v Derby County (h) - 09/08/2024

[yankfan]

4 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Well there is if you haven’t been involved in pre-season 

Right but no excuse for that. If he wants a move should be fit for the new club. 

[Forever Blue]

Szmods on the bench

[Forever Blue]

2 minutes ago, yankfan said:

Right but no excuse for that. If he wants a move should be fit for the new club. 

He might have been told to stay away from training. You’re making judgements based on little knowledge 

[rovers11]

Decent line up. If we can't beat that Derby side at home then we're in for a long season!

[islander200]

Szmodic on the bench.

Happy Hyam isn't captain 

[rigger]

Our first eleven is stronger than Derbys, so is our bench. We should win.

[Polky]

Safe travels to everyone and hopefully it will be an enjoyable night at Ewood.

I will be watching from home tonight with my three month old son. It’s his first game so I’m sure he’ll be asleep by half time 🤣

[AllRoverAsia]

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I don’t like Tronstad, Travis and JRC all in the same midfield.

[AllRoverAsia]

[neophox]

Hilton, Sigurdsson, Szmodics, Weimann, Batth, Markanday, Buckley, Ohashi, Vale

One of the better bench we had for a while.

[Tugay-is-God]

Does anyone know what countries you'll be able to watch the game on the Rovers player from tonight?

[dallydally]

8 minutes ago, Polky said:

Safe travels to everyone and hopefully it will be an enjoyable night at Ewood.

I will be watching from home tonight with my three month old son. It’s his first game so I’m sure he’ll be asleep by half time 🤣

We all will!!!

[KentExile]

3 minutes ago, Tugay-is-God said:

Does anyone know what countries you'll be able to watch the game on the Rovers player from tonight?

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/august/09/watch-rovers-against-the-rams-live-/

Italy is lovely at this time of year

Edited August 9 by KentExile

[dallydally]

15 minutes ago, yankfan said:

Right but no excuse for that. If he wants a move should be fit for the new club. 

Agreed. Said earlier contracts are one way (the players rule)

[Armchair supporter supremo]

12 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Szmodic on the bench.

Happy Hyam isn't captain 

But you can't be happy that bloody travis! Surely 

Both a pair of lightweights.

Tronstad is the only one in that team that has real leadership qualities

[rob_of_the_rovers]

Rather unbalanced bench, six attacking players

[AspRover]

I posted a couple of days back that Sammie on the bench is a good compromise - bring him on if we are chasing the game 2nd half, if we're winning don't risk him.

[TommyRovers]

Can’t believe Sammie Szmodics has picked his toys up off the floor and agreed to be part of the matchday squad.

who would have thought…

Edited August 9 by TommyRovers

[Armchair supporter supremo]

Can't be any excuses tonight, ridiculous thing to say but this should be a must win if only for fan and club morals sake! 

[AllRoverAsia]

8 minutes ago, KentExile said:

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/august/09/watch-rovers-against-the-rams-live-/

Italy is lovely at this time of year

Surprised Maggott hasn't got a VPN provider to place an advert on that page 😉 

[Armchair supporter supremo]

7 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

Can’t believe Sammie Szmodics has picked his toys up off the floor and agreed to be part of the matchday squad.

who would have thought…

I can see him being shipped off to some random European team for an undisclosed fee if things have gone cold with Ipswich, they're too stubborn to publicly lower their valuation

Edited August 9 by Armchair supporter supremo

[KentExile]

6 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

Can’t believe Sammie Szmodics has picked his toys up off the floor and agreed to be part of the matchday squad.

who would have thought…

Me

😉 

[Inferi]

3 minutes ago, AspRover said:

I posted a couple of days back that Sammie on the bench is a good compromise - bring him on if we are chasing the game 2nd half, if we're winning don't risk him.

No he should be fit and starting. To not be training or playing for 3-4 weeks when a move apparently isn't imminent is a disgrace. I'm not saying it's his fault. Just shows the club is desperate to sell him.

[USABlue]

Not liking #1 at all.  So low ball bidding is the new method of not signing players, I suppose the late fileing 2 windows in a row meeded a new strategy.  We could have had a new keeper but we were never serious just window dressing to deflect bs away from Maggot.  No idea how this one goes but I am not confident.  Will watch out of some form of morbid curiosity.