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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: 1-0 to the Doncaster on April 22, 2018, 10:45:05 am
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walking away from keepmoat last night, got me thinking when was the last time I saw a really good game of football with a great Rovers performance? I still can't remember. We are not an exciting team to watch.
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Two separate points there though, a good performance and an exciting game.
A 3-3 draw can only be described as an exciting game, we hammered Southend this season so I would say that was both exciting and a goo performance
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Shrewsbury was a cracker till the 91st minute.
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Southend once we got level was good. My favourite was Scunny in the FA Cup. If we played with that tempo and intensity every week we'd be more enjoyable to watch.
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I would also say scunny was very good, and Shrewsbury. We played very well against Shrewsbury but lost, Fleetwood also I thought we played very well
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If you want to watch brilliant football every week you support the wrong club. There are plenty of empty seats at Man City though.
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I thought the Bury game was. At the same time very frustrating.
For me the whole match day experience is poor at the Keepmoat. Despite what the official attendance states. There’s usually only 5000 in the ground. Next to no atmosphere. It’s amazing how different it could be.
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The Bury game was definitely exciting.
A really good Rovers performance? Weren't we good against Fleetwood? These questions aren't helped by the fact we have barely played at home in months.
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If you want to watch brilliant football every week you support the wrong club. There are plenty of empty seats at Man City though.
I'd just like to see an attempt to play exciting quick attacking football. This pass pass pass is a bit boring in my opinion. There's no comparison between a slow steady build up from the 18 yd box and a winger ripping a full back a new arsehole and whipping in a cross causing chaos and mayhem in the box.
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Passing football is the way of the game nowadays, and so it should be in my opinion. I don't think Man City fans are complaining about their patient passing play, not that I'm trying to say we do or should play as well as them.
SOD played it much the same way, in fact often more cautious than Fergie's sides tend to and people quite enjoyed seeing us be that style of team.
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I thought the Bury game was. At the same time very frustrating.
For me the whole match day experience is poor at the Keepmoat. Despite what the official attendance states. There’s usually only 5000 in the ground. Next to no atmosphere. It’s amazing how different it could be.
Padge, you are right about the actual attendance and the official one being different.
There was a post by someone yesterday about dwindling attendances and someone else said that they were not dwindling as we had had a good attendance yesterday (or words to that effect) when it was very obvious to anyone at the game that there was not over 8200 people in the stadium.
Obviously all seats sold on season tickets must be included in the official figure so if that is the case and given that there was over 1000 from Oxford, our additional sales are not very good.
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105 for Bury on Tuesday apparently was the official figure, there were barely 40 of them.
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I enjoyed the end of the game at Scunny
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I enjpoyed the Bury game right up to the point Mason unfortunately scored that unstoppable header
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Fleetwood at home. And only cos I watched the Bradford game on sky than do my usual round trip. Before that Northampton at home if not Rochdale in the league. So actually not long ago when there was a very enjoyable game to watch and good atmosphere. Another stupid critical opening post based on nothing given it's probably two games since it was very enjoyable at the keepmoat and we played well. Granted Fleetwood were garbage but look at the run they then went on. It's not fashionable to be critical for the sake and be negative. Anyone would think Rovers were bottom the way some of these loaded posts on here go on.
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Let me think . Ermmmm not since Belle vue
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Fleetwood at home. And only cos I watched the Bradford game on sky than do my usual round trip. Before that Northampton at home if not Rochdale in the league. So actually not long ago when there was a very enjoyable game to watch and good atmosphere. Another stupid critical opening post based on nothing given it's probably two games since it was very enjoyable at the keepmoat and we played well. Granted Fleetwood were garbage but look at the run they then went on. It's not fashionable to be critical for the sake and be negative. Anyone would think Rovers were bottom the way some of these loaded posts on here go on.
Exactly, some of our fans won’t be happy whatever happens, winning promotion last season and they only talk about the last 5 games after promotion was achieved rather than the 41 games that won us promotion
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I quite enjoyed yesterday!
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I enjoyed Tuesday.
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Let me think . Ermmmm not since Belle vue
You're obviously not a regular at the Keepmoat then.
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Hi Mick, been a while. When's your next account coming to troll us all?
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Exciting and entertaining don't come in to it. We can be all that and win nothing and go down, but we can be boating and win them all and go up so that is what is important to me. But if we play well and existing and win then I am still happy
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Tuesday night just gone marra!
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I enjoy pretty much enjoy every game I go to.
Today I learned people have a different attitude towards it.
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Well I thoroughly enjoyed the game on Saturday.
I watched it through the Virtual Reality Headset I collected before kick-off, and we won 3-0!
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Passing football is the way of the game nowadays, and so it should be in my opinion. I don't think Man City fans are complaining about their patient passing play, not that I'm trying to say we do or should play as well as them.
SOD played it much the same way, in fact often more cautious than Fergie's sides tend to and people quite enjoyed seeing us be that style of team.
Yes but under SOD the team could string 3 passes together.
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Passing football is the way of the game nowadays, and so it should be in my opinion. I don't think Man City fans are complaining about their patient passing play, not that I'm trying to say we do or should play as well as them.
SOD played it much the same way, in fact often more cautious than Fergie's sides tend to and people quite enjoyed seeing us be that style of team.
Yes but under SOD the team could string 3 passes together.
We made some very nice passing moves that got us into shooting positions on Saturday. We're a pretty good passing team from where I sit. Admittedly there were lots of mistakes in the Oxford game but it happens sometimes, if we fired on all cylinders every week we'd be top of the table but we're 14th and that's perfectly acceptable this season.
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Every team plays nice passing moves at times. I'm talking about the consistency of them. To compare this current Fergies Rovers team to SODS is quite a far-fetched analogy. To be blunt, there's no comparison.
Like you say, passing football is the way of the game nowadays, but sadly, Rovers are generally poor at it. It's not only the stray passes that let us down, it's all too often the slowness of their delivery. Most of our play is anticipated by the opposition. There is hardly any element of surprise. That's why our strikers struggle. They are crowded out by the time they get the ball.
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Sod had much more talented, experienced and expensive players. So yes it is far fetched to compare.
2nd half of this season has been excellent, looking at results and if we maintain this form next season we will be pushing for the playoffs, if we improve even only slightly we will be pushing for promotion
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tonites the nite buoys
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Agreed, SOD had much more talented, experienced and expensive players, and without similar financial investment now I can't see how the club can progress.
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I’ll enjoy tonight. We will do em
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To answer the question - I really enjoyed the Fleetwood town game.
A couple of poor results do not define a season.
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Every team plays nice passing moves at times. I'm talking about the consistency of them. To compare this current Fergies Rovers team to SODS is quite a far-fetched analogy. To be blunt, there's no comparison.
Like you say, passing football is the way of the game nowadays, but sadly, Rovers are generally poor at it. It's not only the stray passes that let us down, it's all too often the slowness of their delivery. Most of our play is anticipated by the opposition. There is hardly any element of surprise. That's why our strikers struggle. They are crowded out by the time they get the ball.
Yes indeed, my original point though was in response to German Rover saying he doesn't like us to play "pass pass pass", when patient build-up football has worked wonders in recent seasons at the top of the game.
Clearly we don't do it anywhere near as well as those teams but I think we try to play the right way and when it works we look a very good side.
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Not seen an exciting game for some time at the Keepmoat. Definitely not whilst Ferguson has been here. I find his style of football boring. Constantly passing backwards, too narrow and no pace in attack
The most exciting game I’ve seen at the Keepmoat was Crewe at home in the JPT when we went on to win it.
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Not seen an exciting game for some time at the Keepmoat. Definitely not whilst Ferguson has been here. I find his style of football boring. Constantly passing backwards, too narrow and no pace in attack
The most exciting game I’ve seen at the Keepmoat was Crewe at home in the JPT when we went on to win it.
I know it’s not exactly a laugh a minute at the moment but it’s strange to claim there has been now excitement under Ferguson.
Dutch Uncle posted in the fanzine last year that 2016/17 was the fourth highest goals scored tally in our history, we had a run of 6 successive home wins for the first time in 14 years and we went 22 home games unbeaten from the end of 15/16 to near the end of 16/17.
Out of those, the home game vs Portsmouth stood out as a quite superb match.
I expected it to be more of a slog this season. It was in 04/05 after we’d gone up and the squad was workmanlike but not scintillating at the higher level.
Do we expect too much sometimes?
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Anyone who thought last season was boring will be very difficult to please.
This season, you could say it's been boring - and Christ has it - but to say he's never put exciting football on show is nonsense.
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Some of us do expect too much sometimes, but what could be more damaging is those of us who expect too little.
What would be the point in the club investing in a better team if we were all happy and contented with the way we are?
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Had we put two or three of our chances away on Saturday fans would remember the good bits rather than the bad.
When we play well or even average but draw or lose then frustration gets the better of some.
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Not seen an exciting game for some time at the Keepmoat. Definitely not whilst Ferguson has been here. I find his style of football boring. Constantly passing backwards, too narrow and no pace in attack
The most exciting game I’ve seen at the Keepmoat was Crewe at home in the JPT when we went on to win it.
Two 3-3 games, two 3-0 victories and a 4-1 victory
You must not have been in attendance
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I enjoyed tonight. Despite the result.
Good hard honest graft.
Unlucky to lose after being level at half time.
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tonight was really good battled all the way against a very good team
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Tonight, cracking game
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Yep ageee
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Yep ageee
Just got home, I came on to say how much I enjoyed the game tonight.
Unlucky to lose.
Real gritty performance from our lads.
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Enjoyed the game after the first 20 minutes where we were given the runaround but don't let's get carried away. We weren't unlucky to lose. The best team won.
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I think everybody has said the best team won, but that doesn’t take anything away from our performance
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Enjoyed the game after the first 20 minutes where we were given the runaround but don't let's get carried away. We weren't unlucky to lose. The best team won.
Yes, the best team did win but we defended valiantly throughout the game.
Butler deserved his mom award.
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So what's the difference? Keeping the ball moving, playing with purpose, fitness, intelligence?
Is it just down to the quality of players on show or a collective team performance?
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There was more Blackburn fans tonight than us I wonder what crow they will announce though
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10.443 gate.
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There was more Blackburn fans tonight than us I wonder what crow they will announce though
A right Carrion at the end - Choughs invading the Pitch - positively Raven I was !
Cheers Jay T
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Yes, enjoyable to watch but the bottom line is we have lots of work to do in the summer.
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Do we? I think 3 quality players, plus a bit of back-up should put us in a strong position. I'll not blabber on as we've covered this in another thread.
As Fergies said, we've not scored enough goals. Despite our centre half crisis and the swapping and changing of full backs, we haven't conceded that many goals. Even the defensive Massiah, according to some, Steven Taylor, has not prevented Peterbrough conceding more.
It shouldn't take that much to swing the balance to more goals for and less against and that should give us a great chance of play-offs at least. Over to you DF and the board for setting the budget to get that additional quality.
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Do we? I think 3 quality players, plus a bit of back-up should put us in a strong position. I'll not blabber on as we've covered this in another thread.
As Fergies said, we've not scored enough goals. Despite our centre half crisis and the swapping and changing of full backs, we haven't conceded that many goals. Even the defensive Massiah, according to some, Steven Taylor, has not prevented Peterbrough conceding more.
It shouldn't take that much to swing the balance to more goals for and less against and that should give us a great chance of play-offs at least. Over to you DF and the board for setting the budget to get that additional quality.
3 won't be enough; either to cover for the horrendous injury list we seem to get every season, or to push for the play-offs. We need 5 at the very least.
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One of our main priorities should be an experienced midfield general we lose shape easily at times
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Last night. Really enjoyed it. Lads did well against a quality team. At one point I thought we might hold out for the nil nil
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Our biggest miss this season has been Andrew. After losing a tackle in the first minute last night, I thought Mason was excellent but the kid has been playing all season out of position. As for midfield, give McCollough a full pre-season and find a formation for Whiteman and/or Houghton to play alongside and we'll be solid enough.
On the original topic, Blackburn are a Championship team in essence and should be with the money spent. They shouldn't have got relegated last year so full marks to the real Rovers for keeping them out for 80 minutes with a mixture of graft and good luck. Though we had a couple of goal-line blocks, I don't really remember Marosi making any outstanding saves and that's credit to Baudry, Butler and the rest of the defence.