v Middlesbrough (a) - 11/1/2025, FA Cup R3

[roversfan99]

His movement is the strongest part of his game to be fair to him, its what he does when he gets into those positions that is lacking at the moment.

Either way, I dont see a Championship standard striker there at the moment and regular game time ideally in League 1. He has missed a lot of football out injured and it could enhance his development.

[had.e.nuff]

good win today and probably paid for this weeks 2 signings with prize money

[Herbie6590]

2 hours ago, Hasta said:

Player ratings @Herbie6590 ?

There’s been an issue with the data feed…we’re trying to see if we can fix it 👍

[USABlue]

New keeper looked tonhave some good handling abilities.  He has too much confidence in his footwork, had me worried a time ir two.  One game he's not had that much to do but looks a reliable option from the brief moments he was involved.

 

[47er]

I hate being knocked out 3rd Round! Love the build-up and speculation before the draw and wondering who we'll get.

Personally I'd like a Premier League club at home---love seeing Ewood packed and a scramble for tickets from the away side fans.

Get through to the last 16 and you're national headlines again! Love it!

That recent tie at Sheff Utd was a great game, we lost but I felt real pride at the performance. Cup runs can give you that.

[onlyonejackwalker]

6 minutes ago, 47er said:

I hate being knocked out 3rd Round! Love the build-up and speculation before the draw and wondering who we'll get.

Personally I'd like a Premier League club at home---love seeing Ewood packed and a scramble for tickets from the away side fans.

Get through to the last 16 and you're national headlines again! Love it!

That recent tie at Sheff Utd was a great game, we lost but I felt real pride at the performance. Cup runs can give you that.

Yes well said. Let's get United or Arsenal or Liverpool at home. See if they can get past our back eleven.

[RevidgeBlue]

8 hours ago, 47er said:

I hate being knocked out 3rd Round! Love the build-up and speculation before the draw and wondering who we'll get.

Personally I'd like a Premier League club at home---love seeing Ewood packed and a scramble for tickets from the away side fans.

Get through to the last 16 and you're national headlines again! Love it!

That recent tie at Sheff Utd was a great game, we lost but I felt real pride at the performance. Cup runs can give you that.

I want an "easy" tie to give us the best chance of reaching the last 16! I agree that the last 16 is when it feels like the competition starts in earnest.

And if you can reach the last 8 (as we have done several times under Venky's ownership but blown it) I find that almost too exciting for words as you're only 90 mins away from the new Wembley.

[Mattyblue]

…of course you should really still be 180 minutes from Wembley at that stage.

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

…of course you should really still be 180 minutes from Wembley at that stage.

In our case, we're one of the few who have never been so I'll take it. They can change it back after we've been!

[Mattyblue]

I’d go, of course. But it still shouldn’t be there, but that’s the pathetic organisation that is the FA for you…

[Hasta]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

In our case, we're one of the few who have never been so I'll take it. They can change it back after we've been!

 

2 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

I’d go, of course. But it still shouldn’t be there, but that’s the pathetic organisation that is the FA for you…

Wait another 15 years when one semi will be in Los Angeles and one in Riyadh.

Edited January 12 by Hasta

[Mattyblue]

Yep, and the FA will start crowing that ‘Wembley is once again sacrosanct for the final’… after pocketing a wedge from Mohammed Bin Salman.

Edited January 12 by Mattyblue

[roverandout]

Remember the quarter final against Chelsea in 2007 at Old Trafford.  The banter we had with the Chelsea fans. Me and my mates walked into a pub with our rovers tops on. The whole pub had Chelsea fans in it so we quickly walked out. Edit I think it was the semi final? 

Edited January 12 by roverandout

[martonrover]

13 hours ago, had.e.nuff said:

good win today and probably paid for this weeks 2 signings with prize money

Yes, £115,000 for winning one game, (only £25,000 if we’d lost).

You can see why we fielded a strong team.

[Hasta]

40 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Remember the quarter final against Chelsea in 2007 at Old Trafford.  The banter we had with the Chelsea fans. Me and my mates walked into a pub with our rovers tops on. The whole pub had Chelsea fans in it so we quickly walked out. Edit I think it was the semi final? 

It was the semi. Exactly the opposite happened in The Deansgate pub. Full of Rovers fans and two Chelsea lads came in. Fair play, they got a drink and took the banter,

[lraC]

1 hour ago, roverandout said:

Remember the quarter final against Chelsea in 2007 at Old Trafford.  The banter we had with the Chelsea fans. Me and my mates walked into a pub with our rovers tops on. The whole pub had Chelsea fans in it so we quickly walked out. Edit I think it was the semi final? 

It was the Morton missed a sitter semi.

Gutted that day. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, lraC said:

It was the Morton missed a sitter semi.

Gutted that day. 

I was right in line with it behind the goals. It was going in until the second it didn’t ! He tried to finesse it into the far corner when he didn’t need to.

[Tom]

This was the team we faced that day, and we weren’t out of our league, don’t let anyone fool you about our ‘true position’ etc 

 

Cech, Essien, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Ballack, Makelele (Mikel 81), Lampard, Shevchenko (Kalou 63), Drogba, Joe Cole (Wright-Phillips 97).
Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Boulahrouz.

 

[roverandout]

47 minutes ago, lraC said:

It was the Morton missed a sitter semi.

Gutted that day. 

Free header

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, roverandout said:

Free header

Could have put his cap on it, brought it down and shot, done anything.

 

[Bronzed A Donis]

26 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Free header

To this day never been able to watch the game highlights back due to that miss.

[roverandout]

On the 8 minutes mark mgp free header

[roverandout]

Hope we get a home draw against a lower league team 

[Tugayisgod]

1 hour ago, Tom said:

This was the team we faced that day, and we weren’t out of our league, don’t let anyone fool you about our ‘true position’ etc 

 

Cech, Essien, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Ballack, Makelele (Mikel 81), Lampard, Shevchenko (Kalou 63), Drogba, Joe Cole (Wright-Phillips 97).
Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Boulahrouz.

 

Jesus, what a side that was 

 

[SuperBrfc]

Still hurts seeing it now. We had a quality Chelsea side on the ropes that day: