v West Bromwich Albion (H) - 05/08/2023

[NeilInBristol]

Just now, BigBar said:

Lovely play from young Harry.

great play- is he left footed?! he should have had a shot

[R0verb0y]

4 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Blackburn End isn't far from being full and Jack Walker looks busy. Hopefully 14k plus Rovers fans today. 

Yes Ewood Park. 

Brilliant, @chaddyrovers !😉😅😂🤣

And before anybody asks, I know, I know!! But I won't be fit enough to take my new seat in the JWU until the bandages can come off my left leg. (A month's time🤞)

[CambridgeRover]

Leonard is clear of Gallagher for me

[bluebruce]

Wow they really are cracking down on time wasting...7 minutes added time! Never seen that in a first half at Ewood without a serious injury.

[NeilInBristol]

Just now, CambridgeRover said:

Leonard is clear of Gallagher for me

agreed, just a bit more clinical but lacks some physical presence and strength.  

[Cherry Blue]

Ref being intimidated by 3 of theirs so he rightly booked one.

[ItsRoverZ]

Do any of our lads hit the weights? Haha I'd bloody shrug of most of them, so weak physically most of them 

[bluebruce]

Think we've made quite a lot of poor decisions at the back and fortunate none have backfired fully yet.

[Ricky]

Worrying moment from Pears.

[bluebruce]

Just now, ItsRoverZ said:

Do any of our lads hit the weights? Haha I'd bloody shrug of most of them, so weak physically most of them 

West Brom's big lads have hit the deck more than our munchkins.

[WacoRover]

HT. Couldn’t have asked for much more than that. Tidy defending, both goals were beauties. 

[alex l]

I'm sure nobody was thrilled with the front line but whoever said it is the least threatening frontline in 30+ years must be eating some humble pie. 

[Displaced Rover]

Two really well taken goals. Really happy for the 2 scorers but think on the whole we haven’t been great.

Travis put a superb shift in. Tronstad grown into the game, looks tidy as a DM but cant play an attacking ball to save his life. 

Get Wharton on and we’ll boss the rest of this game

Edited August 5, 2023 by Displaced Rover

[Andy]

Started a bit rusty, but thought Trondstad grew into that, really liked him.

Freeing Trav to drive forward as well, very effective.

Thought Leonard’s overall game was superior to anything that Gallagher would have given us today, if I’m honest.

Only really Dolan as the negative, just doesn’t offer anything (barring one shot) and seems to lose the ball more often than not.

[roverandout]

Who needs Gallagher say who needs Gallagher...

[alex l]

1 minute ago, Ricky said:

Worrying moment from Pears.

It was but he's made some decent stops this half. 

[moerpho]

Really impressed with Leonard and Hyam has been immense. All in all I felt we were closer to 3-0 than them scoring. Roll on 2nd half and let Adam come on and finish them off!

[neophox]

Be fair to Tronstad...he will get even better and has that fierce in him and he's also going up in attacks....some sloppy passes but hey it's the first league game for him...

[bluebruce]

1 minute ago, alex l said:

It was but he's made some decent stops this half. 

One decent stop. Everything else I'd have been fuming if he missed.

[NeilInBristol]

3 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

HT. Couldn’t have asked for much more than that. Tidy defending, both goals were beauties. 

spot on. Tronstad giving it away a few times but he is new so cant judge him on this first 45. couldnt ask for much more. glad we are scoring more than 1 in the first 45mins, let it continue!

[Ricky]

1 minute ago, Andy said:

Started a bit rusty, but thought Trondstad grew into that, really liked him.

Freeing Trav to drive forward as well, very effective.

Thought Leonard’s overall game was superior to anything that Gallagher would have given us today, if I’m honest.

Only really Dolan as the negative, just doesn’t offer anything (barring one shot) and seems to lose the ball more often than not.

Didn’t he play that peach of a through ball to Leonard that ended in the Szmodics chance?

It seemed obvious early doors that Sam was on for a card so took him at 5/1 after the ref had a word with him. 

[Blow-in]

2 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

HT. Couldn’t have asked for much more than that. Tidy defending, both goals were beauties. 

Tidy defending???

I realy don't know what you were watching, we have been awful at the back. Lucky not to have given away at least 1 penalty.

The real boost has been we have looked pretty incisive up front (except for Dolan who is not developing)

[neophox]

2 minutes ago, Andy said:

Started a bit rusty, but thought Trondstad grew into that, really liked him.

Freeing Trav to drive forward as well, very effective.

Thought Leonard’s overall game was superior to anything that Gallagher would have given us today, if I’m honest.

Only really Dolan as the negative, just doesn’t offer anything (barring one shot) and seems to lose the ball more often than not.

Yes but he's still need to prove something so hopefully he works his socks off second half and then Hedges replace him with 20 mins to go..

[OsloRover]

4 minutes ago, ItsRoverZ said:

Do any of our lads hit the weights? Haha I'd bloody shrug of most of them, so weak physically most of them 

I think most guys would, it’s not possible to put on a lot of muscle with the amount of running pro footballers are asked to do. Most of them weigh less than 70kg.

[BullcrapFC]

2 minutes ago, alex l said:

I'm sure nobody was thrilled with the front line but whoever said it is the least threatening frontline in 30+ years must be eating some humble pie. 

It was me lol. Still think that, but they've done well today. We can't play with these three all season, we all know that.