v The Dingles (h) - 25/04/2023, k/o 8pm

[Bethnal]

Season over, I don’t see how a team recovers from watching their closest rivals winning the league on their home pitch.

I hope Ashley Barnes finds himself destitute in later life. I hope he ends up alone, depressed and utterly destitute. Got to be the among my least favourite people of all time.

[G Somerset Rover]

Taylor-Bellis looks like a right c*nt.

[Torgeir]

Red all day for Cork. Ref bottled it. 

Great performance from us, Burnley showed after they scored why they are champions and saw the game out profesionally. Not a lot of options for JDT tonight and it showed when we needed to change things around towards the end.

A. Wharton, what a player. 

[BankEnd Rover]

We are simply not good enough uptop. It only took one bit of quality from them and we’re done.

JDT better get f*cking supported in the windows or im done with these clowns at the top 

[neophox]

We have had a bit of really bad lick three games in a row...must be really tough mentally this.

[bluebruce]

Well, robbed again. Outplayed them, world class goal from their lad out of nowhere with the only shot they hit on target all game, robbed of a stonewall penalty at the death (handball just doesn't seem to apply when we play), scum win the title on our turf as a result of robbery, nothing else to say but that I'm off and on the voddies. Fuck this.

[yankfan]

Furious watching this but in the end Proud of the effort.  They had one shot in target from one opportunity…a proper finisher and we have 4. 
 

clear what we need to bring in this summer…been clear since last summer and the one before that, but there’s enough here to challenge. 

[Miker]

Feel really sorry for all of the Rovers fans at the ground that have to stomach this. 

Just absolutely brutal... crucial decisions not gone our way in this past month. The fact that it was a handball by Barnes that wasn't given makes it especially frustrating. 

[ageoftherover]

For all the constant moaning about VAR the thing sure does right some injustices.

[Mashed Potatoes]

1 minute ago, neophox said:

Shit referee...clear handball...

The ref had 5 or 6 players between him and Barnes - he had no chance of seeing it.

[Nic81]

Got to give Leonard a go in the next two games. It can’t be any worse. I still have some small hope for the last two games if we do that and we show the desire we did tonight. 

[G Somerset Rover]

1 minute ago, den said:

don’t always get what you deserve in football.
Last week Coventry equalised with a handball, this week we were denied an equaliser for handball.

I’d like to think luck evens itself out, but that’s three in a row now. At the absolute worst time imaginable. 

[Ewood Ace]

1 minute ago, BigBar said:

Shared blame. JDT had his own short comings and no point denying it.

If you've got no one to put the ball in the net you aren't going to win games regardless of who the manager is.

[martonrover]

3 minutes ago, den said:

don’t always get what you deserve in football.
Last week Coventry equalised with a handball, this week we were denied an equaliser for handball.

Denied the opportunity of an equaliser.

It was side on, which didn’t help. Certainly an occasion where VAR would’ve seen justice done.

Edited April 25, 2023 by martonrover

[Tom]

Sit the players on half way and make them watch this 

[Gav]

Just now, Mashed Potatoes said:

The ref had 5 or 6 players between him and Barnes - he had no chance of seeing it.

Bullshit.

 

[Miker]

1 minute ago, neophox said:

We have had a bit of really bad lick three games in a row...must be really tough mentally this.

Don't know how we can go on and win our last 2 games now, but if we can then we deserve promotion. 

[JohnD]

No moaning, no scapegoats tonight.

Well played, everyone! 

[DE.]

Just now, BankEnd Rover said:

We are simply not good enough uptop. It only took one bit of quality from them and we’re done.

JDT better get f*cking supported in the windows or im done with these clowns at the top 

I think JDT might be too. It's going to be hard for him to forget the clown show that was our January transfer window. How can he have any faith in Broughton or the recruitment team when they couldn't manage simple things like faxing the correct paperwork on time - for two signings no less - and didn't manage to secure a single striker despite knowing since the fucking summer that we were desperately lacking in that area. It's a total embarrassment.

[Doaksie]

You sit the team round in the dressing room and make them listen to our rivals celebrating promotion and league win. That is your motivation for next season.

A goal threat in the summer might be an idea Gregg. 

[davulsukur]

Broughton better be turning up some fucking worldies in the summer because as far as I'm concerned, this season's failure falls straight into his lap

[Torgeir]

1 minute ago, neophox said:

We have had a bit of really bad lick three games in a row...must be really tough mentally this.

It's also where the difference in quality shines through. A good finished doesn't need 12 chances per goal.

 

I'm not sure when was the last time we scored from a set piece, does anyone know?

[yankfan]

1 minute ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

The ref had 5 or 6 players between him and Barnes - he had no chance of seeing it.

Linesman had a clear view, but not the balls to lift the flag 

[davulsukur]

2 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

The ref had 5 or 6 players between him and Barnes - he had no chance of seeing it.

What's the linesman for?

[Waggy76]

2 minutes ago, neophox said:

We have had a bit of really bad lick three games in a row...must be really tough mentally this.

I think , we had enough luck before the World Cup ...Time the manager was brought to account more ... Lost us a lot of recently ..