enough to break us down.

Good point. I think we lost the chance for 3 pts before start whistle, when Mowbray selected the players.

Cmon lads, keep it tight!

[Swanson]

Wow...this ref...

[OJRovers]

One of if not the most biased ref I've ever seen 

[JacknOry]

is the ref a Burnley fan by any chance?

[RevidgeBlue]

Playing better with ten than eleven which says all you need to know about Bennett.

Referee surpassed the Bennett sending off by booking Chapman when the defender threw himself down in front of him to con the referee into awarding  a free kick.

[JacknOry]

God id love to nick this (though the ref would probably disallow it).

[Miker]

3 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Looked a very harsh sending off but other than receiving two cards you'd have struggled  to remember whether he was on the pitch or not. 

Doubt the sending off will make much difference to the result. We never had a shot wirh eleven on the pitch and it'll depend on whether Wigan are good enough to break us down.

Sorry but that's rubbish. The red card happened not long after two fantastic runs down the left by Conway which ended in him setting up Dack. We were looking the more likely to score at that point until the sending off. Ref killed this game as a contest.

Credit to the players for trying to keep it relatively calm out there with this ref. We have had a few chances to score and if we managed to somehow nick this game, it would be a tremendous boost to our confidence. But 0-0 is looking like a good result right now.

[J*B]

Chapman off injured. 9 men. 

[AdamRochina]

9 men for the last two minutes 

[Tormund]

Talk about bad luck. 

[Tom]

Happy with that, I thought a point was good before kick off so under the circumstances that's a great point 

[yellowsubmarine]

Ref is pissed poor. Took so long for the whistle.

[booth]

8 minutes ago, J*B said:

Chapman off injured. 9 men. 

Perfect one of our best players out just in time for the match we didn't play because we had some of our best players missing.

[G Somerset Rover]

Got to be happy with that given the ref was a homer and we played so long with ten men. Desperately need to beat Fleetwood on Tuesday now seeing as Bradford and Charlton won today. Nothing less than 3 points will be good enough.

[AdamRochina]

That ref needs looking into.  And I think Tony needs to go.. Wigan were nothing   they didn't look like this leauges best side.  Didn't cut us open..I think if we were braver we would of beat them   ref helped them a lot today every thing went there way and even with ten men they couldn't beat us. I expected a drubbing but Wigan were a nothing side 

[JacknOry]

Under the circumstances and yet another poor referee, a point is a good result. One point closer to Shrewsbury at least.