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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: coventryrover on February 28, 2026, 04:10:19 pm
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Sat here in disbelief.
The guy just ran straight. I am not going to blame one player but that was shocking defending , from back to front.
Game over
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That was very bad.
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Get the lads down the pub, have a pint. Forget the game ever happened. Back again Monday.
Poor from Rovers today, Cardiff easily the best team we've played.
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I’m going to blame one player, he gave up twice, Molls, he had the chance to take him out in the centre circle, he gave up, then had another go to get him nearer our area and then just stopped. The lad picked the ball up on the edge of his own D and just ran straight, no one got near him, disgraceful defending
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I’m going to blame one player, he gave up twice, Molls, he had the chance to take him out in the centre circle, he gave up, then had another go to get him nearer our area and then just stopped. The lad picked the ball up on the edge of his own D and just ran straight, no one got near him, disgraceful defending
Or Bailey!
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Bailey had to get engaged rather than backing off as he did.
Thought he was very poor today, no idea how he got man of the match
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Just to say I wasn't expecting much today, they are a really good side with a midfield that won't look out of place in the Championship, they had runners in behind us & quality players that could pick them out. However, that second goal showed exactly what we are missing at times, leadership & responsibility, that goal shouldn't happen at any level, totally & utterly embarrassing, was like the parting of the waves.
Thought we pressed well first half & although you could see the difference in quality if we could have held it at 0-1 we could have had a real go in the last half hour. We then allow a player to run straight through midfield & defence & pick his spot so easily & the games dead. McCann must have been pulling his hair out.
Nothing changes of course & we still need to get the wins needed to stay up, but I think today showed we are what we are, a below average league 1 side, hopefully we get the points, & improve again in the summer. Jack Senior my pick of the performances today.
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Bailey had to get engaged rather than backing off as he did.
Thought he was very poor today, no idea how he got man of the match
He's a better defender than a midfield player
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I had zero expectation today, but thought we started well. Much better than the first half at Rotherham (wouldn't be hard). As soon as we gifted the 2nd goal the game was gone.....shame a few fans walked at when the 3rd went in..................
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Don’t know what Jay was doing for that goal but he wasn’t on his own
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Sat here in disbelief.
The guy just ran straight. I am not going to blame one player but that was shocking defending , from back to front.
Game over
All when Hanlan gave the ball away in the centre and ran around in a circle trying to make up for his error ..
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Let’s not blame Hanlan. That second goal was shocking from a team perspective and the fourth. Wow
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It was like an under 9’s goal.
I would like to know the distance he travelled with the ball and we just stepped aside.
It killed us.
I thought we had the best chances in the first half where we competed well.
Good teams do seem to carve their way through us far too often
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Sat here in disbelief.
The guy just ran straight. I am not going to blame one player but that was shocking defending , from back to front.
Game over
All when Hanlan gave the ball away in the centre and ran around in a circle trying to make up for his error ..
Lots of people more at fault for that goal than hanlon
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Stone dead. Someone said HT team talk said " keep it tight for first 20 seconds "
What a bizarre goal , and killed us Stone dead
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I’m going to blame one player, he gave up twice, Molls, he had the chance to take him out in the centre circle, he gave up, then had another go to get him nearer our area and then just stopped. The lad picked the ball up on the edge of his own D and just ran straight, no one got near him, disgraceful defending
moly was never within 5 or 6 yards of him so not sure why your picking him out,strolled past McGrath and then can understand Bailey backing off to a certain extent but not that deep,just a bad goal full stop to concede
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The second goal was the only grumble for me today, it killed any hope of us getting back into it and was utterly embarrassing that we allowed him to run all the way unchallenged.
Apart from that we deservedly got beat by the best team in the league who were levels above us. Move on and forget about it, the lack of boos at the final whistle just shows sometimes you got to hold your hand up and accept we got beat by a good team.
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Agree with most on here. Their midfield were superb. Never had a goal linger with me like that 2nd goal. Proper took the ond out of me
Got to put it behind us somehow
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Genuinely one of the worst goals I've seen any team concede, ever. Outrageously bad defending.
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Terrible goal to concede at a terrible time in the game. That being said, they were just a lot better than us and sometimes that’s all you can say. We’ve got bigger fish to fry in the next few weeks with the games around us that will determine our league status, not today.
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I’m going to blame one player, he gave up twice, Molls, he had the chance to take him out in the centre circle, he gave up, then had another go to get him nearer our area and then just stopped. The lad picked the ball up on the edge of his own D and just ran straight, no one got near him, disgraceful defending
I really don’t see how you can single out molls, their player just ran through so many without any challenge.
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Just to say I wasn't expecting much today, they are a really good side with a midfield that won't look out of place in the Championship, they had runners in behind us & quality players that could pick them out. However, that second goal showed exactly what we are missing at times, leadership & responsibility, that goal shouldn't happen at any level, totally & utterly embarrassing, was like the parting of the waves.
Thought we pressed well first half & although you could see the difference in quality if we could have held it at 0-1 we could have had a real go in the last half hour. We then allow a player to run straight through midfield & defence & pick his spot so easily & the games dead. McCann must have been pulling his hair out.
Nothing changes of course & we still need to get the wins needed to stay up, but I think today showed we are what we are, a below average league 1 side, hopefully we get the points, & improve again in the summer. Jack Senior my pick of the performances today.
Perfectly summed up.
There are some huge teams around, and we are not one of them.
We have an opportunity to stay in this league and play teams like Cardiff rather than Crawley, Fleetwood etc and take things on the chin.
A bounce back on Tuesday would give us, as a little club a huge Wembley treat, Vertu cup or not, it’s as good as it can get for TLOD, so embrace and move on.
In addition 13 games 14 points needed, enjoy the excitement and nervous stomach tremors, it’s what we watch sport for.
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I’m going to blame one player, he gave up twice, Molls, he had the chance to take him out in the centre circle, he gave up, then had another go to get him nearer our area and then just stopped. The lad picked the ball up on the edge of his own D and just ran straight, no one got near him, disgraceful defending
I really don’t see how you can single out molls, their player just ran through so many without any challenge.
lack of effort in that moment he could have easily come across and taken him out on halfway
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On one hand, give their player some credit. A class player oozing confidence at centre half but having the ball skills many midfielder or forward would be happy to have. Once he got running and got the bit between his teeth, he wasn't going to stop but probably to his surprise the red sea parted on the edge of the box, he calmly passed the ball into the corner.
Total panic from our boys...run away...hide!!
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Sat here in disbelief.
The guy just ran straight. I am not going to blame one player but that was shocking defending , from back to front.
Game over
All when Hanlan gave the ball away in the centre and ran around in a circle trying to make up for his error ..
Right on. Hanlan's also to blame for the war in Iran, global warming and the milk going off.
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Sat here in disbelief.
The guy just ran straight. I am not going to blame one player but that was shocking defending , from back to front.
Game over
All when Hanlan gave the ball away in the centre and ran around in a circle trying to make up for his error ..
Right on. Hanlan's also to blame for the war in Iran, global warming and the milk going off.
We win that game 5 or 6 nil if Bobby Faulkner played ;)
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All our players was like "After You Claude , No After You Cecil " to all of their players.
Cardiff got the 2nd ball every time and played for each other.
Donny Rovers GUTLESS
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Has to be the worst goal I've seen at home.
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LDR, I can honestly say you would have more chance of seeing rocking horse s**t than someone doing that to Faulkner.
You obviously know nothing about him.
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LDR, I can honestly say you would have more chance of seeing rocking horse s**t than someone doing that to Faulkner.
You obviously know nothing about him.
Hahahahaha
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LDR, McGrath tried to tackle the player on The half way line and then got left for pace by fifteen yards up to the player shooting on the edge of our box,
He carried the ball which tells me McGrath gave up or was very slow in comparison with the Cardiff player and ended up gesticulating at our other defenders in the box, Watch the goal from the recording from behind the goal its all there.
The third goal the Cardiff player shoved the ball past him and left him for dead over ten yards and pulled the ball back for a tap in.
Whatever you think of me it isn't good, and sets his team mates up for a fall as well. Rotherham last week and twice this week, it just is not good enough.
We got away with it last week because of good work by Middleton, Molyneux and Hanlon who have all been criticised by others today but are not serial offenders.
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Whatever you think of me it isn't good
Well at least you got this bit right
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All our players was like "After You Claude , No After You Cecil " to all of their players.
Cardiff got the 2nd ball every time and played for each other.
Donny Rovers GUTLESS
Reminded me of the Maradonna wonder goal where he ran through loads of England players with one even putting his arms up on edge of area
Have a look , but at least some did try to stop him instead of all backing off
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It was apparent how slow McGrath is yesterday. There were a few times in the first half when the Cardiff full back got forward on the overlap and I thought Jay would easily get in front of the ball but he didn't and then like you say for the goal, he engaged.on halfway and then sauntered the rest of the way.
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There was more than McGrath he left Hanlan Molyneux in his wake first then missed tackle by McGrath on the halfway line. Clifton couldn't catch him and he went passed Bailey and Byrne. We don't have pace in the side it was bad defensively starting in Cardiffs half it was a problem all game.
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I hope Grant & his team stick a recording of that 2nd goal on a big video screen at the next training session. Then ask every single player to explain wtf they were doing to allow that to happen.
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Even if the can't put a tackle in, just take a yellow and stop him!
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Even if the can't put a tackle in, just take a yellow and stop him!
Exactly, no one even thought about taking him out, the lad didn’t have to do anything, he just ran with the ball, in a straight line and we shit our pants
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Even if the can't put a tackle in, just take a yellow and stop him!
Yes , much as I hate tactical fouling , and taking one for the Team (aaagh) had the boot been on the other foot most other Teams would simply stopped the run by foul means if they couldnt do it by fair means
I think we identified something similar v Barnsley this Season
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Yes Patrick Kelly. See BBs post #12
https://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=295536.msg1427754#msg1427754
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Worst goal I can remember us conceding, absolutely shocking defending. And it’s obvious Cardiff knew they could try it and have a decent chance of something coming off.
How many times this season have the opposition picked up the ball in their own half and run unchallenged in to a dangerous position, it’s unacceptable.
The way Grant sets us up leaves 5/6/7 players caught upfield and we just don’t know what to do it seems when the opposition get the ball.
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I will wear that like a badge LDR thanks.
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We were not playing Roy of the Rovers yesterday, it was just Cardiff City, to allow a player to run the full length of the pitch without putting a tackle in is unforgivable. There will be an awful lot of red faces when they show that to them again on Monday, they certainly need to question whether they accept wages for that goal alone.
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They should be shown it every single day, it’s the stuff of nightmares
If Broadbent had been on the pitch he would have been taken out
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Proper embarrassing that goal, especially molyneux.
Mcann cant do anything about players not even trying to tackle.
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Worst goal I can remember us conceding, absolutely shocking defending. And it’s obvious Cardiff knew they could try it and have a decent chance of something coming off.
How many times this season have the opposition picked up the ball in their own half and run unchallenged in to a dangerous position, it’s unacceptable.
The way Grant sets us up leaves 5/6/7 players caught upfield and we just don’t know what to do it seems when the opposition get the ball.
It happens every single game and I’m sick of saying how frustrating it is to see defenders allowing attackers to run so far unchallenged.
If I and others can see it, how on earth can’t the coaching staff see it?