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[dallydally]

Well two wins on the bounce! Bring it on Tuesday night. Looks like the team is beginning to gel and there is some pride in the shirt! Can we make it three in a row? What would be your team. I'd start with the players that began today (assuming there are no injuries).

[koi]

Two league wins on the bounce, we lost a cup match between them.

[Tom]

Confidence is a dangerous thing, hope it manifests into a bit of belief and not expectancy.

A draw would be a good result another win mammoth

[MGAndy]

Against two bottom teams....

Perspective please.

Tuesday will show us if we have improved...or not.

[JBiz]

Here's to hoping we concede first!

Joking aside, looking forward to this now and that's not happened for a bit. Same line up!

[DE.]

Sheffield Wednesday are a good team and should be able to handle us fairly comfortably. On the plus side I don't see us getting a tonking, maybe 2-0 or 2-1.

[JAL]

Look forward to seeing the attacking players but most importantly how they all defend as a team to win the honour of playing the ball to create a goal scoring opportunity.

[perthblue02]

For me, two early nights and two wins, not finding out the score till the morning after, so planning to be fast asleep when the game kicks off on Tuesday evening in the UK and wake up Wednesday to another win although a draw would be a decent result

[Iceman]

At least nobody agreed to getting the Coyle Masks, for the protest at the Wolves game. Imagine we now on a great run, and everybody is wearing Coyle masks. Coyley would be so happy to see all the fans show him love lol

[philipl]

Wednesday have had a surprisingly poor start to the season and are probably coming to Ewood to get their promotion push started.

For Rovers it is back to playing a more normal level of Championship opponents after a long run of fixtures against duffers which we only began to get the hang of at the end.

Could be another Norwich-type of result. I hope not.

[JHRover]

Wednesday have yet to win away from home this season. They drew 0-0 at Norwich, lost 3-1 at Burton, drew 1-1 at Brentford and lost 2-1 at Birmingham. They also lost at Cambridge in the cup who are bottom of the 4th division. They've scraped wins narrowly at home in the last few minutes against Villa, Bristol and Forest (all three saw winners after the 85th minute).

I'm afraid that we need to be targeting a win from this one. We've got ground to make up and momentum to maintain. If Burton can beat them 3-1 then I refuse to accept that we can't.

[ABBEY]

The cracks have well and truly been papered over . #venkysout #chimpheadout

[Iceman]

Steele

Marshall Greer Hobhan Williams

Samuelson/Bennett Guthrie Evans Conway

Gallagher Emnes

[perthblue02]

The cracks have well and truly been papered over . #venkysout #chimpheadout

I don't think that is the case Abbey, we still know the big problem. But I would rather have a bunch of players being professional enough to go out for a win despite the drawback of the manager , the gravy train riders and the owners .

After all we need as many points on the board as possible before the best pre-selected candidate for the job new global advisor takes his place and looks to cut more costs in January, which will no doubt see a few of the squad not here.

Whether Blingy and the Queen of Pune would be happy to retain Championship status who knows (the actions in Jan will tell us that ), but know I certainly do

Although must admit bit worried about the proposals of regionalising League 1 and 2 , No doubt the travel cost savings will appeal in Pune HQ

[Tom]

Going for 2-2 which I still think would be a good result although we clearly should target a win whilst we have the wind behind us!

Drop Lowe, move Marshall back and play another winger, but I imagine the team will remain the same which is understandable.

[JHRover]

I don't think that is the case Abbey, we still know the big problem. But I would rather have a bunch of players being professional enough to go out for a win despite the drawback of the manager , the gravy train riders and the owners .

After all we need as many points on the board as possible before the best pre-selected candidate for the job new global advisor takes his place and looks to cut more costs in January, which will no doubt see a few of the squad not here.

Whether Blingy and the Queen of Pune would be happy to retain Championship status who knows (the actions in Jan will tell us that ), but know I certainly do

Although must admit bit worried about the proposals of regionalising League 1 and 2 , No doubt the travel cost savings will appeal in Pune HQ

I think we already know their intentions in terms of our Championship status. Actions speak louder than words. They've sold off everyone they can and sanctioned one cash buy in return.

After our appalling start to the season they had an opportunity to do something about it and release some decent funds to strengthen considerably to try and haul us up the league. What did they do? Sold Shane Duffy, pocketed the money, and allowed 2 more loan signings to come in. That isn't the behaviour of owners who are determined to retain Championship status. They've recouped more money than any owners outside the Premier League in the last 12 months and with the side rock bottom of the league and getting well beaten every week they could have released funds to try and turn that form around quickly, yet chose not to.

They couldn't give two hoots whether we're 9th, 19th, 24th or heading into League One. All they are bothered about now is the amount of money its costing every year to run the show and where/when they can cash in on more assets to cover that.

If Coyle keeps us up this season then I'll hail it as a job well done in the circumstances, but that will be down to his performance as manager in getting results out of a squad cobbled together on the cheap rather than the owners, who will probably proceed to undermine the manager in future once again.

[dallydally]

Coyle is not going to drop his Captain despite Marshall being a superior full back

[tomphil]

Sheff Weds are better equipped and stronger than us at the min for sure but they're still just a championship side who've had a few quid thrown at them. They're no Norwich yet so no need to fear them after recent results.

Tough game obviously and under present times and knowing the things we know from Glens blogs you always have to expect suspicious needless team changes and so on. Should be same as if possible.....

Rovers 1 Wendies 1

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[davulsukur]

Same team as before, no needless tinkering with the lineup.

Too difficult to call.

Rovers always have a habit of deflating any optimism and i still don't rate Coyle one bit.

With that in mind: Rovers 1 - 2 Sheff Wed

[OscarRaven]

Don't tinker with a winning formula. 3 on the bounce would really help offset a terrible start but as others point out Wednesday have invested circa 10mil over the summer so nobodies fools. I'm expecting a draw which after Wigan away (the only game I have attended) feels awfully optimistic.

Still hoping for three league wins in a row though, something to celebrate and we are allowed to celebrate. It's not papering the cracks its taking what enjoyment we can from an otherwise desperate situation.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Confidence brings good performances.

Rovers 2-1 Wednesday

[ABBEY]

0-4 with Venky FC letting me down on my btts

[JBiz]

Not sure who "Venkys fc" is but a BTTS bet on our games at the moment are surely odds on?

Looking forward to the match, hope we keep the same shape and line up. 3 wins on the spin has to be the aim but a point is decent enough. A limp home defeat is a probably on the cards, let's hope MM isn't plumping on...

[ABBEY]

Acca

[TBTF]

Against two bottom teams....

Perspective please.

Tuesday will show us if we have improved...or not.

Jesus Christ! We all know the depth of our problems and what needs to happen ...fact.

But it appears half our ''fans'' are disappointed that we have actually played well and won a couple . Derby might be towards the bottom but they wont be come the end and have spent fortunes on their squad.

I think its time i took a break from this MB its getting pathetic. Plans to get relegated, bets placed by the owners and manager to get relegated, manager employed to take us down. WTF goes on ???

This club is in a sh1t state absolutely no doubt and I am fully behind protesting in the right way to get Venkys out of our town. We cant recover till they have gone.

But come on people when did we actually start hoping we got beat and finished bottom of the league??

No doubt the 28 passes leading towards our winner on Saturday was all part of an Asian betting syndicate involving Venkys and the Derby owners was it??

Staggering. No bloody wonder we cant organise a protest group half our fans couldn't decide what they want for tea.