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[LDRover]

Gallagher is just so ineffective

[WacoRover]

This Stoke team has so many guys that are bothersome- Powell, Clucas and Allen, Vokes on the bench...

[Gone to seed]

Is TM wearing the scarf ffs?

[Miker]

Stoke look poor, we need to be winning this.

Not sure why people think Gallagher is out wide. It looks more like a 4-4-2, very narrow diamond formation with Gallagher playing on the right of that 2, so occasionally he's drifting out wide. Nyambe/Bell look to be the only players actually playing on either flank. 

[davulsukur]

Stoke packing the defence well, to which we have absolutely no answer.

[SoldierMo]

Feksake even on our freekick gallagher stood there watching 

[Tugay-is-God]

They are just piling men on Arma

[Bbrovers2288]

Bottom teams making a fight of it, would love boro, hull or Huddersfield to drop

[jim mk2]

Just now, davulsukur said:

Stoke packing the defence well, to which we have absolutely no answer.

 We're an away, counter-attack team. Teams like Stoke who come for the draw are a problem.

[DE.]

2 minutes ago, Miker said:

Stoke look poor, we need to be winning this.

Not sure why people think Gallagher is out wide. It looks more like a 4-4-2, very narrow diamond formation with Gallagher playing on the right of that 2, so occasionally he's drifting out wide. Nyambe/Bell look to be the only players actually playing on either flank. 

Because he keeps going out wide, especially when we don't have the ball. His default position out of possession is right wing, but when we're in possession he moves between the centre and the channels. 

[booth]

7 minutes ago, LDRover said:

Gallagher is just so ineffective

The best thing to improve his game is a haircut.

He spends more time touching his hair than the ball.

[DE.]

That was shit. The only positive I can take from that half is that we aren't losing. 

[G Somerset Rover]

Just now, DE. said:

That was shit. The only positive I can take from that half is that we aren't losing. 

Typical Rovers when we get a sniff of blood. Just never seems to change.

[bluefred]

Leeds 1 up

[davulsukur]

Just now, jim mk2 said:

 We're an away, counter-attack team. Teams like Stoke who come for the draw are a problem.

Yep, I agree. 

Mowbray needs to earn his corn here, he needs to find a way for us to break these teams down.

[Steptoe87]

Poor attendance poor performance so far shocking Gallagher shit he’s had enough game time to prove something and he never does 

[bboy]

Won't panic but after a decent starting 10 minutes that went downhill. 

 

Personally think downing isn't looking great today. Needs a rest. 

Oh and the obvious one in Gallagher. Think a 4-4-2 is the answer here. 

[Exiled_Rover]

3 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Bottom teams making a fight of it, would love boro, hull or Huddersfield to drop

What do you have against Yorkshire?

[AspRover]

Are Gallagher and Armstrong at least making the defenders work a bit? I want to see Buckley given a bit of time to work with a tiring defence in front of him.

[Exiled_Rover]

27 minutes ago, skous18 said:

The condition of the pitch is terrible

I'm not sure if you've seen the weather this last fortnight, but the fact the pitch is playable at all is commendable.

[jim mk2]

Just now, Steptoe87 said:

Poor attendance poor performance so far shocking Gallagher shit he’s had enough game time to prove something and he never does 

Red button should be banned. Football without fans is nothing.

Come on Rovers. A scabby 1-0 will do. 

[bluebruce]

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

What do you have against Yorkshire?

Why would anyone from Lancashire even ask that?

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Time for Buckley to shine.  We need a bit of inventiveness in the final third.  Downing disappointing again for me.

[DE.]

1 minute ago, bboy said:

Oh and the obvious one in Gallagher. Think a 4-4-2 is the answer here. 

We're playing a fluid 4-4-2/4-2-3-1 formation at the moment. Out of posession it's 4-2-3-1, which is a problem when we attempt to counter as we have nobody in a decent position up top and Gallagher is out wide. Gallagher moves into the centre when we get possession in their half which becomes 4-4-2, but the problem is when we lose possession there is a gap on the right which Stoke have exploited more than once to break away. It isn't working. 

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

1 minute ago, jim mk2 said:

Red button should be banned. Football without fans is nothing.

Come on Rovers. A scabby 1-0 will do. 

This. Last minute goal off Lenihans arse.