v Wrexham (a) - 29/11/25, 15:00 k/o

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

10 hours ago, Mercer said:

Think Montgomery is seriously out of his depth.  We cannot start with him in our midfield.

Certainly not as a starter. Maybe for the last 15-20 minutes.

[davulsukur]

46 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Can see us getting a point here. 

My team

                   Pears

     Miller McLoughlin Pratt 

Alebiosu                           Hedges 

  Baradji Forshaw Montgomery 

             Gudjohnsen Ohashi 

We've only had 1 draw in 16 games. It's always win or loss.

[chaddyrovers]

1 minute ago, davulsukur said:

We've only had 1 draw in 16 games. It's always win or loss.

Yes I know that

[Miller11]

I’d be tempted to drop Ohashi a bit deeper and give Gueye a start, particularly if we are going to be smashing aimless balls upfield again. Forshaw has to start for me… what a sorry state of affairs.

[Wheelton Blue]

22 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

We've only had 1 draw in 16 games. It's always win or loss.

That's as bad a stat and reflection on Ismael as any IMO.

He's simply incapable of grinding out draws, something which even half-decent sides can do when they're not playing well.

[Tugayisgod]

Ismael hoping to have player(s) back tomorrow. Can only assume Cantwell and maybe Toth if his injury wasn't as bad as feared.

On another note Ipswich play tonight before Tuesday's game. Has to be another advantage to them to have the extra recovery time. Still don't understand why this fixture was squeezed into the the busiest period of the season. Whether it was the first available date or not, we should have made the bastards wait for a convenient date for us,

[JHRover]

30 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

Ismael hoping to have player(s) back tomorrow. Can only assume Cantwell and maybe Toth if his injury wasn't as bad as feared.

On another note Ipswich play tonight before Tuesday's game. Has to be another advantage to them to have the extra recovery time. Still don't understand why this fixture was squeezed into the the busiest period of the season. Whether it was the first available date or not, we should have made the bastards wait for a convenient date for us,

The first available date would have been a week or two after the original date. 

Can only assume Rovers/Ipswich felt that to be inconvenient but it could have been played and dealt with.

Agree it is ridiculous to be squeezing it into this period of the season

[G Somerset Rover]

Ipswich flying at the moment too where as we can’t even draw a match at Ewood let alone win one. I feel like a loss there - irrespective of tomorrows result - could have another huge impact psychologically, especially with our excuse culture. 

Edited 4 hours ago by G Somerset Rover

[roversfan99]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Can see us getting a point here. 

My team

                   Pears

     Miller McLoughlin Pratt 

Alebiosu                           Hedges 

  Baradji Forshaw Montgomery 

             Gudjohnsen Ohashi 

A midfield so grim even you dont predict a victory.

1 hour ago, Miller11 said:

I’d be tempted to drop Ohashi a bit deeper and give Gueye a start, particularly if we are going to be smashing aimless balls upfield again. Forshaw has to start for me… what a sorry state of affairs.

Gueye doesnt win headers though. No way does playing him benefit us in any way.

[MarkBRFC]

1 hour ago, Tugayisgod said:

On another note Ipswich play tonight before Tuesday's game. Has to be another advantage to them to have the extra recovery time. Still don't understand why this fixture was squeezed into the the busiest period of the season. Whether it was the first available date or not, we should have made the bastards wait for a convenient date for us,

First available date for the abandoned Ipswich game was W/C 27th October, which was also half term week.

Logically thats where the Ipswich game should have gone, more chance of attracting a few more fans in half term and better for Ipswich fans too if parents etc wanted to take any under 16s etc.

The extra days rest doesn't mean much as we have seen loads of times, we had an extra day over QPR before Wednesday's game but it looked like we had played a full game at 3pm aswell that day.

[RevidgeBlue]

You'd expect this run of away form to end at some point, let's hope it's not tomorrow.

As far as Wrexham are concerned what must it be like to follow a Club where the owners are ambitious and want to win promotion? Has no-one told them the idea is to sell all your best players and try to become "sustainable"?

[Mattyblue]

‘Nobody would be interested in Rovers’… but Hollywood stars would be more than willing to take bloody Wrexham through the divisions whilst transforming its infrastructure.

[davulsukur]

50 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

A midfield so grim even you dont predict a victory.

Gueye doesnt win headers though. No way does playing him benefit us in any way.

He can stand in an offside position better than anyone else though.

[Lancaster Rover]

The biggest issue with Gueye is that he doesn't press with any intensity, so centre halves can step in at any point giving them an overload through the middle of the pitch. I could forgive his profligacy in front of goal if he was a monster out of possession but he's woeful, I'd argue his tactical awareness out of possession is his biggest weakness.

[J*B]

4 hours ago, Miller11 said:

I’d be tempted to drop Ohashi a bit deeper and give Gueye a start, particularly if we are going to be smashing aimless balls upfield again. Forshaw has to start for me… what a sorry state of affairs.

I can’t express how bad things have got if we’re back to considering starting Gueye. The man is a total clown. A jester. Letting the opportunity of a life time pass before him because he’s not intelligent enough to realise what could be. 

[J*B]

5 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Can see us getting a point here. 

My team

                   Pears

     Miller McLoughlin Pratt 

Alebiosu                           Hedges 

  Baradji Forshaw Montgomery 

             Gudjohnsen Ohashi 

One player in this starting 11 I’m comfortable saying is Championship starting quality. 

[G Somerset Rover]

20 minutes ago, J*B said:

One player in this starting 11 I’m comfortable saying is Championship starting quality. 

A Baradji, Forshaw, Montgomery midfield is enough to make me feel misty eyed about the days of Akpan and Lowe.

Edited 39 minutes ago by G Somerset Rover

[NeilInBristol]

13 minutes ago, J*B said:

I can’t express how bad things have got if we’re back to considering starting Gueye. The man is a total clown. A jester. Letting the opportunity of a life time pass before him because he’s not intelligent enough to realise what could be. 

Yeh 

He is useless

we may as well just play with 10 

[davulsukur]

12 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

Yeh 

He is useless

we may as well just play with 10 

We'll always have WBA away.....