Old Codger

Talk about setting the tone.. Rovers' website preview of the game states as follows: "Sitting eighth in the table, McKenna's men will rise to fourth in the standings with a victory this evening." Not being funny, but can't anyone on the Rovers staff actually write English - a more accurate sentence might have used the word 'would' rather than 'will'. Pedantry, I know, but it feels like the club already accepts the inevitability of a negative outcome, instead of going in knowing it is a game of football, in which as we know, anything can happen. As I said earlier, we need to stick the form book up their conceited tractor boy arse. What we need, and what we get - often two diametrically opposed concepts, from the existential perspective of a long-standing Rovers fan.. FWIW, COYB!

Ipswich will be creaming themselves in anticipation of this fixture. Feck em to high tractorworld and back I say. Just dig in boys, and pull something, anything, from the locker to put the record straight. It's all we ask. Rob o the green - Rovers 1 Tractor boys 0 Robbery most foul - Rovers 0 Arnold Muren's love children 1 Realistic reckoning - Rovers 1 Whipsnitch 2 COYB!

It begs the question, "Why couldn't it have been Rovers laying siege to the Wrexham goal at the death, and snatching a second goal (or at least creating more chances?" - that, dear friends is 100% game management, an art that seems to be missing from the Coaching 101 manual apparently thumbed by Ismael and his bumbling technical team. The management should wear clown pants.

He wasn't offside. There were two Rovers players prone on the goal line, with Pears behind them. Wrexham got a get out of jail card there, and any normal side would have just shut up shop and headed to the corners from 90 mins, instead of inviting the opposition to attack in wave after sodding wave. At least my early aftternoon pessimism was unfounded, and the 6-0 dicking didn't occur. I thought we had enough in the tank to deserve a win against a Wrexham side that flatters to deceive - bur then Kieffer Moore gave them the bollox to keep coming back for more, and our tactical geniuses on the sidelines encouraged them on.. inevitable that we would concede, once the hairy balls were substituted for castrato smooth bollux, and I am only thankful that we didn't capitulate completely. Tuesday now has a completely different complexion, especially as they won't want to lose two on the bounce away from home. Too little time to worry about that now, but team selection, availability of billy big balls substitutes (or not) and a whole load of smelly stuff and bitten nails are going to be the reality versus them thar tractor boys.

Kieffer Moore is killing us. Looks a proper player, and our makeshift defence just cant cope with his strength and movement.

11 shots to their 2 at this point... Yup

Venkys. Keep up, old chap.

I am expecting this to be another low for this crazy season. End of. Wrexham 6 Rovers 0

An incredibly limp performance last night. The only good thing is it was so bad it can't possibly linger in memory. All down to the impeccable stewardship of the owners, whose honouring of the legacy of Jack Walker is the equivalent of me taking a dump on the Cenotaph. Lest they forget. VENKY SCUM OUT OF OUR CLUB, OUR TOWN, OUR NIGHTMARES AND OUR MEMORIES.

Smallest bloke on the pitch heads easily past Pears. Baffling. Can't see us threatening their goal now. Bollux.

And there we go. Numpty management.

I think we win the prize for the stupidest haircuts. Pratt, who looks like a decent footballer with his feet, looks like he's been conned at Paserelli's..

that is a good shout to be fair - old head, able to read the game, not afraid to put a challenge in..

As with all such things, there is always a tell-tale in the patterns around it. Whilst there is nothing 'illegal' per se in what appears to have been done so many times under Rovers' flag, it stinks like the bag of shite that it really and truly is. If it smells like shite, it looks like shite, and it plays like shite, well then, don't be amazed if it is actually shite, despite the protestations of the gob-shites and their acolytes. VENKYS AND VEXATIOUS ACOLYTES OUT!

Optimism is one thing that we as Rovers fans cannot rely on, and a Rovers side this thin on the ground cannot afford. We need solid graft (Yuki style), a decent ref (like that is suddenly going to happen!), some modicum of 'home advantage' (even if there hasn't been any so far this season) and more than the rub of the green (and you know what they say - "The harder you work, the luckier you get...") We aren't going get all of that any time soon, so probably best to buckle up, cos Kansas is probably about to go bye bye.. Keeping it all crossed for this evening.. COYB!