v Walsall (h) - 8/8/23 - Carabao Cup R1

[only2garners]

I think there were a few Derby fans who might have thought so.

[neophox]

Barnes, Wharton and Batty only league two standard tonight along with Hilton

[R0verb0y]

18 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

Might need to get Hyam on, maybe Pickering. What a downer, if we lost to a League 2 outfit

Listening to Radio 5, and we're just one of a number of Championship clubs who are, at best, no better than level with League Two clubs .

[neophox]

Walsall had two shots on goal and scored both. We have 73% of play.

[TugaysMarlboro]

8 minutes ago, Tom said:

Someone said Barnes was going to show tonight why we didn’t need a new centre half, how has he looked?

Like we need another centre half.

[ItsRoverZ]

1 minute ago, neophox said:

Walsall had two shots on goal and scored both. We have 73% of play.

Alot of teams will do this to us, they will let us have the ball and then quickly counter us when we lose it as that's when we look our weakest defensively 

[chaddyrovers]

Glisenan and Ennis took their goals very well

[Mars Rover]

It sounds as though we could also do with another left back. Has Cox moved to Hull yet?

[simongarnerisgod]

2 minutes ago, ItsRoverZ said:

Alot of teams will do this to us, they will let us have the ball and then quickly counter us when we lose it as that's when we look our weakest defensively 

we are fielding a second string side who hav`nt had much football,bound to be a bit hit and miss innit????

[rovers11]

Ennis looks to have a bit about him. Promising signs. 

[Ianrally]

Maybe the ref will score a hatrick for us. 😃

[bluebruce]

1 minute ago, Lucimo said:

Oh ok. Perhaps he'll only get sold for £5m then. The point is you shouldn't judge the loan. I bet when Raya was turning out for Southport, no-one predicted he would be a Spanish international and a £30m player. 

Or perhaps he'll get released on a free after sitting behind several keepers who have experience at a far, far higher level.

I'm not saying he won't make it. But Conference North or whatever they call it now is the absolute lowest I'd be sending any of our youngsters too, and he's been sent a level below that. I just don't think it's a worthwhile level to play at. He'll have to jump two more leagues to be playing where Raya was on his loan. That's the difference between being in League Two or playing for us. And then he'll still need to jump three more leagues to play for us. I'm not criticising the player or his potential, he came with a decent reputation from City, but I feel comfortable criticising the choice to send him to such a low level. It does also suggest he's very far back in the pecking order for now. Hopefully he does well, and is recalled in January to be loaned to a higher league.

[chaddyrovers]

Garrett scores. 

[bazza]

Jake Garrett scores. 3-2

 

[Crozzy]

3-2 Garrett. Radio Lancs saying he’s best player on pitch tonight 

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

garret 3-2

 

[philipl]

We do like scoring within 2 minutes of a kick-off!

[ItsRoverZ]

Garret scores get it

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

good finish that.

 

[Tom]

Good stuff now no more drama please 

[bluebruce]

2 minutes ago, philipl said:

We do like scoring within 2 minutes of a kick-off!

Wasn't this one 5 minutes after kick off?

[Lucimo]

3 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Or perhaps he'll get released on a free after sitting behind several keepers who have experience at a far, far higher level.

I'm not saying he won't make it. But Conference North or whatever they call it now is the absolute lowest I'd be sending any of our youngsters too, and he's been sent a level below that. I just don't think it's a worthwhile level to play at. He'll have to jump two more leagues to be playing where Raya was on his loan. That's the difference between being in League Two or playing for us. And then he'll still need to jump three more leagues to play for us. I'm not criticising the player or his potential, he came with a decent reputation from City, but I feel comfortable criticising the choice to send him to such a low level. It does also suggest he's very far back in the pecking order for now. Hopefully he does well, and is recalled in January to be loaned to a higher league.

I'm not saying he'll make it, at least not with us, I've never seen the kid play. But its still early in his development so you can't rule anything out. Hopefully he'll make a career out of the game.

[Beanie01289]

we have some technically good footballers a striker with good movement will score a hatfull in this team

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Southampton losing 2-0 😂

[bluebruce]

Attendance: 6,173 (579).

I momentarily read this as 6,173,579. Which would have been fairly impressive.