Richard Wood

[Barnie41]

From the West Stand you could hear their ‘supporters’ chanting “Let him die, let him die….” when the stretcher was brought on.

As my brother said, ‘all money, no class’.

I was in with the Wrexham supporters, and didn't hear that. For balance.

Hope he makes a speedy & full recovery.

[GazLaz]

Football fans trying to take the moral high ground over other football fans is the most hypocritical thing going. There are good and bad amongst fanbases at all clubs, none are generally that much better/ worse than anyone else.

[Filo]

From the West Stand you could hear their ‘supporters’ chanting “Let him die, let him die….” when the stretcher was brought on.

As my brother said, ‘all money, no class’.

I was in with the Wrexham supporters, and didn't hear that. For balance.

Hope he makes a speedy & full recovery.

I heard it from three quarters of the length of the pitch away

[Colin C No.3]

From the West Stand you could hear their ‘supporters’ chanting “Let him die, let him die….” when the stretcher was brought on.

As my brother said, ‘all money, no class’.

I was in with the Wrexham supporters, and didn't hear that. For balance.

Hope he makes a speedy & full recovery.

No I made it up to get my post numbers up.

[Donnywolf]

From the West Stand you could hear their ‘supporters’ chanting “Let him die, let him die….” when the stretcher was brought on.

As my brother said, ‘all money, no class’.

I was in with the Wrexham supporters, and didn't hear that. For balance.

Hope he makes a speedy & full recovery.

I heard it from three quarters of the length of the pitch away

Yes Filo , I was bang on half way and could hear them first singing , "let him die" repeatedly then booing him when it must have been obvious he wasn't faking an injury

Also as posted elsewhere could hear them shouting pel llaw (hand ball) throughout the second half

Love the roar when they won their first Corner and the roar almost every throw in

[ncRover]

From the West Stand you could hear their ‘supporters’ chanting “Let him die, let him die….” when the stretcher was brought on.

As my brother said, ‘all money, no class’.

Hope he makes a speedy & full recovery.

You’re always going to get a few morons. We have got our fair share haven’t we.

Let’s hope RW will be ok. It looked very nasty. What happened as I couldn’t see fro the south end of the West stand. Was it a clash of heads or something more sinister?

I think he clashed heads with Sterry?

[roversdude]

Bailey

[Arsenal Of The North]

Not sure if people have seen the photo woods took with a young fan after the game, cut looks nasty but not horrible, the swelling on his face on the other hand, pretty bad.

[Filo]

Not sure if people have seen the photo woods took with a young fan after the game, cut looks nasty but not horrible, the swelling on his face on the other hand, pretty bad.

This one?

https://x.com/tom_whitton_/status/1775562142990708783?s=61&t=DCRm1C_BBr5pt7J45jXUsA

[Iberian Red]

Not sure if people have seen the photo woods took with a young fan after the game, cut looks nasty but not horrible, the swelling on his face on the other hand, pretty bad.

This one?

https://x.com/tom_whitton_/status/1775562142990708783?s=61&t=DCRm1C_BBr5pt7J45jXUsA

Those stitches look like PDX Roxers lucky lottery numbers in the lucky pint last night!

[ravenrover]

Looks more like embroidery than a few stitches

[Alan Southstand]

Has it been confirmed as concussion?

[Metalmicky]

Looks like there was plenty of claret...

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Has it been confirmed as concussion?

I'm guessing McCann would rather avoid declaring whether Wood will be fit for Saturday but no doubt the press will ask.

Not sure how the concussion protocol works and whether the opposition can access the info.

[ForsolongaRover]

It seems that, unlike some other forms of chanting, you can chant for someone’s death at a football match without fear of legal sanction.

What is more, current attitudes seem to regard it is less serious than certain specific forms of verbal abuse which fall short of taking life.

Would the injured footballer have any success in reporting the behaviour to the police?

[Pancho Regan]

Football fans trying to take the moral high ground over other football fans is the most hypocritical thing going. There are good and bad amongst fanbases at all clubs, none are generally that much better/ worse than anyone else.

There are good and bad amongst fanbases at all clubs? No shit, Sherlock!

Had I heard Rovers fans singing this chant in the same circumstances, I would have called that out too. As I did when I heard some of our ‘supporters’ chanting “Paedos” at the Rotherham fans a few years ago.

So I won’t avoid calling out what I think are disgusting and inappropriate chants from any football supporters just in case somebody might think I’m a hypocrite.

There are red lines in my opinion, and they were crossed on this occasion.

On the other side, I read posts on the Wrexham forum after the match and the vast majority were magnanimous in defeat and complimentary about Rovers, so fair play to them.

[Jimmydee]

I gave a young fan that was sat in front of me a bollocking for encouraging one of our players to ‘snap him’ , he said why can’t I say that, he’s the opposition?
I said that it could end his promising career and also that he has a wife and young family at home, how would you feel if your dad got a serious disability injury at his workplace and couldn’t work anymore?
I would also say the same if it was an older person that said it too.

[Pancho Regan]

Well said Jimmydee.

Some people would say you’re a hypocrite for calling out bad behaviour, when the fans of all football clubs are the same so we should just accept it.

[Colin C No.3]

Football fans trying to take the moral high ground over other football fans is the most hypocritical thing going. There are good and bad amongst fanbases at all clubs, none are generally that much better/ worse than anyone else.

And I suppose you carry judgement over what is hypocritical & what is calling a wrong a wrong.

[andyst79]

I gave a young fan that was sat in front of me a bollocking for encouraging one of our players to ‘snap him’ , he said why can’t I say that, he’s the opposition?
I said that it could end his promising career and also that he has a wife and young family at home, how would you feel if your dad got a serious disability injury at his workplace and couldn’t work anymore?
I would also say the same if it was an older person that said it too.

I can't see the problem myself, it's just a term of phrase. They're all fellow professionals on the pitch so I should imagine nobody's going out to deliberately injure an opponent but there's nothing wrong with going in hard and leaving a bit on a player , letting them know they're in a game. Rovers have been a soft touch for a while but this year have started to show a bit of fight which is encouraging

[Colin C No.3]

Didn’t you just love playing football when it was raining & you could use the wet ground to perform the perfect sliding tackle?

No thought of elbows in the face ever crossed your mind.

And if your leg stung in the showers after the game & stud ‘scrapes’ appeared as the mud washed away, you knew you’d been in a ‘proper game’.

[Lazar]

I gave a young fan that was sat in front of me a bollocking for encouraging one of our players to ‘snap him’ , he said why can’t I say that, he’s the opposition?
I said that it could end his promising career and also that he has a wife and young family at home, how would you feel if your dad got a serious disability injury at his workplace and couldn’t work anymore?
I would also say the same if it was an older person that said it too.

There’s absolutely zero chance you would say that to a big shithouse I’m sorry. But congratulations on being the moral arbiter of the home end. Must be nice on that moral high ground.

[DearneValleyRover]

I gave a young fan that was sat in front of me a bollocking for encouraging one of our players to ‘snap him’ , he said why can’t I say that, he’s the opposition?
I said that it could end his promising career and also that he has a wife and young family at home, how would you feel if your dad got a serious disability injury at his workplace and couldn’t work anymore?
I would also say the same if it was an older person that said it too.

There’s absolutely zero chance you would say that to a big shithouse I’m sorry. But congratulations on being the moral arbiter of the home end. Must be nice on that moral high ground.

How is correcting poor behaviour taking the moral high ground? Having met Jimmy I doubt the size of the person would dissuade him

[Colin C No.3]

I gave a young fan that was sat in front of me a bollocking for encouraging one of our players to ‘snap him’ , he said why can’t I say that, he’s the opposition?
I said that it could end his promising career and also that he has a wife and young family at home, how would you feel if your dad got a serious disability injury at his workplace and couldn’t work anymore?
I would also say the same if it was an older person that said it too.

There’s absolutely zero chance you would say that to a big shithouse I’m sorry. But congratulations on being the moral arbiter of the home end. Must be nice on that moral high ground.

Have you met Jimmy?

Tyson Fury wouldn’t faze him so don’t be sorry, be wiser.

[Lazar]

Well in that case I suggest he seeks Tyson out tomorrow in Morecambe and takes him to task for some of the unpalatable things he’s said in the past. After all, can’t let poor behaviour go unpunished. 

[Silkscarf]

Anyway, how is Richard Wood and when will he play again?

[andy didcott]

I would be very surprised if he plays tomorrow, surely it can’t have healed that quickly.

[Mike_F]

Concussion protocol is a minimum of 48 hours' rest followed by a phased return to training IF the player is showing no signs of ongoing impairment.

That being the case, if Woody was concussed on Tuesday he could possibly be in light training today.

I'm sure that if he's passed fit to play he will want to be out there with a big old bandage around his head.

[adamtherover]

GM has just said on his bbc sheff chat that woody is good for tomorrow!!!!!

[Mike_F]

Brilliant news.