v Preston (h) - 31/1/2025 - k/o 20:00

[Gav]

8 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

Innovative tactic putting a ball into the box when you have a big lump up front. 

To be fair he's never looked like getting on the end of most of them. He went of one just before we scored with his foot when a diving header would have broke the net.

But it takes time, Dolan once again provides the cross, Gueye scores the goal.

1-0 Rovers.

[sharpysharps86]

So important to get the first goal. Another one early in the 2nd half would hopefully kill the game.

Gueye definitely looking like a very different (better) player now than 2 months ago. Dolan did well for the cross, up until that point he was not having a particularly good game.

I hope Kargbo is better than Hedges if he's going to play on the left. Hedges works hard like they all do, but has shown no quality this season other than the dink over the keeper away at Norwich in game 2.

 

[sharpysharps86]

4 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

These are there for the taking. They have offered very little, created nothing for Pears to deal with, AND Rovers look committed and up for this as a team. Having said that, we have some glaring holes in the approach, with Hedges doing nothing, Dolan very little and Buckley ineffective. 

Let's see what the second half brings. Travis has bossed it so far.

 

We look so much better with Travis in the team.

[joey_big_nose]

4 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

We look so much better with Travis in the team.

Him and Buckley have bossed it. They work well as a pair.

[AspRover]

Buckley has such a weird skillset, you get him in the right position, the right formation and with complimentary players around him and he looks a good championship player. 

Ask him to play the wrong role, in the wrong bit of the pitch and he looks lost. 

You basically need to build the team around him to get him at his best, but he doesn't really justify it.

[KentExile]

Has Big Mak turned into a Brazilian?

[Old Codger]

Gueye is on fire this evening. Hedges and Buckley need a fire lighting up their arses.

[jim mk2]

Free header..... PNE should have scored. 

[neophox]

Is Weinann on the pitch?

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Hedges is so poor. 

[Norbert Rassragr]

Gueye may or may not be good, but he gives it his all, and loves playing the game. 

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Dolan/weimann and Hedges all need to come off 

[Old Codger]

We need to be careful not to let this lot back into the game.

[jim mk2]

It's all PNE and we're looking stretched and a bit leggy...... time to change the team. 

[Valconite]

Dolan trying to be a show pony again ... 

[sharpysharps86]

Dolan and Hedges categorically lack the decision making and intelligence required. Dolan plays like a kid controlling a player on FIFA just spamming the skill moves button

[joey_big_nose]

Really want to see something from Cantwell here

[RoverDom]

6 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Dolan plays like a kid controlling a player on FIFA just spamming the skill moves button

I think it was possibly the Burnley game I saw him drop the shoulder twice and do three pirouettes. He was in his own half and there wasn't an opposition player within 20 yards of him. 

[jim mk2]

Enter Cantwell, no showboating please

[danger19_80]

Where's this thunderclap thing come from!?

[neophox]

Nasty whack in Hyam

[joey_big_nose]

Have we hired an arsenal style set piece coach or something? Our corners after years of being shit have suddenly been a lot better recently.

Edited January 31 by joey_big_nose

[neophox]

Penalty for Rovers 

[KentExile]

2 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Have we hired an arsenal set piece coach or something? Our corners after years of being shit have suddenly been a lot better recently.

Assistant manager is a set piece coach

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/february/10/in-profile--matt-gardiner/

 

 

Edited January 31 by KentExile

[joey_big_nose]

4 minutes ago, danger19_80 said:

Where's this thunderclap thing come from!?

Rovers Icelandic fans according to the sky commentary