Charlton Athletic Home 4th January 15.00

[philipl]

So here we are less than 50 hours from a home game at the end of the New Year holidays and no thread.

The Wrexham and Sheffield Wednesday "performances" were so bad the Blackburn jury has rung in sick - or is too apathetic to even pick up the mobile.

After showing signs of life, Rovers have turned in two absolute horror shows of no energy rubbish rivalled only by the horror show offered up in the 3-0 defeat at.. Charlton.

After being depressed beyond description I  ventured to watch the second half of Charlton v Coventry and to depress us even further, Charlton should have got a similar scoreline in their favour as they did against us. Coventry got very lucky as Charlton overran them in the way they did to us at the Valley early in the season.

Having said that, Kaminsky was outstanding the couple of times he needed to be involved (twice more than against us), Ama'ari Bell was a rock against Hadji Wright and Sims while MoM and goal scorer was JRC who had the sort of sensational game he used to have for us every so often. Oh boy, are we going to have our transfer dealings rubbed into the Ewood mud on Sunday!

Impossible to see anything except a really humiliating defeat.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by philipl

[RTM08]

Charlton steamrolled us because of their direct, strong football and we had barely a shot at The Valley. Our squad has no energy and are going to get flattened.

Rovers 0-3 Charlton

[roversfan99]

Yep, away win.

Saw yesterday a stat before the game, amended for the result yesterday, Ismael has a very healthy 4 wins from 18 home games in charge. If that is just league then make that 19.

[chaddyrovers]

                           Toth

       O'Riordan McLoughlin Pratt

Miller Tronstad Gardner-Hickman Pickering

                  Baradji  Cantwell

                         Ohashi

   

        

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

A Threadbare and Knackered Rovers.

1-1

11,600 (8,600 in reality)

[BankEnd Rover]

Things could get really ugly if we don't pick up a win here. 

Something felt really off with that Wrexham performance, not sure how we get a goal never mind a win.

[Rogerb]

Is the under soil heating working?

[RoversTilliDie]

This is a game we must not lose,  Its time we proved were men at Ewood, a pair of balls, and a home win. 4-0 Rovers.

[Old Codger]

5 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

A Threadbare and Knackered Rovers.

1-1

11,600 (8,600 in reality)

Got to applaud your optimism there SG194..

This is normally the kind of fixture where VI pulls some rabbit out of the hat and we stagger on for a few more games in the delusion that we have a football team in Rovers' colours giving their all for the cause and that perhaps there is genius at work behind the scenes after all...

Except that I don't think there are any rabbits left. All either picked bone clean by the gannets and vultures circling the club, or dead of fan-led myxamotosis. Neither do I detect any evidence of genius, other than the evil hand-wringing type of stuff more associated with Pantomime than Professional Football.

Nope, there is more evidence of bottom-bumping nothing left in the tank mumblings of deranged conspirators, the kinds of noises made by those who have suddenly had a dawning realisation that their sad little game is most likely up.

As regards Sunday, I don't want JRC to tear us a new one. I really hope Kaminski has a back-breaking return to the hallowed soil. I'm hoping Amaari Bell hasn't matured into a capable and effective defender after his years in the (ahem) wilderness.. But what, you might ask, is the point of hope in the face of so much actual and damning evidence that we are fecked? I guess the best we can hope for is that Charlton turn up having watched the nano-second long 'higlights' of our last two fixtures, full with the incautious optimism that so often results in catastrophe for clubs.. Besides, we know that JRC only produces worldies once every 13.7 hours of game play, that Kaminski holds a candle for us Rovers faithful and that Amaari Bell is reliably unreliable.. so it might work out for us after all, especially if the other 8 players fail to trap for Charlton too.

Or, I guess we can just pull the duvet up around our ears and binge watch House, or Stranger Things, or Benjamin Button - all forms of entertainment more likley to produce unanticipated outcomes for the protagonists, and all requiring similar levels of suspension of belief as are needed to stomach this latest version of Venky Shit Storm Rovers.

Not hard to call this one:

1) Game off due to frozen playing surface - 2:1 favourite for me

2) Addicks adding addenough vibes to vitriolic and vocal partisan elements: Rovers 0 (no surprise there) Charlton 2

3) Rovers repair rot: Rovers 2 (Yuki's arse, and Miller screamer from half way line via Yuki's arse) Addicks 1 (JRC lob)

4) Don't go there, it's bleak this time of year: Rovers 0 Charlatans 1 (94th minute tap in following defensive howler involving all 11 Rovers players saying, "no, after You" in unison as the ball is punted tamely by Amaari Bell towards Darwen, and fanned goalwards by the collective intake of breath coming from the departing concession stand staff packing up the for display purposes only pie used to taunt punters into thinking they might be admitted to RBH with 2nd degree oral burns for the sky high price of 'sorry we sold out three weeks ago".

Not happening in 2026. Promotion to the Prem, I mean..

Not for us, in any case.

BENTSTERS OUT!

PISH OFF PASSA

GERROUT GRUNTY FRENCH GOB

but still, COYB!