Let's talk about the Rochdale game

[steve@dcfd]

So is DS going to persist with 3 at the back again
Knoyle RSW and Anderson not ideal for that. Could he go to a back four.

[donnievic]

Rowe out again tonight. Any word on what’s happened with him? Gone very quiet.

had back spasms before tranmere game

[scawsby steve]

Clayton not in the squad.

[Chris Black come back]

Free Press say he has an injury.

[Chris Black come back]

Typically piss poor defensive performance. Concede yet again. Always happens, even against the poorest sides on the worst runs of form. Twice. Jesus wept.

[Chris Black come back]

And now three conceded, at home and against an absolutely piss poor side.

[since-1969]

And now three conceded, at home and against an absolutely piss poor side.

As long as we score than we concede who gives a flying one !!

[Upton Rover]

Why do all the fans 'deserve a big win'?  Do all those who boo and hurl abuse deserve a big win too?  It's competitive sport, for there to be winners there must also be losers.  We've had some of our best times in recent years, now we're having a God awful spell of the bad times, perhaps we 'deserve' those too.

Why do we deserve bad times? No team deserves them, shit happens, I thought we would score big tonight, just never thought we would concede 3

[phil o sophical]

Hardly the most convincing performance but 3 points is 3 points and god knows how but we're still only 2 points off the playoffs. Funny old game football

[scawsby steve]

I'm happy with the 3 points, but by God, if ever a result papered over the cracks, it was that tonight.

Our defence is truly, truly awful. We were at home to a terrible team who are next to the bottom of the league, yet managed to concede 3 goals.

I daren't even think about Carlisle.

[CaptainStock]

Watched on ifollow, thought Williams had an alright game, seems to play better in the middle.

That second half performance was dire. But got a win by scoring 4 goals, given tranmere game I'll take that

[Chris Black come back]

It’s worrying how we’ve all become desensitised to this stuff. We are playing in the lowest professional tier and are shipping on average this season 1.5 goals every league game against some totally abject sides. 3 goals at home against a side that are the second lowest scorers in this league, is just unacceptable.

[Canadian Rover]

Williams is better alongside someone that can head the ball. As a centre half he's not good in the air. He had a decent game tonight for sure and was very unlucky with the OG. Would love to see us revert to a 4 at the back 5 is a complete waste and doesn't make us a solid defensive unit

[ForsolongaRover]

 No one dare pass back. And apart from the OG Williams had his best game ever. But we couldn’t get the ball in the second half against the 23rd in L2.

[Branton Red]

Well I thoroughly enjoyed that.

I go to the football hoping to be entertained, see plenty of goalmouth incidents and goals plus hopefully see Rovers win.

Got all of that this evening.

[moses]

I thought the reaction of the crowd to the first tippy tappy goal kick set the tone. They didn’t do it again.

[danumdon]

Takeaways from tonight,

Are defending is worse than dire, Knoyle, not known for his defensive strengths is totally wasted in the back three.When Williams has held the back line together you know we've had issues.

Our central midfield could not tackle a breadstick between them, Great freekick from Biggins but if Close plays then we need a SWAT team member in there to do all his legwork for him.

Hurst and Moly need to see more of the ball, after Hurst was scythed down in the first half he didn't get a touch again. Need to go hunting for the ball when its not presented to them.

Miller missed an open goal in the first half that should of took us away from a poor team, needs to learn to cushion his first touch better.

When we came out for the second half i thought we would be straight into them again like from the kick off, we didn't see the ball again for 25 mins until after they had scored, what do we put i the half time team, night nurse?

Managed to nick that game tonight just through the sheer fact they were so poor, do this against Carlisle and they will bag an hat-full. really need to pick up our pace.

[Alan Southstand]

A win’s a win but only 41% possession against Rochdale, at home? It’s ok slating the defence but, come on guys, the midfield is a major problem. A ball winner and a sprinkling of tenacity required in January……..minimum!

[Chris Black come back]

Too many players just disappear. Tonight no different. Would love to see how many touches Miller had all game. Think Agard had more.

[Lesonthewest]

Just for tonight I'm going to ignore the negatives of tonights game, & wallow in the fact we created chances, scored 4 goals & won! Well done lads & goodnight!

[Reg of the Rovers]

Miller is just completely isolated - when I saw Agard and Woltman warmed up I thought finally we're going to try and be positive, but DS changed it like for like and took Miller off.

We played most of the game with five at the back, and conceded three against a comically poor side, and seemed to play most of the game in our own half.

I'm grateful for the win and the Chuckle-Brothersesque entertainment of to-me-to-you football, but we're still set up far far too defensively and can't get up the pitch or play with enough urgency.

[normal rules]

I'm happy with the 3 points, but by God, if ever a result papered over the cracks, it was that tonight.

Our defence is truly, truly awful. We were at home to a terrible team who are next to the bottom of the league, yet managed to concede 3 goals.

I daren't even think about Carlisle.

We’ve got Orient to look forward to v soon. I can’t see anything other than a pasting.

[Donnyjim]

We’ve beat a team 4-3 at home. A team that has not won in 6 games and is second to bottom in the bottom tier of English football. This, guys and gals is where we are. It’s where we are today, next season it will be far far worse.

[Campsall rover]

Well I thoroughly enjoyed that.

I go to the football hoping to be entertained, see plenty of goalmouth incidents and goals plus hopefully see Rovers win.

Got all of that this evening.

Well your easily pleased. That was the worst 4-3 match I have ever seen.
Apart from the 1st 10 mins we were awful.
2nd half we have had one shot and scored. 
That 2nd half only one team playing and it wasn’t Rovers.

That result only papered over the cracks. 
Why is DS persisting with playing Knoyle as a CB.  Total waste of his abilities to be a creative player.
Seaman tries hard but isn’t good enough.

Anderson m.o.m. Tonight and delighted he scored the winner as well. Shut the boo boys up.
Total disgrace they are. We don’t need supporters like that.

[Branton Red]

We've got some poor players and (another) inexperienced manager making inevitable beginner's mistakes and struggling a bit.

I think we all know where we are in context.

But within that context we can still all enjoy a seven-goal match where Rovers come out on top though can't we?

[Campsall rover]

We've got some poor players and (another) inexperienced manager making inevitable beginner's mistakes and struggling a bit.

I think we all know where we are in context.

But within that context we can still all enjoy a seven-goal match where Rovers come out on top though can't we?

I am delighted we won of course. Great to see us score 4 goals but the performance was pretty dire let’s be honest.
We played against a very poor team and made them look quite decent.
If we play like that on Sunday against Carlisle we will get beaten and heaven help us at Leyton Orient.

[ForsolongaRover]

We've got some poor players and (another) inexperienced manager making inevitable beginner's mistakes and struggling a bit.

I think we all know where we are in context.

But within that context we can still all enjoy a seven-goal match where Rovers come out on top though can't we?

He is an experienced coach, not a beginner.

His system, whatever it is, is not working. Why don’t his players practise the basic skills? Why don’t they have the energy to challenge for the ball?

Some of the early games this season were quite pleasurable to watch, but apart from that Grimsby game it has been dire under Schofield. Blame the players if you like, but if you listen to what they say, they are playing in the way he has dictated they should.

And it’s about time some of his interviewers started challenging him about the terrible quality of the football he is producing.

[Upton Rover]

We've got some poor players and (another) inexperienced manager making inevitable beginner's mistakes and struggling a bit.

I think we all know where we are in context.

But within that context we can still all enjoy a seven-goal match where Rovers come out on top though can't we?

He is an experienced coach, not a beginner.

His system, whatever it is, is not working. Why don’t his players practise the basic skills? Why don’t they have the energy to challenge for the ball?

Some of the early games this season were quite pleasurable to watch, but apart from that Grimsby game it has been dire under Schofield. Blame the players if you like, but if you listen to what they say, they are playing in the way he has dictated they should.

And it’s about time some of his interviewers started challenging him about the terrible quality of the football he is producing.

Please say where he’s got his experience from?

[dickos1]

We've got some poor players and (another) inexperienced manager making inevitable beginner's mistakes and struggling a bit.

I think we all know where we are in context.

But within that context we can still all enjoy a seven-goal match where Rovers come out on top though can't we?

He is an experienced coach, not a beginner.

His system, whatever it is, is not working. Why don’t his players practise the basic skills? Why don’t they have the energy to challenge for the ball?

Some of the early games this season were quite pleasurable to watch, but apart from that Grimsby game it has been dire under Schofield. Blame the players if you like, but if you listen to what they say, they are playing in the way he has dictated they should.

And it’s about time some of his interviewers started challenging him about the terrible quality of the football he is producing.

Please say where he’s got his experience from?

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