ROVERS VS STOKE CITY

[Blue n whites]

Fantastic result and win. Great to hear Mowbray  saying the players like each other and work for each other.

 

Table is tight so every point is crucial. We are growing and improving every month. The bench was the strongest I've seen it in years. Good attacking options. 

On a side note. Bolton are disgrace charging them prices. No wonder ppl are buying fire sticks. Always been the greadiest club round here  

 

[davulsukur]

[Neal]

30 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Reed good, ya? Reports from twitter very positive. Sounds like he has a fair bit about him 

Just a bit. An improvement on what we have, looking forward if we could keep him, Rothwell and Reed in centre mid could run games. 

[superniko]

I've not read the messages on here yet, I don't want anything to blinder my emotions....but my god, I couldn't fault a single one of those players today. I've been a critic of Evans and Smallwood together in the middle for a long time but I thought they were excellent today, superb even. 

Hats of to Tony, looked more like a 442 at times with Dack up front and I thought this let him get more involved with Graham in an away game.

The usually suspects were solid and immense, the high press pressure was an absolute pleasures to watch, my god have we had some uninterested dross over the last 7 years but today was the cherry on the icing on the cake, it may sound like an over exaggeration (winning 3-2 in a championship match) but jeez how good does it feel to watch players perform like they love and want that shirt. I've a huge smile on the back of those performances. It's what we all want and have craved for years. Players looking to win, tracking back, putting effort in.

It gets me on to the main man, Danny Graham.

What. A. Performance. 

Up against some giants at the back. He won everything. He held it all up, he makes Dack look better (if that's possible for our most classy player). Can't praise him enough right now. I left that stadium just wanting to continue clapping him, he was superb.

Brilliant Rovers, brilliant Mowbray. We made it nervy as we always do, but were savvy in the last 5/10mins. 

Enjoy it lads. Stoke looked like us 5 years ago. It's a delight to have the lads and manager we do now. 

COYB

[benhben]

45 minutes ago, Neal said:

I think we should get in for Bauer again in January because our lack of height was really exploited in that last 15 mins. 

Agree

[neophox]

Had we not dropped points in the last minute at ipswich and villa home we would be top of league..

thats how good this team are!!

[USABlue]

3 hours ago, TonyM said:

Be nice to see Rothwell and Brereton get 15mins ...

What has Rothwell done to be moved down the pecking order.  Did he get caught with pictures of Mowbary's missus all nekkid?

[Proudtobeblue&white]

Would anyone disagree that four points from the two away games was excellent? Well done Rovers.

[Exiled in Toronto]

4 minutes ago, USABlue said:

What has Rothwell done to be moved down the pecking order.  Did he get caught with pictures of Mowbary's missus all nekkid?

He’ll have moved down the pecking order even more the way he completely screwed up a 2-on-1 in the last few minutes and gifted them the ball

[den]

54 minutes ago, Ricky said:

After being in hospital for an ECG last week my old ticker certainly didn’t need that today!!!

Hope everything’s alright Ricky.

[OJRovers]

As soon as I saw the team I was happy with the game plan which was a high pressure press from all 4 of our midfielders and let Dack/Graham feed off the scraps upfront.

Never seen so much commitment from midfield as this season. Long may it continue. It's looking like we have options there if we need to rest people.

Anyone at the game got a view on how Brereton did?

[roversfan99]

Would have to say that what I saw today was the best 80 minute and worst 10 minute spell of Mowbrays era wrapped into one afternoon.

Thought his team was too defensive when named but it was proved to be spot on, that said, his use of subs was far too late when we were clearly tiring.

Danny Graham belied the doubters of his fitness and put in an absolutely incredible performance, beside his goal, his general hold up, leading the line, work rate, everything was exceptional.

Bennett put in his usual bag of effort and work rate but I often question what he does going forward but that cant be levelled at him today. Very good performance.

Dack again wasnt at his very best but he is still such a good player and contributes so regularly with goals and assists. Hope he is ok as we certainly need him.

Reed was good and although it was right to play him Evans and Smallwood, who all ran the game, obviously in most games we dont need all 3. It worked very welll today though.

Centre back, we missed Mulgrew at the end to calm us down, Lenihan very rash for the penalty as he can be, thought Williams was better but for 80 minutes they were both very good. Would drop Bell assuming Mulgrew is back next week.

Thought both full backs were poor, and the subs were really poor albeit in difficult circumstances, Brereton again looked sluggish and half-arsed, and Rothwell wasted a key pass.

Mowbray dismissed the last 10 minutes publically but privately I hope he isnt in denial, our game management this season has been our achilles heel and needs to be much better.

Very strange day but overall a superb result.

[Stuart]

1 hour ago, Ricky said:

After being in hospital for an ECG last week my old ticker certainly didn’t need that today!!!

Hope you’re ok Ricky.

[JacknOry]

Graham MOM for me. Damn I wish this guy was a couple of years younger. What a pivotal part of our team he is. We are going to miss him him when he finally hangs up his shirt, not just because of his magnetic ability to hold a ball up and make something of it, but his experience, leadership and obvious will to win that some players much younger than him will never have.

[den]

Just now, JacknOry said:

Graham MOM for me. Damn I wish this guy was a couple of years younger. What a pivotal part of our team he is. We are going to miss him him when he finally hangs up his shirt, not just because of his magnetic ability to hold a ball up and make something of it, but his experience, leadership and obvious will to win that some players much younger than him will never have.

Revs going to be furious with you ?

[@roverseas]

What a thriller!  Here is me thinking we a cruising for a monster victory only for 15 minutes of madness.  The scoreline does flatter stoke to be honest, albeit they were the better side in the last 15 minutes.  However we could had a few more well before the mayhem of the last quarter.  Hoping Brereton can get a start soon, would like to see more of him.  Reed looks good, and Bennett was an excellent skipper today.  Next up Premier League Bournemouth! We got this. 

 

[JacknOry]

Just now, den said:

Revs going to be furious with you ?

HA - Well if Brereton wants to become something here, get under grahams wing and learn cos this guy is a master at what he does. Not massively prolific but he brings so much more to the team.

[JacknOry]

Those assists by Bennett too - the guy is the man! 

[Husky]

Poor effort on the Sky Sports Championship show again. . . What a surprise!

 

[AAK]

1 hour ago, neophox said:

Had we not dropped points in the last minute at ipswich and villa home we would be top of league..

thats how good this team are!!

Get it into perspective though, we could have quite easily lost against Derby and Millwall, and scraped a draw with reading with 2 penalties. You get them both ways. 

Edited September 22, 2018 by AAK

[Husky]

1 minute ago, AAK said:

Get it into perspective though, we could have quite easily lost against Derby and Millwall, and scraped a draw with reading with 2 penalties. You get them both ways. 

Brentford also missed than sitter from 3 yards out.

[rigger]

25 minutes ago, Husky said:

Poor effort on the Sky Sports Championship show again. . . What a surprise!

 

no one likes us we don't care

[rigger]

,Just back 75 minutes of heaven, 20 minutes of hell.Onwards and upwards. Isn't it fun being a Rovers fan again.  

Edited September 22, 2018 by rigger
grammer

[Ossydave]

What the hell happened just before Dack opened the scoring? One hell of a rumble, turned round, turned back around and he bagged. Fans fighting?

[rigger]

brilliant away support again today.