Let's talk about the Crewe Alexandra game

[Campsall rover]

I heard a whisper from someone who knows George miller, that schofield is a great coach, all the players love him and they think we will be in the premier league within 5 years

Very droll dickos. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

You just carry on enjoying this SH.T show. Fill your boots.

[Chris Black come back]

As bad as we are - and f**k me we are terrible - Crewe are a horror show, especially on the road.

They’ve won twice away all season and only Crawley have won fewer away games. Crewe have managed only 12 goals in 18 away league games this season, that’s exactly two-thirds of a goal each game. Only Gillingham have scored fewer away goals. If Crewe score tomorrow, they’ve massively exceeded their average this season. They last won away in mid-November. 

More widely, they’ve won only 3 in their last 20 games (all at home), and have lost their last 3 games in a row, scoring only 1 goal (at the equally terrible Gillingham).

We are up against an absolutely dreadful side tomorrow.

To describe Gillingham as “equally terrible” suggests that you have missed their massive revival since they changed owners. Overall, my conclusion from the same series of Crewe results was somewhat different from yours. This was based on the margin of defeats and the quality of their opponents. Having only seen the stats I do not have the appetite to seriously contest how bad they are, but they may defend better than Rovers can attack.

You make a good point about Gillingham improving since the turn of the year, although their away form is still one of the very worst in the league and they are only 2 points difference from Crewe. I should also say that I’m not predicting that we would win necessarily just that statistically Crewe look terrible, especially on the road.

[sedwardsdrfc]

We will lose today by all probability. Even if Crewe are awful we have too many injuries to key players. Don’t see how we score a goal let alone win. Agard is ok for a 10th cameo but he’ll not offer enough from the start.

Game will play out like many at home. Crewe sit back a bit at the start then surprised at how defensive and poor we are they’ll have some spells of easy possession, because we have 5 at the back, and before you know it they are camped in our half and nick a goal.

That pattern of play has been consistent for a while now going back to Wellens and GM.

[i_ateallthepies]

Yet they are above us in the form table   

In the last-six form table we are equal with five points from one win and two draws.

[Sammy Chung was King]

We will beat these today.

[Campsall rover]

We will beat these today.

Who is going to score for us? Goodman hat trick?
Bet he doesn’t even start him. He will get 15 mins at the end when we are losing.
He will start Agard and swap them on 75 mins.

If he does anything different to that he will be doing something contrary to his master plan.
We can but hope but I am not holding my breath. He has publicly come out and said “he isn’t changing”

Lose today and he is still has this job at 9.00 am Monday then Blunt needs to explain to all of us why.
Copps I think is as piggy in the middle here and is in an impossible position.

Blunt is hiding behind Copps and is starting to look like the big bad wolf.
Oh no is isn’t, Oh yes he is. I think we have all known that for some time. The invisible chairman.
Only seen & heard twice a year by 300 people.

[drfchound]

I wouldn’t know him if he sat next to me Camps.
He is so anonymous.

[Chris Black come back]

Nelson is back in today, which is great news. Both Agard and Goodman are on the bench though, so I don't know who is meant to be playing through the middle upfront. Maybe Molyneux? Should be a goal fest!

[adamtherover]

No strikers starting today ffs

[foxbat]

going for the goalless draw ?

[ScillyRover]

No strikers starting today ffs

Any bets on how long into the game before we get beyond the half way line let alone the penalty area.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Might as well have paid Agards contract up 6 months ago if he can’t start a game in this situation.

[Colemans Left Hook]

To sum up this match I plead "never in the history of D.R.F.C. has a match been so irrelevant"

where's the fast forward button. 

[Avsuptem]

Watching this on Iplayer and finding it hard to understand how unbelievably crap we have become.

[i_ateallthepies]

This your first game this season Avsuptem?

[Avsuptem]

This your first game this season Avsuptem?

No, just the worst one.

[Chris Black come back]

As bad as we are - and f**k me we are terrible - Crewe are a horror show, especially on the road.

They’ve won twice away all season and only Crawley have won fewer away games. Crewe have managed only 12 goals in 18 away league games this season, that’s exactly two-thirds of a goal each game. Only Gillingham have scored fewer away goals. If Crewe score tomorrow, they’ve massively exceeded their average this season. They last won away in mid-November. 

More widely, they’ve won only 3 in their last 20 games (all at home), and have lost their last 3 games in a row, scoring only 1 goal (at the equally terrible Gillingham).

We are up against an absolutely dreadful side tomorrow.

"Doncaster Rovers 0-3 Crewe Alexandra"

Done in the voice of the bloke who does the official scores on the radio.

You may or may not have been joking but this is a possible score line. If it does happen, it will be the first time Crewe have scored 3 goals away from home in the league since 9 January 2021 - the best part of 2.5 years.

[BillyStubbsTears]

As bad as we are - and f**k me we are terrible - Crewe are a horror show, especially on the road.

They’ve won twice away all season and only Crawley have won fewer away games. Crewe have managed only 12 goals in 18 away league games this season, that’s exactly two-thirds of a goal each game. Only Gillingham have scored fewer away goals. If Crewe score tomorrow, they’ve massively exceeded their average this season. They last won away in mid-November. 

More widely, they’ve won only 3 in their last 20 games (all at home), and have lost their last 3 games in a row, scoring only 1 goal (at the equally terrible Gillingham).

We are up against an absolutely dreadful side tomorrow.

"Doncaster Rovers 0-3 Crewe Alexandra"

Done in the voice of the bloke who does the official scores on the radio.

You may or may not have been joking but this is a possible score line. If it does happen, it will be the first time Crewe have scored 3 goals away from home in the league since 9 January 2021 - the best part of 2.5 years.

A remotely competent side would have put 6 past us today. That really is a new low.

[normal rules]

today was a fixture that afforded a glimmer of hope.
i dread to think what a trip to stevenage will result in.

[Monkcaster_Rover]

As bad as we are - and f**k me we are terrible - Crewe are a horror show, especially on the road.

They’ve won twice away all season and only Crawley have won fewer away games. Crewe have managed only 12 goals in 18 away league games this season, that’s exactly two-thirds of a goal each game. Only Gillingham have scored fewer away goals. If Crewe score tomorrow, they’ve massively exceeded their average this season. They last won away in mid-November. 

More widely, they’ve won only 3 in their last 20 games (all at home), and have lost their last 3 games in a row, scoring only 1 goal (at the equally terrible Gillingham).

We are up against an absolutely dreadful side tomorrow.

"Doncaster Rovers 0-3 Crewe Alexandra"

Done in the voice of the bloke who does the official scores on the radio.

You may or may not have been joking but this is a possible score line. If it does happen, it will be the first time Crewe have scored 3 goals away from home in the league since 9 January 2021 - the best part of 2.5 years.

Corrrr. I wasn't far off.

[Chris Black come back]

That was a horrific performance and predictably, if someone on a bad run of form needs a turnaround result, we will always give it them. As we did today.

The only microscopic positive was that the second half was better than the first half. It’s all relative though and for 90 minutes we third best to a side that last like week, really not good.

[Chris Black come back]

Goodman looked useful when he came on, put himself about and had a decent shot. I’m not sure what Agard must be thinking today though. If he was on the bench he must have had some degree of fitness, so not to even bring him on for the last 15 minutes is absolutely damning. He’s a senior player on presumably decent money but we don’t even give him 2 minutes in a game where we had no fit strikers other than a teenager making his league debut. An immense waste of money and entirely indicative of the colossal amounts of cash we have pissed away the last few seasons. Criminal.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Might as well have paid Agards contract off months ago. Waste of time if he’s not getting a cameo. I don’t think he’d have changed anything but he’s worth a 20min spell

[Campsall rover]

To start Todd Miller as our striker &  playing Molyneux & Hurst not sure where, and have 2 strikers on the bench just shows how out of his depth this coach is.

He is alarmingly clueless. Mind bogglingly so.
You would think he is being paid by the Russians to destroy us.
How can anyone be so arrogant to continue doing something that doesn’t work for so long. What sort of a mission is this man on?

[ForsolongaRover]

The DFP article on Schofield’s post match comments -
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/football/not-good-enough-danny-schofield-reacts-to-doncaster-rovers-home-defeat-to-crewe-4088963
… does not convince me (and not for the first time) that he can identify what exactly went wrong. He always generalises, giving the sort of comments which you might make if you did not even see the game.

Why does he not point to specifics which need sharpening up, incidents in the game that would illustrate where we might do better etc.?

What disturbs me is that this is not the first time that he has spoken like this, steering well wide of anything definitive.

We know that he is immutably wedded to his process and I wonder how well he can identify the tactical plan of the opposition and (more importantly) how to counter it. I don’t ever remember him going into what the opponents did which caused us a problem, and the fact is that we seem repeatedly to be allowing teams to have multiple shots without any effective defensive plan to stop them.

The press corps never seem to press him closely on these things. “What are you going to do about…?”  If I were his employer I’d want to question him a lot more closely on these lines. Things are undoubtedly getting worse and worse, so does that not trouble Copps and Blunt?


 

[Campsall rover]

If it doesn’t trouble them then they shouldn’t be anywhere near this football club let alone Chairman & HoF

Surely he has to be sacked this weekend. What justification could either Blunt or Copps have for keeping him in this job even another day.

Dereliction of duty by the Chairman is what it would be if he is allowed to take training on Monday morning. If Copps wants DS to stay then his position is untenable and would he have to resign or be sacked also.
That would be a desperate way to see Copps association with DRFC end.

[ncRover]

We have to remember that Coppinger clearly also thought this squad that included signings commissioned by him could deliver his fantasy football

[ncRover]

https://twitter.com/crewealexfc/status/1642213532136615936?s=46&t=Uj9lS9cW2ksdznjWwHqrkQ

This will be every game next season if DS stays. Predictable. Easy.

[Rovers91]

Might as well have paid Agards contract off months ago. Waste of time if he’s not getting a cameo. I don’t think he’d have changed anything but he’s worth a 20min spell

They tried to get rid of him in January. Sometimes though it's just not as simple as paying contract up, players have got to accept it. But if your putting him in squad you give him game time when he's only senior striker we have that's just ridiculous, we will probably be in a similar position in 12 months time with Lavery.

[Lesonthewest]

Would any other manager survive this kind of football, against sides in the very bottom reaches of the football league, not a chance. There is no improvement since he took over, in fact we have regressed beyond belief.