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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Filo on April 23, 2016, 05:27:28 pm
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What a shift he put in todat, head and shoulders above anyone out there
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Totally agree....
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Agreed but big shout outs to mccullogh, calder and butler - also huge shifts today! Rowe was immense tho!
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Agreed but big shout outs to mccullogh, calder and butler - also huge shifts today! Rowe was immense tho!
Calder?
You are kidding?
Headless chicken
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Agreed but big shout outs to mccullogh, calder and butler - also huge shifts today! Rowe was immense tho!
Calder?
You are kidding?
Headless chicken
Causes the opposition problems everytime I see him, just needs more in the final third.
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Yeah filo, he hassled, harried and chased everything - he shut down their space down over and over again!
Not saying he did owt great with the ball - but by god he stopped them playing!
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Rowe was immense.
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Sign him up, pay him what he wants.
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Best performance from any player this season.
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I thought he was a no-mark until a couple of games ago. Very impressed lately.
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Am sure there is professional pride in there but also he realises we aren't going to be able to offer him a deal at his wages in League Two so he is as much playing for his own skin and to put himself in shop window as owt else. Good on him though. Last few games he has been difference.
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Rowe was absolutely outstanding, would be great to have him permanent, once or twice today when we looked a little hesitant or vulnerable as in previous games this season he weighed with a challenge. Excellent performance, along with Butler for me. Calder needs to learn when to pass the ball, time & again there was an easy out ball but he insisted on trying to beat two or three around him & losing possession.
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I love him.
Calder is meh. Tries to beat a man every time and ends up losing it.
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Rowe was awesome
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Calder was solid enough. As Al said, did a lot of the closing down and harrying that led to us getting the ball back in their half. I thought he had a good game.
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Rowe
Work rate, effort, skill and all round performance was outstanding. EASILY the simplest choice for MOTM for some time.
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Works well with Luke in there. It allows Rowe to play. It's a shame we likely will go down.
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First few games he played I never realised he was even playing until late on in the game or getting subbed off. Today and last couple of games he has been quality!, works well with Luke too!
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He's been quality in all games he's played in, not just the last few. Shame we wont keep him if we go down.
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Calder was solid enough. As Al said, did a lot of the closing down and harrying that led to us getting the ball back in their half. I thought he had a good game.
Has he got a second gear though ?
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You can see why he's been captain previously under Ferguson. Leads by example and is a good football.
Has a look of McIndoe about him and we know what a talisman he turned out to be.
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Rowe MOTM. Butler was excellent (Coventry almost made him look World class!) And I'm with Filo: thought Calder was very poor
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Leads by example and is a good football.
Aye, he gets a good kicking.
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Rowe MOTM. Butler was excellent (Coventry almost made him look World class!) And I'm with Filo: thought Calder was very poor
Calder put some fantastic crosses in in the first half.
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calder nearly score in the first half with a cracking shot, do agree he tries to do to much instead of looking for the pass when getting closed down but only young
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Thought Williams had a great game. Class act.
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Agreed that Tommy Rowe was MOM.
I really enjoyed watching him today. I saw a crazy combination of the skills of Brian Stock and the grit and tackling ability of Alan Little!
An exemplary midfield performance from Rowe, who has grown into his role over the last few games.
Can we keep him?
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Thought Williams had a great game. Class act.
Really?? Ok, fair enough
Personally, I thought apart from the goal he was very ordinary. His hold up play is none existent and he has a touch like the proverbial donkey. He scored, but could he really have missed from there?? Well, yes obviously, because he has done on numerous occasions.
I thought Tyson made a huge difference when he came on. He closed down well, he's quick, holds it up well and is a constant menace to the opposition. Just shows how differently we see things
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Williams did well today. We got from him what has been missing on occasions....he worked hard, tracked back, tried to regain the ball when he lost it.
And that was a good header for the goal.
Well done Andy.
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Tommy Rowe was brilliant today. Even when he got a knock on the head and was dizzy, he was dominant, and like a whirlpool it never ended.
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''One man's rubbish is anothers treasure'', The Wolves lot don't rate Rowe at all !. I have always thought our support on the whole loves a trier, but don't trust somebody with talent as much. Our fans are like the Alf Ramsey/Don Revie of fans. Put a Rodney Marsh type in the team and it's 'He doesn't track back'!.
I know we have had nobody of that quality, but Cotterill comes to mind, week after week he produced the assist to win the game, and week after week he got stick!.
Now Rowe is no plodder, he is a bit more than just grit, but our fans identify with that sort of player. Who covers every blade of grass, might leave his foot in here and there on a late challenge, someone with 'Northern grit'!.
Since he has joined us he has given us grit, determination, extra ability, that bloody minded will to win that we missed, he is captain material!.
Everybody looks for different in players, being an ex winger and striker i look more to McSheffrey etc. I think sometimes as fans we need to realise that football is a bit like baking, if all the ingredients aren't right, it won't taste nice!.
Building a good team needs a mix of everything, and it seems just as the manager has found the 'right ingredients', it's touch and go whether it's left us enough time!.
We don't need a team of all plodders or a team of players with just ability. As good as Sean's team was at times, even he got the balance wrong, where we had too much ability, and not enough who did the ugly stuff well!.
The good thing is those promising signs i wanted to see from how Ferguson was going to improve things, i see them coming together. That makes me start going towards it being right for him to be able to build a squad for next season.
I haven't been convinced by him overall. It's not just the wins, the team spirit has been repaired.
You can tell that just watching them on the field. They look more organised and of course the main thing they are winning games!. I don't want to be cynical and think this upsurge is players trying to get another contract or trying to impress other clubs.
My thoughts are that there were differences in the dressing room, they have been sorted out. The confidence was an issue the wins have sorted that out!. And while the players image to the fans hasen't been fully repaired, our fans can accept that if we do go down, we are going down fighting, not meakly stepping aside!.
Some people work all week and the game is there pleasure or luxury in life. Others battle illness and it gives them a distraction from pain for a couple of hours, football is much more than a game to the average fan!.
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Tommy Rowe was brilliant today. Even when he got a knock on the head and was dizzy, he was dominant, and like a whirlpool it never ended.
Like what you did there.
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Lo and behold it turns out that signing lots of teenage Premier Leage players with little or no professional games under their belt was not the optimum way to conduct a relegation scrap.
Hardly a surprise that solid and experienced professionals like Rowe and McSheffrey have added to our recent recovery.
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In my opinion his was the best individual performance I've seen since Greeny away at Huddersfield in 2008. Although Wellens at home to QPR a couple of years ago was pretty close.
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Rowe was superb yesterday and the kind of all-action attacking midfielder that we've lacked since Syers left.
he was a deriving MOM but honourable mentions should go yesterday to Butler. who won absolutely everything, and McCullough who does simple things in midfield really well and is growing with every performance.
Only Lund was really off the pace yesterday and he really needs to learn not to sell himself so cheaply.
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Best individual display by someone in a Rovers shirt since Harry Forrester on Boxing Day 2014, funnily enough against Coventry. They had no answer to him, fouled him no end of times and ended the game with 9 men. Won that game 2-0 too, and it was also over at half time.
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Rowe was superb yesterday and the kind of all-action attacking midfielder that we've lacked since Syers left.
he was a deriving MOM but honourable mentions should go yesterday to Butler. who won absolutely everything, and McCullough who does simple things in midfield really well and is growing with every performance.
Only Lund was really off the pace yesterday and he really needs to learn not to sell himself so cheaply.
Lund desperately needs "RESTING"
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I agree, Lund was getting done for fun again yesterday, by far the one weak link in yesterday's lineup. I can't help wondering though just how good/poor is the coaching our players are receiving, we've talked countless times how new players come in and look good for a game or two and then become average at best.
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On the highlights his movement off the ball was non-existent. He was strolling with no urgency.
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Lund just ins't good enough right now, looked shit scared also.
Rowe was exceptional and has been good in most games imo. Not only is he a good player he is a leader, he was constantly giving out instructions and was telling Calder what to do a lot of the time.
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What annoys me is Lunds tendency to dive/slide in. Good defenders should leave their feet ten times a season not twice a game.
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Lund seems to get better as the game goes on
Often early on he gets turned inside out however he was left a bit exposed on Saturday early on with no cover from midfield
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Tommy Rowe was brilliant today. Even when he got a knock on the head and was dizzy, he was dominant, and like a whirlpool it never ended.
Like what you did there.
DUUUUH .... eventually I got there too ! Definitely one for the older generation !
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Just for the young'ens......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2DLMVxg02Q
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He had a couple more singles about 7 years earlier. I bought Sheila, and he followed it up with the Folk Singer.
More useless information.
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Tommy Rowe was brilliant today. Even when he got a knock on the head and was dizzy, he was dominant, and like a whirlpool it never ended.
Like what you did there.
DUUUUH .... eventually I got there too ! Definitely one for the older generation !
I was saying on Saturday that Dizzy should be his Rovers song.
By the way, I asked last week and no one answered so I will ask again, why have the Black Bank lads split into two groups?
They seem to be trying to outdo each other and as a consequence the singing is not as loud.
There is even a new drummer.
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http://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=257231.30
Penultimate post.
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Back to Roe, I noticed at set pieces, he seemed to be calling the shots. We've see him attack the ball like no other midfielder (or forward) we've had for sometime. Add this to Butlers efforts to get on the end of things it's not surprising we're getting more success.
This man seems to be leading by example to rescue our season. Wouldn't be surprised if a contract is on the line and he appears to want it.
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He should be the captain, it doesn't suit Coppinger, this guy is the leader we have been looking for in midfield. It will be ideal for his career to stay with us, he is valued and wanted at the club, and will play regular if he maintains the same standards!.
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if we stay up he will join first i would guess
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He has one really good game and people want to give him a knighthood!!
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I'd like to see Rowe and Conor Grant in the same team.
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He has one really good game and people want to give him a knighthood!!
True. He was outstanding on Saturday but how often have we had a player perform really well on loan and then disappoint when signed permanently?
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Ferguson said when we signed him on loan the plan was to sign him in the summer but our situation forced us to bring him in earlier.