Hull will want to avenge the reverse fixture down the M62 so will be looking to exploit our frailties (mind you, any team worth their salt will do their homework and be a threat, so no change there). I'm expected JE to get his troops psyched up appropriately, with the long game in mind. Clearly we aren't going to win against every team in the division, and we have sufficient question marks and passengers on our books to ensure we can't be 100% confident of anything until the final whistle goes in a game. I hope we begin another mini-run after the comeback yesterday, with Yuki getting into positions to nick some more poachers goals, Cantwell finding better form and beginning to dominate where his quality allows, and our defence showing the steel and resolve that I am beginning to feel with see us through safely this campaign. Wild West - Rovers 4 Hull 0 A Humber - Horror - Rovers 1 Bridgemen 2 Holy Cow and Hallucinations - Rovers 5 Nowhere Men 3 COYB!

It was a poor decision to flag the 'second goal' scored by Dolan as offside, as he wasn't in an offside position when the ball was played forward and it came back to him for the strike that went into the net. At 2-0 Rovers might have had more momentum to carry through the rest of the game. And, much as I'm delighted for Harry Leonard, he doesn't seem to have the quick feet and speed of thought that are the hallmark of a good striker. Maybe more game time will sharpen him up.. Overall a good result in a surprisingly even contest against one of the division's form sides. I'll take that, all day! Well done JE for instilling some bouncebackability into this group of players. John Eustace' Bounce Back Army!

Aye, and it was rotten fish even back then..

Sunderland are grinding out results when it matters, and Rovers have wobbled after a decent spell doing the same. We really need Yuki and Big Mak to step up, forget the nerves and bang in some lovely goals over the festive period, with the same resolve across the rest of the team that has brought us the clean sheets of recent weeks. A good result would be a 'good result'! Boxing Clever - Rovers 2 Mackems 0 Boxed in and Bamboozled - Rovers 1 Wearsiders 2 Box me Backwards and Bend me Black & Blue - Rovers 3 Faux Geordies 1 COYB!! Merry Christmas to one and all!

Oh my word, what a lovely Christmas Present that is! Thank you Rog of the Rovers, Ian and all who keep the BRFCS forums alive and kicking with the hope of more amazing memories in Blue and White to come! Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to all, and may it rain on the Turd till hell freezes over 😉 COYB!!

I used to see a few Rovers shirts around Eyre Square, and very occasionally around Quay Street and the super-pubs.. Ancient history now, of course!

Makes me pine for my days in Galway, 20 years ago 😉 This country is fecked! Except for our beloved blue and white obsession 🙂 COYB!

Always the possibility that the outstanding form of recent games might stutter to a halt, but hopefully it will continue as we trudge to the home of Harry the Dog on Saturday. The JE mantra of one game at a time seems to get the best from this bunch of players, so we can go there full of confidence, and with the capability to mix things up and still get a result, as happened on Saturday. Once again a draw would be a worthy result, and three points more than enough icing for the Christmas cake. If we could maintain the clean sheet run, that would give a strong platform to kick on, especially if our largely misfiring strikeforce somehow hit form. Still, I'm a bit nervous about this one, as there are no easy games in this division. Dogged Determination - Harry's baying mob 0 Resilient Rovers 0 Woof on the Nerves - Barking Boys 2 Ragged Rovers 1 Howl at the Moon - Millwall 0 Rovers 4 COYB!

Well I love it, Billy! In this day and age of everything AI and electronic, I have one phrase I use all the time especially when I'm at work (as a lecturer in a NW University), which is, "What happens if the power goes off?" Analogue is so much more personal, potentially much more enduring, and certainly much more endearing than a soulless app that is probably just stealing any data you put into it. We seem obsessed these days with everything having a digital footprint, and only being of value if it can be instantly switched on (or off) and controlled. I'm chewing over whether to buy one, for someone I know follows the Rovers all over the place - it would be a great thing to leaf through over a pint or two in the summer, once the football has finished for a while. Fair play to ye!

Nothing new under the sun, and money is not an indicator of anything other than an interest in money. Football is bigger and better than money. Always was and always will be, regardless of the relentless and moronic drive to buy success. Having said that, Rovers ought to have a better set up than under the loons, given their undoubted wealth. Instead we are simply treated as some kind of weird and slightly embarrassing anomaly in their hormone-fuelled franken-portfolio of death peddling businesses. COYB and FOYV!

Does anyone think Wolves might come knocking for Eustace, now they've potted O'Neill?

785 according to the commentator - not bad for a shite town near London...

This is looking nice now... Nice and Green all the way across for Rovers 🙂

Still no Harry Leonard ???

Hedges and Buckley for Cosier Duberry and...Yuki