Worst 45 this season

[Spilsby Red]

Blah blah blah. Do some of you think we will win every game. If so, very delusional. It’s a tough league. We have a lot of quality players, doesn’t always work, but they give there best. Win, lose or draw, we have a fantastic club that is run well. They are proud to support the community and keep in touch without us (the fans ).
Isn’t it better to support a well run club!
Yes we want success, but, we have a club to support and be proud of

[bpoolrover]

Experience...... we are a young side cobbled together with a great manager
However most of the Hull lads have been there and done it
We are doing well with good football as always
Learning is a steep curve

the problem with it being a learning curve and having so many loan players(not that there is a choice at the minute) is by the time they have learned and got that little bit more experience they will have gone back to there parent clubs

[RobTheRover]

Awful. Much worse than Sunderland. Never seen so many mis placed passes. Sunday league first touches. That was awful. Hopefully Moore goes psycho on the lot of them. Changes needed already at half time. Get Copps on for starters to keep hold of the ball

What  worse than being 0-2 down to Blackpool. Let’s face facts Hull a Championship side and can back their manager with quality where it counts . Rovers played well enough but struggle to put teams under pressure for long periods unlike Hull who had us chasing shadows for most of the game . Some poor performances from Smith Sims and Andrews didn’t help .

Andrews. Who do you really mean?

I agree. Danny Andrews was shocking. Barely touched the ball....

[GazLaz]

Worst 45mins coincidently against the best team in the league. Hulls press in that first half was sensational.

[RobTheRover]

Worst 45mins coincidently against the best team in the league. Hulls press in that first half was sensational.

Agreed. They worked hard to stop us.  That gave them the platform to wrestle control of the game from about the 20th minute onwards. They made us rush passes and we never really had a free man unless we broke the lines.

[Chris Black come back]

Most sides seem to be able to operate an effective press against us for much of the game. If sides good and average are doing that to us regularly, perhaps we should be thinking of a plan b?

[Michael Shaw]

I get nervous when Rovers are in the Championship and playing the big boys. Those big boys (Charlton, Wigan, Hull, Sunderland, Ipswich and more) are now all down in our league. Their fans have the right the whinge about their clubs, but we are doing well to be where we are. Win our 2 games in hand and we could be comfortably in the playoffs against these clubs. It's a really tough league and it's hard to realistically assess ourselves when we are so many games adrift, like other clubs.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

There is an issue with consistency. Just as Posh, Sunderland, Portsmouth, Ipswich etc are also struggling with it!

For our passing game to work, it has to be slick and everyone switched on and finding space. When a cog, or cogs in the wheel are not quite on it, it can be awful. You could see many of our players were too tentative,  just too concerned about controlling the ball and struggling with the weight of the pass.

By enlarge this season, given or injuries and having to play players in diffrerenr roles, we have recovered quite well.

I think last night, the pitch was horrible and to begin with both teams were making errors however, we didn't adjust to it well and Hull benefitted by picking up the pieces. Whiteman was playing deep. Which may have been a planned tactic to keep things tight and then break out later in the game. That's why Fejiri seems to get isolated because we couldn't keep the ball long enough to get up to him.

We know our players are capable of better collectively and individually, that's why it's not as simple as some make out.

We lost to Hull away. Worse things happen at sea.

[IDM]

Funny old game innit.?

If Fej’s early shot in the first half hadn’t have been blocked by the Hull defender we could have been 1-0 up in the early minutes..

What would that have done to Hull’s game plan and performance, and to our confidence.?

As for someone saying the league is poor, what utter rubbish.. apart from occasions where one team runs away at the top or bottom, the third division is always challenging and any side can come good.  Every match has the potential to be tough regardless of the opposition.

If some of our fans want easy dominant wins most games, they’re watching the wrong league..

[Michael Shaw]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

[Padge_DRFC]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

No I'd have said Hull should have won 6v1 and we got away with it

[Michael Shaw]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

No I'd have said Hull should have won 6v1 and we got away with it

Maybe we played well enough to shut down Hull and stop them winning 6-1.

[Campsall rover]

Thank goodness we have some level headed fans who understand that there are always 2 teams playing in a match. Hull pressed us extremely well in that 1st half and are a well drilled outfit with quite a bit of experience in the team.
This is not an easy league at all. Some big clubs in it who are not finding it easy themselves.
Look at the inconsistency of Ipswich, Portsmouth, Charlton & Sunderland.
Peterborough have lost 5 games.

We are not anywhere near the finished article but 21 points from 13 games is a solid start to the season.
We have now played, Charlton, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Lincoln, Sunderland & Hull.
6 of the better teams in this league and Won 4 Drew 1 & Lost 1 so that shows to me we are more than capable of competing at the top end of this league.
We also have 2 games in hand on a number of teams above us.

Yes we need to find more consistency, but so do all the teams mentioned above. That is what every club is striving for. This is a very very competitive league.

Let’s see where we are before the Christmas games. If we can have a good run of results in our next 5 games we will be very well placed to launch a serious assault on the play off places.
I honestly think we will be stronger in the 2nd half of the season when our younger players will have gained more 1st team Football League experience.

Let’s just have a bit of perspective and level headiness about the level of performance we have seen so far. 6/10 I will give it.  Let’s get that to 7/10 by Christmas and 8/10 by end of Feb & 9/10 by Easter.
Finish with a 10/10 v Posh last game.

Up the Rovers. 

[Campsall rover]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

That’s exactly what everyone would have said. What a great point we got and it would have been all positive.

Many of the posters on this thread would never have even bothered to post. 

[Filo]

We’ve been sussed, nulify Whiteman and you nulify Doncaster Rovers, every man and his dog can see it, we need responsibility takers, at the moment we have none, someone should be dropping deeper to help Whiteman out, theres no fluidity at all

[Lincoln Rover]

How about, we were beaten on the night by a better team.

[Filo]

How about, we were beaten on the night by a better team.

We were, but what concerns me is DM thought we were the better side and deserved to win, if he really thinks that he is deluded

[Campsall rover]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

No I'd have said Hull should have won 6v1 and we got away with it

No you would not have even posted in all probability.

[Padge_DRFC]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

No I'd have said Hull should have won 6v1 and we got away with it

No you would not have even posted in all probability.

Give it a rest now. You've already got upset twice

[pib]

It looked to me like we were 10 yards too deep for most of the game, especially 1st half, and every time the ball went up to Fejiri he had nobody running off him or even within 10 yards of him. Most of the time there wasn't another Rovers player in shot on the screen!

I think Fejiri has a lot of work to do on his hold up play but he had no chance really last night with the scraps he was feeding off.

[GazLaz]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

No I'd have said Hull should have won 6v1 and we got away with it

6-1 is absolute nonsense.

[EasyforDennis]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

No I'd have said Hull should have won 6v1 and we got away with it

6-1 is absolute nonsense.

Is it really though? We could quite easily have been 3 or 4 nil down at half time. We was that bad in the first half.

[Padge_DRFC]

Probably put nonsense and meant 9v1

[Padge_DRFC]

I'll show you when replays up of every chance.

[GazLaz]

It's funny the difference a single goal can make to fan's perspective. If it wasn't for that last goal, fans might have said how well we played to draw 1-1 against an outstanding top side. And if we had drawn at the KCOM stadium we could beat anyone else in the league.

No I'd have said Hull should have won 6v1 and we got away with it

6-1 is absolute nonsense.

Is it really though? We could quite easily have been 3 or 4 nil down at half time. We was that bad in the first half.

Yes it is. No point explaining shot values to you is there.

[GazLaz]

I'll show you when replays up of every chance.

Watched the game, watched chances back today and also seen some top model numbers on the game. About a 1% chance of that game finishing 6-1.

[IDM]

It finished 1-2, we were second best but almost nicked Andrew whilst we had a decent spell in the game.

Doesn’t matter what it could have been..

[danumdon]

I'm hoping that there was something amiss with their pitch because that had to be the worst passage of passing play we have had for a long time, we struggled to make even the simple pass stick, it happens when you get the odd player off his game but last night seemed to be a field day for everyone. I know the opposition have a part to play in any display but we seemed full on with it, i hope we don't pay a bonus for every touch that the keeper and the centrebacks have, we would go bust!

The build up was far to slow again and we struggle to see a forward pass when its on, we seem very risk averse to changing our setup, ironically when we put the substitutions on we changed the setup and looked like we had some bite and capitalised on that to get our goal, if we have learnt anything so far its that we cant have Feji playing on his own up front,, if we insist on this then stick JJ on but our formation does not lend itself to giving the lone striker enough support,

Who knows maybe if we play this way but with some pace and directness (less back passes as it kiills our forward play) to go with some slicker passing we may still pull it out of the bag yet.

[elmsallrover]

Awful. Much worse than Sunderland. Never seen so many mis placed passes. Sunday league first touches. That was awful. Hopefully Moore goes psycho on the lot of them. Changes needed already at half time. Get Copps on for starters to keep hold of the ball

What  worse than being 0-2 down to Blackpool. Let’s face facts Hull a Championship side and can back their manager with quality where it counts . Rovers played well enough but struggle to put teams under pressure for long periods unlike Hull who had us chasing shadows for most of the game . Some poor performances from Smith Sims and Andrews didn’t help .

Andrews. Who do you really mean?

I agree. Danny Andrews was shocking. Barely touched the ball....

longest legs in football

[EasyforDennis]

I'll show you when replays up of every chance.

Watched the game, watched chances back today and also seen some top model numbers on the game. About a 1% chance of that game finishing 6-1.

What channel did you watch to see the top models? Were they the half time entertainment?