v Stoke City (h) - 4/10/25, k/o 12:30pm

[Roverthechimp]

7 minutes ago, Tom said:

On this showing Gueye would have been better up top 

Think Gueye offers more of a goal threat but is worse in terms of build up play, passing and general "work" (Gudjohnsen does some decent stuff when deep and also helped cantwell see out the game). Trouble is in terms of goal threat he offers zero...

[TimmyJimmy]

2 minutes ago, Blow-in said:

There's a plan?

1) Collect underpants

2) ?????

3) Profit

[TommyRovers]

Ribeiro is half the player he was last season. Would drop him for Pickering personally. Hedges is Hedges. 

Gudjohnsen should have buried that but won't take the slander against him. There's a real player there. He's just playing in a poor underperforming team.

We really miss a Travis in midfield.

[Tom]

Would you make any subs at half time?

I’d be tempted to give Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen some more time but consider bringing on Yūki Ōhashi or Makhtar "Pape" Gueye if things don’t improve. 
 

Whilst Ryōya Morishita hasn’t been fully involved he did put that chance on a plate for Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen earlier so I’d leave him on, I’d like to see Per Axel Nils Henriksson at some point 

[benhben]

1 minute ago, Roverthechimp said:

Think Gueye offers more of a goal threat but is worse in terms of build up play, passing and general "work" (Gudjohnsen does some decent stuff when deep and also helped cantwell see out the game). Trouble is in terms of goal threat he offers zero...

If he can score against france he can score against stoke. Rovers just have no quality to create chances.

[Exiled_Rover]

6 minutes ago, RutlandRover said:

I think 0-0 is an absolute result there. Stoke will be pissed they're not ahead.

Why, have they had the better chances?

[Ricky]

3 minutes ago, Ricky said:

No idea why the commentators keep referring to the Sorba Thomas chance in 10 seconds. Offside was given wasn’t it? I’m sure there was no corner following the save. If they are going to talk about that then they should talk about Gudjonnsen scoring from the offside cross. 

Just seen the replay and it was an offside after the shot. I was only half watching and thought one of their players had been offside in the build up so ignore me. 

[roverandout]

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Why, have they had the better chances?

They've had more clear cut chances

[superniko]

5 minutes ago, booth said:

And zero quality upfront.

Point still stands - Stokes front lot are hardly prolific. Young lad on loan up front and Thomas who has scored 11 in 7 seasons etc. it’s an average league. A good coach goes a very long way in this division. 

[Tom]

Weird half though we haven’t played well but could easily have gone in leading.

Cantwell looking dangerous again and we do create down the right but our left hand side of attack and up front is looking toothless.

[Bohinen1983]

How many fans do you think we've got on today?

I think it's been forgotten that ambition and entertaining football which excites gets bums on seats.

To me, as a supporter I feel disconnected from the club.  There appears to be absolutely no ambition to get promoted.

I don't know how they can sit there in a sparce Ewood Park, look around and not feel utterly embarrassed.

Shell of a club. Desperately need rid of Venkys. 
 

[yellowsubmarine]

1 minute ago, TommyRovers said:

We really miss a Travis in midfield.

Unpopular opinion. I do think we are missing a Dolan more than Trav. Dolan's work rate, the little trickery, and the linkup play and his decent G/A contribution. 

And he went away for almost free.

[joey_big_nose]

3 minutes ago, Roverthechimp said:

Think Gueye offers more of a goal threat but is worse in terms of build up play, passing and general "work" (Gudjohnsen does some decent stuff when deep and also helped cantwell see out the game). Trouble is in terms of goal threat he offers zero...

When Gueye was having a good spell over last winter he was doing great link up play as well causing chaos and scoring goals.

Hes obviously got an attitude problem, and Ismael clearly dislikes him, but we have few options so we need to figure out how to get him back to his best.

[superniko]

Just now, roverandout said:

They've had more clear cut chances

No they haven’t. We had the two clearest chances and have the higher xG (of which the Gudjohnson chance doesn’t even count for because the donkey couldn’t get a shot off). 

They’ve had all the possession and pass through us easily, but we’ve had the clear cut chances easily, usually from counter attack or Stoke mistakes 

[chaddyrovers]

Satisfied with that. Couple of good chances with Cantwell and Gudjohnsen. Couple of others. 

Stoke's right winger is danger man for them. 

3 points there for us. Cantwell to get the winner for us

[CambridgeRover]

6 minutes ago, Tom said:

Would you make any subs at half time?

I’d be tempted to give Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen some more time but consider bringing on Yūki Ōhashi or Makhtar "Pape" Gueye if things don’t improve. 
 

Whilst Ryōya Morishita hasn’t been fully involved he did put that chance on a plate for Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen earlier so I’d leave him on, I’d like to see Per Axel Nils Henriksson at some point 

Why on earth are you calling players by their full names. Stalker behaviour 

[Exiled_Rover]

6 minutes ago, Tom said:

Would you make any subs at half time?

I’d be tempted to give Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen some more time but consider bringing on Yūki Ōhashi or Makhtar "Pape" Gueye if things don’t improve. 
 

Whilst Ryōya Morishita hasn’t been fully involved he did put that chance on a plate for Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen earlier so I’d leave him on, I’d like to see Per Axel Nils Henriksson at some point 

No, we've had the better chances and these players need as much time as possible to get used to the Championship.

I'd be trying to find a way to get Henriksson on the pitch, but that would mean dropping Cantwell / putting him out wide. 

As crap as Hedges is going forward he puts in a shift so you can't really do that. 

[RevidgeBlue]

Only caught the last 15 mins of the half, we didnt look particularly good but had one or two chances. Sadly looks as though the only realistic threat of a goal comes from Cantwell.

Thomas putting a much better shift in than he ever did us. Looked like he really didnt want to be here when he was with us.

Toth fortunate when he parried  the shot straight back out in front of him before the end of the half.

Given the pitch problems apt choice of music just then playing Gimmee Shelter by the Rolling Stones......"Oooo the storm is rising"

[Angry_Pirate]

11 minutes ago, rigger said:

Plymouth 5-2.

Touché, though three sides of the "new" stadium wasn't even built then! 🤣

[Exiled_Rover]

Just noticed how heavily strapped up Cantwell is. 

[RTM08]

Scored 0 conceded 6 after the hour mark - if that's not a damning indictment of Ismael's inability to affect a game positively I don't know what is.

[yellowsubmarine]

Gudjohnsen changed to short sleeves for 2nd half. He will score a goal.

[Exiled_Rover]

8 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

When Gueye was having a good spell over last winter he was doing great link up play as well causing chaos and scoring goals.

Hes obviously got an attitude problem, and Ismael clearly dislikes him, but we have few options so we need to figure out how to get him back to his best.

He's clearly a confidence player that needs an arm around his shoulder. Hasn't responded well to Ismael's management style. 

[RevidgeBlue]

11 minutes ago, Tom said:

Would you make any subs at half time?

I’d be tempted to give Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen some more time but consider bringing on Yūki Ōhashi or Makhtar "Pape" Gueye if things don’t improve. 
 

Whilst Ryōya Morishita hasn’t been fully involved he did put that chance on a plate for Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen earlier so I’d leave him on, I’d like to see Per Axel Nils Henriksson at some point 

Very good.

Probably won't matter, Ryan will miss a sitter, Balazs will throw one in his own net and Sorba will seal the deal.

[RTM08]

And there we go. Game over.