Swansea 9th March at Home

[arbitro]

11 minutes ago, Ada Lovelace said:

Hello Rovers fans. Hornet fan in peace here. Can I just politely ask you to thrash these cheating welsh morons? I have been to Ewood a few times in my tenure as a Watford fan and love the atmosphere and the fans' are great. You should of got a draw at Vicarage Road and at your place - very unlucky.

Hope you have a great season and push for a possible playoff place. As for us, it's automatics or a playoff lottery.

Wishes Ada xx

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[Ewood Ace]

5 minutes ago, arbitro said:

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I would imagine he is referring to their diving and also the behaviour of their bench who are constantly jumping around and overreacting to the slightest thing trying to put pressure on the ref.

[HowieFive0]

As pointed out earlier in the thread ..early KO..6pm 

[Butty]

1 hour ago, Ada Lovelace said:

Hello Rovers fans. Hornet fan in peace here. Can I just politely ask you to thrash these cheating welsh morons? I have been to Ewood a few times in my tenure as a Watford fan and love the atmosphere and the fans' are great. You should of got a draw at Vicarage Road and at your place - very unlucky.

Hope you have a great season and push for a possible playoff place. As for us, it's automatics or a playoff lottery.

Wishes Ada xx

Have you got us confused with a different team? Unless you’re talking pre 2010 of course. 

[WacoRover]

No Branthwaite, Armstrong or Holtby. I forget about Ayala being on the squad- useless lump. 

They are a solid team defensively, I think 1-1 might be the best we could hope for. 

[Lucimo]

2 hours ago, davulsukur said:

He's probably right as we still beat them.

I think Oldjamfan1 was meaning that even K**n could manage a win against them, so we must be a bit of a bogey ground at least.

Haha yes you're right. I had a bit of a shocker there. Not to worry I've just had a sofa kip, I promise not to be so dense for the rest of the day at least 👍

Edited March 9, 2021 by Lucimo

[only2garners]

Just found this on a Swansea messageboard posted this morning. Looks like the fans think they aren't playing as well as results suggest...

Thirteen games to go starting with this one, and even the most one eyed Jack has to admit (a) that we've had some amazing luck this past week and more worryingly (b) we've hit a serious slump in form compared to earlier in the season. Thankfully this slump hasn't been totally reflected in results, but it concerns me greatly as we reach the sharp end of the season.
I think the root of this slump has been the drop off in form of our two main strikers, Ayew and Lowe, and perversely the arrival of Hourihane, which has left our midfield lacking balance and bite, and has left Cooper scratching his head about how to accomodate him. The serious injury to Morris has removed the obvious alternative up front.
The big question now is, can Cooper find the right blend in the front five to get this team firing again at the level shown against Norwich at home a few short weeks ago, or is our promotion challenge going to fizzle out? Answers on a postcard, please.

[WacoRover]

We need to see Johnson get back to his player of the month form (September?)

[Gone to seed]

45 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

We need to see Johnson get back to his player of the month form (September?)

Very underrated player IMO - ok he can be a lumbering lump at times, but sometimes a young side needs an experienced head to bring a little bit of steel to an otherwise chaotic system.

[Gone to seed]

Rovers: Kaminski, Rankin-Costello, Lenihan (c), Harwood-Bellis, Douglas, Buckley, Trybull, Dack, Gallagher, Dolan, Brereton.

Substitutes: Pears, Nyambe, Johnson, Downing, Rothwell, Elliott, Bell, Travis, Evans.

 

MEIN GOTT!! Hast du eine Schnupfuhl?

This looks mighty similar to last time out...

[Ulrich]

Just now, WIR Second Coming said:

Rovers: Kaminski, Rankin-Costello, Lenihan (c), Harwood-Bellis, Douglas, Buckley, Trybull, Dack, Gallagher, Dolan, Brereton.

Substitutes: Pears, Nyambe, Johnson, Downing, Rothwell, Elliott, Bell, Travis, Evans.

 

MEIN GOTT!! Hast du eine Schnupfuhl?

This looks mighty similar to last time out...

You sure you haven't posted last matches team sheet by mistake? 

[davulsukur]

unchanged, unbelievable

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Going for 1-1

Is this game on sky red button?

[only2garners]

2 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Going for 1-1

Is this game on sky red button?

I don’t think so. It would have been on the original date.

[Proudtobeblue&white]

2 minutes ago, only2garners said:

I don’t think so. It would have been on the original date.

Ifollow only I believe.

[davulsukur]

4 minutes ago, Proudtobeblue&white said:

Ifollow only I believe.

Cheers for that, i assumed it was on sky so didn't buy a pass.

Best get one.

[WacoRover]

23 minutes ago, WIR Second Coming said:

Very underrated player IMO - ok he can be a lumbering lump at times, but sometimes a young side needs an experienced head to bring a little bit of steel to an otherwise chaotic system.

Yeah, I figure this season, maybe one more at Ewood. Nice career at this level, but he is 34 in a month. 

[windymiller7]

24 minutes ago, WIR Second Coming said:

Rovers: Kaminski, Rankin-Costello, Lenihan (c), Harwood-Bellis, Douglas, Buckley, Trybull, Dack, Gallagher, Dolan, Brereton.

Substitutes: Pears, Nyambe, Johnson, Downing, Rothwell, Elliott, Bell, Travis, Evans.

 

MEIN GOTT!! Hast du eine Schnupfuhl?

This looks mighty similar to last time out...

WTF! What is this sorcery?

[Gone to seed]

31 minutes ago, Ulrich said:

You sure you haven't posted last matches team sheet by mistake? 

I had to double check myself! But no, it was cut and paste from the Rovers news pages on www.rovers.co.uk

Crazzzzzzyyyyy Tombola DUDERINO!!

[Ulrich]

10 minutes ago, windymiller7 said:

WTF! What is this sorcery?

I'm told Tony spun the tombola too hard during training and so went with the same team, as no one had a hat....

[Bigdoggsteel]

I hear the 

1 hour ago, only2garners said:

Just found this on a Swansea messageboard posted this morning. Looks like the fans think they aren't playing as well as results suggest...

Thirteen games to go starting with this one, and even the most one eyed Jack has to admit (a) that we've had some amazing luck this past week and more worryingly (b) we've hit a serious slump in form compared to earlier in the season. Thankfully this slump hasn't been totally reflected in results, but it concerns me greatly as we reach the sharp end of the season.
I think the root of this slump has been the drop off in form of our two main strikers, Ayew and Lowe, and perversely the arrival of Hourihane, which has left our midfield lacking balance and bite, and has left Cooper scratching his head about how to accomodate him. The serious injury to Morris has removed the obvious alternative up front.
The big question now is, can Cooper find the right blend in the front five to get this team firing again at the level shown against Norwich at home a few short weeks ago, or is our promotion challenge going to fizzle out? Answers on a postcard, please.

I hear them on Hourihane. A great left foot, particularly from set-pieces, but I could never say I saw him have a good game for Ireland. Then again ,he wouldn't be the only one in that boat for the last year or two. 

Ayew is class at this level. Almost a cheat having him. When he's on it, he's unplayable and even if not fully on it, you still have to keep super focused on him. Nightmare for our defenders. 

[Hoochie Bloochie Mama]

Bucko back to dish out some more football lessons. 

Teach on, El Maestro. 

 

[RevidgeBlue]

The Tombola machine must have had to go in for repairs due to overuse.

Might be wrong, the last 2 games I can recall us winning then Mowbray naming an unchanged side were Wycombe and Derby at the start of the season........

[JacknOry]

who'd have thought that a Preston reject would be leading our line...

Their loss and all that. 

 

[Proudtobeblue&white]

Is their kit the most hideous ever?