Swansea v Doncaster Rovers

[mushRTID]

Palace winning.
Not sure if that is good or bad really.

Its funny either way, a guy on bladesmad has put a grand on the blades to avoid defeat!:laugh:

[snods big brother]

Leeds losing  

[Thinwhiteduke]

Palace winning.
Not sure if that is good or bad really.

Regardless of our situation, I enjoy seeing Sheff Utd on a losing streak.

[Superspy]

lets be honest with ourselves here, to sign billy or not to sign billy in the first place is a complete non-argument anyway, as the directors put the money in for the purchase of him outside of the transfer budget, so it stands to reason that if we hadn't bought him, the money would NOT have been available for the strengthening of the squad.

our wage budget has gone up by a third without making the squad stronger, so as SOD said in his recent interview, the alternative is to sell our best players and essentially start again....how would everybody here reacted if that would have happened?  the phrases \"selling club\" and \"no ambition\" spring to mind. the fact is the club seem to be in a lose/lose situation, either they sell our best players and get criticised for the reasons above, or they don't, and they get criticised for having no depth in the squad.

my own opinion is that with the funds we have available, we've done the right thing with regards to the squad. the sheer amount of injuries we have is nothing short of freakish, and if we'd gone down the \"bigger squad/lower quality\" route, we probably wouldn't still be in the championship anyway, we'd just be able to name a full bench.

[VikingJames]

Millwall have equalised against 'Boro.

[Thinwhiteduke]

Leeds losing  

Couldnt care less whether they win lose or draw.

[Filo]

Palace winning.
Not sure if that is good or bad really.

Look at it this way, instead of 7 points behind us, 2 wins and a draw to draw level with us, they are 8 points behind, 2 wins and 2 draws, thats an extra game out of the way for them!

[MrFrost]

3-0

[Wellred]

At the risk of getting shot down. I would suggest SOD has signed far more bad players than good.

[MrFrost]

-16 now. How many of you mugs will be calling for O'Driscoll's head tonight?

Mugs?
The only mug I can see in this thread is you fella, now why not do us all a favour?

[Thinwhiteduke]

At the risk of getting shot down. I would suggest SOD has signed far more bad players than good.

He's brought plenty in who arent good enough for this level thats for sure - Friend and Webster being two cases in point.

[Filo]

Cracking Stats

SWANSEA
DONCASTER
Possession

    * Swansea 65%
    * Doncaster 35%

Attempts on target

    * Swansea 10
    * Doncaster 0

Attempts off target

    * Swansea 4
    * Doncaster 0

Corners

    * Swansea 10
    * Doncaster 0

Fouls

    * Swansea 5
    * Doncaster 8

I wonder how they`ll compare with Crawley`s v Man Utd

[MrFrost]

Cracking Stats

SWANSEA
DONCASTER
Possession

    * Swansea 65%
    * Doncaster 35%

Attempts on target

    * Swansea 10
    * Doncaster 0

Attempts off target

    * Swansea 4
    * Doncaster 0

Corners

    * Swansea 10
    * Doncaster 0

Fouls

    * Swansea 5
    * Doncaster 8

I wonder how they`ll compare with Crawley`s v Man Utd

Disgusting.

[Wellred]

-16 now. How many of you mugs will be calling for O'Driscoll's head tonight?

I really can't understand your attitude Rigo.
If you don't want to be a Rovers supporter anymore why not just leave the forum instead of staying to antagonise as many people as you can?

[Metalmicky]

lets be honest with ourselves here, to sign billy or not to sign billy in the first place is a complete non-argument anyway, as the directors put the money in for the purchase of him outside of the transfer budget, so it stands to reason that if we hadn't bought him, the money would NOT have been available for the strengthening of the squad.

our wage budget has gone up by a third without making the squad stronger, so as SOD said in his recent interview, the alternative is to sell our best players and essentially start again....how would everybody here reacted if that would have happened?  the phrases \"selling club\" and \"no ambition\" spring to mind. the fact is the club seem to be in a lose/lose situation, either they sell our best players and get criticised for the reasons above, or they don't, and they get criticised for having no depth in the squad.

my own opinion is that with the funds we have available, we've done the right thing with regards to the squad. the sheer amount of injuries we have is nothing short of freakish, and if we'd gone down the \"bigger squad/lower quality\" route, we probably wouldn't still be in the championship anyway, we'd just be able to name a full bench.

Quite agree with you - it appears that some think we can have our cake and eat it - we haven't the financial clout to do that, and we are already surpassing expectations.  The only problem we have had is that we have been extremely unlucky with regard to injuries - a situation that would have badly impacted on any team.

[MrFrost]

Strike force of Webster and Souza take to the field.

[Thinwhiteduke]

-16 now. How many of you mugs will be calling for O'Driscoll's head tonight?

Grow up.

[Thinwhiteduke]

-16 now. How many of you mugs will be calling for O'Driscoll's head tonight?

If you don't want to be a Rovers supporter anymore why not just leave the forum instead of staying to antagonise as many people as you can?

Sounds like sports journalism should be perfect for him, nothing job for no mark people.

[RoversAlias]

We were debating earlier whether this was embarrassing or not...the stats certainly make it that way today, even if the result doesn't.

The good thing is the bottom sides still completely suck. It looks like we're gonna get away with still being 7-8 points clear of the drop after today. And this run can't go on forever can it?

[VikingJames]

Scunny 0-0 Derby FT.

Probably a decent scoreline for us.

[Akinfenwa]

It's finished. No shots, no corners and 34% possession. Nice.

[snods big brother]

Well at least it is a better result than Tuesday - but not looking forward to next Tuesday against Norwich away - could do with calling up some of the youth team players. At least then we may have an attacking option on the bench instead of 1 injured player (Copps) 3 central defenders and a goal keeper.

[MrFrost]

It's finished. No shots, no corners and 34% possession. Nice.

Injuries aside, that is f**king disgusting. I bet Crawley manage at least one effort against Man Utd.

[Filo]

Well we`re still 8 points clear of the drop, we could do with Scunny and the Blades drawing on Tuesday, Derby look just as bad as us at the moment, tuesday`s going to be tough for us, if we can scramble a draw on tuesday I`ll be happy, the odd point here and there will do us at the moment, surely our injury crisis can`t get any worse!

[Thinwhiteduke]

The good thing is the bottom sides still completely suck.

And we don't?

[Filo]

The good thing is the bottom sides still completely suck.

And we don't?

At the moment we do, but we have an 8 point cushion

[i_ateallthepies]

Well we`re still 8 points clear of the drop, we could do with Scunny and the Blades drawing on Tuesday, Derby look just as bad as us at the moment, tuesday`s going to be tough for us, if we can scramble a draw on tuesday I`ll be happy, the odd point here and there will do us at the moment, surely our injury crisis can`t get any worse!

Don't think I'd put money on that Filo.  We seem to lose one or more players every game we play, and none of them are quick returns.

What the chuff has happened to the likes of Muzzy, Woods and Shelton?

[Wellred]

Have we actually got a physio? I am beginning to doubt it.

[esdailles left foot]

Which ever division we're in this time next year, hopefully the club will learn a valuable lesson from this season!

yeah for f**ks sake get some players in on loan, 4 players on the bench is simply pub team standard

[RoversAlias]

Of all the things you can moan about right now, 'get some players in on loan' is not one of them. Or did you miss us signing two players on loan for the exact reason of adding to the paper thin squad in the last two days?