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

[Elrovers]

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4 hours ago, Bohinen1983 said:

River is pretty high.. rains not so bad atm though 

[Elrovers]

Thought that was a decent performance. First half was okay second half much much better. AK redeemed himself, fair enough. Some positives to take out of this and thank fuck for international break. Next three games look daunting hopefully a couple of results. 

[K-Hod]

13 minutes ago, CaptainBeanfart said:

This is so far off the truth. They were in the Premier League and had qualified for Europe the year that foreign owners bought them. We'd have to do something similar to be appealing to foreign money. 

How do you explain Birmingham City or Wrexham, then?

[yankfan]

1 hour ago, roverandout said:

Stoke don't look anything special.  Yet they're third. Just shows a bit of ambition and a good appointment goes far

So we’re fooooked

[RoversTilliDie]

Best game I've seen Miller play in a Rovers shirt, won some crucial tackles near our box, or it could have been another defeat. Cantwell put in another decent performance.

[Gamst]

Good fight back against a strong Stoke team. Expected us to roll over and concede a couple more after their first goal and that certainly didn’t happen. Only a point but it stops the losing run at home and provides a little more hope than the previous 2 matches. The sheff wed draw at home was the spark for a good run last season. It’s nice not to lose or have a late abandonment to ruin the weekend for once! 

[RoversTilliDie]

13 minutes ago, Elrovers said:

Thought that was a decent performance. First half was okay second half much much better. AK redeemed himself, fair enough. Some positives to take out of this and thank fuck for international break. Next three games look daunting hopefully a couple of results. 

I agree, we suddenly started playing the last half hour, and could have snatched all 3pts. A bit of hope, and we stopped the rot at home, with a point.

[neophox]

Wilder cant stop Sheffield U losing..

[RoversTilliDie]

1 hour ago, roverandout said:

Toth is a good solid keeper.  Hasn't done much wrong 

Toth pulled off a brilliant save, to keep us in it.

[KentExile]

14 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

How do you explain Birmingham City or Wrexham, then?

or Charlton, Ipswich, or Huddersfield

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[neophox]

41 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Bizarre to me that he's still in this league. Every time I see him play us, he's a game changer. Must have his share of duff performances throughout the season to have been left malingering in the Championship at Stoke.

Or he really, really loves oatcakes.

He's been made Swedish first choice keeper, some prem team will snap him up in January for sure.

[Mattyblue]

34 minutes ago, CaptainBeanfart said:

This is so far off the truth. They were in the Premier League and had qualified for Europe the year that foreign owners bought them. We'd have to do something similar to be appealing to foreign money. 

We’ve spent three years out of four knocking on the doors of the PL, of course there would be interest.

[PotterLog]

Pretty disappointed to drop two points after dominating the first half and going ahead. We seem to specialise in losing control of games. Could have ended up with nowt in the end.

Anyway in more significant matters here’s a dispatch from the Oatcake:

Disappointed with the result but how good were the pies!? Peppered steak.. delightful! Edible pastry unlike the garbage they serve down the bet365 now

[desrover]

9 minutes ago, PotterLog said:

Pretty disappointed to drop two points after dominating the first half and going ahead. We seem to specialise in losing control of games. Could have ended up with nowt in the end.

Anyway in more significant matters here’s a dispatch from the Oatcake:

Disappointed with the result but how good were the pies!? Peppered steak.. delightful! Edible pastry unlike the garbage they serve down the bet365 now

Not had a pie at Ewood for a while but possibly the only thing Venky's havent ruined - yet!

[RoversTilliDie]

37 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

I agree, we suddenly started playing the last half hour, and could have snatched all 3pts. A bit of hope, and we stopped the rot at home, with a point.

Was it Gudjohnsson, who chested the ball right in front of a Stoke player, who caught us on the backfoot with a through ball, and it was chipped over Toth into the net.

[jim mk2]

2 hours ago, AvRover said:

I seriously doubt anyone would see a viable business model in the club and actively want to buy it though. Clubs in the South East like Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton are much better 'franchises' to invest in.

Utter nonsense

The only difference between them and us is they're well managed and ambitious - rather like Burnley.in fact. 

I'd written today off as a defeat and see it as a point gained. They all count in the relegation fight we're in

 

Edited 2 hours ago by jim mk2

[Tomphil2]

Hard fought well earned and very important point there and another game where we perhaps should have found another goal.

Kargbo took the goal well and much improved effort but still looks like there is a bit of wrong attitude about him.

Cantwell immense there'll certainly be interest in Jan if he can keep it up, played like a captain today.

Deserved a point and hopefully they come up with a decent system in he break before our annual Coventry loss, still wasn't impressed with the tactics again today really but effort not in question.

[alcd]

14 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Was it Gudjohnsson, who chested the ball right in front of a Stoke player, who caught us on the backfoot with a through ball, and it was chipped over Toth into the net.

Yes. His ball control is diabolical. Lost possession against Swansea leading to their winning goal. 

[sharpysharps86]

Pleased that the lads managed to fight back and get something from the game, but sadly I think the damage has been done in this last week. 1 point from a possible 9 just isn't anywhere near good enough, especially with 2 of those games being at home. No home win yet this season and it'll be beyond mid October before Rovers are back in action at Ewood. It's just not good enough.

Incredibly tough run coming up after the international break. Sheffield United at home is looking huge.

[jim mk2]

1 minute ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Incredibly tough run coming up after the international break. Sheffield United at home is looking huge.

Dear, oh dear

Sheff Utd haven't won a game this season I believe? 

We all know what's going to happen

[chaddyrovers]

Great that the weather didn't caused any issues with the game. 

Satisfy with a point tho had Gudjohnsen or Cantwell scored in the first half we could be talking about 3 points today. 

We had chances 1st half and we scored at least one. Stoke's danger all came through Manhoef 1st haf and no surprised he scored the Stoke Goal, through Ribeiro struggled all game against him. 

After going one nil down, we made a number of changes and its helps us. De Neve coming on the left with Hedges going left back gave us more attacking intent. Our goal came from the left and delighted Karbgo got his first goal for us. He owed us one after Tuesday night. We still had other chances and could have won it. 

My man of the match was Hedges. Through our best play came through him. Miller had his best game at centre back and Alebiosu was good. Thought Morishita and TGH were off it abit. Felt for Gudjohnsen today, his best piece of play came around 20.30 mins and had his chance, yes it bounce a big higher but should have scored for me. Captain Cantwell again very good and good leader

Its a point and we can build on this but Coventry away is probably the toughest away game in the league currently 

Edited 2 hours ago by chaddyrovers

[chaddyrovers]

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I think he's poor.

Coin toss between him and Pears.

what planet are you on? Toth is so much better and he is quality shot stopper and I am pleased we have him in goal and not Pears 

[Penwortham Blue]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Great that the weather didn't caused any issues with the game. 

Satisfy with a point tho had Gudjohnsen or Cantwell scored in the first half we could be talking about 3 points today. 

We had chances 1st half and we scored at least one. Stoke's danger all came through Manhoef 1st haf and no surprised he scored the Stoke Goal, through Ribeiro struggled all game against him. 

After going one nil down, we made a number of changes and its helps us. De Neve coming on the left with Hedges going left back gave us more attacking intent. Our goal came from the left and delighted Karbgo got his first goal for us. He owed us one after Tuesday night. We still had other chances and could have won it. 

My man of the match was Hedges. Through our best play came through him. Miller had his best game at centre back and Alebiosu was good. Thought Morishita and TGH were off it abit. Felt for Gudjohnsen today, his best piece of play came around 20.30 mins and had his chance, yes it bounce a big higher but should have scored for me. 

Its a point and we can build on this but Coventry away is probably the toughest away game in the league currently 

I know it feels highly unlikely but  statistically at least we are long overdue a win at Coventry 🙏 

[Exiled_Rover]

40 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Was it Gudjohnsson, who chested the ball right in front of a Stoke player, who caught us on the backfoot with a through ball, and it was chipped over Toth into the net.

Yes, he was trying to lay it off to a teammate. 

The ball was deflected over Toth - a very fortunate goal.

[Hasta]

I thought for the first half Stoke were very good. Very fluid going forward. However once they got in front they decided to stop coming onto us as much and that led to us getting a foothold in the game, and by the end we looked like we might nick it. Overall probably fair.

Toth and Alebiosu good again. Thought De Neve was a game changer. Rather Ohashi than the Gudjohnsen, who was poor.

Cantwell is frustrating. Does some good thing (such as the cutback) but then can be too lackadaisical, and also give the ball away very similar to Kargbo last game and similarly didn’t track back.