Nerve

[the vicar]

Is anyone nervous for today and the season. In very nervous more than a any other season

[since-1969]

Is anyone nervous for today and the season. In very nervous more than a any other season

Apprehensive

[mushRTID]

BUZZING

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

On the contrary I'm excited for a normal Saturday, it's been too long.  The games partly irrelevant.

[the vicar]

I’m nervous to still looking forward to it

[DearneValleyRover]

Normal first game nerves but more excitement due to being away for so long

[sha66y]

Got a good feeling about this team…..a bunch of guys offered a career lifeline to go out and show this league that we are not a broken thing, players running through walls to prove their worth, …… reminiscent of a pub team having a laugh

[craigdrfc]

Nervous for the season overall. This is not a moan but I think we are way short of where we all, RW included, hoped we would be.

I ‘get’ the status of rebuild season … Im just hoping we can get through it without falling into a relegation scrap, and then further rebuild in the summer.

Fancy a draw today …. 1-1

[Colemans Left Hook]

are there any covac tests being taken today ...  meaning what time can all managers know there players are ok to participate

apparently Rovers will come out to the Acker Bilk song strangers on the Shore pitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cEr4CCtllA

let's hope they aren't washed up on the beach by 5pm

a fantasy result would be a 3-0 win and top of the league (we could be heroes for just one day) the highest point of the season !!

in reality ....... "things can only get better"

[DoubleD1879]

I am as apprehensive as anyone on this forum, but I also like to think I have a nervous excitement about today as well, granted, pre-season has not gone as well as I would have liked, what with COVID and injuries, but in RW, we have a manager that will make sure that the players will run through brick walls for him, anything less than that, and they will not be at the club very long. My heart says top 6, but my head, realistically is saying top 10-12, then kick on for next season, so long as take points off both Wednesday and rotherscum, then it will be a great season 

[vaya]

I'm looking forward to all the players stopping part-way through the game for no particular reason and a large spinning disc to appear over the centre circle, before resuming play up the other end of the pitch.

[Padge_DRFC]

Looking forward to seeing Bogle live. More from a comedy perspective

[PDX_Rover]

Season 47 for me I think… or whatever 74/75 is ago. Will have butterflies as I watch from Ron Burgundy’s home city…

[Scooter]

Same as Mush - Buzzing!

[RoversAlias]

I'm looking forward to all the players stopping part-way through the game for no particular reason and a large spinning disc to appear over the centre circle, before resuming play up the other end of the pitch.

Excellent stuff Vaya!

[roversdude]

Excited can’t wait there seems a special feel to this season

[Chris Black come back]

Get Coppinger on!

[bahrain rover]

Indifferent

[Avsuptem]

Also aprehensive about today and the season ahead.

[goalkick]

Hope we play well. Six weeks in we will have an idea of our prospects for the season.look forward to reading the forum then.

[the vicar]

That’s fine 6?weeks but things can change so quickly in football.  Look at last season second 4games in hand and2 points behind, and it all went oh so wrong

[Avsuptem]

It just seems so obvious that we are well short of a squad that will be able compete in the way we did in the first 2 thirds of last season. RW is clearly a highly intelligent manager with great understanding of the game but will have to be very special to avert a season of languishing in the lower reaches.

[Campsall rover]

Mush said it BUZZING.

It’s been a long time since MK Dons away in March 2020
17 months without live competitive football.
Great to get back to that Saturday routine I have had for the last 58 years.

[karldew]

I’m much more confident now we haven’t got Jones in the net (hopefully).

2-1 win after being 2-0 up for me

[the vicar]

RW says he is our number one so he should be but I hope not

[Colemans Left Hook]

RW says he is our number one so he should be but I hope not

yes 1A

[Bessie Red]

I am as apprehensive as anyone on this forum, but I also like to think I have a nervous excitement about today as well, granted, pre-season has not gone as well as I would have liked, what with COVID and injuries, but in RW, we have a manager that will make sure that the players will run through brick walls for him, anything less than that, and they will not be at the club very long. My heart says top 6, but my head, realistically is saying top 10-12, then kick on for next season, so long as take points off both Wednesday and rotherscum, then it will be a great season 

12 points ain't going to keep us up!!