The Great Escape

[normal rules]

If rovers stay up this season, it will be celebrated like a promotion.

[RugbyRover]

Try this.

https://thefishy.co.uk/football-calculator.php

I had us finishing just outside the play offs

[belton rover]

Outside the playoffs?

McSheffrey out!

[ColinDouglasHandshake]

If rovers stay up this season, it will be celebrated like a promotion.

No doubt whatsoever. Rightly so. We looked doomed a while ago and still do so getting out of this will be like winning the FA Cup! 

[normal rules]

Oxford away last game could be a big big day out

[The Dav]

I got us to 49 points, starting with a win tonight, however I do realise its the hope that kills you !! 

[The Beast]

41 points, 22nd 

[The Beast]

Mine’s got Wigan finishing top on 109 points, with the Millers 3rd, hope that happens but unfortunately I think the Millers will win the league !

[Colemans Left Hook]

Oxford away last game could be a big big day out

seem to remember vaguely last time we played them at an end of season match their "weakened team" did really well cant remember the result

but hopefully they are secure for the play offs by then and don't care a to$$ about the result

[RoversAlias]

If we manage a win tonight, Morecambe do not win and Wimbledon lose (vs leaders Rotherham) then we will only be 5 points from safety.

Our odds of survival would surely look a lot, lot better still in early February if that were to become the case.

[Alan Southstand]

……….and a lot of difficult games gone.

[Chris Black come back]

Gap still 8 points or in effect 9 points given our goal difference. It looks like Wimbledon are being marooned with the bottom feeders.

[Colemans Left Hook]

Gap still 8 points or in effect 9 points given our goal difference. It looks like Wimbledon are being marooned with the bottom feeders.

Nostradmus speaks !!!!!   couldn't in a million years see that happening 

[colincramb]

If rovers stay up this season, it will be celebrated like a promotion.

We aren’t staying up pal.

[drfchound]

Gap still 8 points or in effect 9 points given our goal difference. It looks like Wimbledon are being marooned with the bottom feeders.

Yep the gap is still the same but we have one less game in which to make them up.

[ColinDouglasHandshake]

Can't string back to back wins together, despite multiple opportunities to do so and this means we will not be able to go on the type of consistent runs that some teams just get into when they manage to escape the drop from an unfavourable position. Tonight i really hoped for a lot better but feel flat about both the performance and the result tbh.

[andysly]

Did the fishy thing.
Despite only having us lose 2 or 3 games, still only managed 22nd and 43pts.
Too many draws.

[Sammy Chung was King]

We have had too bad a start, for the team to get itself out of trouble ,any time before the last day of the season . If we get to the last day with a chance, it’s been a good turnaround of form.
A mixture of mental and physical tiredness after the Sunderland game, and Ipswich taking their opportunity cost us the game.

We are maintaining our way of doing things, it’s all or nothing, no inbetween, win or lose that’s the choice, we don’t draw games. In the situation we are in it’s worth more to us, it being that way. Winning two out of four is better than being unbeaten in four but drawing the lot.
We didn’t lose heavily as we have before. It could help with the goal difference at the end. Need to try and win the next one.

[Silkscarf]

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It's the impossible dream of course.

[normal rules]

The wimbledon game is massive. The proverbial 6 pointer.

[andysly]

If only we'd kept that 3-0 lead at Morecambe

[normal rules]

If only we'd kept that 3-0 lead at Morecambe

Morcambe was the Season defining match for me.
A complete reverse “Mansfield moment. “
Who is to say last night was not our Mansfield moment though.
Fingers crossed.

[andysly]

It was just looking at the table and realising that we’d be “top” of the bottom four.

[normal rules]

It was just looking at the table and realising that we’d be “top” of the bottom four.

We should have been two nil up at half time at Cambridge. Consider that also on top of the possible Morcambe win too.
Ifs and ands of course. Frustrating. It’s that kind of season.

[mushRTID]

If only we'd kept that 3-0 lead at Morecambe

It really is still haunting me that. I also think if we had hung on to that, we probably wouldn't have gone and lost to Fleetwood too the following game. So frustrating.

[GazLaz]

If only we'd kept that 3-0 lead at Morecambe

It really is still haunting me that. I also think if we had hung on to that, we probably wouldn't have gone and lost to Fleetwood too the following game. So frustrating.

But we have won games recently we were very much second best in. It all evens itself out over time.

[Barmby Rover]

If only we'd kept that 3-0 lead at Morecambe

It really is still haunting me that. I also think if we had hung on to that, we probably wouldn't have gone and lost to Fleetwood too the following game. So frustrating.

But we have won games recently we were very much second best in. It all evens itself out over time.

I think that includes last night, stolen points if ever there were any! But who wouild grumble if we "stole" another 9 and Rovers stayed up? Not many!

[Sammy Chung was King]

Would we praise or grumble if we beat Wednesday though? . Imagine the uproar from their supporters, if little old Donny turned them over!.

[pib]

Would we praise or grumble if we beat Wednesday though? . Imagine the uproar from their supporters, if little old Donny turned them over!.

We did so in their own back yard 12 years ago to the day. I'd take another overhead kick goal from a centre half on Saturday.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Christ is that 12 years ago?

I promised myself at the time that I was going to stop going to matches as it was never going to get better.

That was the attitude that made me miss Brentford...