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Viking Chat => Lucky Pint => Topic started by: glosterred on October 11, 2025, 01:46:08 pm
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Today’s team, 3 changes
COYR
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How Grant can start Sbarra in game is beyond me he does nothing but run. Don’t usually Criticise the manager this selection is beyond me. Gotts Middleton and TLT should be starting.
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How Grant can’t start Sbarra in game is beyond me he does nothing but run. Don’t usually Criticise the manager this selection is beyond me. Gotts Middleton and TLT should be starting.
Am I reading you wrong? But Sbarra is starting
COYR
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No my phone sorry I am very surprised and annoyed really that Sbarra is starting
I have modified it now
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To say I'm disappointed with that starting X1 is a bit of an understatement.....but we shall see.
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How Sbarra gets in front of Gotts or Broadbent ill never know.
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Perhaps the others aren’t quite match fit for whatever reason.?
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Does know any streaming sites that I can watch the game on?
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No Ajayi or Olusanya in the squad. Looks like you're in for 90 minutes Bill. Maybe Mols might contribute something positive......fingers crossed.
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No Ajayi or Olusanya in the squad. Looks like you're in for 90 minutes Bill. Maybe Mols might contribute something positive......fingers crossed.
Hanlan is on the bench.
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Not necessarily about how we start and with whom, but how we finish at 90+ minutes. That bench looks very strong.
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We have mascots who look physically more adept than Sbarra!
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Well that’s not the start we wanted
1-0
COYR
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Beaten to every second ball in the first minute, horrendous touch from O'Riordan as the last man, mess of a start
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Terrible defending.
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abysmal ball control
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another defensive howler
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GM seems besotted with McGrath, he didn't play particularly well against Grimsby, surprised he's in instead of Pearson
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Does know any streaming sites that I can watch the game on?
Sky+
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Shite start but Orient haven't kept a clean sheet since 19th August.
Obviously now I've said that...
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GM seems besotted with McGrath, he didn't play particularly well against Grimsby, surprised he's in instead of Pearson
It wasn't McGrath who gave the goal away.
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Huge gaps being left in midfield for Orient to capitalise on.
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Grant booked by ed the duck
COYR
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Ed the duck is atrocious.
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This ref is a total prick!
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2-0
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Plenty of possession. f**k all threat.
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Long way back now 2-0 but plenty of time
COYR
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Like watching Wigan game two good strikers both scored our forwards are still blunt. Midfield like passing backwards. We are not as good as Grant thinks we are.
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Lawlor has got to do better than that.
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Well it's plainly obvious that something is amiss at present. We're being made to look like a non-league team by not very good sides.
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Now ed the duck has booked one of the orient coaching staff
2-0
COYR
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They look like scoring from every attack, the defence looks extremely shaky.
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You really wouldn't know that Mols, Sbarra and Gibson were on the pitch. Sharp is battling but, collectively, we're miles off it.
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just under 60 minutes left, but I think you can call game over with the way Rovers are shaping in this one, unless there is a drastic transformation after half time!
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I'll also say (again) that these two full backs are not League One standard. Far from it.
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We've not actually been that bad but Molyneaux and McGrath have had stinkers. Surprised there hasn't been more mention of McGrath this season he's been appalling.
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I'll also say (again) that these two full backs are not League One standard. Far from it.
A bit unfair on them, are Sterry and Maxwell better? Sterry possibly, but may be out for a few weeks more yet.
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May as well stick Hanlon on and go 3 5 2, not much else seems to be working at the moment
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I'll also say (again) that these two full backs are not League One standard. Far from it.
A bit unfair on them, are Sterry and Maxwell better? Sterry possibly, but may be out for a few weeks more yet.
Sterry and Maxwell are absolutely miles better. We lose out so much from an attacking point of view with Nixon and Senior.
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Molly a shadow of the player he was last season. Just not got going at all.
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I'll also say (again) that these two full backs are not League One standard. Far from it.
A bit unfair on them, are Sterry and Maxwell better? Sterry possibly, but may be out for a few weeks more yet.
Sterry and Maxwell are absolutely miles better. We lose out so much from an attacking point of view with Nixon and Senior.
If that is the case why is Maxwell on the bench? GM doesn't agree.
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What’s happened to us? We were so positive and confident at the start of the season. Have other teams just found our weaknesses and we lack the adaptability to change or is it something else?
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Sharia not seeing much of the ball - as usual
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I'll also say (again) that these two full backs are not League One standard. Far from it.
A bit unfair on them, are Sterry and Maxwell better? Sterry possibly, but may be out for a few weeks more yet.
Sterry and Maxwell are absolutely miles better. We lose out so much from an attacking point of view with Nixon and Senior.
If that is the case why is Maxwell on the bench? GM doesn't agree.
because he's never fit
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We should be 5 down
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Every forward move from them ends in a shot on goal.
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Half time 2-0 we ain’t at the races today. It’s going to be a long second half if we don’t improve
COYR
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Gotts, Middleton on, Molyneux and Sbarra off?
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After the 2nd went in we were shocking. Lucky it's only 2-0. Hopefully we make some changes to get us back into the game. I'd say we need Middleton, gotts and maxwell on for Molyneux, sbarra and senior.
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That first half was as lacklustre as it comes. Worrying form of late.
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Yes we are poor today but the ref is doing his level best to find against us. Even the commentators are noticing how bad he’s been.
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Gimme Luke over Gibbo every day and twice on a Saturday.
Lawlor shocking.
3-5-2 second half please.
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Let’s get this right we are losing at the moment to the better side. Our best players are not being allowed to get in the game our other players are none existent. They’ve score two it should have been more. We haven’t laid a glove on them.
Expectation from the beginning of the season and after the Bradford as gone. Is the team squad as good as as we thought. Molyneux not played consistently well this season. ORiordan and McGrath is not working midfield is not working all the forwards just can’t get in the game that’s why we have only scored 11 goals this season
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We've had a lot of possession and not hurt them. I can't understand why we persist with Lawlor, Close or Sbarra.
Their first despite one bad touch is a really good goal, the second is poor pressing from Sbarra.
Neither of the wide players can get in the game, Molyneux is too isolated 2v1 against a good right back, Nixon needs to push up with him or Sbarra be effecting the wide areas.
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We've not actually been that bad but Molyneaux and McGrath have had stinkers. Surprised there hasn't been more mention of McGrath this season he's been appalling.
Grehan is the best Centre back at the club! McGrath has been awful all season!
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GM seems besotted with McGrath, he didn't play particularly well against Grimsby, surprised he's in instead of Pearson
It GM seems besotted with McGrath, he didn't play particularly well against Grimsby, surprised he's in instead of Pearson
It wasn't McGrath who gave the goal away.
#039;t McGrath who gave the goal away.
Straight red for you, I didn't say he had
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Our passing in the final third is haphazard and I wonder about the fitness levels. Molyneux doesn’t seem to be as agile as he was last season and there seems no linkage between the wing backs and Molyneux and Gibson. Up the middle, Close hangs back and Sbarra might as well be just watching.
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Their second is actually offside, buckle tries to play the ball and is stood along side Lawlor. Poor officiating again.
We ain’t at the races though, it could’ve and should’ve been more.
I can see why they concede a few though, it’s all attack, if we can get it to moly (and he improves his levels including his attitude) and Gibbo, there’s enough chance we will score.
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If my maths and my memory are correct we have scored more than one goal in a competitive game 6 times this season. Four of those were in Cup matches. In league games, excluding this one today, we have therefore scored more than one goal in exactly 16.67% of games played. If you include today, and at the moment why wouldn't you? It's more than one goal in 15.4% of league games played....
BobG
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Gimme Luke over Gibbo every day and twice on a Saturday.
Lawlor shocking.
3-5-2 second half please.
You really think any of that is the fault of Lawlor?
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Rubbish that. Moly and Sbarra (once again) are complete passengers. McGrath and Nixon have defensively slow and cumbersome. Sharp isolated. We miss Broadbents defensive shield. He should be amongst first on team sheet. Wish Maxwell had all that room to run into. Not on pitch though. Think the gaffer got it wrong this half. Hope he can redeem it second.
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Looks like Harlan and Middleton are coming on in the 2nd half for Moly and Gibbo
COYR
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Molyneux is shite. In 45 minutes he hasn't controlled one ball.
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Can't believe we've made 2 subs and sbarra has managed to stay on the pitch. I also can't believe he manages to start semi often for a side in the football league.
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I did say LOSE in PvO just because Ed the Duck was "Refereeing"
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Diabolical first half.
We seem to be getting worse by the game!
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If my maths and my memory are correct we have scored more than one goal in a competitive game 6 times this season. Four of those were in Cup matches. In league games, excluding this one today, we have therefore scored more than one goal in exactly 16.67% of games played. If you include today, and at the moment why wouldn't you? It's more than one goal in 15.4% of league games played....
BobG
That's why I called it game over Bob, I hate being pessimistic but to expect 2 from the side playing as it is may be a call too far, but you never know!
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3-0
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Look at McGrath there. Shocking. Game over.
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Embarrassing tbh.
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Deary deary me McGrath, shocking
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McGrath howler. Both centre backs been a liability today.Surprised Pearson didn’t sub for second half.
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We look like relegation fodder at the moment
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He’s looked slow and clumsy all season. I don’t know if it’s the step up or he’s just not back in the groove after injury but he’s definitely the poorest of the 4 senior centre halves we have.
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This looks like it's going to be McCann's first real test of managing a losing Rovers team that he has created. We should all learn a lot over the next 3 weeks.
BobG
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Again Duckworth ignores a pull on Billy but as the ball breaks Hanlan adjudged to have pulled back their CB.
They take Free Kick which leads to 3 0
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Gotts n Broadbent on
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Look at McGrath there. Shocking. Game over.
Think at the moment we should have taken the half mill we were offered
COYR
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Should have been a pen there.
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Surprised Broadbent has come on. When you've been slow and ponderous the last thing you need is someone slower. Add to that he's incapable of passing forward and it's a bad mix when you're already 3-0 down.
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How has SBarra lasted 54 minutes.
A million miles from the level, but he’s not the only one.
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Maybe Selby was right. ;)
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Or maybe too many players are out of form and low in confidence at the same time.?
We have proven in our early season fixtures we can play decent stuff in this division (ok not scoring enough when we should have) so we just need to get back what is missing at the moment.?
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Diabolical first half.
We seem to be getting worse by the game!
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McGrath doing his best to help Orient add to their goal tally.
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If only Hanlan had the energy of Sharp!
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Get him off the pitch, he is way out of form, but not just that he hasn’t looked fit all season. The same for Molly.
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Our defending is below North East Counties level!
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McGrath should be nowhere near the team after this dreadful performance
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Feel sorry for the fan's who have travelled down.
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4-0
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Ball out of play for the 4th goal
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Most embarrassing performance since the Schofield era. Outfought and outmanaged in every area.
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FFS 4-0 and Orient have been worth it. We are so far off the pace today it’s unbelievable. Saying that the ball did look as if it had gone out there before the goal
COYR
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Ball out of play for the 4th goal
Certainly looked like it.
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I wished I stayed on the M11. I missed the whole of the first half but this second half so far is dreadful. Billy has worked hard. The rest are awful
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Not looking for an excuse we’ve been shit but these officials are atrocious
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Am I the only one who thinks that ed the duck should have been doing more to stop all the shirt pulling going off today
COYR
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Poor defence work, beaten by a better side, sorry for billy all on his own, impossible to see where a goal will come from def not hanlan, be very interesting to see next weeks team maybe Sabara at centre forward. :rolleyes:
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Context - the officials have been as poor as our defence! Woefully inadequate
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I don’t think Hanlan has won any one-on-one challenges.
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Only one word to describe that. EMBARRASSING
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McGrath should be nowhere near the team after this dreadful performance
Neither should O’Riordan who has been equally poor
COYR
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Orient down to 10 due to injury and having used all their subs
COYR
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Orient down to 10 due to injury and having used all their subs
COYR
And we still won’t score…
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Oriordan has at least shown quality and form prior to today, unfortunately Jay hasn’t, and is either unfit, 0 confidence, or just not good enough.
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Orient down to 10 due to injury and having used all their subs
COYR
They could have 10 players and Ed the Duck on the pitch from the start never mind 11 and Ed
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10 mins added? … time for another 3 :)
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I bet Richie is loving the scoreline.
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w**k, that is all.
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I bet Richie is loving the shoreline.
Why is he in Southend
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I bet Richie is loving the shoreline.
Is he on the beach at Blackpool ?
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Sharp is setting an example to those 10 and more years younger!
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Wish we had 10 others on the pitch of Billy’s quality and effort. He’s been immense today.
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Worst performance for a long time.
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Full time 4-0 I was always told if you cannot say anything nice don’t say anything at all. I’ll leave it there
COYR
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Definitely shaky defence today
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I bet Richie is loving the shoreline.
Why is he in Southend
Leyton-upon-sea