Let's talk about the Harrogate Town game

[mushRTID]

I think we will get an early goal and go on to win comfortably.

As has been said, Sharp in the away game didn’t get a kick and I’m hoping Grant has learned from that.

I really do believe we are going to put a little run together now. We will be 2nd by the end of Feb.

[Usher wide.]

I think we will get an early goal and go on to win comfortably.

As as been said, Sharp in the away game didn’t get a kick and I’m hoping Grant has learned from that.

I really do believe we are going to put a little run together now. We will be 2nd by the end of Feb.

We need to mush. It’s getting awfully crowded with the teams around us. One of that pack will go on that run of winning games I’m sure. Grant has everyone in the squad fit to choose from. A position he says he’s never had the luxury of at this time of year in his managerial career. He also said at the Meet the Owners evening that “You might think I’m crazy but I still have my sights on chasing Walsall down”.

Today’s the day to continue that winning run we started at Gillingham.

[NigelJ]

Would be ironic if Gillingham was the start of a long winning run, after they ended it last season.

[Thorney]

Has much as grinding out a win like last week is much appreciated.

We need to start looking at dominating and winning comfortably.

Walking out of the ground afterwards saying "what a performance" and not "thank god we held on there at the end"

[sedwardsdrfc]

Our midfield isn’t up to it to dominate games imo. Loan signings don’t look much improvement although it’s early Crew looks the same as Kelly for me

[Stewmaiden79]

Crew looked class overall today I thought. Signs of a real player there.

[ForsolongaRover]

Has much as grinding out a win like last week is much appreciated.

We need to start looking at dominating and winning comfortably.

Walking out of the ground afterwards saying "what a performance" and not "thank god we held on there at the end"

How did today’s match compare then? From the sound commentary the effort could not be faulted, but the end product was anything but.

[Chris Black come back]

First goal we have ever scored against them at home.

[phil o sophical]

Overall we deserved the win but I don't think we were comfortable or dominant. Crew fully deserved MOM

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

We probably created more in all the other games Vs Harrogate we didn't win. But I'll take that.  Certainly a long way from our best but Harrogate do that, they're a very negative side.  A little disappointed we didn't break them down all that well but pressure does that.  The quality on our bench just about showed, albeit fortunate.

Motm was TSL today, he was excellent.

[Bills view]

That was a hard watch. Thought they had the better chances as we didn't create much.

Three points and onto the next one. Surely it's going to start clicking soon.

[Reg of the Rovers]

I thought we were awful, didn't do anything to deserve the win today. Wrong team and wrong formation from Grant, and lots of players not at it at all. Could have easily been 0-3 against and I can't remember a chance or shot on goal apart from Clifton's back pass that snook in.

People seem to think we'll go on a run again, we won't with performances anything like that, there's not a run in this team at the moment. They all need shaking, including Grant.

BUT, points on the board when those around us have stuttered is a real positive.

[Bentley Bullet]

We papered over a hell of a crack with that victory today.

[StocksArmy]

3 positives. The back 4 and goalkeeper continue to perform well, Crew was my MOTM and we won. The rest was turgid. If we don’t score in the first 30mins we play worse and worse. Horrendously predictable and my god we aren’t getting out of this league if we are relying on Sharp and Ironside. We just never looked like scoring.

[Scooter]

Well I enjoyed that game. And thought there were some good performances. We are not going to steamroll teams and at least we have finally beaten Harrogate
I thought they all worked hard against a tough defence. I thought the effort from Ironside was excellent although as usual the ref gives him nothing
The key thing is the team doesn’t give up and got the deserved win
I think this side would be more effective in league one. League two isn’t about total football - it’s about doing what you can to get out of it

[sedwardsdrfc]

3 positives. The back 4 and goalkeeper continue to perform well, Crew was my MOTM and we won. The rest was turgid. Horrendously predictable and if we don’t score in the first 30mins we play worse and worse. Horrendously predictable and my god we aren’t getting out of this league if we are relying on Sharp and Ironside. We just never looked like scoring.

I don’t think it’s fair to say relying on Sharp and Ironside isn’t good for this division. Wasn’t Ironside top scorer last yea and Billy is the EFL record scorer. It’s about service they’ll score plenty if we provide.

Our midfield has been pretty poor all season. The forwards and defence are ok imo the service is just poor.

[philsky]

Well I enjoyed that game. And thought there were some good performances. We are not going to steamroll teams and at least we have finally beaten Harrogate
I thought they all worked hard against a tough defence. I thought the effort from Ironside was excellent although as usual the ref gives him nothing
The key thing is the team doesn’t give up and got the deserved win
I think this side would be more effective in league one. League two isn’t about total football - it’s about doing what you can to get out of it

This 100%

[Chris Black come back]

We’ve been abysmal against them home and away the last few seasons. Finally a win at home against them. Didn’t manage that last season.

[mushRTID]

I thought we seriously got away with that.
I said at the time I hope he doesn’t take Ironside off because he was battling hard and occupying their big lumps at the back.

He took him off and I thought we lost something, in fact they were the better team for a large spell after that. A poor sub in my opinion.

[jmt23]

I am glad some have said we were just awful, I have never seen a more clueless game from us, we just resorted to punting for large parts. I don’t know what the game plan was?

I am not saying the were not some good individual performances, TSL was by far MOM though, some seriously good point blank saves -again! Maxwell was extremely poor today for me, he frustrated the hell out of me.

I think 3-0 to them is wrong though, it could easily have been 5-2 to them if not more.

Good to get the points, as I saw it drifting away.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

For me, we just don't look like a team who has the belief or desire to go and win a football match never mind winning promotion.

TSL, Olowu, McGrath and Sterry were good enough. Maxwell woeful and way off it. Crew did well today giving confidence he's good with the ball keeping things mainly simple and holding that midfield anchor position well. In front of him, there was alot of distinctly average performances and I'm sorry but Ironside was woeful again today. Other than his usual wrestling matches he nearly got on the end of one cross but was no where near in positions we'd want our centre forward to be for others, virtually no threat at all.

I hope the new lads don't get sucked into believing that sort of performance is good enough by just going through the motions, particularly at home.

Yes, we'll take the result which could easily have gone the other way, by beating the jinx but I just don't know what it's going to take to change the malaise.

[NickDRFC]

Positive that we’ve got the win and shaken a monkey off our back, but sounds like a disappointing performance. When are we going to step things up? Are we even capable of it?

[colincramb]

Huffed and puffed really. Couldn’t really argue if we’d have lost the game based on chances. Got lucky in the end with a shot that probably goes in once every 50 times.

That being said it’s a win. Just doesn’t look convincing does it? Big 6/7 weeks coming up which will decide whether we are top 3 or top 7

[StocksArmy]

3 positives. The back 4 and goalkeeper continue to perform well, Crew was my MOTM and we won. The rest was turgid. Horrendously predictable and if we don’t score in the first 30mins we play worse and worse. Horrendously predictable and my god we aren’t getting out of this league if we are relying on Sharp and Ironside. We just never looked like scoring.

I don’t think it’s fair to say relying on Sharp and Ironside isn’t good for this division. Wasn’t Ironside top scorer last yea and Billy is the EFL record scorer. It’s about service they’ll score plenty if we provide.

Our midfield has been pretty poor all season. The forwards and defence are ok imo the service is just poor.

Well Ironside has scored 2 league goals. Billy doesn’t have the legs to play every game and in my opinion we should have looked at another option for that position. Especially once we let our third option leave. What they’ve done in their careers means nothing right now. It’s about how they’ve performed this season.

[drfchound]

I’ve just been looking at the table and noticed that only Walsall have won more L2 matches than us so far this season.

[Avsuptem]

Beating 2 bogey teams in a row has to be a good indicator. I think we have arguably the strongest squad in league 2 and better players in almost every position compared to the oppo week in week out. Quite why we are not being convincing eludes explanation but I believe we will click into a higher gear from now on.

[andyst79]

Beating 2 bogey teams in a row has to be a good indicator. I think we have arguably the strongest squad in league 2 and better players in almost every position compared to the oppo week in week out. Quite why we are not being convincing eludes explanation but I believe we will click into a higher gear from now on.

Good point about the bogey teams. Weaver normally seems to out do us tactically and it almost worked again but for some good goalkeeping at our end and poor at Harrogates.

[drfchound]

Beating 2 bogey teams in a row has to be a good indicator. I think we have arguably the strongest squad in league 2 and better players in almost every position compared to the oppo week in week out. Quite why we are not being convincing eludes explanation but I believe we will click into a higher gear from now on.

Good point about the bogey teams. Weaver normally seems to out do us tactically and it almost worked again but for some good goalkeeping at our end and poor at Harrogates.

Nice too that after they had turned us round at kick off, their fans got a close up view off the keepers gaffe that cost them the game.

[i_ateallthepies]

I think some are placing too much importance to the 'bogey team' thing.  As another poster likes to tell us, all runs come to an end and so it happens twice consecutively with bogey teams for us, we shouldn't think that's a sign that we've turned a corner, yesterday's win was anything other than convincing.  Our goal was down to a goalkeeping howler, we didn't have any other convincing efforts on their goal.

[BobG]

There's something not right with Rovers this season. Despite the squad, the investment, the optimism, the leadership, something is stopping this squad from performing as it should. Yes. They are doing ok. But equally yes, they ain't convincing anybody. I have no idea what the issue might be, but as entirely speculative musings, maybe it has to do with either coaching or harmony.

When you think back to other good sides in this league, Rovers or not, they usually look like a good side; they look like they are almost inevitably going to win. This team looks the exact opposite - despite the position in the league.

BobG