Mercer Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, Gordon Gekko said: This chat about the 3 games in 7/8 days is making me chuckle, keep it up! It's not rocket science. If football had no close season and Rovers played every Wednesday and Saturday they would play 104 games in a year which is TWO PER WEEK. I think too many blinded by Mowbray's bullsh1t. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Exiled_Rover Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said: If Mowbray was thinking of playing 5 at the back with Nyambe and Ayala out today would be a good a time as any. We don't have anyone that can get up and down that right hand side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Shoelaces Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 3 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said: Don't see how Ayala being out improves our options to play 3 CBs Carter,Lenihan,Van Hecke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelton Blue Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, bluebruce said: One where we debated on the merits of the discussion and not via ad hominem. Try again. You're calculating the morning of the first day before the first game, and the evening after the second game, that's why you're getting this wrong. No I'm not, I'm counting it from the time today's game kicks off. If the week starts at 3pm today, then it finishes at 2:59:59 pm next Saturday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WacoRover Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, davulsukur said: Derby will fancy their chances with that back line. Not much chance we will keep a clean sheet here. Yeah, I fear a game with lots of “shotgunning” by our guys, kick it in the general vicinity of the goal, and hope some go in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Shoelaces Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said: No I'm not, I'm counting it from the time today's game kicks off. If the week starts at 3pm today, then it finishes at 2:59:59 pm next Saturday. Don’t forget the clocks go back at 2-00 am Sunday morning. Will that have a bearing on the calculation ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Don't fancy us at all this afternoon. Derby on decent run of form and think Rooney has done well under very difficult circumstances. Buckley at right back - think the lad will wonder wtf is going on this afternoon. Mentally and physically in for a very hard time. Derby at almost 2/1 is a licence to print Christmas money - fill yer boots in readiness for Santa. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebruce Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said: No I'm not, I'm counting it from the time today's game kicks off. If the week starts at 3pm today, then it finishes at 2:59:59 pm next Saturday. This is painful. Think what you want, but we will have finished playing three games of football in the space of 170 hours, which is 7 days plus 2 hours. Or 7 days plus 3 hours once you add in the clock going back (which I'm doing by popular request 😉 ). Beyond that, use whatever batshit semantics to call it whatever you want to try to make it sound longer if you like, I'm not going to continue on this inane path. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebruce Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 I expect today to go badly. Buckley at RB gives me kittens, we are away to a team that hasn't lost at home yet, and we've only won once away. Our manager is a tool, and not a useful one. Best I can see today is a draw, if our attackers turn up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelton Blue Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 1 minute ago, bluebruce said: This is painful. Think what you want, but we will have finished playing three games of football in the space of 170 hours, which is 7 days plus 2 hours. Or 7 days plus 3 hours once you add in the clock going back (which I'm doing by popular request 😉 ). Beyond that, use whatever batshit semantics to call it whatever you want to try to make it sound longer if you like, I'm not going to continue on this inane path. Hilarious more like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllRoverAsia Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 This settles it! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebruce Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Just now, AllRoverAsia said: This settles it! 🤣It really does, well played AllRoverAsia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaddyrovers Posted October 30, 2021 Author Share Posted October 30, 2021 31 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said: Defence looking very very makeshift. Derby will fancy us on out wide and at set pieces. Would have thought Van Hecke RB and Carter central would be more solid? Why not play Carter at right back like Nottingham Forest away? 12 minutes ago, Mercer said: Don't fancy us at all this afternoon. Derby on decent run of form and think Rooney has done well under very difficult circumstances. Buckley at right back - think the lad will wonder wtf is going on this afternoon. Mentally and physically in for a very hard time. Derby at almost 2/1 is a licence to print Christmas money - fill yer boots in readiness for Santa. I fancy us. Fancy 2 nil win with Brereton scoring 1st. 2/1 is a licence to print Christmas money? 🤣🤣🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianrally Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 This 7 days a week has been wonderful. What won’t be wonderful however is getting beaten in all three games in the 7 or 8 days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WacoRover Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Just now, chaddyrovers said: Why not play Carter at right back like Nottingham Forest away? I fancy us. Fancy 2 nil win with Brereton scoring 1st. 2/1 is a licence to print Christmas money? 🤣🤣🤣 I would love it, to beat fightin Rooneyites by any score, 2-0 would be bliss. With our back 4, however, I’m afraid they will find the back of the net early & often. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllRoverAsia Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 We have 20 points, Derby 17 before deduction. Derby draw specialists, we have a few too. Hope to win, expect 1-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Shoelaces Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 1 minute ago, AllRoverAsia said: We have 20 points, Derby 17 before deduction. Derby draw specialists, we have a few too. Hope to win, expect 1-1 With Nyambe and Ayala in I’d fancy a draw, without them it’s going to be a struggle. A 0-0 it won’t be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller11 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Derby will present a different proposition than Reading last week earlier this week. Score draw. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllRoverAsia Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said: With Nyambe and Ayala in I’d fancy a draw, without them it’s going to be a struggle. A 0-0 it won’t be. Rovers on the PC monitor, England v Aus on the phone. Doesn't get much better ....... at least at start of play/KO ...... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdoggsteel Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 32 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said: Carter,Lenihan,Van Hecke. Not sure Carter is vastly better suited to that than Ayala TBH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 1 minute ago, El Tombro said: I wouldn't call 7 points from 6 games decent. That's borderline relegation form. We should be putting this lot away. Mowbray makes us so unnecessarily fearful of the opposition. Unbeaten in last five! I'd buy that for Rovers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebruce Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Looking at that lineup I have to wonder what the game plan is. Looks unbalanced to me. Johnson in the middle instead of Buckley makes us set up more to defend. But in the actual defence, Van Hecke is better with the ball than Ayala and seems to like running the full length of the pitch to try scoring, and Buckley has no defensive attributes other than being a decent presser, so also looks more attacking. I know those changes are at least partly enforced, but still. Don't think it will set us up with much of a coherent system (par the course these days). I'd rather have had Carter at RB, with Buckley in the middle. Johnson too inconsistent and immobile. Carter isn't great shakes as a RB, but neither is Buckley. Nearly scored early though there, good start so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled_Rover Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Bloody hell that's a bad miss by Gallagher. Great cross by Edun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebruce Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Buckley demonstrating again why him at RB is a bad idea. Got away with that really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldEwoodBlue Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Gally header donkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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