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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: selby on January 29, 2025, 11:35:03 pm
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Back at home where we have struggled to be consistent in games but after a good win at Barrow that has given us nine points from three wins on the trot, we play a team who have always made it hard for us, but now look to be slipping back from where they were a couple of seasons ago.
They themselves won Tuesday night somewhat fortunately against Harrogate 2-1 with a goal by Gilby in the 93rd minute. In the same game Newcastle United loanee White scored their first goal and will need watching.
Tonight at Barrow I thought that we were consistent in the game, showing we were threatening throughout the game and apart from just a few moments had control in defence.
We manged also on a heavy pitch to rotate a good number of players on a heavy pitch which with a day less recovery than the Dons could be important come the weekend, now we need to show better playing form at home, and the togetherness shown by the players at the end of the game at Barrow can only stand us in good stead.
So since the The Hull game three league wins on the trot in a mixed bag of performances to get the results, carrying some luck in a couple of games interspersed with good play and taking chances, but a gradual improvement and confidence.
Can we keep the run of wins going?
What team will we field? it's getting more complicated as we find form and the changes we make in games.
Can we win and give a performance in a home game?
And a point of interest, how good has Olowu become?
Lot's to discuss, lots to talk about, please have your say.
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Not especially good away form and quite leaky. Only four sides have conceded more than them away from home in the league this season. On a poor run of form generally, only two wins in ten in the league. They’ve scored in their last eight consecutive away league games though, so we may end up conceding here.
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It is important we build on the Harrogate result and build confidence in our home form results, both on the playing side and the home crowd supporters.
Promotion seasons and attracting young supporters are traditionally when youngsters are captured by success on the field and the atmosphere in the ground and the excitement generated by the action on the field of play.
Its a generation thing the old fogeys in the West Stand now derided by some for lack of action and noise are in a lot of cases the ones that threw toilet rolls, walked around the ground to be behind the goal at each end in games ran the gauntlet of abuse and fighting the oppositions fans and were escorted everywhere by police who actually dished it out and didn't quote from a woke bible. Its serving your time getting old is no fun, but we need to attract the youngsters and them serve their time.
Winning games is the easiest way, the Black bank is getting there with a noticeable increase in numbers and noise, just what we want.
But when on here some criticize the old fogeys on the West, think this, they served their time on the cops at grounds standing on ice on the terraces and snow out in the open rain hail or snow, giving it large, its now your turn to serve your time and make the noise and encourage others to support this great club of ours, and move over to the West as you get older, and take the grand kids while they are old enough to progress to the Black Bank and make some noise.
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Without the old fogeys of yesteryear there wouldn’t be a club today.
We might get old but we don’t lose the passion for our club.
Clubs need a mixture of all ages to be successful and fans need to remember sometimes you are at the top and sometimes at the bottom. Enjoy the highs and ride out the lows.
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I thought we played at a much higher tempo than we have last night which was good to see Ennis was far more involved and Crew looked to be dictating the play, allowing Bailey to get more forward. Only changing one player to the starting lineup I believe also contributed to an improved performance. More of the same Saturday against a less physical side.
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Hate to say it but through gritted teeth, well said Selby. As one of those old fogeys in the West I have to agree with your comment, we've served our time, not forgetting travelling to away games with the road networks in the 60's was something else. Motorways?, they were still thinking about most of them Let's leave it to the younger fans to make the noise while we just enjoy ( not all the time I hasten to add) watching our team now
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I well remember setting off for games at Swansea, Torquay and Gillingham form Waterdale at 11pm on a Friday night. Sleeping on the bus and being turfed off at 8am and told that the bus would be seeing off back at midnight. A long trip home after a defeat. 0-6 at Swansea, 1-3 at Gillingham, both in relegation seasons and a 0-0 at Torquay in our promotion season in 1966.
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Yes idler, me and my wife would travel to the likes of Exeter and Torquay for a night game and then be at work at 8 the next morning, ah good old days.
We will now be considered by some to be old fogeys in the south stand, and whilst we don’t sing to much, we always join in with the clapping.
When the black bank start with the likes of GM red white army, I often look across to the west stand and no one joins in!
So why don’t any in the west make an effort to join in for this game, never know you may enjoy it!
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I see that they lost a recent signing to injury against Harrogate - Nathan Thompson - who could be out for a long spell. They are looking to sign a chap from St Johnstone - Jack Sanders - but unknown if he will be signed in time or available.
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Yes idler, me and my wife would travel to the likes of Exeter and Torquay for a night game and then be at work at 8 the next morning, ah good old days.
We will now be considered by some to be old fogeys in the south stand, and whilst we don’t sing to much, we always join in with the clapping.
When the black bank start with the likes of GM red white army, I often look across to the west stand and no one joins in!
So why don’t any in the west make an effort to join in for this game, never know you may enjoy it!
‘Some’ of us in the West Stand still manage an odd chant or two IN even though we know we’re not going to ‘compete’ ever with the ‘joint noise’ coming out of the Black Back in full voice & my spoons will never compete with that drum!
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I also join in occasionally. My voice and stamina aren’t what they were though.
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Got my ticket for the west stand, first game this season at the eco.
Really looking forward to it
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I tend to make very little noise these days other than the odd bit of chuntering to myself when I see missed headers that Laurie Sheffield would have buried and wayward shots that Alick Jeffrey would have put away with ease, busting the net in the process back in the day.
I even clap with my gloves on.
Welcome to the West stand!
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At what I age do I apply to transfer from the south stand ?
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It's not so much a matter of age, but more one's football knowledge as to whether they will be welcomed to the West Stand fold.
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Anyone remember "We follow them all over on a Yorkshire Traction bus"?
The next line dates it - "We follow them to Torquay, Bournemouth Brighton too"....
Not that Yorkshire Traction doesn't date it!
RTID
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"Wherever you're playing Ro-o-vers we'll always follow you!"
Yes, I remember, Scawsby Steve taught me the words back in the days when he used to push me to games in my pram after he'd been to the over-60's club.
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Philski, stay where you are as long as you can, your a long time an old man, enjoy thinking your young as long as you can.
Keep the noise coming and leave the grumbling to us old fogeys, bur bear in mind, we really do know better (Ahem), or like to think so, it's part of what keeps us going, going home and the old lady used to over fifty years of heart ache saying what was it like today? have you enjoyed it ? " No rubbish what's for tea"?
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Ah the good old days eh? I remember the late great Johnny Barker having a go at me for going a bit too crazy when we scored at Barnsley.
Nowadays I sit quietly (apart from the odd ‘Come on Rovers’) in the East stand, and stir myself to applaud a good pass, might get up if we score.
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Anyone remember "We follow them all over on a Yorkshire Traction bus"?
The next line dates it - "We follow them to Torquay, Bournemouth Brighton too"....
Not that Yorkshire Traction doesn't date it!
RTID
I also remember that song Rich.
As a 14/15 year old lad in the sixties, me and mate began hitch hiking to away games and twice when thumbing it, (in our Rovers scarves), we were picked up by YT buses on the way to the same place as we were aiming for.
Another time, we had hitched all the way to Torquay, no M5 back then of course, and finally arrived there after 11 lifts.
We had set off on the Thursday from Thorne and arrived in Torquay at 11ish on the Friday morning, a day and a few hours before the match.
Saturday came and we saw two YT coaches coming along the sea front road.
We knew many of the lads who turned up and one of the bus drivers came to the match with us.
He asked how we were getting home and after we told him we were going to hitch hike he offered us a ride all the way home on his bus, as long as no one objected.
No one objected so we all set off and I got home at 9am on Sunday.
To cap off a great few days I played Sunday League football for Thorne Youth Club at half past ten and scored two goals in a 3-0 win.
Happy days, never to be forgotten.
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This is turning into a "The Four Yorkshiremen' sketch ..... "In my day..."
https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k
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Who'd a' thought 40 years ago we'd be sitting here talking football to a bloody machine in our living rooms?
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Not especially good away form and quite leaky. Only four sides have conceded more than them away from home in the league this season. On a poor run of form generally, only two wins in ten in the league. They’ve scored in their last eight consecutive away league games though, so we may end up conceding here.
The other fact worth noting is that since they stole their club we have played them eight times at home and we are yet to lose - four wins and four draws. They’ve never actually managed to score more than one goal in any home game against us.
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Anyone remember "We follow them all over on a Yorkshire Traction bus"?
The next line dates it - "We follow them to Torquay, Bournemouth Brighton too"....
Not that Yorkshire Traction doesn't date it!
RTID
I also remember that song Rich.
As a 14/15 year old lad in the sixties, me and mate began hitch hiking to away games and twice when thumbing it, (in our Rovers scarves), we were picked up by YT buses on the way to the same place as we were aiming for.
Another time, we had hitched all the way to Torquay, no M5 back then of course, and finally arrived there after 11 lifts.
We had set off on the Thursday from Thorne and arrived in Torquay at 11ish on the Friday morning, a day and a few hours before the match.
Saturday came and we saw two YT coaches coming along the sea front road.
We knew many of the lads who turned up and one of the bus drivers came to the match with us.
He asked how we were getting home and after we told him we were going to hitch hike he offered us a ride all the way home on his bus, as long as no one objected.
No one objected so we all set off and I got home at 9am on Sunday.
To cap off a great few days I played Sunday League football for Thorne Youth Club at half past ten and scored two goals in a 3-0 win.
Happy days, never to be forgotten.
Was that the August Bank holiday Torquay game Hound?
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I’d have slightly more respect for the Milton Keynes club if they got rid of the ‘Dons’ bit of their name. It’s meaningless to them but means a lot to the heritage of AFC Wimbledon and its fans, not to mention our own ‘Dons’ of course, and Aberdeen! I say this on here every time we play them, sorry.
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Anyone remember "We follow them all over on a Yorkshire Traction bus"?
The next line dates it - "We follow them to Torquay, Bournemouth Brighton too"....
Not that Yorkshire Traction doesn't date it!
RTID
I also remember that song Rich.
As a 14/15 year old lad in the sixties, me and mate began hitch hiking to away games and twice when thumbing it, (in our Rovers scarves), we were picked up by YT buses on the way to the same place as we were aiming for.
Another time, we had hitched all the way to Torquay, no M5 back then of course, and finally arrived there after 11 lifts.
We had set off on the Thursday from Thorne and arrived in Torquay at 11ish on the Friday morning, a day and a few hours before the match.
Saturday came and we saw two YT coaches coming along the sea front road.
We knew many of the lads who turned up and one of the bus drivers came to the match with us.
He asked how we were getting home and after we told him we were going to hitch hike he offered us a ride all the way home on his bus, as long as no one objected.
No one objected so we all set off and I got home at 9am on Sunday.
To cap off a great few days I played Sunday League football for Thorne Youth Club at half past ten and scored two goals in a 3-0 win.
Happy days, never to be forgotten.
Was that the August Bank holiday Torquay game Hound?
It was Raven, yes.
It was definitely during school holidays.
Were you there.
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You were in our seats!!
At the drop off Arthur said pick up same place, Pick up got changed unbeknown to us me my girlfriend and her brother. Arriving at the original pick up we hung around a while and decided to walk back into Torquay , not long after along came the bus. It stopped and we got on. As you said people had been picked up and were asked by the big lads to vacate the seats seeing as we were the paying customer, was that you?
There was ar least one spare seat as The Vicar didn't make the journey back, a large bunch of bananas and the boys in blue wete involved
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2-0.
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Ironside worked hard and was tidy on the ball against Barrow but I wonder if Rob Street’s athleticism might be useful in pressing / counterattacking against a possession based team.
We haven’t seen him play centre forward yet, despite that being his main position throughout his career.
Grant will know best though. He did the double over Scott Lindsey’s Crawley side last year. The full squad will need to be used for 6 games in the next 3 and a half weeks.
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I'd go the same side as Barrow. Maybe Street in for Ennis if we want to stretch them a bit more, but didn't think Ennis did much wrong on Wednesday. Other than that I thought we looked better so I'd try and build a bit of consistency now, too much chopping and changing can't be helping - on 'the run' last year it felt like we'd found a formula and stuck to it, up til now this season I'd struggle to guess five or six of the starters every week. Got to find that core again.
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I'd go the same side as Barrow. Maybe Street in for Ennis if we want to stretch them a bit more, but didn't think Ennis did much wrong on Wednesday. Other than that I thought we looked better so I'd try and build a bit of consistency now, too much chopping and changing can't be helping - on 'the run' last year it felt like we'd found a formula and stuck to it, up til now this season I'd struggle to guess five or six of the starters every week. Got to find that core again.
While he hasn’t particularly caught the eye yet, I think Ennis adds good balance to the attack and will grow in to it.
He’s quicker and more direct than Gibson but physically stronger than Hurst.
Why we didn’t sign someone of his profile permanently in the summer, I do not know.
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Ironside worked hard and was tidy on the ball against Barrow but I wonder if Rob Street’s athleticism might be useful in pressing / counterattacking against a possession based team.
We haven’t seen him play centre forward yet, despite that being his main position throughout his career.
Grant will know best though. He did the double over Scott Lindsey’s Crawley side last year. The full squad will need to be used for 6 games in the next 3 and a half weeks.
we are a far superior side when Joe plays. It’s plain to see. Yes his goal return isn’t what it could be but our play needs a striker like him. He helps us get up the pitch.
He should be one of the first names on the team sheet for the rest of the season for me. So underrated.
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I presume you mean Ironside and not Olowu. Definitely the last on the list for me, and then only if he wins the toss against Billy. Only good for getting offside and having a wrestle with a centre half, which he loses and gives away a foul.
A great game to be had tomorrow, 3-0 for me!
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I’d have slightly more respect for the Milton Keynes club if they got rid of the ‘Dons’ bit of their name. It’s meaningless to them but means a lot to the heritage of AFC Wimbledon and its fans, not to mention our own ‘Dons’ of course, and Aberdeen! I say this on here every time we play them, sorry.
I used to get mildly annoyed when we played PNE and their local newspaper reporter invariably called Rovers “The Dons”.
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Trevor Kettles son is the referee, his last and only other game for us was the 1-0 defeat to Bromley.
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Whatever our record is with the Referee and MK Dons in the past, we need the three points and to back up our last home game win, and need to go for it.
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You were in our seats!!
At the drop off Arthur said pick up same place, Pick up got changed unbeknown to us me my girlfriend and her brother. Arriving at the original pick up we hung around a while and decided to walk back into Torquay , not long after along came the bus. It stopped and we got on. As you said people had been picked up and were asked by the big lads to vacate the seats seeing as we were the paying customer, was that you?
There was ar least one spare seat as The Vicar didn't make the journey back, a large bunch of bananas and the boys in blue wete involved
We were on the bus mate but not in the seats.
Because we were rough sleeping over Thursday and Friday night we had taken a sleeping bag each and as it was a night trip home we just got in the sleeping bags on the aisle floor and caught up with a bit of sleep. Most people slept on the way home so we were just grateful for the ride and weren’t bothered about a seat.
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I presume you mean Ironside and not Olowu. Definitely the last on the list for me, and then only if he wins the toss against Billy. Only good for getting offside and having a wrestle with a centre half, which he loses and gives away a foul.
A great game to be had tomorrow, 3-0 for me!
well I was replying to a post about Ironside….
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If I was Gibson looking at Street snd Ennis playing in front of me I’d be shaking my head. Street looks a grafter and has pace but he’s shown zero quality. You need creativity as a wide man, that’s not his game.
Ennis looks like a player but he’s green as grass and learning the trade with us. Gibson was the best winger in the league (along with Moly) a few months ago, and he only signed him 6 months ago. No need to replace him in January is there, unless he was wrong on both counts.
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Gaz, genuine question, have you watch the same team as me? Gibson has the potential quality sure but he could never beat the first man and opposition teams weren’t worried about him.
I’ve said on other threads was the reason Moly was so poor in nov/dec was due to the teams specifically targeting him putting two men on at all times. Gibson couldn’t provide a similar threat on the other side to take the pressure off hence the reason Ennis and street were signed.
It’s no wonder Moly is now scoring again as he they are now worrying about the other wing aswell.
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Gaz, genuine question, have you watch the same team as me? Gibson has the potential quality sure but he could never beat the first man and opposition teams weren’t worried about him.
I’ve said on other threads was the reason Moly was so poor in nov/dec was due to the teams specifically targeting him putting two men on at all times. Gibson couldn’t provide a similar threat on the other side to take the pressure off hence the reason Ennis and street were signed.
It’s no wonder Moly is now scoring again as he they are now worrying about the other wing aswell.
One of the reasons why Moly “runs into traffic” is because he almost invariably heads inwards where the defenders position themselves naturally rather than varying it by going on the outside.
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Gaz, genuine question, have you watch the same team as me? Gibson has the potential quality sure but he could never beat the first man and opposition teams weren’t worried about him.
I’ve said on other threads was the reason Moly was so poor in nov/dec was due to the teams specifically targeting him putting two men on at all times. Gibson couldn’t provide a similar threat on the other side to take the pressure off hence the reason Ennis and street were signed.
It’s no wonder Moly is now scoring again as he they are now worrying about the other wing aswell.
Moly, by his own and Grants admission, played poor in that period because his head had gone and he was feeling the pressure of getting stick. Nothing to do with Gibson!
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Just hit me.
I live in Tring, 20 miles from MK, so have a Hemel post code.
I should have gone to MK and got on one of their coaches
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Just hit me.
I live in Tring, 20 miles from MK, so have a Hemel post code.
I should have gone to MK and got on one of their coaches
You might not have been popular on the way home though, difficult to suppress a grin for that long a journey!
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Sbarra, Hurst, Nixon, Senior and Westbrooke not in squad today. Close out on loan. Wood injured. Seven senior players not involved at all. That's quite a lot of the wage bill not even turning up in their kit today.
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They’ve gone extremely attacking. They want to play perfect expansive football in league 2 despite not being very good.
4-2 Rovers and finally an entertaining Saturday afternoon home game for Scawsby Steve.
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They’ve gone extremely attacking. They want to play perfect expansive football in league 2 despite not being very good.
4-2 Rovers and finally an entertaining Saturday afternoon home game for Scawsby Steve.
They're so poor when pressed it's funny.
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Street has shown a bit of quality with that finish at least.
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A nice gap appearing between us and 8th place now
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Donny’s won four in a row . ( singing)
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Not especially good away form and quite leaky. Only four sides have conceded more than them away from home in the league this season. On a poor run of form generally, only two wins in ten in the league. They’ve scored in their last eight consecutive away league games though, so we may end up conceding here.
The other fact worth noting is that since they stole their club we have played them eight times at home and we are yet to lose - four wins and four draws. They’ve never actually managed to score more than one goal in any home game against us.
Pleasingly this run continues and is pretty poor. It was actually worse than I originally calculated.
Since the theft of their club from someone else, they have played us at either Belle Vue or Keepmoat / Eco Power a total of ten times, dating back to December 2004. They have lost five times and drawn five times. Drawn a blank four times and still never scored more than one in a game.
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If I was Gibson looking at Street snd Ennis playing in front of me I’d be shaking my head. Street looks a grafter and has pace but he’s shown zero quality. You need creativity as a wide man, that’s not his game.
Ennis looks like a player but he’s green as grass and learning the trade with us. Gibson was the best winger in the league (along with Moly) a few months ago, and he only signed him 6 months ago. No need to replace him in January is there, unless he was wrong on both counts.
Great finish from Street. A good bit of quality there, I thought he was good off the bench.
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I thought Ennis was very good first half and how he wasn’t awarded a penalty I don’t know. Kelly covered every blade of grass and nearly scored. Sterry was magnificent!
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Street looked off side to me from the west stand, however I wasn’t anywhere near level, one hell of a finish by the lad !
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Street looked off side to me from the west stand, however I wasn’t anywhere near level, one hell of a finish by the lad !
Nowhere near offside
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If I was Gibson looking at Street snd Ennis playing in front of me I’d be shaking my head. Street looks a grafter and has pace but he’s shown zero quality. You need creativity as a wide man, that’s not his game.
Ennis looks like a player but he’s green as grass and learning the trade with us. Gibson was the best winger in the league (along with Moly) a few months ago, and he only signed him 6 months ago. No need to replace him in January is there, unless he was wrong on both counts.
Great finish from Street. A good bit of quality there, I thought he was good off the bench.
Looks like he needs to play as a 9 to me. He’s not a winger. No surprise they scored down that side just after he came on.
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Really enjoyable game.
I do enjoy a División 4 side passing it around at the back, providing it’s not us. Lo and behold they gift us a goalden chance, did Joe pull the defender back a little? Don’t care.
Back 4 immense, Olowu was something else today (never thought I’d say that pre Wrexham last year). Sterry! How quick is he? He’s kept that quiet. Maxwell ramping up to his rampaging best. McGrath, well is just McGrath he’ll head anything including Joe Ironside during the first goal celebration.
This back line up is now a constant.
Midfield is starting to look full of energy and fight, bet they can’t wait for Monday to get working together again.
Up top Joe had an epic battle today with his marker and got the goal that will start his run.
Then the subs come on and make the sort of difference we’ve envied in our opponents in the recent past
That 2nd half was probably the best we’ve played at home.
Well done Rovers. We want 5.
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Best game of the season to watch, two teams trying to win the game.
I said in an earlier post on here that the expansive attacking game that MKD play would be beneficial to us and so it proved to be the case.
Rovers showed that they can be a very good pressing and attacking side and with a little bit of luck could have ended up with four or five goals today, the Dons keeper making several really good saves.
There should now be plenty of belief going through the squad and promotion is in our own hands.
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If I was Gibson looking at Street snd Ennis playing in front of me I’d be shaking my head. Street looks a grafter and has pace but he’s shown zero quality. You need creativity as a wide man, that’s not his game.
Ennis looks like a player but he’s green as grass and learning the trade with us. Gibson was the best winger in the league (along with Moly) a few months ago, and he only signed him 6 months ago. No need to replace him in January is there, unless he was wrong on both counts.
Great finish from Street. A good bit of quality there, I thought he was good off the bench.
Looks like he needs to play as a 9 to me. He’s not a winger. No surprise they scored down that side just after he came on.
Not really much to do with Street their goal.
Maxwell and McGrath made a mess of it, all goals come from somewhere on the pitch. That goal can’t be used against him at all.
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If I was Gibson looking at Street snd Ennis playing in front of me I’d be shaking my head. Street looks a grafter and has pace but he’s shown zero quality. You need creativity as a wide man, that’s not his game.
Ennis looks like a player but he’s green as grass and learning the trade with us. Gibson was the best winger in the league (along with Moly) a few months ago, and he only signed him 6 months ago. No need to replace him in January is there, unless he was wrong on both counts.
Great finish from Street. A good bit of quality there, I thought he was good off the bench.
Looks like he needs to play as a 9 to me. He’s not a winger. No surprise they scored down that side just after he came on.
Not really much to do their Street their goal.
Maxwell and McGrath made a mess of it, all goals come from somewhere on the pitch. That goal can’t be used against him at all.
I thought because he was out of shape, Maxwell had to go up one to press, which dragged Jay over and left the huge gap for a deep runner, but what do I know.
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Olowu is an absolute monster.
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To be fair they got down our left most the game.
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Genius set up off the ball set up from McCann.
One of our most important defensive performances today was actually Joe Ironside doing an old-school man-marking job on their midfielder and stopping them building up from the back. He was always looking for him.
That left the more intense runners of Molyneux, Ennis and Kelly to press the defenders and goalkeeper so they couldn’t play out from the back.
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If I was Gibson looking at Street snd Ennis playing in front of me I’d be shaking my head. Street looks a grafter and has pace but he’s shown zero quality. You need creativity as a wide man, that’s not his game.
Ennis looks like a player but he’s green as grass and learning the trade with us. Gibson was the best winger in the league (along with Moly) a few months ago, and he only signed him 6 months ago. No need to replace him in January is there, unless he was wrong on both counts.
Great finish from Street. A good bit of quality there, I thought he was good off the bench.
Looks like he needs to play as a 9 to me. He’s not a winger. No surprise they scored down that side just after he came on.
Not really much to do their Street their goal.
Maxwell and McGrath made a mess of it, all goals come from somewhere on the pitch. That goal can’t be used against him at all.
I thought because he was out of shape, Maxwell had to go up one to press, which dragged Jay over and left the huge gap for a deep runner, but what do I know.
Those last four words.
It’s like an open goal.
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Well that was a great game to watch. Credit to MK for coming and taking us on, its been too long since a team came here to do so and we were served up a treat to watch.
GM surprised us all and included both Crew and Kelly in the side, Kelly slotting into the no10 role played a blinder in there and must have given GM along with Sbarra and Clifton food for thought. Crew just keeps getting better the more he plays and will be some player by the end of the season never mind going forward.
The important thing for me was we played as a team, we harried and rushed them into mistakes and scored a goal from it. The side worked beautifully together and have really put down a marker now to go on another big run, if we can keep the togetherness and working for all we stand a cracking chance.
I don't think i could pick out an individual from that fantastic to watch game, the whole side stood up to the plate and showed us just what they can achieve when the set their minds to it, and just as importantly the opposition come for a game, thought Dan Crowley had a superb game, if we had that sort of player in our midfield we would now be almost guaranteed promotion.
The standard has been set and when you think back we have built up to this over that last few weeks, we now need to sustain this and really cement our place, Walsall are there for the taking.
If we could come and watch football of that standard each week i'd be very happy.
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We have halved the points lead that Walsall had over us just a short while ago.
I am really thinking that we might catch them now,
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We have halve the points lead that Walsall had over us just a short while ago.
I am really thinking that we might catch them now,
Notts County will be thinking the same.
Not sure Wimbledon will maintain.
This reeks of a title decider at Notts County last game.
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Thought we were excellent today. Much more like a Grant McCann side. Very enjoyable to watch. I think that is the best side available that started today.
Praise to the usual suspects but Crew is now making a difference. Kelly’s ball carrying helped us get up the pitch quicker and more positively which rubbed off on others.
Special praise though for me goes to Joe Ironside. I said it earlier in the week and I’ll say it again. We’re a miles better side when he plays. His hold up play is second to none in this league. It helps us get up the pitch also by buying us time. And whilst he’s getting kicked from pillar to post, it’s taking the pressure off others. The defenders hate playing against it. You could almost see their sigh of relief when he got subbed. The cherry on the top was his goal. Hopefully he’ll go on a run of goals now. Especially as chance creation seems on the up. He was feeding off scraps before.
Grant needs to continue starting him week in week out. I think he’s that important to how we play.
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If I was Gibson looking at Street snd Ennis playing in front of me I’d be shaking my head. Street looks a grafter and has pace but he’s shown zero quality. You need creativity as a wide man, that’s not his game.
Ennis looks like a player but he’s green as grass and learning the trade with us. Gibson was the best winger in the league (along with Moly) a few months ago, and he only signed him 6 months ago. No need to replace him in January is there, unless he was wrong on both counts.
Great finish from Street. A good bit of quality there, I thought he was good off the bench.
Looks like he needs to play as a 9 to me. He’s not a winger. No surprise they scored down that side just after he came on.
Not really much to do their Street their goal.
Maxwell and McGrath made a mess of it, all goals come from somewhere on the pitch. That goal can’t be used against him at all.
I thought because he was out of shape, Maxwell had to go up one to press, which dragged Jay over and left the huge gap for a deep runner, but what do I know.
Those last four words.
It’s like an open goal.
Looks like Gaz has got himself a stalker.
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Just watched their managers interview after the game. He says they were the better side. Nah
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They’ve gone extremely attacking. They want to play perfect expansive football in league 2 despite not being very good.
4-2 Rovers and finally an entertaining Saturday afternoon home game for Scawsby Steve.
Yep, absolutely entertaining.
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Great game,two good entertaining sides trying to play football.best we have played all season for me against I think the best team we have played aswell even better than Notts county and chesterfield,thought there was a little tug by Ironside just before their lad recieved the ball so Joe could nick it off him but great finish.Couple good saves by both keepers especially the one from Kelly.pitty we didn’t get a 3rd at the end,Clifton should pherhaps shot but suppose if he had then be whinging saying he should of squared it but do think Gibson went with the wrong foot
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Best game of the season, MK came to win which makes all the difference.
Just wish the cloggers in this league would do the same.
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We have halve the points lead that Walsall had over us just a short while ago.
I am really thinking that we might catch them now,
Notts County will be thinking the same.
Not sure Wimbledon will maintain.
This reeks of a title decider at Notts County last game.
First prediction… sadly Wimbledon will win the league. Sorry !