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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Ryaldinhio on April 15, 2025, 10:13:35 pm
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County need to up their game.....could be 10 nil given their performance against Salford!
It doesn't feel right but come on scabs!
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We don’t want teams below us catching up, and as third place will do for us, Bradford win or draw please..
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A draw is best result for us!
It’s hard to decide whether we don’t want teams below us catching us or if it’s better to drag the ones above us back.
Either way it all depends what we do Friday regardless of this game
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A draw is best result for us!
It’s hard to decide whether we don’t want teams below us catching us or if it’s better to drag the ones above us back.
Either way it all depends what we do Friday regardless of this game
This 100%. Im spending too much time on upcoming matches involving those around us !
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A draw is surely the best outcome. It means 4 points are dropped rather than 3, keeps a 3 point cushion over County and means a win Friday will see us leapfrog Bradford.
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A draw or a County win.
That’s puts automatic promotion back in our own hands.
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It's already in our hands. If we win all our games Bradford can't.
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I think a draw would be best suited here.
Keeps Bradford at arms length and leaves a bit of room between rovers and county
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I think a draw would be best suited here.
Keeps Bradford at arms length and leaves a bit of room between rovers and county
WE don’t want Bradford at ‘arms length’, WE want to be right on their backs for when they come to the Keepmoat (still can’t bring myself to call ‘home’ Eco Power Stadium).
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A draw is surely the best outcome. It means 4 points are dropped rather than 3, keeps a 3 point cushion over County and means a win Friday will see us leapfrog Bradford.
Agreed, a draw would be best for us.
The worst result, but unfortunately the most likely, is a Bradford win.
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I get that but if county win they will be right on YOUR back,
I can see Bradford winning in all fairness
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I think a draw would be best suited here.
Keeps Bradford at arms length and leaves a bit of room between rovers and county
As I've said for hundreds of years (some say) a goalless draw and 3 from each Team sent off
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I think a draw would be best suited here.
Keeps Bradford at arms length and leaves a bit of room between rovers and county
As I've said for hundreds of years (some say) a goalless draw and 3 from each Team sent off
Don't forget a few injuries too DW....!!
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A draw is surely the best outcome. It means 4 points are dropped rather than 3, keeps a 3 point cushion over County and means a win Friday will see us leapfrog Bradford.
Agreed, a draw would be best for us.
The worst result, but unfortunately the most likely, is a Bradford win.
Very strong likelihood that Bradford will take one of the top three places and Rovers are a long shot from taking the title, so for me if not the draw then a Bradford win would suit. The fewest contenders for those top three places is best for us.
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Let’s not forget Wimbledon- they play Chesterfield on Friday!
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Can't help but feel like a Bradford win is the best option here. I get the logic behind a draw being better in terms of total points dropped and increasing our chance of 2nd or better, but if Bradford win it increases the chance that County have nothing to play for (secured their playoff spot) when we play them on the last day. As exciting as it will be, I'd rather not go away to County with them needing to beat us to leapfrog us into the automatics...
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Good to see grant at Bradford! He was highlighted as attending as we play both in the run in. Don’t like giving sky my money but I figured the 24 hr pass was good value as I can watch the Bradford /notts game tonight and our game tomorrow.
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I thought their captain was injured? Patison playing tonight
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Wasn’t Smallwood the captain, he is suspended after being sent off and will also miss two more matches, including the one against us.
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We want Notts to win because they will probably slip up somewhere else anyway.
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I hope all those on here who are talking about how poor we have been playing are watching this.
Take the emotion out of watching Rovers and we match both of these every day of the week, even with those that are fit now.
Pillocks talking about we have no chance of autos get a grip.
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There’s nowt special about either side so far tonight - tempo looks to be a bit quicker but no great quality either..
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1-0 Bradford.
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1-0 Bradford. Not ideal
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Bradford top of the league as it stands.
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Dangerous long throw!!!
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Dangerous long throw!!!
Brad Halliday. Very influential player for them.
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Dangerous long throw!!!
Brad Halliday. Very influential player for them.
I liked Halliday when we had him but he got quite a lot of stick from some fans.
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What a goal from McGoldrick. 1-1.
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Most do from our fans
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What a goal from notts
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incredible goal to equalize.
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Rate goal
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Great goal by McGoldrick!
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Now time for 3 straight reds for both teams
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Now time for 3 straight reds for both teams
Yes please, McGoldrick for a start!
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Bradford look terrible. Mcgoldrick shouldn't be playing in this league. Best player on the pitch and probably league by a mile
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Better for us if Notts County get the winner.
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Brad booked now.
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Dangerous long throw!!!
Brad Halliday. Very influential player for them.
I liked Halliday when we had him but he got quite a lot of stick from some fans.
Same here hound, he was a favourite of mine.
Always gave 100% effort and was dangerous going forward.
I was sorry when he left.
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I’m not watching the game but let’s keep this scoreline!
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Better for us if Notts County get the winner.
I don't understand why a resurgent Notts Co would be good for us?
I'd rather have them as far away as possible, as others have said above.
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I can't see us beating Notts County we need 3 wins in a row before that game.
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Draw would be the perfect result. Just need to capitalise tomorrow otherwise it means nothing
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
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Better for us if Notts County get the winner.
I don't understand why a resurgent Notts Co would be good for us?
I'd rather have them as far away as possible, as others have said above.
Couldn’t agree more. 1-1 is ok, as long as we hold our end of the bargain! :woot:
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
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I can't see us beating Notts County we need 3 wins in a row before that game.
You say that, but before this they’d lost their last 2 by a 4-1 aggregate. All teams this season are very average and pretty much can all beat each other on any given day
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Bradford look terrible. Mcgoldrick shouldn't be playing in this league. Best player on the pitch and probably league by a mile
Does show the importance of having a real quality player up top. We've had Luke and also Haks last year but don't think anyone can really say they're a complete team this season. Just relying on moments of quality.
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
I know.
And Notts County gave him a 2-year contract aged 35…..
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1-1 FT.
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Probably the best result for us.
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Yes!
A draw, best result for us.
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1-1 FT.
Best result for us!
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I can't see us beating Notts County we need 3 wins in a row before that game.
Really?
From what I watched we would put both of these to task. Draw with Bradford, beat Notts C.
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Maybe people will see our draw with Salford was a good point
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
Yes. He’s the most experienced he’s ever been and playing at the lowest level he’s ever played at! Got worse the more experienced he’s got.
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Draw????
Bradford got no chance of Autos now, be lucky not to slip out of the playoffs........
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Maybe people will see our draw with Salford was a good point
And Wimbledon
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I watched the second half and Bradford were quite poor and County only a touch better, except for McGoldrick.
We certainly have enough to beat them both.
Both teams struggled to put more than two or three passes together before they gave the ball away.
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Another gift for us will we take it or keep floundering
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
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Really enjoyed watching that and it’s amazing how we all see games differently. For the first 60 mins or so I thought both teams were fast, strong and well organised, attacking at pace and in numbers and closing down in numbers. Plenty of one touch passing and movement as well, something we’re sadly lacking this season. Big game tomorrow and Monday then let’s see what we have to do after that
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I note that Bradford's goal scorer Ciaran Kelly went off injured late on.... so might be a doubt for up-coming games...
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Really enjoyed watching that and it’s amazing how we all see games differently. For the first 60 mins or so I thought both teams were fast, strong and well organised, attacking at pace and in numbers and closing down in numbers. Plenty of one touch passing and movement as well, something we’re sadly lacking this season. Big game tomorrow and Monday then let’s see what we have to do after that
Ye, they looked like two really good teams to me too.
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Really enjoyed watching that and it’s amazing how we all see games differently. For the first 60 mins or so I thought both teams were fast, strong and well organised, attacking at pace and in numbers and closing down in numbers. Plenty of one touch passing and movement as well, something we’re sadly lacking this season. Big game tomorrow and Monday then let’s see what we have to do after that
Ye, they looked like two really good teams to me too.
I don't think they looked any better than the two teams in Salford v Doncaster other than there was less shots off target but there was less shots in general?????
Two teams that cancelled each other out. Felt like a re run of our game Tuesday.
Bradford v Chesterfield could be same.
Bradford v us could be same.
Walsall v anyone could be same
The next two games are massive for us now.
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How many chances do we need to be offered to get into the autos, and we fluff our lines. Tomorrow is a must win game. Games are running out as our opportunity for automatic promotion.
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How many chances do we need to be offered to get into the autos, and we fluff our lines. Tomorrow is a must win game. Games are running out as our opportunity for automatic promotion.
Just this one hopefully
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
It’s all about attempting to justify a throw away comment about ‘experience being overrated’ Pancho by a poster who will never ‘quantify’ such a ridiculous statement because…….well basically they don’t have wherewithal to do so.
Anyway, let’s forget about ‘know all’s who know nowt’, reight looking for’ard t’tommers game.
C’MON ROVERS!!
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The Bradford city twitter is funny their fans think they have bottled it and will end up in the playoffs hopefully we will be the ones to help them with that
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The Bradford city twitter is funny their fans think they have bottled it and will end up in the playoffs hopefully we will be the ones to help them with that
About as funny as here then most of the Time, usual suspects TS AS and others
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Many Bradford fans are really down tonight, lots of them think they have blown the top 3.
Keep the faith guys, our opponents are wobbling.
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We wobbled against Walsall and Salford.
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We wobbled against Walsall and Salford.
Are you up for the run-in or what?!
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Both teams were/are decent. Neither will be easy games for us.
I suspect they and their fans will say the same about us: tough opposition.
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I am, but is our team?
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We’re all a team now les@donr, let’s work together and push our lads across that line.
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
It’s all about attempting to justify a throw away comment about ‘experience being overrated’ Pancho by a poster who will never ‘quantify’ such a ridiculous statement because…….well basically they don’t have wherewithal to do so.
Anyway, let’s forget about ‘know all’s who know nowt’, reight looking for’ard t’tommers game.
C’MON ROVERS!!
It wasn’t a throw away statement.
Your views are decades out of date. I’ll say it again and maybe turn your hearing aid on this time. Experience is valuable, but over rated and over valued.
Go out and research these things like I have. Broaden your thinking. Broaden your understanding. Challenge the way you look at things. Must be a little boring seeing things in black and white still.
You ask the leading football brains, Monchi, Michael Edwards, the RB Group men, Tony Bloom, Marcel Brands. I literally spend my life listening and reading about these sort of people to find out how they think about sport in general and they all agree. Experience is over valued.
I’ll side with them over a couple of geriatrics on a football forum.
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
It’s all about attempting to justify a throw away comment about ‘experience being overrated’ Pancho by a poster who will never ‘quantify’ such a ridiculous statement because…….well basically they don’t have wherewithal to do so.
Anyway, let’s forget about ‘know all’s who know nowt’, reight looking for’ard t’tommers game.
C’MON ROVERS!!
It wasn’t a throw away statement.
Your views are decades out of date. I’ll say it again and maybe turn your hearing aid on this time. Experience is valuable, but over rated and over valued.
Go out and research these things like I have. Broaden your thinking. Broaden your understanding. Challenge the way you look at things. Must be a little boring seeing things in black and white still.
You ask the leading football brains, Monchi, Michael Edwards, the RB Group men, Tony Bloom, Marcel Brands. I literally spend my life listening and reading about these sort of people to find out how they think about sport in general and they all agree. Experience is over valued.
I’ll side with them over a couple of geriatrics on a football forum.
You win.
I give in.
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How many chances do we need to be offered to get into the autos, and we fluff our lines. Tomorrow is a must win game. Games are running out as our opportunity for automatic promotion.
We’re not fluffing our lines anymore than anyone else are we?
In fact we’re in better form than everyone else. So this comment makes zero sense
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How the games v Bradford and Notts County go are heavily dependant on how our results go over the next 2 bank holiday games. We simply have to turn the screw now and put the pressure on the others. If we don’t take this chance, then I fear it’s the play-off’s and will we have enough in the tank to go again?
All our games left are difficult - Tranmere because they’re one of the current form sides, similarly with Colchester, then finally the 2 teams drawing tonight.
Fingers crossed for Jay and Joe for tomorrow, as we need Bailey back where he belongs in midfield. Billy Sharp will be back for the Bradford game, of course.
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Just watched the Skylights of the game tonight.
Amazing goal by that geriatric McGoldrick!
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
It’s all about attempting to justify a throw away comment about ‘experience being overrated’ Pancho by a poster who will never ‘quantify’ such a ridiculous statement because…….well basically they don’t have wherewithal to do so.
Anyway, let’s forget about ‘know all’s who know nowt’, reight looking for’ard t’tommers game.
C’MON ROVERS!!
It wasn’t a throw away statement.
Your views are decades out of date. I’ll say it again and maybe turn your hearing aid on this time. Experience is valuable, but over rated and over valued.
Go out and research these things like I have. Broaden your thinking. Broaden your understanding. Challenge the way you look at things. Must be a little boring seeing things in black and white still.
You ask the leading football brains, Monchi, Michael Edwards, the RB Group men, Tony Bloom, Marcel Brands. I literally spend my life listening and reading about these sort of people to find out how they think about sport in general and they all agree. Experience is over valued.
I’ll side with them over a couple of geriatrics on a football forum.
Do you enjoy watching Rovers? I mean not only watching them but ‘investing’ in them time wise, financially but most importantly of all, emotionally?
Because for all your ‘swapping gibes’ with those who query what you get out of ‘supporting’ Rovers (well done for the monies donated to the academy last season by the way after your ill timed judgement ‘that season’ on Joe Ironside’s scoring capabilities) you come across as a ‘reight miserable bugger’.
As for my ‘views being decades out of date’ then quoting ‘the works’ of Michael Edward’s, Tony Bloom, Marcel Blands as the ‘way forward’….do me a favour. They follow on the footsteps of Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, Vico Passanno et al.
1.I watch Rovers because I was born in Donny. Not Barcelona, or Milan, not Liverpool or thank gawd Leeds. So that makes them ‘my team’, through thick & thin.
2. Although I left Doncaster at the age of seventeen to go & work in London (travelling into the City daily from Kent by train) I never lost the fact that, even as my peers who chose not to move away from the town for whatever reasons (sometimes the status quo is hard to engage from?) chose not to, Rovers were my ‘touch stone’ to a previous life & family so that was a massive pull for me.
3. I’ve shared so many great moments with my team. A Golden Goal victory at Stoke’s Brittania Stadium to see us back playing League football after six years in ‘the wilderness’ of Conference League Football. The Johnstones Paint Trophy win at the Millennium Stadium. A League One play off victory against Leeds at Wembley.
Like to share any experiences that have got your head out of your spreadsheet's & your ‘body being transported to another place’ in your years following the Rovers?
No? Neh mind eh.
P.S. if you’re truly following the Mantra’s of a 58 year old ex Italian goalkeeper & what is fundamentally a ‘risk management’ company which you “literally spend my life listening & reading about”, I feel sorry for your wife & kids (if you have any) your family & friends but mostly & quite sincerely…you. Get a life.
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We’re all a team now les@donr, let’s work together and push our lads across that line.
I was simply answering your question, no more than that.
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
It’s all about attempting to justify a throw away comment about ‘experience being overrated’ Pancho by a poster who will never ‘quantify’ such a ridiculous statement because…….well basically they don’t have wherewithal to do so.
Anyway, let’s forget about ‘know all’s who know nowt’, reight looking for’ard t’tommers game.
C’MON ROVERS!!
It wasn’t a throw away statement.
Your views are decades out of date. I’ll say it again and maybe turn your hearing aid on this time. Experience is valuable, but over rated and over valued.
Go out and research these things like I have. Broaden your thinking. Broaden your understanding. Challenge the way you look at things. Must be a little boring seeing things in black and white still.
You ask the leading football brains, Monchi, Michael Edwards, the RB Group men, Tony Bloom, Marcel Brands. I literally spend my life listening and reading about these sort of people to find out how they think about sport in general and they all agree. Experience is over valued.
I’ll side with them over a couple of geriatrics on a football forum.
Do you enjoy watching Rovers? I mean not only watching them but ‘investing’ in them time wise, financially but most importantly of all, emotionally?
Because for all your ‘swapping gibes’ with those who query what you get out of ‘supporting’ Rovers (well done for the monies donated to the academy last season by the way after your ill timed judgement ‘that season’ on Joe Ironside’s scoring capabilities) you come across as a ‘reight miserable bugger’.
As for my ‘views being decades out of date’ then quoting ‘the works’ of Michael Edward’s, Tony Bloom, Marcel Blands as the ‘way forward’….do me a favour. They follow on the footsteps of Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, Vico Passanno et al.
1.I watch Rovers because I was born in Donny. Not Barcelona, or Milan, not Liverpool or thank gawd Leeds. So that makes them ‘my team’, through thick & thin.
2. Although I left Doncaster at the age of seventeen to go & work in London (travelling into the City daily from Kent by train) I never lost the fact that, even as my peers who chose not to move away from the town for whatever reasons (sometimes the status quo is hard to engage from?) chose not to, Rovers were my ‘touch stone’ to a previous life & family so that was a massive pull for me.
3. I’ve shared so many great moments with my team. A Golden Goal victory at Stoke’s Brittania Stadium to see us back playing League football after six years in ‘the wilderness’ of Conference League Football. The Johnstones Paint Trophy win at the Millennium Stadium. A League One play off victory against Leeds at Wembley.
Like to share any experiences that have got your head out of your spreadsheet's & your ‘body being transported to another place’ in your years following the Rovers?
No? Neh mind eh.
P.S. if you’re truly following the Mantra’s of a 58 year old ex Italian goalkeeper & what is fundamentally a ‘risk management’ company which you “literally spend my life listening & reading about”, I feel sorry for your wife & kids (if you have any) your family & friends but mostly & quite sincerely…you. Get a life.
Wow. More air quotes than Dr Evil. The more I read on here the more your starting to look like a sad troll.
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That was a good advert for league 2. Top quality goals, great passing and played with intensity.
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
It’s all about attempting to justify a throw away comment about ‘experience being overrated’ Pancho by a poster who will never ‘quantify’ such a ridiculous statement because…….well basically they don’t have wherewithal to do so.
Anyway, let’s forget about ‘know all’s who know nowt’, reight looking for’ard t’tommers game.
C’MON ROVERS!!
It wasn’t a throw away statement.
Your views are decades out of date. I’ll say it again and maybe turn your hearing aid on this time. Experience is valuable, but over rated and over valued.
Go out and research these things like I have. Broaden your thinking. Broaden your understanding. Challenge the way you look at things. Must be a little boring seeing things in black and white still.
You ask the leading football brains, Monchi, Michael Edwards, the RB Group men, Tony Bloom, Marcel Brands. I literally spend my life listening and reading about these sort of people to find out how they think about sport in general and they all agree. Experience is over valued.
I’ll side with them over a couple of geriatrics on a football forum.
Do you enjoy watching Rovers? I mean not only watching them but ‘investing’ in them time wise, financially but most importantly of all, emotionally?
Because for all your ‘swapping gibes’ with those who query what you get out of ‘supporting’ Rovers (well done for the monies donated to the academy last season by the way after your ill timed judgement ‘that season’ on Joe Ironside’s scoring capabilities) you come across as a ‘reight miserable bugger’.
As for my ‘views being decades out of date’ then quoting ‘the works’ of Michael Edward’s, Tony Bloom, Marcel Blands as the ‘way forward’….do me a favour. They follow on the footsteps of Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, Vico Passanno et al.
1.I watch Rovers because I was born in Donny. Not Barcelona, or Milan, not Liverpool or thank gawd Leeds. So that makes them ‘my team’, through thick & thin.
2. Although I left Doncaster at the age of seventeen to go & work in London (travelling into the City daily from Kent by train) I never lost the fact that, even as my peers who chose not to move away from the town for whatever reasons (sometimes the status quo is hard to engage from?) chose not to, Rovers were my ‘touch stone’ to a previous life & family so that was a massive pull for me.
3. I’ve shared so many great moments with my team. A Golden Goal victory at Stoke’s Brittania Stadium to see us back playing League football after six years in ‘the wilderness’ of Conference League Football. The Johnstones Paint Trophy win at the Millennium Stadium. A League One play off victory against Leeds at Wembley.
Like to share any experiences that have got your head out of your spreadsheet's & your ‘body being transported to another place’ in your years following the Rovers?
No? Neh mind eh.
P.S. if you’re truly following the Mantra’s of a 58 year old ex Italian goalkeeper & what is fundamentally a ‘risk management’ company which you “literally spend my life listening & reading about”, I feel sorry for your wife & kids (if you have any) your family & friends but mostly & quite sincerely…you. Get a life.
Do I enjoy watching Donny? I’ve been to 40+ games this season and probably averaged 30+ games per season over the last 28 years.
Every other word spoken in my house is “Rovers”. Two kids that are season ticket holders and one that’s too young at the minute although at 1yo when you say “where’s Donny” he runs and points to the nearest Donny badge he can find! Literally just been woken up by the middle one singing Rovers songs FFS. My family have been going regularly since 1947. I could tell you plenty about Hardwick, Bycroft and Miller et al from the 50s, not seen their names in any spreadsheets.
I’ve been at all the “big” games since 1997 home and away (bar Chester away!) and had the same ups and downs as everyone.
Don’t question me as a fan just because I can both enjoy game in the same way any other fan would and also apply an analytical lens when I want too.
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I looked at Bradford and thought winnable. I only watched the second half mind.Notts have the better technical players by a mile.
Re experience above. Our most experienced player looks the biggest liability on the pitch for conceding goals. He's bouncing off players too. Then our other experienced player came on and headbutted someone. Same player who we needed on Tuesday to replace Street who's gonna be run into the ground by Monday.
Give me McGrath and Oluwu over experienced Wood and Anderson any day.
Anderson has played okay mind probably a bit unfair dragging him in.
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I looked at Bradford and thought winnable. I only watched the second half mind.Notts have the better technical players by a mile.
Re experience above. Our most experienced player looks the biggest liability on the pitch for conceding goals. He's bouncing off players too. Then our other experienced player came on and headbutted someone. Same player who we needed on Tuesday to replace Street who's gonna be run into the ground by Monday.
Give me McGrath and Oluwu over experienced Wood and Anderson any day.
Anderson has played okay mind probably a bit unfair dragging him in.
Anderson and Wood earn considerably more than Olowu and JM as well… is that someone over valuing experience again?….
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Off to the gym in Bradford now where I’ll see and speak to the City fans who went to or watched the game last night.I’m sure that they will be gutted not to win but they have still kept Notts County at arms length with no damage to goal difference. I won’t be gloating because I know how hard our task still is. How we will be feeling this time on Tuesday morning is anyone’s guess.
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Off to the gym in Bradford now where I’ll see and speak to the City fans who went to or watched the game last night.I’m sure that they will be gutted not to win but they have still kept Notts County at arms length with no damage to goal difference. I won’t be gloating because I know how hard our task still is. How we will be feeling this time on Tuesday morning is anyone’s guess.
I really hope you are in a position to go to the gym on 4th May in your Rovers shirt.
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
It’s all about attempting to justify a throw away comment about ‘experience being overrated’ Pancho by a poster who will never ‘quantify’ such a ridiculous statement because…….well basically they don’t have wherewithal to do so.
Anyway, let’s forget about ‘know all’s who know nowt’, reight looking for’ard t’tommers game.
C’MON ROVERS!!
It wasn’t a throw away statement.
Your views are decades out of date. I’ll say it again and maybe turn your hearing aid on this time. Experience is valuable, but over rated and over valued.
Go out and research these things like I have. Broaden your thinking. Broaden your understanding. Challenge the way you look at things. Must be a little boring seeing things in black and white still.
You ask the leading football brains, Monchi, Michael Edwards, the RB Group men, Tony Bloom, Marcel Brands. I literally spend my life listening and reading about these sort of people to find out how they think about sport in general and they all agree. Experience is over valued.
I’ll side with them over a couple of geriatrics on a football forum.
Do you enjoy watching Rovers? I mean not only watching them but ‘investing’ in them time wise, financially but most importantly of all, emotionally?
Because for all your ‘swapping gibes’ with those who query what you get out of ‘supporting’ Rovers (well done for the monies donated to the academy last season by the way after your ill timed judgement ‘that season’ on Joe Ironside’s scoring capabilities) you come across as a ‘reight miserable bugger’.
As for my ‘views being decades out of date’ then quoting ‘the works’ of Michael Edward’s, Tony Bloom, Marcel Blands as the ‘way forward’….do me a favour. They follow on the footsteps of Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, Vico Passanno et al.
1.I watch Rovers because I was born in Donny. Not Barcelona, or Milan, not Liverpool or thank gawd Leeds. So that makes them ‘my team’, through thick & thin.
2. Although I left Doncaster at the age of seventeen to go & work in London (travelling into the City daily from Kent by train) I never lost the fact that, even as my peers who chose not to move away from the town for whatever reasons (sometimes the status quo is hard to engage from?) chose not to, Rovers were my ‘touch stone’ to a previous life & family so that was a massive pull for me.
3. I’ve shared so many great moments with my team. A Golden Goal victory at Stoke’s Brittania Stadium to see us back playing League football after six years in ‘the wilderness’ of Conference League Football. The Johnstones Paint Trophy win at the Millennium Stadium. A League One play off victory against Leeds at Wembley.
Like to share any experiences that have got your head out of your spreadsheet's & your ‘body being transported to another place’ in your years following the Rovers?
No? Neh mind eh.
P.S. if you’re truly following the Mantra’s of a 58 year old ex Italian goalkeeper & what is fundamentally a ‘risk management’ company which you “literally spend my life listening & reading about”, I feel sorry for your wife & kids (if you have any) your family & friends but mostly & quite sincerely…you. Get a life.
Do I enjoy watching Donny? I’ve been to 40+ games this season and probably averaged 30+ games per season over the last 28 years.
Every other word spoken in my house is “Rovers”. Two kids that are season ticket holders and one that’s too young at the minute although at 1yo when you say “where’s Donny” he runs and points to the nearest Donny badge he can find! Literally just been woken up by the middle one singing Rovers songs FFS. My family have been going regularly since 1947. I could tell you plenty about Hardwick, Bycroft and Miller et al from the 50s, not seen their names in any spreadsheets.
I’ve been at all the “big” games since 1997 home and away (bar Chester away!) and had the same ups and downs as everyone.
Don’t question me as a fan just because I can both enjoy game in the same way any other fan would and also apply an analytical lens when I want too.
I get that stats are your job yes.? Also I do understand that professional football clubs will use such stats to help manage and trade players, and the bookies use them too.
That’s all fine.
But that doesn’t necessarily translate to what I can only describe as the traditional fan experience, which is all about emotions, desires, ups and downs etc. sometimes watching your side tough out an ugly result is just as satisfying (not necessarily enjoyable) as a free flowing attacking goal fest.
The players too will have desires and emotions. How do stats measure that, and their confidence etc? How do stats measure or predict referee performance, team changes (to both sides) due to suspensions and managers’ preferences?
I get that you can be in both camps and I respect that this is your profession, but it’s different for me and I guess for many many other supporters.
Stats to that depth have their place for sure, but for many of us, it’s too much we don’t need to know in order to enjoy the footy. It over complicates what is in reality a simple pleasure.
I hope that makes sense and doesn’t cause offence.
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37-year-old McGoldrick scores a wonder goal.
Is experience the most overrated attribute in football?
He's just a very good footballer
DM is a Notts County fan and always wanted to play for them. He’s a huge outlier when it comes to decisions made on players of that age. He’s levels above this division.
You win.
I give in.
It’s all about attempting to justify a throw away comment about ‘experience being overrated’ Pancho by a poster who will never ‘quantify’ such a ridiculous statement because…….well basically they don’t have wherewithal to do so.
Anyway, let’s forget about ‘know all’s who know nowt’, reight looking for’ard t’tommers game.
C’MON ROVERS!!
It wasn’t a throw away statement.
Your views are decades out of date. I’ll say it again and maybe turn your hearing aid on this time. Experience is valuable, but over rated and over valued.
Go out and research these things like I have. Broaden your thinking. Broaden your understanding. Challenge the way you look at things. Must be a little boring seeing things in black and white still.
You ask the leading football brains, Monchi, Michael Edwards, the RB Group men, Tony Bloom, Marcel Brands. I literally spend my life listening and reading about these sort of people to find out how they think about sport in general and they all agree. Experience is over valued.
I’ll side with them over a couple of geriatrics on a football forum.
Do you enjoy watching Rovers? I mean not only watching them but ‘investing’ in them time wise, financially but most importantly of all, emotionally?
Because for all your ‘swapping gibes’ with those who query what you get out of ‘supporting’ Rovers (well done for the monies donated to the academy last season by the way after your ill timed judgement ‘that season’ on Joe Ironside’s scoring capabilities) you come across as a ‘reight miserable bugger’.
As for my ‘views being decades out of date’ then quoting ‘the works’ of Michael Edward’s, Tony Bloom, Marcel Blands as the ‘way forward’….do me a favour. They follow on the footsteps of Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, Vico Passanno et al.
1.I watch Rovers because I was born in Donny. Not Barcelona, or Milan, not Liverpool or thank gawd Leeds. So that makes them ‘my team’, through thick & thin.
2. Although I left Doncaster at the age of seventeen to go & work in London (travelling into the City daily from Kent by train) I never lost the fact that, even as my peers who chose not to move away from the town for whatever reasons (sometimes the status quo is hard to engage from?) chose not to, Rovers were my ‘touch stone’ to a previous life & family so that was a massive pull for me.
3. I’ve shared so many great moments with my team. A Golden Goal victory at Stoke’s Brittania Stadium to see us back playing League football after six years in ‘the wilderness’ of Conference League Football. The Johnstones Paint Trophy win at the Millennium Stadium. A League One play off victory against Leeds at Wembley.
Like to share any experiences that have got your head out of your spreadsheet's & your ‘body being transported to another place’ in your years following the Rovers?
No? Neh mind eh.
P.S. if you’re truly following the Mantra’s of a 58 year old ex Italian goalkeeper & what is fundamentally a ‘risk management’ company which you “literally spend my life listening & reading about”, I feel sorry for your wife & kids (if you have any) your family & friends but mostly & quite sincerely…you. Get a life.
Do I enjoy watching Donny? I’ve been to 40+ games this season and probably averaged 30+ games per season over the last 28 years.
Every other word spoken in my house is “Rovers”. Two kids that are season ticket holders and one that’s too young at the minute although at 1yo when you say “where’s Donny” he runs and points to the nearest Donny badge he can find! Literally just been woken up by the middle one singing Rovers songs FFS. My family have been going regularly since 1947. I could tell you plenty about Hardwick, Bycroft and Miller et al from the 50s, not seen their names in any spreadsheets.
I’ve been at all the “big” games since 1997 home and away (bar Chester away!) and had the same ups and downs as everyone.
Don’t question me as a fan just because I can both enjoy game in the same way any other fan would and also apply an analytical lens when I want too.
I get that stats are your job yes.? Also I do understand that professional football clubs will use such stats to help manage and trade players, and the bookies use them too.
That’s all fine.
But that doesn’t necessarily translate to what I can only describe as the traditional fan experience, which is all about emotions, desires, ups and downs etc. sometimes watching your side tough out an ugly result is just as satisfying (not necessarily enjoyable) as a free flowing attacking goal fest.
The players too will have desires and emotions. How do stats measure that, and their confidence etc? How do stats measure or predict referee performance, team changes (to both sides) due to suspensions and managers’ preferences?
I get that you can be in both camps and I respect that this is your profession, but it’s different for me and I guess for many many other supporters.
Stats to that depth have their place for sure, but for many of us, it’s too much we don’t need to know in order to enjoy the footy. It over complicates what is in reality a simple pleasure.
I hope that makes sense and doesn’t cause offence.
I doubt that Gaz, or any fan at that rate, is at a game and their first thought after a goal is “I wonder what the xG was there?” Surely a forum where there’s always loads of armchair analysis is a reasonable place to try to add to the discussion, and if you’re not interested it’s easy to ignore it.
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Does it really matter what we get out of watching Rovers?
End of the day, we're all nerdy t**ts that probably spend far too much time on here because we're all passionately obsessed with our club.
For what it's worth, I've met some top class people from this forum, and guys I would now class as friends.
I think maybe sometimes we need to take a step back and look at what we've really got.
We're all different, with different views and ideas of how football should be played but we have one common purpose.
We didn't choose this club, this club chose us.
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Really enjoyed watching that and it’s amazing how we all see games differently. For the first 60 mins or so I thought both teams were fast, strong and well organised, attacking at pace and in numbers and closing down in numbers. Plenty of one touch passing and movement as well, something we’re sadly lacking this season. Big game tomorrow and Monday then let’s see what we have to do after that
Glad you saw the game that way, EPS because that's exactly what I saw too.
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I looked at Bradford and thought winnable. I only watched the second half mind.Notts have the better technical players by a mile.
Re experience above. Our most experienced player looks the biggest liability on the pitch for conceding goals. He's bouncing off players too. Then our other experienced player came on and headbutted someone. Same player who we needed on Tuesday to replace Street who's gonna be run into the ground by Monday.
Give me McGrath and Oluwu over experienced Wood and Anderson any day.
Anderson has played okay mind probably a bit unfair dragging him in.
Wowsers - different level
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Off to the gym in Bradford now where I’ll see and speak to the City fans who went to or watched the game last night.I’m sure that they will be gutted not to win but they have still kept Notts County at arms length with no damage to goal difference. I won’t be gloating because I know how hard our task still is. How we will be feeling this time on Tuesday morning is anyone’s guess.
I really hope you are in a position to go to the gym on 4th May in your Rovers shirt.
I will be hound. Hopefully City will go up as well so I can go in the Corn Dolly pre match as usual. Their fans in the gym were disappointed this morning at bottling it in front of 20 odd thousand. Different fans had slightly different views of course. Only today’s results will tell if it is a good point or not. I always wear my Rovers tops win lose or draw and have a good natter with them.
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For a load of people who like to come on here after a game saying things like "he should have stopped that cross", "he can't pass for toffee", "we can't cross a ball", "he didn't win a header/tackle all game", etc you really don't like when people quantify those exact same things you're saying... And because one person likes to use numbers as well as what he's seen to judge things doesn't mean he doesn't feel the emotions during the game as strong or stronger than any one of us.
All he's doing is backing up his opinion with facts.