First half

[benaldo]

I was determined not to post on here again....

But.....

I just happened to look at the stats for the first half -

Shots on target - 0

Shots off target - 0

Corners - 0

Useless midfielder named George - 1


Even by Rovers standards....that's pretty shit.

[RUPRECHT]

agreed, thats just embarrassing

[DRFCBRADFORD]

load off rubbish

[mushRTID]

Our performance has been embarrassing. Total shite.

[Filo]

The two central midfielder are not good enough, Stock is a pale shadow of the player he was and Gillett, well you can see why Southampton did n`t fancy him in League 1!

[benaldo]

Friend
Gillett
Stock
Martis

are all so bad that it makes having the likes of Sharp and Diouf and Illunga totally meaningless!

If this club is to survive I honestly think they need to get rid of the above players come January.

Add to that the fact that Oster isn't getting younger, Coppinger USED to be good but hasn't been for a year now, our best keeper is in his 40s, 50% of of defence are leaving in January and we don't have a single defender of championship quality......and you can see just how far in the shit Rovers really are.

I don't care about not having a team of Messi's or beating every team we play, but this is just shit. Blame who you like, it doesn't really matter, but for me personally, this squad was mostly assembled by one person with one vision. He got it wrong at this level and Saunders is left with a load of shit.

God only knows how Rovers are going to stay up?

[ryanb86]

not all doom and gloom.. we won our 1st corner on 60mins!!

[DonnyOsmond]

Friend
Gillett
Stock
Martis

are all so bad that it makes having the likes of Sharp and Diouf and Illunga totally meaningless!

If this club is to survive I honestly think they need to get rid of the above players come January.

Add to that the fact that Oster isn't getting younger, Coppinger USED to be good but hasn't been for a year now, our best keeper is in his 40s, 50% of of defence are leaving in January and we don't have a single defender of championship quality......and you can see just how far in the shit Rovers really are.

I don't care about not having a team of Messi's or beating every team we play, but this is just shit. Blame who you like, it doesn't really matter, but for me personally, this squad was mostly assembled by one person with one vision. He got it wrong at this level and Saunders is left with a load of shit.

God only knows how Rovers are going to stay up?

Yes we do. He's just unfortunately played out of position.

[ryanb86]

now 2-0... oh god.. whats going off??

[MrFrost]

It is shocking. Not one player is interested and I am quite frankly disgusted with the lot of them.

[benaldo]

Whats going off Ryan is that Rovers have a squad of rubbish players. Only Diouf, Sharp, Illunga today seem to have been doing anything at all. Barnes too when he's come on.
Rovers are really in the shit. Can't even beat Barnsley........! Bye bye Championship. :byebye

[ryanb86]

65mins.... brian stock takes a shot and on target... 65mins for a shot!! r

[Al4475]

You there Frosty - is it really as bad as it sounds?

[MrFrost]

Well done Lockwood you idiot.

[MrFrost]

You there Frosty - is it really as bad as it sounds?

It's that bad. Worst since 97/98 in my opinion.

[benaldo]

Let's face it, any team that has George Friend in it is, especially in midfield, going to get a hiding.

He's shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.

[ryanb86]

lockwood sent off... were f**ked!!

[benaldo]

Everything just feels completely out of control. Like the players have been sat on their arses for the past week and just f**king about while picking up their (not small) pay packets. I think there is no-one at the club who honestly kicks any arses when f**k ups are made. I get the sense that being a Rovers player is easy street, no pressure, \"Fun at work\", being treated like demi gods by the locals. Unless someone gets those overpaid tossers by the scruff  of their necks Rovers are going to spiral out of the league and possibly not see it again for a very, very long time.

[Al4475]

FROSTY: It's that bad. Worst since 97/98 in my opinion.

That bad? Really? Bloody hell!

Cheers mate - I really hope things begin to look up soon!

[MrFrost]

Anyone who believes we have any chance of staying up needs a complete reality check.

[Al4475]

I didn't say I believed we'd stop up Frosty - I said I hope things begin to look up! A clean sheet here or there, the odd win, a performance where we say, \"We didn't really deserve that today,\" that'd be nice!

[Al4475]

I didn't say I believed we'd stop up Frosty, I hope we do, but I ain' t sure we will - I said I hope things begin to look up! A clean sheet here or there, the odd win, a performance where we say, \"We didn't really deserve that today,\" that'd be nice!

[Al4475]

I have no idea why that post's repeated itself!

[benaldo]

2 shots at goal in the whole game compared to Barnsleys 17.

40% possession.

1 sending off.

Friend in midfield.

It's shit. Absolute shit. The sooner Stock,Gillett, Friend, Martis are replaced the better. And going by purely the stats our keeper kept it down to 2!!!! God only knows what our \"proper\" keepers would have let in!

Big changes needed. We have a new manager, but let's have some proper players.

[Filo]

Stats:


BARNSLEY
DONCASTER
Possession

    Barnsley 60%
    Doncaster 40%

Attempts on target

    Barnsley 9
    Doncaster 1

Attempts off target

    Barnsley 8
    Doncaster 1

Corners

    Barnsley 6
    Doncaster 2

Fouls

    Barnsley 4
    Doncaster 11





Says everything against a team that are n`t pulling up any trees themselves, I doubt they`ll have an easier game all season, probably the return fixture at the KM might give them a run mind!

[Mr1Croft]

Bottom of League before Bristol City kick a ball...

[stockyboy]

How can we go from a great performance at Ipswich to that dyer performance today? Not Saunders fault, he would have prepared them the same. Only change was Sullivan out, Ikeme in. Our most fierce rivalry and we can't manage a shot in first half?

[Bristol Red Rover]

2 shots at goal in the whole game compared to Barnsleys 17.

40% possession.

1 sending off.

Friend in midfield.

It's shit. Absolute shit. The sooner Stock,Gillett, Friend, Martis are replaced the better. And going by purely the stats our keeper kept it down to 2!!!! God only knows what our \"proper\" keepers would have let in!

Big changes needed. We have a new manager, but let's have some proper players.

Yep, not good. Life tends to go steps forwards and backwards and we're still in a much better position than we've been in for the whole time I've seen us. I think we can bounce back. Just hope it doesn't have to be from League 1.

[Mr1Croft]

It's back to t square one. We could have kept Kirkland all season, or signed Murphy, we'd still be dyer.

We need defenders, last season we rode our luck in the first half of the season and when we lost our momentum in the second half and injuries lead to a poor midfield our defence couldn't cope, the only change this season is Naylor and we're still struggling, and Saunders and McKay are looking at players in every position except centre defence.

Not Saunders fault? I'm not saying he should be sacked but he can't be 100% blameless for today. He is the manager and on days like today we have to look at why we played so poor, did he not pick the team? was it his choice to field our best CB in midfield? Those of us supporting SOD when we played poor could only go on blaming the players and injuries so long, and it's the same situation here, he is employed to get the results, and were slowly looking like a joke side that is only in this division to make the numbers up.

Not good at all...

[andysly]

Let's face it, any team that has George Friend in it is, especially in midfield, going to get a hiding.

He's shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.

 
Easy to criticise from your armchair. I thought we'd heard last of you,and your subversive and negative opinions.