[Archived] Rovers v Wigan

[dallydally]

Excellent result tonight. Bring on Wigan. We are on a roll. Fancy us this Sunday. My team would be -

                                        Raya

Nyambe     Lenighan       Mulgrew       Williams

                      Smallwood   Bennett

               Armstrong        Dack          Payne

                                       Graham

            

 

[Bigdoggsteel]

Same team as tonight. 2-0 Rovers. 

[blueboy3333]

Bennett wide right before Payne every time. Bennett adds balance and strength.  Payne is a No.10 and nothing else.

[Bigdoggsteel]

Just now, blueboy3333 said:

Bennett wide right before Payne every time. Bennett adds balance and strength.  Payne is a No.10 and nothing else.

Who goes in the centre with Smallwood then?

Payne assisted the first goal tonight 

It's a tricky call, I must say 

[FGS5635]

Not sure we can lose Bennet from centre mid. His energy and constant pressing allows that front 4 to do their thing

[blueboy3333]

6 minutes ago, FGS5635 said:

Not sure we can lose Bennet from centre mid. His energy and constant pressing allows that front 4 to do their thing

We did fine when he went wide right tonight by all accounts.

Edit...not sure he did go out wide. Benno for central midfield for me.

[blueboy3333]

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Who goes in the centre with Smallwood then?

Travis or Evans. Payne looks far too weak to play out wide.

[GreenRover]

Is Travis available for this game? 

[blueboy3333]

Just now, GreenRover said:

Is Travis available for this game? 

Possibly not. I may go to bed.

[Pedro]

1 hour ago, GreenRover said:

Is Travis available for this game? 

Yes

[SBlue]

The fight of Bennett and Smallwood is getting us a foothold in games. See what happens and make changes as necessary, but I feel we have to start with the same team.

We will win this.

[Tom]

Glad Smallwood navigated tonight without a yellow card, would have been a big loss

Go with the team that started tonight 

[JacknOry]

1 hour ago, Tom said:

Glad Smallwood navigated tonight without a yellow card, would have been a big loss

Go with the team that started tonight 

Yep wont be overly bothered if he got one at Wigan now and got it out the way for the run in.

[matt83]

It’s a big if, but if we beat Wigan we will go 9 points clear of them. Even with their 4 games in hand that’s a tough ask for them to keep churning out wins Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday...

[Hasta]

I'm not saying play for one, but how good or bad does anyone think a draw would be after our victory last night?

[matt83]

I reckon a lot depends what Shrewsbury do. If they win on Saturday a draw effectively puts us back into 3rd but if they fail to win a draw wouldn’t be horrendous as Shrewsbury would stay behind us regardless of their game in hand.

Also a draw pretty much means we’re only playing for second. I’d defo set out to win let Wigan worry about what we bring rather than trying to nullify what Wigan bring. 

[blueboy3333]

9 minutes ago, matt83 said:

Also a draw pretty much means we’re only playing for second.

Does it? Lots of games to play yet and Wigan will be playing once every 3 or 4 days by the end of March until the end of the season. If they hit a bad spell it can take in a lot of games.

Any of the top 3 could crash and burn once the pressure cranks up. Rotherham could still go up automatically.

We just have to hold our nerve.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I watched Wigan play in the City cup tie. You couldn't help but be impressed, especially with the way they defended. If they play anything like as well as that against us we'll have our hands full. Let's hope they don't.

I think we can keep them relatively quiet up front, especially now Lenihan is back and playing well. The issue is can we score one goal more than they do ?

[Lucimo]

If you offered me a draw now I'd take it. Keeps us 6 clear of Wigan but as already mentioned they have games stacked up and will be playing twice a week from now till season end. If they win next Cup game add another to the mix and the minds also turn to Wembley. All that can affect the players and it will be tough to keep on winning which they need to do 

[philipl]

Just got to go for the win. Anything less than a win potentially takes automatic promotion out of our hands again remember.

Yes Wigan played a blinder against City but so did Rochdale against Spurs. Those are one-off games,

Sunday is bread and butter league football albeit probably the game of the season in League 1. Wigan will come into it rested whereas we come into it on a nice little run of wins including leaping the potential banana skin of Wimbledon away. Both sides will be feeling really confident.

My only fear given the way Mowbray has over compensated for far lesser opposition is that we will get scared by the boss's tactics and pre-match talk instead of going for their weaknesses and treating it the same way as we did the Shrewsbury fixture.

[47er]

2 hours ago, matt83 said:

It’s a big if, but if we beat Wigan we will go 9 points clear of them. Even with their 4 games in hand that’s a tough ask for them to keep churning out wins Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday...

Well its what we are doing now!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Just now, philipl said:

Just got to go for the win. Anything less than a win potentially takes automatic promotion out of our hands again remember.

Yes Wigan played a blinder against City but so did Rochdale against Spurs. Those are one-off games,

Sunday is bread and butter league football albeit probably the game of the season in League 1. Wigan will come into it rested whereas we come into it on a nice little run of wins including leaping the potential banana skin of Wimbledon away. Both sides will be feeling really confident.

My only fear given the way Mowbray has over compensated for far lesser opposition is that we will get scared by the boss's tactics and pre-match talk instead of going for their weaknesses and treating it the same way as we did the Shrewsbury fixture.

What's bothering me Phil is we can't seem to play well for more than a half at a time. Give Wigan a half to settle in and we'll struggle.

[Bigdoggsteel]

16 minutes ago, 47er said:

Well its what we are doing now!

It is different when you are chasing and really need to win the games. Brings a lot of pressure. As we saw at the end of last season 

[4000Holes]

1 hour ago, blueboy3333 said:

Does it? Lots of games to play yet and Wigan will be playing once every 3 or 4 days by the end of March until the end of the season. If they hit a bad spell it can take in a lot of games.

Any of the top 3 could crash and burn once the pressure cranks up. Rotherham could still go up automatically.

We just have to hold our nerve.

It's Plymouth that we have to be aware of.

[had.e.nuff]

Got to win this one but boy would it cause Wigan a headache if the weather gods intervene .