v Derby County (a) - 8/3/2025, 15:00

[Exiled_Rover]

Toth

Brittain Carter Hyam Ribeiro

Tronstad Travis

Ohashi Cantwell Kargo

Gueye

—

Options off the bench: Dolan, Weimann, Hedges, Cozier-Duberry, Sanderson, Woodrow, JRC, Pears

[Paul Mani]

                      Pears

Brittain.  Carter.   Hyam.    Ribeiro

                 Travis.   Sonny

    Kargbo.    Weimann.     Cantwell

                       Gueye

Subs - Toth, JRC, Sanderson, Forshaw, Dolan, Hedges, Woodrow, ACD, Ohashi

I think we have to get Cantwell out of the #10 position. He doesn’t carry a goal threat, nor does he assist. Imo he’s better from deeper / the left and could be a good foil for a flying player like Kargbo on the other side. Plus, we need to get goalscorers like Weimann as close to Gueye as possible.

Derby 1 - 3  Rovers - Gueye x2 and Kargbo.

[bigbrandjohn]

This is potentially one big 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

Derby have lost their last three games, bottom of the table, and Eustace asking the boys to use their togetherness to do him a really big favor.

And they need to avoid the drop with a moral boosting win. Own goal from Dolan?  🤔

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8 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Toth

Brittain Carter Hyam Ribeiro

Tronstad Travis

Ohashi Cantwell Kargo

Gueye

—

Options off the bench: Dolan, Weimann, Hedges, Cozier-Duberry, Sanderson, Woodrow, JRC, Pears

That's my squad too I think minus Batth that's our strongest line up

[onlyonejackwalker]

Other than the odd result Derby haven't been conceedung many. But are really struggling to create and score. We also know that feeling.

Team selection is interesting. The back seven pick themselves, but that is where the fun starts. People suggesting Cantwell out left, Ohashi out right, Kargbo out left, Hedges out right. 

I wouldn't try and be too clever in this game.

I'd start Dolan, Hedges, Ohashi and Gueye. All in their preferred ppositions. Its a basic requirement of football to be able to run. All four of them can and will.

 

[chaddyrovers]

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Its a tough one as we have such poor options out wide. But Derby are there to be attacked.

Is it really that tough judging on the last game performances. Karbgo, Weimann and Hedges were good, Dolan and Cantwell poor. How is that tough decision to make? 

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Probably go with Gueye with Ohashi just off him. Kargbo left so the question mark is wide right.

Have you taken into account that Gueye and Kargbo unlike to be able more 70/75 mins for obvious reasons. 

[MarkBRFC]

13 games without a win for Derby

Haven't scored at home since Boxing Day.

I would put everything I own on a home win here, and I bet they will hardly break a sweat doing it like Swansea the other week.

The most obvious result of the weekend.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

36 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Is it really that tough judging on the last game performances. Karbgo, Weimann and Hedges were good, Dolan and Cantwell poor. How is that tough decision to make? 

Have you taken into account that Gueye and Kargbo unlike to be able more 70/75 mins for obvious reasons. 

Weimann and Hedges were on the bench for a reason. Neither are starting players as we’ve seen over the course of the season. I agree Dolan and Cantwell were poor on Saturday. Dennis is going to be banned and Buckley is injured. All of a sudden we’re scraping the barrel again. What’s happened with Woodrow ? Surely he must come into the reckoning now.

Edited 7 hours ago by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

22 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

13 games without a win for Derby

Haven't scored at home since Boxing Day.

I would put everything I own on a home win here, and I bet they will hardly break a sweat doing it like Swansea the other week.

The most obvious result of the weekend.

How long have you been watching Rovers ?

[Hasta]

Derby don't concede a lot for a team at the bottom of the league, and we don't score a lot. They don't score a lot either. Eustace will be negative and try and grind points out.

0-0

 

[MarkBRFC]

35 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

How long have you been watching Rovers ?

Long enough to know that we won't turn up on Saturday.

Amazed that anyone think we'll turn up there and win comfortably. 

Edited 7 hours ago by MarkBRFC

[TheRevAshton]

I'm 95% confident that we will not win this game... a late Derby winner wouldn't be surprising in the slightest.

Genuinely dreading this one.

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

Is it really that tough judging on the last game performances. Karbgo, Weimann and Hedges were good, Dolan and Cantwell poor. How is that tough decision to make? 

Have you taken into account that Gueye and Kargbo unlike to be able more 70/75 mins for obvious reasons. 

Hedges was ok but he didnt really do much going forward and certainly not to outrank a season (and beyond) of poor and ineffective performances.

Weimann is a very useful impact sub to have but as we have seen playing him away from home in particular, he can struggle from the start.

So as I said, difficult decision to make. Our wide areas are a very weak position. You look at some of our rivals and the options they have in those positions, and its night and day.

[JHRover]

Every single ingredient is in place for a recipe for disaster here. Hope to god I am wrong because nothing less than a win will be enough for our fading play-off ambitions.

• Sell out relatively large away following travelling in confidence/expectation - rarely bodes well
• Eustace factor / added spice
• Our struggles in recent weeks and unconvincing performances
• Most of the season we have struggled away against struggling sides - Plymouth, Oxford, Millwall, Swansea
• They have a couple of monkeys on their back that will have to end soon - no goals in ages, no wins in ages, no points or wins for Eustace, risk of getting cut adrift
• They need a result to keep in touch with the teams just outside the bottom 3 - if they don't they will be adrift very soon with the likes of Hull and Stoke still collecting points
• As others have pointed out their defensive record isn't bad for a team in their position and given our troubles putting the ball in the net and Eustace/Ismael caution expect a low scoring affair decided by an odd goal

So yeah, I'm worried. The thought of 3000 Rovers fans spending 90 minutes obsessing over and abusing Eustace rather than the real scumbags sat in the directors box doesn't appeal either. 

[Mattyblue]

Was on a stag do with a good number of Rovers fans over the weekend. Thought I’d test the water re Eustace, to a man he was a snake and the owners didn’t get a mention - which makes sense to me, most fans couldn’t care less about the off field stuff.

[MarkBRFC]

1 hour ago, MarkBRFC said:

13 games without a win for Derby

Haven't scored at home since Boxing Day.

I would put everything I own on a home win here, and I bet they will hardly break a sweat doing it like Swansea the other week.

The most obvious result of the weekend.

We have also lost our last 10 away games against newly promoted sides.

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

Hedges was ok but he didnt really do much going forward and certainly not to outrank a season (and beyond) of poor and ineffective performances.

Weimann is a very useful impact sub to have but as we have seen playing him away from home in particular, he can struggle from the start.

So as I said, difficult decision to make. Our wide areas are a very weak position. You look at some of our rivals and the options they have in those positions, and its night and day.

Weimann had no problems at WBA away did he? 

Its not difficult at all is it to pick a starting 11 to win the game. Hedges was better than Dolan and did well when he came on. 

No consideration for Gueye and Karbgo at all? 

29 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

We have also lost our last 10 away games against newly promoted sides.

Tell to change this then

37 minutes ago, JHRover said:

So yeah, I'm worried. The thought of 3000 Rovers fans spending 90 minutes obsessing over and abusing Eustace rather than the real scumbags sat in the directors box doesn't appeal either. 

I will be spending my time supporting the players on the pitch and Ismael. Not interested Eustace one bit

30 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Was on a stag do with a good number of Rovers fans over the weekend. Thought I’d test the water re Eustace, to a man he was a snake and the owners didn’t get a mention - which makes sense to me, most fans couldn’t care less about the off field stuff.

very similar to a number of people I speak to whether friends, family, people at Ewood that they are unhappy at Eustace saying one thing after Wolves game, then a different comment when at Derby, Plus other comments he during his spell here about being a family and being together as one. 

[Lancaster Rover]

This just has a Derby 1-0 win written all over it, it would be peak Rovers. It's what we do, year on year even pre-dating Venky's. Whenever a team is in dire form and desperate for a win we roll over and get our tummy tickled.

[BankEnd Rover]

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

 

So yeah, I'm worried. The thought of 3000 Rovers fans spending 90 minutes obsessing over and abusing Eustace rather than the real scumbags sat in the directors box doesn't appeal either. 

Agreed...Im going but i'm not looking forward to it one bit. Mostly because I know I'll be cringing throughout the whole match at fans chanting against Eustace.

 

[lraC]

2 hours ago, Hasta said:

Derby don't concede a lot for a team at the bottom of the league, and we don't score a lot. They don't score a lot either. Eustace will be negative and try and grind points out.

0-0

 

Single points will not be enough for Eustace this season.

He got away with it with us, last season, but only just, as we had enough points in the bag, when he arrived.

Granted we got the unexpected wins at Leeds and Leicester, but unless you count the Stoke game as his, he never won a single home game.

Derby 0 Rovers 0. but I hope, I am wrong and we attack them to death.

 

[K-Hod]

As others have opined, the usual Rovers pattern to the following:

1) Big away following

2) Grudge match

3) Team out of form

Is an easy win for the out of form team. We've been here before.

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7 hours ago, bigbrandjohn said:

This is potentially one big 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

Derby have lost their last three games, bottom of the table, and Eustace asking the boys to use their togetherness to do him a really big favor.

And they need to avoid the drop with a moral boosting win. Own goal from Dolan?  🤔

🤣 there it is the banana skin comment 🤣🤣🤣 every single game lol

Potential banana skin this one

Definitely a banana skin match

[sharpysharps86]

Derby 1 - 0 Roves. Nyambe 90+5. Come on, this is the most Rovers mess it up fixture of all time 😂.

Very cynical of me yes, but I just feel like its inevitable. A touch of Millwall away about it.

Predicted team:

                       Pears

Brittain   Carter    Hyam    Ribeiro

             Travis    Tronstad

 Dolan         Weimann        Kargbo

                      Gueye

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Derby 1 - 0 Roves. Nyambe 90+5. Come on, this is the most Rovers mess it up fixture of all time 😂.

Very cynical of me yes, but I just feel like its inevitable. A touch of Millwall away about it.

Predicted team:

                       Pears

Brittain   Carter    Hyam    Ribeiro

             Travis    Tronstad

 Dolan         Weimann        Kargbo

                      Gueye

 

I’m not picking on Dolan but how he can expect to get picked again after Saturday’s awful performance says a lot about our current squad. Nobody up front really stood out but he was beyond poor. He was more likely to set up a goal for Norwich as he was for Rovers. How many times did he get caught in possession and lose the ball ? I like the lad usually but there has to be consequences for performances like that.

[ben_the_beast]

As much as the Eustice factor adds a bit of spice to this game, I can see it being a drab 0-0. A result which helps neither team.