Let's talk about the Cardiff City game

[selby]

  With Tuesdays game against Luton cancelled our next game is against top of the table Cardiff City who yesterday got like ourselves earlier in the season on the wrong end of a five goal tally against Plymouth Argyle and will be itching to get back on track next weekend against ourselves .
  In that away fixture against them earlier in the season in the midst of our poor run of results we probably gave our best footballing display of the season as Cardiff unlike most sides chose to go head to head with us in an open game that for entertainment was one of the best of the season to watch. The way the game unfolded was an example of how quick their forwards looked in a game our defence struggled with their direct probing runs one on one , and not to be outdone our forwards gave their defence a hard time of it.
  Taking that in, and looking at yesterdays result t looks like they are better going forward and scoring goals than defending, something we might be able to make the best of.
  Yesterday we won despite not playing that well against a poor side and despite our come back and two goals in the second half we never reached or had to reach great heights to win the game, both keepers apart from the odd flurry very little to do., TLT only worried by a cross shot that was heading for or near the bottom left hand post he dealt well with. the Rotherham keeper cought out and mugged after a long what could be described as a rest period, with two attacks to deal with he failed at.
  Cardiff will be a very different problem to deal with, potent up front with pace in wide areas , but can be got at at the back. Will that give us a selection problem? we certainly need to nullify  their threat which revolves around pace, Does that mean sacrificing Bailey in mid field to central defence with Byrne? or do we risk him further forward? with the changes at half time yesterday making a positive contribution to the game keep that set up? which was a reaction selection to the original plan that was obviously failing in the first half, credit to the management team for recognising the problem, which to be fair was not that hard to recognise as most of us must have been thinking at half time that's about as bad as it get's right from the first minute, and the managers comment he could change 10 men spot on.
  So we need a big step up in form, are there tactical changes we can make? and we have a week to recover and regroup.
   What do you think? our form and picking up points has improved considerably, but every point is precious with us still looking over our shoulder at teams behind us.
  A win would be a right boost to our confidence we can get away from the relegation places and also we can compete with the better sides in the division, and that's just what the club needs really.
  Lot's about this game that could give a pointer to our future, losing would not be a disaster because they are a class side at this level and will themselves be looking to put yesterdays result behind them. both management teams will know each others weakness's and strengths, what do you think? lot's to discuss lots to mull over, please have your say.

[Chris Black come back]

They've failed to score in only two away league games this season, and one of those was the first away game in August. Lost only once in their last five away league games, although interestingly that was last time out against Plymouth, where they got hammered 5-2. Not exactly a long journey down there for them either.

[Fal]

  With Tuesdays game against Luton cancelled our next game is against top of the table Cardiff City who yesterday got like ourselves earlier in the season on the wrong end of a five goal tally against Plymouth Argyle and will be itching to get back on track next weekend against ourselves .
  In that away fixture against them earlier in the season in the midst of our poor run of results we probably gave our best footballing display of the season as Cardiff unlike most sides chose to go head to head with us in an open game that for entertainment was one of the best of the season to watch. The way the game unfolded was an example of how quick their forwards looked in a game our defence struggled with their direct probing runs one on one , and not to be outdone our forwards gave their defence a hard time of it.
  Taking that in, and looking at yesterdays result t looks like they are better going forward and scoring goals than defending, something we might be able to make the best of.
  Yesterday we won despite not playing that well against a poor side and despite our come back and two goals in the second half we never reached or had to reach great heights to win the game, both keepers apart from the odd flurry very little to do., TLT only worried by a cross shot that was heading for or near the bottom left hand post he dealt well with. the Rotherham keeper cought out and mugged after a long what could be described as a rest period, with two attacks to deal with he failed at.
  Cardiff will be a very different problem to deal with, potent up front with pace in wide areas , but can be got at at the back. Will that give us a selection problem? we certainly need to nullify  their threat which revolves around pace, Does that mean sacrificing Bailey in mid field to central defence with Byrne? or do we risk him further forward? with the changes at half time yesterday making a positive contribution to the game keep that set up? which was a reaction selection to the original plan that was obviously failing in the first half, credit to the management team for recognising the problem, which to be fair was not that hard to recognise as most of us must have been thinking at half time that's about as bad as it get's right from the first minute, and the managers comment he could change 10 men spot on.
  So we need a big step up in form, are there tactical changes we can make? and we have a week to recover and regroup.
   What do you think? our form and picking up points has improved considerably, but every point is precious with us still looking over our shoulder at teams behind us.
  A win would be a right boost to our confidence we can get away from the relegation places and also we can compete with the better sides in the division, and that's just what the club needs really.
  Lot's about this game that could give a pointer to our future, losing would not be a disaster because they are a class side at this level and will themselves be looking to put yesterdays result behind them. both management teams will know each others weakness's and strengths, what do you think? lot's to discuss lots to mull over, please have your say.

Why on earth does Bailey need to go back into centre back Selby, jesus christ

[ncRover]

It sounds like Salech won’t be ready for them still, which is good.

Best striker in the division in my opinion.

[Ldr]

  With Tuesdays game against Luton cancelled our next game is against top of the table Cardiff City who yesterday got like ourselves earlier in the season on the wrong end of a five goal tally against Plymouth Argyle and will be itching to get back on track next weekend against ourselves .
  In that away fixture against them earlier in the season in the midst of our poor run of results we probably gave our best footballing display of the season as Cardiff unlike most sides chose to go head to head with us in an open game that for entertainment was one of the best of the season to watch. The way the game unfolded was an example of how quick their forwards looked in a game our defence struggled with their direct probing runs one on one , and not to be outdone our forwards gave their defence a hard time of it.
  Taking that in, and looking at yesterdays result t looks like they are better going forward and scoring goals than defending, something we might be able to make the best of.
  Yesterday we won despite not playing that well against a poor side and despite our come back and two goals in the second half we never reached or had to reach great heights to win the game, both keepers apart from the odd flurry very little to do., TLT only worried by a cross shot that was heading for or near the bottom left hand post he dealt well with. the Rotherham keeper cought out and mugged after a long what could be described as a rest period, with two attacks to deal with he failed at.
  Cardiff will be a very different problem to deal with, potent up front with pace in wide areas , but can be got at at the back. Will that give us a selection problem? we certainly need to nullify  their threat which revolves around pace, Does that mean sacrificing Bailey in mid field to central defence with Byrne? or do we risk him further forward? with the changes at half time yesterday making a positive contribution to the game keep that set up? which was a reaction selection to the original plan that was obviously failing in the first half, credit to the management team for recognising the problem, which to be fair was not that hard to recognise as most of us must have been thinking at half time that's about as bad as it get's right from the first minute, and the managers comment he could change 10 men spot on.
  So we need a big step up in form, are there tactical changes we can make? and we have a week to recover and regroup.
   What do you think? our form and picking up points has improved considerably, but every point is precious with us still looking over our shoulder at teams behind us.
  A win would be a right boost to our confidence we can get away from the relegation places and also we can compete with the better sides in the division, and that's just what the club needs really.
  Lot's about this game that could give a pointer to our future, losing would not be a disaster because they are a class side at this level and will themselves be looking to put yesterdays result behind them. both management teams will know each others weakness's and strengths, what do you think? lot's to discuss lots to mull over, please have your say.

Why on earth does Bailey need to go back into centre back Selby, jesus christ

No centre back will ever be good enough for Selby as they stand in the way of saint Bobby

[selby]

  Fal, LDR, I sked a question never made a statement at all certainly not involving Bobby who is not at the club.
  However we have a lack of pace centrally and we can counteract their pace up front with Bailey for this game.
 As a matter of fact I don't think McGrath is as good a defender technically as  Pearson, but he would not solve the problem of pace.
  Obviously I overestimated your grasp of the football matters I was highlighting.
  Personally I would go that way as I think with the playing staff we have at the club the advantage of playing him in central defence out ways the risk of him missing in the midfield area where we are stronger and better covered IMHO. and i want us to have the best chance in my mind to get a result from this game which will be massive if we do.
  Whoever plays will have my full support while on the playing field and in the time honoured tradition of all supporters criticism after the game if they are poor.
  I praised McGrath for the way he played last week at Burton and deserved the start yesterday when
he and we were very lucky not to be playing with ten men for 87 minutes.
 

[Padge_DRFC]

Play like we did yesterday we'll get thrashed

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Cardiff are such a good all round team with most players a level up in quality, it's so hard to defend against them when they're equally comfortable carrying the ball as well as passing accurately and striking the ball at goal with venom.

As seen yesterday, and in our game against them, their defense can be got at but we will have to defend as a team better than we did by being more robust in the middle third where they were beating our midfielders too easily.

It has a bit of a feel of the Wrexham game at the Eco a couple of seasons back, when they were red hot favourites, while we had just started to show positive signs. Keeping Wrexham to nil then seems as far fetched as keeping Cardiff to nil now. Football is a funny old game though.

[rich1471]

We were unlucky to lose at Cardiff and with better finishing we could have had 5 ourselves that day ,They play a very high line and we should not fear them at all

[IDM]

I’m not worried about this one.  If we get beat by a club likely to go up, it’s no great shame.  Plenty of games left.

Anything other than a defeat is a real bonus.

[Sammy Chung was King]

We gave the game to Plymouth with stupid errors, they’ve gone on to have a good run of results, including beating Cardiff , scoring five goals in the process. If we are on our best game, we can beat them, other than that and we get turned over.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

This is the reduced price game too, so I hope that and on the back of our recent upturn, we get quite a few more bums on seats. Fingers crossed for the weather too.

[Barmby Rover]

Just going on the away game, they will be aware of how we can hurt them, and are certainly not afraid of them. It should be good crowd (I get in for £9.50!!!) so the atmosphere should be good, I would give Rovers of squeaking a win against a side who will score against us. 2-1

[dknward2]

Just down a quick count up 1,135 left for the Cardiff game.

Hopefully we can get close to a sell out, could really do with the fans right behind the lads and pushing them on for the full 90

[Padge_DRFC]

Surprising how many people who come to the odd few games a season didn't even know it was £12 this Saturday

[donnyguy]

Ed Duckworth is the ref 

[selby]

  The difficult thing about this game is we need the majority of our team to play somewhere near their ceiling to compete against players who have more natural class except in just a few of our players cases, a hard ask normally only reached in a few games every season, the Middlesborough game the greatest example I have probably ever seen.
 That goes in most games this season and especially against teams like Cardiff. Also tactically the management have got to get it right first time as a performance like the first half at Rotherham will most likely leave us chasing rainbows by half time.
  They will be smarting from the tonking they got at Plymouth Saturday and will be looking to get back on track at our expense in this game and pacify their fans who will have been disappointed by the Plymouth result.
  So an equally big game really for both sides for different reasons at different ends of the table, and could be a quite open interesting game to watch.

[roversdude]

Ed Duckworth is the ref 

FFS

[dknward2]

15.40 update 1,000 left

[RyRovers]

15.40 update 1,000 left

There’s more of the East Stand to open and West Stand that are currently greyed out.

[dknward2]

Cardiff have been given 2,950 so if needed we could fill all 3 sides of the home end doubt it would happen but let's try and get these final 1,000 sold

[dknward2]

Just got 5 mins free at work a quick count up of available seats currently is 841

[Rupee92ONLY]

Gonna be another 5 figure crowd. Thank f**k we have some breathing space after a couple of good wins because the difference in leagues is massive on our finances. Gonna lose Cardiff but gain Wednesday’s. Hopefully West Brom come down too.

On game… Think we’ll lose, just hope it’s not a real hammering if we do.

I’d start all 3 who came on V Rotherham and changed game. Well earnt.

TLT

Sterry
Sir Byrne
McGrath
Senior

Bailey
Gotts
Clifton

Molyneux
Hanlan
Middleton

[GazLaz]

Gonna be another 5 figure crowd. Thank f**k we have some breathing space after a couple of good wins because the difference in leagues is massive on our finances. Gonna lose Cardiff but gain Wednesday’s. Hopefully West Brom come down too.

On game… Think we’ll lose, just hope it’s not a real hammering if we do.

I’d start all 3 who came on V Rotherham and changed game. Well earnt.

TLT

Sterry
Sir Byrne
McGrath
Senior

Bailey
Gotts
Clifton

Molyneux
Hanlan
Middleton

I think we are value at the current prices, not certain we win but certainly a bet.

[Danmckay456]

Is it card or cash for a programme taking my son for the first time on Saturday and want to get him one don’t tend to buy them when I go now

[roversdude]

Is it card or cash for a programme taking my son for the first time on Saturday and want to get him one don’t tend to buy them when I go now

Either

[drfchound]

Gonna be another 5 figure crowd. Thank f**k we have some breathing space after a couple of good wins because the difference in leagues is massive on our finances. Gonna lose Cardiff but gain Wednesday’s. Hopefully West Brom come down too.

Leicester are in danger of coming down too.

[eastender]

Both of our next 2 opponents have taken a beating in the last few day's , are we going to take advantage of this , or are we going to do our usual Charity act of getting teams back on track . Ever the pessimist I'll go for the latter , but hope for the former.

[Padge_DRFC]

Hanlan should be playing every game anyway re above

[Thorney]

Both of our next 2 opponents have taken a beating in the last few day's , are we going to take advantage of this , or are we going to do our usual Charity act of getting teams back on track . Ever the pessimist I'll go for the latter , but hope for the former.

Cardiff are top of the table and have lost 1 game in 13,
Stockport are 5th and have lost 2 in the last 11 games.

Not really charity if we lose to them.
You make it sound like we are playing 2 piss poor teams on a dreadful run.