Phew!

[Colin C No.3]

The 'old boy's' nearly did for us, Alfie & Andy, but thank gawd we hung on.

A massive 3 points!

[normal rules]

That was a squeaky bum 8 mins added time .ffs.
Crewe have conceded in 90+ 7 to put them 2 points adrift too.

[Chris Black come back]

Improved in many ways but as ever, our terrible defensive work lets us down. We were in control but a series of individual errors put them straight back in this, with a saved penalty as well. We are very slowly improving but defensively it is too often amateur hour. Yet again no clean sheet, for which we must be on for some kind of club record. 

[mpc123]

Thank god for a win and how well we played in parts.

Let's push on now, keep behind them

[River Don]

Erm yeah,

Is the problem up front or in defence?

...

[River Don]

Still,

Lots to be taken from this game. We can score goals. Saved a pen. Hung on!

[Chris Black come back]

2 clean sheets out of 13. We have won 3 games and only managed a clean sheet in one of those wins. If we can’t keep them out, it puts pressure on the front lads, who clearly are not the most effective striking threat we have ever had.

[Copps is Magic]

I would love to know where they got 8 added minutes from. There was the usual injuries and a couple of cramps but 8 minutes! Never in a million years.

Then their manager comes on complaining to the ref after getting a penalty and the gift of 8 extra minutes.

[goalkick]

Great win. Super goalkeeping. Looked very poor in defence.

[donnievic]

I would love to know where they got 8 added minutes from. There was the usual injuries and a couple of cramps but 8 minutes! Never in a million years.

Then their manager comes on complaining to the ref after getting a penalty and the gift of 8 extra minutes.

it was minimum of 7 mins not 8

[DonnyOsmond]

We were the better team for 60 mins or so but struggled with Alfie and his mobility. They then got corner after corner which we know we're shit at. Overall defensively were alright but we need to improve massively when it comes to set pieces. Going forward today was a lot better. Dodoo must start up front everytime when available until Okenabirhie is back, he is a much better option than Cukur who has no mobility whatsoever.

[Copps is Magic]

I would love to know where they got 8 added minutes from. There was the usual injuries and a couple of cramps but 8 minutes! Never in a million years.

Then their manager comes on complaining to the ref after getting a penalty and the gift of 8 extra minutes.

it was minimum of 7 mins not 8

I am talking about the over 8 minutes actually played.

[Filo]

The players are not fit enough, ran out of steam after 65mins, and then the panic button was pressed and headless chicken mode kicked in

[bigbadjack]

WE WON!! happy Saturday everyone

[glosterred]

This week we are winning and they signal 7 mins of injury time, last week Wycombe were wasting time in the warm up and they signal 3 mins. Where is the consistency, where were the 7 minutes lost to be added on?


COYR

[Colin C No.3]

The players are not fit enough, ran out of steam after 65mins, and then the panic button was pressed and headless chicken mode kicked in

I wasn’t there today, but was it not a case of Cheltenham, with nothing to lose, throwing the kitchen sink at us for the final 25 minutes?

Also bear in mind, this was the first time we’ve played with 3 at the back due to our ‘crazy’ injury run which was compounded on 8 minutes when we lost Tommy Rowe.

It was a game we dare not lose, & true whilst the gloss was somewhat taken off the result by conceding 2 goals when being 3-0 ahead, a win is a win…..& this one was massive for all concerned.

We now go into Tuesday’s game in a totally different frame of mind.

[River Don]

The players are not fit enough, ran out of steam after 65mins, and then the panic button was pressed and headless chicken mode kicked in

Welcome Paul Green.

[i_ateallthepies]

We had players all over the pitch playing the old soldier, sitting down to create a stoppage and break any momentum.  It's frustrating which ever side does it and about time referees dealt with it as today's ref did.

[ForsolongaRover]

Expecting consistency from refs is out of our control and complaining about it only gets the manager booked. It will never change. Even IT-assisted decision-making brings its controversies as we know with VAR.

Fans obviously can’t tell the manager what to say at HT, but RW does not seem to do as well as his opposite numbers.

[eastender]

2 clean sheets out of 13. We have won 3 games and only managed a clean sheet in one of those wins. If we can’t keep them out, it puts pressure on the front lads, who clearly are not the most effective striking threat we have ever had.

After the 7mins was announced , 2 Rovers Players went to ground , Williams Scored and Barlow was Subbed on. That lot is worth another 2 mins.

[welloffside]

What's the situation with the Rowe injury?

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Loads of positives in that performance..things to work on of course but a million times better than some we have seen.  Good to see a set piece goal at last aswell. They are so important.

Easy to criticise near the end but we're a bottom of the league side who's not won much in the past year. Its much harder to see games out when struggling and it showed a bit today.  But at times we played some good little moves.

[donnievic]

I would love to know where they got 8 added minutes from. There was the usual injuries and a couple of cramps but 8 minutes! Never in a million years.

Then their manager comes on complaining to the ref after getting a penalty and the gift of 8 extra minutes.

it was minimum of 7 mins not 8

I am talking about the over 8 minutes actually played.

well dodoo went down in injury time aswell as their 2nd goal and Dahl berg also booked for time wasting so was always gonna play more time

[DonnyOsmond]

The players are not fit enough, ran out of steam after 65mins, and then the panic button was pressed and headless chicken mode kicked in

I wasn’t there today, but was it not a case of Cheltenham, with nothing to lose, throwing the kitchen sink at us for the final 25 minutes?

Also bear in mind, this was the first time we’ve played with 3 at the back due to our ‘crazy’ injury run which was compounded on 8 minutes when we lost Tommy Rowe.

It was a game we dare not lose, & true whilst the gloss was somewhat taken off the result by conceding 2 goals when being 3-0 ahead, a win is a win…..& this one was massive for all concerned.

We now go into Tuesday’s game in a totally different frame of mind.

We didn't play 3 at the back. It was 4-2-3-1 as normal. Olowu at LB, Galbraith at RB. Rowe started at AM and Smith replaced him like for like.

[Lesonthewest]

We played a 3 with the ball, 4 without it, Galbraith did it brilliantly.

[Spud]

How quick was he to yellow Dahlberg? He seemed to barely have got the ball.

[roversdude]

Other than booking Dahlberg I thought the ref had a great game

[donnievic]

Other than booking Dahlberg I thought the ref had a great game

so you saying he got that wrong?????thought he had a decent game full stop

[roversdude]

Thought it was a bit rough as why should he take it from where Alfie places the ball, that said he had been warned

[mpc123]

Fingers crossed the defensive midfielder I'm Jan will be the difference.