Championship 21/22

[AllRoverAsia]

12 minutes ago, Oldgregg86 said:

And his nice little back heel in and around the box to cleverly open up the defence . Although I might having been dreaming but I think Gallagher also did one . I’ll assume it was an accident 😂

Good one! I actually think SG meant his too.

[arbitro]

11 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

They’ll miss Cook.

The difference between them losing key players and us losing them is that the Forest manager can have his team play a different system to compensate for this. They lost Joe Worrall recently with broken ribs but it didn't really affect them. We lose Brereton and the season goes belly up.

[chaddyrovers]

23 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Fulham affect us being only 19 points ahead, yet Blackpool and Preston don't being 7 points away?

Fulham are going for promotion as we are. 

You make a fair point on Preston and Blackpool I guess

23 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Big blow for Forest.

2 massive blows there. Lowe has been very good at left back/wing back for them. 

They don't really have quality back up for Lowe. They could change to back 4 maybe

[BRFC4EVA]

Another dismal home draw for Bournemouth. First peterborough, now Reading. They've dropped so many points against poor teams it's incredibly frustrating that we haven't capitalized. If we had scored those pens against sheff and bristol we'd be 6 points better off and right up their backsides.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 hours ago, BRFC4EVA said:

Another dismal home draw for Bournemouth. First peterborough, now Reading. They've dropped so many points against poor teams it's incredibly frustrating that we haven't capitalized. If we had scored those pens against sheff and bristol we'd be 6 points better off and right up their backsides.

This season has been our best chance of going up without a doubt. Bournemouth are really poor given the resources they’ve got.

[G Somerset Rover]

3 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

This season has been our best chance of going up without a doubt. Bournemouth are really poor given the resources they’ve got.

Yep. The team who claims second are going to get to the promised land by stumbling across the finish line.

Edited March 16, 2022 by Gavlar Somerset Rover!

[chaddyrovers]

Some interested games tonight affecting Rovers league position wise

[JHRover]

Hoping for draws between Luton/Preston, Millwall/Huddersfield and Forest/QPR

Hope for a Blackpool win over Sheff Utd and for Hull to win at Coventry.

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

Yep. The team who claims second are going to get to the promised land by stumbling across the finish line.

I thought it was going to be Forest before they lost Cook and Lowe for six weeks.

[rigger]

5 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Hoping for draws between Luton/Preston, Millwall/Huddersfield and Forest/QPR

Hope for a Blackpool win over Sheff Utd and for Hull to win at Coventry.

 

Personally, I want Preston to beat Luton, Millwall to beat Huddersfield and Forest to beat QPR.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

On 15/03/2022 at 06:36, arbitro said:

The difference between them losing key players and us losing them is that the Forest manager can have his team play a different system to compensate for this. They lost Joe Worrall recently with broken ribs but it didn't really affect them. We lose Brereton and the season goes belly up.

Cook’s been their “ Kevin Moran “ figure though. I thought he was outstanding when they came to Ewood.

[lraC]

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Some interested games tonight affecting Rovers league position wise

If nothing else, this division certainly provides plenty of interest and no shortage of drama.

[Silas]

Good illustration of where we at form wise even after last night's much needed win:

Form: Last 12 matches

		GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Fulham	12	8	2	2	26	11	+15	26
2	Sheffield Utd	12	7	3	2	19	8	+11	24
3	Huddersfield	12	6	6	0	19	9	+10	24
4	Bournemouth	12	7	2	3	19	11	+8	23
5	Luton Town	12	7	1	4	13	12	+1	22
6	Nottm Forest	12	6	3	3	18	9	+9	21
7	Blackpool	12	6	3	3	17	11	+6	21
8	Millwall	12	6	3	3	10	7	+3	21
9	Cardiff City	12	6	2	4	17	11	+6	20
10	Middlesbrough	12	6	2	4	19	16	+3	20
11	QP Rangers	12	5	3	4	15	12	+3	18
12	Preston	12	4	6	2	11	8	+3	18
13	Coventry City	12	5	2	5	15	15	0	17
14	Swansea City	12	5	1	6	11	18	-7	16
15	Hull City	12	4	3	5	10	10	0	15
16	Barnsley	12	4	2	6	11	14	-3	14
17	Birmingham City	12	3	4	5	16	19	-3	13
18	Bristol City	12	4	1	7	15	22	-7	13
19	Blackburn	12	3	3	6	5	10	-5	12
20	Stoke City	12	2	5	5	17	17	0	11
21	West Brom	12	3	2	7	9	15	-6	11
22	Derby County	12	3	1	8	12	20	-8	10
23	Reading	12	2	2	8	13	28	-15	8
24	Peterborough	12	0	4	8	6	24	-18	4

 

Covering over a quarter of the season, we are sat in 19th place, having managed to beat one of the teams in the bottom 3 last night.

EVERY single one of our promotion rivals is in the top 10 of that table (barring QPR just outside it.) 

EVERY single one of our promotion rivals has a positive goal difference versus our -5.

Bournemouth, who everyone says are stuttering, have almost double our points over that period. 

As good as it is to see us sat in 4th place at this stage of the season, I don't think there's any denying we our the outsider in terms of odds to go up. We've stopped scoring goals and stopped getting results at a very bad point in the season. 

Of course, that could all change with a few of our injured players back, a couple of wins for us, and a few indifferent results for our rivals, and we could surge up that table. We have the fixtures coming up to do it. 

But, if we stay in the bottom half of that table, then there's no chance we're even getting a sniff of promotion. 

Edited March 16, 2022 by Silas

[Devon Rover]

Who do we want to win/lose thus evening? I can't work out if I want the others in the playoff zone to slip up, or prefer to see those outside it drop points?

[only2garners]

The old adage is that if two teams who are competing with you play each other then the best result is a draw, preferably 0-0. For me that currently includes any team as far down as PNE in 14th place. 

[mr bishi]

Surely Gray was offside for the QPR goal.

[AllRoverAsia]

Preston TwoHats have given up.

I'm going to watch the 2nd half of the Blackpool game.

Edited March 16, 2022 by AllRoverAsia

[AllRoverAsia]

6 hours ago, lraC said:

If nothing else, this division certainly provides plenty of interest and no shortage of drama.

Yes, Bang Average v Bang Average can make for a decent game when something to play for.

[Cherry Blue]

Cracking goal by Forest. 1 1 v QPR.

[simongarnerisgod]

18 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Preston TwoHats have given up.

I'm going to watch the 2nd half of the Blackpool game.

their  deluded fans( unfortunately i know a few)were proclaiming they were definately going to be in the play offs a couple of weeks ago🤣

[BigBar]

Results going ok as it stands.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Luton 4-0 up with 35% of possession.

[jim mk2]

2 minutes ago, BigBar said:

Results going ok as it stands.

Really? Luton and Millwall are both in the mix

[BigBar]

4 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Really? Luton and Millwall are both in the mix

Yeah I said ok didn't I? Sheff U, Huddersfield, Forest, QPR and Coventry all dropping points.

[Cherry Blue]

Could be problem for QPR. Keeper injured and they've already used 3 subs.