v Cardiff City (h) - 21/10/2023

[arbitro]

Cardiff have sold around 1000 tickets with a pay on the day facility too.

They will wear black armbands to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster.

[CambridgeRover]

Cautiously optimistic. 

Shame about moran but hopefully the team has used the break well and are ready to go. 

Hoping Tronstad has a big game.

[moerpho]

3 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/they-played-for-both-the-rovers-and-the-bluebirds/86

 

That’s a lot more then I expected. Also a few players I’d forgotten played for us. Love these articles before the game!

[simongarnerisgod]

im`e confident of an easy win,imo these next three games are crucial to our season,win two and grab a point at millwall and we`ll be up the table,if we don`t then i guess it`s an indicator that our season will finish in the lower half

[Andy]

Hopefully we can build on the QPR result and start to build a bit of momentum.

Sigurdsson and Szmodics is plenty of goal threat alone. As long as we keep it solid at the other end, hard to look past a home win.

[Guest]

Sneaky feeling we will lose this, and completely happy to have my sneaky feeling rammed down my doubting tonsils at ten to five 😉

Any team in this league can beat any team on the day. Rovers are so unpredictable it is unfunny. Cardiff? Who knows? Who cares?

If we are to build any momentum on an upward swing, these are the games we need to be disciplined, decisive and devastating in. We aren't in a position to crow about 5-2, which will probably galvanise the Bluebirds more than it girds our loins. I hope we loin them severely, as Andy Coe used to say, to Mr Collinridge, the maths teacher as he prepared to exact vengeance via the sideboards of any schoolboy daft enough to cross him.

Loin them severely! (but don't be surprised if the Bluebirds leave us black, blue and feeling strangely cheated).

FWAGGOTTS OUT!

ABSENT VENKYS DO ONE!

But most of all...

COYB!

[rovers11]

Have to be winning games like this - and I think we will fairly comfortably.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

2-1

12,570

[USABlue]

Sky? 1st game after break, I think we lose.  Never seem to start too well after these breaks.

[booth]

14 minutes ago, USABlue said:

Sky? 1st game after break, I think we lose.  Never seem to start too well after these breaks.

It's not on Sky.

[WacoRover]

3 minutes ago, booth said:

It's not on Sky.

No, unfortunately this is the longest streak I’ve had of not getting Rovers on ESPN+.

[booth]

3 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

No, unfortunately this is the longest streak I’ve had of not getting Rovers on ESPN+.

Tuesday against Millwall away it's on Sky so does that mean ESPN+ will get it over there?

Unfortunately for me it's a "red button" match, which means I can't watch it via NowTV.

[islander200]

8 minutes ago, booth said:

Tuesday against Millwall away it's on Sky so does that mean ESPN+ will get it over there?

Unfortunately for me it's a "red button" match, which means I can't watch it via NowTV.

You can watch the red button matches  on now TV now.

A couple of minutes before kick off it comes on .Scroll right down to the bottom of the sports page and you will find it under bonus streams 

Edited October 21, 2023 by islander200

[Gordon Gekko]

Original team sheet posted online had Pears in goal. Was an error thankfully!

[CambridgeRover]

Happy with the team. Much better midfield. 

[AllRoverAsia]

[moerpho]

Lineup more or less as expected due to inuries. Hope we can build on the win against QPR. Hope our relative newcomers Siggy and Tronstad have a good game.

Edited October 21, 2023 by moerpho

[joey_big_nose]

Team I would have picked. Think we improved the midfield defensively a lot with thay selection. Tronstad, Brittain and JRC offer a lot more solidarity than Wharton, Markanday and Moran.

Do we lose something offensively? Maybe, will be interesting to see. Think Brittain will actually do really well on the right wing, and Tronstads forward passing was very good at QPR.

Edited October 21, 2023 by joey_big_nose

[booth]

12 minutes ago, islander200 said:

You can watch the red button matches  on now TV now.

A couple of minutes before kick off it comes on .Scroll right down to the bottom of the sports page and you will find it under bonus streams 

That's good to know, they must keep it hidden.

[davulsukur]

Glad Brittain has started, think he is a really good player for us.

Line up as expected, hopefully we can get a result as well.

[Exiled_Rover]

34 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Glad Brittain has started, think he is a really good player for us.

Line up as expected, hopefully we can get a result as well.

I'm glad the Markanday experiment is over. I'd rather have Brittain as a FB, but I prefer him out wide to Markanday or Dolan, so it's a case of picking our best players in positions they can play, even if it's not their preferred ones. 

Getting slightly worried about this Telalovic bloke though - he can't get a sniff. 

[moerpho]

Positive start from Tronstad

[waynerovers]

Why are we allergic to crossing corners?

[joey_big_nose]

Look very solid but not creating much. Wonder if things tied at 60 mins we'll flip the system and bring Wharton and Ennis on and put JRC or Brittain at RB and go gungho. I guess we'll go back to it sometimes.

[Bethnal]

Cardiff aren’t here to play much football and they currently look a level below us. We aren’t causing much bother to their in the box, though.

Got to remain balanced and focused, they will get the opportunity to break, we need to find something to make the break a lot less important when it comes (ideally two goals!).

We are now a very technical side and increasingly look like a cohesive team, which is pleasing. Standard of coaching must be leagues ahead of where it’s been in recent years.