Prediction

[Bentley Bullet]

Desmond.

[RobTheRover]

Nah, I'll go for 1-0 to the Rovers.  Syers at the far post from a Cotterill cross.

[RoversAlias]

I have now opted to take on the mantra that my father did a long time ago after a lot of failed predictions.

"I don't do predictions!"

[DonnyRTID]

Had a £10 bet on us to win 2-0. 

[philsky]

1-1

Go one up and then alamo from 80 mins

[Mark DRFC]

3-1 cotterill to score 1st

[Donnyjim]

Donny to lose 2-1, after going one nil up. Why change the habit of not being able to defend a lead? I don't think Saunders has the acumen to cure this disease in the club. Just hope I'm proved wrong 

[Mirsad Bubalovic]

That was a party political broadcast from the Happy Party...

[besty]

2-0 to us simples!!

[Monkcaster_Rover]

1-1 big Brown to equalize in the 56TH minute

[Sandy Lane]

Well I guess the real, real season starts today.  So begins another wonderful, scary, sad, happy, gutting, pee your pants, but lovely thrill ride that is DRFC! 

I was going to go with Desmond as well, but hope we start with a win, so a conservative 1-0.    Go Donny! 

[Bald Rover]

1-3 to the mighty hoops! And if that comes true I shall stop eating ice cream in this 46degree heat and go to an air conditioned bar to celebrate! COYR !

[RobTheRover]

Well I guess the real, real season starts today.  So begins another wonderful, scary, sad, happy, gutting, pee your pants, but lovely thrill ride that is DRFC! 

I was going to go with Desmond as well, but hope we start with a win, so a conservative 1-0.    Go Donny! 

I take it Sandy Lane has been sponsored this season?

[Sandy Lane]

Well I guess the real, real season starts today.  So begins another wonderful, scary, sad, happy, gutting, pee your pants, but lovely thrill ride that is DRFC! 

I was going to go with Desmond as well, but hope we start with a win, so a conservative 1-0.    Go Donny! 

I take it Sandy Lane has been sponsored this season?

lol!!  :-)  I'm glad it has the aloe vera!

[RobTheRover]

I could have chosen some without the aloe vera, but I figured you'd have chosen those!

[Bristol Red Rover]

I predict 1-1 Bennett

Over the last 62 years on 18th August our record is:
W2 D2 L6 F7 A16

Time on my hands syndrome... (beers in Walsall preferred!)
Thinking of the last three first games of the season after being promoted where we won, I wondered how it was overall for us when we changed leagues. Seems we're not good at it! This is our first game of the season record in the Football League when changing leagues from 1901.

1st game of the season in a new league going up:
W 1-0 away at Derby
W 2-0 home v Blackpool
W 3-1 away at Orient
L 0-2 away at Preston
L 0-1 home v Reading
L 1-2 away at Torquay
D 3-3 at Peterboro
L 1-3 away at Leeds
D 1-1 home v Southampton
L 2-5 away at Blackpool
D 0-0 away at Wigan
L 0-2 home v Lincoln
D 3-3 home v Burslem

and after going down:
L 0-1 away at Dover
L 0-3  away at Rotherham
W 3-0 home v Wrexham
W 4-2 home v Newport
L 0-1 away at Barnsley
L 1-2 away at Torquay
L 1-2 away at Rotherham
D 2-2 away at Mansfield
W 4-0 home v Bradford

[jonnydog]

I was (sadly) right with my last prediction.

Today I'm going 3-2 to the rovers

[monkeytennis]

2-1 to them, decider coming in 94th minute after a 30 minute display of panicky 'defending'.   

[Barmby Rover]

Hard to predict a match between two teams where I hardly know any of the players, with us being very new to each other and I presume Wallsall fairly stable I would say 2-1 to them.

[Bentley Bullet]

Desmond.

Nice to start the season with a correct forecast, inspired by an old mate of mine, Desmond Nilthree. 

[DonnyBazR0ver]

May be you can start dreaming the dream again, instead of the nightmare ??