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Title: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: ravenrover on March 02, 2024, 02:10:57 pm
Team
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: adamtherover on March 02, 2024, 02:26:28 pm
No Molly?
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Post by: anton123 on March 02, 2024, 02:33:18 pm
Looks a strong side that
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Post by: steve@dcfd on March 02, 2024, 02:34:01 pm
Injured or ill?
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Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 02:37:40 pm
Brilliant to have Zain back!
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Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on March 02, 2024, 02:45:49 pm
No news about the reason for his absence as far as I can see.

This will be interesting to see how we play without him, as he normally sees plenty of the ball and gives the opposition plenty to think about. He's normally decent covering back when he needs to.

A great chance for Hurst then to step up after his decent cameos in recent games.

There's good back up from the bench with Westbrook back and Mad Max ready to pounce.

I hope conditions allow us to get the ball down and play, otherwise it becomes a bit of a lottery.

COYR
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Post by: Barmby Rover on March 02, 2024, 02:52:17 pm
60 mins Adelakun off (allow slow recovery from dead leg) Biamou on to make an impact?
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Post by: Colin C No.3 on March 02, 2024, 02:55:01 pm
Should have recovered from dead leg after a week.
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 02:57:37 pm
60 mins Adelakun off (allow slow recovery from dead leg) Biamou on to make an impact?

I don't think that would work if Max is slow (i don't know if he is but he has been likened to Joe, who is slow) so it might not be a good idea to have both Max and Joe on the pitch together.
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 02:57:57 pm
Come on Donny !!
Rovers fans in good voice.
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Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 03:02:03 pm
60 mins Adelakun off (allow slow recovery from dead leg) Biamou on to make an impact?

I don't think that would work if Max is slow (i don't know if he is but he has been likened to Joe, who is slow) so it might not be a good idea to have both Max and Joe on the pitch together.

Grant said Max is pretty quick but he is definitely not a wide player
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 03:03:15 pm
60 mins Adelakun off (allow slow recovery from dead leg) Biamou on to make an impact?

I don't think that would work if Max is slow (i don't know if he is but he has been likened to Joe, who is slow) so it might not be a good idea to have both Max and Joe on the pitch together.

Grant said Max is pretty quick but he is definitely not a wide player

I hadn't heard that matey. Thanks for the info.
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Post by: Bollinger on March 02, 2024, 03:11:23 pm
Grimsby one up…
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 03:13:59 pm
BBC suggesting a quiet start to our game.
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 03:21:40 pm
1 down. Anyone elses video feed keep freezing?
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Post by: i_ateallthepies on March 02, 2024, 03:21:52 pm
Shit.  1-0 Walsall.
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Post by: Padge_DRFC on March 02, 2024, 03:25:12 pm
1 down. Anyone elses video feed keep freezing?

Yes really bad isn't it
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Post by: Scooter on March 02, 2024, 03:25:49 pm
1 down. Anyone elses video feed keep freezing?

Yeah. I thought it was just me. Good job I haven’t put my foot through the tv
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: jmt23 on March 02, 2024, 03:27:59 pm
It’s there equipment - a complaint needs raising
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Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on March 02, 2024, 03:28:34 pm
From DFP

Walsall got a cross in down the left and Gordon ghosted in to nod home a powerful header that gave TLT no chance.
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 03:29:42 pm
Nearly an og from Anderson
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Post by: Padge_DRFC on March 02, 2024, 03:30:44 pm
The freezing was that bad I didn't see their goal. Shambles
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Post by: Drover on March 02, 2024, 03:30:55 pm
Anderson!!!!!!
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Post by: Barmby Rover on March 02, 2024, 03:33:10 pm
Rovers incapable of moving it out beyond the back 4 without losing the ball, we are in trouble here.
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Post by: PDX_Rover on March 02, 2024, 03:33:45 pm
This ref’s letting some late challenges go unpunished. Bad one on Craig early doors then one of our lads got cleaned out on the far side after the ball had gone.

Long way to go.
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Post by: Scooter on March 02, 2024, 03:34:17 pm
The freezing was that bad I didn't see their goal. Shambles

Same
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 03:37:33 pm
Don’t think we have had an effort on goal yet
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 03:39:47 pm
Don’t think we have had an effort on goal yet

i think they have only had one.
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Post by: Wiltshire Exile on March 02, 2024, 03:40:06 pm
BBC possession stats: Walsall 39%, Rovers 61%
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Post by: goalkick on March 02, 2024, 03:40:43 pm
They seem to be dictating the game at the moment. We have not had a shot yet.
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 03:41:13 pm
Biggins header is saved by the keeper.
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Post by: PDX_Rover on March 02, 2024, 03:41:23 pm
Coming alive finally
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 03:41:39 pm
We’ve been extremely sloppy in midfield. Giving the ball away most of the time.
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Post by: drfcsteve on March 02, 2024, 03:42:23 pm
Is Westbrooke fit enough to play the second half?
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Post by: Barmby Rover on March 02, 2024, 03:42:53 pm
Rovers beginning to get a bit more in midfield now, slow wearing down.
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 03:43:49 pm
That effort on goal looked over the line to me
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Post by: i_ateallthepies on March 02, 2024, 03:44:13 pm
Goalmouth scramble Rovers couldn't get it across the line.
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Post by: Canadian Rover on March 02, 2024, 03:44:17 pm
Looked like a goal!
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 03:44:46 pm
A shot from Bailey saved.
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on March 02, 2024, 03:45:11 pm
Much better last 10 minutes
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Post by: dickos1 on March 02, 2024, 03:46:06 pm
How have we not scored there
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Post by: Canadian Rover on March 02, 2024, 03:47:03 pm
It didn't cross the line - good decision from the ref/lino
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Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 03:48:25 pm
Salford losing
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Post by: jmt23 on March 02, 2024, 03:50:09 pm
Definitely looked over the line. Does anyone have the Walsall ifollow comms team contact details, this service is shocking.
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Post by: PDX_Rover on March 02, 2024, 03:51:07 pm
No wasn’t over the line as far as I could tell but hard to be sure. This video freezing is fecking annoying. Officials are pretty poor. Not giving Rovers what seem clear fouls, and blowing for soft fouls the other way.
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Post by: steve@dcfd on March 02, 2024, 03:51:33 pm
According to BBC we’ve had 4 shots all on target
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Post by: Filo on March 02, 2024, 03:56:47 pm
Definitely looked over the line. Does anyone have the Walsall ifollow comms team contact details, this service is shocking.

Given the law is you can not watch live on a Saturday afternoon in the UK, I think you may be wasting your time
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Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 04:02:24 pm
Sounds like Hurst is struggling to get involved must have only heard his name 3 times?
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Post by: normal rules on March 02, 2024, 04:03:10 pm
Rovers 67% possession
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 04:03:58 pm
Missing the sort of contribution that Molly makes during that first half.
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Post by: Colin C No.3 on March 02, 2024, 04:04:38 pm
Goal was down to Sterry losing possession.
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Post by: PDX_Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:05:04 pm
Yeah. Definitely missed Molly as an outlet on the right.
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:08:07 pm
Missing the sort of contribution that Molly makes during that first half.

Does anyone know yet why he is absent.
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Post by: adamtherover on March 02, 2024, 04:09:28 pm
1 down. Anyone elses video feed keep freezing?
I thought the ifollow video feed on a satdi afternoon ended after COVID, have I missed something?
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:11:00 pm
Might be watching from one of those dodgy boxes Adam.
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Post by: ravenrover on March 02, 2024, 04:11:56 pm
I'm guessing VPNs are in use
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Post by: Welling Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:14:21 pm
Could be viewing from overseas
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Post by: Barmby Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:16:13 pm
Sounds like Hurst is struggling to get involved must have only heard his name 3 times?

Watching on Sky bet too, Adelakun hardly mentioned either, our midfield is struggling to get a grip to feed them. Walsall are playing well.
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Post by: Scooter on March 02, 2024, 04:16:53 pm
Faal is on
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:17:43 pm
We are having a lot of the ball right now.
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Post by: normal rules on March 02, 2024, 04:18:47 pm
71% now. Come on rovers
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Post by: Barmby Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:21:27 pm
Brilliant!!!!
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 04:21:49 pm
Yessssss
Hurst
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Post by: i_ateallthepies on March 02, 2024, 04:21:53 pm
Get in!!! Hurst 1-1
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 04:21:58 pm
Sounds like Hurst is struggling to get involved must have only heard his name 3 times?

There he is!!! always a good finisher
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:23:44 pm
Assist by Sterry.
COYR
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: normal rules on March 02, 2024, 04:23:56 pm
All the possession . It had to come . Keep it up rovers . There is a win here
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Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 04:25:06 pm
Salford 0-2 down and now Swindon also losing
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Post by: Wiltshire Exile on March 02, 2024, 04:25:53 pm
We are going to extend our unbeaten to six…here’s hoping, UTR!
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Post by: dknward2 on March 02, 2024, 04:27:03 pm
Ffs
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 04:27:18 pm
2-1
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on March 02, 2024, 04:27:56 pm
Surely a foul on the keeper before the corner?
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Post by: ForsolongaRover on March 02, 2024, 04:28:15 pm
Sounds like we’re getting nothing out of this ref!
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Post by: normal rules on March 02, 2024, 04:29:13 pm
f**k
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 04:29:36 pm
Surely a foul on the keeper before the corner?
Yes. The fef has given us nothing today.
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:29:54 pm
Sounds like we’re getting nothing out of this ref!

It seems to happen quite a lot.
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Post by: nice one rovers on March 02, 2024, 04:30:30 pm
Scorers, Gordon, Earing. Anyone else think of Radar Love?
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Post by: deebee on March 02, 2024, 04:31:19 pm
The stats say different, 7 fouls against us and 6 against them
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Post by: PDX_Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:31:49 pm
Looked like a foul of Tim, and a shot that went through a crowd of players and could have gone anywhere… Officials definitely not giving us anything really.

Great cross by Sterry and volley by Hurst.

Wallsall players fall over easily. Ref buys it every time.


Still in this one.

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Post by: Dutch Uncle on March 02, 2024, 04:31:54 pm
Sounds like we’re getting nothing out of this ref!

It seems to happen quite a lot.

We have got a couple of bookings to their none  :mad:
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:32:17 pm
Scorers, Gordon, Earing. Anyone else think of Radar Love?

Here's hoping we can turn tables on Walsall.
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Post by: Wiltshire Exile on March 02, 2024, 04:33:34 pm
We are going to extend our unbeaten to six…here’s hoping, UTR!

I shouldn’t have posted this!   :headbang:
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Post by: Thorney on March 02, 2024, 04:34:05 pm
2 corners in a row there that the ball fell to a walsall player on the 18 yard line without a challenge in sight.

Criminal to allow that to happen, do we not put a player or 2 on the edge of the box to stop this from happening
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:34:50 pm
We are going to extend our unbeaten to six…here’s hoping, UTR!

I shouldn’t have posted this!   :headbang:

Correct, i winced when i read it.
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: dknward2 on March 02, 2024, 04:36:15 pm
Was typing out if we can find a winner then got the notification through so quickly deleted it
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Post by: nice one rovers on March 02, 2024, 04:36:46 pm
Scorers, Gordon, Earing. Anyone else think of Radar Love?

Here's hoping we can turn tables on Walsall.
Oh yes. Big style-us.
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Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 04:39:14 pm
Drink every time Liam Hoden says someone did something “ever so well”
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Post by: Barmby Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:40:14 pm
Game over. Pulling 2 back will be too difficult.
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 04:40:42 pm
Well, that was inevitable
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Post by: normal rules on March 02, 2024, 04:40:49 pm
Inevitable
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Post by: adamtherover on March 02, 2024, 04:40:57 pm
Ffs
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on March 02, 2024, 04:41:06 pm
Sounds like not a deserved scoreline 
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Post by: Barmby Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:41:55 pm
Always a problem if you're chasing the game, worth the risk.
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Post by: Canadian Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:42:26 pm
Couldn't have made it easier for him!
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Post by: PDX_Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:42:35 pm
Keeper should have claimed that I felt. f**king Faal… Well. Let’s see what Max can do.
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Post by: bpoolrover on March 02, 2024, 04:42:41 pm
Back to shit defending again
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Post by: ScillyRover on March 02, 2024, 04:44:06 pm
We’ve been poor defending set pieces. Every time they have a corner it looks threatening and we don’t deal with it anywhere near well enough.
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Post by: dknward2 on March 02, 2024, 04:44:34 pm
And playoff hopes over now concentrate on finishing as high as possible
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Post by: Scooter on March 02, 2024, 04:44:57 pm
Unmarked at the near post. That’s poor
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:45:04 pm
It was written in the stars that Faal would score today.
We were chasing the game i guess so it is always likely that we might concede in that situation.
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Post by: PDX_Rover on March 02, 2024, 04:45:17 pm
Christ this ref is poor.
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Post by: bpoolrover on March 02, 2024, 04:45:23 pm
And playoff hopes over now concentrate on finishing as high as possible
we have improved but realistically are way off challenging for the play offs
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Post by: scawsby steve on March 02, 2024, 04:45:34 pm
It had to be Faal. Stitched on.

I'm not at the game, but it sounds like TLT has had a poor game.
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:46:15 pm
And playoff hopes over now concentrate on finishing as high as possible
we have improved but realistically are way off challenging for the play offs

Our play off chances were gone quite a while ago.
Top half still possible though.
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: Scooter on March 02, 2024, 04:47:20 pm
TLT has done ok today. Did well earlier in a 1 on 1 when a Walsall player was clean through
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Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 04:47:26 pm
Has Wood struggled today or something ?
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Post by: drfchound on March 02, 2024, 04:48:37 pm
Next weeks opponents, Crewe, now 3-2 down at home after leading 2-0.
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Post by: goalkick on March 02, 2024, 04:50:45 pm
Oluwu comes on as sub and gets a card.
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Post by: dickos1 on March 02, 2024, 04:51:18 pm
And playoff hopes over now concentrate on finishing as high as possible
we have improved but realistically are way off challenging for the play offs

Of course we are, we’re 12 points off.
But we’ve looked as good as these today, probably the best side in the division at the minute
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Post by: scawsby steve on March 02, 2024, 04:51:38 pm
TLT has done ok today. Did well earlier in a 1 on 1 when a Walsall player was clean through

It just sounds like he hasn't dealt with the crosses for the last 2 goals.

If it was Louis, he'd be getting slaughtered on here.
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Post by: Dutch Uncle on March 02, 2024, 04:51:43 pm
Now 5-0 in bookings  :mad:
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Post by: ForsolongaRover on March 02, 2024, 04:51:51 pm
Are the subs making much of an impression?
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Post by: Wiltshire Exile on March 02, 2024, 04:52:23 pm
Possession now 72%, and losing 3-1.  :(
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Post by: ForsolongaRover on March 02, 2024, 04:57:06 pm
PA announcer quotes attendance without the normal reference to the number of away fans. Arrogant!
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Post by: bpoolrover on March 02, 2024, 05:03:12 pm
TLT has done ok today. Did well earlier in a 1 on 1 when a Walsall player was clean through

It just sounds like he hasn't dealt with the crosses for the last 2 goals.

If it was Louis, he'd be getting slaughtered on here.
in fairness he has been far better than jones since he came in, i like jones but if we want to challange next season we need better
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: PDX_Rover on March 02, 2024, 05:03:40 pm
This was one of those games that could have gone either way IMO. Ref set his stall out early by letting some late and/or bad challenges go unnoticed.

Soft goals to concede when you look back.

Move on from it.
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: EasyforDennis on March 02, 2024, 05:06:56 pm
I know Sterry made a great cross for our goal but defensively both full backs were poor today.
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Post by: Thorney on March 02, 2024, 05:30:48 pm
Oluwu comes on as sub and gets a card.

It was on faal. Posdible meant to do it
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: ncRover on March 02, 2024, 05:39:59 pm
Next weeks opponents, Crewe, now 3-2 down at home after leading 2-0.

Not sure how Morecambe do it. Team full of kids and mercenaries.

Hiwula assist too.
Title: Re: Walsall v Rovers
Post by: Thorney on March 02, 2024, 06:03:53 pm
Next weeks opponents, Crewe, now 3-2 down at home after leading 2-0.

Crewe was the only team to let me down on a accumalator for £220. Sickner   :(