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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Canadian Rover on April 23, 2025, 10:19:16 pm
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How we all doing? What level are you at?
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Which way round is the ratings ?
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Here's my unofficial interpretation
ROVCON LEVEL 5
Full Zen, we are mid table nothing to play for and the catering at the stadium is ok. Even the chips portions are mediocre.
ROVCON LEVEL 4
Mild Concern, maybe there’s been an injury or two and you’ve refreshed the league table three times before lunch. Nothing dramatic, but the anxiety is simmering.
ROVCON LEVEL 3
Tactical Twitching. We’ve suddenly entered into a time when “must-win” is the phrase of the week. You’re sweating during pre-match interviews like it’s your name on the team sheet and are checking other teams fixtures like you have some sort of input.
ROVCON LEVEL 2
It’s End of season-Induced Turmoil. One more dodgy decision and you're writing emails to the EFL. Sleep is irregular. You’ve started avoiding friends who support clubs already promoted and you don't want to talk to any premier league only fans because they just don't understand real football. Hope is alive, and so are you barely.
ROVCON LEVEL 1
Total Football Panicked Frenzy. It’s the final day, everything’s riding on it, and you’ve turned into a one-person coaching staff/physio/water carrier. You're watching games in full kit, hanging flags, making plans, pacing, praying. Think Stoke, Brentford and Wembley and you are at ROVCON LEVEL 1 my friend I wish you luck.
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3 leaning towards 2. Shitting it for Saturday despite the amazing performance v Colchester. I do believe but on the other hand it’s a funny old game.
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I’m on 3 at the moment.
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4 moving on to 3 probably 2 on Friday then 1 on Saturday at about 6 in morning
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3 on wednesday
2 on Thursday
1 on Friday
What happens sat???????
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Currently 3. 4.30am start for me Saturday. I’ll be wearing two pairs of undies.
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Relaxed currently at 5. With occasional spasms of bum twitch at around level 2/3 at the mere thought of 12-30 Sat.
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3 and not holding well !
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2 more sleeps guys believe !!
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3 on wednesday
2 on Thursday
1 on Friday
What happens sat???????
Change your underwear and have the Samaritans on speed dial. ;) :scarf: :scarf:
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Ive been at 1 since PK slotted in the 3rd on Monday.. wtf
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3.
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3 going on to 2. With it being a 12.30 KO on Saturday, I may need to have a few pints in Wetherspoons to calm the nerves even though I don't like drinking too early. Will certainly be level 1 Saturday morning
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Would have been nice and not so stressful if we had won the title on Monday.
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Wasn’t possible..
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I felt felt great when I got my ticket for Sat , then my blood ran cold with dread as I realised I had felt exactly the same sense of anticipation for the 2nd play off semi against Crewe. Could I face that disappointment again? , straight to Rovcon 3
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I have gone past 0 and into negative figures, can't wait for Saturday!
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3
Trying to get some work and study done today because tomorrow may be a write off as I move towards Rovcon 1
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3 on wednesday
2 on Thursday
1 on Friday
What happens sat???????
Take your laptop to the loo with you.
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I'm on nights Friday, hoping to get home for two hours kip before getting ready and off to the match. I've a feeling sleep won't come easy
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I'm on nights Friday, hoping to get home for two hours kip before getting ready and off to the match. I've a feeling sleep won't come easy
I’ve got a feeling that you won’t be nodding off during the game Andy.
It is likely going to be very exciting.
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One more sleep ….if we can
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Level 3 and building....
I know I will be off the dial by 12.30 on Saturday.
I take a lot of comfort knowing I'm not alone, we're all in this together.
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Up to 4 now. Un focussed mind immediately drifts to kick off time sat. Sphincter showing signs of unsteadiness.
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Still at 3 but I know I'll move to 1 very quickly in the morning, going into Corporal Jones 'Don't Panic!' mode. Wondering which pair of lucky pants and socks to wear!! Will be OK once at the ground and let the heart rate settle.
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3 on wednesday
2 on Thursday
1 on Friday
What happens sat???????
You blow up / have heart attack …….slow down !
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The one benefit of the early kick off is that at least we're not all at home twiddling our thumbs and annoying our spouses / cats / kids etc, it's up and out. Before Crewe H last year outside the ground was full and buzzing a good hour or so before kick off, I'm getting down early to soak it up a bit and maybe a morning beverage for medicinal purposes to settle the nerves!
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The one benefit of the early kick off is that at least we're not all at home twiddling our thumbs and annoying our spouses / cats / kids etc, it's up and out. Before Crewe H last year outside the ground was full and buzzing a good hour or so before kick off, I'm getting down early to soak it up a bit and maybe a morning beverage for medicinal purposes to settle the nerves!
Sadly still not well enough to go so please have a beer/ chant or two for me please .
Must admit don’t hit fully Rovcon1 until 30 minutes before the game starts and I’m the same if not at the game - hoping we are on the radio today ?
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The one benefit of the early kick off is that at least we're not all at home twiddling our thumbs and annoying our spouses / cats / kids etc, it's up and out. Before Crewe H last year outside the ground was full and buzzing a good hour or so before kick off, I'm getting down early to soak it up a bit and maybe a morning beverage for medicinal purposes to settle the nerves!
Sadly still not well enough to go so please have a beer/ chant or two for me please .
Must admit don’t hit fully Rovcon1 until 30 minutes before the game starts and I’m the same if not at the game - hoping we are on the radio today ?
I'll definitely raise a glass for your Hoolahoop and a drink for the health of our Rovers family. 2017 the last time we tasted a bit of success, it's felt a long few years of wilderness, so a big moment for all of us to share.
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I've been at Rovcon 2 all week. It's been awful.
I was in Manchester with work all day yesterday and a Liverpool fan was going on about winning the league and I elevated to Rovcon 1 for about half an hour. Had sweats, palpitations, the lot. Managed to calm down slightly.
I'll be a gibbering wreck by noon tomorrow.
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Been around 1 or 2 all week. My nerves are shot to bits. I really hope the outcome isn’t going to be decided by dodgy refereeing or something like that. Unless it’s in our favour of course then that’d be just fine. The thought of the Away end going crackers at a goal or even worse winning the game is turning my stomach. It’s gonna be one hell of an emotional rollercoaster that’s for sure. RTID
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What comes after level 1? Not even the last day of the season and I'm a nervous wreck. This is my 60th season as a Rovers supporter but somehow this feels like Stoke, Wembley and Brentford rolled into one. I'm not sure if I could handle another play off saga.
Some people still say "It's only a game". Not sure what game they mean but it's not football!
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Level 1 for.me.
Still another 24 hours to go and I am already on the vinegar strokes.
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I'm now in a very poor state and I dont understand why.
I think maybe it is because it seems means so much just now, absolutely love the team and the manager and to see the away attendance of late has been mind-blowing. There's a real togetherness.
Also, I am acutely aware (although trying not to think about it) that if we win we're up.
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I'm now in a very poor state and I dont understand why.
I think maybe it is because it seems means so much just now, absolutely love the team and the manager and to see the away attendance of late has been mind-blowing. There's a real togetherness.
Also, I am acutely aware (although trying not to think about it) that if we win we're up.
Philsky, please stop. Posts like yours are not helping. I’m now at level 3. My “tea towel holder” is now at a constant flutter! And I’ve got an early start and a 75 mile drive to contend with first thing just to get to the game.
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I’ve progressed to a two this afternoon
My mate has told me that he isn’t looking forward to the game because he feels so tense already.
My butterflies have started a bit early.
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I don’t even know if I’ll bother trying to sleep tonight! I’m buzzing for the game tomorrow but nervous as hell! Again as always in the big games I just hope we turn up and put on a good show, win lose or draw after that and I can live with it.
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I've just got in from work and now at Rovcon 2.
And similar to normal rules, my tea towel holder is doing the old 20 pence 50 pence
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Just checked into Lakeside Premier Inn and funnily enough the chap checking in before me was a Rovers fan. Sounded like a Lincolnshire accent. Rovcon 3 at the minute. Rovcon 1 in the morning when the rest of the family arrive and I also catch up with some City fans I know. A right football day coming up tomorrow whatever happens.
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4.5. Not totally chilled but leaning towards. Least stressful area of my life at the moment which says more about my life than the game. Bit miffed that Bradford seem a bit full of themselves on Social media, but nothing more than that. Fully aware it will get a lower number at some point unless we score 3 early goals. RTID
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Been a 2 all week! On a break in North Wales, (bad planning), so cutting it a bit short to travel back tomorrow morning for the game, going to be a long journey.
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4.5. Not totally chilled but leaning towards. Least stressful area of my life at the moment which says more about my life than the game. Bit miffed that Bradford seem a bit full of themselves on Social media, but nothing more than that. Fully aware it will get a lower number at some point unless we score 3 early goals. RTID
That mention of 3 early goals triggered me up the scale by one! Donny being 3 up in 10 mins fills me with horror - you just know how it will go :silly: :suicide:
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Is there a level above 1, my suggestion is Turbo.
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Is there a level above 1, my suggestion is Turbo.
It has to be “ event horizon”
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Is there a level above 1, my suggestion is Turbo.
It has to be “ event horizon”
I think it's "Whoops Apocolypse"
Whatever it is, I'm there. I've forced myself to watch a rubbish Tom Hardy action movie just to try to calm down.
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I’m struggling to get to sleep just now.
I might start a chat to SydneyRover, that should do the job. ;-)
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11 hours to go Gentlemen.
I've another 6 at work, hopefully 2 hrs kip, Peroni and toast for breakfast ;) then off to the match
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Ten to bloody six and wide awake.
It’s a good job im on beta blockers or id dread to think what state I’d be in .
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Hour left, and Sky Sports News on, no mention yet of the events due to unfold in doncaster
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I didn't sleep well at all so back down to 3.5.
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11 hours to go Gentlemen.
I've another 6 at work, hopefully 2 hrs kip, Peroni and toast for breakfast ;) then off to the match
Breakfast of champions
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I’ve been fine all week, no nerves. Now this morning I’m shitting it!
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Ladies & gents. This thread is making me feel so normal. No sleep, can’t concentrate & every permutation going round in my tiny little mind. This is great. RTID. Four of us in a car from Lincolnshire setting off soon. RTID.
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I’ve been fine all week, no nerves. Now this morning I’m shitting it!
Had a stomach bug for 3 days. Safe to say there's nothing left for nerves
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Morning all.
Excited & fairly confident here, probably equates to a 4?
Vale have a tricky fixture, every one tricky for Walstall atm, Bradford have a tough one !
What's the worst that can happen? We go do it at County next week? These lads will get us over the line, let's go & make some noise, YOU REDS !!!
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About 274 minutes to go, says it all.
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11 hours to go Gentlemen.
I've another 6 at work, hopefully 2 hrs kip, Peroni and toast for breakfast ;) then off to the match
Breakfast of champions
Sex is the breakfast of champions - well, according to the late James Hunt it was..
I’ve actually dropped down to level 4. Other demands at work and home remind me there’s more to life than football, taking my mind off the game..
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Well less than 5 hrs to kickoff, it seems so long since our last game, so probably indicates how nervous we all are as to the outcome.
Football is one hell of a game, and at rovers we have experienced some real highs and lows over the years we have supported them, 65 years for me since my first game.
My only wish is that the players do their best, give it their all for the cause, and if that happens, then no matter what result we end up with, I will leave the stadium happy.
Good luck guys.
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Well, it’s 12.32am here in California and I’m a mess. I had to microdose some psilocybin which will help or at least make the 3.5 hours to my alarm going off warm and fuzzy….
Ocean sounds on Spotify and away we go….
Already at RovCon 1.
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I’ve been fine all week, no nerves. Now this morning I’m shitting it!
Had a stomach bug for 3 days. Safe to say there's nothing left for nerves
Don't count your chickens (no pun intended) Andy. When we score in the first 10 mins your theory will be stress tested.
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Well, it’s 12.32am here in California and I’m a mess. I had to microdose some psilocybin which will help or at least make the 3.5 hours to my alarm going off warm and fuzzy….
Ocean sounds on Spotify and away we go….
Already at RovCon 1.
Don't be late to the Lucky Pint. There aren't many bacon rolls left.
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Well, it’s 12.32am here in California and I’m a mess. I had to microdose some psilocybin which will help or at least make the 3.5 hours to my alarm going off warm and fuzzy….
Ocean sounds on Spotify and away we go….
Already at RovCon 1.
Don't be late to the Lucky Pint. There aren't many bacon rolls left.
Ha! Max and I are doing a full English after the game. English bacon. Bangers. Scrambled eggs. Mushrooms. Tinned tomatoes. Crusty bread.
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Well, it’s 12.32am here in California and I’m a mess. I had to microdose some psilocybin which will help or at least make the 3.5 hours to my alarm going off warm and fuzzy….
Ocean sounds on Spotify and away we go….
Already at RovCon 1.
Don't be late to the Lucky Pint. There aren't many bacon rolls left.
Ha! Max and I are doing a full English after the game. English bacon. Bangers. Scrambled eggs. Mushrooms. Tinned tomatoes. Crusty bread.
Can tha not get black pudding?
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Well, it’s 12.32am here in California and I’m a mess. I had to microdose some psilocybin which will help or at least make the 3.5 hours to my alarm going off warm and fuzzy….
Ocean sounds on Spotify and away we go….
Already at RovCon 1.
Don't be late to the Lucky Pint. There aren't many bacon rolls left.
Ha! Max and I are doing a full English after the game. English bacon. Bangers. Scrambled eggs. Mushrooms. Tinned tomatoes. Crusty bread.
Brown sauce.?
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I’ve been fine all week, no nerves. Now this morning I’m shitting it!
Had a stomach bug for 3 days. Safe to say there's nothing left for nerves
Likewise, only mine was 2 days, back feeling better now
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Well, it’s 12.32am here in California and I’m a mess. I had to microdose some psilocybin which will help or at least make the 3.5 hours to my alarm going off warm and fuzzy….
Ocean sounds on Spotify and away we go….
Already at RovCon 1.
Don't be late to the Lucky Pint. There aren't many bacon rolls left.
Ha! Max and I are doing a full English after the game. English bacon. Bangers. Scrambled eggs. Mushrooms. Tinned tomatoes. Crusty bread.
Trump has renamed it the Gigantic American
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Set off from our tiny village in France yesterday morning. 120 mile drive to airport, flight to Gatwick then trains to Donny and finally a bus to Bawtry. Didn't sleep much, troughed a bacon sarnie and off to stadium soon. Level 2-3 but rising.
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Rovcon 2. Trying to de-stress in the gym but the group chat isn’t helping. Working tonight as well so can’t even settle the nerves with a gallon.
Billy is 9/2 last goal scorer, by the way…
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Bouncing about between 3 and 1
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Surprised how many Rovers shirts were in the dining room at breakfast. A car load of family driving across from Bradford now so getting nervy. Having a pint with a few City fans I know before the game and I know that they as nervous or even more nervous than me.
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Rovcon level one. Woke up at 3am and rather than go back to sleep decided to check the Bradford City Forum to see what they were predicting for today. Why I decided to do that I have no idea eventually did go back to sleep but FFS. Ridiculous.
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Well, it’s 12.32am here in California and I’m a mess. I had to microdose some psilocybin which will help or at least make the 3.5 hours to my alarm going off warm and fuzzy….
Ocean sounds on Spotify and away we go….
Already at RovCon 1.
Don't be late to the Lucky Pint. There aren't many bacon rolls left.
Ha! Max and I are doing a full English after the game. English bacon. Bangers. Scrambled eggs. Mushrooms. Tinned tomatoes. Crusty bread.
Brown sauce.?
Now that is the brunch of Champions - see everyone at the Lucky Pint - I’ve not slept more than an hour. Somehow I get to Rovcon 1 quicker when I can’t go !
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Having a pint under the Black Bank and I'm shaking like a shifting dog
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Just to wish all our Rovers family the very best of luck today, the ones that go to every game home and away, the ones that get to all the home games but can't get to the away ones, the ones that do the occasional home game, the ones who for whatever reasons can't get to any games and watch on tv or have a dodgy box. No matter what is said on here between the rose tinted glasses lot and the negative nay sayers, we all have the same thing in common, we are Rovers through and through and we are all desperate to see our boys do well today. Have the best of days today to all you fantastic Vikings, let's show the Bantams we South Yorkshire lot have got more fire, grit and determination in our bellies to get the job done. COYR!!
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Touching cloth.
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Just to wish all our Rovers family the very best of luck today, the ones that go to every game home and away, the ones that get to all the home games but can't get to the away ones, the ones that do the occasional home game, the ones who for whatever reasons can't get to any games and watch on tv or have a dodgy box. No matter what is said on here between the rose tinted glasses lot and the negative nay sayers, we all have the same thing in common, we are Rovers through and through and we are all desperate to see our boys do well today. Have the best of days today to all you fantastic Vikings, let's show the Bantams we South Yorkshire lot have got more fire, grit and determination in our bellies to get the job done. COYR!!
Well said,sir.
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Great 1st half… Me and junior are well up for it!
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Well, what a day. I go back home today so it's trains, plane and automobile until I get to my house in the middle of nowhere in France. My Rovcon is still high, I think it's a bit of disbelief really. But, they did it and I have some brilliant memories to take back with me and I've a daft grin all over my face. Well done Rovers!